His grandfather was Jew. Here's one of the remaining articles that states he's from jew linage (one they haven't taken down, or altered). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-nov-16-ca-brown16-story.html "Attell, paunchy and short with a shaved head (he describes himself as a cross between “Andre Agassi and a giant baby”), grew up on Long Island, in a family in which, he says, there was a lot of “Jewish suburban yelling.”