Newsday from New York, New York • 105

ViY As the Toyota Comedy Festival gets under way wet our New most famous comedy landmarks Tba Ei SuMvas Theater ham ft DwM Ui a Bite ana would Bad PART 2 NY NON YORK NEWSDAY FRIDAY JUNE 3 ISM Sinatra) to wrtKMtai (Howard Co- sell) But beat known for ita como-iBimi including officers Alan King and Henny Youngman abbot emeritua Milton Berfo (1118 Firat Avis) the namenaka of the fanner Jacob Cohen of Babylon Long TmIutmI is till gning strong after many years But the legendary Citdi a Kang Star (formerly 1487 First ia no more THE COMIC SIMP (1568 Second Ave between 81st and 82nd Streets) Another longtime New York comedy dub APOLLO THEATER (253 125th St) The jewel of the onetime a sort of Negro League for com- ics such aa Redd Faxx and Moms Mab-ley the Apollo began in 1913 as the burleaque and vaudeville New Theater In 1976 the Apollo dosed but soon waa reopened and revived The syndicated variety aeries Showtime at the ia taped there with stand-up-comic boats KASFMAS-ASTdRIA STUDIOS (34-12 36th St Queens) Designated a Nar tional Historic Landmark in 1976 this former home of Paramount Pictures is where the Marx Brothers filmed Cocoanuta" (1929) and (1930) Director DW Griffith shot WC first starring vehicle here of the In the 1930a aa the Astoria Eastern Services Studios it cranked out movie shorts starring George Bums and Grade Allen Jack Benny Milton Berie Bob Hope and Danny Kaye Recent sitcoms shot here include Days and Nights of MoQy and the last several seasons of Cosby which began at HBC STUDIOS (1268 14th St Brooklyn) Founded in 1903 as the Vitagraph studio this legendary facility housed Cosby from 1984-87 As we turn the bus around and bead hfk to Manhattan drop you off at the Deli immortalized by Woody Danny Then at least know how to get to Carnegie Deli fVnnl Lnuioe ii a free-lance writer Jsaelfc'- Evsning with Pann Beacon Theater (Broadway IMIs Evening with Bobby CoBins (1626 Broadway) 8 and 1030 pm $15 ptustwodrink minimunL Jsaell: Nickalodeon Weinervflia Weekend Extravaganza-: Smrih Street Seaport Pier IA Ambrose Stage 2 and 4 pm frsa Evening with Elan Town Hat (123 43rd SI) pnv $25 K- JsssIZ: Night Improv Presents the Lsgsnds of West End Gits (2811 Broadway between 113th and 1 14th Strsst 7 pm $6 The birthplace of American Jewish comedy Second Avenue in what is now the East Village was home to Yiddish-language plays and musicals Nicknamed Jewish the Yiddish theater district was bora Aug 12 1882 when an amateur group performed at the German athletic dub at 66 Fourth St Professional Yiddish theater began five years later after a Czarist ban an Jewish actors prompted many Jews to emigrate here Yiddish playhouses eventually lined the avenue HOHMATALMADSE STUMO site (318 48th St) On our way back Uptown we pass by the site of a loft building between First and Second Avenues where producer Joseph Schenck made silent comedy shorts starring Boscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle and where in 1917 a vaudeville friend of by the name of Buster Keaton mads his very first pictures starting with Butcher THE FRIARS CUM (57 55th St) Founded in 1904 by a group of New York press agents the well-known phil- anthropic club includes all sorts of show-bix types from singers (Frank at 433 34th St HEW AMSTERDAM THEATER (214 42nd St) Now vacant awaiting Times Square redevelopment this art nouveau palace was built for vaudeville in 1903 Ten years later master showman Florens Ziegfeld made it the site of his famous annual for 14 years showcasing the likes of Will Rogers Fields and Fanny Brice IEECIER STREET The Greenwich Vil-lage thoroughfare is the home of jazx dub md former comedy spot The Bitter End (at 149) where Woody Allen Bob Newhart and others recorded cam-edv lHnna and wintlnis others including Bill Cosby Richard Pryor George Carlin and Dick Cavett played the long-gone Cafe Au Go-Go (at 152) where Lenny Bruce was busted for obscenity in 1964 and the now-struggling comedy-music venue The Village Gate (at 160) where Allen Cody Mort Sahl and others performed Nearby at 178 Seventh Ave is the Village Vanguard a jau dub that has featured Sahl Wally Cox Irwin Corey and other comics RECORD AVERSE YIDDISH THEATERS Garland during her legendary 19-week variety show (Oct 16 1951 through Feb 24 1962) A movie theater from 1957-65 it waa then bought by the No- nrpnintiAii nd tanned infal a legit theater The musical and the currently plays there THE BUIE AHOEL rite (152 65th SU From 1943 until it closed in 1964 the nightehih of Herbert Jacoby and Max Gordon helped launch Carol Burnett Mibi Nichols and Flaine May Kaye Ballard Pat Carroll Wally Cox Phyllis Diller Dick Gregory and many others It played host to Lenny Bruce for two weeks in February I960 Senator and later Praaident John Kennedy waa a regular An unrelated Blue Angel operated at 123 54th St from 1973 until it burned down in 1975 killing seven Another currently at 323 44th St ia the taping site of atand-up-comedy aeries Night MFROHSATHHI site (358 44th St) Just about everyone haa passed through owner Bud long-running club at one time or another Danny Aiello was a bouncer there for a while starting in 1969 The Improv recently dosed at this site and reopened Anton Sarah Sfeemwn Dev-'1 Chappals Paul Koriowskl Georgs Gallo Jkn Bnisr Rick Shapiro: Comic Skip (1568 Second Ams batwsan 81st and 82nd Strssts) 9 plus Iwodrink v' Value: An Evening wWi John Caroline's (1628 Broadswy) 8 and 10 pjn $17 JO plus two-drink minimum Fftcs-hoetad by Flrsddia Romen Dsan of the Rfars Club starring Alan King Joy Bshar Dick Capri -y -PTOtsasorkwin Corsy BB Dana as Jose Jknsnsz Louiso IXiart Gaoige Wislacs Hsnny Youngmwi and others: Avsiy Fisher Hal (Broadway at 06th StrseQ 8 pjn $40 $36 and $30 improvisation-: Chicago' CRy UmRsl LimRs 061 74th SL) pm $16 Tm Wp" featuring Nancy Msrano and EckSa Monteko Jay Lsonhart Bob -s' John 4 $15 plus two-drink minimum V'-- Tommy Davidson: (1026 Broadway)Sand10a0pjn $18 pfastwo- drink minimum With Jim Morris and BaNroom at too Regency Holat v1 Unman Janaana Garotrio and Gay Trieaa: Tbs Groat He at Coopar lWon (7 540 Risk Amu) 8 am $30 1 lor people wWh cancer and mar tsimieu Twnvwiltoi Comedy wi Craig -it I.