Name: Thinking Back on Some of the Comedy Store's Best Years
Uploaded: 2024-06-06T22:48:50.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thinking Back on Some of the Comedy Store's Best Years' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thinking Back on Some of the Comedy Store's Best Years' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-06. Transcript available.

The store at the end, before the pandemic, it was something that you'll never
ever see again.
I still remember I would do spots and then go to the kitchen after my spot and
just sit for a minute
and look out into the bar area and stuff, and it would be like celebrities, MMA
people, the Clippers.
You know, it was something every night. It was just too overwhelming.
Yeah.
Every time you left the store on Tuesdays or Thursdays,
you got in your car and you had to fucking drive 30 minutes just to be
compressed.
Dr. Dre was hanging out at night before the fucking thing.
He was coming into the store every night.
It was just a scene that was, you know, hard to believe.
We had our own fucking thing.
Kennison, Dice, those guys had their thing and we had our thing.
It's really true.
I didn't realize it either until I went back, like, I've gone back over the
past two years
and it's like, it's not even, it's not even the same thing anymore.
It was like a, it was like lightning striking when everybody was there.
Dude, when, dude, the lineup sometimes, like on a Tuesday night?
I still have them.
I saved everything.
I would clip a lineup.
I would take a picture of it or something and go, this is where you were with
these guys.
I want to see somebody try to take something away from me.
Like, do you know what I'm saying?
Like people always go, whoa, you didn't do it.
Listen, bitch.
Yeah.
And this is these lineups in 2019.
What about the lineups?
Well, 2009, I wasn't there, but in 99, I was there.
And I remember looking at those lineups and they weren't good, but you had
fucking animals,
like three of them there on the lineups.
It wasn't like nine motherfuckers coming at you.
Yeah.
From Ali Wong to you to D'Elia.
It was a cavalcade every Tuesday and Thursday.
And everybody got along.
Whitney, you, Burt, Joe, Segura, fucking Tripoli.
Brennan.
Eddie Bravo.
Owen Smith.
It was fucking crazy what was down there.
It was crazy.
Crazy.
Bro, they had MMA fighters that weren't even comedians fucking doing 20 minutes
down there.
It was fucking crazy.
Eddie Bravo was doing like 40 fucking minutes, bro.
Fucking crazy.
You think about it.
And people walked in there and it's like they got high.
Yeah.
Soon as people walked in, it's like walking into the mothership.
You know, you walk in and you're just taking, you're just taking.
And this is, you know, I didn't do it for one summer.
I did it for 30 fucking years.
So now I got to figure out where they took me.
Yeah.
You know, where the fuck did they take me?
I mean.
Yeah, just to look at that lineup and be like, it doesn't even feel like you're
really the person doing it.
No.
No.
No.