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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

3: The Comedy Store

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Comedy Store in Hollywood is on hallowed ground by way of Ciro's Restaurant. Then there is the suicide. We talk about our personal experiences at the Store and how little it seems to have changed inside over the years.

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0:00.0

It's a comedy club that's killer, literally. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton. And this is Ghost Town.

0:19.2

A Rebecca work comedians right or at least we lie to ourselves and say we are yeah Instagram does say comedian yes so there it's a pretty official yeah but you in Los Angeles or the

0:26.7

United States you can't talk about

0:34.0

mentioning the comedy store.

0:36.0

In LA, it's like the premiere, like,

0:41.0

Halliwood, yeah.

0:40.0

The premiere, like Hallowed Hallows Hall.

0:43.2

Yes. Like it's coke dusted.

0:46.0

It's fabled.

0:48.4

Dreams have lived and died there every single day.

0:51.2

We performed there, you know, so anyone can perform there, I guess.

0:55.8

Yeah, pretty much.

0:56.8

Lo-Bar, low-bar now.

0:57.8

A low-bar, yeah. But it is, I think it's a, I feel like it's a place, you know,

1:01.7

I mean, if you haven't seen it the the outside

1:04.9

seems like it's been done but the inside looks like it's frozen in time it's in that

1:08.9

area of Hollywood where there's a Viper room right there, you're in like deep west Hollywood.

1:14.3

Sunset Strip, rock and roll.

1:16.3

Exactly.

1:17.3

So much history in that area, but specifically the comedy store.

1:21.7

Which are kind of rock stars in their own right.

1:25.2

And you know I feel you know these pictures on the wall and I feel like just the building itself

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