We went here last Thursday, my friend got free tickets for four to The Comedy store in La Jolla and we were looking for something new to do. I adore stand up but somehow have only been to a stand up comedy show ONCE in San Francisco and it was 50% awesome (one great comic, one horrendous). We four girls hotboxed the car and strolled in, the door guy noted we smelled like herb and laughed. Sweet. We told the box office guy we had reservations and he didn't even check his list, he just stamped our wrists. Sweet again. Thing is, when you leave the Thursday night show, they give you four tickets to come back next Thursday to avoid the $8 cover charge that I'm thinking you can EASILY get away with not paying any sort of way. We were led to our table in a dark room and approached by a cocktail waitress.
The only real fee was the two drink minimum and I was already planning on having three (doubles...). I had a friend (DD) who ordered water and they didn't even care she wasn't drinking. It's really seemed like just a formality to keep bums out. The show started off with a HUGE bang. I think we saw around 12-15 comics doing 5-10 sets each. We laughed through the first 7 non-stop, both the weed and booze helping us to loosen up. It was a great time. Then we had like 2 or 3 duds in a row. Nothing is more awkward than getting your courtesy laugh to sound real in a quiet room with a stand up comic struggling on stage. But then more funny people hit the stage and it was back on. Yea, but then two more crappy ones were rounding out the night, by that time it was like, 11 PM and there were only 13 people in the room. It had been time to leave a while before we finally got up but we were boozy and we love to laugh. And the comic pleaded with us not to leave... haha, Shoot for $12 that was one of the most fun things I've done in SD in awhile. We hung out with the comics after and joked around and then drove back home. Cheap, fun, NEW, night that I am heading back to on Thursday for sure. Call the reservation number on the ticket above and get your free tickets, time to try something new!!
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