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Daily Jewce: Four More Years for Obama, None for Mindy Meyer

Jewcy Staff — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:53:59 +0000

• President Obama won 69 percent of the Jewish vote. Tee hee. [JTA]

• District Diva Mindy Meyer lost, big time, in last night’s election. We’re talking three percent of the vote. [Forward]

• Tony Kushner talks Lincoln in the Obama era. [LA Weekly]

• The Gaza crocodile has been caught and returned to the zoo it escaped from two years ago. “We hope he lives a good life here with his wives,” a policeman actually said. [Yahoo!]

• Jewcy favorite Jason Segel might not be involved, but the Muppets sequel will feature new music from Flight of the Conchords’ Muppet-grammy-winner Bret McKenzie. [Vulture]

• Ithaca grad Ben Feldman called his aunt in Chicago to tell her about his Emmy nomination for his role on Mad Men. [Access Hollywood]

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Daily Jewce: MoT With Muppets, Jews Of Gossip Girl, Tony Judt’s Disco and More

Jewcy Staff — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:33:32 +0000

Jews in New Orleans aren’t the only folks hanging out with Muppets: Jason Segel is spending a lot of time with Jim Henson’s creations also.

The Jews of Gossip Girl.

This is what happens when you make porn in Sri Lanka.

Leave it to The Awl to combine the late Tony Junt and LCD Soundsystem.

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Grover’s Jewish Backround Exposed On New Shalom Sesame Shirts

Aaron Bisman — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:55:32 +0000

Before I became a parent, my Muppet obsession was kept well in check. It all changed when we put on Bert & Ernie Sing-along (one of the greatest recordings of the 1970’s), and my son Asher discovered his love for morning TV, my furry friends came rushing back into my life. Sesame Street is a fixture in our morning routine, so Bert, Ernie, Grover, Elmo, and Big Bird are back in my life. Big time.

Recently, I heard whispers of a new production of Shalom Sesame, the 1980’s series that introduced countless American kids to Kippy ben Kipod, “Rubber Duckie” overdubbed in Hebrew as “Barvazani,” and a pre-SATC Sarah Jessica Parker. Jews and Muppets, together again! My dream of working with Ernie–first crushed by a visit to a depressed Greenwich Village puppeteer as a teenager–would finally come true!

Try as I might, though, I was not able to convince Sesame Workshop that the scene their new series needed most was Balkan Beat Box dancing in front of Hooper’s Store. I guess a beat boxing grouch was enough for them.

All that said, the first 2 DVDs from the ambitious new series have just been released (our friends at Tablet had a sneak peak of an animated clip about Talmudic scholars Hillel & Shammai) and along with them, a round of exceptionally awesome Jewy tshirts. The shirts feature Grover, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Zoe, and Oscar.

Jews: we like to claim what’s ours and now that Grover is a Super Mensch, we can proudly call him a member of the tribe. Our friends at Modern Tribe have a some of the designs, but Super Mensch seems to only be available direct from the source.

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