Stand Up for Mental Health: Comedy that Gets Respect!

• By: Carl Alan Blumenthal, MS, MA, NYCPS (retired) Peer Specialist
• January 22nd, 2024
• diversity, mental health advocacy, mental health comedy, recovery, self-deprecating humor, self-respect, stand up for mental health, stigma, therapeutic laughter, Winter 2024 Issue
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While performing comedy at hotels in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Rodney Dangerfield first complained in the 1960s, “I don’t get no respect.” Born “Jacob Rodney Cohen,” he was one of many Jewish comedians, such as Jackie Mason, George Burns, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Sid Caesar,...