A Serious Man: We Didn't Do Anything with guests Daniel Strauss and Sheera Talpaz

This week we're talking about A Serious Man, the 2009 Coen Brothers film starring Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik, a Jewish physics professor whose family mostly hates him, and whose bad luck just keeps getting worse.

While A Serious Man is certainly Coenesque or Coensy, we wanted to think more about the film's genre and the politics of Jewish humor with our guests, Daniel and Sheera.

Spoilers: Santana Abraxas, F Troop, Richard Kind, threatening goys, more serious men, Sy Ableman, girls just wanna shampoo; ALSO: you might hear Madeline's cat killing a rat in the background at some point.

Daniel Strauss is an LA-based writer and actor. He's an alum of The Second City MainStage in Chicago. You might know him from Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bust Down on Peacock, or the Hulu series There's... Johnny!

Sheera Talpaz is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at Oberlin College, who's taught courses on Jewish comedy along with much else.

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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige

Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley