For the stand-up comics who had spent years giving away their jokes for free at Mitzi Shore’s Comedy Store, the Norma Rae moment came late one night at Canter’s Deli. A few of the Store regulars were ...

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Comedy Store founder and owner Mitzi Shore has died. She was 87. Shore founded the influential club on the Sunset Strip in 1972, helping to launch the careers of legends like Robin Williams, Jay Leno, ...

For those of us comics whose careers started at The Comedy Store, the Sunset Strip was dark on April 11th, when the owner, Mitzi Shore died. She contributed profoundly to many lives, including mine.

The actor, who grew up at the famed Comedy Store owned by his mother Mitzi, remembers Robin Williams's early days of stand-up in the '70s Jim Britt/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Actor ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mitzi Shore, owner of the Los Angeles club the Comedy Store and one of the most influential figures in stand-up for more than four decades, has died. Spokeswoman Jodi Gottlieb ...