Comedy club
A comedy club is a venue—typically a nightclub, bar, hotel, casino, or restaurant—where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, impressionists, magicians, ventriloquists, and other comedy acts.[1] The term "comedy club" usually refers to venues that feature stand-up comedy, as distinguished from improvisational theatres, which host improv or sketch comedy, and variety clubs (which may also host musical acts).
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Audience and performers at a comedy club improv night
Types
Comedy clubs are usually broken down by comedians into "A rooms", "B rooms", and "C rooms":
- A rooms usually cater to people with movie deals, people with television shows, and generally well known acts.
- B rooms are where the best aspects of both A rooms and C rooms meet. Young comics need B rooms as a stepping stone. These are rooms where someone doing a 10- to 15-minute set (hosting/MCing) can be asked, after they've been going up long enough, to do a 20-minute set (featuring) and so on. These clubs also typically allow dirtier material, since they can become established names for "dirty" comedy or shows that usually cover adult themes.
- C rooms act as "neighborhood" comedy clubs, for the most part. The headliners are not usually very well known or popular, and the audiences are random walk-ins.
List of notable clubs
- Bananas Comedy Club
- Carolines on Broadway
- Catch a Rising Star chain
- Cobb's Comedy Club
- Coconuts Comedy Club
- Comedy Cellar
- Comedy Club Russia
- The Comedy Clubhouse (Barcelona)
- The Comedy Store
- The Comedy Store (London)
- The Comic Strip Live
- Comedy Works in Denver, Colorado, U.S.
- Dangerfields
- The Empire in Belfast
- The Funny Bone
- The Glee Club chain
- Gotham Comedy Club
- Governors Comedy Club
- The Improv
- Jongleurs chain
- The Laff Stop
- The Laugh Factory
- Off the Wall Comedy Empire, Jerusalem, Israel
- The Punchline
- The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne
- The Stress Factory
- The TakeOut Comedy Club Hong Kong
- Yuk Yuk's
References
- Strauss, Duncan (November 3, 1988). "Comedy: The Clubbing of America". Rolling Stone.
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