Just weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Friars Club warily proceeded with its planned roast of Hugh Hefner, which included a classic telling of ‘The Aristocrats’ joke. The result? As Frank DiGiacomo reported, the laughter humanized an inhuman time.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New York’s Friars Read More
The Mondel Chocolates shop, on the corner of 114th Street and Broadway, runs roughly the length of its one long, dual-bulbed fluorescent light fixture, which casts a glare over countless handwritten signs listing the infrequently changed prices for Mondel chocolates, and on a sepia-toned list on the wall in the back corner of the cramped Read More
During a recent performance at Caroline’s Comedy Club in Times Square, Dave Attell-the 37-year-old stand-up comic and host of Comedy Central’s late-night carousing show, Insomniac -told a joke about the time he was playing a nightclub and started riffing on shark attacks, and a woman in the audience cried out in pain.
“This woman-let’s call Read More
On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New
York’s Friars Club, stood before audience members in the Grand Ballroom of the
New York Hilton and asked them to familiarize themselves with the fire exits.
Then, because he’d said that “these are very different times for us all,” he
attempted to answer a question Read More
On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New York’s Friars Club, stood before audience members in the Grand Ballroom of the
New York Hilton and asked them to familiarize themselves with the fire exits.
Then, because he’d said that “these are very different times for us all,” he
attempted to answer a question Read More
“Jerry, you comfortable there?”
From the Friars Club pulpit, Susie Essman stared down at fellow comedian and sitcom actor Jerry Stiller as he squirmed in a massive leather armchair that had been set out on the dais.
“Not really,” Mr. Stiller replied. He was slumped against one side of the chair, mashing his Read More
Little Friar Gets Large
On a chilly December afternoon at the Friars Club, Jeffrey Ross was eating chicken and rice for breakfast. The 32-year-old comedian had just arisen, and the sight of Abe Hirschfeld holding court at a nearby table did not please him. The eccentric mogul, fresh from his arrest for trying to have Read More
So the Friars Club, that holy temple of Borscht Belt comedy on East 55th Street, it was getting old.
So the Friars Club, that holy temple of Borscht Belt comedy on East 55th Street, it was getting old. Even before 91-year-old Henny Youngman passed on Feb. 24- Alav Ha’Shalom , Henny-the average age of club Read More
