An unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show where all are welcome!
Jew Talkin' To Me? is hosted by award winning comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. Each show features guests from the entertainment industry sharing their views on a variety of topics connected to modern Jewish life in a secular world, as well as their memories of growing up Jewish.
Both Philip and Rachel are well known as Jewish comedians on both the mainstream and community circuit and our guest list includes stand-up comedians, presenters, broadcasters, journalists and writers who are Jewish, have some Jewish heritage, or a Jewish connection.
Philip and Rachel have been collaborating for a few years, but who are we as individuals?
WINNER Best Children’s Show at the Buxton Fringe 2024
WINNER Pegasus Comedy Best Compere 2023
WINNER UK Pun Off at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe
WINNER Best Kids’ Show at the Morecambe Fringe 2022
WINNER of the Jewish Comedian of the Year 2015
WINNER of the Lastminute Comedy Comedian of the Year 2015
As a stand up Philip gigs throughout the UK, as well having performed as far flung places as America, Scandinavia, Europe, The Middle East and New Zealand. He is MC and curator of the Edinburgh Fringe's cult hit show Jew-O-Rama where Jewish and Jew”ish” acts perform to a mainly non-Jewish audience in packed out rooms each year. He is also resident compere at Borehamwood Comedy Club, works on panels shows including Mock the Week and Taskmaster and has been featured on BBC R2 and BBC 3CR, as well as acting in TV sitcoms such as My Family.
WINNER Most Audience Recommended Show Camden Fringe 2012
WINNER Best Comedy Award Greater Manchester Fringe 2017
Rachel is the only practising orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit and has attracted a big following outside of her community who are interested in a unique, accessible voice from an unlikely source. Her debut solo show ‘It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl’ had a sell-out Edinburgh run in 2017, followed by tours of the UK and Israel. She's now meant to be touring her 5* show, ‘Hinayni! but, you know, the 'rona’. Rachel is the host of Central London's spectacular annual event Chanukah in the Square and resident MC of comedy club Upstairs at the Adam & Eve. As heard on BBC Radio London (regular guest) BBC R2, BBC Ouch and BBC 3CR. She is also an award winning director and critically acclaimed playwright.
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An unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show where all are welcome!
Jew Talkin' To Me? is hosted by award winning comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. Each show features guests from the entertainment industry sharing their views on a variety of topics connected to modern Jewish life in a secular world, as well as their memories of growing up Jewish.
Both Philip and Rachel are well known as Jewish comedians on both the mainstream and community circuit and our guest list includes stand-up comedians, presenters, broadcasters, journalists and writers who are Jewish, have some Jewish heritage, or a Jewish connection.
Philip and Rachel have been collaborating for a few years, but who are we as individuals?
WINNER Best Children’s Show at the Buxton Fringe 2024
WINNER Pegasus Comedy Best Compere 2023
WINNER UK Pun Off at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe
WINNER Best Kids’ Show at the Morecambe Fringe 2022
WINNER of the Jewish Comedian of the Year 2015
WINNER of the Lastminute Comedy Comedian of the Year 2015
As a stand up Philip gigs throughout the UK, as well having performed as far flung places as America, Scandinavia, Europe, The Middle East and New Zealand. He is MC and curator of the Edinburgh Fringe's cult hit show Jew-O-Rama where Jewish and Jew”ish” acts perform to a mainly non-Jewish audience in packed out rooms each year. He is also resident compere at Borehamwood Comedy Club, works on panels shows including Mock the Week and Taskmaster and has been featured on BBC R2 and BBC 3CR, as well as acting in TV sitcoms such as My Family.
WINNER Most Audience Recommended Show Camden Fringe 2012
WINNER Best Comedy Award Greater Manchester Fringe 2017
Rachel is the only practising orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit and has attracted a big following outside of her community who are interested in a unique, accessible voice from an unlikely source. Her debut solo show ‘It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl’ had a sell-out Edinburgh run in 2017, followed by tours of the UK and Israel. She's now meant to be touring her 5* show, ‘Hinayni! but, you know, the 'rona’. Rachel is the host of Central London's spectacular annual event Chanukah in the Square and resident MC of comedy club Upstairs at the Adam & Eve. As heard on BBC Radio London (regular guest) BBC R2, BBC Ouch and BBC 3CR. She is also an award winning director and critically acclaimed playwright.
Subscribe and join us each week for brand new episodes.
Keep up to date with all our news via our website www.jewtalkintome.com
Follow us on social media:
Facebook: @JewTalkin
Twitter: @JewTalkin
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by Man Booker Prize winning novelist and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson!
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Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, and has become one of the best known writers of our generation. His novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. He later won the prize again for Zoo Time. His next novel, Who’s Sorry Now was the first of four of his novels to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, followed by Kalooki Nights. He was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question in 2010. His novel, J, was shortlisted for the award in 2014.
He has written several works of non-fiction, including In the Land of Oz and Roots Schmoots which was made into a critically acclaimed Channel 4 Series, as well as Seriously Funny: An Argument for Comedy. He wrote a column for The Independent for twenty years, two collections of which have been published under the titles Whatever It Is I Don’t like It and the Dog’s Last Walk. In 2014, he wrote and presented a two-part documentary Rebels of Oz for Mint Productions and BBC Four, in which he examines the cultural impact made by four rebellious Australians: Germaine Greer, Clive James, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes. Howard is a regular presenter of Radio 4’s A Point of View. In 2022 his memoir Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings was published.
Seek out his substack - https://jacobsonh.substack.com/
Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? PatreonHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.