Jess Salomon is a Canadian stand-up comedian from Montreal, Quebec.[1] She is most noted for her 2024 comedy album Sad Witch, which was a Juno Award nominee for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2025.[2]

Prior to launching her stand-up comedy career, Salomon was a war crimes lawyer at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.[3]

Her press coverage has often focused on her unusual situation as a Jewish woman who is in a lesbian relationship with a Palestinian Muslim.[4] In 2020, Salomon and her wife, Eman El-Husseini, launched the BBC World Service podcast Comedians vs. The News.[5]

References

  1. ^ Kayla Marie Hillier, "Comedy comes to Old Montreal". Cult MTL, August 26, 2013.
  2. ^ Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2025 Juno nominees". CBC Music, February 11, 2025.
  3. ^ "Meet Jess Salomon: War crimes lawyer turned comedian". Q, April 18, 2016.
  4. ^ "Meet the Jewish-Palestinian lesbian couple who mine their relationship for comedy gold". Day 6, March 6, 2020.
  5. ^ Lynn Saxberg, "New BBC podcast stars Jewish-Palestinian lesbian comedy couple from Canada". Ottawa Citizen, September 10, 2020.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Salomon
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