Fanny Brice was a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls. She stuck out. This was (part of the reason) she was so great. A century ago, Brice was the pioneering Jewish comic of Broadway and radio.

(JTA) — The announcement this week that Katerina McCrimmon would star as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” the Broadway musical about a trailblazing Jewish comedian ...

The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation. Fanny Brice (occasionally ...