Sunda Croonquist Sued by Mother-In-Law for Telling Mother-In-Law Jokes
One year ago on this very day, August 26, comedian Sunda Croonquist was a guest on the Radio Happy Hour. Now, according to multiple news sources, she is being sued by her mother-in-law for making mother-in-law jokes!
According to the Associated Press, Ruth Zafrin, the Jewish mother-in-law of the half black, half-Swedish, Jewish converted stand up comedian is “accusing Croonquist of spreading false, defamatory and racist lies with in-law jokes that have become a staple of her routine in nightclubs and on television channels like Comedy Central.”
Croonquist, who oddly did not mention her mother-in-law once during her 2008 Blogstein interview, told the AP that there was a time when her in-laws would laugh at her jokes, “They played my tape at Passover one year, and they loved it,” but that things changed after she posted information on her Web site promoting shows in New Jersey that the in-laws said gave away their identities.
The Sunda Croonquist interview (from 8.26.08)
begins at the 30:05 mark
