Amusing Jews

Veteran TV producer Eric Mazer is perhaps best known for his work on true crime series and the UFC. He’s executive producer of iCrime with Elizabeth Vargas and co-executive producer of Killer Siblings. His projects have aired on Oxygen, Spike, NBC, Fox Sports, TBS, Sci-Fi, History, Travel, MTV, VH1, and most of the Discovery Communications networks.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1847911/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

iCrime with Elizabeth Vargas

https://www.youtube.com/@icrimetv

Killer Siblings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weHfmOcGO2s

UFC documentary

https://vimeo.com/343531947

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles

https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community

https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United Studios

https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Dr. Reba Wissner is assistant professor of musicology and coordinator of the public musicology undergraduate certificate at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. An expert on music in 1950s and 1960s television, she’s the author of A Dimension of Sound: Music in The Twilight Zone; We Will Control All That You Hear: The Outer Limits and the Aural Imagination; and Music and the Atomic Bomb in American Television, 1950-1969. She’s also co-editor of Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds, and is currently working on a collaborative book and database project called Cues and Contracts: Music and the American Television Industry.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Curriculum Vitae
https://hcommons.org/app/uploads/sites/1001510/2019/08/Wissnerupdatedcv8.24.2019.pdf

Outer Limits Commentaries
https://tvacdb.sandboxen.com/commentator/wissner-reba

Public Musicology
http://thecolumbusceo.com/video/2023/01/reba-wissner-public-musicology-undergraduate-certificate-columbus-state/

Meet Dr. Reba Wissner
https://www.thecolumbusite.net/post/women-in-the-arts-meet-dr-reba-wissner-csu-s-new-public-musicologist

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

We spend time with Noah Segan, who wrote, directed, co-produced, and stars in the 2022 movie Blood Relatives, now streaming on Shudder. Noah also has roles in Glass Onion, Knives Out, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper, Brick, and a bunch of other films.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781913/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Blood Relatives trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ0ERclqxnc

Joey’s favorite scene from Brick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-YevZUQ9cU

Stomeroni Strack trading card

https://www.topps.com/topps-star-wars-living-setr-card-250-stomeroni-starck.html

Noah at the Knives Out premiere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uVP4XSoM_g

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles

https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community

https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United Studios

https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

We chat with actor and author Melanie Chartoff, who starred on Fridays (ABC) and Parker Lewis Can't Lose (FOX). She played George Costanza’s recurring girlfriend Robin on Seinfeld, and voiced Didi Pickles and her mother Minka on Nickelodeon's Rugrats…and a whole lot more. Her first book, Odd Woman Out: Exposure in Essays and Stories, explores the risks of becoming an actor before becoming a fully realized human being. She currently coaches performers and non-performers in being more charismatic in their public and private encounters.

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Melanie’s Website
melaniechartoff.com

Melanie’s Email
playdate444@gmailcom

Charizmatizing
https://charismatizing.com

Odd Woman Out
https://www.amazon.com/Odd-Woman-Out-Exposure-Stories-ebook/dp/B08KFNH246

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153589/

Promo for Parker Lewis Can’t Lose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBBlNPqTMss&t=98s

Didi Pickles Clip from Rugrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObK5d4FVOJk

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United Studios
https://www.atheistsunited.org/au-studios

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

We chat with legendary screenwriter Michael Elias, an award-winning writer, actor, and director who has written film, television, theatre, and fiction. You may know Michael as the co-screenwriter of The Frisco Kid, starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, or The Jerk, starring Steve Martin, both from 1979. He also created the hit sitcom Head of the Class, which ran on ABC from 1986 to 1991. More recently, he has turned to writing novels, including You Can Go Home Now, published by HarperCollins in 2020.

IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253498/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Michael’s Website https://www.michaeleliaswriter.com/

The Making of the Frisco Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emMFvkXot0&t=2535s

The Frisco Kid - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZP2iKns3M

The Jerk - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lduFFNqBFPs

Head of the Class - Opening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjb3Py_37nM

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles

https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community

https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United
https://www.atheistsunited.org/

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

We sit down with singer and actress Rena Strober, the voice of Esmeraude, a member of the villainous Black Moon Clan, on the anime series Sailor Moon. Her Broadway credits include the role of Cosette in Les Miserables and a national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, playing Tevye’s oldest daughter Tzeitel. Recent television credits include characters on the Netflix animated series Dogs in Space. Rena is currently on the circuit promoting a film adaptation of her one-woman show, Spaghetti and Matzo Balls, about how she rediscovered her Jewish roots – from the Catskills to Broadway to an infamous Italian restaurant in Spanish Harlem.

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2419128/

Rena’s Website
https://www.renastrober.com/

Rena’s Film & TV Reel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7P3KJMqA84

Rena’s Animation & Video Game Reel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg-OLSM6COw

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United
https://www.atheistsunited.org/

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

Joey talks about Hanukkah and its many spellings with Jonathan Friedmann, professor of Jewish music history and dean of the Master of Jewish Studies Program at the Academy for Jewish Religion California. He is also director of the Jewish Museum of the American West, president of the Western States Jewish History Association, and community leader of Adat Chaverim—Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles. Jonathan is the author or editor of thirty books on music, the Hebrew Bible, and the sociology of religion.

100,000 Ways to Spell Hanukkah
https://www.amazon.com/100-000-Ways-Spell-Hanukkah/dp/B09CRNPSXH

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United
https://www.atheistsunited.org/

Amusing Jews

Ep. 1: A Festivus for the Rest of Us – with Seinfeld actor Harris Shore

Co-hosts: Jonathan Friedmann & Joey Angel-Field

Producer-engineer: Mike Tomren

We chat with Harris Shore, an actor, writer and director who takes his place in American pop culture as the original, live-action Mario of the Donkey Kong commercials for ColecoVision (1982), and as the original Mr. Lippman on Seinfeld (“The Library,” 1991). He’s currently making the film festival circuit with his award-winning short film, The Trust.

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794928/

The Trust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIwt5LTBXSI&t=20s

Harris as Mario – Donkey Kong Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEaCgww5tI4

Harris’ Rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3by7gjctc

Adat Chaverim – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Los Angeles
https://www.humanisticjudaismla.org/

Cool Shul Cultural Community
https://www.coolshul.org/

Atheists United
https://www.atheistsunited.org/

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