Directors: Mevlut Akkaya; Ron Frank

Writer: Lawrence Richards

Keywords: Documentary, Stand-Up Comedy, Jewish

Documentary traces the rise of contemporary stand-up comedy through some of modern American history's most successful Jewish comedians.

ABSTRACT
Featuring interviews with the likes of Jerry Stiller, Larry King, and Sid Caesar among others, When Comedy Went to School documents the rise of modern stand-up comedy in the United States, depicting how a cast of Jewish-American entertainers in the Catskill Mountains laid the groundwork for future generations of funnymen.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sid Caesar	Comic	8-Sep-1922	12-Feb-2014	Your Show of Shows
Dick Gregory	Activist	12-Oct-1932	19-Aug-2017	Autobiography: NIGGER!
Mort Sahl	Comic	11-May-1927		Early influential stand-up comic
Jerry Stiller	Actor	8-Jun-1927		Frank Costanza on Seinfeld

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