Jackie Mason

The film profiles Jacob Mendelson, a practitioner of Jewish liturgical music who has dedicated his life to preserving the form's traditional vocal stylings. Mendelson's mother, who had bipolar disorder, was almost obsessed that her son become a cantor. The film reveals an interesting link to celebrity on the part of Mendelson's father: the older Mendelson once co-owned a truck with the father of Steven Spielberg.

When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a tacky amusement park (imdb)

The birth of modern stand-up comedy began in the Catskill Mountains - a boot camp for the greatest generation of Jewish-American Comedians.

Roger Pitman, a small-time grifter and crook, works with police-detective Alex Brogan in trapping fellow thieves with bait money. Pitman decides to take some of this money and seek the good life in Miami Beach, but Brogan is never far behind.

An ex-screen queen recalls escapades for her psychiatrist as jokers drop by his office.

Jackie Goldberg is coming to the end of his career as a Miami private detective; in debt, out of luck and down in the dumps until fate brings him an unlikely partner: 16 year old Mateo Rodriguez. Jackie and Mateo embark on a journey to exonerate Mateo's mother and catch the real bad guys. And throw in time for some action with the ladies, a little nosh and a life lesson or two. (imdb)