With soft strums, he infuses words of wisdom and encouragement in his act, like his inspirational hero, Reb Shlomo Carlebach Zt”l. Yoely keeps his guitar in the trunk of his car, so it’s always at hand for him to cheer up anyone. Also, audiences around the world rejoiced in his company, as he has traveled to Canada, UK, Belgium, Israel, and even to remote countries like Scotland, Spain and Greece. Yoely has regaled audiences in America from the East coast to the West. From the many old Yiddish Classics, to heartwarming Carlebach songs, Yoely has been on stage with the contemporary Jewish singers, such as MBD, Lipa Schmelzer, Avraham Fried, Cantor Moshe Schulhoff and even conducted countless of Carlebach kumzitsen.Īs of now, Yoely has been hired to entertain thousands of parties, dinners, weddings, sheva brachos and events all across the globe. The humorous jokes and imitations aside, he is beloved for his musical performances as well. Communities such as Satmar, Klausenburg, Nikolsburg, Spinke, Burshtyn, Sekulen, have reveled in his antics.
Yoely has been appearing on many Purim tischen, entertaining thousands of people and Admorim alike. In 1999 Yoely appeared on “Purim Y2K” produced by Yochi Briskman, that was followed in 2004 by “Purim Station” together with veteran comedian Harav Yankel Miller. Yoely’s act was featured in many Albums thereafter. One of his first comedic acts on stage was on the play “Hamaloch Hagoel” directed by famed Director Shlomo Perl and Ari Frankel of AF Productions, where Yoely kept the crowd (and the actors) in stitches. Within a short while, he found himself receiving the super-star celebrity treatment within the Chasidishe community, becoming the most sought after Comedian for Yiddishe Simchas. It started with impromptu performances at friends’ weddings and simchas. Yoely has been entertaining at Jewish events since 1997. One of his very funny acts is his imitation of Hungarian characters, which earned him the name Pester Rebbe, implying that he is the Rebbe of Pest. There are so many distributors out there these days that you can do your own thing without being beholden to anyone.Yoely Lebovits or Pester Rebbe as some call him, is a popular figure around the Chasidishe Velt. I realized that I would rather create my own content. City Council: Logan Rebbe, Casey Brentlinger, Kort Dye, Tyler Pester, Victor Zamora. One of the issues is that a lot of the filming takes place on Shabbos, and there are many other issues as well, like off-color jokes that are inappropriate. Here are the winners of the Bataan elections. It’s very hard for a frum comedian to be in the outside world. I also feel like I have a mission to help us laugh at ourselves. I feel like this is my niche, my safe space. Ou had a tekufah when you tried dabbling in the larger world and appeared on national television. I had hoped to break the ice for my family and friends and get them to move out there, but no one wanted to follow us. The shul we davened in was on Eastern Parkway, not far from 770.
But I grew up in Crown Heights, and now I’m back. The other was for a missing car the reward was $5,000. One was for a missing person they were offering a reward of $100. I lived in Los Angeles for eight or nine years. I thought you lived in LA, where people drive around in fancy cars. But chicken soup? No one is risking a spill.
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Do you realize that the best way to get someone to drive carefully is to put a full pot of chicken soup in the car? You can have a baby or an old person as a passenger and he’ll still drive like a maniac. That was a lot funnier than just watching the puppets from the front.īecause I realized that life is full of irony. When I went to puppet shows, I always sat behind the stage, because it was hilarious to watch these grownups sweating behind the scenes and getting all stressed out just to entertain the kids. So you always had a way of seeing things in a humorous light. I remember finding it hilarious that my morah in kindergarten would go to the corner and take money out of the pushka and then give us the same pennies to put back in. You started laughing around the same time you started crying. I was a comedian in kindergarten, long before I had an opportunity for a sad story. I believe that comedians are born comedians, and it’s just one of the tools they use to overcome whatever comes their way. I think they use humor to overcome their sadness, so when they aren’t doing standup, that’s all you get. What do you do to these comedians? Torture them? Do you try to find out why they’re funny? No one wants to know why he’s funny. So I was a little concerned that I’d get a sad story out of you too. In fact, when I interviewed the Pester Rebbe, a/k/a Yoely Lebowitz, he made me cry. I’ve interviewed frum comedians in the past, but their interviews were very sad.
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