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A team of veteran business journalists chronicling reinvention: personal and professional pivots in response to a rapidly changing economy.
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Changing the World Through Comedy (opens the original)
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For Zoe Friedman, comedy isn’t just a career or a passion. It’s her lifeblood and a powerful family legacy.In 1963, her parents, Budd Friedman and Silver Saundors, opened what would become America’s first comedy club: the Improv, originally called the Improvisation, on the site of a former Vietnamese restaurant in New York’s theater district. Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="
He Traded Documentary Filmmaking for a Knife-Sharpening Truck (opens the original)
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