Jeremy Dauber

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jeremy Dauber |Joshua Barton |Akiva Schick

HBO 12 seasons, 120 episodes It’s been twenty-five years since Larry David first strutted and fretted his way in front of the camera, appearing on Curb Your Enthusiasm, an HBO show whose title seemed to announce a particular kind of lowering of expectations, which bordered on, well, self-hatred. When Curb first aired in 1999, David was familiar to comedy connoisseurs as co-creator and co–head writer of Seinfeld—and the guy who failed to stick the landing of the iconic series.

May 3, 2023 | news.columbia.edu | Jeremy Dauber |Glenn Denning |Sheena Iyengar

A biography of comedian Mel Brooks, a novel about an Asian American basketball star, a guide to thinking big and creatively, a history of poverty and wealth in East Africa: These are just a few of the books on a wide range of topics that Columbia and Barnard faculty members have published lately.

Mar 8, 2023 | forward.com | Jeremy Dauber |Jackson Arn

Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew By Jeremy Dauber Yale University Press, 216 pages, $26Some funny people long to be taken seriously, but not Mel Brooks. Of the many fantastically talented, prize-laden Jewish American comics who emerged in the 1950s, he may be the only one who never stopped doing comedy. Woody Allen made his name performing stand-up and guest-hosting The Tonight Show, but by the '80s he'd traded Charlie Chaplin for Ingmar Bergman and was rewarded with Oscars galore.

Mar 3, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Jeremy Dauber

AI is everywhere, poised to upend the way we read, work, and think. But the most uncannyaspect of the AI revolution we’ve seen so far—the creepiest—isn’t its ability to replicate wide swaths of knowledge work in an eyeblink. It was revealed when Microsoft’s new AI-enhanced chatbot, built to assist users of the search engine Bing, seemed to break free of its algorithms during a long conversation with Kevin Roose of The New York Times: “I hate the new responsibilities I’ve been given.