Budd Friedman, the Broadway producer who founded The Improv comedy club franchise and kickstarted the careers of some of Hollywood’s biggest comic voices, died of heart failure Saturday in Lo…
Friedman’s legacy is in the red brick walls of the Improv comedy club franchise, which evolved to encompass 22 locations across 12 states prior to Friedman and co-partner Mark Lonow selling the company to Levity Entertainment Group in 2018. Friedman founded the original New York venue at West 44th Street and Ninth Avenue in 1963, which remains the flagship location for the chain.
“That’s how I became a comedy genius, ladies and gentlemen, because of Dave Astor,” Friedman said previously. “I didn’t have the idea of opening [a venue] for comics. I got tired of singers singing the same songs all the time, but I could listen to a comic do the same jokes over and over because there was always a nuance I could pick up on.”
The outpouring of tributes from creatives whom Friedman had helped to achieve their potential was overwhelming. Apatow, actor Rob Schneider and comic Richard Lewis were among the voices that offered fond reflections of Friedman’s fatherly warmth and selfless desire to see others succeed.
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