Comedy News for March 21-26, 2023
What do you mean The Friars Club has closed for good, again?! Sad but true news about the once-legendary second home for funny people, plus …
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What do you mean The Friars Club has closed for good, again?! Sad but true news about the once-legendary second home for funny people, plus …
Reports of the demise of the fabled Friars Club are slightly exaggerated. Not yet time to roast the old Midtown clubhouse for comedians, entertainers and …
Before anyone else could claim to be “the pit bull of comedy,” before anyone else turned anger directly into laughs, Jack Carter stood tall amongst …
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian ribbing as PBS premieres a new half-hour documentary on The …
The Friars Club announced today that it’ll roast Terry Bradshaw for its first sports-themed Friars Club Roast on ESPN2. The Friars Club Roast of Terry …
Last year’s Super Bowl week Friars Club Roast of Boomer Esiason in New York City never aired on TV, so if you weren’t there, you …
The historic Friars Club building, a five-story house constructed in 1909 in midtown Manhattan that became the clubhouse and “Friars Club Monastery” in 1957 with …
Jerry Lewis sat down this week with Maria Menounos at The Friars Club for a SiriusXM Town Hall that airs today, and wouldn’t you know …
The Friars Club has a legacy as an institution for no-holds-barred comedy and a celebration of such. So when the Friars feted Freddie Roman upon …
In case you missed it, the Friars Club held their gala Roast of Boomer Esiason on Thursday over lunch at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel — …