Comedian Jackie Mason, who had once been an ordained rabbi, provided the voice of Hyman Krustofsky. Schulweis, were credited as "special technical consultants". The episode was carefully researched and two rabbis, Lavi Meier and Harold M. Krusty's religion had not been part of the original concept of the character, so Kogen and Wolodarsky decided to parody the 1927 film The Jazz Singer and establish that Krusty is Jewish. The episode was written by the duo of Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, and directed by Jeffrey Lynch and Brad Bird as it was Lynch's first credit as a director, Bird was assigned to help him. Bart and Lisa try to reunite a heartbroken Krusty with his estranged father. In the episode, Krusty the Clown reveals to the Simpsons that he is Jewish and that his father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, kicked him out for pursuing a career in comedy and feeling unwanted. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 24, 1991. " Like Father, Like Clown" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. "I will finish what I sta" (stops mid-word) īart leaps into everybody's lap, annoying Homer.
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