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The Clueless star reflects on Jewish humour

The Jewish actor reflects on his childhood love of Jewish jokes

Anonymous

August 31, 2011 15:47

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"My go-to thing was to make jokes. Comedy was my way in. I noticed if I could tell Jewish jokes, kids would really laugh at that.

"I didn’t realise until much later in life that that was kind of f****d up."

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