ORGANIZATION

Men's club for comedians, founded in 1904. Began accepting women members in 1988.

Official Website:
http://www.friarsclub.org/

Founding Date:
1904

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joey Adams	Comic	6-Jan-1911	2-Dec-1999	Borscht Belt comedian
Steve Allen	Talk Show Host	26-Dec-1921	30-Oct-2000	The Tonight Show
Andy Borowitz	Comic	4-Jan-1958		The Borowitz Report
Red Buttons	Actor	5-Feb-1919	13-Jul-2006	They Shoot Horses Don't They?
Sid Caesar	Comic	8-Sep-1922	12-Feb-2014	Your Show of Shows
J. Fred Coots	Songwriter	2-May-1897	8-Apr-1985	Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Bing Crosby	Singer	3-May-1903	14-Oct-1977	White Christmas
Billy Crystal	Comic	14-Mar-1947		When Harry Met Sally
Phyllis Diller	Comic	17-Jul-1917	20-Aug-2012	The original female stand-up comic
Richard Dreyfuss	Actor	29-Oct-1947		Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jimmy Durante	Comic	10-Feb-1893	20-Jan-1980	Everybody wants ta get inta da act
Whoopi Goldberg	Actor	13-Nov-1955		Sister Act
Buddy Hackett	Comic	31-Aug-1924	30-Jun-2003	Abrasive old school comic
Dean Haglund	Actor	29-Jul-1965		Langly on The X-Files
Bob Hope	Comic	29-May-1903	27-Jul-2003	Centenarian comic
Alan King	Comic	26-Dec-1927	9-May-2004	Jewish comic and Friars Club fixture
Larry King	Talk Show Host	19-Nov-1933		Larry King Live
Richard Lewis	Comic	29-Jun-1947		Such a nice young man
Liza Minnelli	Singer	12-Mar-1946		Cabaret
Agnes Nixon	Film/TV Producer	10-Dec-1927		Daytime soap operas
Martha Raye	Actor	27-Aug-1916	19-Oct-1994	Monsieur Verdoux
Carl Reiner	Actor	20-Mar-1922		Your Show of Shows
Don Rickles	Comic	8-May-1926		King of the Insult
Al Roker	TV Personality	20-Aug-1954		Today Show weatherman
Jeffrey Ross	Comic	13-Sep-1965		Roastmaster General
Soupy Sales	Comic	8-Jan-1926	22-Oct-2009	Inveterate pie thrower
Adam Sandler	Comic	9-Sep-1966		The Wedding Singer, SNL alumnus
Frank Sinatra	Singer	12-Dec-1915	14-May-1998	It's Frank's world, we just live in it
Larry Storch	Actor	8-Jan-1923		Corporal Agarn on F Troop
Jonathan M. Tisch	Business	7-Dec-1953		CEO of Loews Hotels
Abe Vigoda	Actor	24-Feb-1921		Fish on Barney Miller (not dead yet)

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