If laughter is the best medicine, comedy spots should be considered essential businesses, comedian and director Mike Binder said. “I am so surprised that the governor and the mayor of the state and ...

Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Roseanne Barr, Chris Rock, Jim Carrey and Whoopi Goldberg are just a handful of the big name comics who got their start at Los Angeles' famed Comedy Store.