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.
Whatâs a Kid From the Bronx Doing Hanging Out With Sir Anthony Hopkins?
Born and raised in New York, I had the good fortune of being able to go to lots of Broadway shows. And like a lot of people, I kept the playbills and tee shirts from almost all of them. So, during the COVID-19 lockdown, I decided to go through some old boxes and found one from the play âEquus.â But âEquusâ was not just another play that I went to. âEquusâ and its star, Anthony Hopkins, changed my life.
Like most Bronx kids, I was given the gift of