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A Brief Note on Varieties of Schlemiel Experience: Coen Brothers, Gary...
As far as schlemiel theory goes, I’ve been writing on a variety of the schlemiels this week. The differences between them are suggestive. But, more importantly, I’m seeing that I identify more with...
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Harold Ramis: Comedy and Jewishness, American Style
After I learned of Harold Ramis’s death, I spent some time on youtube going through clips of his work. One of the most interesting things I stumbled upon was a talk he gave on Groundhog Day. Ramis...
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A Note on Mothers, Fathers, and Schlemiels in Bruce Jay Friedman’s Fiction
One thing I have noticed about Bruce Jay Friedman’s fictional experiments with schlemiels is the fact that a person’s parents play an important role in the schlemiel process. But in his fictional...
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Seth Rogen’s Body – A Few Thoughts on Seth Rogen’s Latest Appearance in...
In one of the most urgent moments of Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up (2007), we see a desperate Ben Stone, played by Seth Rogen, go to his father, played by Harold Ramis, for advice about whether to become a...
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Body Talk: On Seth Rogen’s Comical-Erotic Descriptions of Zac Efron’s Body
When Seth Rogen recently went on Conan to promote his latest film, Neighbors, Conan’s first comment went right to the relationship of Seth Rogen to Zac Efron’s body: “Your costar Zac Efron, in this...
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My Vicarious Role in a Journalist’s Missed Encounter With Seth Rogen…in Las...
About a month ago, I was contacted by Louie Lazar, a journalist who told me that he was given an assignment by Tablet: to determine whether or not Seth Rogen was the future of Jewish comedy. Pondering...
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Almost Communicating, or What Happens When a Middle-Age Schlemiel Falls in...
Over the last decade, we have seen countless films about “middling” or aging schlemiels. Think of Ben Stiller’s roles in Meet the Fockers (2004), Greenberg (2010), or The Heartbreak Kid (2007), Seth...
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On Awkwardness – Part I
Last year I read Adam Kotsko’s Awkwardness: An Essay. I put it on the backburner as something I would write about in the near future because, quite frankly, Schlemiel Theory has been busy with...
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I Made a Movie Like Seth Ro: Seth Rogen Gets Mentioned by Nicki Minaj
Seth Rogen’s wildest dream has come true: he’s been mentioned in a song by Nicki Minaj. Ecstatic and feeling vindicated as a human being, he tweeted about it this morning. I got name dropped by...
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Between the Emojis: Nicki Minaj’s Response to Seth Rogen
Within minutes of me posting Seth Rogen’s response to discovering that he was in a Nicki Minaj song, she tweeted him back, “Seth You’re My Hero!!!” I made a movie like SETH RO!!! #YouAlreadyKnow Go...
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