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    The Friars Club was a private club in New York City. Famous for its risqué roasts, the club's membership is composed mostly of people who work in show...
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    the New York Friars Club's motion for summary judgment, which effectively forced the California club to cease operations under the "Friars Club" name...
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  • jeopardizes his chances of becoming a member of the New York Friars' Club when he accidentally takes a club jacket home with him, George hopes to spend more...
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  • Friars Club can refer to: Friars Club of Beverly Hills, also known as the "Friars Club of California" New York Friars Club The Friars (club), Louisiana...
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    Jeff Ross (category Comedians from Newark, New Jersey)
    comedy, his multiple appearances at celebrity roasts held by the New York Friars Club, the Comedy Central Roast television series, and the Netflix historical...
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    social clubs, including the University Club of Chicago, The Mansion on O Street in D.C., the Penn Club of New York City and the New York Friars' Club. Social...
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  • footage of Gottfried's telling of the joke at a Comedy Central/New York Friars' Club roast of Hugh Hefner which had been almost entirely censored when...
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    New York Friars Club). In 2010, Comedy Central's international affiliates began to produce and air their own local roasts as well. Comedy Central New...
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    Lampanelli began her stand-up career in New York in the early 1990s. She had a break-out role at the 2002 New York Friars' Club roast of Chevy Chase, and went...
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    significant contribution to comedy in television, and was roasted at the New York Friars Club. A television special, Betty White's 90th Birthday Party, aired on...
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  • celebrity. The roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars' Club. In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. In its...
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  • He was also a lifetime member of the board of governors of the New York Friars Club alongside Frank and Barbara Sinatra. Tebet died on June 7, 2005,...
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    cabaret world headlining in venues such as the New York Friars' Club and Michael Feinstein's late New York cabaret Feinstein's. She was the opening act...
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  • University of New Hampshire; he chose the Theater & Arts and Journalism there. He worked as a busboy to subsidize his studies at the New York Friars Club, where...
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    Central's televised broadcasts of Friars' Club roasts. On June 9, 2001, Belzer himself was honored by the New York Friars Club and the Toyota Comedy Festival...
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    May 2011. "54th Annual Drama Desk Awards Nominations Announced at New York Friars Club by Faith Prince and Jim Dale". Drama Desk. 27 April 2009. Archived...
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  • Ennis. In 2010, The Midnight Show was selected as a finalist in the New York Friars' Club Improv and Sketch Comedy Competition. In 2012, the group was nominated...
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    with her husband Mike Todd to New York City, where he was to be honored the following day by the New York Friars' Club. The plane crashed, and all passengers...
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    2006 (it returned with host Aisha Tyler in 2013). In 1998, the New York Friars' Club made Carey the newest inductee of the group's Comedy Central Roast...
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  • Though some sources refer to it casually as "Friar's Club", it was not related to the New York Friars Club. Located in a basement at 60 East Van Buren...
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    Slappy White (category People from Brigantine, New Jersey)
    the New York Friars' Club scene Van Gelder, Lawrence (November 9, 1995). "Slappy White, 74, Who Brought Black Humor Into White Clubs". The New York Times...
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    LaFong performed at Moreno's 100th birthday celebration at the New York Friars' Club (where he was made a lifetime member), and he was so impressed with...
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  • Central produced and televised the annual roasts of the New York Friars Club, which the club hosted since 1950. 1998 – Drew Carey, roastmaster Ryan Stiles...
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    host, nightclub performer and author, who was inducted into the New York Friars' Club in 1977 and wrote the book Borscht Belt in 1973. Adams grew up in...
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    and Tenafly High School. Jason spent many of his evenings at the New York Friars Club, and summers in the Catskills, where he worked as a cabana boy at...
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    Jerry Lewis (category Comedians from Newark, New Jersey)
    released from a hospital after collapsing from hypoglycemia at a New York Friars Club event. This forced him to cancel a show in Sydney. In an October...
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    Chevy Chase (category People from Bedford, New York)
    California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. He was roasted by the New York Friars Club for a Comedy Central television special in 2002. This roast was noted...
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    Mike Todd (category Accidental deaths in New Mexico)
    capacity before the fatal flight. Todd was on his way to New York to accept the New York Friars Club "Showman of the Year" award. Taylor wanted to go with...
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    Carl Ballantine, Slappy White, and Jackie Gayle appear in the New York Friars' Club scene. Billy Crystal first originated the character of Buddy Young...
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    Pat Cooper (category Military personnel from New York City)
    the club circuit who often worked with comics as their second act.[citation needed] He performed at many celebrity roasts at the New York Friars Club; he...
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