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If laughter is the best medicine, comedy spots should be considered essential businesses, comedian and director Mike Binder said. “I am so surprised that the governor and the mayor of the state and the city have not declared the comedy stores essential businesses. I think people need to laugh so hard and so bad,” he…

UPDATE: Dave Chappelle was the “special guest” on The Comedy Store's live broadcast, which is raising money to support The Comedy Store Family Fund. The special, currently airing now on YouTube, Twitch and www.comedystore.com, will be followed by an "on demand" broadcast through The Comedy Store Channel on Apple TV…

Sammy Shore, who co-founded the World Famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles has died. He was 92. The stand-up comedian passed away of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas and was surrounded by family, according to a tribute posted Saturday on The Comedy Store’s<a…

Coming to the stage next: a Showtime documentary series about the legendary Comedy Store. Mike Binder will direct the four-part project that’s eyed for 2020. The untitled series from Showtime Documentary Films brings to life the legends, heartbreak and history created at the Comedy Store. As a Comedy Store alum…

EXCLUSIVE: The Comedy Store announced today that they have partnered with the Motion Picture & Television Fund to create the Comedians Assistance Fund, which will provide financial assistance and social services to comedians with roots at the legendary club. The Comedy Store, headed by CEOPeter Shore, will provide…

Decades before leading his own multi-million media empire Entertainment Studios, Byron Allen was a teenage kid with a dream, standing in the parking lot of The Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd., watching his stand-up mentors go up on stage. As Jim Carrey tweeted today, “If she loved you, you did well. If she didn't, you did…

Updated: Jim Carrey, who cut his teeth with his genius physical impressions of Clint Eastwood, Bruce Dern, Henry Fonda and E.T. at the Comedy Store on his way to blockbuster stardom, has tweeted out his condolences and a painting of himself with Mitzi Shore. Carrey writes, “The great Mitzi Shore, owner of the famous…

Mitzi Shore, who founded the Los Angeles stand-up comedy club The Comedy Store in 1972, has died at age 87. She became a matriarch for a generation of comedians who began their careers on her stage and went on to become superstars. Comedians who graced her stage include Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling…