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Now I’ve heard everything: Jon Lovitz is starting up his own comedy club at Universal CityWalk in late May. Called “The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club”, it’s his first venture into nightclub ownership. According to the news release this morning, he’ll perform regularly at the new 400-seat club and “play a leading role in booking a performance line-up that will blend veteran stars with comedy’s top newcomers. ‘This will be unlike anything anybody has ever experienced at a comedy club and it’s certain to be a smashing success. We’re offering great comedy, great food and an atmosphere of a tropical beach resort. It’s so real, the club’s indoors and I still got a tan,’ said Jon Lovitz.” Production Designer Bruce Ryan is designing the club in partnership with Jon Lovitz and his business partner Frank Kelly, one of the country’s leading top comedy club managers.
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Ha! Last time I was at the Laugh Factory (about a year ago) Jon Lovitz made a surprise appearance and BOMBED in every sense of the word. It was embarrassing! When they announced his name people went nuts and within five minutes those same people were literally walking out the door.
Having gone to one of Lovitz’s Wednesday night gigs at the Laugh Factory, which are pretty surreally funny, I actually think I’d go to this club (though City Walk has become ridiculously sketchy the past few years).
There are few good comedians anymore. It’s mostly ugly guys who whine about their wife or gf, not in a charming Henny Youngman way. Guys who’d be lucky to ever have a woman look their way. This must be why the late night talk shows barely feature comedians now, whereas Carson birthed a whole generation. It’s a shame. There’s nothing like a brilliant comedian.
Sometimes those surprise appearances are just the comedians dropping in to try out new material, and sometimes they bomb with the new stuff. When I saw Lovitz headlining there once, he was hilarious.
Just thinking about Universal City Walk gives me the creeps. Is there a tackier place on planet Earth?
So, it will be a comedy club with MORE expensive parking than he 4 bucks an hour that downtown LA will soon be charging?
Only Michael Richards has surpassed Lovitz in the Laugh Factory Hall of Shame for great comedic actors who absolutely suck at stand-up…
If Lovitz headlines his club nightly, it will be a disaster..
I too saw Lovitz at the Laugh Factory and wondered how he got out of his “lifetime contract” at the Sunset Blvd. Club. Maybe he was just using that connection to get into Stand-Up and then bolt and start his “own” club after he got some publicity from it. If his club is anything like his act, it will be slow, soggy, unoriginal and drifting on a reputation made on TV.
Sure, Jamie the owner of The Laugh Factory gave this guy spots at his club even though he wasn’t very good, and now he wants to put a Comedy Club in his back yard??? Talk about a back stabber.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Wow…how cutting edge. Jon Lovitz and a 400 seat venue…yeah that’s the ticket. I imagine if they charge about $350 a ticket they could meet their overhead. I bet a high percentage of his fans are interred up the hill at Forest Lawn or various San Fern
Valley retirement homes.
A slight correction to your article. This isn’t Lovitz’s first comedy club venture. In 2007, he and Frank Kelley opened a Jon Lovitz Comedy Club down in San Diego in the Gaslight area.
How this man manages to continue getting work is a mystery to me. I spent good money a couple of years ago to see him at The Laugh Factory and was embarrassed at how bad he was. He was so bad it made me notice the caked on coating of spilled drinks along the railing in the balcony. A fitting tribute to another broken down act.
I just saw Jon Lovitz in Ottawa, Canada. There were over 800 people there! He was hilarious and got a standing ovation!!! I hope his club is a great success!
Jon Lovitz ROCKS!!!
CityWalk isn’t as sketch as it used to be. Wolfgang Puck just opened up a Bistro there and the food and value ROCKS! Can’t wait to check out Jon’s show!