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Behold -- a thing I made. This edit has been begging me to make it for several months and I have finally made it happen.
Music: Comedy Tonight from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (1996 Broadway Revival Cast)
Special thanks to @starry-on-ao3 for their clips!
With lyrics version here
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EXT. SMALL TOWN BUS STOP – DAY (A beautiful woman with slightly wavy brown hair steps off a bus. She’s RACHEL, a corporate lawyer from The
INT. BAKERY — DAY
(It’s snowing sideways. A white Hanukkah portends a good harvest for Passover. The wind blows open the door, revealing BEN, covered in snow and holding a small coniferous plant.)
RACHEL: Jesus!
BEN: Who’s that?
(They both laugh, Jewishly.)
BEN: Well, he’s no Blue Santa, that’s for sure. He’d need a big white beard, a blue suit, and a sled pulled by camels.
RACHEL: Sounds handsome.
that’s how it’s done, though (including self-indulgent shoutouts to the birdcage)
"Comedy Tonight and Playout” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
Musical Direction by Ken Thorne Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Vincent Price on The Carol Burnett Show, Season 7, Episode 19
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One of my other projects is the Muppeturgy podcast, a The Muppet Show rewatch podcast with a theatrical bent. Today’s installment is about the Joel Grey episode of The Muppet Show, which is also the first appearance of a Stephen Sondheim song on the show. Check it out wherever you get your podcasts!
I am currently slogging my way through the back half of season 3 of Bridgerton (it turns out that IQs did, in fact, just drop sharply while I was away), and I just heard with my own two ears Lord Anthony, 9th Viscount Bridgerton, say with his own mouth* the classic Noo Yawk Jewish phrase "What am I, chopped liver?"
If this man has ever had so much as a whiff of chopped liver in his entire life, then I am Marie of Romania. On the other hand . . . given this show's famous taste for ethnic diversity, how hilarious would it be to learn that the absolutely lily-white title family of the show is actually secretly Jewish? Or, seeing as how they are such uber-Sloanes, is it funnier to imagine that Lord Anthony, 9th Viscount Bridgerton, was temporarily possessed by the soul of a line cook at Russ & Daughters?
Secretly Jewish Bridgertonsteins, or possessed by a Daughter of Russ?
Secretly Jewish Bridgertonsteins
Possessed by a Daugher of Russ
*Okay, Jonathan Bailey's mouth. But you get the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO6ZRjhOozE
Yeah, yeah, yeah, another video with an earnest lady explaining why Christians should TOTES appropriate a Jewish holiday. But this one . . . I don’t know, man. Part of me wants to call it a comedy classic -- like, she completely blows the lid off the whole “Messianic Judaism is Christianity with Jew costumes” open secret in the first minute of the video, and it just gets weirder from there.
Part of me wants to point and laugh at her simultaneous claims that the Book of Esther is all about God’s care of people (the Book of Esther is, in fact, one of two books where there are only human characters, the other one being the Song of Songs) AND that she’s such an expert on Scripture and the Book of Esther from having done this so many times (though she seems to have missed a big aspect of it). Part of me also wants to point and laugh at the really quite shallow reasons that she gives for celebrating Purim -- like Mel Brooks’s original 1968 The Producers, part of what makes the fun work in a real Purim celebration is the undercurrent of boiling hot anger at the shit that the world wants to throw at the Jews -- this is the ur-type of the “they tried to kill us, they failed, let’s eat” holiday.
But then there’s another part of me that looks at this woman’s behavior and affect, and . . . I think I’m kind of worried about her, honestly. She has the big toothy smile, but she’s nervous, and she rambles, and you can see the facade crumbling as the video progresses. There are parts where she looks at the camera, and for an instant, she looks utterly terrified. What does she think is going to happen if she drops her smile or admits that she’s not feeling perky? Does she know that it’s antisemitism and she’s trying to avoid admitting that to herself? Is she afraid that her fundamental ignorance is going to show here? Is she even a real person at this point, or is she, much like her conception of Purim, nothing more than a frivolous confection of food and games and costumes and frantic partying desperate to distract you from the howling emptiness inside?
What is going on with this video?
