Rick Jenkins

Rick Jenkins wants to make sure everyone feels like they’re at home. There’s a bowl of candy set out for people to pick at, Charlie Chaplin’s playing on a mounted TV in one of the corners of the room, some seats are reserved and marked off, scorpion bowls are ushered out to the throat-parched, and but soon Chaplin will be shut off, the room will fill, the lights will darken, The Stendals will start to play, and the first comedian — Rick, the host — will take the stage.

Jenkins is the manager and host of evenings at The Comedy Studio. Located atop the Hong Kong Restaurant in Cambridge, MA, The Comedy Studio has been called “the greatest comedy club on earth” by the senior producer of Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Frank Smyley, but quotes like that don’t speak to how it relates to the rest of the city, who the man who runs the show is, and what a show up on the third floor is like — a friendly, welcoming environment hosted by a friendly, welcoming man who only asks for a certain degree of decorum — pants, at least. Please.
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I’m done covering this story. There’re other sources out there that can count as ‘news’ on the matter. The rightful and final word on this belongs to Zebro:

P.S. Sean has a nice post over here.

Every Tuesday night, a group of Emerson students get together and put on a sketch show down at the ImprovBoston called Zebro. Wonderful stuff and wonderful people. They just got an interview of theirs in the Metro, which they’ve posted as a buffer to their website. Go on over and check it out.