By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent,Updated November 24, 2021
CAMBRIDGE — The Comedy Studio is coming home. That’s how it feels to club owner Rick Jenkins after signing a lease for a new space in Harvard Square at the former Curious George store that will allow the Studio to open a new chapter in its 25-year history sometime in the fall of 2022.
Jenkins originally founded the club in an attic space above the Hong Kong Restaurant in 1996 and left in 2017 to open a new space in Somerville at Bow Market in 2018. When the pandemic closed down live entertainment in 2020, it cast doubt on the Studio’s future in Somerville.
That’s when the space in Harvard Square opened up. “I am so excited about it,” says Jenkins. “It really feels like this is where we always belonged.”
The opportunity to return to the neighborhood where he started and had made so many memories was too much for Jenkins to pass up. “Walking through Harvard Yard to the club every night,” says Jenkins, “Colin Jost coming across the street from the school to do a set, Dan Mintz, [the voice of] Tina from ‘Bob’s Burgers,’ coming from the [Harvard] Lampoon building during the break and doing a set. The Comedy Studio really grew up as part of the Harvard Square community.”
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