50 | FEBRUARY 17 • 2022 

MRS. MAISEL RETURNS
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 
the hit Amazon Prime 
series about a Jewish 
comedian, returns for a 
fourth 8-episode season on 
Feb. 18. The pandemic long 
delayed filming, and new 
episodes of Maisel were 
last released in December 
2019. Two episodes will, as 
they say, be “dropped” on 
Feb. 18 and each following 
Friday two more episodes 
will “drop.”
Most of the Maisel main 
characters are supposed to 
be Jewish. Here, first, are 
the Jewish actors playing 
Jews: Michael Zegen, 42 
(Joel, Mrs. Maisel’s ex-hus-
band); Kevin Pollak, 64 
(Joel’s father); Caroline 
Aaron, 64 (Joel’s moth-
er); and Alex Borstein, 
50 (Susie Myerson, Mrs. 
Maisel’s manager).
I long wondered if 
Myerson is supposed to be 
Jewish. Then Borstein con-
firmed that Myerson was 
Jewish in a 2019 interview 
— noting that Myerson, 
unlike almost the other 
Jewish characters, came 
from a working-class back-
ground.

Here are the non-Jews 
playing Jews: Rachel 
Brosnahan, who plays Mrs. 
Midge Maisel (the title char-
acter); Marin Hinkle, who 
plays Midge’s mother; and 
Tony Shalhoub, who plays 
Midge’s father. Also worth 
noting: real life ’60s come-
dian Lenny Bruce, who 
had a big recurring role in 
seasons one and two, will 
have a big role in season 
four. Luke Kirby, who plays 
Bruce, isn’t Jewish.
Reports say that the 
comic material that Maisel 
uses on-stage will get 
more explicit and “hip” 
as the series timeframe 
moves further into the “cul-
ture-changing” 1960s.
When the series started, 
I thought the main “real” 
sources of the Maisel 
character would be three 
comics who emerged in 
the early ’60s as the first 
women to be well-known 
solo stand-ups: Phyllis 
Diller, Totie Fields and 
Joan Rivers. But I was 
wrong. 
These three made fun of 
their “not-beautiful” looks 
and all three pretty much 
avoided any “edgy” mate-

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