Mark Moshe Kasher (born July 6, 1979) is an American stand-up
comedian, writer and actor based in the Los Angeles area. He is the
author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White
Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient,
and Then Turned 16.In 2009, iTunes named Kasher "Best New Comic" and
his comedy album Everyone You Know Is Going to Die, and Then You Are!
was ranked one of the top 20 comedy albums on iTunes that same year.
He was also named "Comic to Watch in 2010" by Punchline Magazine.Born
in Queens, New York, Kasher moved to Oakland, California with his
mother and brother when he was one year old. Kasher grew up in North
Oakland's Temescal and Piedmont Avenue neighborhoods, and his family
lived mostly on disability assistance and food stamps. A son of deaf
parents, Kasher worked as a sign-language interpreter from the age of
17. His parents met at the World Games for the Deaf in 1967 and split
up when Kasher was nine years old.When Kasher was four years old, his
father Steven, a former painter who was born to secular, communist
Jewish parents, became a Hasidic Jew in the Satmar community in
Brooklyn; Steven's grandfather, originally from Hungary, was a New
Square Skverer Hasid. Kasher regularly spent summers with his father
in Sea Gate, Brooklyn until his death â€" Kasher was 20 at the time.
His father lived with Gaucher's disease. Kasher's brother is a rabbi.
comedian, writer and actor based in the Los Angeles area. He is the
author of the 2012 memoir Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White
Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient,
and Then Turned 16.In 2009, iTunes named Kasher "Best New Comic" and
his comedy album Everyone You Know Is Going to Die, and Then You Are!
was ranked one of the top 20 comedy albums on iTunes that same year.
He was also named "Comic to Watch in 2010" by Punchline Magazine.Born
in Queens, New York, Kasher moved to Oakland, California with his
mother and brother when he was one year old. Kasher grew up in North
Oakland's Temescal and Piedmont Avenue neighborhoods, and his family
lived mostly on disability assistance and food stamps. A son of deaf
parents, Kasher worked as a sign-language interpreter from the age of
17. His parents met at the World Games for the Deaf in 1967 and split
up when Kasher was nine years old.When Kasher was four years old, his
father Steven, a former painter who was born to secular, communist
Jewish parents, became a Hasidic Jew in the Satmar community in
Brooklyn; Steven's grandfather, originally from Hungary, was a New
Square Skverer Hasid. Kasher regularly spent summers with his father
in Sea Gate, Brooklyn until his death â€" Kasher was 20 at the time.
His father lived with Gaucher's disease. Kasher's brother is a rabbi.
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