Thursday, March 5, 2009

Ozone Park's comedy museum is no joke

From the NY Times:

There is actually a Museum of Comedy in New York City. Granted, its Queens location is a visual punch line waiting for a rim shot: tucked inside an Ozone Park stone-cutting business across the street from an overgrown and underappreciated cemetery.

But inside the offices of A. Ottavino Corporation — a place that looks like a wood-paneled throwback to the 1960s — was an actual, though modest, collection of posters and portraits honoring Groucho Marx, Abbott and Costello, Lucille Ball and John Cleese, among others.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Cheerio!, my name is Sillie Sallie, High Jestress of the Museum of Comedy. If you wish to join the Museum as a member, please do, we need your support. Members are welcome to all of our shows for free, and believe me when I say, "The More, The Merrier", because the more members we have, the more shows we can stage. Go to www.museumofcomedy.com or send a membership check for $50-MERRYMAKER or $100-GLEE CLUB to MUSEUM OF COMEDY c/o OTTAVINO STONEWORKS 80-60 PITKIN AVE. OZONE PRK, NY 11417 and attend all of our shows at no additional cost. We have put on 900 comedy shows in hospitals and homeless shelters. Huge one coming up this Tuesday, March 10th at 7PM at United Cerebral Palsey 122 E. 23 in NYC. It is our 15th Annual "Lilt of Irish Laughter" and the clients we serve at that location are among the nicest. The comics have at least 20 years experience and you will LAUGH!
XOX, Sillie Sallie
Museum of Comedy
(718) 268-2914