Comedy Nights: Nomadic or Habitually Exiled?

Comedy Nights

It’s with a growing sense of pride that I announce to you that Comedy Nights has been invited to leave yet another location in Santa Barbara. Northstar Coffee tolerated us for three long weeks before politely saying, “We love what you’re doing. Now, please go do it somewhere else..”

Our "somewhere else" will be Brick’s, formerly Casablanca at 509 State Street.

Warren, the manager of Northstar Coffee astutely recognized that an individual sipping green tea and discussing socially conscious issues with his like minded yoga instructor/life coach on a given Thursday evening did not necessarily wish to hear about Ari’s retarded Uncle. Consequently, Warren invited Wally, the owner of Brick’s to come by on our closing night at Northstar and sample our wares.

Wally signed us up on the spot and our first show at Brick’s, this Thursday, will feature Bryan Callen from “Mad TV” and “Old School,” along with Earl Skakel and Erik Griffin. Thank you, Warren for keeping comedy alive and available to all the bold souls who remain brave enough to laugh. And thank you, Wally for taking us on. We will make you proud.

Meanwhile, please enjoy these videos from our heroic final night at Northstar, featuring Graham Elwood, and Mark Sussman.

The beginning of Goodbye



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YoungBloods of Comedy

YoungBloods, Jeremy, Tyler, Jake and Geoff

The YoungBloods of Comedy, our teen comedy troop soared to new heights this week with perhaps their finest performance ever at Hallenbeck’s in North Hollywood. Thanks, in part, to the odd training methods of our co-instructor, Ari David. Before you sign your child up for this program, you need to watch this video…


From The Class to The Stage




Here are further highlights from the show. The kids, along with a fine sampling of family friendly adult comedians perform every Saturday night at Hallenbeck’s. Come join us…

YoungBloods Comedy Highlights




Weezy and The Swish

Debbie, Me, Ari, Laura, Mark

Laura and I have been invited to do an interview and appear on an NBC TV show called Your L.A. TV. I'm not sure what it entails but as opposed to podcasting, I'm going to have to wear clothes.

This week, our guest on Weezy and The Swish was Mark Sussman along with our new regular, Ari David and it was a particularly entertaining show so I can highly recommend clicking...

The "Popular Dance" looping video (seen above) was created, using this video from Comedy Nights, by a Weezy and The Swish listener with the screen name Cheburashka. He or she asks, "How often do you do the Popular Dance?" Hmmm, I think I do it whenever I'm feeling particularly popular and/or when I'm doing that joke. Thanks for the little GIF, Cheburashka. You have made me feel very populrrr. It's hard to dance and type.

Have a wonderful week!