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the same reason as other "Gen X" Jews:
"I wasn't smart or popular or good at
sports," he says. "I kind of had the odd
look."
Self-deprecation was the core of his
act when he began working open mike
nights in the 1980s. "Jews are the cho-
sen people," he quipped of his unath-
letic high school years. "Except in gym
class, where we're the last-chosen peo-
ple."
Of his non-existent love life, he
whined, "Hitler had a girlfriend. I don't
have one. Is that fair?"
By the late 1990s, Attell was a fixture
on Conan and Letterman and had taped
his own half-hour special for HBO. He
was named one of 30 artists to watch .
by the New York Times Magazine and
was nominated for an American
Comedy Award in 1998 and 2000.
Along the way, he clocked 30 weeks a
year on the road, where occupational
hazards included anti-Semitic slurs and
the occasional Ku Klux Klan march.
The encounters inspired Attell to
write a joke: "Why do racist groups still
have meetings? Do they have new busi-
ness to discuss? Like, 'I went away on
vacation, I'm really tan, so should I
start hating myself?'"
Insomniac has its own share of occu-
pational hazards, including street
brawls, unruly drunks — and worse.
"Our guide in Tijuana says, 'If you see
someone wearing a hood, watch out,"'
he recalls. "I go, 'What are they, hit
men for the mob? And he says, 'No,
they have leprosy"'
In New Orleans, another occupation-
al hazard proved to be Attell's guilty
conscience. 'After I participated in a
voodoo cleansing ritual, I felt like I'd
broken my religion," he says. "That's
when I knew, 'the Hebrew school has
paid off.'"
Now the assimilated Jewish comic
says he wants to talk to a rabbi, maybe
even go to temple. "Jewish ritual really
helped me when my dad passed away
two years ago," he explains. "I think it
can really help with the tough things in
life."
On upcoming episodes of Insomniac,
Attell hopes to ride with a chasidic
ambulance service, perhaps even visit a
Chanukah dreidel factory, among other
endeavors. If the show goes internation-
al, he'd love to tape a segment in Israel.
"Then I can find the lost tribes," he
says, with a laugh.

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