TLPP: Taking Down Ticketmaster w/ Tommy Dorfman

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this episode of The Lou Perez Podcast I’m joined by Juice Entertainment’s Tommy D(orfman). We talk about our clubbing days in New York City, how the mafia was an ally to the LGBTQ community, and Tommy’s ongoing battle against Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster. Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY. You may have seen him on Gutfeld! , FOX News Primetime, One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.’” As a stand-up comedian, Lou has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and toured the US and Canada with Scott Thompson. Lou has also produced live shows with Colin Quinn, the Icarus Festival, and the Rutherford Comedy Festival. For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. Greg and Lou is best known for its sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views on YouTube alone. In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder, performing stand-up across the country, and writing for The Blaze's Align, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press, a FAIR-in-the-arts fellow, and host of the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast (which is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network), and co-hosts Happy Hour Econ with Phil Magness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	Hey guys, welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network.
0:33.5	I'm very excited for my next guest.
0:39.4	He's a legend in the nightclub world, Mr. Tommy Dorman.
0:40.7	So Tommy, thank you.
0:41.5	Tommy D.
0:43.6	Tommy D. Tommy Dorman.
0:44.9	Thanks a lot for having me, Lou.
0:45.6	Yeah.
0:48.5	So I want everyone to know, we tried the other day.
0:49.9	We were having technical difficulties.
1:00.6	And, you know, something I wanted to ask Tommy, you know, being, you know, in the nightclub business, you know, what kind of technical difficulties, you know, did you ever encounter?
1:06.7	I mean, it was ever like a time where, like, you know, DJ just, the equipment just completely went out and how do you handle that?
1:16.9	Yeah, that's a great question. It definitely happened a few times. I was running a club called Sound Factory in New York City. We had a Friday night party.
1:25.2	You ran Sound Factory? I'm sorry to jump it in. I, dude, I went there when I was, you know, high school and college, I remember going.
1:28.1	Nice. Yeah, I was the New Jersey director out of there. And we were doing a friday night um remember it was dj a love and low and low and uh all of son the speaker
1:34.5	actually blew on fire um so that was uh that was crazy that's the first time i ever saw that happened
1:40.9	so um that one we were able to get the fire out.
1:44.5	The music was down for like 30 minutes.
1:47.7	It was a little chaotic, but we were able to control it.
1:50.8	And I'm not the sound guy, but somehow they were able to get something running for the
1:55.9	rest of the night.
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