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‘Roastmaster’ Jeff Ross takes a sweet and very Jewish turn in his new one-man Broadway show

JL;DR SUMMARY Renowned for his sharp-tongued roasts, Jeff Ross displays a surprisingly sweet and culturally rich side in his new Broadway one-man show, "Jeff Ross: Take A Banana For The Ride." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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New York, United States
"All that, however, takes a back seat at Broadways Nederlander Theater, where Rosss delightful and very Jewish solo show, Jeff Ross: Take A Banana For The Ride, written by him and directed by Stephen Kessler, is playing until Sept. 28."
Newark, New Jersey, United States
"Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1965 as Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz (a last name that, he contends, is an old Hebrew word meaning, Hey, you oughta change that), Ross was raised in a loving and somewhat eccentric Jewish family that ran a kosher catering hall founded by his great-grandmother Rosie (hence his middle name)."

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