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Rock, Esquire's Summer cover star, sat down for a new episode of "Explain This," where celebrities run down moments from their careers. When we showed Rock a picture of himself and Sandler from 2018's The Week Of, he launched into two incredible stories about Sandler. (Followed by a half dozen compliments.) In the first story, Rock remembered the first time he saw Sandler perform stand-up. It was at New York's legendary Comic Strip Live, where comedians like Rock and Sandler worked their way into the public eye. Rock says it took a year or two to perform at the club on a weekend night. One t...

Utica native Theresa Moriarty talks about starring in 'Made in Chinatown' which is due out May 11th Leading actress in new movie set to debut on May 11th called 'Made in Chinatown' is originally from Utica. Posted: Apr 30, 2021 6:32 PM Posted By: Gary Liberatore Utica native Theresa Moriarty talks about starring in 'Made in Chinatown' which is due out May 11th Utica, N.Y. - A new movie is set to come out on May 11th called 'Made in Chinatown', starring Tony Darrow of Goodfellas, Vincent Pastore of the Sopranos, and Theresa Moriarty, originally from Utica. Moriarty, a 2006 graduate of Proctor...

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 so...

Comedy club owners are waiting for their chance to reopen. The governor's arts initiative has them feeling like a laughing stock.

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 ...