Who is Sacha Baron Cohen and how does his brand of humor fit in, or veer off, from what’s come before?
It starts with the name. In speaking with experts in the field of comedy, Mr. Baron Cohen might have just been Sacha Baron had it not been for his predecessors. That itself is part of our American Jewish winding tree of laughter, one with demarcative eras that have their own branches of media carrying forth messages that changed the course of history while influencing politics and pop culture. First came vaudeville, which transitioned into radio, which then made its way to movies and, along with a detour creating a new Jewish Eden in the Borscht Belt, eventually landed onto TV screens. That winding path of comedy throughout the entire 20th century is a genealogy of Jewry. So powerful was it that in many ways it’s become like religion. “For the secularized Jewish community, the comedians were especially important as secular rabbis providing both meaning and a way into American society,” according to Lawrence Epstein, author of “The Haunted Smile,” a book about Jewish comedians in Americ
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