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Budd Friedman, founder of the Improv comedy club, dies at 90

Por: Los Angeles Times Business November 14, 2022

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Budd Friedman, who earned the nickname the godfather of comedy by founding and expanding one of the most prominent comedy club franchises in the United States, has died. He was 90. Friedman's wife, Alix, told the Hollywood Reporter that the Improv comedy club founder died Saturday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he lived in Westwood. Erin von Schonfeldt, lead talent booker at the Hollywood Improv,... + full article



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