You may be part of the chosen people. But comedian and author Eitan Levine wants to know, are you “most chosen”? That’s the terrifying question at the center of his live game show, “It’s so Jewish,” which he brings to Laugh Boston on November 25. The three contestants in the Boston edition will be comedians Dan Crohn and Josh Goldstein, who will go up against Rabbi Sarah Noyovitz. All three will compete for the title of “most chosen” by running a gauntlet of extraordinarily silly challenges.

It is a five round competition and after three rounds a contestant is eliminated. “Then it’s a head-to-head duel,” Levine said, “where the two remaining contestants have to, I’m not going to say what, but they have to do something that involves finding out what the audience thinks is Jewish and not Jewish. “

In the end, whoever has the most points wins. “The winner gets to be crowned ‘Most Chosen Person’ and gets to take a picture with the certificate on a tree that I planted in Israel for them,” he said. “They have to give me the certificate back though, so I can use it at the next game.”

“That’s So Jewish” evolved from a popular man-on-the-street segment on Levine’s TikTok, and he has developed it into a monthly show at Improv Asylumlocation in New York City for the past eight months. Contestants may have to play “Is This Dog Jewish?” where they are shown a photo of a dog and asked to determine its religion. A similar image challenge is “Russian oligarch or guy from my synagogue.” Levine has a deliberately lighthearted and open approach that he hopes a general audience can appreciate.

“It’s apolitical,” he said. “You can go to ‘That’s So Jewish’ if you’re a Hasidic guy from Borough Park, New York, or if you met a Jew once, and you’re from Provo, Utah. I’m very proud of the fact that we have able to make a show that represents the Jewish community and not how people perceive the Jewish community. And that’s a big difference.”

Levine said comedy has become an awkward proposition for him and other Jewish comics since last October. Hamas’ attack on Israel and the ongoing war have dominated the discourse, and while Levine acknowledges the deadly seriousness of events in Israel, he wants to show people that Judaism is a multifaceted experience. “At the end of the day, it’s a very funny, quirky, unique, idiosyncratic group of people that make up this religion,” he said, “and so much content has been gobbled up in the last year that is solely about Israel.”

It’s been difficult for comedians to just mention Israel on stage, Levine says, and he tends to stay away from it. He is not a fan of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and says there is a lot of criticism of the government’s behavior. But he also has family in Israel and lived there for a year after high school in New Jersey. It is part of his experience and identity.

Levine has long looked for ways to find humor in dark situations. He survived having a cancerous tumor removed from his leg when he was 10 years old, and went through grueling rehab afterward. It is a subject he has also brought up on stage, but not to make a joke out of the suffering. “When I talk about cancer, I’m not making fun of cancer,” he said. “Cancer is the worst thing I’ve ever been through. It’s the worst thing that millions and millions of people have ever been through. But if you make fun of things that happen during cancer, then you’re laughing with and not laughed at.”

He believes that there is nothing so dark that he cannot find something funny about it. It’s part of who he is, and part of how his family found ways to cope. “I just analyze information comically,” he said. “That’s always who I am. I’m a cancer survivor. My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. It was a very funny household growing up, because we made dark jokes. That was the only way to really get past anything, was to laugh at it. And then, after you laugh at it for a little while, you kind of figure out what the game is.”

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At Laugh Boston, November 25, laughboston.com