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Laugh Factory or Comedy & Magic Club - Hermosa

Just a quick question. I am trying to figure out which is the better scenario. My wife and I are staying in West Hollyood this weekend and I want to see a comedy show. I was debating going to the Laugh Factory which is relatively close by, or going out to Hermosa Beach on Sunday evening to see Jay Leno.

Does anyone have a suggestion on either venue, as well as the drive time/traffic maybe getting to Hermosa Beach?

It depends in part on what you are interested seeing.

Hermosa Beach - plan on an hour drive back and forth from West Hollywood.

The laugh factory in Hollywood is great. And if it is close by that is great too!

At Hermosa, the venue is not a pretty but the comedians are just as funny IMO. Plus its near the strand and is littered with little resturants and bars.

So, if you like the city thing with tons of people and big nightclubs you should go to the Laugh Factory. But if you are looking for something more laid back in a beachy environment go to Hermosa.

I would also suggest if you do decide to go to Hermosa, make a day of it. Hit the beach and lounge. Go to the comedy club and then have a romatic meal at the Charthouse at the Redondo Beach Pier.

Parking is a pain at both places though. And the drive to Hermosa will take around an hour.

I lived in Hermosa for 6 years and worked in West Hollywood. It's 21 miles from one to the other -- half of which is freeway driving at 55 to 60 mph. There is no reason to believe that it would take an hour to make this trip: that would assume an average speed of, well, 21 mph -- an impossibility, especially on the weekend when traffic is lighter than rush hour.

Mapquest estimates the trip at 33 minutes. I'm thinking 40 minutes.

The Comedy & Magic Club is the better choice. Just go to the two club's websites and compare.

Have a great time!

Three friends and myself attended the 10/6/07 Comedy and Magic Club Showcase. The fee is $25 per person plus a two drink minimum. The drinks were moderately priced. The evening consisted of three acts. Parking is almost impossible without using a valet. We left in the middle of the featured act because frankly he was not very funny. Overall, given the cost of the evening (about $75 for two) and the mediocre quality of talent, it was not worth the effort and expense Better to have strolled along the beach and have a few drinks with friends, or linger at a romantic restaurant.

We found it to be about a half hour drive from Hollywood to Hermosa Beach when we drove there to see Jay Leno on a Sunday (of course traffic conditions can change.) The place is a couple of blocks off the beach so we went there a bit early - their roof top parking opens around 400 and parked the car and walked down to the beach and pier area. We then returned to Jay Leno - we were seated at the stage seats right by the comedians. We ordered dinner note - this place has good food for a comedy club (their dinner salads are good and I had their teriyaki pineapple chicken - also quite good and reasonably priced.) In general their food is good and a good way to enjoy. People show up an hour or so before the show just to enjoy the food.

For the acts - we saw 3 different comedians - all very interactive and lots of fun. Jay Leno also did a lot of audience exchange and if you have not seen him in person he is well worth the short drive from Hollywood to Hermosa Beach. All in all - unless the Laugh Factory h as one of your Report inappropriate content Westchester County. Level Contributor 4,316 posts 219 reviews 135 helpful votes 6. Re: Laugh Factory or Comedy & Magic Club - Hermosa 16 years ago Save

It's a 40 min drive from West Hollywood if there is no traffic, which is unlikely on the 405 south on Sunday since you'll be passing LAX.

Most importantly, however, I don't think it's worth the drive. You have the option of Improv, show at Groundlings, the Comedy Club, and others in West Hollywood as well, not just the Laugh Factory. Btw, I believe Sundays at the Laugh Factory are Black Sundaes, so it's all black humor and comedians. Pretty good, but something to consider if that matters to you and that's the only day you can go.

Also, you can usually find some lists and passes for the Laugh Factory online so you can avoid the $12 cover and just have to pay for your (expensive) 2-drink minimum once there.

Comedy and Magic Club plans comeback in Hermosa Beach

Among Hermosa Beach residents’ foremost, post pandemic concerns is whether or not Comedy and Magic Club will reopen. For four decades, Comedy and Magic has been the anchor point to Hermosa’s cultural identity. The Lighthouse may be better known, but Comedy and Magic’s contributions to Hermosa, and to popular culture, have been more far reaching.

It’s where Jay Leno tested jokes every Sunday night during his 1992 to 2014 reign as “The Tonight Show” host. He’d read jokes from index cards and toss the cards that didn’t get laughs over his shoulder. The cards that got laughs became the following week’s opening monologue, heard by “The Tonight Show’s” 14 million viewers.

The “Larry Sanders Show’s Gary Shandling. Shandling appeared beforme the Hermosa Beach City Council on behalf of the Comedy nd Magic Club. Photos by Kevin Cody

It’s where Jerry Seinfeld first headlined when he moved to Los Angeles in the early ‘80s. And where Seinfeld returned to stand-up when “Seinfeld” ended in 1998. And it’s where, one night in the Comedy and Magic greenroom, after the audience had left, Seinfeld paid homage to the father of late night talk shows.

That morning, Seinfeld called Comedy and Magic founder and owner Mike Lacey to ask if he could headline that night.

At the time Seinfeld was the most sought after comedian in the world. Lacey told him no, that he already had a headliner. Lacey’s reputation for treating his comedians with respect was well known.

Seinfeld understood, and asked who the headliner was. Lacey told him it was Steve Allen.

Allen was the first host of “The Tonight Show,” which he co-created in 1954.

Seinfeld, like almost all comedians who followed Allen, was in awe of him.

“Can I open for him,” Seinfeld said.

“I’ll have to call you back,” Lacey said.

“You want me to follow Jerry Seinfeld?” Allen said when Lacey called him. “Tell Seinfeld I’ll open for him.”

Seinfeld headlined, but after the show Seinfeld showed he knew who the evening’s real star was by questioning the 77-year-old Allen about television’s first late night talk show until 2 in the morning.

Mike Lacey accepting the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce Award from Ron Newman. Phpto bu Kevin Cody

Comedy and Magic’s importance to Hermosa includes the fact that it is Hermosa’s only venue with sufficient seating for Chamber of Commerce dinners and charity fundraisers. It’s also the uncontested first choice for first dates. Where better to test a prospective mate’s character and compatibility?

Comedy and Magic’s failure to reopen would be a twofold loss for Hermosa. Its 120-foot-long Hermosa Avenue frontage would almost certainly become a bar, twice the size of the city’s current largest bar, American Junkie, around the corner on Pier Plaza.

Neither residents nor businesses want another downtown bar.

The club’s reopening hinges on the simple issue of seating. Since 2003, the city has allowed the club 250 seats. In its early years, the club had 350 seats.

In a recent interview, Lacey said he needs 350 seats to be competitive with newer comedy clubs, such as the Laugh Factory in Long Beach, and the Improv clubs in Ontario, Brea and Irvine, which have 600 seats.

“I don’t want 600 seats. But I don’t want to keep losing money, or barely breaking even, like I have been for decades, since the city took away my seating,” he said.

City Community Development Director Ken Roberston, in an interview two weeks ago, said Lacey can have 350 seats, contingent on planning commission approval of a new floor plan by Lacey’s architect, BJ Wickett of Houston/Tyner, in Torrance.

Comedy and Magic Club owner Mike Lacey and Steve Bridges. Photo by Kevin Cody

Lacey distrusts Hermosa’s city government, comparing it to a bad personal relationship.

“No matter how good you try to be, they still abuse you,” he said.

Lacey was 24, dyslexic and a stutterer, whose previous employment was parking cars and bartending at Millie Riera’s, when he opened Comedy and Magic in 1978. And perhaps most disqualifying of all for the owner of a night club, he disliked alcohol, more so after three drunks threw him down the club’s parking lot stairs.

(The drunks weren’t Comedy and Magic patrons, Lacey noted, because it’s impossible to get drunk at his club. Other clubs have two drinks minimums. Comedy Club has a three drinks maximum, and doesn’t serve shots.)

Lacey’s inspiration to open a comedy club followed a visit to the Comedy Store on Sunset Strip.

“My uncle, Franklin Lacey, wrote the book to ‘The Music Man.’ He had a new play that needed some punching up and wanted me to produce it. So I went to the Comedy Store to look for a writer, and met this young comic who was pretty funny. That’s when I decided I didn’t want to produce plays. I wanted to open a comedy club,” Lacey said.

He opened Comedy and Magic the same year the young comic he met that night landed a role on ABC’s groundbreaking television comedy, “Mork and Mindy.” The young comic, who became a frequent Comedy and Magic headliner, was Robin Williams.

As in all successful comedy, timing played a large role in the club’s improbable success. The year Comedy and Magic opened was the year comedians picketed the Comedy Store. Mitzi Shore wouldn’t pay them. Lacey would, and comedians have long memories.

Comedy and Magic was so successful in its early years, that Lacey was able to buy out his investors, expand from three to six storefronts, buy the club’s 9,500 sq. ft. building, and submit an offer to buy a property across the street for parking.

“There was no Uber and people constantly demanded refunds for their reservations because they couldn’t find parking in Hermosa,” Lacey recalled.

Lacey poured his profits into making Comedy and Magic what an Easy Reader writer described as a “cathedral to comedy.” Revolving lights resembling a giant jukebox framed the stage. The carpet was custom designed to look like confetti. Shows opened with a recording of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blasting from a studio quality, Swedish sound system.

Fluffy (right) and fellow commedians during an anniversary show. photo by Kevin Cody

The history of American comedy was told on the showroom walls, in climate controlled, glass enclosures of famous costumes. Among them were costumes worn by Charlie Chaplain in “Limelight,” Robin Williams in “Popeye,” Lucille Ball in “The Long, Long Trailer,” and by the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and W.C. Fields in their stage and film performances.

Seinfeld’s “Puffy Shirt” was mounted just left of the stage. The Smithsonian in Washington D.C. also displays a Seinfeld “Puffy Shirt.” But theirs is clean, Comedy and Magic’s has makeup stains, Lacey proudly pointed out.

The most important costume in his collection is not in the club, he said, because he is concerned its display might be misunderstood. The khaki shirt and pants, black tie and military dress cap were worn by Charlie Chaplain in “The Great Dictator.”

Lacey bought the costumes not as an investment, nor even with the thought of displaying them. He wanted to help preserve comedy history. The Western Costume Company was going to break up the collection by auctioning off the costumes, individually.

For comedians used to performing in seedy bars with stripper poles, Comedy and Magic is a refuge, particularly during the club’s anniversary weeks, when 20 comedians perform each night. The anniversary nights offer rare opportunities for the traveling comics to meet, to see one another deliver five minutes of their best material, in preparation for late night television guest appearances.

“I feel like I have to do a joke on TV before I can do it at the Comedy and Magic Club,” quipped Laurie Kilmartin, a “Last Comic Standing” finalist, and writer for Conan O’Brien.

An Easy Reader photo taken on an anniversary night in the early ‘80s shows Leno, Seinfeld, Gary Shandling and Jeff Foxworthy waiting backstage for their five minutes.

Chris Rock. Photo by kevin Cody

Stars such as Seinfield and Rosanne Barr work out their new standup routines at Comedy and Magic, for the same reason Leno performs almost every Sunday. They want an audience of ordinary people, not jaded industry types.

Barr scratched out Seinfeld’s name on the autograph wall in Comedy and Magic’s green room, then made an uncharacteristic apology when called out about it on “The Tonight Show” by host Jimmy Fallon, (the third of the show’s six hosts to have performed at Comedy and Magic.)

Comedy and Magic Club audiences are routinely surprised by stadium performers such as Chris Rock, Arsenio Hall, and Trevor Noah being introduced under pseudonyms because their contracts don’t not allow their names to be announced.

Through the club’s prominence has arced upwards through the decades, but profitability hasn’t. Lacey blames his club’s financial challenges not on the internet, or competition, but on the Hermosa city government.

“I began with 353 seats. Then the city cut my seating back to 318, then to 299 and finally to 188. I was never told why,” he said.

“For 30 years, I’ve barely broken even because the city made mistakes, refused to correct them and blocked me when I tried to correct them. It’s heinous.”

If the city documented the reasons the seating was reduced, those documents have been lost.

In February of this year, Community Development Director Robertson produced a chronology of the city’s interactions with Comedy and Magic. But the chronology only goes back to 2017, with the exception of a reference to “2000 or 2001,” the year the club’s “occupancy load” was reduced to 188.

As the club’s finances hemorrhaged, so did Lacey’s health.

In 2003 , he went into the hospital for three weeks with an intestinal disorder. Doctors told his wife Kathy to call for Last Rites. Instead, she called Hermosa Beach Councilman Sam Edgerton.

After Lacey surprised his doctors by recovering, Edgerton convened a series of meetings at the Comedy Club. City representatives included Edgerton, Councilman Pete Tucker, city manager Steve Burrell, building director Charlie Schwartz, Community Development director Saul Blumenthal and the fire chief.

Lacey was accompanied by his architect Steven Jones, of Redondo Beach.

According to the Community Development chronology, seats were reduced to 188 in the early 2000s because, “the owner altered the interior without permits.”

Jones, in an interview last week, disputed this explanation.

During the early 2000 meetings, Jones said, “The only explanation the city gave Mike for taking away over 150 seats was, ‘We shouldn’t have given you that number in the first place.’”

“I studied what the city had done. Tucker, a building inspector for Redondo, loaned me his code books. But Charlie Schwartz, Hermosa’s head of building at the time, was a former contractor. He didn’t understand the code,” Jones said.

“Weeds” co-star Kevin Nealon prior to an appearance at Comedy and Magic Club in 2002. Photo by Tom Sanders (TomSanders Photos)

Not even an appearance before the city council by comedian Gary Shandling, then starring in the “Larry Sanders Show,” could convince the council to restore the 350 seat occupancy Lacey contended the club needed to be viable.

A Nov. 2, 2002 Easy Reader story about the meeting reported, “The council laughed, and then told a joke of its own, before referring the matter back to the building department.”

A February 2003 Easy Reader council story quotes Councilman Art Yoon lamenting, “We lost the Either/Or bookstore, we lost the Bijou theater. This is where we draw the line.”

But the expressions of support from council members were no more than that. The same Easy Reader story reports, “City officials said that despite the mistake [of reducing the seating] Lacey must live with the smaller occupancy…unless he remodels.”

That year, following the addition of sprinklers and new fire exits, the city increased the club’s allowable occupancy to 250 seats.

“At the time, the city was having police problems with the bars. So the city surveyed the bars and their occupancies levels. Then the council approved an ordinance, limiting both the number of bars and their occupancy levels to the survey numbers,” Jones recalled.

As a result, Lacey said, whenever he asked for more seating, the council said it was handcuffed by the ordinance’s “moratorium” on more bar seats.

“I’m not a bar. I’m a dinner theater. I don’t even have a bar, except in the kitchen. They could never tell me why I was classified as a bar,” Lacey said.

(Ironically, classifying Comedy and Magic as a bar is why, today, if Comedy and Magic closes permanently, the location almost certainly will become a 120-foot long bar.)

Tension between Lacey and the city peaked during a charity event at the club in July 2018.

(Lacey allowed local charities to sell admission tickets and keep the proceeds for Tuesday through Thursday shows. A major reason residents are anxious for the club to reopen is that over the decades, charities, such as The Wellness Foundation, the Hermosa Woman’s Club, service clubs, and education foundations formed dependencies on funds raised at their annual Comedy and Magic Club nights).

That evening, Mayor Jeff Duclos approached Lacey to thank him for supporting local charities, and to congratulate him on the club’s 40th Anniversary. The previous week, the council had issued a proclamation declaring July “Comedy and Magic Club Month.”

Lacey, by his own account, lost his stutter and lit into the Mayor. He accused the mayor and the city of trying to drive him out of business.

“You take away my seats. You won’t allow me to host daytime events. And now the city is promoting comedy shows on Saturday nights directly in front of my club,” Lacey said.

[A provision of the Comedy and Magic Club’s CUP (conditional use permit) states, “Comedy/theatrical production shall be maintained 50 percent of the operating time.” As a result, the club can’t host weddings, or business conferences.]

Duclos, in recalling the charity night encounter, said Lacey had just gotten off a phone call, where he had learned the promoter of the Saturday night summer beach concerts had added comedians to their shows, including some who performed at the club.

Duclos said he told Lacey he hadn’t known the promoter had booked comedians, and he apologized for the fact, and that Lacey later apologized for venting at him.

Spyder Surf owner Dennis Jarvis, who observed the encounter, recalled telling Lacey, “You don’t look good. You’re white. You should go home.”

Shortly before COVID forced the club’s closure, Lacey retained Wickett to draw up new plans for 350 seats.

Upon reviewing the club’s building history, Wickett said, he was puzzled over why the city ever reduced the seating from the early 353 seats.

“I’ve never heard of a fire marshall lowering a seat count. The original number should be an entitlement,” Wickett said. He further questioned why the community development department was even involved in the seating count, which he believes is the fire department’s responsibility.

Robertson, in his Comedy and Magic chronology, notes, “Occupant Loads are dictated by both building and fire codes.”

In the interview two weeks ago, Robertson said the city will assist Comedy and Magic in reopening in every way it can. But it can’t act until a new floor plan and an application for a new CUP are submitted.

Lacey said he is encouraged by Robertson’s openness to restoring the 353 seats, but he remains wary of the city, in part because a request for a new CUP, makes all 23 provisions in the current CUP subject to change, not just those he objects to, in particular the requirement that 50 percent of his business be comedy or theater.

Wickett said he understands Lacey’s distrust of the city.

“This is his child, and he was abused for years. Now, he’s being asked to make a leap of faith,” the architect said.

Lacey said this week, he’ll do it.

In part, because he feels an obligation to his long time staff, including line cooks he hired from Millie Riera’s when he opened, Umbaldo Moraza, Martine Barajas and Raul Nunez; as well as long time booking agent Richard Barrett; tech manager Bill Murray; bookkeeper Darlene Perez; club managers Rebecca Meyer, Ann Yarnell, and Chris Cuff, Lacey’s wife Kathy and his brother John.

“They’re the ones who really run the club,” he said.

But more importantly, he said, “I want my grandkids to have a place to see great comedy. They may not know who Steve Allen and George Carlin are. But they know today’s Allens and Carlins — Bill Burr, Sarah Silverman, Adam Sandler, Ray Romano, Daniel Tosh, Aziz Ansari, and Jo Koy.”

“I want veteran comedians to have a place where they can pass on their craft, and young comedians to have a place where they can practice their craft while earning enough money to quit their day jobs. Without comedy clubs, comedy will collapse the way folk music collapsed when the coffee houses closed,” he said.

“And I want Hermosa to have a place to carry on its support for the arts, in the tradition of The Insomniac, the Lighthouse, Either/Or, the Bijou, the Old Baptist Church, Boogaloo and Saint Rocke.” ER

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Jay Leno performs at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach in this undated file photo. (Photo by Steve McCrank)

Laughter will return to the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach this weekend, when the iconic club opens for the first time since the pandemic shutdown more than two years ago.

The club will reopen with 10 comics each on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 20-22, beginning at 8 p.m. Then, at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 29, Jay Leno will return to the Hermosa stage to perform his stand-up routine.

But for now, the club, 1018 Hermosa Ave., will open with limited capacity and a limited menu, owner Mike Lacey said in an interview on Monday, May 16.

Despite pandemic restrictions being lifted last summer and nearby businesses operating at full capacity, Comedy & Magic has been slow to reopen. The biggest obstacle, Lacey said, was hiring cooking staff. In fact, he said, they are still interviewing for cooks this week.

The club will open at full audience capacity once staffing is complete, Lacey said. For the opening weekend, they will seat approximately 100 to 125 guests, below the current 250 seat capacity.

“We’re going to open with the capacity that we can handle because food is really important to us,” Lacey said, adding he has hired Joseph Gillard as consulting chef to help with the reopening.

Comedian Jay Leno backstage at the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach in this undated file photo. Leno performed many of his stand-up routines at the club over the years, some of them on Sunday when he’d try out new material for his host job on the “The Tonight Show.” Behind Leno are signatures on a cinder block wall of comedians who performed at the club. (Photo by Steve McCrank)

Jay Leno performs at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach in this undated file photo. (Photo by Steve McCrank)

Many comedy legends — from George Carlin to Jerry Seinfeld — have performed at the Comedy & Magic Club over the decades, but Leno has been a frequent performer there since Lacey opened the venue in 1978.

Leno also performed shows at the venue on Sundays to test out his opening monologues for “The Tonight Show,” when he took over from Johnny Carson in 1992.

Besides the May 29 performance, Lacey said, Leno will headline a couple of Sundays in June and the comic will be there most Sundays in July as well. (The 10-comics-a-night-lineup will remain on Fridays and Saturdays.)

“He’s dying to get back and he’s on board 100%,” Lacey said.

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Earlier this year, Comedy & Magic received approval to add 100 seats to its main showroom and to enclose a patio at its adjacent lounge area. The approved plan includes removing the employee offices behind the main stage and then moving the stage north to help accommodate the additional 100 seats.

The backstage green room, with hundreds of signatures on its walls by famous performers, will remain untouched, Lacey said in February, when the Hermosa Beach Planning Commission approved the renovations.

No date has been set for construction to begin, Lacey said in the Monday interview.

For more information, call 310-372-1193 or visit the temporary website at thecomedyandmagicclub.com.

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Leno returns to Hermosa Beach Comedy Club, absolves steamer car that burned him

Sunday evening, one month after Jay Leno suffered face, hand, and chest burns so severe he required skin grafts, he was welcomed back to the Comedy and Magic Club with standing ovations at the start, and close of his performance.

“You’d never know he had a problem,” John Bartlet, a Manhattan Beach resident and Comedy Club regular said following the show.

Leno was burned November 12, when gasoline from a 1907 steam car he was working on caught fire. Asked upon his release last Monday from the Grossman Burn Center if he’ll ever drive the car again, he answered, “Sure. The car didn’t do anything wrong.”

Jay Leno with fans in front of Comedy and Magic Club in 2004, when he was host of The Tonight Show. Photo by Kevin Cody

Leno quipped to the Sunday night audience that he planned two shows for the evening. “One regular, one extra crispy.” But otherwise, he did not allow his injuries to distract from his performance.

His rapid return to the stage was reported by media nationwide, including The Washington Post, Good Morning America , and TMZ. A phalanx of TV cameras greeted him after he backed his blue Tesla into a Hermosa Beach Police car while parallel parking in front of the club. (Neither vehicle was damaged.)

“The Elephant Man is here,” he said to the press swarm as he got out of his Tesla.

Press was banned from attending Sunday night’s performance. But he took time before entering the club to thank the reporters when they congratulated him on his return.

Leno’s courtesy to the press, while spurring coverage of his return performance, was characteristic of his aversion to celebritydom. “He thinks of himself as a car mechanic who does comedy,” Comedy Club owner Mike Lacey said.

Leno has appeared at Comedy and Magic almost every Sunday since it opened in 1978. Fans thought his local performances would end when he succeeded Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show in 1992. Instead he increased his Sunday appearances.

He’d come on stage holding a stack of joke cards. If people didn’t laugh after he read a card, he’d throw it over his shoulder. If they did, he’d put the card on the stage stool, which he never sat on. He’s a pacer. The following week, during his Tonight Show monologues, he’d repeat the jokes that had gotten laughs.

Comedians commonly use Comedy and Magic Club appearances to work out new routines. Last Comic Standing finalist Laurie Kilmartin expressed the importance comedians attached to their Comedy and Magic Club performances by telling an Easy Reader reporter, “I feel like I have to do a joke on TV before I can do it at the Comedy and Magic Club.”

Jay Leno performing at Comedy and Magic Club in 2009. Photo by Patrick Fallon

Leno likes performing at Comedy and Magic because owner Mike Lacey treated him and fellow comedians respectfully in their early years.

Leno is similarly known for mentoring other comedians, among them a young Arsenio Hall, whom Leno convinced to move from his native Cleveland to Los Angeles. When Hall learned Leno was to perform this past Sunday, he called Lacey and insisted on being the warm-up act.

Leno also likes performing in Hermosa Beach because the local audience reflects his national audience better than the often jaded industry audience at Hollywood and downtown clubs.

Lacy discouraged Leno from coming back to work so soon after the accident. Leno responded, I have to work.

Sunday evening wasn’t the first time Leno has returned to the stage while still recovering from serious injuries. He told his audience about a motorcycle accident he had when he was 35, doing 100 miles per hour on a Friday night. He spent the weekend in a hospital bed, unable to walk. That Monday, he hosted The Tonight Show.

“I don’t mind being old, and I don’t mind looking old,” the 72-year-old said when recounting the motorcycle accident. “But the other night I was sitting on the couch when I yawned, and turned my head at the same time. Aahh. What was I thinking, at my age, trying to yawn and turn my head?”

Jay Leno and Mike Lacey, in 2005, in the Comedy Club green room. Photo by Kevin Cody

Nearly a decade after leaving The Tonight Show, Leno performs almost as frequently as Bob Dylan. Also like Dylan, his audiences have included the Nobel Prize Committee.

“Being an American,” he began, when hosting a Nobel Prize event in 2015. “I want to apologize for the Kardashians.” He paused to let laughter pass. Then he said, “And can I throw in Donald Trump.” The laughter was followed by thunderous applause.

He told the Nobel Laureates he shared their concern about global warming.

“At the current rate, Putin will be shirtless by February. No one wants to see that,” he said. The applause was even more thunderous.

Jay Leno’s return to his regular appearances at Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach was national news Sunday night. Photo by Kevin Cody Visitors to Hermosa are always astonished to see Leno’s name on the Comedy and Magic marquee, and doubly astonished on learning tickets to the small club are just $30.

Hermosans think, What’s the big deal? He’s been performing here nearly every Sunday since Jimmy Carter was President.

Then, at the insistence of the out of town visitor, the local agrees to attend a Leno show one more time. And one more time is blown away.

Leno delivers jokes at a pace that gives the audience whiplash. When the laughter crescendos, he delivers another joke, which always seems funnier than the previous one. Like alcohol, his show gets better as it progresses, until everyone’s exhausted, except the one crazy friend who wants to keep going.

Sunday night was no different.

“He didn’t want to get off the stage,” Hermosa Beach resident Dennis Maloney said.

When finally, Leno looks at his watch, and realizes its closing time, he’ll propose just one more round for the road. He’ll stand middle stage, and deliver a joke like you’d hear at Toastmasters. Except the joke will have the funniest, most unexpected punchline the audience has ever heard. That’s the joke the audience tells the following day at work, because the blizzard of jokes that preceded it will have sadly melted away.

Jay Leno with Girl Scout Micah Worner outside Comedy and Magic in 2014. Leno said he only likes Oreos, but would buy cookies anyway and give them to the club’s staff. Photo by Elka Worner.

After the show, the club is slow to open the exit doors. Lacey wants to give Leno time to get away.

The policy is not to protect Leno from fans. It’s to protect Leno from Leno. He cannot refuse autograph and photograph requests.

If he knows a special person is in the audience, not a special celebrity, but a soldier, or first responder, a Comedy and Magic server will tap the person on the shoulder, and say, Jay is waiting outside to see you. On the sidewalk in front of the club, Leno will thank the person for their service, and then insist they pose with him for a photo while he makes a goofy face.

As for his own service, if Leno thinks it’s important, he doesn’t admit to it.

Following Sunday night’s return to Comedy and Magic, while he walked to his car, a TMZ reporter asked him, “Where did you find the strength to get back up there?”

“I’m a comedian. There’s no strength required. I just tell stupid jokes.” ER

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1. John - 1 out of 5 stars - I bought the Thetford starlite aqua magic RV toilet and I am extremely disappointed with it. Firstly, the flushing mechanism is weak and often doesn't clean the bowl properly. Secondly, the seat is uncomfortable and feels cheaply made. Lastly, the overall construction of the toilet feels flimsy and has started leaking after just a few uses. I would not recommend this toilet to anyone and advise looking for alternative options.

2. Sarah - 2 out of 5 stars - I had high hopes for the Thetford starlite aqua magic RV toilet, but it failed to meet my expectations. The design is bulky and takes up a lot of space in my small RV bathroom. Additionally, the flushing system is inconsistent and often requires multiple flushes to completely clear the bowl. The seat lid also doesn't stay up properly, which is inconvenient. Overall, I think there are better options available on the market for RV toilets.

3. Mike - 1 out of 5 stars - The Thetford starlite aqua magic RV toilet is a complete waste of money. The flushing power is weak and often leaves waste behind, requiring additional cleaning after each use. The seat is uncomfortable and feels cheaply made. Furthermore, the overall quality of the toilet is subpar, with parts breaking or malfunctioning within a short period of time. Save yourself the frustration and look for a better alternative.

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