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Comedy News for March 21-26, 2023

by Sean L. McCarthyMarch 28, 2023March 29, 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 …

Friars Club closes up shop for the winter, or for good?

by Sean L. McCarthyJanuary 29, 2020January 29, 2020

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 …

R.I.P. Jack Carter (1922-2015)

by Sean L. McCarthyJune 30, 2015June 30, 20152

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 …

The Friars Club celebrated in PBS “Treasures of New York”

by Sean L. McCarthyMay 21, 2015May 21, 2015

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 …

Friars Club to Roast Terry Bradshaw for ESPN2 during Super Bowl week, January 2015

by Sean L. McCarthyNovember 3, 20142

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 …

ESPN will televise sports-themed Friars Roasts, starting with a Super Bowl special

by Sean L. McCarthyOctober 28, 2014October 28, 2014

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 …

Friars Club renames its clubhouse building the Jerry Lewis Monastery

by Sean L. McCarthySeptember 17, 20141

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 …