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PAST PRESS: 1993-2023 (Not all the 2017-2022 articles have been uploaded yet)
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New York Times
December 24, 1994 Jewish Comics Make It A Not So Silent Night
December 14, 2017 California Today
Jewish Telegraph Agency
December 16, 2022 How a Standup Show at a Chinese Restaurant Turned into a 30-Year Jewish Comedy Tradition
Los Angeles Times
December 5, 2004 Cheering on San Francisco
December 1, 1995 Serving Up a Night of Sino-Kosher Shtick
Bay City News/Local News Matters
December 12, 2023 31st Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Returns Live to SF’s Chinatown
Huffington Post
December 10, 2015 Cha Cha Cha Chaaaaaappyyyyy Chhhanukahhhhhhh! – Lisa Geduldig blog
December 20, 2013 I’m A Soldier in the War on Christmas – Lisa Geduldig blog
Hoodline
December 6, 2015 Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Brings Jewish Humor to Chinatown over Christmas
Finch Files (podcast)
December 7, 2015 Go For It! (Interview with Lisa begins at 27:20)
SF Gate
December 11, 2006 FINDING MY RELIGION – Dan Ahdoot, Jewish Iranian American comic, on holidays and life in America
SF Chronicle:
December 11, 2023 Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Returns with Jews, Stand-up and Chinese Food
December 19, 2012 Judy Gold back for 3rd helping of Kung Pao
December 22, 2011 Elayne Boosler: ‘Kung Pao Kosher Comedy’ headliner
December 23, 2010 Lisa Geduldig’s Kosher Comedy
Dec 24, 2003 NY comedian Judy Gold feels right at home in SF
Dec 20, 2001 One-liners for Christmas, Kosher-style – ‘Kung Pao’ show an institution
January 12, 2001 – SF Gate Take My Domestic Partner, Please – SF ‘Borscht Belt’ humor incorporates the gay side of life
October 12, 2001 Lisa Geduldig talks about getting shticky in ‘Gayberry’
December 24, 1998 “Kung Pao Kosher Comedy”- Jewish stand-up in a Chinese restaurant: It must be Christmastime Note: We don’t know where this invented quote came from: “She remembered telling an aunt who was digging into a Chinese dish, “But Aunt Sara, it’s pork . . . and she would say to me, “Honey, it’s disguised.'”
December 23, 1998 sfgate e-pick
December 21, 1998 “Looking at Christmas From the Outside Jewish museums offer alternative events”
December 16, 1998 sfgate.com e-pick “Pao! Right in the Kisser!”
December 26, 1997 “King of One-Liners – Youngman reigns at Kosher Comedy”
December 14, 1997 Pink Pages “King of the One-Liners – At 91, Henny Youngman keeps the vaudeville flame burning”
December 25, 1996 Combo Platter of Comedy – Chinese food, Jewish humor on `Kung Pao Kosher’ menu
December 23, 1996 “An hour later, you need another joke”
December 23, 1995 ‘Kosher’ Comedy With Hunan Spice – Chinese food served with Jewish jokes
Jewish News of Northern California (formerly The J; formerly The Jewish Bulletin):
December 14, 2017
Comedy Gold at Jewish Christmas Favorite Kung Pao's Silver Anniversary
December 16, 2016
Kung Pao Kosher Comic Keeps The Faith and Won’t Eat Traif
December 11, 2015
Kung Pao Headliner Loves Laughing at Others — Onstage and in the Audience
December 4, 2014
Annoyed Canadian and 14-year-old kid headline Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
December 12, 2013 (Cover Story):
December 13, 2012 (Cover Story): Chow, Fun! Chinese food and Jewish comedy on Christmas — what’s not to like?
December 8, 2011
Annual Kung Pao show is cruisin’ for a Boosler
December 11, 2009 (Jonathan Katz)
“Dr. Katz” Creator Ready for the Chow Mein Event
December 7, 2007
(Shelley Berman)
Shelley you jest! Standup legend to headline Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
December 15, 2006
Talk about neurotic — Kung Pao performer takes the cake (Stephanie Blum)
December 1, 2006
Iranian American offers Persian version of Kung Pao (Dan Ahdoot)
November 18, 2005
‘Pao mitzvah’ for Bay Area kosher comedy show
December 2, 2004
Good as Gold – Popular comic headlines her second Kung Pao Kosher gig (Judy Gold)
December 4, 2003
December 6, 2002
A side-splitting Kung Pao tradition continues in SF (Eddie Sarfaty)
December 12, 1997
For Henny Youngman comedy show, take your wife, please
CHICAGO TRIBUNE:
December 25, 2003 Jews find respite from “Jingle Bells”
Sacramento Bee
December 24, 2014 Cultures Meld in San Francisco at Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
December 2006 When Santa Isn’t Your Bag
Bay Area Reporter (BAR)
December 6, 2012 Comedy for a very Jewish Christmas
December 22, 2011 Have yourself a merry kosher Christmas
SF Examiner:
December 20, 2016 Stand Up Comic Alex Edelman Takes on Big TV Writing Job
December 22, 2015 Three-timer Wendy Liebman Savors Her SF Kosher Comedy
December 22, 2014 Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Gets Teen Spirit
December 18, 2013 Gary Gulman Feeling at Home at Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
December 22, 2012 Review: Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
December 19, 2012 20 years of Christmas ‘Kosher’ kibbutzing
December 19, 2011 Comedian Elayne Boosler cracks ‘Kung Pao’
SF Weekly:
December 21, 2016 Elayne Boosler Headlines Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
10% – Comcast TV
December 2012
David Perry chats with Lisa Geduldig about the 20th anniversary of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
SeeCalifornia.com
December 2, 2012 Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
Daily Xtra – Canada
December 12, 2012
Deck the halls with egg fu yung at the 20th annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy
KRON-TV Channel 4
December 21, 2013 Jan Wahl interviews Samson Koletkar
December 19, 2009 Henry Tenenbaum interviews Brian Malow
KPFA Radio
December 20, 2016 Kris Welch interviews Lisa Geduldig (Begins at 49:40)
KGO Radio
December 21, 2016 Maureen Langan interviews Elayne Boosler
December 20, 2015 Maureen Langan interviews Wendy Liebman (Begins at 20:35)
KCBS Radio December 25, 2015 Jenna Lane interviews Lisa Geduldig – report #1 Jenna Lane interviews Lisa Geduldig – report #2
Alice Radio/KCBS
December 10, 2014 Kung Pao Kosher Comedy (with Eve Meyer from SF Suicide Prevention, Barbara Farber from Jewish Family & Children’s Services, and Lisa Geduldig)
December 15, 2013 Kung Pao Kosher Comedy: Dec 24th, 25th, and 26th
KALW Radio December 18, 2014 Lisa Geduldig chats with Eric Jansen of “Out in the Bay”
KQED Radio
Pacific Time
December 26, 2002 “Kung Pao Kosher Comedy”
Channel 29
December 20, 2007 SF Live (Lisa Geduldig, Scott Blakeman. Interviewed by Marc Smolowitz who went to Camp Hemshekh with Lisa in 1976!)
Jewish Telegraph Agency
December 16, 2004 Jews answer age-old query: What to do at Christmastime?
Christian Science Monitor:
December 22, 2006 Kosher comedy over egg rolls
Metropolitan:
December 21, 1998 All Christmas-ed Out
San Jose Mercury News
December 24, 2006 Oy, Christmas tree! Chinese food, jokes a respite for Jews
Vallejo Times Herald
December 18, 2015 Liebman Eludes Coyotes to Headline Kung Pao Kosher Show
December 16, 2012 Kung Pao comedy’s 20th anniversary is good as Gold
December 11, 2009 Jonathan Katz Brings Star Power to Kung Pao Kosher
December 15, 2006 Son of Jewish immigrants who left Iran for America offers unorthodox comedy (Dan Ahdoot)
The Advocate
November 29, 2017 The Best Jewish Comedy on Christmas Is, Fittingly, in a Chinese Restaurant
