Friars flex the funny muscle in NYC

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 25th, 2005

Lawrence Van Gelder, writing in the New York Times:

Jack Benny was there. So were Groucho Marx; Milton Berle; Alan King; George Burns and a number of other great comedians, living and dead. Raising spirits, literally and figuratively, onstage and on screen, the occasion was the “Friars Frolic,” the revival after a hiatus of some 50 years of a Friars Club tradition that dates to 1908, when Victor Herbert wrote the “Friars Song” for the very first of these revues.

Read the rest of this admittedly short piece here.