Mitch Fatel

Mitch Fatel acts like he’s mentally challenged. That’s what his soft, slightly pitched lisp and onstage fidgeting would imply, except Fatel isn’t actually challenged (at least, not in a textbook way). It’s all just part of his onstage persona, where Fatel uses his boyish guise and aw-shucks delivery to get away with as much naughtiness as he can. (For example: “Having a penis is like having a friend that always wants to play.”) Fatel somehow comes off as more Leave It To Beaver than Andrew Dice Clay, which can be both kind of annoying and really funny. He operates a little under the alt-comedy radar for the most part, but his 2009 Comedy Central special, Mitch Fatel Is Magical, did well, no doubt in part to its copious references to sex, sex, and more sex.

Updated 03/07/2012