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Slice of Long Island comedy history

Denis Hamill interviews Richie Miniervini for the NY Daily News and they talk about the East Side.

Eddie Murphy, Ray Romano, Kevin James, Rosie O’Donnell, Paul Reiser, Jim Carrey and director Judd Apatow (of “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up” fame) all made their comedy bones in the 1980s and early ’90s in Huntington, L.I., at Minervini’s legendary East Side Comedy Club, which closed in 1995.

Students of comedy history will get a kick out of the piece.