Jewish Comedy as a Love Language
It’s hard to say what about it is more charming to me, the hilarity of it or the inescapable Jewishness of it. Mel Brooks could be any man in my family.
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I wanted my father’s love and I also wanted to be one of the guys. In my eyes, the two were incompatible.
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