![]() There are so many distributors out there these days that you can do your own thing without being beholden to anyone. I realized that I would rather create my own content. Product Description The album is titled Boondash or Bundas. 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. Author: Yoely Lebovits - Pester Rebbe Publisher: Aderet Music Corp. 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. 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. Yoely Lebovits AKA the Pester Rebbe singing his comedic song Main Geileh Bus at a Bar Mitzvah in Crown. So I was a little concerned that I’d get a sad story out of you too. Pester Rebbe Teaching Hungarian To Cheder Boys. Yoely Lebovits / Pester Rebbe is widely known as one of todays leaders in Jewish entertainment, serving us with a unique mix of song, comedy and spiritual. In fact, when I interviewed the Pester Rebbe, a/k/a Yoely Lebowitz, he made me cry. He performs often with fellow badchen R' Yankel Miller, and comedian Hilly Hill (son of Steven Hill) as well as with other badchonim.I’ve interviewed frum comedians in the past, but their interviews were very sad. Īccording to sources close to Lipa Schmeltzer, Lebovits was supposed to be the surprise guest at "The Big Event" concert on March 9, 2008, at the Madison Square Garden. Lebovits has been featured on in Yediot Achronot, Hamodia and Der Blick. The clips include: "Pester Rebbe Inauguration" and "Der Geller Bus" (The Yellow Bus) which is a parody of the " Yellow Submarine" by " The Beatles". Recent video clips posted on YouTube, received record breaking amount of hits in the Hasidic clips category. Yoel Lebowits sings at hospitals, or for the homebound as well as for the people with special needs. As do many religious entertainers, Lebowits mixes stories and words of wisdom and encouragement in his act. While Lebowits is mainly a comic, he is gaining popularity as a singer. He costarred a debut concert with Hasidic singer Shloimy Gertner in the Raleigh Hotel in South Fallsburg, NY. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, with the Lipa Schmeltzer at "The Prudential Center" in New Jersey and with Mordechai ben David. Levowits has performed with the Ringling Bros. The albums featured Yoely Lebowits and veteran comic Yankel Miller.Īs his popularity grew, Lebowits was hired to entertain at parties, dinners, Weddings and Sheva Brochos in the USA, Europe, and Israel. This was followed by "Purim Station" in 2004. In 1999 Lebowits debuted his first comedy album "Purim Y2K" (produced by Yochi Briskman). He became known as the "Pester Rebbe" because of his talent of imitating the Hungarian Language, implying that he is from Budapest. He gained popularity after acting the comedic role in the Yiddish play "Hamaloch Hagoel" in 1998. Lebowits started as a Badchen in 1997, performing Comedy at friends' weddings.
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