Jewish Film Festival Preview: "Humor Me" with Elliot Gould and Jokes From "Old Jews Telling Jokes"

It's Jewish Film Festival time around the USA, and weeks filled with new movies with Jewish themes are popping up from coast to coast.

One film which was just released to the festivals and which will go national later this year is Humor Me, featuring Elliott Gould (MASH, The Long Goodbye), Bebe Neuwirth (Cheers), Annie Potts (Ghostbusters, Pretty in Pink), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and singer Ingrid Michaelson.

The film marks the directorial debut of Sam Hoffman, creator of Old Jews Telling Jokes. We've shared many of his jokes with you on Mondays as part of our Joke to Start the Week series. Sam's original website sparked an off-Broadway play, a bestselling book, and a lecture series.

It's a heartfelt father-son comedy about a struggling playwright who is forced to move in with his joke-telling dad in a New Jersey retirement community and learns, as his father often says, “life’s going to happen, whether you smile or not.”

If you're in Florida this winter you can see Humor Me at the David Posnack JCC in Davie on February 15. We'll be seeing it there while we're on our February Jewish humor lecture tour.

Humor Me is also scheduled to be shown at the Rockland Jewish Film Festival in Nanuet, New York on April 16. Watch for it at your local theaters in the coming months. In the meantime, enjoy a preview with this trailer.


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