Jew Talkin' To Me?

Join Jewish ComediansRachel Creeger &Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by multi award winning actor, writer, director and magician, Andy Nyman!

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Andy Nyman

Andy Nyman is a multi-award-winning actor, director, magician and writer for theatre, film and television. As we speak, he is playing the male lead in Hello Dolly in London’s West End, his most recent theatre credits include Tevye in Trevor Nunn's award-winning Fiddler on the Roof(Olivier nomination); Hangmen(West End/Broadway); Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins(Menier Chocolate Factory); Abigail’s Party (West End) and Ghost Storieswhich Andy starred in, co-wrote and co-directed with Jeremy Dyson - a show with a great Jewish twist, which has been performed internationally, nominated for two awards and adapted into a feature film.

Andy’s television credits include: A Small Light; The Capture; Unforgotten; Wanderlust; Hanna; The Eichmann Show; Campus; Dead Setand playing Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders. His film credits include: Jungle Cruise; Judy; The Commuter; Ghost Stories; Death at a Funeral; Kick-Ass 2; Black Death; The Brother’s Bloom; Severance; Shut Up & Shoot Me (winner Best Actor at Cherbourg Film Festival). If you’re a parent, you might like to know that he also featured in Chuggington.

Andy is also known for his collaborations with psychological illusionist Derren Brown, and actor and writer Jeremy Dyson. Andy co-created the first 10 years of Derren's TV programmes as well as co-writing and directing most of his stage shows - winning an Olivier Award for Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes, the New York Drama Desk Award for Derren Brown: Secret,andDerren Brown: The Heistwhich was nominated for the Lew Grade Award at the Baftas. He revealed some of his magical secrets in a DVD called Insane.Andy’s books on how to survive as a freelancer “The Golden Rules of Acting” and “More Golden rules of Acting” are bestsellers within the acting world. Andy and Jeremy Dyson's first novel The Warlock Effect, was released last year, became a Sunday Times book of the month and is out now in paperback. We’ve read it, it’s great.

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Website: www.andynyman.com

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Join Jewish ComediansRachel Creeger &Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by multi award winning TV producer and playwright, creator of shows including Mock The Week and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Dan Patterson!

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Dan Patterson

Dan Patterson is an award-winning writer and producer of comedy who has worked on radio, television and the stage. His career began as a producer for BBC Radio where he worked on perennial favourites the News Quiz and Week Ending before creating his own comedy shows Saturday Night Fry with Stephen Fry and Whose Line Is It Anyway? (which he co-created with Mark Leveson). Whose Line Is It Anyway? won numerous awards including the Sony Radio Award, and both BAFTA and the Royal Television Society awards. Dan also created and produced Clive Anderson Talks Back (Channel 4), Clive Anderson All Talk (BBC One), S and M (Channel 4), The Brain Drain (BBC Two), Never Mind The Horrocks (Channel 4), and Dan co-wrote sitcom The Peter Principle (BBC One). In addition, Dan developed and produced Room 101 for BBC Two and was involved in the development of They Think It’s All Over for BBC One. In 1998 Dan took Whose Line Is It Anyway? to America, producing it for ABC Television where the episode that guest starred Robin Williams attracted an audience of over 15 million people. When Dan returned from the States in 2004, he established Angst Productions and, with Mark Leveson, created the hit satirical panel show Mock The Week which has completed 21 successful series over 17 years. Other Angst Productions shows have included 29 Minutes Of Fame (BBC One), the improvisation based Fast and Loose (BBC Two), Trust Us With Your Life (ABC) and The Great American Joke Off (The CW). For the theatre, Dan Patterson co-wrote with Colin Swash the political farce and Olivier nominated The Duck House starring Ben Miller. In 2023 Dan co-wrote Winner’s Curse with Daniel Taub, a play about international peace negotiations starring Clive Anderson, which ran at Park Theatre.

But the really important thing is that, as a teenager, he went to Habonim Dror.

Website: https://www.angstproductions.tv/about/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/1DanPatterson

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Join Jewish ComediansRachel Creeger &Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by Canadian comedian, actor and coach, Mike Sheer

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Mike Sheer

Born & bred in Toronto, Canada, now bred, being, & eating bread in London, UK,  Mike is a sensitive multi-faceted creative with an attitude. (Positive attitude!)​. He is a stand up comic, MC, and presenter with 15 years experience internationally. From Athens to Adelaide, Brampton to Bahrain, and a bunch of other places that begin with several other letters. Check out Stand Up Comic for clips, his album, bio, and pics. Mike is also a script coach, consultant, and workshop leader, and an actor with screen credits, including cult movie Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies.

Website:https://mikesheer.net

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Join Jewish ComediansRachel Creeger &Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by BAFTA award-winning broadcaster, vocal coach, leadership coach and campaigner, Carrie Grant

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Carrie Grant

Carrie is a BAFTA award-winning broadcaster, vocal coach, leadership coach and campaigner. Her TV and music career has spanned over 35 years and she has been awarded a MOBO award and a BASCA for her lifetime services to the music industry.

Carrie is also a reporter for BBC 1’s The One Show and together with husband David hosts the Saturday Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London. In 2018 Carrie was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Bedfordshire and in 2020 an MBE for services to Music, Media and Charity.

Carrie and David have 4 children and are passionate campaigners about adoption, autism, ADHD, invisible disability and inclusion. Their book “A Very Modern Family: Stories and guidance to nurture your relationships” is available HERE

Website: https://carrieanddavidgrant.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarrieGrant1

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're putting out a sort of holding episode reflecting on life as a British Jew since the terrorist attacks of 7th October in which over 1200 Israelis were killed and more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas. It's the day that marked the start of a conflict that has claimed thousands of innocent lives, and affected Jewish people around the world.

We aren't political, that's never what the show was meant to be, but we are a podcast that explores Judaism and our relationship with everything associated with that. This episode marks where we are 100 days on from that atrocious day in which, for so many people, everything changed.

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Join Jewish ComediansRachel Creeger &Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is Hollywood actor and author, Mara Wilson!

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Mara Wilson

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Mara is an American actress and writer, most noted for her roles in Hollywood blockbusters Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street and Matilda. After appearing in a series of guest roles in numerous TV series, Mara Wilson retired from acting to pursue a writing career. Her play ‘Sheeple’ was produced in 2013 for the New York International Fringe Festival. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for, and won, several awards, including the Young Star Award for her performance in the film ‘Matilda’ and the Showest Award in 1995 for Young Star of the Year. Lately Mara has mainly enjoyed a career in voiceovers, including playing a recurring voice role in the animated series ‘BoJack Horseman’ and appearing in various web series.

She is also the author of two books: 

‘Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame’

A former child actor, Mara has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer “cute” enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. 

Good Girls Don’t

A coming-of- age memoir that bravely examines both the friendships Wilson formed as a child actor in Hollywood and the complex family relationships that shaped her.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is broadcaster comedian and author, Russ Kane!

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Russ Kane

Website: https://www.russkane.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RussellKane

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Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/thegatekeeper_book/

For twenty years, Sony Award-Winner, Russ Kane, was the voice of Capital Radio’s ‘Flying Eye’, forming an on-air partnership with Chris Tarrant to create the most listened-to commercial radio show in the world, with a daily audience in excess of 4 million. Today, Russ can be heard on BBC Radio London, where his weekly, hour-long news reviews have earned a further loyal following, and on TalkRadio.

In January 2019, Russ joined forces with Howard Jameson on Women’s Radio Station and to create Men’s Radio Station.  These revolutionary global internet radio stations aim to provide a non-judgmental space  in which men and women can ‘Really Talk’. Russ’s  goal remains to remove the stigma that surrounds mental health and to improve how it is addressed in society.

Russ Kane’s one-man stand-up show, ‘Kaned Laughter’ has played to sell-out audiences in London and Los Angeles. He appeared at world-famous Edinburgh Fringe in 2019. His first novel,  ‘The Gate Keeper’ - a dark tale of good vs evil, redemption, sacrifice and Jack Daniels, was published in Spring 2019, to rave reviews.  The second novel is currently under-way.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is American comedian and author, Mark Schiff!

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Mark Schiff

Website:https://www.markschiff.com

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/markschiff100

When Mark was six, his mother took him in to Manhattan every weekend for singing and ballet lessons. When he returned to school each Monday and showed his fellow Bronx classmates what he had learned, the class would gather around and beat him up. Mark’s mother smartened up and enrolled him in karate lessons, but those came to a halt when the karate teacher beat him up. When Mark was twelve, his parents took him to a nightclub. There, live on stage was Rodney Dangerfield doing his act. At that moment, he knew the path he had to follow. Mark has headlined in all the major casinos and clubs across the country and has appeared many times on both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman. He has had both HBO and Showtime specials and has been the featured act at the Montreal Comedy Festival. He has written for and guest-starred on Mad About You, as well as appearing on Empty Nest and serving as a writer on The Roseanne Show. He joins us in the middle of touring with Seinfeld.

Books:

Why Not? Lessons on Comedy, Courage and Chutzpah - Available Here 

I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics - Available Here

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is West End superstar, Kim Ismay! Follow her on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.

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Kim Ismay

Website:https://www.kimismay.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kimismay

Twitter: http://twitter.com/kimismay

Before we share her CV, here’s a glossary of some of the Yiddish terms that came up in our chat with Kim!

Tzuris - troubles, trials and tribulations

Schmy - aimlessly wandering and checking things out with no purpose

Schlep - walk a long way or carry something heavy!

Tantz - dance or waltz

Oy va voy- an exclamation of despair

Oy vay is mir - woe is me

Oya broch - what a curse!

Ken ayin hora - an expression for good luck to ward off the “evil eye”

Fress - eat 

Nosh - eat snacks

Gescheft - business

Star of stage and screen, Kim spent a record 7 years starring as Tanya in Mamma Mia! in London's West End. Other West End/London credits include Deb in Elf The Musical, Madame Morrible in Wicked, Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret, Stop The World, Hamlet, Torch Song Trilogy, and for the RSC at the Barbican, Stratford and internationally, Kiss Me, Kate, The Wizard Of Oz and A Comedy Of Errors. Tours and regional credits include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Silver Gym, Noises Off, Stepping Out, Acorn Antiques, Saturday Night Fever, The Rocky Horror Show, Singin' In The Rain, Crazy For You, Whistle Down The Wind, Dames At Sea and the European Premiere of Sondheim's Follies.

Her TV credits include Not Going Out, Eastenders, The Bill, The Sound Of Musicals, Bob Martin, Strange But True, London's Burning, Just A Gigolo and Never The Twain. Her cabaret appearances and Masterclasses have taken her all over the world, she has recorded over a dozen cast albums; her solo albums, Torch & Debauch and About Bill are available at Dress Circle & on iTunes. Her most recent role was Frances Stevenson in the National Theatre of Scotland's sell-out new production of "Kidnapped".

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is international non-binary beatbox star, disability & mental health ambassador and former world looping champion SK Shlomo! Follow them on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.

Trigger Warning: This week’s episode contains discussion of mental health and suicide which some listeners may find distressing.

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SK Shlomo

Website:https://skshlomo.com/

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Several years ago, SK Shlomo hit a rough patch.

10 years deep into a colourful career, they were an acclaimed beatboxer, a celebrated theatre performer and a well-respected collaborator with the likes of Björk, Gorillaz, Imogen Heap and Rudimental. They had become the first ever World Looping Champion, brought Ed Sheeran onstage as their guest at Glastonbury, been the first non-classical Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre, and even been the subject of a feature film. But something had shifted. In the midst of a deep depression, they stopped performing. Shlomo spent almost two years off the road, recovering what had felt lost. 

After a powerful comeback tour, a series of personal revelations changed the way that Shlomo viewed themselves and their work. Shlomo touches on themes they have never previously shared in public, queerness, gender, being foreign, disability and mental health and, ultimately, the healing power of rave. 

In this episode they discuss the brilliant work of https://www.thecalmzone.net/

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is comedian and actor, Tehran.

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TEHRAN



Website:https://www.iamtehran.com/

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Tehran is a stand up comedian, actor, and radio and TV personality. He runs a regular comedy gig at the Laugh Factory in LA and works with Comedy For Peace which aims to reunited the Middle East through the sharing of laughter. Tehran is of African American and Persian Jewish descent, he is multilingual, performing stand up comedy in the USA and abroad in English, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and French!

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HELEN ZALTZMAN

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Helen is a podcaster, broadcaster and writer. She produces the linguistics podcast The Allusionist, the entertainment podcast Answer Me This!, and the Veronica Mars recap podcast Veronica Mars Investigations.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is comedian and writer, Ian Stone, recorded in front of a live audience at Assembly Festival as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.

We were in "The Box", which is a shipping container, on a baking hot day, with an emergency fan on and one door ajar so that everyone made it through to the end of the show without passing out! As a result there are a few audio issues, but also simply great stories from a brilliantly funny and generous guest.

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Ian Stone

Website: http://www.ianstonecomedian.co.uk/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/iandstone

Ranked amongst the top ten stand-ups in Britain by The Independent, Ian Stone is one of the most talented topical acts and comperes in the country. Edgy and provocative, with an easy-going manner and self-depreciating style, Ian is at great ease bantering with an audience. He's a member of the Comedy Store's critically acclaimed 'Cutting Edge' team. Ian also received a nomination in 2012 for the BEST SHOW at the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards.

He has performed all over the world including Comedy Festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Holland, France, Ireland and Germany. He’s entertained the troops in Kuwait, Bosnia,Kosovo, Cyprus and Afghanistan. He was the first British stand-up to perform in Moscow and the first performer to appear for The Comedy Store in Mumbai.

Ian's bookTo Be Someonewas published on June 25 2020. Because let's face it, there's no better time to publish a book than slap bang in the middle of a culture war and a global pandemic. It's about him growing up and listening to The Jam and what life was like in 70’s Britain. Just press the button below to order the book.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is Australian cabaret artist and comedian, Reuben Kaye, recorded in front of a live audience at Assembly Festival as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.

We were in "The Box", which is a shipping container, on a baking hot day, with an emergency fan on and one door ajar so that everyone made it through to the end of the show without passing out! As a result there are a few audio issues, but also simply great stories from a brilliantly funny and generous guest.

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REUBEN KAYE

Website:https://www.reubenkaye.com/

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Tiktok:https://www.tiktok.com/@reubenkaye

Multi-award winning, Australian comedian, singer and writer Reuben Kaye is loud, politically active, queer, and what happens when you tell your children they can be anything. After racking up millions of views across Tiktok, Youtube & Instagram plus appearances on Spicks and Specks, The Melbourne International Comedy Fest Galas (ABC), Celebrity Letters & Numbers (SBS) and in the UK, Channel 4 & BBC’s You’re Fired, Kaye is now the danger man to watch on the scene. Backed by his band The Close Contacts, Reuben’s unmissable live shows have sold out in Australia, London and Europe, gleefully  proving that he is the much needed, Swarovski studded revolt against the ever narrowing views of an increasingly conservative world and he’s done it all while looking fabulous!

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. It's the final episode of the series and this week’s guests are American comedians Leah Forster and Daniel Lobell.

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Tiktok:https://www.tiktok.com/@hellowhellowleah

Leah Forster is an internationally renowned character comic and stand up. Coming from a Hassidic background, Leah was a pioneer in performing comedy at Jewish women's events, selling out shows for thousands. Having grown up in a Yiddish speaking ultra-orthodox family, following a traditional path into marriage and motherhood, she came out of the Hassidic world and the closet, whilst maintaining a warm relationship with her family and community. She came to public attention after a controversial incident where a Kosher Certification authority threatened to cancel venues’ licensing for hosting her show, citing her sexuality. 

Website: http://www.dannylobell.com/

Twitter: @DanielLobell

Instagram: @daniellobell

Daniel Lobell is an LA based comedian, comic book creator, podcaster and graduate of The Second City improv program. Daniel hosts the Modern Day Philosophers podcast, featuring comedians like Bill Burr, Brian Regan and Maria Bamford talking philosophy, and Tipping the Scales, about body image and health. He also created the “Fair Enough” autobiographical comic book series, and has two albums out on Stand Up! Records: “Some Kind of Comedian” and “The Nicest Boy in Barcelona”. In 2017, Daniel made his Edinburgh Fringe debut with acclaimed show “Broke As A Joke” , followed by “Tipping the Scales” in 2019.

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Join Jewish ComediansRachel Creeger andPhilip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are American stand up comics Judy Gold and Avi Liberman. Follow them on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.

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Website: www.judygold.com

Twitter: @jewdygold

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Judy Gold is a writer, actor, podcaster and comic, and has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO. She is the author of "Yes I Can Say That: When They Come For The Comedians, We Are All In Trouble", a critically acclaimed book about free speech and cancel culture. It debuted as the #1 comedy release on Amazon and was featured in the NYT Book Review. Judy is host of the hit podcast, Kill Me Now with Judy Gold. One of the main subjects in Hulu documentary “Hysterical”, she also featured in the film “Making Trouble”, a tribute to female Jewish comedians produced by the JWA. She's appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show, and was host of HBO’s At the Multiplex with Judy Gold. She won two Emmy awards for writing and producing The Rosie O’Donnell Show and has written and starred in two Off-Broadway hit shows: The Judy Show – My Life as a Sitcom (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (GLAAD Media Award – Outstanding NY Theater, Drama Desk Nomination – Actor). Judy has made numerous appearances on The View, The Food Network, The Today Show, The Drew Barrymore Show and The Wendy Williams Show. Her albums, Conduct Unbecoming, Kill Me Now and Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby are available wherever you get your music. 

Website: www.aviliberman.com

Twitter: @AviLiberman

Instagram: @avilibermancomedy

Born in Israel, raised in Texas, studying in New York and now living in LA, Avi Liberman's quirky style has made him a favourite in comedy clubs. He delivers a winning combination of life experiences and topical issues told through a blend of characters and voices. Avi has performed stand-up on CBS's "Late Late Show", Comedy Central's "Premium Blend", "Make Me Laugh" as well as NBC's "Friday Night!", and he appeared at the prestigious Montreal Just for Laughs Festival. His acting credits include "Dave's World" CBS, "Boston Common" NBC and "Andytown U.S.A." Comedy Central.  Avi can be seen regularly on E! on their very popular countdown series and guest starred on "Movies At Our House," as well as having shot a pilot titled "Through the Keyhole" on AMC and guested on radio stations across the country. Since 2001 Avi has arranged comedy tours in Israel to help boost morale. The "Comedy For Koby" tour is now a bi-annual event with all proceeds benefitting the Koby Mandell Foundation. His book “Traveling During The Pandemic: How Two Weeks Turned Into 7 Months, 8 Countries, and the Adventure of a Lifetime” is available on Amazon.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Israeli comedian Daphna Baram and American actor & comedian, Mike Capozzola.

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Website: www.MissDComedy.com

Twitter: @MissDComedy

Instagram: @MissDComedy

London based, Israel-born, and with a background in human rights law and journalism (Ha’aretz, The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, New Statesman, The Independent), Daphna has been performing stand up comedy since 2010 in various clubs in the UK and Europe.

Over the past decade she has taken her comedy across the country to venues including: The Stand Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle, Yes Bar Glasgow, Beehive Edinburgh, Breakneck Aberdeen, Hampstead Comedy Club London, Gags on the Green Peterborough; Stand Up on the Strand in Kent, Wine Gums in Cambridge; The International, Dublin.

Daphna has also been involved in various fringe shows since 2011 with her solo stand up shows including: Killing MissD (2013), AKA MissD (2014), Something to Declare (2015), Begging to Differ (2016) Chicken Soup Crusader (2017), Sugarcoating (2018), Cracking Up (2019) and the successful three-hander Bombs Booze and Haggis (2014-2015 with Andrew Gilmore and Gary Sansome).

Website: www.capozzola.com

Twitter: @MCapozzola

Instagram: @ThatMikeCapozzola

Facebook: @ComedianMikeCapozzola

Mike Capozzola is a London-based stand up comic / actor & presenter originally from NY. Since the late 20th century, he's performed in much of the USA as well as Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Spain, The Czech Republic, Belgium, Denmark, Romania, Bulgaria, Dubai, Luxembourg, France, Israel and Turkey.

TV / FILM: Mike played the 'veteran MiB agent' in "Men in Black International." He can currently be seen in "The Phantom of the Open" and the back of his head appears in silhouette for almost a full second in "The Batman"

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are actor and writer Marcus Freed, and producer and director Howard Reichman

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Twitter: @marcusjfreed

Instagram: @marcusjfreed

Website: www.marcusjfreed.com

For more than 15 years, award winning actor and writer Marcus J Freed’s purpose has been helping people optimise their inner talents and live to their highest potential. He has many entrepreneurial endeavours, fuelling his passion for life. Marcus founded the business consultancy Freedthinking, and developed Bibliyoga and the Kosher Sutras, helping transform the lives of thousands. He recently published “The Kosher Sutras - the Jewish Way in Yoga & Meditation”. A regular broadcaster for BBC national radio, and past President of the Jewish Yoga Network, Marcus has written for publications including The Washington Post, The Independent and The Jewish Chronicle, and has appeared on Fox TV news networks. A trained actor, Marcus performed his Biblical comic plays in over 20 countries and appeared in the movie Saving Lincoln. His Youtube channel Marcus Recommends is dedicated to connecting people with great ideas and celebrating life. Marcus has also achieved Rabbinic semicha certification, although he would not use the title unless it was in ‘Rabbis behaving badly’

Twitter: @HowardReichman

Website: www.villagefilmworks.com

Howard is a seasoned, hands-on producer, director, editor and writer with more than 20 years experience from corporate, marketing and branding films and videos to narrative films, mainstream movies and TV pilots such as "Wired City" which he wrote, produced and directed and went on to be an official selection in the New York Television Festival and also the Independent Television Festival. Howard earned his BFA in film writing and directing from NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts. Upon graduation he was hired as Director of Photography for the television pilot “Destination Unknown” which won a Telly Award in 1994. He was also the producer of the critically acclaimed, award winning drama “Anyone But Me”. Howard’s comedy skills make him a sought after script/story consultant in New York and Los Angeles, hired for rewrites and “punch-ups” for movies, TV shows, and advertising campaigns. He has worked on projects for CBS, ABC, NBC, MTV, CNN, The HIstory Channel, The Discovery Channel, Dreamworks and many more. As an entrepreneur, Howard co-founded WritersRoomPro, the popular collaborative writing application used by all of the major studios and most of the top TV shows

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Vagina Museum founder Florence Schechter and writer/journalist Tim Samuels.

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Twitter: @floschechter / @vagina_museum

Instagram: @florschech / @vagina_museum

Website: www.floschechter.com

Florence Schechter is a science communicator, comedian, and the founder and director of the world's first vagina museum. She has a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham and after building up a science YouTube channel with over a million views she interned at the hit BBC show QI and was the main researcher for their app "Qiktionary". In 2016, she enrolled in the Wellcome Trust funded "Talent Factory", a mentorship programme for emerging science talent in the UK. For the past few years, she has sat on the Trajectory, Ideas and Ambassadors Board of Cheltenham Science Festival which advises on programming and strategy. In 2017, she started the project to build the world's first bricks and mortar museum about the gynaecological anatomy and came Highly Commended in the Women of the Future Awards in the Arts and Culture category for her work with the Vagina Museum. Florence is an accomplished presenter on TV, radio and live on stage. She has been an expert contributor on TV documentary Engineering Catastrophes (Science Channel), a writer and presenter on the podcast Chemistry In Its Element (Royal Society of Chemistry) and voiced an explainer for the charity Eve Appeal.

Twitter: @TimSamuels

Website: www.tim-samuels.com

Tim is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, broadcaster, author and one of the most distinctive and acclaimed journalists in the business. He has won three Royal Television Society awards and best documentary at the World Television Festival. Tim’s documentaries are broadcast across BBC 1 and BBC 2 and he is a global correspondent on the National Geographic Channel's Explorer show. He is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service; he created and hosted Men’s Hour on BBC 5 Live and hit wellness podcast All Hail Kale. His first book "Who Stole My Spear?" (published in the US as "Future Man") was serialised in The Sunday Times and hailed as a Vanity Fair must-read. He currently writes US politics analysis for the Evening Standard. Tim's films provocatively and entertainingly bring serious issues to light and he has been honoured for his TV and radio work by the New York Festivals, been Race in the Media journalist of the year, and given the prestigious ‘making a difference’ award at the Mind Media Awards for his work on mental health.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are writer Francesca Segal and poet and Joshua Seigal.

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Twitter: @JoshuaSeigal

Instagram: @JoshuaSeigal

Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk 

Joshua is a highly acclaimed, award-winning professional poet, performer and educator who uses poetry to develop literacy skills and inspire confidence and ​creativity in communication. He has worked in hundreds of schools, libraries, theatres and festivals around the world, had books published by Bloomsbury and other major publishers, and has written and performed for BBC television. 

"Very imaginative and wonderful"

The Sunday Times

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"Magic" 

Michael Rosen

"A witty genius" 

Scholastic

Twitter: @FrancescaSegal

Instagram: @FrancescaSegal

Website: www.francescasegal.com

Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her first novel, The Innocents, won the Costa First Novel Award, the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, the Sami Rohr Prize, and a Betty Trask Award, and was long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize).

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are chef Denise Philips and CEO of JW3 Raymond Simonson.

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Twitter: @jewishcookery

Instagram: @denises_kitchen

Website:www.jewishcookery.com 

Prue Leith trained Denise Phillips is the UK’s leading Jewish chef and cookery writer. she offers a wide range of cookery classes and an array of mouth-watering modern stylish recipes through her website, her famous classes, her books and in the media. Denise is well known for her Date On A Plate format for Jewish singles, which is now available on Zoom as well as in person. The next Date on a plate event is online for ages 50-60 on Bank Holiday Monday 2 May, 7.30-8.30 pm  check out her website for more info. 

Denise’s quest has always been to create Jewish cooking with style, taste and a rich visual look and has showcased her modern approach to kosher cookery on a range of radio and TV shows including appearances on BBC1, ITV  and DKW Channel.  She also writes a weekly food column in the Jewish Weekly and is a regular contributor for the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jewish Recorder and Jewish Vegetarian Society magazine.

Twitter: @FatSideburns

Instagram: @raymondsimonson

Website:www.jw3.org.uk 

Raymond is CEO of JW3, London’s Jewish Community Centre and leading cultural venue. Find out more about JW3's new Spring/Summer season of arts, culture, classes, courses, music, comedy, film and more at www.jw3.org.uk! 

Raymond Simonson is a qualified Community and Youth Worker, holds a BA in Jewish History, an MA in Applied Anthropology and Community & Youth Work, and an alumnus of the Cambridge University Senior Faith Leadership Programme. He was the first full time Executive Director of Limmud, and prior to that was the UJIA/Jewish Agency Director of Informal Jewish Education. In a lay capacity, he sits on the Limmud FSU International Steering Committee, and the advisory boards of Mitzvah Day, the London Jewish Forum, and Amal, a new project of the Said Foundation ‘that uses Muslim arts and culture to increase understanding of Britain’s Muslim communities among people of other faiths and none. 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedians Rose Johnson and Carey Marx.

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Twitter: @rosejohnno

Instagram: @rosejohnno

Website:www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/rose-johnson 

Rose is a stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and one-third of sketch group Birthday Girls, whose BBC podcast Birthday Girls’ House Party was nominated for the 2019 British Podcast Award for Best Comedy. Her work in progress show “Yes and No” will be at Machynlleth Comedy Festival at the end of the month. Her acting credits include The Mash Report (BBC2), Channel 4’s  Lee and Dean, Absolutely Fabulous, Mr Sloane and Russell Howard’s Gert Lush. Rose has written on Have I Got News For You (BBC1), Hypothetical (DAVE), The Last Leg (CH4) and The Comedy Guide To Life (DAVE). Rose writes regularly for children’s television, with credits including Thomas The Tank Engine, Swashbuckle, and the Children’s BAFTA nominated Gigglebiz. 

Twitter: @CareyMarx

Instagram: @carey.marx

Website:www.careymarx.com

Writer and star of BBC Radio 4’s Intensive Carey, twice winner of Best International Show at the New Zealand Comedy Festival, and Leicester Comedy Festival Best Show nominee. Carey’s early career saw him performing as a world-class sleight of hand magician, illusionist, hypnotist, psychic, medium, and creator of the unusual. He performed at the lavish James Bond parties, for the Rolling Stones at Bill Wyman’s wedding, and private events for royalty. After dropping the props, Carey established himself firmly as one of the top stand-up comedians from the British circuit, playing all the most prestigious clubs and festivals. He has performed in every continent and claims to have travelled more in his life than he has stood still. A circuit veteran, Marx concocts his own blend of dark humour with his ability to find joy in the most unexpected places. An international multi-award winner, Carey’s credits range from Channel 4’s Gas to BBC One’s The Stand Up Show. Marx has written for the likes of Newzoids (ITV), The Now Show, (Radio 4), and Nick Doody’s Bigipedia (BBC Radio 4). 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Holocaust survivor/TikTok phenomenon Gidon Lev, and his partner author and editor Julie Gray

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Twitter: @GidonLev

Tiktok: @thetrueadventures

Instagram: @thetrueadventures

Website:www.thetrueadventures.com

Gidon Lev and his life partner Julie Gray are a Tiktok phenomenon, sharing a combination of Holocaust education, opinion on contemporary issues and performing all of the trends! Julie has co-written Gidon’s memoir “The True Adventures of Gidon Lev. Rascal. Holocaust Survivor. Optimist” and they have a fantasticpodcasttoo which brings the book to life with additional material, music and sound. Visit their websitehttps://www.thetrueadventures.com/for more information.

Gidon, (formerly Peter Wolfgang Löw) was born in Czechoslovakia in 1935. In 1941, Gidon and his mother and father were taken to the Theresienstadt (or Terezin) concentration camp, which was located about 50 kilometers north of Prague. ​Of the 15,000 children in Theresienstadt, fewer than 92 survived. Gidon Lev is one of those children. He wound up in Canada, where he became involved with the Zionist youth organization HaShomer HaTzair and in 1959, Gidon came to Israel to fulfill his dream. Gidon is now 86 years old and delivers flowers, as well as sharing on Tiktok daily!

Julie Gray was born in 1964 in the San Joaquin Valley in California. A longtime Huffington Post contributor, Julie has been published in the Sanskrit Literary Journal, Moment Magazine, The Times of Israel, MovieMaker Magazine, Script Magazine, and Hip Mama. Her essay "The Freaking Autumn of My Life" was included in the anthology "Aging: An Apprenticeship." A veteran essayist and editor, Julie moved to Israel in 2012 and is working on her memoir "They Do Things Differently Here." 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is authorDaniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket, creator of A Series Of Unfortunate Events which has sold over 60 million copies and been adapted for both the big and small screen! His newest book, Poison For Breakfast, is out now.

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Twitter: @lemonysnicket @DanielHandler

Instagram: @authordanielhhandler

Website:www.danielhandler.com

Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and, most recently, Bottle Grove.

As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. He's also written some brilliant Jewish themed stories, including The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (a perfect Hanukkah gift) and Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid(why not buy it for someone as a Passover treat?). Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, is out now!

Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Reperatory Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has collaborated with artist Maira Kalman on a series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and with musicians Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) and Torquil Campbell (of Stars).

His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.

He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman best known as Leizer and Chaimie from the cult hit web series Yidlife Crisis. 

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Yidlife Crisis

Twitter: @YidLifeCrisis

Instagram: @yidlifecrisis

Website:www.yidlifecrisis.com

Created by Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman, YidLife Crisis is the world’s first 18 and over/Chai+ Yiddish web series. It’s won numerous awards and been described* as “One of the Top 1000 Things to Happen to the Yiddish Language in the Last 1000 Years”. (*By Eli and Jamie) 

They will be appearing at JW3 in London as part of “Oy Canada: A Celebration of Canadian Jews” on 1st July 2021, here is the link https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/oy-canada-celebration-canadian-jews

Wanting to pay homage to the yiddishkayt in their upbringing and the Jewish comedic lens on life with which they were raised, Eli and Jamie developed the YidLife Crisis web series and cultural brand. They describe YidLife Crisis as a love letter about modern Jewish identity, set mostly in Yiddish,  making Jewish identity inclusive to all through the ice-breaking power of comedy. What started as a passion project turned into a hit with over 3,000,000 video views and 30,000 subscribers, global press, awards and accolades, the collaboration of talent such as Mayim Bialik and Howie Mandel, and a chance to work with various organizations from Jewish community centers through academic institutions through comedy festivals. 

Jamie Elman

Twitter: @JamieElman

Jamie has appeared on many of television's most acclaimed series including Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House M.D., Criminal Minds, Without A Trace, CSI: NY, The Closer and The Young and the Restless. He also played Luke, the resident piano-playing record store guy and boyfriend, for three seasons on NBC's award winning and critically lauded drama American Dreams. His breakout role was Cody on the FOX/YTV hit teen sitcom Student Bodies. Jamie has starred in "California Dreamin'" (Grand Prix, Un Certain Regard, 2007 Cannes Film Festival), "When Nietzsche Wept", "Shattered Glass", "The Chicago 8", "Saving Lincoln", and "Random Encounters". He has done extensive voice work for video games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic and animated films including Disney's Wreck-It Ralph and the blockbuster Frozen. He also wrote and starred in the web series "crazy/sexy/awkward," produced by Howie Mandel, and "YidLife Crisis," the world's first 18+ Yiddish comedy series. He recently appeared in the finale of Canadian series "Bomb Girls." Jamie is also an accomplished blues and jazz pianist and singer.

Eli Batalion 

Twitter: @EliBatalion

Instagram: @elibatalion

Eli Batalion is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage who has taken his love of the arts into the realm of social entrepreneurship. Hei began his career in musical theatre with the award-winning internationally touring play "JOB: The Hip-Hop Musical." He and partner Jerome Sable evolved their work to the screen with the musical horror comedy short "The Legend of Beaver Dam" selected to TIFF, Sundance, Berlinale and over 75 global film festivals. From there, they evolved to feature horror musical comedy Stage Fright featuring Minne Driver and Meat Loaf. "YidLife Crisis," Eli's project done with partner Jamie Elman, uses the disarming power of comedy to be able to build bridges within and between communities. In a short period of time, it has grown from an award-winning fictional web series to an unscripted digital docu-series "Global Shtetl," the award-winning documentary feature "CHEWDAISM: A Taste of Jewish Montreal" and a global live touring phenomenon. Eli's writing/directing feature film debut, Appiness, supported by Telefilm Canada and the Talent Fund, was released by distributor Gravitas Ventures in 2020.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are journalist and agony aunt Hilary Freeman & educator turned festival producer Alastair Falk 

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Hilary Freeman

Twitter: @HFreemanauthor

Instagram: @noveliser

Website:www.hilaryfreeman.com

Hilary Freeman is an experienced freelance journalist, novelist and agony aunt, as well as a frequent contributor to radio and TV programmes. Hilary's articles have appeared in newspapers including: Daily Mail, The Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, and The Independent, as well as Grazia, You Magazine, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping. Some of her pieces have gone viral, attracting thousands of shares, tweets, blogs and correspondence. Others have been used as teaching aids in schools and universities. She's also a ghostwriter and associate lecturer, and a media consultant/trainer. Hilary has had seven novels published, including When I Was Me, Loving Danny and the Camden Town Tales series. 

Alastair Falk 

Twitter: @tsitsitfringe

Instagram: @tsitsitfringe

Website:www.tsitsitfringe.org 

Within Jewish circles Alastair is possibly most recognisable as the founder of Limmud, a Jewish festival offering sessions on everything spanning arts, culture, social justice, Torah, philosophy, politics, history, and more. Limmud began in the UK but now has satellites all over the world. An experienced ex Head of three schools and education charity professional, Alastair came to the attention of the press when he was appointed as the UK's first "superhead" in Tony Blair's academy scheme. He currently works with the Foundation for Education Development on a project bringing together diverse voices and ideas in order to construct a long term strategy for education policy. But it was his experience with touring his one man show 'Much Ado About Noshing', that led him to develop his new project, Tsitsit, the world's first Jewish themed Fringe Festival. Happening across the UK in October 2021, Tsitsit will showcase grassroots Jewish themed music, theatre, comedy and (all being well!) a new children's musical Alastair himself is currently writing.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Mark Maier & Rachel Berger.

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Mark Maier

Twitter:@markgmaier 

Instagram:@markgmaier

Websites: www.markmaier.co.uk andwww.markmaierdraws.com

Talented award-winning writer and stand-up, Mark Maier, is an established and highly sought after performer on both the national and international comedy circuits. He has worked the comedy clubs of Germany, Holland, Ireland, Hong Kong, The Bahamas, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Mark has also appeared in Harry Hill The Movie and in various cameo roles in the series Harry Hill’s TEA-TIME. Mark has taught and performed improvisation with Catherine Tate in London and has had a string of successful radio series, in which he was both writer and performer. More recently he has rediscovered his artistic roots as a pet and person portrait artist. His TV credits include Boy Meets Girl (BBC2), Edinburgh Nights for the BBC, World Stands Up (Paramount), Dating The Enemy (ITV), Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment (Ch5), The Stand Up Show (BBC1), Five’s Company (Ch5), Rory Bremner - Who Else? (Ch4) and Rove Live for Australian television. His awards include 3 London International Advertising Awards (radio writing – humour), 2 London International Advertising Awards (radio writing – utilities), Aerial Award (radio writing), Radio Writing and Television Award – Hollywood International Broadcast Award (radio writing), and Jewish performer of the year.

Rachel Berger

Twitter: @boom_berger

Website: https://www.rachelberger.com/

One of Australia’s most highly regarded, adept, and adaptive comedic talents, Rachel Berger has worked as a comedian, broadcaster, novelist, columnist, agitator and television entertainer. Political, passionate and armed only with her material, Rachel has been prowling the stand-up circuit like a tigress for 30 years. Rachel's high public profile has done much to establish the position of women in comedy, providing a distinctive voice for women’s opinions and viewpoints. She’s taken four solo shows to the Edinburgh Festival and her dynamic presence and engagingly sharp observations have made her an extremely popular performer both live and on television, across Australia and overseas. Her debut novel for Penguin, Whaddya Mean You’re Allergic To Rubber? sold out faster than Judas. Rachel's media credits include: Appearing on Statesmen of Comedy, Good Morning Australia, Good News Week, Tonite Live, The Big Gig, The Midday Show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, hosting UPFRONT, an all women line-up, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for ABC TV, featuring on Punchlines, a documentary about twenty years of Australian comedy and The Smallest Room in the House, ABC-TV. She’s written for The Weekly Review, The Age, The Sunday Age, Sunday Herald Sun as well as national magazines such as New Woman and Rolling Stone. 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Luciana Berger & Hugo Rifkind.

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Luciana Berger

Twitter:@LucianaBerger

Instagram:@LucianaBerger

Luciana served as the Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree for almost a decade. During that time she was the Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Shadow Minister for Public Health and Shadow Cabinet Member for Mental Health. Luciana was also a leading member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, and the Liberal Democrat Shadow Spokesperson for Health, Social Care and Wellbeing.

Since leaving politics she is now the Managing Director of Advocacy and Public Affairs, specialising in health, food and drink, climate change and energy policy for a global communications company. She also co-hosts Close Quarters Podcast alongside Head of Brand Strategy and Marketing at the British Business Bank, Rebecca Simon.

Hugo Rifkind

Twitter:@HugoRifkind

Hugo is a columnist and lead writer for The Times, and presents a show on Times Radio. He writes a weekly opinion column and “My Week”, a diary parody - a compendium of his columns, “My Week: The Secret Diaries Of Almost Everyone”, was published in 2013. Hugo also writes regular columns for The Spectator and GQ and is a frequent panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz. His novel, Overexposure, was published in 2006, and Hugo was named columnist of the year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2011, and Media Commentator of the Year in the same awards in 2012. He was Stonewall's Journalist of the Year in 2012, in recognition of his strong support for equal marriage. The same year, he was also named Best Grooming Journalist in the P&G Beauty Awards. In 2015, at the Comment Awards, he was named Arts, Culture and Entertainment Commentator of The Year. In 2017, he won both Best of Humour and Critic of the Year at the Society of Editors' Press Awards. In May 2019, Rifkind presented and wrote a programme for BBC Radio 4 entitled Hugo Rifkind's Search For Power.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are stand up comic and writer Josh Howie and comedian and activist Noam Shuster.

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Josh Howie

Twitter:@joshxhowie

Instagram:@joshxhowie

Facebook: @joshhowiecomedian

Website:www.joshhowie.com

Writer and star of BBC Radio 4’s sitcom Josh Howie’s Losing It (nominated for a BBC Radio Award) Josh is a much in-demand stand-up comic, performing regularly at all the major comedy clubs around the UK. Over the previous few years Josh has also taken his distinctive brand of humor to India, Ireland, UAE, France, China, Thailand, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia and America. In 2012, he was invited to perform at the prestigious Just for Laugh’s comedy festival in Montreal, where he filmed the internationally distributed Just For Laugh’s All Access TV show. In addition, Josh has written and performed numerous solo shows for the Edinburgh Festival, before sell-out runs at the Soho Theatre, appeared on Dave’s As Yet Untitled with Eddie Izzard, two series of the Comedy Central show Comedy Store, and featured on World Stands Up and Comedy Blue for the same channel. He spent four years as the writer/presenter of The Movie Geek on Sky Movies. Often praised for his writing talent, Josh has a regular column in the Jewish Chronicle and has contributed features to The Guardian, The Times, and The Daily Mail. Josh can currently be seen on My5 TV in the UK in the sitcom “Hapless”, written by previous podcast guest Gary Sinyor.

Noam Shuster

Twitter:@ShusterNoam

Instagram:@noam_joon

Noam Shuster-Eliassi is a freelance comedian, performer, peacebuilder and activist. A graduate of Brandeis University, she grew up in Neve Shalom Wahat Al Salam ("Oasis of Peace"), the only community where Jews and Palestinians live together by choice, and she performs in three languages - Hebrew, Arabic and English. In 2018, she was named the “New Jewish Comedian of the Year” in London. That same year, she was also the first Jewish performer in the Palestine Comedy Festival and her content went viral in the Arab media. Before lockdown, Noam was at Harvard Divinity School's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative developing her one-woman show in Hebrew, English and Arabic, entitled "Coexistence My Ass". Public Radio International's (PRI) "The World" show recently did a profile of Noam and her work: https://bit.ly/37wFgY5. On her return to Israel, Noam caught Covid 19 and spent time in a “Corona Hotel”, the story of this experience is being developed for the screen.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are photographer and stand up comic Steve Best and comedian and academic Naomi Paxton also known for her variety act as Ada Campe.

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Steve Best

Twitter:@SteveBestComic

Instagram:@SteveBestPics

Facebook:@SteveBestPics

Website:www.stevebest.com

Steve is a stand up comedian who describes himself as “a very, very fine photographer.”

He is that, but he’s also a stunning visual comedian, his unique form of slapstick comedy is backed up with astounding variety of talents, equally at home in a sweaty club or a shiny cabaret stage. He claims to have appeared at near enough damn it every comedy club in the country, as well as supporting the likes of Frank Skinner, Craig Charles and Omid Djalili on massive nationwide tours. He has also taken his unique style of comedy all over the world, performing in such places as Bali, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Cape Town, Bosnia, The Falkland Islands and Johannesburg. He co-produced the show Abnormally Funny People in 2005, conceived to incorporate disabled comedians and actors into the mainstream arena. Steve is the token non-disabled act and is one of two directors of Abnormally Funny People Ltd, set up in 2006. 

As a photographer, Steve is renowned for his collections of Green Room shots of comedians, and has published a number of books that are available from his website.

Naomi Paxton

Twitter:@NaomiPaxton|@AdaCampe

Instagram:@Naomi.Paxton|@Ada.Campe

Website:www.naomipaxton.co.uk

Dr Naomi Paxton is a performer, writer, broadcaster, and researcher.

She is currently employed as Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She is also a Parliamentary Academic Fellow, and an Associate Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. ​

Naomi trained as a performer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). After a decade as a professional actor, in 2011 she started a PhD in the Drama department at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral research, completed in 2015, explored the work of the Actresses' Franchise League and the contribution of theatre professionals to the suffrage campaign. Naomi is a member of Equity, and The Magic Circle. She is also Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer for The Magic Circle.

Naomi performs comedy, cabaret, magic and variety shows as her character Ada Campe. In 2018 she won the prestigious New Act of the Year Show (NATYS), and the Leicester Square Theatre Old Comedian of the Year competition. In 2019 Ada Campe was shortlisted for the Chortle Awards in the Variety category, and for the 2019 Funny Women awards in the Best Show category. 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedian & comedy writer Meryl O’Rourke and singer/songwriter & founding member of 10cc, Graham Gouldman.

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Meryl O’Rourke

Twitter:@MerylORourke

Facebook:@MerylORourke

Website:Via Agent

Meryl O'Rourke has worked for over 12 years as a high level topical TV gag writer and as a stand-up in her own right. She has written for Frankie Boyle for much of this time, from panel shows like Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, through to BBC's Frankie Goes To Russia, Frankie Boyle's Tour of Scotland and four series of Frankie Boyle's New World Order. Meryl wrote for the 2019 Olivier Awards, broadcast on ITV and has also written for ITV 2's Dress To Impress.

In 2019 she debuted her solo stand-up show Vanilla and her 2011 show, Bad Mother was The Times’ and The Observers Critic’s Choice. Meryl was also the inaugural winner of the Betty Box and Peter Rogers/Big Talk comedy writing programme and as a stand-up, she has supported Frankie Boyle many times as part of his national tour, including at Hammersmith Apollo.

Meryl's radio credits include writing and performing her own comedy series The Hysterical Method Of Conception for Woman's Hour (BBC Radio 4) and a Sony Radio Academy Award Nomination for Best Breakfast Show. More recently, Meryl has written gags for BBC World Service's Comedians vs The News.

As an experienced journalist, Meryl has written extensively as a columnist for Time Out and as a feature writer for Mark Millar's magazine CLiNT. She also works as a script editor and writing coach.

Graham Gouldman

Twitter:@GrahamGouldman

Instagram:@GrahamGouldman

Website:www.grahamgouldman.info

Born in Manchester, Graham was given his first guitar at the age of 11 and started playing with local bands at 15. He received early encouragement to develop his musical talent from his mother Betty and father Hymie, who also contributed with suggested lyrics and song titles.

Graham played with various Manchester bands before forming The Mockingbirds in 1965 (with Kevin Godley on drums), and when the record label Columbia rejected Graham’s first single composition for the band, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The song, For Your Love, became a huge hit for The Yardbirds.

Working by day in a men’s outfitters shop and playing by night with his semi-professional band, Graham went on to write a string of hits. In 1972, along with Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, he formed 10cc and enjoyed a string of Top 10 hits, including three No 1s – Rubber Bullets, I’m Not In Love and Dreadlock Holiday. It’s the enduring popularity of these tracks and Graham’s love of playing songs acoustically, that led to the formation of Heart Full of Songs, a show which features many of these songs.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Canadian actor and podcaster Kerry Shale and performer, writer and pickle aficionado Rachel Mars.

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Kerry Shale

Twitter:@IsItRollingPod

Website:www.kerryshale.com

Kerry is a London-based Canadian actor who has worked extensively in theatre, film and television and voice over. His theatre work includes productions at The National Theatre and The Donmar Warehouse and he has appeared in the West End in The Normal Heart and Frost/Nixon.

His film & TV credits include Barbra Streisand’s Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors, Labyrinth, playing Ronnie Corbett’s godson in Sorry! and Mr Beaver in BBC’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. More recently he has been seen in Patrick Melrose and The Trip To Spain, as well as New Tricks, Mr Selfridge, The Trip, Life’s Too Short, Not Going Out, Dr Who and Steven Poliakoff’s Gideon’s Daughter. For BBC Radio, Kerry has acted in hundreds of plays including his own adaptations of Dr Strangelove and A Confederacy of Dunces. He has been the voice of Bill Bryson and Woody Allen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mark Twain, as well as the far more serious Gnasher in Dennis and Gnasher, Sir Topham Hatt (The Fat Controller) in Thomas and Friends (USA) and Diesel in Thomas and Friends (UK). He plays dozens of characters in the BAFTA and Emmy-winning series The Amazing World of Gumball (Cartoon Network).

Links:

The Film Programme

Kerry and two actor friends discuss being in Yentl. Lots of Barbra stories!

The Kubrick Test

The radio play about Stanley Kubrick that was talked about at great length in the episode, written by Kerry and starring Henry Goodman.

Rachel Mars

Twitter:@RachelOfMars

Instagram:@RachelOfMars

Website:www.rachelmars.org

Rachel describes herself as a performance maker and writer with a background in theatre, live art and comedy. She explores the idiosyncratic cultural and political constructs that inform the way we are together, as people, just trying to figure it all out. Her work wrestles with female, Jewish and Queer identities and their intersections.

She makes performance work as a solo artist and collaborates with a range of artists including Greg Wohead [Story #1 / Gaping Hole] and nat tarrab as mars.tarrab - the 2017 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award Winners. Recent commissions have included HOME Manchester/The Entertainment Group, Leeds Playhouse, The Junction, Cambridge; Royal Court Tottenham; Fuel Theatre and Ovalhouse. She’s been on residencies recently including The Orchard Project and Asylum (NY),  Playwrights Centre (Minneapolis) and Playwrights' Workshop (Montreal) and Cove Park (UK)  She is a fellow at the Birkbeck Centre of Contemporary Theatre, have taught workshops on University courses in the UK and artist development programmes in the UK, Canada and the US. Rachel is also a regular contributor to 'Pause for Thought' on BBC Radio 2. 

Rachel is also the brains behind a fantastic YouTube series called PickleWatch where she quite literally reviews pickles.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are actor and comedian Gareth Berliner and CEO of Pink News Benjamin Cohen.

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Gareth Berliner

Twitter:@GarethBerliner

Instagram:@garethberliner

Facebook:Garethberlinercomedian

Website:www.garethberliner.com

Gareth is a comedian and actor who has performed all over the world. As a stand up he has performed at some of the most prestigious international festivals as himself, and as his comedy creation “Trevor Lewis”. Gareth has become well known as an actor having played “Macca”, a recurring character in Coronation Street, and appearing in hit TV shows such as Dr Who and Eastenders. He is also a disability and mental health advocate and uses his platform as a performer to promote positive messages.

Together with his wife, actress Kiruna Stamell, Gareth has a production company called www.alittlecommitment.com and during lockdown they developed, produced and filmed a web series for children which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/c/PirateandParrotTV

Benjamin Cohen 

Twitter:@benjamincohen|@PinkNews

Instagram:@benjamincohen|@Pink_News

Website:www.pinknews.co.uk

Benjamin is the founder and CEO of Pink News, the world’s largest LGBT media company. Previously he was the technology correspondent for Channel 4 News, and he still writes for a number of papers. Benjamin is well known for being one of the youngest ever directors of a public company, setting up his first at the age of only 16! He is involved with a number of charities offering support around mental health and LGBT awareness, and was behind the Out4Marriage political campaign in response to the government’s consultation on the legalisation of equal marriage.

Most recently, Benjamin attracted a huge amount of attention when he was invited onto BBC Politics Live where a panel of non Jewish politicians were discussing the question “are Jews an ethnic minority?” 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for the first episode of the third series of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are UK comedy writing royalty Marks & Gran.

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Marks and Gran: 

Twitter @marksandgran 

Website: www.marksandgran.com

Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are jewels in the UK comedy crown, best known as the writing team behind some of our most iconic sitcoms including Shine On Harvey Moon, The New Statesmen, Birds Of A Feather, Love Hurts and Goodnight Sweetheart. Their theatre credits include Dreamboats and Petticoats, Von Ribbentrop’s Watch, Love Me Do, Playing God, Save the Last Dance for Me, and Dreamboats and Miniskirts.

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A quick message to let you know Series 3 is coming this Friday. Our first episode features sitcom royalty, creators of such TV hits as Birds of a Feather, Goodnight Sweetheart, Love Hurts, Shine on Harvey Moon and more...so much more!

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It's been a tough year so we wanted to make Purim as joyous as possible. We asked our guests to share their favourite Jewish jokes, here are a selection of them - if laughter is the best medicine, why do we need chicken soup?

With jokes from:

Ivor Baddiel

Debbie Chazen 

Boyd Hilton

Jess Robinson 

Gary Sinyor

Estee Stimler

Matt Kirshen

Joe Bor Comedy

Simon Lipkin

Sara Gibbs

Paul Anthony Mendelson

Jay Foreman

Rachel Creeger Comedian/Writer/Director

Steve Furst

Valerie Landsburg

Jason Solomons

Jane Green

Dave Cohen

Adam Bloom

Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers

Toby Friedner

Howard Cohen 

Bennett Arron

Isy Suttie

Sol Bernstein

Al Lubel

Lynn Ruth Miller

Philip Simon - Comedian

Morris Bright

Andrea Hubert

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for this bonus episode of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. Recorded live (via Zoom) at Limmud 2020 the guests are UK Human Rights barrister and legal commentator Adam Wagner, and rabbi, author and activist Abby Stein.

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Adam Wagner: 

Twitter @AdamWagner1 

Instagram @1AdamWagner1

Adam is well-known for his human rights advocacy work. He founded both the multi-award winning human rights charity EachOther and the acclaimed UK Human Rights Blog. He is a sought after legal commentator on social media, television and radio. He set up and hosts the Better Human Podcast.

Rabbi Abby Stein: 

Twitter @AbbyChavaStein

Instagram @AbbyChavaStein

Abby Stein is a rabbi, author and activist. She has given speeches around the world on LGBTQ issues in Judaism, antisemitism, and more. Her book, Becoming Eve, was published in 2019. In 2020 she was named by Prospect Magazine 1 of The World's Top 50 Thinkers, and by The Forward, as one of their Forward 50 most influential American Jews.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 20 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are film critic and broadcaster Jason Solomons, and New York Times bestselling author Jane Green.

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Jason Solomons: 

Twitter @JasonCritic 

Instagram @mrjasonsolomons

https://www.jasonsolomons.com

Jason Solomons is a radio presenter, podcast host, film critic and journalist. He has hosted the Guardian Film Weekly podcast since 2007, making 330 shows with star guests and weekly reviews. He is a regular guest on BBC News, Sky News and BBC radio, where he presents a weekly film hour on the BBC’s London station, BBC London 94.9, on the Robert Elms Show. An expert in world, French and British cinema, Solomons is often called-for to present the opening and closing gala red carpets at the London Film Festival and host the London Critics’ Circle Film awards at BFI Southbank. Jason  is the host of Seen Anything Good Lately podcast, the film critic for the New European, The Lady and SAGA magazines and author of the best-selling film biography “Woody Allen Film by Film”.

Jane Green: 

Twitter @JaneGreen 

Instagram @janegreenauthor

https://www.janegreen.com

Jane Green is the author of twenty novels, including eighteen new york times bestsellers, one cookbook, and various short stories. She is published in over 25 languages, and has over ten million books in print worldwide. She has been part of the ABC News team, has had her own radio show on BBC Radio London, and has made regular appearances on TV and radio. She contributes to a number of newspapers and magazines, and had a weekly column in The Lady magazine, England’s longest running weekly magazine. A graduate of the International Culinary Institute in New York, Green is an avid cook, amateur decorator, and passionate gardener. She is also a regular storyteller for The Moth. Her first story for The Moth, Greener Grass, was video taped and subsequently went viral on Facebook, with over three million views.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and guest host Russell Balkind for Episode 19 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, (produced by Russell too). This week’s guests are writer/comedian Andrea Hubert and comedy writer/producer Howard Cohen .

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Andrea Hubert: Twitter @ShutUpAndrea

https://www.andreahubert.com

Andrea describes herself as a comedian, writer and amateur taxidermist. She claims to have only ever stuffed one mouse (Alan) but still likes to think of it as a hobby, albeit a rarely practiced one. She has performed stand up comedy all over the UK. Andrea performed her debut Edinburgh show 'Week' at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and received lovely reviews, her second show 'Holes of Joy' at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018 also went pretty well. She’s currently writing her 3rd hour, which will probably revolve around her Jewishness, and how to avoid talking about the middle east at dinner parties. Andrea does film writing for The Guardian Guide, and comedy for TV. She contributed sketches for BBC's Walk on the Wildside, and E4's Mad on Chelsea. In 2013, she and her writing partner Ryan Cull won the BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing Forum. They sold their first sitcom to the BBC, and are currently finishing their first feature length script. 

Howard Cohen: Twitter @TheHowardCohen  Insta @TheHowardCohen

Howard Cohen is creative director at Rogo Productions. He is a Bafta-winning producer who has developed shows for companies including Warner Bros, Disney, Fulwell 73, Expectation Entertainment and Lion Television. Commissioned projects include Sky’s animal game-show Play Your Pets Right, BBC’s Impractical Jokers, Stacey Dooley Investigates for BBC3, Unrighteous for Dave, and two episodes of Sky’s scripted Urban Myths series. He also co-hosts the podcast Dane Baptiste Questions Everything.  As a short film maker his work has been nominated for awards around the world including The London Short Film Festival, The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival & The Houston Comedy Film Festival. His film “Something For The Wickend” won the people’s choice award at The London Short Film Showcase, and 2015’s “The Milkman” won Best Film at The KinoDot International Film Festival. 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 18 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are both comedians, actors and writers, Isy Suttie and Bennett Arron

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Isy Suttie: Twitter @Isysuttie

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2981969/

Isy Suttie is a comedian, actress and writer. She is best known to TV audiences for playing IT geek Dobby in Channel 4’s Peep Show, Isy’s a regular on the national stand-up circuit and won a Gold Sony award for her BBC Radio 4 series Isy Suttie's Love Letters. Other TV work includes Nat in Channel 4's Damned and Kiki in BBC2's Whites, plus Jewish mother Esther in Channel 4's Shameless. She has made many appearances as herself on TV, including on QI and 8/10 Cats Does Countdown, and was part of the writing team on Channel 4's Skins. Her first book, memoirs entitled The Actual One, was released by Orion in 2016 and Isy is due to have her first novel, Jane Is Trying, published by Orion in 2021. A curated collection of Isy's BBC Radio 4 shows, Isy Suttie's Love Letters and Other Matters of the Heart, is available to purchase and download here https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1120524/isy-suttie_s-love-letters---other-matters-of-the-heart/9781529134100.html

Bennett Arron: Twitter @BennettArron  Insta @bennett.arron

www.bennettarron.com

Being both Jewish and Welsh, Bennett had little choice other than to be a Comedian. He is also an Award Winning Writer, Actor, Author, Identity Theft Speaker and BAFTA Shortlisted Director .Bennett has performed at all the major comedy clubs around the UK as well as entertaining audiences in Italy, Australia, The Netherlands, Poland, South Africa and Hong Kong. He also supported Ricky Gervais on some of his tour dates. Bennett wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed BBC Radio Show; BENNETT ARRON IS JEWELSH and 2 series of the BBC Radio Show; BENNETT ARRON WORRIES ABOUT…  both of which were nominated for a Celtic Media Award. Bennett is currently playing the role of MORRIS in the Radio 4 Sitcom ALONE https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00094lp

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 16 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Rabbi and radio personality Debbie Young-Somers and BBC broadcast journalist Toby Friedner.

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Rabbi Debbie Young-Somers: Twitter @Rabbi_Debbie Insta: debbie_ys

http://rabbidebbie.blogspot.com/

Rabbi Debbie recently finished 7 years as Community Educator at the Movement for Reform Judaism, and in April she joined the Rabbinic team at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue. She is a regular contributor on Radio 2's Pause for Thought, BBC London's In Spirit, Three Counties Radio, and has appeared on 4ThoughtTV, Radio 4's Beyond Belief, and Midweek with Libby Purves. She has published articles here and there, as well as contributing to books and journals. 

Toby Friedner: Twitter @TobyFriedner  Insta @TobyFriedner

Toby is a BBC broadcast journalist and Head of Programmes at BBC Three Counties Radio. He’s also half of the brains behind the radio comedy music panel show, Anything But Coldplay, in which two teams compete over six musical rounds to play the songs they love on the radio.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 16 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedy writer Dave Cohenand stand up comedian Adam Bloom.

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Adam Bloom: Twitter@adambloomie2 

Website:http://www.adam-bloom.com/

Multi award winning stand up comic Adam Bloom is one of Britain's most inventive comedians. He has performed sell-out solo shows at 7 Edinburgh Festivals as well as performing a sell-out tour of Britain. He has also sold out theatres at festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington & Cape Town. He’s made an incredible 5 appearances at ‘Just For Laughs’ in Montreal, including being part of the 'Just For Laughs Comedy Tour', playing to 42,000 people in 17 cities across Canada. He has also written three series of ‘The Problem with Adam Bloom’ for BBC Radio 4. Other TV credits include ‘The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star’ and ‘Comedy Lab’ (Channel 4), ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’, ‘Mock The Week’, ‘The Stand-up Show’ and ‘Edinburgh Nights’ (BBC2), ‘Head On Comedy’ (BBC1), and ‘Comedy World Tour’, ‘The World Stands Up’ and ‘The Comedy Store’ (Comedy Central).

Dave Cohen:Twitter@DaveCohenComedyInsta@completecomedywriter

Website:https://www.davecohen.org.uk/ 

Writer, comedian, Edinburgh Festival Perrier Award nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players, Dave Cohen has written for some of the most successful TV shows including ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Spitting Image’, ‘Not Going Out’ and ‘My Family’, and dozens of radio shows including ‘News Quiz’, ‘Dead Ringers’ and the award-winning ‘15 Minute Musical’, which he co-created. Dave was lead singer with the world’s first Jewish heavy metal band Guns’n’Moses and in 2000 made the series ‘Travels With My Anti-Semitism’ for BBC Radio 4. He’s written nearly 100 songs for the multi-BAFTA winning BBC hit Horrible Histories and has been script editing and teaching comedy writing to everyone from beginners to hit sitcom writers. Dave has  written two books, How To Be Averagely Successful At Comedy and The Complete Comedy Writer. He also has a podcast with James Cary called Sitcom Geeks, and you can find all episodes here.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 15 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedians Matt Kirshen and Lucie Pohl.

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Matt Kirshen: Twitter @MattKirshen Insta @Matt_Kirshen

Matt has been a British stand-up comedian now based in Los Angeles. He has been performing since 2001, has performed in over 20 countries, and has been seen on such television shows as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Nerdist on BBC America and Last Comic Standing on NBC, where he was a Season 5 finalist. He’s written for Arrested Development and for The Jim Jefferies Show for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award.

He is also the host of another fantastic podcast, Probably Science, which you should definitely check out.

Lucie Pohl:Twitter @LuciePohlComedy Insta @ULoveLucie

https://www.luciepohl.com/ 

Lucie is a comedian, actor, voice actor and writer who was born in Germany and grew up in New York City. She currently voices the hero Mercy in the video game Overwatch, and featured in the Red Dwarf episode "Twentica" as Harmony de Gauthier.

She hosts the Immigrant Jam Comedy Show and Immigrant Jam Live Tuesdays on Twitch!

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 14 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedians Al Lubel & Steve Jameson.

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Al Lubel: Twitter @AlLubel Insta @al.lubel

Al had a successful career as a lawyer before fulfilling every Jewish mother’s dream by leaving for a life as an actor and comedian, at least he’s an award winner! He’s appeared on the Tonight show with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, and the Late Show with David Letterman and was a topic of conversation between Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Steve Jameson:Twitter @SolBernstein 

https://www.solbernstein.co.uk/

Steve is a former singer-songwriter and gentleman’s barber turned actor and comedian, best known as his hilarious alter ego Sol Bernstein, the world’s oldest living Jewish comedian. He’s just released an album called “Sol Bernstein, an old Jew telling old Jewish jokes” and Harry Hill described him as his favourite comedian!

Catch his new comedy album “An Old Jew Tells Old Jewish Jokes”

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 13 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Vivien Goldman and Toby Mott.

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Vivien Goldman:

Twitter@PunkProfessor

Insta@viviengoldmanforreal

www.viviengoldman.com

Vivien is a writer, musician and teacher, best known as the Punk Professor. She was Bob Marley’s first UK publicist and worked with him and the Wailers, eventually writing “The Book Of Exodus - The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Album of the Century”. She is also the author of many other books, including the biography of Kid Creole and the award winning “Revenge Of The She Punks”. She was a member of The Flying Lizards and Chantage, and her greatest hits album, Resolutionary, was released in 2016.

Toby Mott:

Twitter@CulturalTraffic

Instagram@culturaltraffic

www.culturaltraffic.com

Toby is a British artist, designer and sometime Punk historian known for his work with the Grey Organisation, an artists' collective that was active in the 1980s, for being a founder member of the infamous Anarchist Street Army and for his fashion brand Toby Pimlico. More recently he has become known for his Mott Collection, an archive of UK punk rock and political ephemera, and the Cultural Traffic Arts Project.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 12 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Simon Lipkin and Jess Robinson

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Jess Robinson: @JessieRobinson

https://www.jessrobinson.co.uk/

A quadruple award-winning comedy impressionist and classically-trained singer, Jess Robinson has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show every year since 2014; her latest, the wildly successful NO FILTER, rounded off a critically-acclaimed, nationwide tour throughout 2019. In 2017, Jess also appeared on Britain’s Got Talent, making it to the live shows, with her audition video becoming a viral sensation, clocking up millions of online views. She’s also the host of another fabulous podcast called Stars in your Ears (almost as good as this one) and can currently be heard voicing most of the women on Spitting Image.

Simon Lipkin: @SimonLipkin

Simon is an actor and puppeteer, best known for his work in musical theatre. His West End credits include ‘Avenue Q’ ‘Rock of Ages’ and ‘The Wind In The Willows’, and you’ll know him from his television work on ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ and ‘Doctor Who’. He has worked with our very own Philip Simon as a muppeteer, and in 2018 starred as Mr Poppy in the hit comedy films ‘Nativity 3: Dude Where’s my Donkey?!’ and ‘Nativity Rocks!’

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for the first episode of Series 2 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Boyd Hilton and Valerie Landsburg

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Valerie Landsburg: @VLandsburg

Biog:

An American actress, television and film director. She is best known for playing Doris Schwartz in the 1982 series “Fame”. She has had recurring roles in “Hotel” and “Dream On”, and appeared in numerous TV series, including “Murder, She Wrote”, “Beverly Hills, 90210”, “Nip/Tuck” and “The Unit”. 

She is also a successful film director, including her upcoming movie “Love & Debt” which will hopefully have a UK release soon.

Valerie mentions this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4dwtzqOFe4&list=PLQgsplhJqU7ibOZPEsGdZ9bgu_01XCUM9&index=51

Boyd Hilton: @BoydHilton

Boyd is the Entertainment Director of Heat Magazine and Deputy Editor of Pilot TV. He is also the host of hit podcasts Footballistically Arsenal & Pilot TV.

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Check out who’s joining Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Series 2 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. 

With series guests including comedians Al Lubel, Matt Kirshen, Adam Bloom and Steve Jameson (AKASol Bernstein), impressionist Jess Robinson, the Punk Professor Vivien Goldman, Actor and muppeteer Simon Lipkin, Artist Toby Mott, Actor and voiceover artist Lucie Pohl, comedy writer Dave Cohen. 

Don’t miss the first episode on Friday 16th October, where they’ll be chatting to entertainment director of Heat magazineBoyd Hiltonand star of the iconic 80’s TV series Fame, Valerie Landsburg.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 10 and the last in Series 1 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are sitcom writer and novelist Paul A Mendelson, and Chairman of Elstree StudiosMorris Bright MBE.

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Paul A Mendelson:@PaulMendelson65

https://paulmendelson.net

Paul is a sitcom writer and novelist. Among his hit TV shows are May to December, My Hero and So Haunt Me, in which a family find their new home is possessed by the ghost of Jewish grandma, Yetta Feldman.

Lately he has also become a novelist, with books for adults and children including, The Funnies, The Art of Listening and A Meeting in Seville. 

Morris Bright MBE:@Morris__Bright

Morris is the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Elstree Studios overseeing the day-to-day running of the world-famous film and television complex. He is a member of BAFTA and was awarded an MBE for Services to Local Government in the 2018 New Year Honours.

He is something of an authority on the films of the Carry On era, and wrote the definitive histories of Pinewood Studios and Shepperton Studios, biographies of actress Dame Thora Hird, film producer Peter Rogers, and books for the BBC on Fawlty Towers and Last of the Summer Wine. Of his book on Shepperton Studios, Lord Attenborough declared: "I believe I have rarely seen a publication of such quality.”

Morris is a member of BAFTA and Conservative Leader of Hertsmere Borough Council. 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 9 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are award-winning director, writer and producer Adam Morley, and lyricist, speechwriter and comedy consultant Estee Stimler.

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Adam Morley: @AdamMorley7

https://www.adammorley.com/

Adam is Artistic Director of Baroque Theatre Company and Associate Director of the Canal Café Theatre in London, home of the Guinness Book of World Records holder for longest running live comedy show 'Newsrevue' which he has directed many times in London and Edinburgh. He is the Patron of Actors Awareness promoting gender equality and diversity in the arts. His work in film and advertising has twice been nominated at Cannes Lions, he was named as one for the Creatives of the Year in Creative Review Magazine in 2006, won an Editor’s Choice Award as Artistic Director for best new venue, Edinburgh 2008 and was awarded “Best Director for Theatre & Film” at the Fringe Report Awards 2012. Directing credits include the World Premiere of 'Billionaire Boy' by David Walliams, the Premiere tour of 'Edith in the Dark' by Philip Meek and the critically successful show ‘The Greater Game’ as part of ‘Football Remembers’ with the Premiere League, FA, PFA and Royal Legion as part of the centenary of the end of WW1 remembering the professional footballers who dies in the great war. He is the CEO of community interest company Minerva, who provide arts access for children and adult with complex needs and his library arts company Big Time working in Libraries encourage literacy, physical and mental wellbeing and  work alongside councils, schools, museums and institutions delivering arts and education, living history and immersive family experiences.

Adam is part of the team behind https://www.nw7hub.org.uk/ 

Estee Stimler:@EsteeStimler

https://www.esteestimler.com

Born and bred in New York, Estee Stimler moved to London around 30 years ago. For over twenty years, she had a successful career as a speechwriter for corporate executives, politicians and private individuals around the world, as well as comedy consulting. In fact, one of Estee’s speeches was enshrined on a plaque presented to US president Bill Clinton in the Oval Office.Through an irreverent, witty lens, she writes musicals, plays and animation, combining classic humour with modern narratives. Estee enjoys working with other creatives and has four new projects hitting the stage in London and beyond this year. ‘A Change of Heart: The Cabaret’ with composer Yuval Havkin which had a promotional run earlier this year at The Other Palace Theatre in London, ‘The Attic’, a gothic musical, a feminist adaptation of Shakespeare’s the Winter’s Tale, and an immersive play called ‘The Last Will and Testament of Sheila Goodwin’ which was due to go up to the Edinburgh fringe this summer. In conjunction with Martyn Niman, Kingbee Animations and long-time Disney Animator/Director Saul Blinkoff, Estee Stimler is also writing a young adult feature-length animated movie based on a Holocaust memoir.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 9 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are TV and film writer, Anthony Horowitz, and broadcaster, podcaster and comedian Alice Fraser.

Anthony Horowitz:@anthonyhorowitz

www.anthonyhorowitz.com

Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. Anthony has written over 40 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which he adapted into a movie that was released worldwide in 2006. 

He is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate and Orion Books to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and its sequel, Moriarty. Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. 

Anthony is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series, producing the first seven episodes (and the title) of Midsomer Murders. He is the writer and creator of award-winning drama series Foyle’s War, which was the Winner of the Lew Grade Audience award for BAFTA. Anthony has also written other original complex dramas for ITV, particularly thrillers including Collision, a major five part “state of the nation” piece and legal thriller Injustice. Foyle’s War returned in March 2013 as a Cold War thriller and was greeted with such critical acclaim and demands for more that he wrote one final series, bringing the show to an end in January 2015. 

Anthony's latest show New Blood will premiere on BBC iPlayer later this year. 

Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014. His newest novel, Moonflower Murders, has just been published and is available in all good book retailers.

Alice Fraser:@aliterative

www.alicecomedyfraser.com

Alice is an award winning writer, broadcaster, performer and comedian. She's also an ex academic, ex-corporate Lawyer and (sort of) banjo player. 

Studying Arts/Law at Sydney University, Alice began her life in comedy through the Improvised Comedy scene and the Arts and Law Faculty Revues across two universities and 5 years of writing, directing, producing and performing. During her Masters in English Literature (Rhetoric) at Cambridge, she carried her love of sketch comedy writing and performing into the Cambridge Footlights. 

She has performed sold out solo shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Canberra Comedy Festival, Perth, Adelaide, New Zealand and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and performed all over the world, from Cambridge to New York, and from London to Damascus to universal critical acclaim and packed houses. Alice won the inaugural Homebake Comedy Competition, and was nominated for best newcomer at the Sydney Comedy Festival 2013. She was named as one of Chortle's Gigs of the year in 2015.

Alice was awarded the 2016 AMP Tomorrow Fund grant for her podcast 'Tea With Alice' and has toured the world with her solo shows The Resistance, and Savage and Ethos which can now be viewed on Amazon Prime Video. The Trilogy podcast series commissioned by ABC Radio was voted Apple Editorials Team’s #1 Best Australian Podcast for 2018. Alice writes jokes for The Project on Channel 10, as well as the satirical news radio show "A Rational Fear". She has appeared on BBC Radio 4, and Radio National as well as having co-hosted the cult radio show "Tracksuits" weekly on FBi radio in Sydney for many years. She also appeared on "Whovians" (episode 4) on ABC. She is a frequenter on "The Bugle" hosted by Andy Zaltzman and part of the 'Troll Play' ABC Radio podcast alongside Sami Shah and Cal Wilson. 

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 7 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are actor, comedian and improvisor Ben Van Der Velde, and comedian and writer for TV and radio Juliet Meyers.

Ben Van Der Velde:@BenVanDerVelde

www.benvandervelde.com

Over the past decade Ben Van der Velde has spread joy and nonsense to all four corners of the British Isles, as well as Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Norway. He is a regular host and act for respected British comedy clubs such as The Comedy Store, Komedia, The Glee, The Stand, the Frog & Bucket and Comedy Club 4 Kids, as well as hosting stages for Bestival, Festival No.6, End of the Road and Sunday Papers Live. He also has experience of performing at RAF Bases, large corporate events, hosting comedy workshops and doing audience warm-up for Deal Or No Deal. On top of that, he has taken commissions to perform a voodoo re-marriage ceremony, founded the Church of the Holy Kazoo with comedy legend Mark Thomas, walked the entire London Underground network to raise money for The Refugee Council, hosted a comedy tour of the FIFA Museum in Zurich and even took part in experiments at The Royal Society that revealed him to have the most infectious laugh of any human, rat or monkey. Ben is a regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival, where he has performed five critically-acclaimed shows: Chain Letter, Strudelhead, Barbarians,Sidekick and Fablemaker. In 2016 his show received 5 and 4 star reviews, whilst several of jokes made it into lists of ‘Best Joke at the Fringe’ compiled by The Scotsman, i-News and The Huffington Post. Ben is co-host of podcast “Worst Foot Forward” and also runs “Classic Joke Club” as an Edinburgh show.

Juliet Meyers:@julietmeyers

Juliet Meyers is a stand-up comedian, MC and writer and recently appeared on Jason Manford’s weekly stand up show on Zoom. She has written for Sarah Millican, on “The Sarah Millican Television Programme” and her radio series “Elephant in the Room”. Juliet has also written for panellists on “8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown” (channel 4), “Mock The Week” (BBC2), Radio 4's “News Quiz” and “Now Show”, Radio 2's “Listomania with Susan Calman”, “Breaking the News” (BBC Radio Scotland),as well as topical jokes for various end of the year news round ups. Juliet has taught comedy at University of Brunel and courses on self expression and resilience through comedy at various secondary schools. She was previously a writer and editor of educational teen magazines for 10 years. A familiar face at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 2004, her solo shows have been received with critical acclaim. Most recently she has been working with a new comedy partner, her dog Homer, who co-starred in “This Flipping Rescue Dog Has Ruined My Life” and “Year of the Dog”. Before Coronavirus put a stop to those sort of shenanigans, Juliet was starting to preview a brand new show, “Found” in which she talks about how she “went to India to discover my Iraqi-Jewish roots and unleashed family feuds, bad gurus, smug sex therapists and furious monkeys. I fell out with my travel companion and I nearly died (twice).” Like our very own Rachel Creeger, Juliet is part of the rotating cast for Sajeela Kershi’s award winning show “Immigrant Diaries”.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 6 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are musical storyteller Daniel Cainer and the world’s oldest performing comedienne and BGT star Lynn Ruth Miller.

Daniel Cainer:@DanielCainer

www.danielcainer.com

Daniel is an award-winning songwriter, performer, broadcaster and several other words ending in ‘er’.

His deeply moving tales about his family and observational comedy are a joy. Feuding tailors, a naughty rabbi, family fables (and foibles) – all the human condition is here, lovingly and intelligently depicted in a remarkable collection of stories-in-song. With brilliant rhyming and wordplay, great musicianship and haunting tunes, this is an evening that you’ll never forget.

Lynn Ruth Miller:@LynnRuth

www.LynnRuthMiller.net

Most famously seen on Britain’s Got Talent, Lynn Ruth Miller, dubbed the new Joan Rivers of Fringe Comedy, is the poster girl for growing old. She started doing stage comedies when she was 70 years old and had since received many accolades and recognitions. She won The Time Out and Soho Theatre (TO&ST) Award in 2014; 2015 Old Comedian finalist; made the top 100 in the UK in Britain’s Got Talent, won People’s Choice in 2009; 2015 Liberty Award Leicester Comedy Festival; semi-finals in the SF International Comedy Competition and Star of the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2009 and the finals in Bill Word’s Funniest Female Contest 2009.

At 86, she has numerous comedy and five-star cabaret shows and has toured all over the world. She is currently considered as the oldest performing stand up female comedian on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her new book “Getting the Last Laugh: The Inspirational True Story of the World's Oldest Performing Comedienne” is available now from all good book sellers.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 5 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedy writer Sara Gibbs, and musical comedian and YouTuber Jay Foreman.

Sara Gibbs:@Sara_Rose_G

Sara is a comedy writer for web, radio and television as well as an infamous tweeter of unpopular opinions. 

Her credits include fantastic shows such as Have I Got News For You, The Now Show, Dead Ringers, Newsjack and The Mash Report.

Jay Foreman:@JayForeman

www.jayforeman.co.uk

Jay Foreman is a comedian, singer-songwriter and YouTuber. He was featured as the BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007, won Best Newcomer at the Tuborg Musical Comedy awards 2009 and came third at the Musical Comedy Awards 2010.

Jay’s songs have been heard on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, The One Show and London Live TV, and for several years, he has performed shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which include Disgusting Songs For Revolting Children (And Other Funny Stories), No More Colours and Mixtape.

Jay created his YouTube channel in April 2006. It contains various clips from his comedy shows, tongue-in-cheek educational series such as Map Men (presented with Mark Cooper-Jones), Politics Unboringed and Unfinished London, and music videos for his songs.

You can ( and should) subscribe to Jay's YouTube Channel HERE:

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 4 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are casting director, agent and producer Esta Charkham, and screenwriter and director Gary Sinyor.

Esta Charkham:@EstalaChark

www.charkham.net

Esta started her working life as an actress on stage and television, however it wasn’t long before she was drawn behind the scenes finding her niche as one of the UK’s leading Casting Directors. Series such as The Professionals gave way to bigger responsibilities, casting Quadrophenia, Scum and Oscar winning Chariots of Fire. With this experience she branched out and became a Producer. Her first project was family drama series Robin of Sherwood​, following which she produced Boon for ITV, watched by over 13 million viewers. Esta went on to produce landmark series Birds of a Feather​ for the BBC, Channel 4's cult comedy series Nightingales​; children’s series No Sweat​; sit-com Grown-Ups​ for the BBC and won a British Comedy Award​ for One Foot in the Grave​. She was awarded an honorary degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in recognition of her work with students. She puts her success down to many things; getting up early, answering the phone after two rings and wands of mascara, but most of all to her good fortune in meeting and collaborating with great talent. What little spare time she has is taken up with collecting underwear and clothing and volunteering for the Asylum Seeker and Refugee Project at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.

Check out the excellent charity work Esta supports HERE

Gary Sinyor:@garysinyor

www.garysinyor.com

An experienced international and award winning film-maker, Gary trained at the National Film and TV School graduating with BAFTA nominated short The Unkindest Cut. His first feature film Leon the Pig Farmer won numerous awards and is still regarded as a defining UK Jewish Comedy that appealed to a global audience. His next 2 British films were Solitaire for 2 and Stiff Upper Lips before moving to the US to direct The Bachelor for New Line Cinema. He subsequently returned to the UK and set up Magnet Films with Sir David Frost. After making family comedy Bob The Butler with Tom Greene and Brooke Shields, he made In Your Dreams with Dexter Fletcher and Linda Hamilton. In 2016 he wrote and directed his first play NotMoses in London's West End. He also made improvisation football comedy United We Fall, before writing and directing a psychological drama/thriller The Unseen which in 2019 was released in the US as Amaurosis. His latest work is a 6 part sitcom called The Jewish Enquirer - a return to the style of comedy of his first film Leon the Pig Farmer.

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Join Jewish comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 3 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are singer and comedian Sooz Kempner and rapper and comedian Joe Jacobs.

Sooz Kempner:@SoozUK

www.soozkempner.co.uk

Sooz did her very first stand-up gig in 2009. In April 2010 she entered the Musical Comedy Awards and was named Best Newcomer. 2010 also marked her graduation from the Royal Academy of Music. In 2012 Sooz won the Variety Award at the Funny Women Awards.

Sooz made her Edinburgh debut in August 2014 with Defying Gravity. She has been back every year since with shows including “Character Activist”, “Queen”, “A Bit Of A Character”, “Sooz On Film” and “Super Sonic 90s Kid” and “Mega Drive”

Outside comedy Sooz performs in musical theatre, most recently as David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Theresa May in Jonny Woo's All-Star Brexit Cabaret, co-written with Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer the Opera) which practically sold out its entire run at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe, received excellent reviews from The Guardian, The Scotsman and more and went on to sell out its run at the Soho Theatre.

In June 2019 a tweet thread about a singing contract in Ayia Napa years ago somehow went viral and was retweeted by celebrities including Caitlin Moran, Jay Rayner, James Corden and Ed Miliband. Not sure what to make of that? See for yourself HERE

Catch up with Sooz’s internet sensation Eastenders: Lockdown HERE

Check out Sooz’s recent “reply guy” thread HERE

Joe Jacobs:@JesterJacobs

www.joejacobs.website

Joe Jacobs is a London based comedian, rapper and writer. Since 2012, he has performed nationally and internationally, sharing bills with acts including Bill Burr, Stewart Lee and Mr. Motivator.

His live shows effortlessly flit between hip hop and comedy and he’s been seen/heard on Channel 4, BBC Radio 4, BBC 6 Music, Radio 1XTRA, plus gained millions of viral video views online. In addition to stand up, as solo artist Jester Jacobs, he’s put out music since his debut Mental Disorder in 2008.

In 2017, Joe took “Ripe” to the Edinburgh Fringe where it received critical acclaim. In 2019, he returned with “Grimefulness”. 

Joe has recently appeared on Channel 4’s stand up show Harry Hill’s ClubNite.

Check out his two raps mentioned in the show: 

Everyone’s Vanessa Feltzing

Pat Butcher Rap Dedication RIP

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Join Jewish Comedians Philip Simon and Rachel Creeger for Episode 2 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are musician and character comedian Steve Furst and comedian Joe Bor.

Steve Furst:@SteveFurst

www.stevefurst.com

Steve is an instantly recognisable face having appeared in a plethora of TV, film and stage productions. Between 2002-2009 he starred in nearly 30 ‘Gold Spot’ commercials for Orange alongside some of the most well known names in movies. He was a regular supporting actor all three series of the hugely successful 'Little Britain' with Matt Lucas and David Walliams. As his alter-ego Lenny Beige, Steve wrote and starred in 'The Lenny Beige Television Show' on Channel 4 and 2 series of 'The Lenny Beige Variety Pack' for BBC. He still continues to appear as Beige and recently performed with Ricky Wilson from the Kaiser Chiefs and David Arnold. 

Joe Bor:@JosephBor

www.joebor.co.uk

Joe is an observational and character comedian, actor and writer. He has done TV warm up for The Graham Norton Show, Mock The Week, Alan Carr Chatty Man and 8 Out of 10 Cats. He regularly performs at top comedy clubs around the country including The Comedy Store, Jongleurs, The 99 Club and The Glee Club. 

He is also rarely without a camera, shooting fantastic short films that have secured his place as a regular on the film festival circuit.

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Well, after talking about it for the past few months, we’re delighted to bring you our first full length episode, hosted by award winning comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedy writer Ivor Baddiel and actress Debbie Chazen.

Ivor Baddiel:@IvorBaddiel

Ivor writes extensively for television and includes amongst the glittering array of celebrities who have employed him the likes of Stephen Fry, Graham Norton, Joan Rivers, Dermot O’ Leary, James Nesbitt, Claudia Winkleman, Bruce Forsyth, Ant and Dec, Julian Clary, Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vaughn, Dara O’Briain and Danny Wallace. (He could go on, but feels the point is made, whatever that point might be).

He is the author of 14 books ranging from those for the youngest reader (Cock-A-Doodle-Quack-Quack, published by David Fickling Books) to those for the slightly older reader (Ultimate Football published by Dorling Kindersley, Mystical Magic published by Scholastic) to those for the more mature reader (Not The Highway Code published by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, Bottle published by Mainstream).

Debbie Chazen:@DebbieChazen

www.debbiechazen.com

Olivier Award nominated actress Debbie Chazen has become a familiar face on stage and screen, with roles in The Smoking Room, TittyBangBang and Coronation Street. She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), where she won both the Patricia Lawrence Scholarship and the Laurence Olivier Bursary, awarded by the Society of London Theatre. 

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In 2009, while appearing on stage in Calendar Girls, Debbie was diagnosed with breast cancer. She wrote a blog about her experiences - Making the Breast of Things - which was published by The Independent magazine.

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Welcome to Jew Talkin To Me?

A new, unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show for everyone. Created and hosted by award winning comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. Jew Talkin' to Me? is packed with stories, opinions, jokes, opinions, laughs, and, as it’s a Jewish show, even more opinions! 

Each week we’ll chat to some of the UK’s best loved Jewish comedians, presenters, broadcasters, journalists and actors. They’ll share their own unique perspectives on being 21st century Jews as well as their memories of growing up and what being Jewish means to them. 

Join us as we kick off with a brief introduction to the upcoming series.

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