Comedian Tiffany Haddish won a Grammy award for Best Comedy Album for her album Black Mitzvah, the recording of her 2019 Netflix comedy special. In the performance, Haddish explored her Jewish heritage, something she only discovered as a young adult when she learned that her father was an Eritrean Jew. Haddish embraced her Jewish heritage and held a bat mitzvah under the guidance of Rabbi Susan Silverman, including Torah reading and a d’var Torah speech about Jacob’s ladder from the Parsha Vayetze. But Haddish was no stranger to Judaism, as she had worked since the age of 17 as a dancer and an MC at more than 500 bar and bat mitzvah parties. What did Haddish say about that experience?

Tiffany Haddish (2019) by MTV International  is licensed under CC BY 3.0

A. “I’ve been to like over 500 bar mitzvahs, and I’m so glad it’s finally my turn to get candy thrown at me.”

B. “I’ve been to like over 500 bar mitzvahs, and I can pronounce the ‘ch’s’ better than any of those old Jews.”

C. “I’ve been to like over 500 bar mitzvahs, and I am so tired of that f*** chicken dance.”

D. “I’ve been to like over 500 bar mitzvahs, and I’m tired of people telling me to go to the kitchen.”

E. She told of grabbing an 80 year old man by the tie and dancing with him. “And then I decided to turn it around on him and drop it like it’s hot and give him that booty action...and I turned around and he was on the ground on his back...and he passed away...I didn’t want to dance no more, I felt like this [behind] was deadly.”

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