The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up By Budd Friedman

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Featured in the New York Times 2017 "Holiday Gift Guide for Hardcover Fans" Get an insider's oral history of the World's most iconic comedy club, featuring exclusive interviews with today's most hilarious stars recalling their time on stage (and off) at the Improv. In 1963, 30-year-old Budd Friedman—who had recently quit his job as a Boston advertising executive and returned to New York to become a theatrical producer—opened a coffee house for Broadway performers called the Improvisation. Later shortened to the Improv, its first seedy West 44th Street location initially attracted the likes of Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Albert Finney, and Jason Robards, as well as a couple of then-unknowns named Dustin Hoffman and Bette Midler. While it drew near-capacity crowds almost from day one, it wasn't until comedians began dropping by to try out new material that the Improv truly hit its stride. The club became the first venue to present live stand-up in a continuous format, and in the process reinvented the art form and created the template for all other comedy clubs that followed. From the microphone to the iconic brick wall, the Improv has been the launching pad for practically every major name in American comedy over the last five-plus decades. Now, in The Improv, Friedman, along with a Who's Who of his most famous alumni—including Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Larry David, Billy Crystal, Lily Tomlin, Judd Apatow, Al Franken, Paul Reiser, Howie Mandel, Bob Saget, Drew Carey, and many more—tell it like it was in the first-ever oral history of how this game-changing comedy club came to be. The Improv gives readers an exclusive look at what really happened onstage and off-mic at one of America's most venerable institutions.

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Fans who can take Budd's ego for 300+ pages will enjoy the comments and anecdotes throughout from others. However, On page 278 we find this ASTOUNDING sentence:"We wouldn't know for certain [who started the Improv fire] until 2014, nearly 30 years after the incident, when Ollie Joe [Prater] confessed to setting the fire on his deathbed in a Los Angeles hospital."AMAZING! That should have made every paper on earth. "Man Confesses to Crime 23 Years AFTER He Dies!"Ollie Joe Prater died in 1991, not 2014, in Albion, Michigan, not Los Angeles. And he died of a stroke. There was no "Deathbed Confession" to anything. Is the rest of Budd's blather this accurate and reliable? Anyone can double check these facts. Just google "Ollie Joe Prater Death."Ollie Joe Prater was my friend, a very good friend. Ollie got me my doorman job at The Comedy Store when he told Mitzi she should hire me. I suppose that if he MUST be libeled in Bud's book, at least it's in a sentence which got the spelling of his name correct and nothing else!The book was not boring (Though I skipped chapter one, as I did not care about Budd's life before the Improv), and there are some great stories inside it, along with the lies and the libels and Budd's still grinding his ax against Mitzi Shore, who herself is too sick to read and comprehend anything, let alone defend herself. Ollie also is too dead to defend himself against Budd's lies, which is why I'm stepping up here for my friend.Curious is the utter absence of Mark Lonow. Mark was Budd's partner in the Hollywood Improv, and the photo of the Hollywood club in the book shows his name on the building equal in size to Budd's, Yet apart from Budd noting that Mark "declined" to participate in the book, we hear NOTHING about him. I'd love to hear Mark's side, since clearly that relationship is in tatters also.

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