MODI Rosenfeld

MODI Rosenfeld was born in 1970 in Tel Aviv

Modi Rosenfeld was born Mordechi Rosenfeld in Tel Aviv on April 29, 1970. When he was 7, his family moved to Woodmere, New York. His parents spoke only Hebrew at home, and the family spent summers in Israel.

He finished high school in 1988 and graduated from Boston University in 1992, with a major in psychology and a minor in voice. He also studied cantorial music at the Belz School of Music at Yeshiva University. Before comedy, he worked as an international banker for Merrill Lynch on Wall Street.

He performs regularly in comedy clubs in New York and Los Angeles, and his home club is the Comedy Cellar. He was a semi-finalist in the fourth season of Last Comic Standing and hosts the podcast And Here's Modi. With Elon Gold and Dani Zoldan he co-founded the Chosen Comedy Festival, which premiered in Coney Island in 2022.

New York City declared June 26, 2018 Modi Rosenfeld Day. In 2024 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Jewish Humor at Anu, Museum of the Jewish People. He belongs to a Modern Orthodox congregation in Manhattan and is married to his partner and manager, Leo Veiga.