That history will be explored on March 5 at UW-Milwaukee in a lecture called, The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-up Comedians, presented by Grace Kessler Overbeke, an ...

Jean Carroll — considered the first Jewish woman stand-up comedian — wearing an umbrella as a hat on Oct. 11, 1960. (Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

Groundbreaking Jewish comedians were stars of radio, TV; ... Jews used stand-up comedy to get out of ... This wildly chauvinistic combatant offered women $1,000 if they could pin him in a ...

Stand-up comedy has evolved through the years, with female comedians now taking the genre by storm. Fresh comedy specials from both new faces and Netflix veterans like Ali Wong are must-watch ...

Gibran Saleem, a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian living in Brooklyn who describes himself as “an extremely liberal progressive Muslim,” will take part in a Comedy for Peace show with ...

The 42-year-old actress and comedian, who was raised Jewish, ... "She is a perfect example, and so is Amy Schumer, of what a successful female stand-up comedian looks Iike." ...

D’yan Forest is, in the truest sense of the phrase, one of a kind. That’s because at the age of 90, she is the oldest female stand-up comedian in the world, per Guinness World Records.

Featuring stand-up comedians from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities, “Comedy for Peace” will bring them together on Dec. 10 and Dec. 11 in Miami to unite all communities through humor ...

Stand-up comedians Mary Pease, clockwise, Patricia Resnick, Susan Ware, ... It’s a story that rings true for several L.A.-based women who began stand-up comedy at a mature age.