Improv impresario Budd Friedman isn't happy with David Brenner's quotes about him in Richard Zoglin's new "Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America." "David Brenner calls me a Shylock … and says I'm still a b——-d. … We didn't get along too well. He wanted to be treated like Robert Klein, who was a big discovery. … If he shows up, I'll just laugh at him."

That's "showing up" as in Friedman's reception at L.A.'s Improv club t ...

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