Laughs Unlimited Comedy Club and Lounge

That was a great set by John Fox, a regular headliner.

at Laughs Unlimited through most of the 80s, and a guy that went on to perform at clubs across the country and was a regular in Las Vegas, did a little bit of television, and a very funny guy.

And as I mentioned, just a real hard-playing, hard-acting stand-up comic.

Offstage, he had his issues with gambling.

Well,

I hope you enjoyed that musical comedy of James Stephens III.

He only worked my club one time in the 90s, but it was interesting to have him come through, and he did go on to do TV and movies, and it was a real pleasure to have him do a stopover at Laughs Unlimited.

But now we're coming up to our closing headliner of this three-headliner show.

The first comedy contest I was in, the guy that won it wore a mustard suit.

It was at Laughs Unlimited in Sacramento.

And he had a bunch of pretty standard jokes.

And then he built two, because this was right at, I guess, Desert Storm.

I can't recall her name out of San Francisco for the punchline, but we worked on who was going to work where when, and it was never an angry situation.

I will say that I did run into Bill Graham once at a concert, and introduced myself and when he found out I own Laughs Unlimited he was not happy and and gave me a few harsh words but uh

really that doesn't sound no seriously that doesn't sound like Bill

really he felt I was stepping on his he thought he was kind of the entertainment guru of northern California And I had had a little bit of success with the club.

And I think you'll be surprised.

At least two or three people will hear it and appreciate what you had to share.

First of all, we never really did talk about Laughs Unlimited.

I thought that was the whole idea.

Yeah, I've kinda gone the Jay Leno way, but, uh, good to have you guys here.

In this podcast, we're gonna go over some of the history of Laughs Unlimited, but really in this particular case, how it ties into the symbiotic relationship we had with you guys, starting with comedy, going into radio and, and promos like we just heard and we'll share, and then I have some material later on that we'll share from, uh-

Oh, man

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... speech geeks-

Yeah

... uh, into comedy and showing up on the doorstep of Laughs Unlimited?

Uh, you'll have to talk to him.