Dov davidoff biography

Dov Davidoff has never had to go far for material.

Ever since the energetic stand-up comic was a kid, his life was a series of unusual encounters.

Davidoff grew up in Englishtown, New Jersey, on a junkyard his dad owned.

“I had an interesting childhood,” he says.

“How many kids spend their childhood on a junkyard? My mom joined a cult and I found myself in India. Crazy stuff, but it’s interesting ...

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and it has always given me unusual stuff to draw from.”

So it wasn’t that big of a deal for Davidoff, who performs this evening and Saturday to conclude a three-night stand at Helium, to leave the Garden State for the stand-up trail in New York when he was 16.

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“I had no fears or issues about that,” he says.

“Aside from traveling around the world, I hung in Spanish Harlem when I was 12 and 13, which was back when Harlem wasn’t so safe. So for me to move to Manhattan at 16 wa