Movie

Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women

2007 1h 25m Released

DocumentaryComedy

A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and gender. The film profiles Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein, as well as contemporary comedians Judy Gold and Jackie Hoffman.

Cast

A Anne Beatts Self Fanny Brice Self (archive footage) Tovah Feldshuh Self Fyvush Finkel Self G Garry Giddens Self Judy Gold Self