Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women (2007)

0.0/10 • 85 min • Documentary Comedy

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.

Cast

Fanny Brice

Self (archive footage)

Tovah Feldshuh

Fyvush Finkel

Judy Gold

Jackie Hoffman

Self

Molly Picon

Self (archive footage)

Gilda Radner

Self (archive footage)

Joan Rivers

Martin Short

Self

Sophie Tucker

Self (archive footage)

Wendy Wasserstein

Alan Zweibel

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