![]() ![]() “I walked past a couple of times because I just kept looking at this dank staircase and, ‘Oh, it’s just so icky,’ ” says Grundfest in the book. Once a music venue owned by Dworman’s father, Manny, who died in 2004, the Cellar’s comedy roots started in 1981, when a comedian named Bill Grundfest walked in and asked if he could start using the room for his standup act. ![]() Comic Nick DiPaolo (right) came up with the idea for the venue’s legendary “comedian’s table.” Menachem Dworman (2) Comedian Jim Norton (left) gave the Comedy Cellar life by plugging it on the radio. It’s also small compared to many other clubs, with a capacity of around just 150. Located on a MacDougal Street block whose bohemian cool long ago gave way to trashy NYU bong stores and cheap pizza, the dark, subterranean venue certainly doesn’t look like much. “It was like a long, slow overnight sensation,” the Cellar’s current owner, Noam Dworman, tells The Post. (At the Comedy Cellar)” (Scribe), out now, by Andrew Hankinson. Its history is detailed in the book “ Don’t Applaud. Today, the Greenwich Village hot spot is one of the most well-known comedy venues in the world, hosting names such as Kevin Hart and Dave Chappelle and turning away 1,000 people on an average Saturday night before the pandemic. Instead, he sat down with the tourist and had a conversation for 20 minutes. One night there was just a single person in the audience - a tourist from the Netherlands who barely spoke English.Ĭomedian Gregg Rogell was set to go on, but when he saw how empty the room was, he decided to skip telling jokes on stage altogether. In the mid-1990s, the Comedy Cellar was in a slump. Justin Long: ‘Dodgeball 2’ could happen if Ben Stiller ‘comes around’ ‘Blockbuster’ star Tyler Alvarez: ‘It’s an homage, and it’s hysterical Harry Potter actor Leslie Phillips dead at 98Ĭast clashes on ‘Curb’ so fiery Larry David once threatened to call 911: J.B. ![]()
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