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.”
Arts and Culture
Morning Jew: High Holidays & the HinJew Connection with Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Special guest Samhita Mukhopadhyay – former Feministing executive director –- joins Morning Jew comic duo Katie Halper and Heather Gold.
Arts and Culture
Morning Jew: Genetics, Intermarriage, and Guest “Screaming Latke” Lisa Brown
Special guest author-illustrator Lisa Brown — The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming and Baby, Make Me a Drink — rejoins Morning Jew comic duo Katie Halper and Heather Gold.
Arts and Culture
Morning Jew: Brands Behaving Badly, “Shtetl Booty” & More, with Guest Lisa Brown
This week, special guest illustrator-author Lisa Brown joins Morning Jew comic duo Katie Halper and Heather Gold on brands behaving badly, embracing zaftig, and more.
Arts and Culture
Morning Jew: The Joan Rivers, Ben Stein & Elvis Edition
This week, comics Heather Gold and Katie Halper tackle Ben Stein’s racism, Elvis’ Judaism, and Joan Rivers’ legacy!
Life and Action
Morning Jew: Lady Parts, Princesses & Funerals
Get behind the headlines with comics Heather Gold and Katie Halper. This week, the comic duo talk about women’s bodies and take a fresh look at that super-loaded ‘80s-girl stereotype: The Jewish American Princess, but also their male counterparts.
News and Politics
Morning Jew: Tackling Rhetoric (and Anti-Semitism)
Get behind the headlines with comics Heather Gold and Katie Halper. This week, how American Jews talk about the Middle East and the Eggshell Walk, including acronyms like PEP, short for “progressive except on Palestine.”
News and Politics
Morning Jew: Heather Gold, Katie Halper & Special Guest Josh Gondelman
The Morning Jew duo is joined by Josh Gondelman (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver & @SeinfeldToday), taking a brave stand against apologia.
The verdict? This week’s news is bad for the Jews: Israel bombs another UN school, infant herpes, Woody Allen, genocide talk & more.
News and Politics
Morning Jew: Heather Gold, Katie Halper & Special Guest Michael Wex
This week: Circumcision debate, Auschwitz selfies & chain stores selling concentration camp décor.
Get behind the headlines with comics Heather Gold and Katie Halper, joined by special guest Born to Kvetch author Michael Wex. Nu, is it good for the Jews?
News and Politics
Morning Jew: Oy, Ben Stein, Hobby Lobby, and Ruth “Greatest” Bader Ginsburg
Katie Halper and Heather Gold tackle the headlines, asking, Nu, is it good for the Jews?
This week: “Why do all these old Jewish men get caught paying for sexy things with young women who don’t want them, and why are they publically so racist yet so obsessed with trying to shtup someone who’s not their race?” Plus, Hobby Lobby, the all-time greatest Supreme Court justice, the Facebook study, and more.
Life and Action
Not Just Another World Cup Special with Morning Jew
The Morning Jew Duo Mouths Off About the Bite Felt Round the World & More
Katie Halper and Heather Gold tackle the headlines in this World Cup special edition: Suarez’s big mouth, a Dutch soccer team with a Hava Nagila ringtone, and even a Theresienstadt tie-in – no joke. But very funny.
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