Making Trouble

Sophie Tucker, The Last of the Red Hot Mamas, was one of many Jewish women to make their mark on American humor. You can see more about the professional and personal lives of Jewish comediennes with the film Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, produced by the Jewish Women’s Archive.

To help celebrate New Rep’s show about Sophie Tucker, JWA offers you a special $5.00 discount off the price of the Making Trouble DVD. Just go to www.makingtrouble.com and use the coupon code NEWREP when you purchase a DVD for individual home use.

Sophie Tucker, Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Gilda Radner, Joan Rivers, and Wendy Wasserstein star in this feature-length documentary that spans more than a century of theatre, film, and television history. Rare archival footage and in-depth interviews reveal the strong characters behind the laughter and applause.

You’ll get the added perspective of four of the most accomplished women in American comedy today – Judy Gold, Jessica Kirson, Jackie Hoffman, and Cory Kahaney gather at Katz’s Delicatessen to laugh about the gift and the burden of being Jewish, female, and funny.

Making Trouble brings to life the female comic legends that made us laugh, defied cultural expectations, and changed all the rules.

For more stories and photos of the life and times of Sophie Tucker and all the women of Making Trouble, visit the JWA website at www.jwa.org.