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Watch: When Jews Were Funny 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Alan Zweig’s 2013 documentary “When Jews Were Funny” surveys the often colorful history of Jewish comedy in America. The documentary is insightful, often hilarious and packed with one-liners. While taking the viewer on the journey through the history of Jewish comedy, a second journey is taken in the exploration of what it means to be Jewish in America..
Plot: From the 1930’s to the 1970’s, pretty well every comedian or comic you might see on TV or the movies was Jewish. Jews came to dominate the world of western‐society comedy on radio, stage and screen alike.Why did Jews dominate comedy in this period? And why did that domination end? Were Jews just funnier back then? And if so, did that extend to your average Jew on the street? In this 90 minute documentary acclaimed director Alan Zweig will examine these questions and many others in this exploration of 20th century humour, cultural decay, and a search for a missing heritage.
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	5.9/10 Votes: 494
	67% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 8 Popularity: 2.637 | TMDB

Reviews:

Zweig Fans Will Not Be Disappointed
If you’re coming in to this doc without any previous experience with Alan Zweig, there’s a good chance you will be disappointed. Many of the interviewees in this film, in fact, seemed disappointed. In a nutshell, Zweig’s style is: Talk with people (not merely “interview” them), be sincere, open and honest in a way that encourages the interviewee to also be open and honest (though it may make some people uncomfortable), and film it. It seems like many reviewers here came to this doc more from an angle of loving Jewish comics without having any experience with Zweig, and I think they have missed the unique value of Zweig’s art.

I find it fascinating how he catches people so off-guard with his input, which usually puts people in unexpected situations where they will either put their guard up or open up. Many reviewers here in IMDB also seemed critical of the fact that this was not a traditional documentary format, and that it did not place the focus solely on the interviewees (I also think this threw off some of the more egocentric interviewees). But think about how Zweig actually included so many of those moments, moments that would have been cut in a more traditional doc. (It’s funny how many people in Zweig’s docs ask “So what is this about?” and how often those moments end up in his films.) I think that’s where Zweig’s magic is. It might make the viewer uncomfortable at times, but it’s raw, it’s real, and it’s authentic.

7/10 because I probably won’t watch it again, but it was successful at the most important thing for me: It made me feel something and it made me think.

Jewish Comedy
Surveys the history of Jewish comedy…

Is there such a thing as Jewish comedy, or a Jewish-style comedy? For me, if I were to describe it, my first thought would be Woody Allen, who was not even mentioned on here. His delivery and obsession with psychoanalysis is, to me, the cornerstone of modern Jewish humor. (Add on Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David for a trifecta.) There is some attempt to connect the topic to immigrant culture — they mention how Italians and Irish (the other two big immigrant groups of the time) had their own humor. Oppression breeds humor, perhaps, while assimilation kills it. There is probably some truth in that humor comes from pain, and Jews have known pain like few other groups of the last century.

Many of the bits on here are odd interviews, including “Super Dave”, who I would not have suspected as self-identifying as a Jewish comic. There is nothing about his act that screams “Jewish” to me, but maybe I am ignorant to what it really means.

One person (I missed their name) argued that 20th century comedy history is the same as Jewish comedy history. Obviously, there are exceptions like George Carlin and Steve Martin, but the number of prominent Jewish comedians and comedy writers is overwhelming… it is difficult to discuss ethnicity without the risk of making what could be racist comments, but indeed, there may be such a thing as Jewish comedy… although whether or not this documentary found it, I am not so sure.

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Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
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Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary
Director Alan Zweig
Writer Alan Zweig
Actors Marc Maron, Howie Mandel, Gilbert Gottfried
Country Canada
Awards 1 win
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