Podcast# 159: Like Passover, But Funnier
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If you’ve ever made it through a full Seder, you know that celebrating Passover can last as long as the Exodus itself. Today, on day two of the annual holiday, the NYPL podcast has a measure of comic relief for you in the form of an all-new Haggadah called For This We Left Egypt? It's written by Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, and Adam Mansbach.
Barry, Zweibel, and Mansbach’s new book uses the standard form and structure of a Haggadah but asks the hard questions no Haggadah until now has been willing to ask—like, Is Manischewitz really a wine, or actually a plague? Who is this Elijah guy, really? and Is there a vast anti-Semitic conspiracy behind giving the Earl of Sandwich credit for the sandwich?
Alan Zweibel is one of the original Saturday Night Live writers and is also the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of over 30 books. Adam Mansbach is the best-selling author of, among other things, Go the F**k to Sleep. They were joined onstage by another amazingly funny human being, Ophira Eisenberg, who is a standup comedian, the host of NPR’s Ask Me Another, and the author of Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy.
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