| Yoel Lebovits | |
|---|---|
| Born | July , 1979 Harris, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, Comedian, Singer |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Website | |
| http://www.badchen.com/ | |
Yoel (Yoely) Lebowits (יואל לעבאוויטש ) is an American Hasidic entertainer, comedian, singer, and actor. Lebowits is the son of the Nikolsburger Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits, and lives in Monsey, New York. He is a popular figure in Hasidic Jewish communities, specifically the Yiddish-speaking communities.
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Lebowits started as a Badchen in 1997, performing Comedy at friends' weddings. He gained popularity after acting the comedic role in the Yiddish play "Hamaloch Hagoel" in 1998.
He became known as the "Pester Rebbe" because of his talent of imitating the Hungarian Language, implying that he is from Budapest.
In 1999 Lebowits debuted his first comedy album "Purim Y2K" (produced by Yochi Briskman). This was followed by "Purim Station" in 2004.
As his popularity grew, Lebowits was hired to entertain at parties, dinners, Weddings and Sheva Brochos in the USA, Europe, and Israel.
Lebowits has performed with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Lipa Schmeltzer, Mordechai ben David and Avraham Fried among others in various places as well as "The Prudential Center" in New Jersey.
While Lebowits is mainly a comic. He sings at hospitals, or for the homebound as well as for the people with special needs.
Recent video clips posted on YouTube, received record breaking amount of hits in the Hasidic clips category. The clips include: "Pester Rebbe Inauguration", "Mayn Geller Bus" (My Yellow Bus) which is a parody of the "Yellow Submarine" by "The Beatles" and "Thruway".
Lebovits has been featured on the cover of Popular Jewish magazines as Yediot Achronot, Hamodia, Ami, Jewish Lifestyle, Di Shtern, Der Blick and more[1] as well in Israeli Hebre Magazines
He performs often with fellow badchen R' Yankel Miller, and comedian Hilly Hill (son of Steven Hill) as well as with other badchonim.
In recent years, Lebowitz doing funny, in honor of Purim, in the Hasidic phone news, Kol from mevaser, with premium comics, from from the orthodox community, including, with the famous comedian Menashe Lustig.
On the last album, Bondash, he added his friends in the comedy, chatzatzke Rebbe, and Menashe Lustig, in the famous tune Where is the cover of the Grape juice, What that made very funny history.