[Image of: RSS Feed Icon] Toggle page view between regular and printer-friendly

Person Detail: Richie Tienken

Is this YOU? Click here to request an update to your information.

General Information:
Full Name: Richie Tienken
Biography:
(1945-2021) Comedian, author. Richie Tienken was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Author's Timeline:
1945 New York County
Richard John Tienken was born in Manhattan, New York, on June 11, 1945. 
1976 New York County
Mr. Tienken was a founder of the Manhattan comedy club the Comic Strip which opened in 1976. 
1975 Bronx County
Mr. Tienken had owned several bars in the Bronx, New York, in the mid-1970s. 
2012 (Unknown) County
Make 'Em Laugh: 35 Years of the Comic Strip, the Greatest Comedy Club of All Time
(Pub: Skyhorse ISBN: 1620870746 / 978-1620870747 )
Memoir written with Jeffrey Gurian. 
2021 (Unknown) County
Richie Tienken died in Ridgewood, New Jersey, on February 27, 2021. 
Featured Events
Saturday, February 4
Book Launch: “Alice and Fay, A Fairy Adventure” with Mare Davis
New York, NY
2:00 PM   |   View Details »
Thursday, February 16
Third Thursday Poetry Night
Albany, NY
7:30 PM   |   View Details »

Browse the NY Literary Events Calendar »
Browse the NY Special Events Calendar »
Browse National Recurring Events »

Explore New York
Albany Allegany Broome Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Clinton Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Erie Essex Essex Franklin Fulton Genesee Greene Hamilton Herkimer Jefferson Lewis Livingston Madison Monroe Montgomery Nassau Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Orleans Oswego Otsego Otsego Putnam Rensselaer Rockland St. Lawrence Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Seneca Steuben Suffolk Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Warren Washington Wayne Westchester Wyoming Yates See NYC Lit Map Bishop, Elizabeth Cornplanter, Jesse Melville, Herman Clemens (Mark Twain), Samuel Cooper, James Fenimore Gardner, John Barnes, Djuna Harte, Francis Brett Douglass, Frederick Whitman, Walt Paine, Thomas Nabokov, Vladimir Millay, Edna St. Vincent Ali, Agha Shahid View NYC Lit Map Go to home page View NYSCA website
CLOSE
Bronx County New York County (Manhattan) Queens County Kings County (Brooklyn) Richmond County (Staten Island) Poe, Edgar Allan Kubrick, Stanley Hart, Moss Moore, Marianne Craig Kang, Younghill Stein, Gertrude Corso, Gregory Da Ponte, Lorenzo de Burgos, Julia Singer, Isaac Bashevis Hansberry, Lorraine Parker, Dorothy McCarthy, Mary Schomburg, Arthur A. Baldwin, James Cather, Willa Sibert View NYS Lit Map Go to home page View NYSCA website
CLOSE
[Please Wait Spinner] Please Wait...