NYC Comedy Club Owner Robert Wachs Dies at 73

He co-founded The Comic Strip in New York City in 1975, became Eddie Murphy's manager and produced several of his films. Robert Wachs, a co-founder of the famed New York nightclub The Comic Strip who went on to manage Eddie Murphy and produce several of the stand-up comic's films, died Dec. 2 in Manhattan. He was 73. Wachs died of pancreatic cancer, his wife Tess told The New York Times. Wachs kicked Murphy, then 18, out of the Upper East Side comedy club in 1979 when he tried to sneak onstage...