Modified On June 1, 2010
The Female Half stumbled upon the Friends of Julius blog. FOJ is a Seattle-based comedy/film/video group.
The particular link above is to a post that purports to list the worst comedy club names in America. We admit that some of them are pretty awful, some are defensible. Just to name a few:
Snickerz
Magooby’s Joke House
Brew Ha Ha
But we maintain that poster Jason Ryan missed perhaps the best worst name of all. The club is closed, so it’s understandable. But, for a while at least, there was a club in California that was called:
P. Yopantz
The club’s owners frumped up a cartoon drawing of a person… a creature of some sort… who was, ostensibly, this character by the name of P. Yopantz, after which the club was named. It’s ghastly. And there is really no mystery that the club went under.
It’s right up there with the fictional club (dreamed up by Dana Gould), that has become a part of the show biz lexicon and is synonymous with a ghastly, poorly-named, poorly managed comedy club: Uncle Fucker’s Chuckle Hut.
Upon scrolling down, we found this exchange in the comments under the Worst Comedy Club Names posting:
2 comments:
mjrjr said…
where did you find these names
April 10, 2009 9:06 PM
Jason Ryan said…
http://www.sheckymagazine.com/clublist.htm
April 11, 2009 12:04 PM
We’ve neglected that club list for so long that we’re surprised that anyone got any information out of it. It’s a hold over from the old days when such lists were necessary and useful.