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Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st Century

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This isnt your zaydes Jewish comedy. The once revolutionary, understated "Jew-ish" and "Israel-lite" flavor of Seinfeld has been replaced by a brutal matter-of-factness that would make earlier generation cringe. Your primer to the ever-changing face of Jewish comedy at the dawn of the 21st the new faces, their outrageous routines and their sometimes surprising seriousness about the most de pressing issues of our time.

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 25, 2008

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Simcha Weinstein

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November 24, 2008
Arguably the Shakespeare of his generation.

If you read this book you are guaranteed to loose 30 pounds in the first 30 days!

Stop what you are doing and buy this book right now.
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February 16, 2020
Well, the book was published in 2008, and I read it in 2020, so it was out of date. Also, I don't care for TV much, so I never saw many of the shows he mentioned, like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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