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Richie Tienken, Whose Comedy Club Propelled Careers, Dies at 75
At the Comic Strip, which Mr. Tienken and two partners opened in 1976, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld and many others made a lot of people laugh.
Richie Tienken onstage at the Comic Strip in Manhattan in an undated photo. He and two partners opened the club in 1976, and a long list of careers began or were advanced there.Credit.via Tienken family
March 6, 2021
Richie Tienken, a founder of the influential Manhattan comedy club the Comic Strip, where Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and countless other leading comics did some of their earliest work, died on Feb. 27 in Ridgewood, N.J. He was 75.
In ‘Missed Translations,’ Sopan Deb reconnects with his estranged immigrant parents
Dec. 24, 2020Books Sopan Deb with his fiance Wesley and father. Photo courtesy of Sopan Deb
When you’re a stand-up comedian and the children of immigrants, you harvest your Hindu heritage for material for the stage. For Sopan Deb, he had an unhappy childhood, and didn’t talk to or see his parents for years once he started college.
In a new memoir, he tries to understand why his Indian parents had such an unhappy marriage, and how he could repair his relationship with both of them. His book is called “Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me.”