Jean Carroll was born Celine Zeigman on January 7, 1911, in Paris.
Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy, which includes live standup routines by four female Jewish comics juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s, Belle Barth; Pearl Williams and Betty Walker; Totie Fields, and Carroll.
[3] She is the subject of Grace Overbeke's 2024 biography "The First Lady of Laughs: the forgotten story of Jean Carroll, America's first Jewish woman stand-up comedian.
[4] Carroll died from natural causes on January 1, 2010 aged 98, in White Plains, New York, six days before her 99th birthday.
[1] Joy Behar praised her act in 2025, noting how she dressed professionally, as opposed to the wilder looks of contemporaries like Phyllis Diller.