The Key of Awesome! The Key of Awesome makes comedy video parodies. Their Kesha parody of her hit song Tik Tok got 63,000,000 views (that’s not a typo!) and still rising. Their Lady Gaga video parodies get around 20 million hits plus and the star of those videos is...
Strip Action On any given night you never know who you’ll see at The Comic Strip. One night recently we got the word that Kevin Hart would be stopping by, and as soon as people found out, the club was sold out. And that was on a Monday night. Then again, Kevin has...
Comic Strip Talent Branches Out Ray Ellin hosts lots of shows at The Strip and that in itself is a great talent. Hosting a show is so difficult because you have to have a lot of material, and you have to be likable, and Ray excels at both. I wasn’t surprised to see that he...
Comic Strip in the Friars Film Festival Charlie Prince is an amazing guy. At the risk of being pulled offstage by a big hook, he’s what you might even call a “Prince” of a guy. He’s an entertainment lawyer, who with his team of people including Susannah Gora, Eric...
Long Story Short Not Long Enough Lest my headline be misleading, Long Story Short would be too short no matter how long it was. I LOVE Colin Quinn. Not in a Biblical way, but in the way you love someone who embodies the kind of talent you would aspire to have if you...
Synchronicity in Montreal I seem to have a knack for running into people. There are other knacks I’d like to acquire, but when there’s a pattern in your life, you’re supposed to recognize it, and acknowledge it, and it’s definitely a pattern in my life. Richie Tienken,...
Ray Romano Comes To The Strip Ray Romano accidentally made $7 for his very first paid gig ever in his career, at The Comic Strip. He was supposed to be doing a non-paid “late night” spot, when the last booked comic of the evening didn’t show up, and Ray was asked to take...
Comic Strip Documentary Blows Up We were excited enough when Chris Rock agreed to exec. produce the documentary film for the 35th anniversary of The Comic Strip. Now Abby Russell and Brent Sterling-Nemetz of Letterbox Pictures, who are actually shooting the film have really...
Kevin Hart Sells Out Westbury It’s hard to describe the excitement of producing a comedy show for 2,800 people, especially when all 2,800 people show up! The Kevin Hart Live show was months in the making and I could not have done it without my partner Jean Alerte and his...
