Name: Bill Burr - The East Side Comedy Club
Uploaded: 2016-09-09T04:55:54.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - The East Side Comedy Club' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-09-09. Transcript available.

Get to the Long Island shows here, you know, I'm getting ready to do this
special, and I had Vinnie Mark open it for me, we were having a great time
talking about the old days, and he was really just such a fucking nice guy to
me, because I was telling you when I first started out, but he knows all the
Long Island stand-up history, because he was a part of it, and he was saying
right down the street, and I always heard about this place, it was the Eastside
Comedy Club.
This was this place out in Long Island, where like fucking everybody got their
start, Eddie Murphy, Ray Romano, Kevin James, Rosie O'Donnell, Paul Reiser, Jim
Carrey, this guy, Richie Minervini, I'm going to say his fucking name wrong, I
can't read, Minervini,
Oh fuck, where's the article? This is the wrong goddamn article here.
Alright, I'll just read you this article, it says, Richie Minervini should have
worked for NASA because he helped launch the careers of so many big name New
York comics, and it's the ones I just mentioned, right?
And Eddie Murphy, Ray Romano, Kevin James, Rosie O'Donnell, Paul Reiser, Jim
Carrey, director Judd Apatow, a lot of people didn't know, he started to do
stand-up again, but he did that before, you know, he did stand-up initially
before he did the 40-year-old Virgin, knocked up in all those huge movies, and
now he's back to doing stand-up while also making all these great movies.
So anyways, all of their comedy bones, made their comedy bones in the 1980s and
90s in Huntington, Long Island, at the legendary East Side Comedy Club, which
closed in 1995.
Richie said, I was in real estate in 1979, but I wanted to be a comedian, a top
comic who plays all the A-list casinos and works the cruise ship circuit.
That was pretty much as high up as anybody got back then.
He goes, I got sick of driving into the city, trying to get on stage at the Improv
or Catch a Rising Star, so I found this restaurant in Huntington and made it
into a comedy club.
Jackie Mason headlined his grand opening.
Jackie asked how I was going to pay him his 10 grand fee with an $8 cover for
135 seats.
Richie said, I have no idea what I was doing, so I said, I don't know.
And then Jackie was cool and said he told me to pay him next year, which I did.
His first regular night of stand-up, listen to this, his first fucking show he
ever booked at this club.
This is how legendary East Side Comedy Club was.
This was the show, Eddie Murphy, right there, over, legendary show.
Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie the Joke Man, Martling, Paul Reiser, Rob Bartlett, Bob
Nelson, and himself.
Each person did eight minutes, and he said, I never dreamed that most of those
guys would go on to become
big-time superstars.
And then he had all these great stories.
He said, vividly remembers Eddie Murphy's shoes.
He said, just before he went on stage, Eddie would take a brand new pair of
shoes out of the box,
wear them on stage.
It was a different pair every night.
Finally, I found out he worked in a shoe store,
and he'd put them back on the shelf the next day.
How fucking hilarious is that?
He said, Ray Romano would go on stage wearing a snazzy blazer.
He'd take it off, hang it on the chair.
So he would just walk out wearing it.
He'd hang it on the chair.
He'd do his act, then carry his jacket off stage.
And then you'd see the price tag on the inside.
Ray'd return it the next day for a refund.
This guy, Richie, told Jerry Seinfeld that he was hilarious, but he needed to
be more dirty.
And Jerry was like, yeah, but then when I do the Tonight Show, I'll have to
clean it up,
and it'll hurt my timing.
And he said, Richie just smirked and said, sure, Jerry, sure.
Like, you know, you're actually going to get on the Tonight Show, which, of
course, he did.
Then he just had a bunch of kind things to say about Kevin James and all those
guys saying
they haven't changed at all.
But what's-his-face took me down the street and showed me, like, the location
where the
first thing was.
And I'm like, I'm such a fucking nerd for the past, you know, especially if it's
something
that I'm into.