Jew Talkin' To Me?

Jew Talkin
Jew Talkin' To Me?

An unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show where all are welcome! Jew Talkin' To Me? is hosted by award winning comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. Each show features guests from the entertainment industry sharing their views on a variety of topics connected to modern Jewish life in a secular world, as well as their memories of growing up Jewish. Both Philip and Rachel are well known as Jewish comedians on both the mainstream and community circuit and our guest list includes stand-up comedians, presenters, broadcasters, journalists and writers who are Jewish, have some Jewish heritage, or a Jewish connection. Philip and Rachel have been collaborating for a few years, but who are we as individuals? Philip Simon WINNER Best Children’s Show at the Buxton Fringe 2024 WINNER Pegasus Comedy Best Compere 2023 WINNER UK Pun Off at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe WINNER Best Kids’ Show at the Morecambe Fringe 2022 WINNER of the Jewish Comedian of the Year 2015 WINNER of the Lastminute Comedy Comedian of the Year 2015 As a stand up Philip gigs throughout the UK, as well having performed as far flung places as America, Scandinavia, Europe, The Middle East and New Zealand. He is MC and curator of the Edinburgh Fringe's cult hit show Jew-O-Rama where Jewish and Jew”ish” acts perform to a mainly non-Jewish audience in packed out rooms each year. He is also resident compere at Borehamwood Comedy Club, works on panels shows including Mock the Week and Taskmaster and has been featured on BBC R2 and BBC 3CR, as well as acting in TV sitcoms such as My Family. Rachel Creeger WINNER Most Audience Recommended Show Camden Fringe 2012 WINNER Best Comedy Award Greater Manchester Fringe 2017 Rachel is the only practising orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit and has attracted a big following outside of her community who are interested in a unique, accessible voice from an unlikely source. Her debut solo show ‘It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl’ had a sell-out Edinburgh run in 2017, followed by tours of the UK and Israel. She's now meant to be touring her 5* show, ‘Hinayni! but, you know, the 'rona’. Rachel is the host of Central London's spectacular annual event Chanukah in the Square and resident MC of comedy club Upstairs at the Adam & Eve. As heard on BBC Radio London (regular guest) BBC R2, BBC Ouch and BBC 3CR. She is also an award winning director and critically acclaimed playwright. Subscribe and join us each week for brand new episodes. Keep up to date with all our news via our website www.jewtalkintome.com Follow us on social media: Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. FEB 14

    Sue Kelvin

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by actor and cabaret artiste, Sue Kelvin! Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by actor and cabaret artiste, Sue Kelvin! Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Sue is a talented actress with British Jewish heritage, celebrated for her performances across theatre, television, and film. She has appeared in productions such as Fiddler on the Roof, Wicked the Musical, and her one-woman show Bette Midler and Me, a heartfelt homage to her idol. TV Credits include Funny Women – Bette Midler (Channel 5); I Live With Models –Series 2 (Roughcut); Silent Witness (BBC); Doctors (BBC); The Legend of Dick and Dom (BBC); Love Soup (BBC). Film credits include The Groomsmen Trilogy (Hallmark Films); Great Expectations (dir. Mike Newell). Theatre credits include Caroline or Change (Playhouse Theatre); Lives (Gielgud Theatre); Travelling Light and A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre); Onassis (Derby Theatre and Novello Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy Theatre); Chicago (Cambridge Theatre and Adelphi Theatre); Oliver! (London Palladium); Assassins (Donmar Warehouse); Les Miserables (Palace Theatre). Sue has also starred in a number of plays by previous guest Estee Stimler, including one where Philip played the Rabbi and Rachel was the director! X (formerly known as Twitter): @SueKelvin Instagram: @susankelvin8022 Website: http://suekelvin.co.uk/ Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min
  2. JAN 24

    Jew Talkin’ To Me? With Ben Caplan

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by actor and director, Ben Caplan! Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Londoner Ben Caplan has a whole host of prestigious productions to his name as an actor and director. Probably best known for his role as PC Noakes in Call The Midwife, his credits include: Theatre: Macbeth (Globe),A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre),The End Of The Night (Park),The Merchant of Venice (Globe),The Winter’s Tale (RSC/BBC), 40th Anniversary Production of Abigail’s Party (UK Tour), Hedda Gabler (Salisbury Playhouse), Sunny Afternoon (Hampstead Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre - Olivier Award Best Musical), Dr.Korczak’s Example, A Winter’s Tale (Unicorn), Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court), The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory), Three sisters on Hope street (Everywoman Liverpool, Hampstead), Two Thousand Years (dir.Mike Leigh-National Theatre/UK Tour), Hamlet (Nuffield Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (UK Tour), As You Like It (Oxford), Guys & Dolls (Young Vic.) Television: The Ink Black Heart (BBC), Lagging Series 1-3 (BBC), Silent Witness (BBC), Casualty (BBC), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Maigret (ITV), Call the Midwife Series 1-5 (BBC/PBS), New Blood (BBC), The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries (ITV-Best Mini Series BAFTAs), Whitechapel (ITV), Dark Matters, The Runaway (Sky), Trinity (ITV), The Passion (HBO/BBC), Maxwell (International Emmy), The Candidate, Judge John Deed, Dwarfs, Band of Brothers (HBO/BBC-winner of Best Mini-Series Golden Globe and Emmy), A Touch of Frost, Soldier, Soldier, Inspector Morse, Where The Heart Is. Film: Jay Kelly (Netflix), Golda, Make Me A King, Pretty Red Dress, Caveat, The Commuter, Leap Year, Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla, The Funeral, That Woman (Jewish Film Festival), Driver (official selection for the London Film Festival 2009), Hospital, Patrick Mann’s Daughter, Scotch Corner, North London Book of the Dead. Directing credits include: As Long As We Are Breathing, This Thing Called Love(Fredrick’s Place), Snap.Catch.Slam (Pleasance, Edinburgh/UK Tour), The Collector (Underbelly Edinburgh and Arcola London), As You Like It (Cockpit London), King Lear, King John, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Duck, Muchut Nothing, Medea, Women of Troy, PunkRock, Orphans- Various Drama Schools. Started Aslan Productions and co-produced ‘Everything is Illuminated’ (Hampstead Theatre). X (formerly known as Twitter): @BenCaplan2 Instagram: @bencaplanactor Website: www.bencaplan.co.uk Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 3m
  3. JAN 17

    Jew Talkin’ To Me? With Howard Jacobson

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by Man Booker Prize winning novelist and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson! Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, and has become one of the best known writers of our generation. His novel The Mighty Walzer, about a teenage table tennis champion, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing. He later won the prize again for Zoo Time. His next novel, Who’s Sorry Now was the first of four of his novels to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, followed by Kalooki Nights. He was awarded the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question in 2010. His novel, J, was shortlisted for the award in 2014. He has written several works of non-fiction, including In the Land of Oz and Roots Schmoots which was made into a critically acclaimed Channel 4 Series, as well as Seriously Funny: An Argument for Comedy. He wrote a column for The Independent for twenty years, two collections of which have been published under the titles Whatever It Is I Don’t like It and the Dog’s Last Walk. In 2014, he wrote and presented a two-part documentary Rebels of Oz for Mint Productions and BBC Four, in which he examines the cultural impact made by four rebellious Australians: Germaine Greer, Clive James, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes.  Howard is a regular presenter of Radio 4’s A Point of View. In 2022 his memoir Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings was published. Seek out his substack - https://jacobsonh.substack.com/ Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 hr
  4. 11/08/2024

    Jew Talkin' To Me? with Louisa Clein

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by the fabulous actor, Louisa Clein! Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Louisa Clein is a prolific and beloved British Jewish actress. She came to public attention playing Maya Stepney in Emmerdale (ITV) and Charlie Deed in BBC1’s Judge John Deed. Her theatre credits include “Jews. In Their Own Words” (London’s Royal Court Theatre), “A Murder Has Been Arranged” (Theatre Royal Windsor), “Blithe Spirit” (Theatre Royal Windsor), “Sonnet Walks” (Shakespeare’s Globe), “The Railway Children” (Waterloo Station), “Three Women by Sylvia Plath” (Edinburgh), “Waste” (Almeida Theatre), “Private Lives” (Windsor Theatre Royal), “The Rubenstein Kiss” (Hampstead Theatre), “Interior” (Young Vic), “My Children! My Africa!” (Salisbury Playhouse) and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Arcola Theatre). Her other TV credits include “Holby City”, “New Tricks”, “Casualty” and “Doctors” for (BBC1), “Midsomer Murders” and “Island At War” for (ITV) and “Hapless” (Netflix). Louisa starred as Shayla Sorensen in the feature film “Frost Giant” and can be seen in “The One Note Man” which was shortlisted for an Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Short Film. X (formerly known as Twitter): @LouisaClein Instagram:@louisaclein Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 1m
  5. 07/26/2024

    Jew Talkin’ To Me? With Andy Nyman

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by multi award winning actor, writer, director and magician, Andy Nyman! Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Andy Nyman Andy Nyman is a multi-award-winning actor, director, magician and writer for theatre, film and television. As we speak, he is playing the male lead in Hello Dolly in London’s West End, his most recent theatre credits include Tevye in Trevor Nunn's award-winning Fiddler on the Roof (Olivier nomination); Hangmen (West End/Broadway); Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory); Abigail’s Party (West End) and Ghost Stories which Andy starred in, co-wrote and co-directed with Jeremy Dyson - a show with a great Jewish twist, which has been performed internationally, nominated for two awards and adapted into a feature film. Andy’s television credits include: A Small Light; The Capture; Unforgotten; Wanderlust; Hanna; The Eichmann Show; Campus; Dead Set and playing Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders. His film credits include: Jungle Cruise; Judy; The Commuter; Ghost Stories; Death at a Funeral; Kick-Ass 2; Black Death; The Brother’s Bloom; Severance; Shut Up & Shoot Me (winner Best Actor at Cherbourg Film Festival). If you’re a parent, you might like to know that he also featured in Chuggington. Andy is also known for his collaborations with psychological illusionist Derren Brown, and actor and writer Jeremy Dyson. Andy co-created the first 10 years of Derren's TV programmes as well as co-writing and directing most of his stage shows - winning an Olivier Award for Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes, the New York Drama Desk Award for Derren Brown: Secret, and Derren Brown: The Heist which was nominated for the Lew Grade Award at the Baftas. He revealed some of his magical secrets in a DVD called Insane. Andy’s books on how to survive as a freelancer “The Golden Rules of Acting” and “More Golden rules of Acting” are bestsellers within the acting world. Andy and Jeremy Dyson's first novel The Warlock Effect, was released last year, became a Sunday Times book of the month and is out now in paperback. We’ve read it, it’s great. X (formerly known as Twitter): @andynyman Instagram:@andythediamond Website: www.andynyman.com Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 22m
  6. 02/16/2024

    Jew Talkin' To Me? with Dan Patterson

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by multi award winning TV producer and playwright, creator of shows including Mock The Week and Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Dan Patterson! Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Dan Patterson Dan Patterson is an award-winning writer and producer of comedy who has worked on radio, television and the stage. His career began as a producer for BBC Radio where he worked on perennial favourites the News Quiz and Week Ending before creating his own comedy shows Saturday Night Fry with Stephen Fry and Whose Line Is It Anyway? (which he co-created with Mark Leveson). Whose Line Is It Anyway? won numerous awards including the Sony Radio Award, and both BAFTA and the Royal Television Society awards. Dan also created and produced Clive Anderson Talks Back (Channel 4), Clive Anderson All Talk (BBC One), S and M (Channel 4), The Brain Drain (BBC Two), Never Mind The Horrocks (Channel 4), and Dan co-wrote sitcom The Peter Principle (BBC One). In addition, Dan developed and produced Room 101 for BBC Two and was involved in the development of They Think It’s All Over for BBC One. In 1998 Dan took Whose Line Is It Anyway? to America, producing it for ABC Television where the episode that guest starred Robin Williams attracted an audience of over 15 million people. When Dan returned from the States in 2004, he established Angst Productions and, with Mark Leveson, created the hit satirical panel show Mock The Week which has completed 21 successful series over 17 years. Other Angst Productions shows have included 29 Minutes Of Fame (BBC One), the improvisation based Fast and Loose (BBC Two), Trust Us With Your Life (ABC) and The Great American Joke Off (The CW). For the theatre, Dan Patterson co-wrote with Colin Swash the political farce and Olivier nominated The Duck House starring Ben Miller. In 2023 Dan co-wrote Winner’s Curse with Daniel Taub, a play about international peace negotiations starring Clive Anderson, which ran at Park Theatre. But the really important thing is that, as a teenager, he went to Habonim Dror. Website: https://www.angstproductions.tv/about/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/1DanPatterson Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 19m
  7. 02/02/2024

    Jew Talkin' To Me? with Mike Sheer

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by Canadian comedian, actor and coach, Mike Sheer Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Mike Sheer Born & bred in Toronto, Canada, now bred, being, & eating bread in London, UK,  Mike is a sensitive multi-faceted creative with an attitude. (Positive attitude!)​. He is a stand up comic, MC, and presenter with 15 years experience internationally. From Athens to Adelaide, Brampton to Bahrain, and a bunch of other places that begin with several other letters. Check out Stand Up Comic for clips, his album, bio, and pics. Mike is also a script coach, consultant, and workshop leader, and an actor with screen credits, including cult movie Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies. Website: https://mikesheer.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikesheer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikesheercomic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikesheercomic Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    54 min
  8. 01/26/2024

    Jew Talkin’ To Me? with Carrie Grant

    Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week we're joined by BAFTA award-winning broadcaster, vocal coach, leadership coach and campaigner, Carrie Grant Subscribe to our Patreon: @JewTalkin Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Lots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released, so don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on… it’s what your mother would want! ---------------------------------------------------------------------  Carrie Grant Carrie is a BAFTA award-winning broadcaster, vocal coach, leadership coach and campaigner. Her TV and music career has spanned over 35 years and she has been awarded a MOBO award and a BASCA for her lifetime services to the music industry. Carrie is also a reporter for BBC 1’s The One Show and together with husband David hosts the Saturday Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London. In 2018 Carrie was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Bedfordshire and in 2020 an MBE for services to Music, Media and Charity. Carrie and David have 4 children and are passionate campaigners about adoption, autism, ADHD, invisible disability and inclusion. Their book “A Very Modern Family: Stories and guidance to nurture your relationships” is available HERE Website: https://carrieanddavidgrant.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarrieGrant1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRealCarrieGrant Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CarrieGrantSays Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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An unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show where all are welcome! Jew Talkin' To Me? is hosted by award winning comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, and produced by Russell Balkind. Each show features guests from the entertainment industry sharing their views on a variety of topics connected to modern Jewish life in a secular world, as well as their memories of growing up Jewish. Both Philip and Rachel are well known as Jewish comedians on both the mainstream and community circuit and our guest list includes stand-up comedians, presenters, broadcasters, journalists and writers who are Jewish, have some Jewish heritage, or a Jewish connection. Philip and Rachel have been collaborating for a few years, but who are we as individuals? Philip Simon WINNER Best Children’s Show at the Buxton Fringe 2024 WINNER Pegasus Comedy Best Compere 2023 WINNER UK Pun Off at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe WINNER Best Kids’ Show at the Morecambe Fringe 2022 WINNER of the Jewish Comedian of the Year 2015 WINNER of the Lastminute Comedy Comedian of the Year 2015 As a stand up Philip gigs throughout the UK, as well having performed as far flung places as America, Scandinavia, Europe, The Middle East and New Zealand. He is MC and curator of the Edinburgh Fringe's cult hit show Jew-O-Rama where Jewish and Jew”ish” acts perform to a mainly non-Jewish audience in packed out rooms each year. He is also resident compere at Borehamwood Comedy Club, works on panels shows including Mock the Week and Taskmaster and has been featured on BBC R2 and BBC 3CR, as well as acting in TV sitcoms such as My Family. Rachel Creeger WINNER Most Audience Recommended Show Camden Fringe 2012 WINNER Best Comedy Award Greater Manchester Fringe 2017 Rachel is the only practising orthodox Jewish woman on the UK comedy circuit and has attracted a big following outside of her community who are interested in a unique, accessible voice from an unlikely source. Her debut solo show ‘It’s No Job For A Nice Jewish Girl’ had a sell-out Edinburgh run in 2017, followed by tours of the UK and Israel. She's now meant to be touring her 5* show, ‘Hinayni! but, you know, the 'rona’. Rachel is the host of Central London's spectacular annual event Chanukah in the Square and resident MC of comedy club Upstairs at the Adam & Eve. As heard on BBC Radio London (regular guest) BBC R2, BBC Ouch and BBC 3CR. She is also an award winning director and critically acclaimed playwright. Subscribe and join us each week for brand new episodes. Keep up to date with all our news via our website www.jewtalkintome.com Follow us on social media: Facebook: @JewTalkin Twitter: @JewTalkin Instagram: @JewTalkin Get bonus content on the Jew Talkin' To Me? Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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