Daniel Lobell

Lobell was an avid artist from childhood, and was inspired to pursue a career in comics by the examples of Stan Lee and Harvey Pekar. In 2018, Lobell began an autobiographical comic book, Fair Enough. The first issue covers his troubled school-age years and friendship with Pekar.

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

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, and raising chickens with his neighbor, an Ecuadorian gang member. Lobell followed in 2018 with Fat Chance, about his struggles with obesity. He has performed multiple times at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

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. Lobell graduated from Baruch College in New York.

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

Lobell began a new podcast, Modern Day Philosophers, in 2013 with the idea of approaching classical philosophy through the lens of stand-up comics, who Lobell felt were the philosophers of the modern age, telling one interviewer, "my feeling is that all the knowledge in the world is accessible to everybody, it’s just sometimes hidden in code." Guests have included Marc Maron, Reggie Watts, and Maria Bamford.

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.

From 2004 to 2012, Lobell ran the podcast Comical Radio, on which he interviewed more than 1,000 comedians. In 2009, he created a webseries based on Comical Radio, Rise of the Radio Show, which featured performances from Patrice O'Neal, Colin Quinn, J.B. Smoove, Dave Attell, and Brian Posehn. Lobell shuttered Comical Radio in 2012 and moved to Los Angeles to expand his career.