Uni CityWalk’s Jon Lovitz Comedy Club

COMMENTS (16)

• 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.

  Comment by NOT FUNNY — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 10:49am PDT  Reply to this post

• 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).

  Comment by bent — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 10:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by It's a shame — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 11:02am PDT  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by JJ — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 11:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• Just thinking about Universal City Walk gives me the creeps. Is there a tackier place on planet Earth?

  Comment by Shudder — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 11:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• So, it will be a comedy club with MORE expensive parking than he 4 bucks an hour that downtown LA will soon be charging?

  Comment by Hunter D. — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 3:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 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..

  Comment by Break all your legs.. — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 4:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Robert Noorth — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 5:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by WondersWhatJamieIsThinking — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 6:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, that’s the ticket!

  Comment by Space Monkey — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 7:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by go — Thursday April 2, 2009 @ 7:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by Swalker — Friday April 3, 2009 @ 9:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• 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.

  Comment by innerealm — Friday April 3, 2009 @ 8:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 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!

  Comment by Ed Johnson — Sunday April 5, 2009 @ 11:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• Jon Lovitz ROCKS!!!

  Comment by Bob Etherton — Saturday May 9, 2009 @ 7:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• 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!

  Comment by Jennaaay — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 7:02pm PDT  Reply to this post