Jean Carroll is considered the first Jewish woman to do stand-up comedy. Now, an event aims to introduce New Yorkers to this influential yet little-known legend. Before there was Joan Rivers and Susie ...

Before there was The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a “boy’s club,” the truth ...

A graduate of Ramaz and married to a rabbi, Glazer says that her Jewishness is spotlighted in her comedy “all the time.” Stand-up comedian Liz Glazer leads a very Jewish life — and she talks all about ...

Comedian Gibran Saleem had never met a Jewish person until starting his graduate studies at New York University more than a decade ago. The child of Pakistani immigrants, Saleem was raised in a Muslim ...

Stand-up comedian Mordechai Rosenfeld distinguishes between "comedians who are Jewish," and "Jewish comedians"--and he classifies himself in the latter category. "The Jewish is right up front," said ...

Peter Sellers, the Jewish English comedian who was born 100 years ago on Sept. 8, 1925, lived at a time before leading men were generally comfortable identifying as Jews onscreen. The historian Harry ...