But he’s Gilbert Gottfried, so I’m not sure what else to expect. Some, such as Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, are reverent about the joint others – okay, just Gilbert Gottfried is kind of a jerk about the place. In Make ‘Em Laugh: 35 Years of the Comic Strip, the Greatest Comedy Club of All Time!, comedian, comedy journalist and Sirius/XM host of “Comedy Matters” Jeffrey Gurian and Comic Strip co-founder Richie Tienken interview dozens of comedians about their experiences and memories of the long-running club. So he thought to himself, ‘Hey, there’s probably room for another club.'” JEFFREY GURIAN podcast excerpt: “(The Comic Strip co-founder) Richie Tienken started going to Catch A Rising Star every night and he saw the place was always packed. They all have their own crop of talented standup comedians devoted to one over the other and one of them, The Comic Strip, now has a book devoted to lionizing its greatness. There are a lot of legendary comedy clubs in America and they come with equally colorful founders: Budd Friedman and the Improv Mitzi Shore and the Comedy Store Rick Newman and Catch A Rising Star Caroline Hirsch and Caroline’s on Broadway and Richie Tienken and the Comic Strip.
Petersburg, Florida! Order ‘Make ‘Em Laugh: 35 Years of the Comic Strip, the Greatest Comedy Club of All Time!’ by Jeffrey Gurian and Richie Tienken, available in print or e-book from by clicking on the book cover above! Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who passed Lucien Hold’s audition and still break into a cold sweat thinking about how stressful it was… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Media interview with Jeffrey Gurian by clicking on the video player above! I was terrified about being really gay.15 Shares Today’s Guest: Jeffrey Gurian, co-author (with Richie Tienken), Make ‘Em Laugh: 35 Years of the Comic Strip, the Greatest Comedy Club of All Time! I got depressed…I couldn’t make myself be Fez Whatley anymore. I was now everything that I had joked about. Fez Whatley was no longer a character that I played on the air.
“After all those years of denying it, it was true. “Coming to this realization was devastating,” Whatley wrote. He had been playing a flamboyant, gay character on his shows for 20 years while insisting to his family, friends (and himself) that he was straight, he said. It was ultimately moved to WNEW in New York. Although low ratings led to the show’s cancelation, he teamed up with Bennington on “The Ron and Fez Show” on the Daytona Beach radio station WKRO. (Swipe for all pics)Ī post shared by Bennington Todd Hillier, the Florida native first dove into the radio business as a producer and contributor of the syndicated program “The Ron and Ron Show,” hosted by Ron Diaz and his future partner, Ron Bennington. His sister snapped these pics of him while he was on the vent, and Fez is oddly proud of them. He spent a few days on a ventilator and is now breathing on his own. “He flatlined on Tuesday, but was able to be revived by doctors. “Fez had another massive heart attack this week,” Bennington wrote.
A post shared by Bennington has kept fans up to date on Whatley’s health problems, posting photos showing him laying in a hospital bed in March after just suffering “another massive heart attack.”
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