A vintage picture of the late Richard Pryor performing at the Comedy Store. (Evan Hurd Photography/Corbis via Getty Images) For 50 years, the Comedy Store has been a club in need of comics and a place ...

Mitzi Shore, c0-founder of The Comedy Store standup club in Hollywood, has died. Shore founded The Comedy Store in 1972 with her then-husband Sammy Shore, taking over full ownership in 1974 after ...

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, ...

The Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood has a facade adorned with the names of hundreds of great comedians who have passed through its doors. Mitzi Shore, the club’s longtime owner, ...

Two days before his five-part docuseries on the legendary Comedy Store is set to premiere on Showtime, Mike Binder is sitting outside an office park in Santa Monica, taking a break from editing the ...

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 ...

From the day it opened on April 7, 1972, the Comedy Store became something special to Los Angeles. For any comic looking to evolve from an open mic newbie to a bona fide monster, a chance to step on ...

Comedy Store matriarch Mitzi Shore’s indelible mark on the Hollywood stand-up circuit was cemented long ago. Numerous comics and stand-up titans credited the impresario, who died Wednesday at age 87, ...

Mike Binder's 'The Comedy Store,' a five-part Showtime docuseries about Hollywood's legendary Comedy Store, features interviews with David Letterman, Jim Carrey and other stand-up icons. By Daniel ...

Mitzi Shore, the comedy impresario who helped launch the stand-up careers of Robin Williams, David Letterman and more, and exerted widespread influence in the 1970s and 1980s as the owner of the ...

Mitzi Shore, the owner of The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, one of the most preeminent comedy clubs in the country, has died at the age of 87. The venue’s official Instagram account announced the news ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Mitzi Shore, the founder of the iconic Comedy Store in West Hollywood, has died. Shore's son, actor Pauly Shore, said on Twitter that his mother passed away early ...