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The Improv is a comedy club franchise. It was founded as a single venue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City in 1963, and expanded into a chain of venues in the late 1970s. History
Greenwich Village Comedy Club: Manhattan: New York: Grove Comedy Club Lowell Arkansas Helium Comedy Club: Locations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Buffalo, New York, Portland, Oregon, and Indianapolis, Indiana: Hyena's Comedy Club: Fort Worth + Dallas Texas Sister clubs in Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. The Ice House (comedy club) Pasadena ...
The Improv is the stand-up comedy proving grounds. Founded by late comedy impresario Budd Friedman in New York City's Hell’s Kitchen in 1963 — the Improv hosted the likes of Lenny Bruce ...
Gerson Merton Lenord Friedman [3] [4] (June 6, 1932 – November 12, 2022), known professionally as Budd Friedman, was an American actor and comedian, as well as the founder and original proprietor and MC of the Improvisation Comedy Club, which opened in 1963, on West 44th Street near the SE corner of 9th Avenue, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
This is a partial list of New York Improv comedians and singers. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s they performed regularly at the Improvisation Comedy Club. The Improv was founded by Budd Friedman and his then wife Silver Saundors Friedman [1] in 1963, and was located at 358 West 44th Street, New York City, in an area known as Hell's Kitchen.
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.