🔴   Creating Jewish comedy in a post-October 7 world with Elon Gold

Entertainment

American-Jewish stand-up comedian and actor Elon Gold, who has been one of Israel’s fiercest defenders over the years, is in Israel now to make a movie, but it’s not his first visit here since the war started. Following the October 7 massacre, he has been here many times, helping Jews around the world, including in Israel, to find ways to laugh again in the face of the war.“When I open my shows in the last year, here or in America, my opening line is, ‘It’s so good to be here with my fellow genocidal apartheid colonizers,’” he said, in an interview from his Tel Aviv hotel room.“And everyone cheers.

Jerusalem Post     Dec 15, 2024