Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women

Movie · 1h 25m

Starring Anne Beatts, Fanny Brice, Tovah Feldshuh, Fyvush Finkel

A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and gender. The film profiles Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, and Wendy Wasserstein, as well as contemporary comedians Judy Gold and Jackie Hoffman.