{"id":35686,"date":"2017-04-06T03:18:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2017-04-06T03:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:18:04","slug":"amanda-peet-when-asked-about-eating-easter-bunnies-guys-im-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/amanda-peet-when-asked-about-eating-easter-bunnies-guys-im-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Peet, when asked about eating Easter bunnies: \u2018Guys, I\u2019m Jewish\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d talk show isn\u2019t always this awkward.<\/p>\n<p>Actress Amanda Peet and actor Hank Azaria were guests on the show Wednesday and talked about their new IFC show \u201cBrockmire,\u201d which centers on a baseball announcer.<\/p>\n<p>But before talking about the series, both were asked about how they like to eat their chocolate Easter bunnies. Host Michael Strahan supplied the chocolate treats as a segue into talking about a survey on how people eat food (do you eat the bunny ears first, or the feet?)<\/p>\n<p>Things got a little uncomfortable \u2014 because both Peet and Azaria are Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuys I\u2019m Jewish,\u201d Peet said, prompting laughter from the hosts. \u201cSo this is really unfamiliar for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you like a chocolate menorah brought out?\u201d Azaria said to lighten things up.<\/p>\n<p>The group went on to talk about how people eat other things, like pizza and Oreos. When Azaria said he sometimes eats pizza with a knife and fork, some of the hosts called him out for being \u201cnot very New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Azaria, who was raised in Queens, responded by saying \u201cI can eat my pizza any freaking way I want\u201d with a heavy New York accent (a la Jon Stewart).<\/p>\n<p>A small debate broke out on Twitter over whether eating an Easter bunny is a quintessentially Christian activity.<\/p>\n<p>Peet, the star of many movies and shows, such as \u201cJack and Jill\u201d and \u201cTogetherness,\u201d was born to a Jewish mother and Quaker father \u2014 and she\u2019s now married to Jewish \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d writer David Benioff. In 2015, she co-wrote a children\u2019s book about Chanukah titled \u201cDear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Azaria, best known for being the voice of dozens of characters on \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d was born to Sephardic Greek parents.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, Michael Strahan might want to bring out a box of chocolate matzah.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Amanda%20Peet%2C%20when%20asked%20about%20eating%20Easter%20bunnies%3A%20%E2%80%98Guys%2C%20I%E2%80%99m%20Jewish%E2%80%99\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[8430,8431,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35687,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35686\/revisions\/35687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}