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Subversive Sarah
It seems only fitting that comic Sarah Silverman has had guest roles on both the vampy \”V.I.P.\” and the geeky \”Star Trek: Voyager.\” She can trade on her good looks, which she milked in her Hollywood exec role on the Fox sitcom \”Greg the Bunny.\” But left to her own devices, Silverman, tomboyishly comfortable in jeans and sneakers, comes across like your dorky, smart-mouthed sister. Silverman will wield her scalpel-sharp wit in her show, \”Jesus Is Magic,\” Nov. 6-16 at the Canon Theater.\n\n\”It\’s very racial and it\’s sexual,\” Silverman, 31, told The Journal about \”Magic.\” \”I talk a lot about race, about Sept. 11, the Holocaust. I say a lot of stuff I don\’t mean.\”\n\n
Still Got ‘Game’
Like Budd Schulberg\’s \”What Makes Sammy Run?\” Phillip Roth\’s \”Portnoy\’s Complaint\” and other milestones of Jewish American literature, Will Eisner\’s \”Name of the Game\” explores the depths of Jewish self-loathing and assimilation. But what separates \”Name\” — a tale chronicling two immigrant families that merge through marriage for social advancement and then suffer destructive consequences — from the others, is that Eisner\’s work is a comic book.\n\n
A Shore Thing
"Pop" being veteran stand-up comic Sammy Shore, and the "weasel" being his son, Pauly "The Weasel" Shore, the king of \’90s lowbrow comedies ("Encino Man," "In The Army Now").
Boys Wonder
Joe [incredulous]: Jewish superheroes?\nSammy: What, they\’re all Jewish, superheroes. Superman, you don\’t think he\’s Jewish? Coming from the old country, changing his name like that. Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick up a name like that for himself.
Rye Humor
The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Jackie Mason, Woody Allen and, of course, Seinfeld. The history of American comedy is the history of America\’s funniest Jews. But while being Jewish and funny has never been mutually exclusive, comedians in days of yore mostly kept their Jewishness offstage. Times are changing, and with multiculturalism comes a new brand of Jewish comedian.
A Weekend of Art
It was a dream come true for devotees of revered cartoonist Art Spiegelman last weekend, as the chain-smoking New Yorker flew into town to speak before capacity crowds at Second Generation and Skirball Cultural Center programs.
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