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Comics On The Rise: Raanan Hershberg Doubles Down With New Specials ‘Brave,’ ‘It Could Have Been Better’
Comedian Raanan Hershberg discusses his new specials 'Brave' and 'It Could Have Been Better' in an interview with Deadline.
While his Comedy Dynamics special It Could Have Been Better reflects on Hershberg’s Jewish upbringing in Kentucky and his overbearing mother, it’s less thematically driven and more of “a collection of jokes,” a “best of” from his recent catalogue that will hopefully win him new fans — “which is important,” he says, “because I feel like a lot of people still don’t know me.” Though in the past, Hershberg has joked that at age 40, a lot of people think he’s younger because he’s had “so few accomplishments,” he’s in truth one of the sharpest up-and-coming comics emerging from an exceptionally vibrant current New York scene. Currently prepping a new hour that deals with “Israel and Palestine…being Jewish right now, and a lot of relationship material,” Hershberg’s next milestone is coming up in August, when he fulfills his longtime dream of being a filmmaker, commencing production on Memory Room.
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