“Wildly funny... Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine.”
- PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS

JEWMONGOUS, a solo comedy song concert with occasional guests, is the colicky, uncircumcised brain child of SEAN ALTMAN: the golden-voiced song-writing wiz behind the pioneering comedy act What I Like About Jew and the founder and former leader of Rockapella. Sean was featured in Time Out New York's cover story "The New Super Jews," (with Jon Stewart and Sarah Silverman) and in the New York Times feature about "the Jewish Hipster Movement." He debuted JEWMONGOUS in December ‘06 and has garnered press accolades coast to coast. The “Taller Than Jesus” tour hit 16 cities in December ‘07.

JEWMONGOUS’ debut album Taller Than Jesus will be officially released Spring 2008 but, as part of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, it was quietly pre-released to fans on Christmas 2007 (to give Jews something to celebrate that day). Advance copies are available at www.jewmongous.com and on iTunes. The title song “Taller Than Jesus” is Beatle fan Altman’s tribute to John Lennon’s 1966 misunderstood declaration that the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus.” The album’s dozen original songs include the fractured Passover story song “They Tried To Kill Us (We Survived, Let’s Eat)”, which was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross; the Irish drinking song ode to the infamous Blood Libel “Christian Baby Blood”; the venomous anti-Jews-For-Jesus punk anthem “Jews For Jesus”; the ska-inflected “What The Hell Is Simchas Torah?”; the bluesy “My Pact With Satan”; the longing crooner ballad “Another Inch”; the cowboy romp “Long-Tongue Shloime”; the dysfunctional Bar Mitzvah anthem “Today I Am A Man”; and the swingin’ “Blow, Murray Blow”, about a Yom Kippur shofar (ram’s horn) blower so virtuosic that his playing purges listeners of all their sins, no matter how despicable. The album’s only cover song is a semiticized version of the Ramones’ classic “I Wanna Be Sedated”, as Altman believes that Joey Ramone (born Jeffrey Hyman) would have wanted it sung that way.

As a solo artist, Sean has released three albums of bittersweet power-pop and was named "Best Male Artist" in the 2005 International Acoustic Music Awards. The anti-Kurt Cobain" (NY Press) and "absurdly talented performer" (Village Voice) has "killer hooks" (Time Out NY), "a cynical edge" (Philadelphia Daily News), and a "silky tenor voice that produced chills" (NY Times). He is best known as the founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockapella - stars of the TV series "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?" - for which Sean co-wrote the famous theme song with Broadway's David Yazbek. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in Manhattan, he sings with Kol Zimra Jewish Acapella and performs charity concerts with Voices For Israel, he pitches Astelin nasal spray on TV as a member of the acapella group The GrooveBarbers, he serenades hospital patients as a volunteer with Musicians On Call, and his songs have been featured in dozens of TV shows. In short, Sean is a highly exposed mensch, albeit a potty-mouthed one.

LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Wickedly humorous...Tuneful and sharply witty.”

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
“Wildly funny... Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Mag.”

BOSTON GLOBE
"Racy and funny and smart and affectionate, written for a generation of fully assimilated Jews who grew up on punk rock and 'South Park.'"

WASHINGTON POST
"Bawdy with a wicked modern streak... Cheerfully crass... Style and guts and a tune you can groove to."

SEATTLE STRANGER
"The bastard love child Tenacious D and Fiddler on the Roof never had."

VILLAGE VOICE
"Hilarious and tuneful. Jew'll Love it! Very busy, very talented singer Sean Altman."

LA WEEKLY (Los Angeles)
"Clearly not averse to taking risks... While his punk-rough approach and vividly iconoclastic lyrics place him in an up-to-date arena, he echoes such forebears as Eddie Cantor and Lenny Bruce and upholds the tradition with biting, bitchen acuity."

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Not since Kinky Friedman has Hebraic-humored folk been as funny and as literate."

NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
"Neo-Borscht Belt... An abundance of clever, catchy songs...Genuine laughs...Thoroughly entertaining comic power-pop."

NEW YORK TIMES
"Giants of Jewish joke-pop, but you can also hear some Beatles in their risqué borscht-belting... Ethnic pride mixed with high camp."

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Part of a new breed of Jewish hipster comedy that includes Jon Stewart, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sarah Silverman and Heeb Magazine."

BALTIMORE CITYGUIDE
"Irreverent, hilarious, a smorgasbord of dirty humor, high wit and musical lunacy. Lenny Bruce meets Mel Brooks meets Sarah Silverman."

BOSTON HERALD
"Subversively funny... Ribald, impolite, politically incorrect...Deliriously kitschy."

PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"Scathing, bawdy borscht-belt comedy... Takes seltzer-bottle humor to a dirty new low, with lyrics that make Lenny Bruce look like a choirboy."

TIME OUT NEW YORK
"Bart Simpsons of the Yeshiva... The neurotic nebbish is out; the swaggering ass-kicker is in."

LOS ANGELES TIMES
"You've gotta love it... Skewering all things iconically Jewish - from Jdate to Passover to rhinoplasty."

THE PROVINCE (Vancouver, BC)
"You loved Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat? You'll be delighted with Altman, a song-writing wiz."

JTNEWS (Seattle - The Voice of Jewish Washington)
"An over-the-top musical gag that strip-mines Jewish stereotypes for every last bit of comedy."

EUGENE WEEKLY (Eugene, OR)
"Hilarious...A tongue in cheek, whimsical new approach to Jewish joke-pop."

SAN DIEGO JEWISH JOURNAL
"A riotous and self-righteous musical fest that is all tongue-in-cheek hilarity for the tribe."

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
"Winning over Jewish audiences with its take-no-prisoners approach to Jewish-inspired comedy...The Jewish hipster movement has arrived."

PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER
"Recharge your chutzpah meter with the Jewtacular, Jewsplosive JEWMONGOUS!"