The UK Jewish Comedy festival's salute to the Borscht Belt comedy of Woody Allen and Joan Rivers is poised awkwardly between tribute and parodyYou could argue that standup was born in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York " the so-called Borscht Belt where Jewish New Yorkers holidayed in the middle of the 20th century (partly because they weren't widely welcomed elsewhere). That's where Lenny Bruce and Jackie Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM on December 5, 2016