Comedy Cellar

Comedy Cellar
Comedy Cellar entrance
Map
LocationManhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
TypeComedy club
Website
comedycellar.com
The Comedy Cellar stage as seen from the audience left

The Comedy Cellar is a comedy club in Manhattan where many top New York comedians perform, sometimes referred to as the "Harvard of comedy clubs".[1] It was founded in 1982 by then stand-up comedian, and current television writer/producer Bill Grundfest.[2] It is located in Greenwich Village on 117 MacDougal Street between West 3rd Street and Minetta Lane.[3] Above the club is a restaurant called The Olive Tree Cafe to which it is connected, where many of the comedians hang out after performing.[4] The club is owned by Noam Dworman, who inherited it from his late father Manny in 2003. It is being booked by Estee Adoram, who has developed the club's talent for nearly four decades. The businesses share the same menu, kitchen, and staff as the Olive Tree Cafe.

The Comedy Cellar, like The Comedy Store, uses a showcase format, as opposed to a headline format like most clubs. A show will consist of between five and seven comics performing sets of roughly 10 to 15 minutes each. Each week consists of three to six shows a night on Sunday through Thursday and ten shows each Friday and Saturday, between both the original room and the larger Village Underground around the corner.

  1. ^ Wallace, Amy (2014-06-04). "Dave Chappelle at the Comedy Cellar: The Funniest Night on Earth". GQ. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  2. ^ "What This Founder of an Iconic Comedy Club Believes All Companies Need to Succeed". Inc.com. 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  3. ^ "Comedy Cellar". New York. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  4. ^ Hankinson, Andrew (2017-08-21). "An Upset at the Comedians' Table". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-04-23.