This is a partial list of New York Improv comedians and singers. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s they performed regularly at the Improvisation Comedy Club. The Improv was founded by Budd Friedman and his then wife Silver Saundors Friedman[1] in 1963, and was located at 358 West 44th Street, New York City, in an area known as Hell's Kitchen.