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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Alex Borstein: ‘My batmitzvah was my only profitable show!’

Whether it’s turning up at a comedy club with freshly-cooked brisket, drowning sorrows with a bottle of Palwin No. 10 or joking about “shrimp in the egg rolls” at the wedding banquet, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel never fails to deliver hemische humour in every scene.

This week the punchy Amazon show from Gilmore Girls’ creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer husband Daniel Palladino about an America-Jewish housewife in the 1950s picked up a Golden Globe for best television comedy.

Rachel Brosnahan, who also took home the best actress award for a television comedy, stars as the eponymous Miriam “Midge” Maisel, an upper-middle-class New Yorker who seemingly has it all – until her failed stand-up comic husband Joel (Michael Zegen) unexpectedly dumps her just hours before Yom Kippur.

Embarking on a drunken rampage, she heads down to Greenwich Village and spontaneously takes the stage at her husband’s comedy club. She leaves nothing unsaid during her ribald act – or unseen as she reveals her breasts – and soon has the audience howling in their seats.

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel features a stellar supporting cast, including Tony Shalhoub, Marin Hinkle and Kevin Pollak, as well as actress Alex Borstein, who plays Midge’s misanthropic manager Susie Myerson.

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If you haven't seen this show, WATCH IT! Besides being funny, it is a nice portrayal of Jews without being tied to the Holocaust or Israel. It is refreshing to see Jewish characters who are Jewish, and not in a caricature way.

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1. I watched the first episode while my wife was out of town and loved it.

The writing is excellent, dialogue feels real, characters are developed from the start and Rachel Brosnahan IS Midge. Will watch the first episode again with my wife and let us both get sucked in. An amazing show.

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2. Not Jewish, but I have to give a rec

Love this show...it’s very fun. Plus I got to introduce my wife to Lenny Bruce, to which she said: OMG, he was a real person? Yeah baby he was kind of a big deal, lol.