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Originally, it was a 50-seat single venue (which immediately prior, housed a Vietnamese restaurant [1]) founded on 20 April 1963, [2] by Budd Friedman and his future wife, Silver (née Schreck [3]) Saundors, [4] and located at 358 West 44th Street, [2] at Ninth Avenue, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City near the southeast corner of 9th Ave.
Gotham Comedy Club: Manhattan: New York: 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 ...
In the late 1990s, the club was located on West 28th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. The chain is currently negotiating to build a new club in the New York area. Other locations throughout the US are located in Princeton, New Jersey, Reno, Las Vegas, Twin River Casino, Rhode Island and the new Catch A Rising Star on Broadway in New York.
The Comedy Cellar stage as seen from the audience left. The Comedy Cellar is a comedy club in Manhattan where many top New York comedians perform, sometimes referred to as the "Harvard of comedy clubs". [1] It was founded in 1982 by then stand-up comedian, and current television writer/producer Bill Grundfest. [2]
The Comedy Store was opened in April 1972 by comedians Sammy Shore (1927–2019), and Rudy De Luca.The building was formerly the home of Club Seville (1935), [1] later, Ciro's (1940–1957), a popular Hollywood nightclub owned by William Wilkerson, and later Ciro's Le Disc, [1] a rock and roll venue, [2] where the Byrds were discovered in 1964.
The club also served as the host during the recording of the 1965 Dick Dale album Rock Out With Dick Dale & His Del-Tones: Live At Ciro's. Two years later, it was renamed The Kaleidoscope. In 1968, the club was called It's Boss. In 1969, it was known as Patch 2. [16] The site of Ciro's became The Comedy Store in 1972. [3]
Ghost hunter Zak Bagans, front, and Jay Wasley walk down after investigating a room at the Comedy Store, which is long-reputed to be haunted. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
The LA Weekly named Café Largo "LA's Best Supper Club" in 1990. [3] The New York Times ran a substantive review "A Place for Poetry in Land of Pictures" on July 12, 1989. [4] Several reviews were published in Newsweek, LA Style, LA Times, Los Angeles, Buzz, Exposure, Movieline, The Edge, Details, Village View, Vogue, Interview, Playboy, and US ...