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The Boston Comedy Club was a venue for stand-up comedy in New York City, located at 82 W. 3rd St., the venue shut its doors in 2005.

"In 2005 (Al Martin) partnered with Barry Katz, executive producer of NBC’s Last Comic Standing to run Boston Comedy Club, giving Martin the bragging rights to being the first person to run three comedy clubs in New York City."

"Nick DiPaolo: Then I had a guy named Barry Katz who told me I should start going ... Yeah, right after I moved down, he started the Boston Comedy Club."

" Barry owned the Boston Comedy Club in NYC, when I was a young (shuddup) standup."

"Boston Comedy Club is a privately held company in New York, NY and is a ... Name: Barry Katz ... The Full Report for Boston Comedy Club is Now Available."

"In the early 90’s, he decided to quit performing and move to New York City, opening up the Boston Comedy Club in Greenwich Village, while simultaneously starting his own management company that immediately landed 4 clients on Saturday Night Live. "

"Later, I worked for Barry Katz's Boston Comedy Club (booking and managing), Comix (talent coordinator) and several spots in between."

"Jan 9, 1992 - NEW YORK -- The Saturday night crowd fills the Boston Comedy Club and a few comedians talk in the back of the ... Barry Katz works the door."

"From there, she was recruited by Barry Katz to book and manage his highly regarded Boston Comedy Club. Later, Savage ventured into television production; .."

"In the booking department, Rick Dorfman is working for Barry Katz as a booking agent for New York Entertainment and manager of Boston Comedy Club. One of the comics they represent is workshop veteran Casey Fraser."

Several movies and television shows have been filmed at the club. Numerous mainstream comedians have performed at the venue, including

Barry Katz, imdb:

A graduate of Boston University with a degree specializing in working with the disabled, Katz originally started his career with aspirations of being a stand-up comedian in Beantown, and it was there that he performed with such established artists as Denis Leary, Bob Goldthwait, and Steven Wright; while also managing various comedy clubs in the New England area for over a decade.

In the late 80's and early 90's, he decided to quit performing and move to New York City, opening up the Boston Comedy Club in the heart of Greenwich Village. Simultaneously, he started his own management company and immediately landed 4 clients on Saturday Night Live. This gave him the confidence to expand his operation to Los Angeles where he soon after signed a 4 year overall executive producer deal with Disney to develop television shows.

After 15 successful years at the helm of his own company, in 2003 Katz merged his business with New Wave Entertainment and over the next 8 years, helped build it into a respected full service talent management, digital distribution, and TV/film production company with over 25 managers, producers, and development executives. At the end of 2011, Katz left NWE to go back to running his own company again, this time under the banner of Barry Katz Entertainment.

Barry Katz Roast by Maija DiGiorgio

History
Tracey Metzger coordinated the Monday open-mic night.