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American Jewish Comedy Sings a Swan Song
Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm is ending — and so is the culture it represented.
It wasn’t until leaving the city behind for college, then coming back as an adult, that I realized the culture I’d grown up in no longer really existed — that people with Bernie Sanders–esque accents and a joyfully cynical outlook on the world were dying out. (When the Orthodox daughter of the head of the kidney consortium says she’d rather jump off a broken-down ski lift than be trapped on it with a man she’s not married to past sundown, David replies, “What are you, fucking nuts?”) As I watch a state carry out war crimes in the name of my family and our history, the kind of one-foot-in-one-foot-out of power and whiteness represented by so much of Jewish comedy, including Curb, feels insufficient to me.
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