"Al Lubel is a terrifically
funny comedian." - David Letterman
"Lubel comes off as a kind
of neurotic Steve Martin, with a self-referential, self involved style..."
- Daryl Jung, Toronto News
"Al Lubel synthesizes and
celebrates the calmer components of the analytic neurotic. Take his
reincarnation bit: "I just want to live forever. I was thinking
about believing in reincarnation but I realize that won't help me because
even if I existed in the past, I don't remember who I was, so how does
that guy know he's me now? So even if I exist in the future, if I don't
remember I was me, what good is it? Because remember Descartes the philosopher?
He proved existance. He stated, I think, therefore I am. Well I've added
to that my own reincarnation nonexistance theory, which states, "I
forgot, therefore I'm not." Al goes for the comedy jugular, tackling
his self created worst case scenarios with logic that makes eerie sense."
- Merrill Hope, Drama-Logue
"Al Lubel,
who is a very good comedian, has one of the best jokes I ever heard.
He says that he's very lazy, and that all he wants to do in life
is to eat and rest. That's all that interests him, eating and resting.
Which begs the question, what about sex, don't you like sex? And
he says yes, because when it's over he's hungry and tired."
- Jerry Seinfeld, US Magazine
Interview
Al
Lubel Tour Dates
Come
see Al Lubel in his new one man comedy show "AL"
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Al can be seen regularly at many of NYC's top clubs.
Al Lubel became a lawyer
to please his mother and a comedian to please himself
(which did not please his mother). After graduating from
law school in Florida, Al moved to Los Angeles, passed
the California Bar Exam on his first try and wouldn't
you know it, immediately began the practice of stand-up
comedy.
Lawyer by day and comedian by night, Al
was doing justice to neither. At comedy clubs, the crowds
would stare, in court, the juries would laugh. Al gradually
began getting work on the road, soon becoming a full-time
comic. "I realized I had to give up the practice
of law when clients began calling me for legal advice
at places like the St. Louis Funny Bone."
So, Al quit the law. This was a good decision,
because within a year he won the $100,000 Grand Prize
for comedy on Star Search. Doing the "The Tonight
Show" was a childhood fantasy, so when Al heard that
Johnny Carson was retiring, he auditioned and became one
of the last comics to appear with Johnny. More recently,
Al just made his fifth appearance on the Late Show with
David Letterman.
Even though comedy is his first love, Al
admits to missing the practice of law. "I'd like
to have one more trial, something serious like a murder
trial because as my client's fate hangs in the balance
I'd like to see his reaction when I whisper in his ear...I'm
a comedian!"
