Heather Gold

Heather Gold

Geek comedian. Relentlessly honest. Created interactive performance by mashing up theater, stand-up and the net.

She has also appeared in/on npr, boingboing.net, TechTV, Air America, WIRED, Yahoo Financevision, The Wall Street Journal, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The San Jose Mercury News, WHERE Magazine, shift TV, Fortune.com, thestreet.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Curve, Backstage Pass, the Austin Chronicle and CBC Radio.

News and Politics

Jewish GOP Does Vegas, Generation Gap & Circumcision News-- Nu? It's Morning Jew!

Comedians Katie Halper and Heather Gold unpack the news. This week: Governors Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Scott Walker walk the walk for GOP money man Sheldon Adelson; thoughts about circumcision – it “puts everything up in front!” – and more. Can you guess which makeup-loving rock-star frontman was born an Israeli Jew named Chaim? Guess. Watch. Laugh. Share.

Media and Tech

Holocaust-deniers on Facebook, Trapeze-Swinging Singers, Rabbi-Endorsed Polygamy--Nu? It's Morning Jew!

Comedians Katie Halper & Heather Gold take down the news of the week. Watch. Be amazed. Laugh. Share.

Media and Tech

#OwnBossy, Jewish Charades, God on Facebook -- Morning Jew with Comedians Katie Halper & Heather Gold

Comics Katie Halper and Heather Gold tackle the week’s headlines: why we shouldn’t #BanBossy (“we should #OwnBossy” and own our own power). Plus, God’s Facebook page, Jewish charades, Jewmunity and Condi Rice. Watch the new Morning Jew, with comedians Katie Halper and Heather Gold.

Zeek enjoys partnering with comics Katie Halper and Heather Gold, to bring you Morning Jew, a tongue-in-cheek take-down of morning news shows, talking heads, and the news itself. Is it good for the Jews?

Media and Tech

Morning Jew, Mega: Why some scandals are more scandalous than others

Nu, Is the News Good for the Jews?

It’s a mega-webisode of Morning Jew! Michele Bachmann chastising Jews, ultra-Orthodox protesting mandatory Israeli military service and what’s with the low on-screen, on-stage Jewish quotient at the Oscars, despite Idina and Bette. Plus Rep Alan Grayson, and why some scandals are more scandalous than others.

Media and Tech

Morning Jew: RIP Caring Comic Harold Ramis, Post-Pope Fashion, and the Insidious Ted Nugent Strikes Again

Nu, Is the News Good for the Jews?

On this week’s Morning Jew, comedians Katie Halper and Heather Gold chime in on the connection between racist Tea Baggers like Ted Nugent and paranoid Jews, the “Nazi” Pope’s return, and pay tribute to the irreplaceable mensch Harold Ramis, master of caring comedy: “Just because it’s broad doesn’t mean it has to be shallow.”

Media and Tech

Morning Jew: Anti-Gay Laws, Crypto-Jews, Olympic Weddings, and Mishpokhe Messages!

The Week in Review with Morning Jew: this week, comics Heather Gold and Katie Halper tackle new anti-gay Jim Crow style laws, crypto-Jews in New Mexico and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir’s new Jewish husband. Plus a new feature debuts: Mishpokke Messages. (Send us yours!)

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Media and Tech

Morning Jew: A Younger, Sexier ADL Head (of Hair); Woody Allen & a Bubbe Alert!

In the new Morning Jew, Heather Gold and Katie Halper weigh in on Natalie Portman, Woody Allen, a bubbe’s heartfelt warning to a gay grandson not to go to Sochi. Plus, a nomination to take the place of the ADL’s Abe Foxman, who’s stepping down. Watch now to find out who the “new face, new head of hair,” younger, sexier ADL head should be.

News and Politics

Morning Jew: Dylan Farrow, David "Bridgegate" Wildenstein, Boy Who Cried Shonda, and More

“It would be good for the Jews to not have Woody Allen represent us anymore. I still want jokes, but they can be less self-loathing, and they can be jokes that aren’t based on misogyny.”

In this week’s morning Jew, Heather Gold and Katie Halper weigh in on which of the week’s headlines are good for the Jews. Dylan Farrow, David Wildstein, talmudic hate mail, and more.

Media and Tech

Morning Jew with Katie Halper and Heather Gold: From the Warsaw Ghetto to the Grammys to Scandinavia

In this week’s Morning Jew, comics Heather Gold and Katie Halper ask if this week’s news is good for the Jews — from billionaire, Kristillnacht-fantasizing Ted Perkins to Grammy marriage equality moment with Macklemore, Queen Latifah and Madonna, and Warsaw Ghetto hero Irving Milchberg and Sweden and Denmark’s ban on circumcision. Good for the Jews? Laugh. Weigh in. Share.

Media and Tech

Morning Jew with Katie Halper and Heather Gold: Is Bridgegate the best thing for Jews since sliced challah?

In the new episode of Morning Jew, Heather wonders if Bridgegate may actually be the best thing for Jews since sliced challah, and the two funny ladies dig into why the New York Times’ Bill Keller feels the need to tell a woman with cancer to shut up already. Plus, Chelsea Handler, and the origins of Ashkenazi names.

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