Daniel Lobell

Personal life 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. Lobell's family has roots in the Scottish and Turkish Jewish communities. 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. His comedy is frequently autobiographical, often a combination of stand-up and storytelling focusing on Jewish culture and faith, and Lobell's unusual status as an Orthodox Jewish comedian. Despite his belief, Lobell's comedy often covers taboo topics such as sex. In 2009, he created a webseries based on Comical Radio, Rise of the Radio Show, telling one interviewer, "my feeling is that all the knowledge in the world is accessible to everybody, it's just sometimes hidden in code."

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

Comedy albums Lobell has released two albums on Stand Up! Records, 2013's Some Kind of Comedian and 2017's The Nicest Boy in Barcelona. 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." Chris Milea of Stage Time magazine called the album "quite clever" and praised Lobell's "notable amount of ingenuity and risk-taking." 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", while Lanoie called Barcelona a "rock solid" improvement on Lobell's first album.

Other work Lobell performs regularly at the Laugh Factory and the Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles.

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, He has performed multiple times at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

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

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

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

Discography Danny Lobell, Some Kind of Comedian (Stand Up! Records, 2013) Danny Lobell, The Nicest Boy in Barcelona (Stand Up! Records, 2017)