Saturday Night Live: 50 Years Through a Jewish Lens Revisiting SNL Jewish Comedy Sketches with Al Kustanowitz

Join Al for this nostalgic trip back to the funniest Jewish themed comedy sketches that Saturday Night Live has featured throughout its 50 year history. Ever since its debut in 1975, SNL has had a major impact on pop culture. Though not an exclusively Jewish program, its Jewish writers and performers have insured that Jewish themes and attitudes have made Jewish audiences adopt it as their own.

As SNL enters its 50th year, this program will include video clips of a Purim cold show opening with Mayor Ed Koch, Jon Lovitz as Hanukkah Harry saving Christmas and Easter, Billy Crystal and Rick Moranis as know-it-all know-nothing rabbis, Adam Sandler singing his signature Hanukkah song, and Andy Samberg as the Jewish Willy Wonka with Ben Stiller in a world of Jewish deli.

Watch mock commercials for Jewish Jeans and Hanukkah Hymns, Howard Cosell’s Bar Mitzvah, Jerry Seinfeld as a Yeshiva basketball star, and a Jewish version of “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

$10 Members / $15 Non-Members