Making Trouble

Summary

Making Trouble spans more than a century of theatre, film and television history beginning with Molly Picon's earliest performances in silent films in 1903, through Fanny Brice's Ziegfield Follies shows, right up to Gilda Radner's astonishing work on Saturday Night Live. Our stars made an indelible impact on the entertainment world, their audiences and the times they lived in. They became important and lasting figures in our culture. Each of the stars brought something new and unique to the world through their talents, but all shared the gift- and the burden- of being funny, being Jewish, and being female.

Our hosts for Making Trouble are four of today's leading Jewish women comedians - Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney and Jessica Kirson - brought together at New York's famed Katz's Delicatessen to gab about these female comic pioneers and guide us through the chronicle of these amazing women.