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Tuesday 6 February 2018
Ray Ellin, Comedian, Host and Producer: ‘It Feels Good’

Island he hosts a successful loves the island and does Night Live and also the To-
nightly live stand-up com- the best he can to promote night Show. Probably at
edy show with his compa- it. He takes the comedians an age of 9 I can remem-
ny Aruba Ray’s Comedy around to show them the ber vividly to have been
at Marriott Resort & Stellaris Aruba outside the resort. watching SNL and thought:
Casino. Aruba Today was Ray is happy here, during what is this, this is great.”
curious about the man be- the day enjoying his Aruba Little Ray made kids laugh
hind the laugh. and during his shows in the in school, as well as rela-
evenings making people tives when he was only 3 or
“I really think I became the laugh. “It is a great feel- 4 years old. “I got that from
number 1 ambassador for ing, a positive affirmation, my mother, I would see her
By Linda Reijnders half the year and his nick- Aruba in the States. When I it’s you being liked. You entertaining people in the
PALM BEACH - “It feels name is ‘Aruba Ray.’ The am in TV-shows like on Fox know that you make oth- house when I was a kid.
I talk about Aruba, I bring er people feel good and She was very outgoing and
good to make others feel American comedian, host
good.” Ray Ellin is a kind and producer lives the oth- big names here that are that makes you feel good. funny, and a classical pia-
followed by many, many There is just one big positive nist so I kind of picked stuff
of half Aruban so to speak. er half of the year in New
Well, he lives here almost York. Here at One Happy people.” He wants peo- vibe in the room. Of course up from her. That positive
ple to know how much he that feeds your ego.” fun, I loved it. ”He told his
dad that he wanted to be
Big Names a comedian, of course he
The comedians he brings was not too wild about the
here are not just any idea. “But I told him: this is
names. Chuck Nice, Chris- what I want to do. My first
tine Hurley, Lenny Marcus, performance happened
Tony V, Pete Lee, Tony when I was 12 years old,
Woods, Joe Vega, Jared during the 6th grade grad-
Freid, Mike Vecchione, Ya- uation and that went well.
maneika Saunders, Gregg Followed by performances
Roggell, Jessica Kirson, during summer camp and
Jimmy Dunn, Brian Scott talent shows.”With 15 years
Macfadden, Dan Natur- old he performed at night-
man and Lori Palminteri clubs in Boston. Ray would
will climb the stage. And of take the train downtown
course hosted by Ray him- to these comedy clubs in
self. They have been and pretty terrible neighbor-
are on the most popular hoods with those smoky,
night shows in the States as dark clubs “One was called
well as comedy clubs. An The Comeback Zone. Than
almost guarantee to laugh you know it”, he laughs.
your heart out. He got better and better,
determined in following his
Little Ray passion.
“When I was 11 years old,
I used to watch Saturday
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