Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women

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.

Documentary Comedy

Anne Beatts

(Self)

Fanny Brice

(Self (archive footage))

Tovah Feldshuh

(Self)

Fyvush Finkel

(Self)

Garry Giddens

(Self)

Judy Gold

(Self)

Jackie Hoffman

(Self)

Cory Kahaney

(Self)

Jessica Kirson

(Self)

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

(Self)

Molly Picon

(Self (archive footage))

Gilda Radner

(Self (archive footage))

Joan Rivers

(Self)

Martin Short

(Self)

Rosie Shuster

(Self)

Treva Silverman

(Self)

Sophie Tucker

(Self (archive footage))

Kenneth Turan

(Self)

Wendy Wasserstein

(Self)

Alan Zweibel

(Self)