Larry Loebell

Did you hear the one about the Chinese boy and the Jewish girl?  They walked into a bar.  Well, into Viennese coffee house.  Near a street called Broadway.  In Shanghai.  In 1939.  Seriously.  You knew Shanghai saved more Jews from the Nazis than any place in the world, right?  40,000 between 1937 and 1940?   I’m not making this up.   Google it.   And that the Red Army was founded there?  No?  Neither did Richard Eisenberg, a half Jewish-half Chinese stand-up comic, until he went searching for his mysterious father in the booming and mysterious city of his, well, conception.  When he came home he went on Late Night with stories, shtick, and spiel to tell all about it.  Hear the punch-lines to all Richard’s jokes and what his mother did with the dental probe in Larry Loebell’s new comedy, The Shanghai Kaddish, at a reading hosted by Azuka Theater, at the Latvian Society, 7th and Spring Garden Streets, May 25th, 7:00 PM, featuring Justin Jain, Bi-Jean Ngo, Seth Reichgott, Kathryn Petersen & Leah Walton..   Admission is free and no reservations are needed.  And hey.  There’s a bar.   I’m not making this up.