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Comedian Andy Kindler, on President Trump: “When he first got elected, everyone was depressed. But now that he’s so overtly a racist, it’s actually great for comedy." (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
Veteran comedian says that comparing the president to Hitler is valid to “wake people up.”
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Orny Adams. shown near Jerusalem's Old City, said he didn't expect the abuse he got online for visiting Israel with his family. (Courtesy of Adams)
The 47-year-old comic grew up with two sisters in Lexington, Mass., in a Conservative Jewish home, attending Camp Tel Noar in nearby New Hampshire every summer.
Read MoreBertha Hurwitz, who began working at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in 1934, may have been the longest-serving Jewish White House staffer in American history.
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Cast members of "Meteor Shower": Keegan-Michael Key Jeremy Shamos, Amy Schumer and Laura Benanti, left to right. (Matthew Murphy)
“Jewish humor is so successful and so much a part of the vocabulary of comedy,” says Jeremy Shamos, “that we almost don’t recognize it as Borscht Belty kind of humor, or even older than the Borscht Belt.
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