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Mendy Pellin is an American Chabad Hasidic comic with a web-based satirical news show called The Mendy Report Archived July 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. [1]
Pellin was born to a Hasidic family in Denver, Colorado. He spent most of his childhood in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, home of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. [2]
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. [3]
He acted in the independent film "A Modest Suggestion (Film)". [4]
See also
References
- ^ Beyer, Gregory. "Comedy Central, by Way of the Torah", The New York Times. January 13, 2008. Accessed November 1, 2017. "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."
- ^ "On the catwalk with Chabad". The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
- ^ Lagnado, Lucette (November 13, 2014). "This Rabbi Raps and Riffs—on Judaism". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
- ^ "Scenes for 'A Modest Suggestion' shot in Eldersburg". Archived from the original on November 12, 2010. Retrieved November 2, 2010.
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- Male actors from Denver
- People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
- Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish comedians
- Jewish male comedians
- Comedians from Denver
- Comedians from Brooklyn