An unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show where all are welcome!
Jew Talkin' To Me? is hosted by award winning comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. Each show features guests from the entertainment industry sharing their views on a variety of topics connected to modern Jewish life in a secular world, as well as their memories of growing up Jewish.
Both Philip and Rachel are well known as Jewish comedians on both the mainstream and community circuit and our guest list includes stand-up comedians, presenters, broadcasters, journalists and writers who are Jewish, have some Jewish heritage, or a Jewish connection.
Philip and Rachel have been collaborating for a few years, but who are we as individuals?
WINNER Best Children’s Show at the Buxton Fringe 2024
WINNER Pegasus Comedy Best Compere 2023
WINNER UK Pun Off at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe
WINNER Best Kids’ Show at the Morecambe Fringe 2022
WINNER of the Jewish Comedian of the Year 2015
WINNER of the Lastminute Comedy Comedian of the Year 2015
As a stand up Philip gigs throughout the UK, as well having performed as far flung places as America, Scandinavia, Europe, The Middle East and New Zealand. He is MC and curator of the Edinburgh Fringe's cult hit show Jew-O-Rama where Jewish and Jew”ish” acts perform to a mainly non-Jewish audience in packed out rooms each year. He is also resident compere at Borehamwood Comedy Club, works on panels shows including Mock the Week and Taskmaster and has been featured on BBC R2 and BBC 3CR, as well as acting in TV sitcoms such as My Family.
WINNER Most Audience Recommended Show Camden Fringe 2012
WINNER Best Comedy Award Greater Manchester Fringe 2017
Rachel is the only practising orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit and has attracted a big following outside of her community who are interested in a unique, accessible voice from an unlikely source. Her debut solo show ‘It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl’ had a sell-out Edinburgh run in 2017, followed by tours of the UK and Israel. She's now meant to be touring her 5* show, ‘Hinayni! but, you know, the 'rona’. Rachel is the host of Central London's spectacular annual event Chanukah in the Square and resident MC of comedy club Upstairs at the Adam & Eve. As heard on BBC Radio London (regular guest) BBC R2, BBC Ouch and BBC 3CR. She is also an award winning director and critically acclaimed playwright.
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An unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show where all are welcome!
Jew Talkin' To Me? is hosted by award winning comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. Each show features guests from the entertainment industry sharing their views on a variety of topics connected to modern Jewish life in a secular world, as well as their memories of growing up Jewish.
Both Philip and Rachel are well known as Jewish comedians on both the mainstream and community circuit and our guest list includes stand-up comedians, presenters, broadcasters, journalists and writers who are Jewish, have some Jewish heritage, or a Jewish connection.
Philip and Rachel have been collaborating for a few years, but who are we as individuals?
WINNER Best Children’s Show at the Buxton Fringe 2024
WINNER Pegasus Comedy Best Compere 2023
WINNER UK Pun Off at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe
WINNER Best Kids’ Show at the Morecambe Fringe 2022
WINNER of the Jewish Comedian of the Year 2015
WINNER of the Lastminute Comedy Comedian of the Year 2015
As a stand up Philip gigs throughout the UK, as well having performed as far flung places as America, Scandinavia, Europe, The Middle East and New Zealand. He is MC and curator of the Edinburgh Fringe's cult hit show Jew-O-Rama where Jewish and Jew”ish” acts perform to a mainly non-Jewish audience in packed out rooms each year. He is also resident compere at Borehamwood Comedy Club, works on panels shows including Mock the Week and Taskmaster and has been featured on BBC R2 and BBC 3CR, as well as acting in TV sitcoms such as My Family.
WINNER Most Audience Recommended Show Camden Fringe 2012
WINNER Best Comedy Award Greater Manchester Fringe 2017
Rachel is the only practising orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit and has attracted a big following outside of her community who are interested in a unique, accessible voice from an unlikely source. Her debut solo show ‘It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl’ had a sell-out Edinburgh run in 2017, followed by tours of the UK and Israel. She's now meant to be touring her 5* show, ‘Hinayni! but, you know, the 'rona’. Rachel is the host of Central London's spectacular annual event Chanukah in the Square and resident MC of comedy club Upstairs at the Adam & Eve. As heard on BBC Radio London (regular guest) BBC R2, BBC Ouch and BBC 3CR. She is also an award winning director and critically acclaimed playwright.
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by comedian Aaron Levene!
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With his darkly funny tales of neurosis mixed with observational material, Aaron Levene has performed throughout the UK and Europe. He also is the co-creator of "Jew-O-Rama" a 4-star reviewed mixed bill of the best Jewish comedians in the country, which has become a staple of the Edinburgh Fringe since its debut in 2017 as well as running at other festivals. In 2024, Aaron also debuted his work-in-progress show, "Aaron Levene: An ADHD Love Story" at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Aaron can be seen at some of the UK’s best loved comedy spaces, including Top Secret Comedy Club, Downstairs at The Kings Head, Komedia, The Frog and Bucket, Backyard Comedy Club, Angel Comedy at the Camden Head and The Bill Murray. He’s appeared on the One Show (BBC 1) and has been nominated for numerous awards including as a Finalist in the Jewish Comedian of the Year 2015 and 2017!
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by actor and cabaret artiste, Sue Kelvin!
Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by actor and cabaret artiste, Sue Kelvin!
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Sue is a talented actress with British Jewish heritage, celebrated for her performances across theatre, television, and film. She has appeared in productions such as Fiddler on the Roof, Wicked the Musical, and her one-woman show Bette Midler and Me, a heartfelt homage to her idol. TV Credits include Funny Women – Bette Midler (Channel 5); I Live With Models –Series 2 (Roughcut); Silent Witness (BBC); Doctors (BBC); The Legend of Dick and Dom (BBC); Love Soup (BBC). Film credits include The Groomsmen Trilogy (Hallmark Films); Great Expectations (dir. Mike Newell). Theatre credits include Caroline or Change (Playhouse Theatre); Lives (Gielgud Theatre); Travelling Light and A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre); Onassis (Derby Theatre and Novello Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy Theatre); Chicago (Cambridge Theatre and Adelphi Theatre); Oliver! (London Palladium); Assassins (Donmar Warehouse); Les Miserables (Palace Theatre).
Sue has also starred in a number of plays by previous guest Estee Stimler, including one where Philip played the Rabbi and Rachel was the director!
X (formerly known as Twitter): @SueKelvin
Instagram: @susankelvin8022
Website: http://suekelvin.co.uk/
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by actor and director, Ben Caplan!
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Londoner Ben Caplan has a whole host of prestigious productions to his name as an actor and director. Probably best known for his role as PC Noakes in Call The Midwife, his credits include:
Theatre: Macbeth (Globe),A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre),The End Of The Night (Park),The Merchant of Venice (Globe),The Winter’s Tale (RSC/BBC), 40th Anniversary Production of Abigail’s Party (UK Tour), Hedda Gabler (Salisbury Playhouse), Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre - Olivier Award Best Musical), Dr.Korczak’s Example, A Winter’s Tale (Unicorn), Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court), The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory), Three sisters on Hope street (Everywoman Liverpool, Hampstead), Two Thousand Years (dir.Mike Leigh-National Theatre/UK Tour), Hamlet (Nuffield Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour), As You Like It (Oxford), Guys & Dolls (Young Vic.)
Television: The Ink Black Heart (BBC), Lagging Series 1-3 (BBC), Silent Witness (BBC), Casualty (BBC), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Maigret (ITV), Call the Midwife Series 1-5 (BBC/PBS), New Blood (BBC), The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries (ITV-Best Mini Series BAFTAs), Whitechapel (ITV), Dark Matters, The Runaway (Sky), Trinity (ITV), The Passion (HBO/BBC), Maxwell (International Emmy), The Candidate, Judge John Deed, Dwarfs, Band of Brothers (HBO/BBC-winner of Best Mini-Series Golden Globe and Emmy), A Touch of Frost, Soldier, Soldier, Inspector Morse, Where The Heart Is.
Film: Jay Kelly (Netflix), Golda, Make Me A King, Pretty Red Dress, Caveat, The Commuter, Leap Year, Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla, The Funeral, That Woman (Jewish Film Festival), Driver (official selection for the London Film Festival 2009), Hospital, Patrick Mann’s Daughter, Scotch Corner, North London Book of the Dead.
Directing credits include: As Long As We Are Breathing, This Thing Called Love(Fredrick’s Place), Snap.Catch.Slam (Pleasance, Edinburgh/UK Tour), The Collector (Underbelly Edinburgh and Arcola London), As You Like It (Cockpit London), King Lear, King John, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Duck, Muchut Nothing, Medea, Women of Troy, PunkRock, Orphans- Various Drama Schools.
Started Aslan Productions and co-produced ‘Everything is Illuminated’ (Hampstead Theatre).
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Instagram: @bencaplanactor
Website: www.bencaplan.co.uk
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by Man Booker Prize winning novelist and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson!
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Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, and has become one of the best known writers of our generation. His novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. He later won the prize again for Zoo Time. His next novel, Who’s Sorry Now was the first of four of his novels to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, followed by Kalooki Nights. He was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question in 2010. His novel, J, was shortlisted for the award in 2014.
He has written several works of non-fiction, including In the Land of Oz and Roots Schmoots which was made into a critically acclaimed Channel 4 Series, as well as Seriously Funny: An Argument for Comedy. He wrote a column for The Independent for twenty years, two collections of which have been published under the titles Whatever It Is I Don’t like It and the Dog’s Last Walk. In 2014, he wrote and presented a two-part documentary Rebels of Oz for Mint Productions and BBC Four, in which he examines the cultural impact made by four rebellious Australians: Germaine Greer, Clive James, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes. Howard is a regular presenter of Radio 4’s A Point of View. In 2022 his memoir Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings was published.
Seek out his substack - https://jacobsonh.substack.com/
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by the fabulous actor, Louisa Clein!
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Louisa Clein is a prolific and beloved British Jewish actress. She came to public attention playing Maya Stepney in Emmerdale (ITV) and Charlie Deed in BBC1’s Judge John Deed.
Her theatre credits include “Jews. In Their Own Words” (London’s Royal Court Theatre), “A Murder Has Been Arranged” (Theatre Royal Windsor), “Blithe Spirit” (Theatre Royal Windsor), “Sonnet Walks” (Shakespeare’s Globe), “The Railway Children” (Waterloo Station), “Three Women by Sylvia Plath” (Edinburgh), “Waste” (Almeida Theatre), “Private Lives” (Windsor Theatre Royal), “The Rubenstein Kiss” (Hampstead Theatre), “Interior” (Young Vic), “My Children! My Africa!” (Salisbury Playhouse) and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Arcola Theatre). Her other TV credits include “Holby City”, “New Tricks”, “Casualty” and “Doctors” for (BBC1), “Midsomer Murders” and “Island At War” for (ITV) and “Hapless” (Netflix). Louisa starred as Shayla Sorensen in the feature film “Frost Giant” and can be seen in “The One Note Man” which was shortlisted for an Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Short Film.
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Instagram:@louisaclein
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by multi award winning actor, writer, director and magician, Andy Nyman!
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Andy Nyman
Andy Nyman is a multi-award-winning actor, director, magician and writer for theatre, film and television. As we speak, he is playing the male lead in Hello Dolly in London’s West End, his most recent theatre credits include Tevye in Trevor Nunn's award-winning Fiddler on the Roof (Olivier nomination); Hangmen (West End/Broadway); Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Abigail’s Party (West End) and Ghost Stories which Andy starred in, co-wrote and co-directed with Jeremy Dyson - a show with a great Jewish twist, which has been performed internationally, nominated for two awards and adapted into a feature film.
Andy’s television credits include: A Small Light; The Capture; Unforgotten; Wanderlust; Hanna; The Eichmann Show; Campus; Dead Set and playing Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders. His film credits include: Jungle Cruise; Judy; The Commuter; Ghost Stories; Death at a Funeral; Kick-Ass 2; Black Death; The Brother’s Bloom; Severance; Shut Up & Shoot Me (winner Best Actor at Cherbourg Film Festival). If you’re a parent, you might like to know that he also featured in Chuggington.
Andy is also known for his collaborations with psychological illusionist Derren Brown, and actor and writer Jeremy Dyson. Andy co-created the first 10 years of Derren's TV programmes as well as co-writing and directing most of his stage shows - winning an Olivier Award for Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes, the New York Drama Desk Award for Derren Brown: Secret, and Derren Brown: The Heist which was nominated for the Lew Grade Award at the Baftas. He revealed some of his magical secrets in a DVD called Insane. Andy’s books on how to survive as a freelancer “The Golden Rules of Acting” and “More Golden rules of Acting” are bestsellers within the acting world. Andy and Jeremy Dyson's first novel The Warlock Effect, was released last year, became a Sunday Times book of the month and is out now in paperback. We’ve read it, it’s great.
X (formerly known as Twitter): @andynyman
Instagram:@andythediamond
Website: www.andynyman.com
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by multi award winning TV producer and playwright, creator of shows including Mock The Week and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Dan Patterson!
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Dan Patterson
Dan Patterson is an award-winning writer and producer of comedy who has worked on radio, television and the stage. His career began as a producer for BBC Radio where he worked on perennial favourites the News Quiz and Week Ending before creating his own comedy shows Saturday Night Fry with Stephen Fry and Whose Line Is It Anyway? (which he co-created with Mark Leveson). Whose Line Is It Anyway? won numerous awards including the Sony Radio Award, and both BAFTA and the Royal Television Society awards. Dan also created and produced Clive Anderson Talks Back (Channel 4), Clive Anderson All Talk (BBC One), S and M (Channel 4), The Brain Drain (BBC Two), Never Mind The Horrocks (Channel 4), and Dan co-wrote sitcom The Peter Principle (BBC One). In addition, Dan developed and produced Room 101 for BBC Two and was involved in the development of They Think It’s All Over for BBC One. In 1998 Dan took Whose Line Is It Anyway? to America, producing it for ABC Television where the episode that guest starred Robin Williams attracted an audience of over 15 million people. When Dan returned from the States in 2004, he established Angst Productions and, with Mark Leveson, created the hit satirical panel show Mock The Week which has completed 21 successful series over 17 years. Other Angst Productions shows have included 29 Minutes Of Fame (BBC One), the improvisation based Fast and Loose (BBC Two), Trust Us With Your Life (ABC) and The Great American Joke Off (The CW). For the theatre, Dan Patterson co-wrote with Colin Swash the political farce and Olivier nominated The Duck House starring Ben Miller. In 2023 Dan co-wrote Winner’s Curse with Daniel Taub, a play about international peace negotiations starring Clive Anderson, which ran at Park Theatre.
But the really important thing is that, as a teenager, he went to Habonim Dror.
Website: https://www.angstproductions.tv/about/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/1DanPatterson
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by Canadian comedian, actor and coach, Mike Sheer
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Mike Sheer
Born & bred in Toronto, Canada, now bred, being, & eating bread in London, UK, Mike is a sensitive multi-faceted creative with an attitude. (Positive attitude!). He is a stand up comic, MC, and presenter with 15 years experience internationally. From Athens to Adelaide, Brampton to Bahrain, and a bunch of other places that begin with several other letters. Check out Stand Up Comic for clips, his album, bio, and pics. Mike is also a script coach, consultant, and workshop leader, and an actor with screen credits, including cult movie Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies.
Website: https://mikesheer.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikesheer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikesheercomic
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by BAFTA award-winning broadcaster, vocal coach, leadership coach and campaigner, Carrie Grant
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Carrie Grant
Carrie is a BAFTA award-winning broadcaster, vocal coach, leadership coach and campaigner. Her TV and music career has spanned over 35 years and she has been awarded a MOBO award and a BASCA for her lifetime services to the music industry.
Carrie is also a reporter for BBC 1’s The One Show and together with husband David hosts the Saturday Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London. In 2018 Carrie was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Bedfordshire and in 2020 an MBE for services to Music, Media and Charity.
Carrie and David have 4 children and are passionate campaigners about adoption, autism, ADHD, invisible disability and inclusion. Their book “A Very Modern Family: Stories and guidance to nurture your relationships” is available HERE
Website: https://carrieanddavidgrant.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarrieGrant1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRealCarrieGrant
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CarrieGrantSays
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're putting out a sort of holding episode reflecting on life as a British Jew since the terrorist attacks of 7th October in which over 1200 Israelis were killed and more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas. It's the day that marked the start of a conflict that has claimed thousands of innocent lives, and affected Jewish people around the world.
We aren't political, that's never what the show was meant to be, but we are a podcast that explores Judaism and our relationship with everything associated with that. This episode marks where we are 100 days on from that atrocious day in which, for so many people, everything changed.
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is Hollywood actor and author, Mara Wilson!
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Mara Wilson
Website: https://mara.substack.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaraWilson
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Mara is an American actress and writer, most noted for her roles in Hollywood blockbusters Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street and Matilda. After appearing in a series of guest roles in numerous TV series, Mara Wilson retired from acting to pursue a writing career. Her play ‘Sheeple’ was produced in 2013 for the New York International Fringe Festival. Throughout her career, she has been nominated for, and won, several awards, including the Young Star Award for her performance in the film ‘Matilda’ and the Showest Award in 1995 for Young Star of the Year. Lately Mara has mainly enjoyed a career in voiceovers, including playing a recurring voice role in the animated series ‘BoJack Horseman’ and appearing in various web series.
She is also the author of two books:
‘Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame’
A former child actor, Mara has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer “cute” enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity.
A coming-of- age memoir that bravely examines both the friendships Wilson formed as a child actor in Hollywood and the complex family relationships that shaped her.
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is broadcaster comedian and author, Russ Kane!
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Russ Kane
Website: https://www.russkane.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RussellKane
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/russ.kane.7
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegatekeeper_book/
For twenty years, Sony Award-Winner, Russ Kane, was the voice of Capital Radio’s ‘Flying Eye’, forming an on-air partnership with Chris Tarrant to create the most listened-to commercial radio show in the world, with a daily audience in excess of 4 million. Today, Russ can be heard on BBC Radio London, where his weekly, hour-long news reviews have earned a further loyal following, and on TalkRadio.
In January 2019, Russ joined forces with Howard Jameson on Women’s Radio Station and to create Men’s Radio Station. These revolutionary global internet radio stations aim to provide a non-judgmental space in which men and women can ‘Really Talk’. Russ’s goal remains to remove the stigma that surrounds mental health and to improve how it is addressed in society.
Russ Kane’s one-man stand-up show, ‘Kaned Laughter’ has played to sell-out audiences in London and Los Angeles. He appeared at world-famous Edinburgh Fringe in 2019. His first novel, ‘The Gate Keeper’ - a dark tale of good vs evil, redemption, sacrifice and Jack Daniels, was published in Spring 2019, to rave reviews. The second novel is currently under-way.
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is American comedian and author, Mark Schiff!
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Mark Schiff
Website: https://www.markschiff.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/markschiff
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/comedianmarkschiff
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markschiff1/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/markschiff100
When Mark was six, his mother took him in to Manhattan every weekend for singing and ballet lessons. When he returned to school each Monday and showed his fellow Bronx classmates what he had learned, the class would gather around and beat him up. Mark’s mother smartened up and enrolled him in karate lessons, but those came to a halt when the karate teacher beat him up. When Mark was twelve, his parents took him to a nightclub. There, live on stage was Rodney Dangerfield doing his act. At that moment, he knew the path he had to follow. Mark has headlined in all the major casinos and clubs across the country and has appeared many times on both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman. He has had both HBO and Showtime specials and has been the featured act at the Montreal Comedy Festival. He has written for and guest-starred on Mad About You, as well as appearing on Empty Nest and serving as a writer on The Roseanne Show. He joins us in the middle of touring with Seinfeld.
Books:
Why Not? Lessons on Comedy, Courage and Chutzpah - Available Here
I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics - Available Here
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is West End superstar, Kim Ismay! Follow her on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.
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Kim Ismay
Website: https://www.kimismay.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimismay
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kimismay
Before we share her CV, here’s a glossary of some of the Yiddish terms that came up in our chat with Kim!
Tzuris - troubles, trials and tribulations
Schmy - aimlessly wandering and checking things out with no purpose
Schlep - walk a long way or carry something heavy!
Tantz - dance or waltz
Oy va voy - an exclamation of despair
Oy vay is mir - woe is me
Oya broch - what a curse!
Ken ayin hora - an expression for good luck to ward off the “evil eye”
Fress - eat
Nosh - eat snacks
Gescheft - business
Star of stage and screen, Kim spent a record 7 years starring as Tanya in Mamma Mia! in London's West End. Other West End/London credits include Deb in Elf The Musical, Madame Morrible in Wicked, Sunset Boulevard, Cabaret, Stop The World, Hamlet, Torch Song Trilogy, and for the RSC at the Barbican, Stratford and internationally, Kiss Me, Kate, The Wizard Of Oz and A Comedy Of Errors. Tours and regional credits include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Silver Gym, Noises Off, Stepping Out, Acorn Antiques, Saturday Night Fever, The Rocky Horror Show, Singin' In The Rain, Crazy For You, Whistle Down The Wind, Dames At Sea and the European Premiere of Sondheim's Follies.
Her TV credits include Not Going Out, Eastenders, The Bill, The Sound Of Musicals, Bob Martin, Strange But True, London's Burning, Just A Gigolo and Never The Twain. Her cabaret appearances and Masterclasses have taken her all over the world, she has recorded over a dozen cast albums; her solo albums, Torch & Debauch and About Bill are available at Dress Circle & on iTunes. Her most recent role was Frances Stevenson in the National Theatre of Scotland's sell-out new production of "Kidnapped".
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is international non-binary beatbox star, disability & mental health ambassador and former world looping champion SK Shlomo! Follow them on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.
Trigger Warning: This week’s episode contains discussion of mental health and suicide which some listeners may find distressing.
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SK Shlomo
Website: https://skshlomo.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skshlomo
Facebook: http://facebook.com/skshlomo
Twitter: http://twitter.com/skshlomo
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/skshlomo
TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@skshlomo
Several years ago, SK Shlomo hit a rough patch.
10 years deep into a colourful career, they were an acclaimed beatboxer, a celebrated theatre performer and a well-respected collaborator with the likes of Björk, Gorillaz, Imogen Heap and Rudimental. They had become the first ever World Looping Champion, brought Ed Sheeran onstage as their guest at Glastonbury, been the first non-classical Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre, and even been the subject of a feature film. But something had shifted. In the midst of a deep depression, they stopped performing. Shlomo spent almost two years off the road, recovering what had felt lost.
After a powerful comeback tour, a series of personal revelations changed the way that Shlomo viewed themselves and their work. Shlomo touches on themes they have never previously shared in public, queerness, gender, being foreign, disability and mental health and, ultimately, the healing power of rave.
In this episode they discuss the brilliant work of https://www.thecalmzone.net/
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is comedian and actor, Tehran.
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TEHRAN
Website: https://www.iamtehran.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtehran
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamtehran
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iamtehran
Tehran is a stand up comedian, actor, and radio and TV personality. He runs a regular comedy gig at the Laugh Factory in LA and works with Comedy For Peace which aims to reunited the Middle East through the sharing of laughter. Tehran is of African American and Persian Jewish descent, he is multilingual, performing stand up comedy in the USA and abroad in English, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and French!
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HELEN ZALTZMAN
Instagram: https://instagram.com/HelenZaltzman
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HelenZaltzman
Helen is a podcaster, broadcaster and writer. She produces the linguistics podcast The Allusionist, the entertainment podcast Answer Me This!, and the Veronica Mars recap podcast Veronica Mars Investigations.
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is comedian and writer, Ian Stone, recorded in front of a live audience at Assembly Festival as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.
We were in "The Box", which is a shipping container, on a baking hot day, with an emergency fan on and one door ajar so that everyone made it through to the end of the show without passing out! As a result there are a few audio issues, but also simply great stories from a brilliantly funny and generous guest.
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Ian Stone
Website: http://www.ianstonecomedian.co.uk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ianstonecomedian/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iandstone
Ranked amongst the top ten stand-ups in Britain by The Independent, Ian Stone is one of the most talented topical acts and comperes in the country. Edgy and provocative, with an easy-going manner and self-depreciating style, Ian is at great ease bantering with an audience. He's a member of the Comedy Store's critically acclaimed 'Cutting Edge' team. Ian also received a nomination in 2012 for the BEST SHOW at the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards.
He has performed all over the world including Comedy Festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South Africa, Holland, France, Ireland and Germany. He’s entertained the troops in Kuwait, Bosnia,Kosovo, Cyprus and Afghanistan. He was the first British stand-up to perform in Moscow and the first performer to appear for The Comedy Store in Mumbai.
Ian's book To Be Someone was published on June 25 2020. Because let's face it, there's no better time to publish a book than slap bang in the middle of a culture war and a global pandemic. It's about him growing up and listening to The Jam and what life was like in 70’s Britain. Just press the button below to order the book.
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guest is Australian cabaret artist and comedian, Reuben Kaye, recorded in front of a live audience at Assembly Festival as part of the Edinburgh Fringe.
We were in "The Box", which is a shipping container, on a baking hot day, with an emergency fan on and one door ajar so that everyone made it through to the end of the show without passing out! As a result there are a few audio issues, but also simply great stories from a brilliantly funny and generous guest.
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REUBEN KAYE
Website: https://www.reubenkaye.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reubenkayeofficial/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReubenKaye
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reubenkaye
Multi-award winning, Australian comedian, singer and writer Reuben Kaye is loud, politically active, queer, and what happens when you tell your children they can be anything. After racking up millions of views across Tiktok, Youtube & Instagram plus appearances on Spicks and Specks, The Melbourne International Comedy Fest Galas (ABC), Celebrity Letters & Numbers (SBS) and in the UK, Channel 4 & BBC’s You’re Fired, Kaye is now the danger man to watch on the scene. Backed by his band The Close Contacts, Reuben’s unmissable live shows have sold out in Australia, London and Europe, gleefully proving that he is the much needed, Swarovski studded revolt against the ever narrowing views of an increasingly conservative world and he’s done it all while looking fabulous!
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. It's the final episode of the series and this week’s guests are American comedians Leah Forster and Daniel Lobell.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leahforster/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hellowhellowleah
Leah Forster is an internationally renowned character comic and stand up. Coming from a Hassidic background, Leah was a pioneer in performing comedy at Jewish women's events, selling out shows for thousands. Having grown up in a Yiddish speaking ultra-orthodox family, following a traditional path into marriage and motherhood, she came out of the Hassidic world and the closet, whilst maintaining a warm relationship with her family and community. She came to public attention after a controversial incident where a Kosher Certification authority threatened to cancel venues’ licensing for hosting her show, citing her sexuality.
Website: http://www.dannylobell.com/
Twitter: @DanielLobell
Instagram: @daniellobell
Daniel Lobell is an LA based comedian, comic book creator, podcaster and graduate of The Second City improv program. Daniel hosts the Modern Day Philosophers podcast, featuring comedians like Bill Burr, Brian Regan and Maria Bamford talking philosophy, and Tipping the Scales, about body image and health. He also created the “Fair Enough” autobiographical comic book series, and has two albums out on Stand Up! Records: “Some Kind of Comedian” and “The Nicest Boy in Barcelona”. In 2017, Daniel made his Edinburgh Fringe debut with acclaimed show “Broke As A Joke” , followed by “Tipping the Scales” in 2019.
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