How does a bastard, balding, elderly man/Who likes samples and grousing/Living in Bernie Sanders’ shadow/Get a guest star who has music superpowers? Ladies and gentlemen, the pop-culture moment you didn’t even realize you had been waiting for: Lin Manuel Miranda is guest-starring right now on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the show about the man who will…
Last Saturday night, Larry David delivered a monologue on Saturday Night Live (SNL) that included jokes about Harvey Weinstein and picking up women in a concentration camp, among other things. Many publicly denounced the monologue as heresy. Some went so far as to insist that no one should ever make another Holocaust joke ever again;…
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A different version of this essay appeared in the blog Martini Judaism: for those who want to be shaken and stirred, published Religion News Service. What is the sound of America cringing? Larry David now knows. And, it’s not pretty. This last Saturday night, comedian Larry David was the guest host on NBC’s “Saturday Night…
Larry David is no stranger to flirting with the limits of good taste. But the comic’s monologue on ‘Saturday Night Live’ caused many to accuse him of stepping over that line, with jokes about romance in concentration camps and the fact that so many of those accused of sexual harassment in Hollywood are Jewish. He…
Larry David will be introducing Miley Cyrus as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend — but it’s not the first time the comedian has collaborated with the actress/singer/activist/daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus/grown woman who made some dubious career choices but seems to now be reckoning with them. David had a cameo on…
(JTA) — Kenny Ellis isn’t a rabbi. But it wasn’t much of a stretch for him to play one on TV. Ellis is a veteran cantor at Temple Beth Ami, a Reform Jewish synagogue in Santa Clarita, California. After 27 years at the pulpit, he is breaking into prime-time TV this week with two roles…
In the season premiere of the PBS’ show “Finding Your Roots,” hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Larry David and Senator Bernie Sanders are told of their respective ancestries. David gained acclaim in 2015 for doing a “spot-on” impression of the senator, a performance made easier by the widely remarked-upon fact that David shares Sanders’…
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