OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES Opens in Toronto in October

The off-Broadway hit show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES comes to Toronto for an eight week run at the Randolph Theatre and is sure to make audiences laugh 'til they plotz. Performances run October 14 - December 6, 2015

Co-created by Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent, OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES and and features local powerhouses David Gale, Teresa Tova, Alan Kliffer, Allan Price and Jess Abramovitch in a revue that pays tribute to and reinvents classic jokes of the past and present. Think you've heard them all before? Not this way. The show also features comic songs -- brand new and satisfyingly old - as well as tributes to some of the giants of the comedy world as well as the brilliant raconteurs from OldJewsTellingJokes.com, the website that inspired the show. If you've ever had a mother, visited a doctor, or walked into a bar with a priest, a rabbi and a frog - OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES will sit in the dark, give you a second opinion, and ask you where you got that. You don't have to be Jewish to love this show! Jewish Humor is universal... it is the essence of NORTH AMERICAN HUMOR.

The show the New York Times called "Hilarious...Magnificent, Enduring Rhythm of Jewish Humor" promises to be an outrageous evening of one-liners, double-entendres and hysterical routines sure to triple you over with laughter! Like rye bread, kosher pickles and bagels, this show is for everyone! (However, there is some Adult material recommended for 17+)

Daniel Okrent is a writer and editor, and best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times. He also invented Rotisserie League Baseball, and wrote several books, including Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns/Lynn Novick miniseries "Prohibition." Most of his career has been spent as an editor, at such places as Alfred A. Knopf and TIME, Inc. His book Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize in history.

Peter Gethers is President of Random House Films as well as an editor and publisher at Random House, Inc., a screenwriter, television writer and producer, novelist, and non-fiction author of the bestselling trilogy about his Scottish Fold cat Norton: The Cat Who Went to Paris, A Cat Abroad and The Cat Who'll Live Forever. He too is a founding member of the Rotisserie Baseball League, the 1980 group that started the fantasy sports craze.