Posted by Ryan Hill at 05:19:13 PM on February 21, 2007
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If you've driven by the strip mall on Airport Road lately, you know, the scary lookin' one with the Redners and... uh... other places, you may or may not have noticed that there is a comedy club there now. I say may not because the only thing letting you know that a comedy club exists is a yellow banner on the brick wall of Club Horizons saying "Wisecrackers Comedy Club" on it, not entirely unlike the yellow banner that hung on the Ramada just off of 22 when Wisecrackers had its home there. I've wanted a full-time comedy club here for quite a while; this isn't exactly what I had in mind, but it will have to do.
Wisecrackers will likely have the same main problem it did when it was in the Ramada- the fact that it is still in Allentown and no comic on the A-, B- or even C-list is really gonna want to play there. Fans of Brian Regan, Jim Gaffigan and the like will still need to travel to Philly or NYC or hope and pray they do a college tour. Fans of comedy in general, however, should be excited as the one thing new manager Scott Bruce wants to do that the Ramada Wisecracker's wouldn't is have an open mic. It would be the only one around here (at least the only one for comedy), and it would do wonders for the comatose comedy scene in the Lehigh Valley.
As for the feature performers coming in the next few weeks (you can check them out here), I really couldn't tell you who the majority of them are. Does that mean you shouldn't go? I personally don't think so, as there really is nothing like taking a Friday night after a tough week and going to a place where a person's sole responsibility is to make you laugh. Alex House, the featured performer for this weekend, is pretty damn good at that, and at this point in time she holds the distinction of being the most famous person I've ever shared a stage with (I'm sure she's proud). She's also from Easton and is likely very pregnant (last I saw her was October, she was 3-4 months along). I don't know exactly what I'm getting at there, but I can assure you it would be a good time.
-Ryan
