Mendy Pellin
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| Born | 1982 (age 43–44) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Comedian |
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Mendy Pellin (born 1982)[1][2] is an American comedian.
Pellin was born to a Chabad Hasidic family in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.[3] He and his wife, Shulamit, married at the end of March 2007,[citation needed] and shortly afterwards moved to Los Angeles, California.[4] He is an ordained rabbi.[4]
Pellin has a satirical news show, The Mendy Report,[5] which is loosely based on The Daily Show.[2] He is a co-writer for a sitcom (release date unknown). He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno[6] and acted in the films Moneyball[4] and A Modest Suggestion.[7] In November 2006, he launched ChabadTube.com, an online newscast and web channel.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Mendy Pellin". Gruntig. December 8, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
Mendy Pellin is a 28-year-old Hassidic comedian and actor who has transformed the face of Jewish entertainment.
- 1 2 Lipman, Steve (June 2, 2008). "Black Humor, Sort Of". The Jewish Week. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
- ↑ Freiman, Jessica (October 17, 2007). "On the Catwalk with Chabad". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved December 4, 2024.
- 1 2 3 Arfa, Orit (January 27, 2011). "Mendy Pellin's unorthodox humor [VIDEO]". Jewish Journal. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
- ↑ Beyer, Gregory (January 13, 2008). "Comedy Central, by Way of the Torah". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
Mr. Pellin, a garrulous 25-year-old, was beginning yet another segment as the host of The Mendy Report, an Internet news broadcast on the Web site ChabadTube.com. He runs the broadcast out of his childhood bedroom, now cluttered with production lights and videotape cassettes, in his family's fourth-floor walk-up apartment on Kingston Avenue in a Hasidic enclave of Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
- ↑ Lagnado, Lucette (November 13, 2014). "This Rabbi Raps and Riffs—on Judaism". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
- ↑ Oland, Brandon (October 16, 2010). "Scenes for 'A Modest Suggestion' Shot in Eldersburg". Carroll County Times. Archived from the original on November 12, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2024.
- ↑ "Satirical Newscast, Kosher Style". The Forward. January 16, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
External links
[edit]- Mendy Pellin at IMDb
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- The Jewish Week Archived October 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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