“Mean Tweets” is back! In case you’ve missed it, every so often Jimmy Kimmel has his celebrity guests read rather heinous tweets about themselves on camera, to remind us that they’re real people with real feelings just like us. The fourth installment of “Mean Tweets” got pretty Jewy thanks to appearances by Zach Braff and Andy Samberg, with Samberg taking some heat for his big schnoz. Catch up on more installments of “Mean Tweets,” featuring Jews like David Cross, …More

It’s getting High Holy Day-ish up in “The Colbert Report.” As he does every year, Stephen Colbert is continuing his Jewish tradition, opening the Days of Atonement hotline: the Atone Phone. In the ever-popular segment, Stephen invites Jewish guests to call in and apologize for wrongs to the TV host, by dialing 1-888-OOPS-JEW. Previous years have seen celebs like Larry King, Ed Asner and Jon Stewart call in for hilarious exchanges. In a recent episode, viewers watched as PBS radio host Ira …More

In a new sketch for “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Jimmy Kimmel asked celebrities to read mean tweets about themselves aloud, and two of our favorite Jews participated. Matisyahu and Larry King read less-than nice tweets about themselves to a camera, showing fans a more comedic side to them. First, King read a tweet from @aimeenancygrace that said, “Did you know that if you skinned Larry King & ironed out his leather, you could make enough coats to give 1 to every poor child in America?” He …More

You can’t keep a good King down. At least not during a presidential election. Larry King announced yesterday that his new talk show “Larry King Now” will premiere this summer on the new digital network Ora.TV. Executives at the network, which is financed by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, said they originally planned to launch the show in the fall but moved it up in the calendar in order to cover the US presidential election. King, the 78-year-old newsman, said his new show will be similar to …More

Larry King revealed his desire to be frozen after his death in a most appropriate forum: a television special wherein he and his wife hosted a dinner party for a motley crew of celebrities. “Dinner With the Kings” aired Sunday, shocking many with King’s desire to be frozen until scientists can cure his cold corpse of whatever it is that kills him. The 78-year-old news personality is steadfast in his macabre postmortem plans, which he related to his wife Shawn, and dinner guests Conan O'Brien, …More