Joel Chasnoff (Hebrew: עויל שהאסנופ; born December 15, 1973)[1] is an American-Israeli stand-up comedian and writer with stage and screen credits in eight countries, and author of the comic memoir The 188th Crybaby Brigade, about his year as a tank soldier in the Israeli Army.

[2] Joel Chasnoff grew up in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in a Conservative Jewish household with his parents and two younger brothers.

[13][14] After being discharged from the IDF, Chasnoff returned to the United States to pursue his comedy career, first at the Improv Olympic in Chicago and eventually in New York City.

He has stage and screen credits in ten countries, including the U.S., Israel, Canada, Australia, the U.K., Switzerland, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.

[15][16] He's been the warm-up act for Jon Stewart and Lewis Black of The Daily Show, and went on a USO Comedy Tour of the Far East entertaining American Marines.