Rick Newman, founder of comedy club that cultivated generation of stand-up comics, dies at 81
“What really bound us all together back in those days was this place we felt safe in, where the common goal was to just get laughs. And for me, there was no better place to do that than in New York at Catch,” Crystal said in a phone interview. “It was a gymnasium where you worked out your stuff.”Located on First Avenue between 77th and 78th streets on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Mr.
In 1976, an aspiring comic named Jerry Seinfeld chose Catch for his first try at stand-up. His friend Mike Costanza drove him there. He bombed. “I got up and all I could remember were the subjects that I wanted to talk about,” Seinfeld recalled later. “So I just stood there and went, ‘The beach … cars …’ I did about three minutes and I got off. And the sad thing is I’m not embellishing the story to make it funny.
“I write on the stage,” Brenner told the New York Times. “I just get up with some premises, start to talk, take questions from the audience, and some nights, if I’m really cooking I’ll get 15 minutes of new material. You can’t practice on the ‘Tonight Show’ or in Vegas. Catch is a place where you can be bad, and that’s how you get to be good.”
Irving Newman was born in the Bronx on Feb. 21, 1941, the youngest of four children. His father made ties in the garment district. His mother was a homemaker. Irving didn’t like his first name, so around age 6 he told people to call him Rick. The name stuck.
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