In the mood for a funny fix but don't want to leave town, then visit Laugh It Up Comedy Lounge, 868 S. Fort Hood Street, for a night of laughs. The club, which opened Dec. 1, 2016, is a labor of love for the five local owners who wanted to bring humor to Central Texas with Killeen's first comedy club.
It's not only the new entertainment hot spot, with a restaurant and a bar, but also a training ground for comedians. “About 85-percent of comics never play a main club, like the Improv, so they need a place to hone their craft, which is here,” said Darryl Walker, an owner.
Killeen's Kings of Comedy include Walker, Roger DeLandro, Sharon Gilbert and Larry Lazenby and Kesha Stevens, friends with military experience, including several retirees, except Gilbert, the owner of Prestige Beauty and Barber Salon for 25-years. And it's their combined experience that gives them a business edge. “The discipline, structure and know-how we have to develop and implement a plan helped tremendously,” said Lazenby.
Laugh It Up Comedy Lounge is not an urban, or Black, comedy club. “We're wide-open and welcome all comedians, although some can be raw with their jokes,” said DeLandro.
As the two oldest friends, Walker and DeLandro met in 1985 when both were in the Army, and through the years, they worked with the other partners in and outside the military. The club idea was fueled by Walker, Gilbert and DeLandro, who previously produced concerts and fashions shows at the Killeen
The power of comedy is that it takes contemporary issues and stretches them to the extreme and then puts the exaggerated picture of who we are as a society back in our faces. Back a while ago, comedian great Mike Myers played Pitka in the movie flop "The Love Guru". During a number of scenes, Pitka would make comments, realize that they were catchy, and then quickly tack on and little "TM" to his statement. The idea was that he was trademarking everything clever that he said. Ridiculous? That's why it's comedy.
Club IT is a venue owned by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. Both having a business degree, they seem to work well together in running and maintaining the financials of the company. Recently they remodeled the interior of the club, giving it high ceilings and high energy lighting. Their next project is to work on the informational systems to provide an atmosphere and shopping experience for their consumers that will continue to bring them back. [ (Rainer, 2009) ]
The club is a three story home that has a Chop Suey restaurant in the basement. It was a really nice parlor, with pictures covering the walls and no gambling allowed. The Club was a place that performers could come to. There was something a bit unusual about the Club. It was a place where both blacks and white come to. The narrator states that some people come to research how African Americans act therefore they can perfect their “dark characters”.
But, that’s just the beginning of their offerings. They also supply the local area with kegs of craft and domestic beer and have twelve rotating taps on hand for consumption in the shop or in their great beer garden out back. The beer garden is stocked with cornhole and extra-large two by four Jenga, and often visited by Knoxville’s best food trucks. Best of all dogs are welcome. Come have a backyard party with relative strangers and fast friends.
Do you know what comedy is? Comedy is jokes or satirical sketches. Dave Barry’s humorous anecdote “Dave Barry teaches his grandson life’s lessons -beginning with the ketchup” is a high level of comedy that uses satire and physical humor to reveal a universal truth about being trendy and being a jerk. Also about making the right decisions in life.
When was the last time you experienced a good laugh? Maybe you were watching a show, reading a book, or even hanging out with friends. Either way you were probably observing, comedy. Which in literary terms is a genre of literature that is created in a humorous nature for a purpose of making people laugh. A television show that can be categorized as a comedy is Parks and Recreation. The show is about a crew members that work in a parks department for the government in a small town called Pawnee, Indiana. The main characters consist of Leslie Knope who later in the show marries Ben Wyatt. April ludgate who later marries Andy. Ron Swanson, Donna, Tom, and Garyy. They all work together trying to make the city of Pawnee a better place. They play pranks on eachother, but also have strong friendly bonds.
Club IT is a night club that Rueben Keys and Lisa Tejada have put together, to provide some high quality entertainment for everyone to enjoy, especially their adult friends. The mission statement for Club It is “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s, dance space, and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT.” (R. Kelly Rainer & Turban, 2009) What Rueben and Lisa have done is take a 6000 square foot location, remodeled it to accommodate a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220 people, four wells and bar, a kitchen
“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious” -Peter Ustinov. Comedy is used in everyday life. It is a way to slip in the truth while decreasing the blow. Comedy allows the hard things to hear, to be said in a way where it is not so hard. The truth can be hard to hear sometimes but comedy uses comedic tactics to slip in the truth that is hard to hear, but needs to be said, into the world. In the excerpt from Live right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster) by Dave Barry, is a high comedy excerpt that uses the comedic tactics sarcasm and situational irony to express the truth about growing up and how to live right in a funny manner.
The basis of this club is to have fun while engaging in friendly combat with lightsabers. There are certain rules to this style of combat since there are
Some situations can be extremely funny and is good for everyone to show that you have a sense of fun and humour, so long as it isn’t unkind or be undermining to individuals.
Analysis of Dave Chappelle's For What It's Worth Stand-Up Comedy Dave Chappelle’s stand-up comedy can be raunchy, grotesque, and
Manbearpig: Half Man, Half Bear, Half Pig, but All Global Warming? South Park is a popular animated comedy series written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. While the episodes of South Park are always humorous on the surface, each show usually has a deeper, much more profound meaning and moral. One episode of South Park entitled Manbearpig, named after the monster in the episode, has a particularly potent deeper meaning. On the surface, the episode pokes fun at monster stories, politics, and specifically Al Gore. Deeper down, however, this monster story can be read as a national allegory alluding to the dangers of global warming, the problems with the politics behind global warming, and the eventual doom we will all face
Mcdonalds, the latest style, or some random toiletries, it doesn't matter what it is we’ve all bought some pointless nonsense at some point. I’s that our American dream? To mindlessly spend money on junk we don’t need to satisfy urges we don’t want? That is our unknown narrator’s plight in the grotesque satire that is the masterpiece of Fight Club. First, what is Satire? It’s much more than a scene from Snl, it is a story driven joke meant to push in an idea in a comical way. But fight club is just a misogynistic tale about a whole bunch of man-children terrorists beating eachother up just because they lost themselves somewhere along the path. No, Fight Club is so much more than that. Fight Club is a satire about The pointless spending surrounding American economy, about social expectations and the way everyone else thinks you should be, It’s also a satire on healthy social relationships and a distorted view of brotherhood.
Located on 46-48A Broughton Street, The Phoenix Bar serves Scottish cuisine very close to Edinburgh’s city centre. Its location is only 10 minutes’ walk away from Waverley Station. It takes about a couple of minutes on foot to reach Edinburgh Playhouse, little over 5 minutes to reach Princes Street and 10 minutes to visit Calton Hill from its venue. The lively atmosphere of the interior is particularly suitable for enjoying a sip of one’s favourite drink and munching on burgers in a relaxed and unhurried manner.
According to the Oxford dictionary “Humor,” is defined as: The quality of being amustic or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech, but what truly makes something funny? Comedy has been around for hundreds of years; as it is being examined four concrete theories have been developed to understand the idea of comedy: Superiority, Relief, incongruity, and Benign Violation theory.