Episode #374: Phat Tuesdays: Guy Torry & Reginald Hudlin
by In the late 1990s, between the comedy booms, perhaps the hottest live stand-up show in Los Angeles happened every week on a Tuesday night. That’s …
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Adam Eget Leaving The Comedy Store to run Joe Rogan’s Austin Comedy Club at One World Theatre
Unless Adam Eget is pranking both me and his longtime colleagues at The Comedy Store, the club’s longtime booker has announced — on April 1 …
Episode #321: Jeremiah Watkins
Kansas native Jeremiah Watkins trained at both The Second City and The Groundlings, and has become a fixture at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles …
R.I.P. John Witherspoon (1942-2019)
Stand-up comedian and actor John Witherspoon, who started working comedy clubs in the 1970s and was still working the clubs into his 70s, and planned …
#RIP Sammy Shore, co-founder of The Comedy Store, at 92
Sammy Shore, the stand-up comedian who founded The Comedy Store in West Hollywood with his wife Mitzi in 1972 before giving her complete ownership in …
Showtime plans four-part documentary series on The Comedy Store and Mitzi Shore
I’m Dying Up Here may have died after two seasons on Showtime, but the pay cable network is going directly to the source material for …
Episode #251: Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Smirnoff got his big break in America thanks to Mitzi Shore, who not only put up the Soviet immigrant in her home behind The …
Zach Galifianakis remembers Brody Stevens
The Comedy Store closed on Monday night for a private event, the memorial for the late great comedian Steven Brody, aka Brody Stevens, aka Steven …
Julie Seabaugh and Troy Conrad document “Ringside at Roast Battle” in a new book!
My colleague on the West Coast, freelance comedy journalist Julie Seabaugh, has turned many late Tuesday nights at The Comedy Store into a brand-new book …
The Comedy Store establishes Comedian Assistance Fund, with assigned MPTF social worker
In the wake of Mitzi Shore’s death two months ago, The Comedy Store has partnered with the Motion Picture & Television Fund to create a Comedians …