The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sadly, I couldn’t make it out to Los Angeles this Mother’s Day for the all-star comedy tribute to The Comedy Store’s Mitzi Shore, who passed away in April after a long illness. Thankfully, though, her son, comedian Pauly Shore, has shared this video he put together for her memorial. I …
Mitzi Shore, the legendary owner of The Comedy Store who took over the comedy club when she divorced Sammy Shore in 1974, mother of Pauly Shore and three other children, a lightning rod for the comedy strike of 1979, godmother to so many other comedians in the 1970s through the …
A great long read for your #tbt needs today via David Peisner for Buzzfeed, talking to the surviving comedians who have lived in Cresthill, the so-named home that sits above The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, overlooking the Sunset Strip. Here’s the primer nutgraf action for you: In 1976, when …
