Before The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a \u2018boys\u2019 club,\u2019 the truth is that there have always been influential women on the scene. Alongside Jewish male comics like Groucho Marx, Lenny Bruce, Jack Benny, and Jerry Seinfeld, there were pioneering Jewish female stand-ups like Jean Carroll, Joan Rivers, Totie Fields, and Sarah Silverman, offering their inimitable insights on the experience of being a Jew\u2014and a woman\u2014in the United States. From tackling double standards to deflating stereotypes like the \u201cJewish American Princess,\u201d Jewish female stand-up comedians have made major contributions to the way that American audiences have seen Jewish women\u2014and the way that Jewish women have seen themselves.<\/p>\n
Presented by Grace Overbeke, assistant professor in the theatre department at Columbia College. Her academic focus is in comedy studies and has been published in Shofar:\u00a0<\/em>An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Theatre Topics, <\/em>Theatre Annual,<\/em>\u00a0The New England Theatre Journal,\u00a0<\/em>Theatre Survey, Studies in American Humor,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Jewish Forward. <\/em>She holds a BA in theatre and English from Wesleyan University and an MA and PhD. from Northwestern University in theatre and drama.<\/p>\n The Faye Sigman Woman of Valor Lecture is made possible by the generosity of the Taxman and Temkin families.<\/p>\n This is a hybrid event with both an in-person and virtual option.\u00a0Free but registration required at https:\/\/wisconsin-edu.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_MA66E_0MQU2q8Ftf05k99g#\/registration<\/p>\n Cosponsored by 51ÁÔÆæ’s Departments of English and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies; and programs in Digital Arts and Culture; Film Studies; and Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a \u2018boys\u2019 club,\u2019 the truth is that there have always been influential women on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6745,"featured_media":27021,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[428,418],"class_list":["post-26984","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-lectures-conferences-and-symposiums","tribe_events_cat-uwm-campus-events","cat_lectures-conferences-and-symposiums","cat_uwm-campus-events"],"yoast_head":"\n