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 RAIN, SUN – laughter is always great medicine.

Therapist explains how to use humor to fight Iran's psychological warfare

The Comedy Brigade's account on X.

Steady work: Comedy writers poke fun at antisemites on new X account

 FROM LEFT: Hamutal Einhorn, Noam Semel, Tami Raveh, Modi Rosenfeld, Yehuda Raveh, and Noga Milstein.

Grapevine September 13, 2024: A source of pride

 MODI.

American comedian Modi to be inducted in ANU’s Jewish humor hall of fame

By NERIA BARR
 Anti-aging takes an unblinkered look at ambition, dreams, and generational gaps.

The Kishon look: The third annual Israeli Comedy Festival

 Orel Tsabari on Channel 12 calling Katara Hills Hotel in Qatar, asking for a room for Yahyah Sinwar, July 16, 2024.

Comedian books room for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in prank call to Qatar hotel

 SCENES FROM ‘Cat’s Luck.’

‘Cat’s Luck,’ part of a wave of new Israeli comedies, officially hits theaters

 COMEDIAN MODI Rosenfeld in a file photo.

'Lightening the national mood': Modi performs in Jerusalem amid war

 HORSING AROUND and letting loose with a camel in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Psychologist explains why laughing, comedy helps during wartime

 The Revolution Orchestra and ‘The Passion of Monty Python.’

Israel's Monty Python: Adopting British humor to Hebrew

By MORDECHAI BECK
 A person hangs a sign at a protest encampment in support of Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 29, 2024.

Vancouver comic festival bans Jewish artist over past IDF service

 FOR THE last 16 years, comedian Avi Liberman has been doing several shows a year to benefit the Koby Mandell Foundation.

'Comedy for Koby' brings humor in a time of tragedy

By AMY KLEIN
 Children and their families supporting the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation "KAN" protest against the new government's intention to close "KAN" and "KAN" education channel, in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2023.

Israel’s Jewish humor show offers a serious message for a dark time: We will survive

Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special SNL Way Street Sign. Uploaded on 21/5/2024

Rabbi Jill Hausman makes surprise appearance on 'Saturday Night Live,' reacts to jokes about Jews

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 Eden Golan (left) with Shani Cohen (right) dressed as Golan and Roy Bar Natan (middle). Uploaded on 15/5/2024

Israel's Eurovision contestant Eden Golan saves other contestants in Eretz Nehederet sketch

 JERRY SEINFELD, left, wrote, directed and stars in ‘Unfrosted.’

Jerry Seinfeld gets silly in a movie about taking breakfast seriously

 Police officers keep watch as campaigners queue to lobby MPs in Parliament ahead of a debate to hold a vote for a ceasefire in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, February 21, 2024.

UK police investigate British comedian for social media death threats about Jewish woman

 BULGARIAN TSAR Boris III, who ruled during the Holocaust, 1995. The book deconstructs what it says was his negative impact on the Jews as opposed to more positive narratives Bulgaria tried to present.

A new dark comedy asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III a friend or a foe of the Jews?

By Elizabeth Karpen/JTA