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All About Me! My Remark­able Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks
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Anvils, Mal­lets and Dyna­mite: The Unau­tho­rized Biog­ra­phy of Looney Tunes
Jaime Wein­man
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More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unfor­get­table News Stories
Jen Max­field
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A Boy Named Jew

Yehu­di Mercado
July 6, 2021
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Mike Nichols: A Life
Mark Harris
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I Want to Be Where the Nor­mal Peo­ple Are
Rachel Bloom
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Lilyville: Moth­er, Daugh­ter, and Oth­er Roles I’ve Played
Tovah Feld­shuh
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The Hag­gadah About Noth­ing: The (Unof­fi­cial) Sein­feld Haggadah
Rabbi Sam Reinstein
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Inside Com­e­dy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Com­e­dy and Come­di­ans of the Last Five Decades
David Stein­berg
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Tick­ing Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
Ira Rosen
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Excerpt: Rene­gade Women in Film & TV, Part I

Eliz­a­beth Weitzman
September 29, 2019
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Spring­field Con­fi­den­tial: Jokes, Secrets, and Out­right Lies from a Life­time Writ­ing for The Simpsons
Mike Reiss
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The 7 Best Jew­ish Moments in Amer­i­can Sit­com History

Ear­li­er this week, Jen­nifer Keishin Arm­strong shared 6 things she learned about Jew­ish cul­ture from watch­ing Sein­feld. With the release of her book Sein­fel­dia: How…
Jen­nifer Keishen Armstrong
July 7, 2016
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6 Things I Learned About Jew­ish Cul­ture from Seinfeld

Jen­nifer Keishin Arm­strong is the author of Sein­fel­dia: How a Show About Noth­ing Changed Every­thing, out this week from Simon & Schus­ter. Jen­nifer will be…
Jen­nifer Keishen Armstrong
July 4, 2016
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Sein­fel­dia
Jen­nifer Keishin Armstrong
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Go by the Country

Ear­li­er this week, Rita Lakin shared what inspired her com­e­dy mys­tery nov­els about 80-year-olds solv­ing crime in Flori­da. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
Rita Lakin
October 21, 2015
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