When Jews Were Funny

When Jews Were Funny is a 2013 documentary film by Canadian director Alan Zweig, which explores the role of Jewish comedians in the history of North American comedy and humour from the Borscht Belt to the present day.[1]

The film features interviews with and/or performance clips of a wide variety of Jewish comedy performers and writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Howie Mandel, Gilbert Gottfried, Rodney Dangerfield, Eugene Mirman, Marc Maron, Bob Einstein, Andy Kindler, Shelley Berman, Alan King, Judy Gold, Elon Gold, David Steinberg, Jackie Mason, Jack Carter, Norm Crosby, Henny Youngman, David Brenner, Shecky Greene, Mark Breslin, Cory Kahaney, Harrison Greenbaum, Simon Rakoff, Lisa Lambert, Larry Josephson and Michael Wex.

The film premiered on September 10, 2013 at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It subsequently won the festival award for the year's best Canadian feature film,[2] and was named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list as one of the ten best Canadian films of the year.[3]