If you spend any time online, chances are you’ve stumbled across Antonia Lassar’s very funny — and very Jewish — comedy clips on TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram, or caught her co-hosting the “Yenta!” podcast. Lassar describes her Jewish comedy as much more than stereotypical Borscht Belt jokes. “There’s a real demand for people in Jewish spaces who want comedy that is made by Jews who are serious about Judaism,” she says. [Being] deeply involved in Jewish community and Jewish learning, I reach a very specific niche, and it’s been really fun to explore this niche. “One thing that I think about a lot, as a comedian working in the Jewish world, is just how much Jewish comedy shapes Jewish culture.