Friars Club closes up shop for the winter, or for good?
by 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 …
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R.I.P. Jack Carter (1922-2015)
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 …
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The Friars Club celebrated in PBS “Treasures of New York”
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
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
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
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 …
That time Jerry Lewis wished Joan Rivers were dead, speaking on a SiriusXM Town Hall at the Friars Club
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 …
Shecky Greene quits Friars Club over Gilbert Gottfried joke?!
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 …
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Roasts Boomer Esiason at the annual Friars Club Roast
In case you missed it, the Friars Club held their gala Roast of Boomer Esiason on Thursday over lunch at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel — …
Friars Club names Larry King as its new Dean
The changing of the guard at the Friars Club is from old guard to older guard. Larry King, 80, is stepping up to replace 76-year-old …