Ritch Shydner

Comedian + Actor

Male

Born Dec 3, 1952

Age 60

Hometown Pennsville, New J...

Genres Observational com...

Other Names Ritchie A. Shidner

Ritch Shydner is an American stand-up comedian, comic writer, and actor.

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Carol Leifer
Married 1981 - 1987

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Showbiz Crack Whores: A Week In La With Norm Macdonald Deadspin
Google News - Aug 10, 2011

'Among the others writers in the office during our week were Luke Cunningham, comedian Ritch Shydner (whose "HBO One Night Stand" special I totally remembered watching as a kid), and Dave Dameshek. Once the pilot was picked up, none of us from that'
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I Am Comic Sky Tv
Google News - May 27, 2011

'Director Jordan Brady, once a comic himself, enlists the help of 80s TV star Ritch Shydner to meet some of America's finest stand-ups to find out what it takes to get to the top of the stand-up circuit, and how hard it is to stay there'
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Browsing Books; Paperback Row
NYTimes - Jan 06, 2008

'FINAL EXAM: A Surgeon''s Reflections on Mortality, by Pauline W. Chen. (Vintage, $13.95.) To doctors, who are in the business of saving lives, death represents failure. ''''I learned from many of my teachers and colleagues to suspend or suppress any shared human feelings for my dying patients,'''' Chen, a liver surgeon, writes. ''''These lessons in denial'
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Best Sellers: October 15, 2006
NYTimes - Oct 15, 2006

'Weeks This Last On Week Week List FICTION 1 1 FOR ONE MORE DAY, by Mitch Albom. (Hyperion, $21.95.) A troubled man gets a last chance to reconnect and restore his relationship with his dead mother. 2 1 3 THE THIRTEENTH TALE, by Diane Setterfield. (Atria, $26.) A biographer struggles to discover the truth about an aging writer who has mythologized'
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CHILDHOOD

1952 Birth Born on December 3, 1952.

TWENTIES

1982 29 Years Old In 1982, he brought his act to Los Angeles. … Read More

FIFTIES

2010 57 Years Old Ritch was partly the focus of the 2010 documentary movie I Am Comic, in which he traveled around the country interviewing various comedians, a process that ultimately led to his return to stand-up by going on the stage again after 13 years of retirement. … Read More

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