This laugh-out-loud, impeccably researched documentary produced by the Jewish Women's Archive explores six legendary American Jewish women comics.

Director Rachel Talbot has created a tribute to Molly Picon, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Joan Rivers, Wendy Wasserstein and Gilda Radner, all of whose comedy defied cultural expectations and changed the rules. Get ready for an exhilarating mix of contemporary performance, interviews and rare archival footage.

You can ask: What it is that makes funny Jewish women funny and Jewish? Is it the acerbic humor of generations of immigrant and first-generation women who fought for a place in America with their brains and their wit, and at the same time needed to make a living? Or don’t ask—just listen and laugh.

Here are three generations that went from vaudeville and the Yiddish theatre to Broadway and from Ziegfeld’s Follies to “Saturday Night Live”. In a scene right from Broadway Danny Rose, comedians Judy Gold, Jackie Hoffman, Cory Kahaney and Jessica Kirson guide us through these lives with their own jokes.