Uncle Max makes a pizza

This was the first episode of Uncle Max we made, apart from the pilot (Uncle Max goes bowling).  It was filmed in South Africa. We’d been filming 5 minutes when the director accidentally poked himself in the eye with some camera equipment and had to go to hospital. At least he said it was an accident. I have my doubts…
Food fight was fun, though.

Uncle Max makes a pizza from David Schneider on Vimeo.

Rabbi David Schneider’s Weekly Words of Wisdom 3: Yisro

(Exodus 18-20)

First of all, an apology. In last week’s Weekly Words of Wisdom (with Rabbi David Schneider), there was a quite literally cataclysmic error which anyone who knows me or who has ever listened spellbound to one of my sermons would know I would never commit: the word “G-d” was written without a dash. The editor has sworn it wasn’t his typesetters and I’m too good a man to call him a liar, which he obviously is, but I’d just like to remind him that G-d (note the dash) knows all, and even if He didn’t who is He more likely to believe: me or an unshaven, yarmulke-free “cultural” Jew who probably thinks naches is a dish you order in a Mexican restaurant, probably with pork? The answer is me. (more…)

Why do I bother?

I don’t know. As a comedy writer you work and work, draft after draft, honing, polishing, agonising over every comma to try and make it as funny as you can, then some bloke comes along and does this… (more…)