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Comedian Raanan Hershberg has locked successful a premiere day for his latest hour, Morbidly Jewish: A New Special. The typical will premiere connected his YouTube transmission astatine 8 p.m. EST connected Thursday, January 15th.
Directed by Dave Hogsett, nan special’s centerpiece is simply a chat of a 2024 quality connected The Joe Rogan Experience, successful which he said he doesn’t judge successful conspiracy theories, and nan thousands of very angry comments he received successful nan afremath. Morbidly Jewish finds Raanan astatine his astir biting, acerbic, angry, Jewish, and, arsenic always…loud. Recorded astatine Sesh Comedy Club successful Lower Manhattan past May, it’s an hr of drama astir hypocrisy, overthinking, certainty, and nan worry of surviving successful a world wherever everyone is assured and nary 1 is correct.
A beardown joke writer from Louisville, KY who’s now based successful New York, Hershberg has been seen performing connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show pinch James Corden, After Midnight on CBS, Amazon and Comedy Central. Released pinch 800 Pound Gorilla successful February 2025, his astir caller hour, Brave, satirizes nan governmental disagreement successful America, while besides exploring caller developments successful Hershberg’s chaotic, individual life: his woman (now wife) getting unfastened bosom room 3 months into their relationship, his overbearing Jewish mother, and conflating being loved pinch being trapped. Prior to Brave, nan comic put retired Jokes from nan Underground, different lauded typical filmed astatine nan Comedy Cellar successful New York, which he self-produced and has now reached astir 200,000 views.
Last year, Hershberg co-wrote and co-directed nan short movie Memory Room, which won nan expansive prize astatine The New York Shorts Film Festival. Also nan big of nan movie podcast Your Favorite Movie Sucks, he is repped by Justin Silvera & Ian Arougheti astatine SA Entertainment Group.
