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| Name | Orny Adams |
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| Birth place | Lexington, Massachusetts |
| Medium | stand-up, television |
| Nationality | American |
| Website | OrnyAdams.com |
On October 29, 2010, Adams' one-hour comedy special, Orny Adams Takes The Third premiered on Comedy Central. Orny is currently taping the TV series "Teen Wolf" for MTV where he plays Coach Bobby Finstock.
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| Name | Jeremy Dauber |
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| Residence | New York, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Fields | Yiddish literature |
| Workplaces | Columbia University |
| Alma mater | Harvard UniversityUniversity of Oxford |
| Awards | Rhodes Scholarship |
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In 2008, he was named acting director of the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia. In 2009, he was named an inaugural member of the Shalom Hartman Institute North American Scholars Circle.
Dauber is a 1990 graduate of the Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey. He graduated from Harvard College in 1995 summa cum laude and did his doctoral work at Oxford.
He writes a column on television and movies for the Christian Science Monitor that was recognized by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2003.
Dauber’s research interests include Yiddish literature of the early modern period, Hebrew and Yiddish literature of the nineteenth century, the Yiddish theater, and American Jewish literature.
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| Name | Jackie Mason |
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| Caption | Mason in October 2006 |
| Birth name | Yacov Moshe Maza |
| Birth date | June 09, 1936 |
| Birth place | Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-upTelevisionFilmBooksRadio |
| Nationality | American |
| Active | 1961–present |
| Genre | Satire/Political satireObservational comedyImprovisational comedy |
| Subject | American politicsInternational relationsCurrent eventsrace relationsAntisemitismJewish cultureAmerican culture |
| Spouse | Jyll Rosenfeld (August 14, 1991–present) |
| Children | Sheba Mason |
| Notable work | The World According to Me!Hyman Krustofski in "Like Father, Like Clown", "Today I Am a Clown" and "Once Upon A Time In Springfield" |
| Website | jackiemason.com |
Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York. At age 25, he was ordained a rabbi (as his three brothers, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had been) in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Three years later he resigned to become a comedian.
In 1992, Mason won an Emmy Award for his voice-over of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski in The Simpsons episode "Like Father, Like Clown", making him the first guest star to win an Emmy for his role. Jackie has also appeared in The Simpsons episodes "Today I Am A Clown" and "Once Upon a Time in Springfield".
In a 2005 poll to find the Comedian's Comedian, Mason was voted among the top-50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. He was also ranked #63 in Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.
His full length motion picture One Angry Man has been released in 2010 through out the US and Canada.
Jackie has completed a new full length feature film "Jackie Goldberg Private Dick" for release in late 2011.
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Stone later appeared on several television shows, including The 11 O'Clock Show, The Late Edition, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Mock the Week. He also interviewed fellow Jewish comedian Jackie Mason on BBC Radio 4's arts programme Front Row.
Highlights of Stone's stand-up career have included compering the main theatre at the Cape Town Comedy Festival in 2003, performing in the final transatlantic crossing of The QE2, and being the first British stand-up comedian to perform in Moscow.
He regularly appears at The Comedy Store in London, including topical Tuesday night show The Cutting Edge.
An avid Arsenal fan, Ian co-hosts the It's Up For Grabs Now podcast, which takes a light-hearted discussion on goings on at the club. He has a pet tortoise called Glen which is 4 years old, and a Guinea Pig called Brian, which he saved from a recycling plant in 2007.
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| Birth place | New York, NY |
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| Nationality | American |
| Cartoonist | y |
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| Notable works | Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely CoincidentalOld Jewish ComediansThe Fun Never Stops! |
| Awards | National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Illustration Award, 2000National Cartoonist Society Magazine Illustration Award, 2000. |
| Website | http://www.drewfriedmanart.com |
| Sortkey | Friedman, Drew |
| Subcat | American |
| Yob | 1958 |
Friedman's work has appeared in such periodicals as Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Observer, Esquire, RAW, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and MAD Magazine.
The Friedman brothers were first published in RAW Magazine. Working with and without his brother, Drew's comics were published in Heavy Metal, Weirdo, High Times, National Lampoon, and other comics anthologies from the '80s into the early '90s. The brothers published two collections, Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental and Warts and All. In a Comics Journal interview, Drew Friedman lamented that he and his brother had failed to earn a living creating work that was time- and labor-intensive yet earned little. Josh gave up comics to become a journalist and a musician.
Beginning in 1986, Drew illustrated a monthly feature, "Private Lives of Public Figures," for (the now-defunct) SPY magazine; these illustrations were compiled in a book published by St. Martin's Press in 1992. He also provided illustrations for Howard Stern's two best-selling books, Private Parts and Miss America. Friedman served as comics editor for the National Lampoon in 1991, introducing the works of (among others) Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware to a wider audience. Since 1994 he has provided regular front-page illustrations for the New York Observer.
In 2006, Friedman published Old Jewish Comedians (Fantagraphics Books), a collection of portraits of famous and forgotten Jewish comics of film and TV in their old age, about which Steven Heller, in the New York Times Book Review, wrote: "A festival of drawing virtuosity and fabulous craggy faces, . . . Friedman might very well be the Vermeer of the Borscht Belt." A sequel, More Old Jewish Comedians (Fantagraphics Books), was published in 2008. A collection of newer work, The Fun Never Stops! was published by Fantagraphics in 2007, containing many comics co-written by his frequent collaborator and wife, K. Bidus. Booklist listed it as One of the Ten Best Comics Collections of 2007.
He is the son of author/satirist Bruce Jay Friedman.
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