Mendy Pellin is an American
Chabad
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic group ...
Hasidic
Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...
comic with a web-based satirical news show calle
The Mendy Report
Pellin was born to a Hasidic family in
Denver
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, Colorado. He spent most of his childhood in
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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, New York, home of the
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic group ...
movement.
Mendy is also co-writer for a sitcom (release date unknown). Mendy and his wife, Shulamit, married at the end of March 2007. He has appeared on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that first aired from May 25, 1992, to May 29, 2009. It resumed production on March 1, 2010 and ended on February 6, 2014.
The fourth incarnation of the ...
.
He acted in the independent film "A Modest Suggestion (Film)".
See also
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Meir Kay
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Ayelet the Kosher Komic
Ayelet Newman, known by the stage name Ayelet the Kosher Komic, is an Orthodox Jewish female stand-up comedian. She discontinued her acting career and began performing "kosher comedy" to women-only audiences after becoming a '' baalas teshuva'' ...
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Adina Sash
References
External links
The Jewish JournalThe Jewish Week
* http://online.wsj.com/articles/this-rabbi-raps-and-riffson-judaism-1415919919
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Living people
Jewish American comedians
American male comedians
21st-century American comedians
Hasidic entertainers
Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim
American Hasidim
Male actors from Denver
People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Year of birth missing (living people)
Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish comedians
Jewish American male comedians