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 ...

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the Improv Comedy Club’s Los Angeles venue, on Saturday. A cause of death was not given. "The comedy world lost a giant today," the venue wrote, calling Friedman a "pioneer" and the "Godfather ...

helping to usher in the 1970s and ’80s comedy boom by showing that a club could thrive on stand-up alone — without musical acts on the bill — died Nov. 12 at a hospital in Los Angeles.

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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 Los Angeles.