COMEDIAN SUED BY MOTHER-IN-LAW FOR BEING THE PUNCHLINE…
VIA CLEVELAND LEADER
Comedian Sunda Croonquist is being sued by her mother-in-law after making her the punchline of one too many jokes. Ruth Zafrin is accusing her of spreading false, defamatory and racist lies with the in-law jokes that have become a staple of her comedy routines in nightclubs and on TV channels like Comedy Central.
Croonquist is half-black, half-Swedish, grew up Roman Catholic and married into a Jewish family. To her, the in-law jokes seemed to be a natural routine after living through one culture-clash moment after another. She says there was a time when her in-laws would laugh along with everyone else at the black-member-of-a-Jewish family jokes.
She said:
“They played my tape at Passover one year, and they loved it!”
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