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Lovitz opening club in Universal City Walk

We were cruising into Los Angeles (swirling around the drain of the Los Angeles Basin?) when we heard an item on KNX– or was it KFWB?– that said that Jon Lovitz was opening a comedy club at the Universal City Walk in a spot formerly occupied by a blues club branded with B.B. King’s name.

We looked it up and there’s a Reuters article with more details.

Lovitz said the new three-level club will differ from existing comedy clubs in Los Angeles– most of which have a black-box feel– in that it will be bright and open with a beachy decor, complete with palm trees, and will serve “great food.”

Some may recall that Lovitz opened a club in 2007 in San Diego. That was a four-wall venture. This is a 400-seat comedy club, opened with his business partner, Frank Kelley, GM of the Irvine Improv.

Is this the same room that formerly housed Catch A Rising Star back in about 1992 or so?