NYC comedy club that launched Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy could close

Jerry Seinfeld and Eddie Murphy once joked about buying the famed Manhattan comedy club where they got their start, and now the night spot might need new leadership, seriously.

Locked in a long-running legal battle with her late husband’s business partner, a co-owner of Comic Strip Live is asking a court to shutter the Upper East Side giggle joint.

Tess Wachs, widow of co-founder Bob Wachs, claims Richard and Jean Tienken have barred her from the premises, refuse to hand over club records, won’t track funds, and refuse to use a bookkeeper, according to her Manhattan Supreme Court papers.

That’s on top of Wachs’ allegations last year that the Tienkens had run the club into the ground financially and left it a rat-infested dump.

Because the couple refuses to work with her, Wachs argues that she has the right to dissolve the club’s corporation.

The Tienkens denied the 2018 accusations and their lawyer declined comment on Wachs’ latest legal papers.

In a recent episode of Seinfeld’s Netflix show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” Murphy said he’d return to stand-up if the circumstances were “right.”

“Everything just has to be right,” Murphy tells Seinfeld, adding, “You should buy the Comic Strip, and I’ll come and work out there.”

Seinfeld replied, “If you want to do that, I’ll do it. I’ll call it Jerry Seinfeld’s Comic Strip.”

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