DIRECTED, PHOTOGRAPHED AND EDITED BYFerne Pearlstein
PRODUCED BY
Ferne Pearlstein
Robert Edwards
Amy Hobby
Anne Hubbell
Jan Warner
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WRITTEN BY
Robert Edwards
Ferne Pearlstein
CO-CINEMATOGRAPHER
Anne Etheridge
CONSULTING EDITORS
Karen Sim
Mark Becker
INSPIRED BY
"The Last Laugh" by Kent Kirshenbaum
FEATURING (in order of appearance)
Renee Firestone
Klara Firestone
Gilbert Gottfried
Rob Reiner
Mel Brooks
Judy Gold
Sarah Silverman
Carl Reiner
Robert Clary
Etgar Keret
Aaron Breitbart
Jake Ehrenreich
Alan Zweibel
Susie Essman
Larry Charles
Eugene Lebovitz
Deb Filler
Gerhard Maschkowski
Elly Gross
Dave Lux
Jeffrey Ross
Harry Shearer
David Steinberg
Lisa Lampanelli
Roz Weinman
Abraham Foxman
David Cross
Shalom Auslander
Hanala Sagal
Herman Feuerstein
SUPERVISING PRODUCER
Steven Bennett
CO-PRODUCERS
Anne Etheridge
Dori Stegman
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Adrienne Collatos
Yelena Rachitsky
Jamie Lauren Davis
Jane Brendlinger
Catherine DeCioccio
PRODUCTION COORDINATORS
Nikki Robbins
Ryan Bronz
Jean Elizabeth Lee
Juan Mateo Menendez
PRODUCTION SOUND MIXERS
Richard Fleming
Nico Ruderman
Hilary Stewart
John Slocum
Taj Musco
GAFFER / GRIP
John Roney
Mike Farino
CAMERA ASSISTANTS
Sam Friedman
Adam Gonzalez
ADDITIONAL EDITING
Melanie Levy
Matthew Levy
D.I. COLOR
Final Frame
SOUND EDITOR / RE-RECORDING MIXER
Steve "Major" Giammaria
CLEARANCE COUNSEL
Chris Perez, Esq
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Howard Paar
ADVISERS AND CONSULTANT
Michael Berenbaum
Hasia Diner
Lawrence Epstein
Mary Gluck
Steve Lipman
Chaya Ostrower
Richard Trank
Joy Turek
Rabbi Moshe Waldoks
Robert Hawk
Bruni Burres
LOCATIONS
Aero Theater
Angel Orensanz Foundation
Bar Chloe
Canter’s Deli
CBS Studios
KCRW
LA Museum of the Holocaust
The Milky Way
Museum of Tolerance
Sardi’s
Simon Wiesenthal Center
USC Shoah Foundation
The Venetian / The Palazzo Las Vegas
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE COURTESY OF
Villon Films
"Westerbork," Beeld en Geluid
BBC / Getty Images
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
All in the Family and Hogan's Heroes, CBS
Ricky Gervais Live: Animals, Channel 4
Showbiz Tonight, CNN
You Natzy Spy!, Columbia Pictures
Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff, Chapelle's Show, Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff, The Daily Show, The Sarah Silverman Program, and South Park, Comedy Central
Lenny Bruce Without Tears, Fred Baker Films
Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Ali G Show, George Carlin: Doin' It Again, Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom, The Larry Sanders Show, and Life's Too Short, Home Box Office
Lenny Bruce in "Lenny Bruce," Image Entertainment
The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis
Life Is Beautiful, Miramax
The Führer Gives a City to the Jews, National Center for Jewish Film
Saturday Night Live, NBC
Peeping Times, Seinfeld, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, NBC Universal
Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR
Duck Soup, Paramount Pictures
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, Roadside Attractions
The Producers, StudioCanal
Fashion Police, Style Network
Conan, TBS
AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks, TNT
Family Guy and History of the World, Part 1, Twentieth Century Fox
The Great Dictator, Manhattan, and To Be or Not to Be, United Artists
Schindler's List, Universal Pictures
"Herr Meets Hare," Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
The Yad Vashem Archives
SONGS
"O Solo Mio"
Written by Eduardo Di Capua
Performed by Jan Peerce with the RCA Victor Orchestra
Courtesy of Sony Classical
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
"Joseph! Joseph!"
Written by Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Nellie Casman
Performed by Richard Lund, Heather Pierson, Shawn Nadeau
"April Kisses"
Written and Performed by Eddie Lang
Courtesy of Epic Records
Courtesy of The Occasional Jazz Trio
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
Written by Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin,
Jacob Jacobs, Sholom Secunda
Performed by Benny Goodman
"Danke Schoen"
Written by Milt Gabler, Bert Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach
Performed by Wayne Newton
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
"It’s Now or Never"
Written by Wally Gold, Aaron Schroeder, Eduardo di Capua
Performed by Elvis Presley
Courtesy of RCA Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
SPECIAL THANKS
Leah Adler
Martin Amis
June Beallor & John Dragon
Bernie Brillstein
Girvan Calder
Anne Carey
James Carr & Archana Kumar
David Brown Middle School
Naren Desai
Mike DeWitt
Carlo Driggs
Eric Dugdale
Katja Esson
Zdenka Fantlova Ehrlich
Esther Finder
Martin Garbus
Lisa Gossels
Dara Gottfried
Roger Graef
Scott Greenberg
Melanie Greene
Sam Gross
Michael Gruskoff
Pam Halstead
Rudolph Herzog
Werner Herzog
Debbie Hoffmann & Frances Reid
Pam Jones
Amy Jacobs
Bill Jersey and Shirley Kessler
Amir K
Elizabeth Kaiden
Aviva Kempner
Lee Kernis
Adaire Klein
Jan Krawitz
Eugene Lebovitz
Pancho and Margeaux Leiner
Jeff Lesh
Yann Martel
Hanna L. Marx
Robert Mastronardi
Doug Miller
Charlie Nadler
Joshua Neuman
Lynda Obst
Monica Osborne & Jay Karas
Keely O’Rourke
Robert Porter
Margaret Riley
Abby Russell
Kris Samuelson & John Haptas
Eddie Sarfaty
Bess Scher
Anthony Shallenberger
Avra Shapiro
Bree Sharp
Yvette Shearer
Jeanette Shelburne
Andy Peden Smith
Stephen Smith & Heather Maio
Art Spiegelman
Adam Spivak
Robyn Steinberg
Robert Sutten
Eliza Swift
Krystal Szabo
Amber Tamblyn
Edith Umugiraneza
Mark Urbanek
Yvette Shearer
Shelby Van Vliet
Brandon Vega
Ari Zev & Bonnie Samotin Zev
Amy Zvi
Joan Rivers and Her Team
FISCAL SPONSORS
Women Make Movies
Meteor Films
FUNDED PROVIDED BY
New York State Council of the Arts
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