David Letterman, Howie Mandel and More Comics Share Comedy Store’s Impact on Their Careers

Howie Mandel is reflecting on the friends and comedy legends he's lost this year. Mandel opened up about the deaths of Bob Saget, Gilbert Gottfried and Louie Anderson during a recent interview with People magazine. "I never dreamed there would be a moment where I could list people who are just gone," Mandel, 66, told the outlet.

Howie Mandel has lost some good friends in recent months.

Howie Mandel gave back to his manager on Monday’s episode of “Celebrity IOU”.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDavid Hollander will no longer be an executive producer on the CBS comedy series “How We Roll,” Variety has confirmed with sources.The news comes shortly after it was reported that Hollander had been let go from his role as showrunner on the upcoming Showtime series “American Gigolo” following a misconduct investigation.Production has already wrapped on Season 1 of “How We Roll” and the show is awaiting word on a second season pick up. Should it return, Hollander will no longer be credited as an executive producer.Reps for CBS and CBS Studios declined to comment.Hollander had a longstanding relationship with Showtime, as he previously worked as showrunner and executive producer on the hit Showtime series “Ray Donovan.” That show ran for seven seasons and recently concluded with a feature length finale.

no deaths among the injured survivors of Tuesday’s deadly Brooklyn subway shooting, Stephen Colbert was able to find some humor while talking about that attack during Wednesday’s episode of “The Late Show.” And one of the funniest bits came when he poked fun at a weird technical malfunction experienced by NYC Mayor Eric Adams at the press conference announcing the shooting suspect had been arrested.By now you know that the suspect in Tuesday’s mass shooting, a man named Frank James, was arrested on Wednesday. So it is that NYPD held a big press conference bragging about his captured, but the announcement itself was reserved for Adams.

Contestants have the chance to win $1 million if they can lie well enough on “Bullsh*t: The Gameshow”.

Netflix has debuted the trailer for Bullsh*t The Game Show, which is the only trivia game where you could win $1M…without ever giving a correct answer.

An Islamic State fanatic has been found guilty of murdering MP Sir David Amess at a constituency surgery in Essex. Ali Harbi Ali stabbed the politician to death in a Leigh-on-Sea church on October 15 last year.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If David Letterman put together a Top Ten list of hospitals, Rhode Island Hospital would probably be No.

Todd Gilchrist No matter how many people tied to the Comedy Store you ask about the late Mitzi Shore, the connective tissue between their answers is an almost identical impression of the late owner.David Letterman offers one while son Pauly Shore insists that his is the best, but virtually without fail a moment will come while telling a story about the iconic venue’s co-founder and former owner that they affectionately lapse into a flat, slightly nasally Midwestern accent.The impression communicates their affection for her stalwart presence at the Store and her role in Los Angeles’ comedy scene for the past 50 years, as well as the no-nonsense relatability that made her feared and beloved in equal measures. “My mother was a dichotomy of riches,” says Peter Shore, who took over operations of the Comedy Store when she became ill in 2002 and now runs it actively, but at a distance, from his current hometown of Portland, Ore.“She had an innate ability to predict a comic’s trajectory and gave that individual through investment of time, love, attention, an opportunity to grow.

Todd Gilchrist The Comedy Store turns 50 this year, and it’s now known as a storied birthplace for the careers of literally hundreds of comedians — from David Letterman to Jim Carrey to Whoopi Goldberg to Sebastian Maniscalco.The late co-founder and longtime owner Mitzi Shore always envisioned the historic institution on L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard as an “artists colony,” a protected enclave where young talent could grow without worrying about money, consequently she mostly didn’t either.When Peter Shore came to Los Angeles in 2002 from Portland, Ore., to keep an eye on the business while his mother, Mitzi, convalesced, he and Bob Wheeler, the Store’s chief financial officer, would spend the next 10 years correcting the questionable decisions made decades in the past. “It is really just about preserving the place by any means necessary,” Shore tells Variety.Shore, who rarely agrees to interviews, was driven as much by how important the place is to thousands of comics who have come through its doors over the past five decades, and the millions of audiences that came night after night to see them, as it was to his mother, who passed away in 2018 at age 87.

David Letterman made his return to television to help Ellen DeGeneres navigate the end of . On Monday, the former host sat with his friend and offered her some sound advice on saying goodbye.  “I’m thrilled to be here, because anything I can do to help you in this moment, because it’s a bit emotional, I’m here for you, as I’ve always been,” Letterman told DeGeneres.Letterman, who ended his 30-year run as a late-night host in 2015, shared one thing he took away from his initial retirement.