Budd Friedman, the founder of The Improv comedy club, has died. Deadline confirmed his death with The Hollywood Improv. He was 90.
03.11.2022 - 20:01 / deadline.com
UPDATE: Comedian Chris Redd has opened up about the attack outside a New York City comedy club last week that left him bloodied and hospitalized.
“This man hit me in the face with something metal,” Redd says in a new interview with The Daily Beast. “I thought it was brass knuckles because of the way it cut my nose to the bone.”
The attack outside the famed Comedy Cellar occurred on Oct. 26 as Redd was heading inside to perform a show. The unknown assailant quickly approached the former Saturday Night Live cast member and sucker-punched him in the face, then fled the scene.
Redd tells The Daily Beast does not think the incident was an attempted mugging, and that he was less concerned about the pain than the amount of blood flowing from his face. (At Bellevue Hospital, he was treated for fractures in his nose and cheek).
“A fist don’t normally do all of that at one time,” Redd says. “So it was safe to assume I was hit with something…But the dude just hit me and ran off. I fell down so fast. I didn’t even know I fell until I looked at the [surveillance] footage.”
Redd says he initially wanted to proceed with the Comedy Cellar show, noting, “If we could have stopped the bleeding, I would have went on stage. I was like, I can’t wait to talk about this shit.” He says he was later glad he waited, “but that was my first thought.” The comic says he’s already working on jokes about the incident.
PREVIOUS, Oct. 28: Comedian Chris Redd, who was attacked outside the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village on Wednesday night, has been released from the hospital, the Los Angeles Times reported. Deadline has confirmed that the former Saturday Night Live castmember’s subsequent show at New York’s City Winery on Sunday has been canceled.
Budd Friedman, the founder of The Improv comedy club, has died. Deadline confirmed his death with The Hollywood Improv. He was 90.
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