MAKING TROUBLE: THREE GENERATIONS OF FUNNY JEWISH WOMEN

2007

85 min.

en

Original Title

Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women

Overview

A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and gender. The film profiles Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein, as well as contemporary comedians Judy Gold and Jackie Hoffman.

Main cast