Sad news out of Atlanta. Lyn Bartlett, a server at the Punchline for more than a decade, was among three people brutally murdered in a farmhouse north of the city in a rampage Sunday night. Bartlett hadn’t worked at the comedy club for at least three years. She resided in Cumming, GA, with her 17-year-old son, who is recovering from stab wounds. The police are investigating, three suspects have been arrested. An account of the mayhem can be read here (we caution that it is rather upsetting). Subsequent details have emerged that three of the ten occupants of the house managed to escape unharmed, due largely to the efforts of Bartlett.
“She was feisty, she had a great laugh and she wasn’t the least bit intimidated by any comedian who walked through that door,” says the Female Half of the Staff of Bartlett. We strongly advise all to hoist one in her memory across the parking lot at Cafe 290.