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Your A-List: Best Comedy Venue
There may be venues that get bigger names from the national comedy, and improv has been taking off here over the past decade or so, but none of the clubs specializing in the aforementioned areas have quite the history as The Velveeta Room on East Sixth Street, winner of this week’s poll with 38 percent of the vote.
Besides being a platform for many of the up-and-coming stand-ups in town, the Velveeta Room opens its doors each Thursday to pros and amateurs alike, who have the opportunity to try and squeeze as many laughs from the audience in their allotted three minutes. Sometimes it is painful, sometimes it is brilliant, but it is almost always entertaining to see people experiment with the idea of what makes people laugh.
The Velveeta Room has a long and colorful history dating back to the slightly more sketchy days of Sixth Street in the 70s. For a somewhat complete (if hazy) retelling of the history of the Velveeta Room, Esther’s Follies and Sixth Street of old, check out the history section of the Velveeta Room’s Web site.
The Velveeta Room [site]
521 E. 6th St
469.9116
Others receiving votes
- Capitol City Comedy Club, 27 percent
- Esther’s Follies, 26 percent
- ColdTowne Theater, 4 percent
- Hideout Theatre, 3 percent
- Kick Butt Coffee, 2 percent
- Salvage Vanguard Theater, 1 percent
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