{"id":78664,"date":"2020-06-09T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=78664"},"modified":"2020-06-01T07:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:05:51","slug":"09-00-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=78664","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Piven on Performing Stand-Up Comedy in Israel: \u2018It Was the Best Set I Ever Had\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Jeremy Piven on Performing Stand-Up Comedy in Israel: \u2018It Was the Best Set I Ever Had\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeremy Piven participating in a Zoom call with other comics organized by Creative Community for Peace. Photo: Screenshot.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Jewish American comic and actor Jeremy Piven performed his best stand-up act ever when he was in Israel last year, he said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cEntourage\u201d star participated in a panel of comedians who discussed their past trips to the Jewish state and the comedy industry in a Zoom call and Facebook Live event organized by the non-profit group Creative Community for Peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Piven traveled to Israel for the first time in 2016 on a trip sponsored by the Omri Casspi Foundation. He was part of a delegation of NBA players and celebrities and during the trip he had his \u201csecond bar mitzvah\u201d celebration in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n

He went back to Israel in 2019 and performed as a stand-up comic. He said on Wednesday about the experience, \u201cIt was the best set I ever. I\u2019m not just saying that. I don\u2019t know what it was\u2026for some reason it kind of felt really incredible, and I had a great time and so did they [the audience].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI think because they are so incredibly present, and they\u2019re dealing with danger on another level, as an audience I\u2019ve never seen an audience that was more present than that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Piven \u2014 who currently does over 200 stand-up shows a year \u2014 also cited Jewish-American comedian and actor Elan Gold as a mentor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Piven additionally elaborated on his bar mitzvah at the age of 13, which he said took place in a church. He explained that he was comfortable being on stage during his Torah reading, but that his Hebrew was \u201cviciously mediocre.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding his \u201csecond bar mitzvah\u201d in Jerusalem in 2016, he said it \u201cwas the greatest time of my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He added, \u201cit was incredible to also share this experience to all these pro athletes that had never been to a bar mitzvah. They were using the yarmulkes as frisbees, no one knew what to do with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeremy Piven on Performing Stand-Up Comedy in Israel: \u2018It Was the Best Set I Ever Had\u2019 Shiryn Ghermezian Jeremy Piven participating in a Zoom call with other comics organized by Creative Community for Peace. Photo: Screenshot. Jewish American comic and actor Jeremy Piven performed his best stand-up act ever when he was in Israel last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78687,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78664\/revisions\/78687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}