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Atlanta loses a club, gains a club
While Marshall Chiles announces the closing of his Funny Farm (shuttered because the entertainment complex it was housed in, Star Time, ceased operations), FOS Joe Satterfield has announced the opening of The Buford Variety Theater (click the link to see photos of the exterior and interior and become a Facebook fan).
So, Atlanta loses one club and gains another, almost simultaneously.
And the Punchline still rolls on.
And Chiles has taken to booking larger names into the Laughing Skull Lounge (at The Vortex, in midtown Atlanta).
Looks like comedy is the healthiest it’s been in Atlanta in a long time. (We remember when the city had Sandy Springs, North Lake, an Airport location– all three were Punchlines– and a revolving tenant at a comedy club venue in/near Buckhead! Circa 1989, perhaps?)
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I can’t tell you how much the Funny Farm will be missed here in Atlanta. It was one of the few clubs that local comics could actually get stage time at, and they were great about bringing big names and talent into the door.
Also, Buford IS NOT Atlanta. It’s like an hour outside of Atlanta, and it certainly doesn’t represent the Atlanta area as a whole.
Calling a club in Buford an Atlanta club is the same as calling a Newark club a NYC club.
Joe:
Buford is not Atlanta.
And calling a Buford club an Atlanta club is the same as calling a Newark club a NYC club.
But a Buford club is most definitely an Atlanta club– moreso than it would be considered, say, a Baltimore club or a Chicago club. It’s only 30 minutes or so from The Punchline (and probably closer to the former location of the Farm.)
Sandy Springs is not in Atlanta. You might argue that “it’s like 30 minutes outside of Atlanta.” And, having made the drive from The Punchline to the Farm, we note that the Farm was even farther outside of Atlanta.
But the fact remains that we (and probably most ATL-based comedians) consider them “Atlanta clubs” by any definition.
And the fact remains that Atlanta has a new club– if by “Atlanta” we mean comics who base themselves out of Atlanta.
It’s an hour outside of Atlanta? Well, so is a good chunk of the comedy-club attending population.
As for the comics, traveling to Buford is not a long way to travel (especially in the ATL metroplex). So… comics who base themselves in Atlanta have a new club to aspire to, to possibly workout in, to possibly be booked into as a paid act.
BTW: We <>would<> consider a Newark club to be a NYC club. In fact, we think that a lot of NYC comics would look upon a gig in Newark as a good thing and yet another opportunity. (And, depending on the day of the week and the time of day, it might take a comic living in NYC about as much time to get from his apartment in NYC to a gig in Newark as it would a comic who lives in ATL to get to a gig in Buford.)
And finally, let’s conclude this geography/economics lesson with this: We would bet money that the number of ATL-based comic living inside the beltway is tiny compared to the number who live outside (and north and northeast) of the beltway. We know of at least two who reside to the north and northeast. Two doesn’t definitively prove our point, but it’s a start.
Thanks for your comment.