Judy Gold (born November 15, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, television writer, author, producer, and activist. She won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work as a writer and producer on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.[2] Judy hosts the podcast It's Judy's Show with Judy Gold.
Gold was born on November 15, 1962, in Clark, New Jersey. Gold grew up in a Jewish home with her two siblings. She plays piano. She first performed stand-up on a dare when she was a music student at Rutgers University.[2] Gold moved to Manhattan, New York from New Jersey in 1984. In an interview with Marc Maron, Gold revealed her comedic influences to be Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and Totie Fields.[citation needed] Her first television role was on Roseanne in 1991, followed by work as a series regular role from 1994-1995 on Margaret Cho's sitcom All-American Girl.
Career
Gold's stand-up specials have aired on Comedy Central, LOGO, and HBO. She has been featured in Netflix'sStand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration, and was featured in their documentary about LGBTQ+ comedians OUTSTANDING: A Comedy Revolution, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She was a focus of Trevor Noah’s documentary XCLD: The Story of Cancel Culture. In 2007, she was featured in the film Making Trouble, a tribute to female Jewish comedians, produced by the Jewish Women's Archive.[3]
From 1999-2010, Gold hosted HBO's At the Multiplex with Judy Gold. She appears as a commentator on 2007 truTV's World's Dumbest....[citation needed]
Gold is the author of Yes I Can Say That: When They Come For The Comedians, We Are All In Trouble (2020, HarperCollins; ISBN9780062953773), a book about free speech and cancel-culture which was featured in The New York Times Book Review.
Gold's three comedy albums are Kill Me Now, Conduct Unbecoming, and Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby.
Stage shows
Gold has written and starred in the Off-Broadway shows: Yes I Can Say That!, The Judy Show – My Life as a Sitcom, and 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother. She was a featured player as Gremio in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park all-female production of The Taming of The Shrew. She also co-starred in Off-Broadway’s Clinton! The Musical, and Disaster! The Musical.
Gold's one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, co-written with Kate Moira Ryan, is based on a series of interviews with more than 50 Jewish mothers in the United States.[4] Their stories are interspersed with anecdotes about her own mother and her life as a lesbian mother of two sons.[5] It ran at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City in early 2006 and reopened later that year at St. Luke's Theater.
On June 30, 2011, The Judy Gold Show: My Life as a Sitcom, began previews at Off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre in New York City. This one-woman show was an homage to the classic sitcoms of Gold's youth. The show is written by Gold and Kate Moira Ryan and directed by Amanda Charlton. The show officially opened on July 6, 2011. The New York Times called the show "highly entertaining."[6] The New York Post called the show "gleefully self-deprecating".[7] The show subsequently opened in Los Angeles June 18, 2013, and had a one-month run at the Geffen Playhouse.[8]
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