Daniel Lobell

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Daniel Lobell
Born1982 or 1983 (age 42–43)[1]
Queens, New York
Alma materBaruch College
OccupationsStand-up comedian, podcaster, comic-book writer
Years active2007-present
Websitewww.dannylobell.com

Daniel Lobell is a Los Angeles–based American stand-up comedian, podcaster, and comic-book writer best known for his podcast Modern Day Philosophers.[1][2] Comedian Marc Maron credits him with creating the first podcast focused on stand-up comedy, Comical Radio.[3]

He has released two comedy albums on Dan Schlissel's Stand Up! Records. He also created and writes the autobiographical comic book Fair Enough, also published by Stand Up!.

Personal life

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Lobell was born to Jewish parents in the New York City borough of Queens and grew up on Long Island. He is the oldest of four boys.[4] Lobell's family has roots in the Scottish and Turkish Jewish communities.[5][6] Though raised in a religious family, he was interested in comedy from a young age, inspired by Jerry Seinfeld, Adam Sandler, and Jim Carrey. Lobell fell away from his Orthodox faith in his 20s when starting as a comedian, but returned when his fiancé converted to Judaism before their marriage in 2015.[2][1] Lobell graduated from Baruch College in New York.[2]

Career

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Lobell has been performing stand-up since he was a teenager in New York.[7] His comedy is frequently autobiographical,[8] often a combination of stand-up and storytelling[9] focusing on Jewish culture and faith, and Lobell's unusual status as an Orthodox Jewish comedian.[1] Lobell will not perform or travel on the Sabbath.[10] Despite his belief, Lobell's comedy often covers taboo topics such as sex.[6]

Lobell befriended Jackie Mason, George Carlin, and Shelley Berman after interviewing Mason for his college newspaper; Mason and Carlin became important mentors in his early career. He also worked for Mason selling audio cassettes after Mason's shows.[11][5] A fan of comic writer Harvey Pekar, Lobell struck up a friendship with him by cold-calling Pekar at his house in Cleveland.[12]

Podcasts

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From 2004 to 2012, Lobell ran the podcast Comical Radio, on which he interviewed more than 1,000 comedians.[3][7][13] In 2009, he created a webseries based on Comical Radio, Rise of the Radio Show,[9] which featured performances from Patrice O'Neal, Colin Quinn, J.B. Smoove, Dave Attell, and Brian Posehn.[14][13] Lobell shuttered Comical Radio in 2012 and moved to Los Angeles to expand his career.[7]

Lobell began a new podcast, Modern Day Philosophers, in 2013 with the idea of approaching classical philosophy through the lens of stand-up comics, who Lobell felt were the philosophers of the modern age,[15] telling one interviewer, "my feeling is that all the knowledge in the world is accessible to everybody, it’s just sometimes hidden in code."[16] Guests have included Marc Maron, Reggie Watts, and Maria Bamford.[16]

He also hosts medical website Doctorpedia's Leading Voices podcast.[17]

Comedy albums

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Lobell has released two albums on Stand Up! Records, 2013's Some Kind of Comedian and 2017's The Nicest Boy in Barcelona.[18][19] Reviewer Richard Lanoie, writing on The Serious Comedy Site, called Some Kind of Comedian unfocused but said "there is a hell of a lot to like."[20] Chris Milea of Stage Time magazine called the album "quite clever" and praised Lobell's "notable amount of ingenuity and risk-taking."[21] Reviews of Barcelona were stronger. Chris Spector of Midwest Record said Lobell had "mastered doing the observational thing without hitting you with it like a flying mallet",[22] while Lanoie called Barcelona a "rock solid" improvement on Lobell's first album.[8]

Comics

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Lobell was an avid artist from childhood, and was inspired to pursue a career in comics by the examples of Stan Lee and Harvey Pekar. In 2018, Lobell began an autobiographical comic book, Fair Enough. The first issue covers his troubled school-age years and friendship with Pekar.[12][23]

Other work

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Lobell performs regularly at the Laugh Factory and the Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles.[2] He has been a guest twice on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast.[3][24]

In 2017, Lobell performed his autobiographical stand-up show Broke as a Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Hollywood Fringe Festival. The show covers a number of Lobell's often-bizarre self-started business ventures, including stints as a breeder of hairless cats, a door-to-door lightbulb salesman, cleaning shark tanks in the Israeli city of Eilat,[11] and raising chickens with his neighbor, an Ecuadorian gang member.[4][10] Lobell followed in 2018 with Fat Chance, about his struggles with obesity.[25] He has performed multiple times at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.[26]

He performed in and contributed writing for Hasidic comic Mendy Pellin's 2014 series Jewbellish the News.[27]

He directed a short film in 2018 entitled 'Stool Me Once' starring Michael Croner that was filmed and edited by Bruno Kohfield-Galeano.[28][29]

His work has been featured on This American Life[30] and TedX.[11] He is a frequent essayist for various publications focused on Jewish life, including The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles[31] and the website Aish.com.[32][33]

Discography

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References

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