The musical spoof of the Woodstock festival starred John Belushi, Christopher Guest and Chevy Chase, and led to productions including National Lampoon’s Class of ’86 and Sid Caesar & Company: The Legendary Genius of Comedy, as well as Flip Wilson’s Live at the Village Gate (1964) and Dick Gregory’s Live at the Village Gate (1970).
The Village Gate, 1958-1993 The jazz institution and former flophouse began promoting theater in 1967 and comedy in 1971, when National Lampoon’s Lemmings kicked off a two-year run. Bruce was posthumously pardoned in 2003, Governor George Pataki calling the first in the state’s history “a declaration of New York’s commitment to upholding the First Amendment.” (152 Bleecker)
Bruce died of a morphine overdose during the appeals process the New York Supreme Court overturned Solomon’s case six years later.
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A six-month trial (during which Bruce lived at 5 West 8 th Street’s Marlton Hotel) found both Bruce and owner Howard Solomon guilty of obscenity on November 4. (116 MacDougal)Ĭafé au Go Go, 1964-1969 In March 1964, following prior arrests in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago, Lenny Bruce was jailed following the second performance of his six-week run at the month-old, 375-cap Café au Go Go. Within a year Cosby appeared on The Tonight Show and released debut album Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow…Right!, recorded around the corner at The Bitter End.
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The coffeehouse didn’t serve alcohol, and windows opening into the above apartments’ air shafts required patrons to snap instead of applaud. In 1962 he dropped out of Temple University and moved from Philadelphia to New York, where he was discovered by Carl Reiner at the subterranean Gaslight Café, a former coal cellar that fit 90 and frequently hosted a young Bob Dylan. The Gaslight Café, 1958-1971 Bill Cosby began telling jokes as a college bartender at Philadelphia’s The Cellar. The 70-seat cabaret theater also booked Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, husband-and-wife duo Stiller & Meara, and saw the live debut of Allan Sherman’s “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah.” Following a short stint (also in 1961) at Chicago’s Second City, Joan Rivers quickly counted the gay-friendly Duplex-located a few doors down from the Stonewall Inn-among her home clubs, and returned to perform there for fifty-plus years. The Duplex, 1950 to Present Already a teenage writer for The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show, 26-year-old Woody Allen first took to the stand-up stage in 1961 at The Duplex. The venue received NYC landmark status in 1992.
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As the painted mural over the bar confirms, “We all played the Bitter End” some even broke into TV via owner Fred Weintraub’s talent coordination of 1963-1964 ABC performance series Hootenanny. The Bitter End, 1961-Present Veterans of the original brick-wall backdrop: George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers, Cheech & Chong, Elayne Boosler, Albert Brooks, Dick Cavett, Jay Leno, Freddie Prinze, Rita Rudner, Soupy Sales, Billy Crystal, Rip Taylor, Lily Tomlin, Steven Wright, Flip Wilson, Mort Sahl, Gilbert Gottfried, Henny Youngman, even Jon Stewart, Ray Romano and Greg Proops. Originality, experimentation and passion drove performers to spearhead the reinvention of their entire industry, the momentum of which reverberates today in every independent comedy room, every weekly bar show and every local coffeehouse open mic. Sharing stages from the early Fifties to the early Seventies with the likes of Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Jimi Hendrix, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, and Bruce Springsteen wasn’t about being cool or-particularly in the “basket house” economy of receiving pay via donation-getting rich. The 5 Most Historically Important Venues in NYC Comedy | Julie SeabaughĪ celebrated neighborhood for folk musicians, Beat writers and civil rights/Vietnam protesters, New York City’s Greenwich Village also drew comedians disillusioned by the ideological confines of traditional nightclubs.
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