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Amusing Jews

Atheists United Studios

An interview show celebrating Jewish contributors and contributions to American popular culture co-hosted by Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field.

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Ep. 68: The Art of Anger – with political cartoonist...

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2024/09/02

Eli Valley is a writer and cartoonist whose work has been featured in The Nation, The New Republic, The Village Voice, Jewish Currents, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel, and the forthcoming book, Museum of Degenerates: Portraits of the American Grotesque. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Eli’s websitehttps://www.elivalley.com/ Eli’s

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25:24

Ep. 67: God’s Gang, Snot Goblins, and Comedy Writing...

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2024/08/26

Rob Kutner is an award-winning author and television writer whose credits include The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Teen Titans Go!, Ben10, and many more. He’s also written for the Oscars, Emmys, Writers’ Guild Awards, MTV Movie Awards, and other awards shows. His books include Apocalypse How, Snot Goblins and Other Tasteless Tales, and The Future According to Me. He’s currently working on an animated action-adventure comedy series, God’s Gang. Co-hosts: Jonathan

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Ep. 66: Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz – with...

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2024/08/19

Ari Richter is a visual artist and comics creator who’s a professor of fine arts at LaGuardia Community College in The City University of New York. His debut graphic memoir is Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Never Again Will I Visit

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33:07

Ep. 65: Borscht Belt Museum – with curator and author...

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2024/08/12

Allen Frishman is the archival officer of the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York, which celebrates the golden age of the Catskills resort era, when millions of mostly Jewish urbanites sought refuge in the mountains of upstate New York. He’s also the author of two books: Tales of a Catskill Mountain Plumber and More Borscht from a Catskill Mountain Plumber. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Borscht Belt

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31:40

Ep. 64: Jews & Jazz – with jazz pianist Joe Alterman

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2024/08/05

Joe Alterman is a jazz pianist who’s performed at such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Birdland, and Blue Note with his own trio and alongside legends like Houston Person, Les McCann, Dick Gregory, and Ramsey Lewis. Downbeat describes his sound as “rooted in the blues, and with a touch reminiscent of the great pianists of the 1950s—Red Garland, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans.” Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Joe’s

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25:01

Ep. 63: Comfort Zones & Taking Risks – with acting...

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2024/07/29

Margie Haber is a renowned acting coach whose celebrity clients include Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Tiffany Haddish, and many others. She runs Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles and is the author of two books, How to Get the Part Without Falling Apart and F*ck Your Comfort Zone: Take a Risk and Become the Lead in Your Own Life. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren F*ck Your Comfort

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30:22

Ep. 62: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Feminism – with novelist...

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2024/07/22

Esther Friesner is a prolific and award-winning science fiction and fantasy author known for her humorous style and thematic focus on gender equality and social justice. Her many books include the Nobody’s Princess, Sphinx’s Princess, the Chicks in Chainmail series, and Threads and Flames, a YA novel about a Jewish girl caught up in the tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Esther’s Wikipedia

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Ep. 61: Golden Age Film Composers – with musicologist...

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2024/07/15

Aaron Fruchtman is a musicologist and composer whose work examines Jewish film composers during Hollywood’s Golden Age. He holds degrees in music composition from Berklee College of Music and the University of California, Riverside, and a doctorate in musicology from UC Riverside. He also earned an Advanced Studies Certificate in Music for Motion Pictures and Television from the University of Southern California. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike

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25:19

Ep. 60: Jewish Comics Library of Seattle – with...

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2024/07/08

Jeff Treistman is founder of the Jewish Comics Library of Seattle and the author and publisher of Graven, the library’s newsletter. He also has a Substack blog, Son of the Wicked Child. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren JCLS Websitehttps://sites.google.com/view/jewish-comics-library/catalog?authuser=0 JCLS Cataloghttps://www.librarycat.org/lib/JCLS2023 JCLS –

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32:11

Ep. 59: Sounds Jewish – with radio host Andy Muchin

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2024/07/01

Andy Muchin is an occasional freelance writer and host of the Sounds Jewish radio show, which has aired weekly since 2010. Sounds Jewish is available on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Radio-J.com, and PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Sounds Jewishhttps://exchange.prx.org/series/32262-sounds-jewish Some of Andy’s

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26:30

Ep. 58: True Love, Godspell, and Classic Comedy –...

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2024/06/24

Jerry Sroka is an actor, writer, and producer known for his roles in Godspell, Antz, The Wild Thornberrys, and many more. His latest film is Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story, co-written with and co-starring his wife, Mariette Hartley. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-Engineer: Mike Tomren Jerry’s IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820293/ Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story - websitehttps://ouralmostcompletelytruestory.com/ Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story

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19:34

Ep. 57: Mark Twain’s War Prayer – with graphic...

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2024/06/17

Seymour Chwast is one of the most highly-regarded graphic designers in American history. In 1954, he founded the design group Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins. Seymour has executed hundreds of advertising campaigns, designed multiple popular typefaces, and illustrated numerous books. His new book, an illustrated adaptation of Mark Twain’s War Prayer, was just published by Fantagraphics. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Joey

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Ep. 56: Branding, Storytelling, and Last Action Hero...

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2024/06/10

Jeffrey Braer is a creative marketer, media developer, and brander of food, themed entertainment, consumer products, and companies. His long list of brand partners includes Barbie, Apple’s Beats, ABC, Disney, Doritos, Sanrio, Amazon, Mattel, NBC, Universal, Toyota, Sony, UPN, Betty Crocker, McDonald’s, Good Humor, General Mills, Minute Maid, Coke, Smurfs, NASA/JPL, and many more. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Jeffrey’s

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27:53

Ep. 55: Live at Mister Kelly’s – with documentarian...

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2024/06/03

Theodore Bogosian is an award-winning independent filmmaker and television producer who’s been directing, producing, and writing long-form documentaries for PBS, the New York Times, Discovery, and other networks since 1978. His latest documentary, Live at Mister Kelly’s, about the famous Chicago nightclub, is a collaboration with David Marienthal, the son of Mister Kelly’s co-founder, George Marienthal. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Theodore’s

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Ep. 54: The Marx Brothers & Salvador Dalí – with...

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2024/05/27

Josh Frank is the author of Fool The World: The Oral History of the Band Called Pixies, In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers, The Good Inn, a novel co-written with Pixies’ frontman Black Francis, and Giraffes on Horseback Salad, a graphic novel adaptation of an unmade Marx Brothers movie penned by Salvador Dalí. He also built, owns, and operates the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In movie theatre in Austin, Texas. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey

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Ep. 53: Making the Golden Girls Sparkle – with...

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2024/05/20

Stan Zimmerman is a writer, producer, and director best known for his writing on The Golden Girls, Roseanne, and The Gilmore Girls. Stan wrote for both Brady Bunch movies, co-created the Lifetime sitcom Rita Rocks, and has written and directed a variety of theater productions. He also has a new memoir, The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Stan’s IMDbhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0956785/ Stan’s

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22:39

Ep. 52: You Can’t Teach Funny – with comedic actor...

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2024/05/13

Jason Kravits is an actor and writer whose credits include The Practice, Law & Order, Everybody Loves Raymond, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, The Goldbergs, and many more. An Accomplished voice actor, he can be heard as Michael Bloomberg and Alan Dershowitz in the political satire series Our Cartoon President, among other animated projects. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Jason’s

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Ep. 51: The Torah of Taylor Swift – with educator...

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2024/05/06

Dalilah Bernier is the director of teen initiatives for Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s Coalition of Jewish Learning. She's the co-creator of the educational program “The Torah of Taylor Swift,” which uses the pop star as a way into Jewish texts. The Torah of Taylor Swifthttps://www.jewishchronicle.org/2023/09/19/torah-and-taylor-swift/ Teen Philanthropy – Milwaukee Jewish Federationhttps://www.milwaukeejewish.org/departments/outreach/teens/ Subscribe to the Amusing Jews

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Ep. 50: Remembering Siskel & Ebert – with film critic...

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2024/04/29

Matt Singer is editor and film critic at ScreenCrush and current chair of the New York Film Critics Circle. He’s the author of Marvel’s Spider-Man: From Amazing to Spectacular – The Definitive Comic Art Collection and a new book, Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren Matt’s websitehttps://www.matt-singer.net/ Opposable

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27:20

Seder-Masochism Passover Special

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2024/04/25

Nina Paley is a cartoonist, animator, and free culture advocate. She’s best known for her 2008 animated feature film, Sita Sings the Blues, based on the Ramayana, and her 2018 animated feature, Seder-Masochism, a jukebox musical recounting the Exodus, the eradication of goddess worship, and the rise of patriarchy. Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field Producer-engineer: Joey Angel-Field Seder-Masochismhttps://vimeo.com/263398514 Copyright is Brain Damage –

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