When I got older, I learned about the pitfalls of leitzanus in Shaarei Teshuvah and other sifrei mussar. They taught me the difference between leitzanus and wholesome amusement. My melamdim were quick to teach me that not everyone can be made fun of and that not every joke should be told. I saw what a strong impact my humor had on my friends in cheder, and I realized how powerful a tool humor is in transforming a person’s mood. Look, they’re the ones who came up with goulash they certainly deserve our praise for that. I have deep respect for Hungarian Jews, who I think are smart, opinionated, and well thought out.
PESTER REBBE HOW TO
Because I spent so much time with my Hungarian grandmother and grandfather, I learned how to imitate the Hungarian dialect, which elicited smiles from all who heard it. Whenever I experienced difficult moments in my youth, I tried to uplift those around me with a spontaneous vertel. He was no businessman he did it purely l’shem mitzvah, not for parnassah.Įven though he endured a great deal of suffering – he lost a wife and five children during the war – he still had the resilience to bring joy to so many people. He loved to sing and used to write down musical compositions. He had a great sense of humor, always finding the right vort to bring a smile to a fellow Jew’s face. He would often entertain them with jokes, and he took them around to villages and towns to perform Purim shpiels. My grandfather, Reb Mordechai Aryeh Moskowitz, z”l, was a veteran melamed in Pest before World War II, and right after the war, he gathered together orphaned child survivors and learned Torah with them. As a young boy, I often visited my grandparents in Montreal. I was born in the Catskill Mountains my father is the Nikolsburger Rebbe, shlita. I was born four weeks before his petirah, and my bris took place right after his levayah. There are so many distributors out there these days that you can do your own thing without being beholden to anyone.How did you decide to become a badchan, and why do you call yourself the Pester Rebbe?įirst of all, I must tell you that I am most likely the first Yoeli to be named after the Satmar Rebbe, Harav Yoel Teitelbaum, zy”a. I realized that I would rather create my own content. One of the issues is that a lot of the filming takes place on Shabbos, and there are many other issues as well, like off-color jokes that are inappropriate. It’s very hard for a frum comedian to be in the outside world. I also feel like I have a mission to help us laugh at ourselves. I feel like this is my niche, my safe space. Ou had a tekufah when you tried dabbling in the larger world and appeared on national television. I had hoped to break the ice for my family and friends and get them to move out there, but no one wanted to follow us. The shul we davened in was on Eastern Parkway, not far from 770. But I grew up in Crown Heights, and now I’m back. The other was for a missing car the reward was $5,000. One was for a missing person they were offering a reward of $100. I lived in Los Angeles for eight or nine years. I thought you lived in LA, where people drive around in fancy cars. But chicken soup? No one is risking a spill.
PESTER REBBE FULL
Do you realize that the best way to get someone to drive carefully is to put a full pot of chicken soup in the car? You can have a baby or an old person as a passenger and he’ll still drive like a maniac. That was a lot funnier than just watching the puppets from the front.īecause I realized that life is full of irony. When I went to puppet shows, I always sat behind the stage, because it was hilarious to watch these grownups sweating behind the scenes and getting all stressed out just to entertain the kids. So you always had a way of seeing things in a humorous light.
I remember finding it hilarious that my morah in kindergarten would go to the corner and take money out of the pushka and then give us the same pennies to put back in. You started laughing around the same time you started crying.
I was a comedian in kindergarten, long before I had an opportunity for a sad story. I believe that comedians are born comedians, and it’s just one of the tools they use to overcome whatever comes their way. I think they use humor to overcome their sadness, so when they aren’t doing standup, that’s all you get. What do you do to these comedians? Torture them? Do you try to find out why they’re funny? No one wants to know why he’s funny. So I was a little concerned that I’d get a sad story out of you too. In fact, when I interviewed the Pester Rebbe, a/k/a Yoely Lebowitz, he made me cry. I’ve interviewed frum comedians in the past, but their interviews were very sad.
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