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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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189 episodes

  1. Ep. 170: The Last of the Ellis Island Jews – with author Joel Dinerstein 33:29
  2. Ep: 169: Screenwriting in the 1970s – with writer Michael Elias 25:22
  3. Ep. 168: Allan Sherman: Comedy Music Genius – with biographer Mark Cohen 28:23
  4. Ep. 167: Heavy Metal Jews – with metalhead Josh Kleinberg 19:29
  5. Ep. 166: If Violins Could Talk – with ethnographer-novelist Yale Strom 24:30
  6. Ep. 165: Queer Culture Memoir – with author Ari Ashkenazi 24:28
  7. Ep. 164: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me – with author Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor 20:10
  8. Ep. 163: The Real Philip Roth – with author Jacques Berlinerblau 34:02
  9. Ep. 162: Bernie Krigstein, EC Comics & “Master Race” – with graphic novelist Joe D’Esposito 20:16
  10. Ep. 161: Immigration, Growing Pains, and the American Playground – with novelist Michael Isaac Shokrian 25:49
  11. Ep. 160: Jewish Art for Our Times – with fine artist Yona Verwer 38:15
  12. Ep. 159: The Art of the Pickle – with fine artist Hannah Eve Rothbard 22:10
  13. Ep. 158: Ascendants: Technology, Corporate Power, & Humanity’s Future – with sci-fi author Don Schechter 33:35
  14. Ep: 157: Justice Girl & The Birth of Television – with novelist Julian David Stone 20:36
  15. Ep. 156: The Best of All Possible Planets – with sci-fi author Alex Shvartsman 29:57
  16. Ep. 155: Can We Laugh at That? – with author Jacques Berlinerblau 42:06
  17. San Diego Comic-Con Origins – with Mathew Klickstein and Gus Krueger 44:26
  18. Ep. 154: Punk Rock Jews – with author Steven Lee Beeber 44:01
  19. Jewish Soldiers in the American Civil War – with researcher Adrienne DeArmas 42:25
  20. Happy Birthday Mel Brooks! – with biographer Patrick McGilligan 30:16
  21. Ep: 153: The Jew Who Sued Henry Ford – with filmmakers Gaylen Ross and Carol King 26:45
  22. Ep. 152: Black-Jewish Jazz – with jazz pianist Joe Alterman 31:35
  23. Ep. 151: The End-of-Life Option – with novelist Eric Beck Rubin 30:25
  24. Ep. 150: Houdini’s Library – with author Barb Rosenstock 23:04
  25. Ep. 149: The Jewish American Military Historical Society – with founding president Samuel P. Yudin 24:44
  26. Ep. 148: Making Comics – with underground cartoonist Kim Deitch 21:59
  27. Ep. 147: Respecting Rodney Dangerfield – with biographer Michael Seth Starr 31:12
  28. Ep. 146: Queen of Cosmos Comix – with artist Barbara “Willy” Mendes 27:33
  29. Ep. 145: Jewish Toy Entrepreneurs – with author Michael Kimmel 32:20
  30. Ep. 144: Growing Weed in the Garden – with author Johanna Silver 17:44
  31. Ep. 143: Climate Change Comics – with cartoonist Peter Kuper 30:34
  32. Ep. 142: Don Rickles: The Merchant of Venom – with biographer Michael Seth Starr 27:29
  33. Sid Caesar Passover Special – with actress Rena Strober 19:59
  34. Ep. 141: Jews, Music, and the American South – with Mark Rubin, Jew of Oklahoma 37:33
  35. Ep. 140: Carl Laemmle vs. the Nazis – with documentarian Deborah F. Blum 20:50
  36. Oscars Special: Supremely Jewish Marty Supreme – with pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein 28:27
  37. Ep. 139: Going Mad for MAD Magazine – with documentarian Alan Bernstein 28:58
  38. Ep. 138: Hyping the Legends: Pekar, Spiegelman, and more – with PR specialist Jeff Newelt 43:26
  39. Ep. 137: The Genius Bat – with neurobiologist Yossi Yovel 21:52
  40. Ep. 136: Curious Rituals and Superstitions – with author Arie Kaplan 34:07
  41. Ep. 135: Ancient Gods in the Digital Age – with novelist Andrew Rubin 23:00
  42. Ep: 134: Jewish Electoral Pioneers – with author Mark Rutzick 34:24
  43. Ep. 133: JewGirl: A Memoir on Being and Belonging – with author Marcie Maxfield 26:16
  44. Ep. 132: Sid Caesar: Comedian of Comedians – with author David Margolick 43:09
  45. Ep. 131: Lost Yiddish New York City – with author Henry Sapoznik 42:59
  46. Ep. 130: Garment Workers Illustrated – with artist Frances Jetter 24:23
  47. Ep. 129: Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and EC Comics – with author Bob Levin 32:15
  48. Rob Reiner: A Retrospective - with pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein 41:14
  49. Ep. 128: Writing for Middle Grades – with novelist Diana Harmon Asher 22:46
  50. Ep. 127: Sam Singer: The Ed Wood of Cartoons - with Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field 9:54