Old Rascals site to become Sarcasm

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on November 24th, 2009

The old space, formerly occupied by Rascals, at the Cherry Hill Crowne Plaza, in Cherry Hill, NJ, will be a comedy club once again. This weekend, Sarcasm will open its doors, with Joe Matarese as the headliner and local radio personality Dennis Malloy hosting.

Matarese is a principal in the venture, along with local radio personality Steve Trevelise. (Comics may be familiar with Trevelise as he has managed and hosted the Catch A Rising Star in Princeton for several years.) Former Rascals GM Jason Pollock will manage the club.

The Male Half and The Female Half will appear there Dec. 26, for two shows!

As the club is a short, 10-minute hop from SHECKYmagazine.com HQ, the Halves of the Staff are ecstatic that comedy will return to the space. Back in the Rascals era, we had a decently-run comedy room right in our backyard and we were headlining it twice a year– ideal situation! We were scheduled to appear their just a week or two before Rascals pulled the plug– see this posting— back on June 30, 2007. (Readers will recall that Rascals abruptly ceased to operate a little over two years ago after the folks that ran Rascals got into some hot water with the SEC.)

It’s always a good thing when a club opens up during tough economic times. Folks need a laugh and, from a business standpoint, the club has nowhere to go but up. (The more business-savvy might take issue with that last point, but it makes sense that a club that opens when the economy is down would automatically benefit when/if the economy takes an upturn.)

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