Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women 2007

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.

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The cast

A

Anne Beatts Self

Fanny Brice Self (archive footage)

Tovah Feldshuh Self

Fyvush Finkel Self

G

Garry Giddens Self

Judy Gold Self

Jackie Hoffman Self

C

Cory Kahaney Self

J

Jessica Kirson Self

M

Marilyn Suzanne Miller Self

Molly Picon Self (archive footage)

Gilda Radner Self (archive footage)

Joan Rivers Self

Martin Short Self

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