New club in NY state

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on July 25th, 2007

Normally, we wouldn’t be posting about just any new comedy club, but this one is significant because a comic (Rich Francese) is opening it and it’ll draw on talent from NYC.

The Manhattan Comedy Club, as Francese plans to call it, would be Orange County’s first full-blown comedy club, competing with Bananas in Poughkeepsie and the new Catch a Rising Star at the Monticello racino.

Racino? That’s not a typo, that’s a made-up word that describes a race track that’s been outfitted with slots. It will be located near Middletown, NY, which means that comics in the city can get there in about 90 minutes.

Read the entire Times Herald Record article.