{"id":2288,"date":"2011-06-22T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T05:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2011-06-23T10:09:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T07:09:01","slug":"a-celebrity-at-the-school-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisnormallife.com\/2011\/06\/a-celebrity-at-the-school-play\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebrity at the School Play"},"content":{"rendered":"
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a good week for comedy in Israel. First, the twice-a-year Comedy for Koby show has been traveling around the country to great acclaim \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I blogged about it earlier this week on Israelity<\/a>. And yesterday afternoon, raunchy (and embarrassingly funny) U.S. comedian Sarah Silverman improbably appeared on a panel at Shimon Peres\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Israeli Presidential Conference<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Recipe for a Better Future\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Silverman is also performing two nights of standup next week in Tel Aviv).<\/p>\n But Silverman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s introduction to Israel was in a much less glamorous setting. Last night, she attended that most mundane of Israeli activities: the school play, in which her niece was on stage. I was there too: Silverman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister, Susan, lives around the corner from us<\/a>, and our kids go to school together at Jerusalem\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sudbury Democratic School<\/a>. (Here’s a nearly 20-year-old clip of Silverman riffing on her sister’s recent marriage:)<\/p>\n