Katie Halper
Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Her documentary “Commie Camp” won a special jury prize at the Independent Vision Awards. A director of Living Liberally and co-founder/performer in Laughing Liberally, Katie has performed at Town Hall, Netroots Nation, and The Nation Magazine Cruise (where she made Howard Dean laugh!), and has appeared with Lizz Winstead, Markos Moulitsas, The Yes Men, Cynthia Nixon and Jim Hightower.
Her writing and videos have appeared in/on the New York Times, Comedy Central, The Nation, Gawker, Nerve, Jezebel, the Huffington Post, Alternet, NY Magazine, LA Times, and the National Review, which called Katie “cute and somewhat brainy.” Katie co-produced Tim Robbins’s “Embedded”; Estela Bravo’s “Free to Fly”; was outreach director for Naomi Klein/Avi Lewis documentary “The Take,” and has written/directed viral satiric videos including “Jews/Women/Gays for McCain.”
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!)
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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