Here's a sampling of comics and other events planned for the first week of the Jewish Humor Festival at the Sabes Jewish Community Center, 4330 S. Cedar Lake Road, Minneapolis. For more information on these and other planned events, go to www.sabesjcc.org/arts_humor.htm.
• "Joel Chasnoff: The Jewish Comedian Who's Redefining Jewish Comedy," 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25. Chasnoff explores the quirks and absurdities of Jewish life in America, basing his comedy on nine years in Jewish Day School, service in the Israel Defense Forces and other life experiences. $15. Rating: PG-13.
• "The Mighty Mavens: Storytellers," 12:30 p.m. Feb. 26, and 7 p.m. March 1. Carla Vogel, Joan Calof and Faith Oremland will present their take on rites of passage, family relationships, finding love and growing old in Jewish culture. $5. Rating: PG.
• "Jason Neufeld is Impotent," 7 p.m. Feb. 27 and 9 p.m. Feb. 28. Alix Sobler originally wrote "Jason Neufeld is Impotent" as a revenge comedy to get back at Jason Neufeld for breaking her heart. In her multimedia one-woman show, Sobler addresses some big issues facing the Jewish community: intermarriage and assimilation. $10. Rating: R.
• "So Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!" -- a one-woman comedy act by Minneapolis actor/writer Amy Salloway -- 8:30 p.m. Feb. 27 and 8:30 p.m. March 1. How a teenage girl sent to a "freakishly Jewish" summer camp survives "when you're the pork chop in an all-Kosher world." $10. Rating: PG-13.
• "Laughter Yoga Workshop" with Molly Dworsky. 11 a.m. Feb. 28. Laughter Yoga is a health and wellness practice that combines gentle stretching, breathing and group laughter exercises. $15, which includes a light lunch at noon.
• "Next Time, Dear God, Please Choose Someone Else: The Legend of Jewish Humor." A film at 3 p.m. Feb. 28. This Rex Bloomstein documentary takes a look at the development of Jewish humor in America, from the Marx Brothers and Milton Berle to Lenny Bruce and Billy Crystal. $5. Rating: R
