Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Judy Gold, Award-Winning Comedian, Actor & LGBTQ+ Advocate.
Judy Gold is a highly popular, multi-award winning comedian, actor, writer, podcaster and advocate who has become renowned not only for her versatility and her bold, hilarious and edgy humor and wit, but also for her advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, the Jewish community and especially her passion for promoting freedom of speech and artistic freedom.
On the big screen, she’s appeared in many movies including “The Truth About Santa Claus”, “She Came to Me”, “Tripped Up” and “Love Reconsidered”, as well as some really great documentaries like “The Aristocrats”, “Hysterical”, and Trevor Noah’s brilliant documentary, “The Story of Cancel Culture”, as well as “Making Trouble”, a tribute to female Jewish comedians.
On television, in addition to her countless appearances on every major talk show, she starred in “World’s Dumbest” and “Hollywood Squares”, she co-starred in “All-American Girl”, and she has guest starred in dozens of TV series including “Roseanne”, “The Drew Carrey Show”, “Law & Order”, “Sex and the City”, “Ugly Betty”, “30 Rock”, “Madam Secretary”, and many more. And she’s been in some great TV movies and miniseries including “Here Come the Munsters”, “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple”, “Beat Cops”, “Casting”, “The First Lady”, and the wonderful HBO documentary, “All Aboard: Rosie’s Family Cruise”.
She also appeared in the Netflix Special, “Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration”, and she was featured in the Netflix documentary about LGBTQ+ comedians called “OUTSTANDING: A Comedy Revolution”. She was a writer and producer on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” earning FIVE Emmy Award nominations and winning 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Talk Show.
She’s had a number of TV Specials on the Comedy Central channel, LOGO and HBO, for which she won the Cable Ace Award. She’s also hosted Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time”, “Nick Mom Night Out”, and HBO’s “At the Multiplex with Judy Gold”, which ran for nearly a decade. And on stage, Judy Gold has starred in a number of critically acclaimed shows including “The Judy Show: My Life As A Sitcom”, “Clinton the Musical”, “Love, Loss and What I Wore”, “Disaster: the Musical”, and 2 shows based on her bestselling books, “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother”, and “Yes I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We are All in Trouble.”
She’s also released 3 hilarious comedy albums entitled, “Kill Me Now”, “Conduct Unbecoming”, and “Judith’s Roommate Had a Baby”, and if all of that weren’t enough, our guest also hosts a terrific podcast called “It’s Judy’s Show with Judy Gold”. In addition to her 2 Emmy Awards, she’s been nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Best Comedian, and she was TWICE nominated for The American Comedy Award’s Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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