{"id":188911,"date":"2026-04-07T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:33:07","slug":"judy-gold-fields-brazen-antisemitism-at-nyc-comedy-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188911\/","title":{"rendered":"Judy Gold fields &#8216;brazen&#8217; antisemitism at NYC comedy clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran New York standup tells Page Six she\u2019s \u201cshocked [by] how brazen\u201d antisemites have become at the city\u2019s comedy clubs. <\/p>\n<p>Judy Gold was left \u201cstunned\u201d when she encountered Jew-hating hecklers at two different comedy clubs over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Gold, 63, was performing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkcomedyclub.com\/locations\/Upper-West-Side\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Comedy Club<\/a> on Friday night when a vile audience member shouted \u201cYou\u2019re a Jew\u201d as a slur.<\/p>\n<p>Gold, who has been performing stand-up for over 40 years, says she has encountered plenty of annoying audience members, but nothing like this.<\/p>\n<p>Judy Gold was shocked when someone blurted out an antisemitic comment during a comedy gig last week. jewdygold\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>It happened at The Comedy Club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[This] one guy was being really disruptive, and I said, \u2018You\u2019re annoying for a comedian,\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/08\/28\/judy-gold-says-she-heard-about-ellen-degeneres-toxic-work-environment-for-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cSearch Party\u201d alum<\/a> told us. \u201cI was just talking to him because the crowd was great and he would just yell s\u2013t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this since I was 19, I can handle anything,\u201d she tells Page Six, but admits to being stunned over his hate-fueled heckle.<\/p>\n<p>A source at the Upper West Side club tells Page Six that the bigoted bully didn\u2019t go gently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was talking back to the security guy,\u201d says the witness. \u201cWanted to get in his face, wanted to fight him outside.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Gold said the heckler called out, \u201cYou\u2019re a Jew.\u201d jewdygold\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>The club threw out the heckler. jewdygold\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Club staff eventually got him to pay his bill and leave.<\/p>\n<p>Gold is grateful to the comedy club for swiftly ejecting the loudmouth.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn\u2019t the \u201c<a data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"0062953753\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FYes-Can-Say-That-Cant%2Fdp%2F0062953753%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2026%2F04%2F07%2Fcelebrity-news%2Fjudy-gold-fields-brazen-antisemitism-at-nyc-comedy-clubs%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">Yes, I Can Say That<\/a>\u201d author\u2019s only encounter with antisemitism over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The following night,\u00a0the Emmy-award-winning comedian had another unsavory experience at a Manhattan club she declined to name.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian, seen here in 2025, also experienced another anti-semitic heckler the following night. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBetter Things\u201d alum, photographed in 2025, said that this heckler made a comment about Jews and money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome guy made a comment about Jews being cheap, so I said, \u2018Thanks for bringing that trope back from 1600,\u201d she recalled, noting that this patron wasn\u2019t tossed out.<\/p>\n<p>Gold said she\u2019s \u201cshocked\u201d by \u201chow brazen\u201d racists have become, remembering that the last time she heard anything like that was decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time it happened was 30 plus years ago in Marietta, Georgia,\u201d she told us. \u201cSomeone yelled out, \u2018Jews have all the money,\u2019 and I said, \u2018Yeah, that\u2019s why I\u2019m doing this gig in Marietta, Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A veteran New York standup tells Page Six she\u2019s \u201cshocked [by] how brazen\u201d antisemites have become at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,191,68,75742,9,56,63,65,64,2580,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-188911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-celebrity-news","10":"tag-exclusive","11":"tag-judy-gold","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-stand-up-comedy","18":"tag-upper-west-side"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}