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Grand Comedy Club: Escondido: California: Grapes and Giggles: San Carlos: California: The Groundlings: Los Angeles: California: Governor's Comedy Club: Levittown: New York: Sister clubs Brokerage Comedy Club & Vaudeville Cafe in Bellmore, New York and McGuire's in Bohemia, New York: Haha Comedy Room: North Hollywood: California: Halifax Live ...
1983: Tina Turner: Live in Chicago—broadcast of a 1983 concert by Tina Turner, as a part of the Soundstage series. 1985: Aretha Franklin: Live at Park West—broadcast of a 1985 concert by Aretha Franklin, as a part of the Soundstage series. 1985: I Have a Pony— comedy album by Steven Wright, recorded at Wolfgang's in San Francisco and Park ...
Playing there in the 70s was like playing the Cavern Club in Liverpool". In 1985, Zanies became "arguably the king of Chicago's comedy clubs". "Drinks were ordered. The music stopped. A man walked to the stage. And then it started, the laughter. The blissful disease, so easily contagious." In 1998, Zanies hosted the Chicago Comedy Festival.
All Jokes Aside was a comedy club in south-side Chicago which catered almost exclusively to the African-American sector. [BE 1] It opened in 1992 with 275 seats, and ran for "less than a decade". [1] The club's success led to a Comedy Central series as well as a second location in Detroit. [BE 2] In 1994 the company had a turnover of $470,000 ...
On December 8, 2010, at 4:38 pm, the Laugh Factory broke the Guinness World Record for "Longest Continuous Stand Up Comedy Show (Multiple Comedians)". [7] The record was previously held by Comic Strip Live that set the original record of 50 hours. The Laugh Factory surpassed 50 hours on Wednesday and continued non-stop until 10:38 pm, Thursday ...
iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as ImprovOlympic) is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago. The theater teaches and hosts performances of improvisational comedy. It was founded in 1981 by Del Close and Charna Halpern. [1] [2] The theater has many notable alumni, including Amy Poehler and Stephen Colbert. [3]
The Chicago City Limits National Touring Company received the first MAC Award given for Best Comedy/Improv Group in 1987 and again in 1988. The New York Company won again in 2008. In 2011, Top 10 New York City by Eleanor Berman rated it one of New York City's top 10 comedy clubs .
The Funny Bone is a comedy club chain in the United States. The original Funny Bone Comedy Club opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by co-founders Mitch Kutash and Gerald Kubach [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in 1982. Alumni