Ha Comedy Club

01/08/11

bad tempee

by Syrensheart at Citysearch

Horrible experience with the staff. On the way to the comedy club, an overly aggressive man approaches my group to sell tickets to the show tonight. We don't really address him because he is so crass "what you mother f*ckers dont see me". He decides to walk in front of us so that when we reached the ticket desk we would be forced to buy from him. While he's passing us he brutally bumps my pregnant sister and does this with out an apology and says "let's see if these mother f*ckers get in with out me. "When we reach the ticket counter I tell the man that I will not buy tickets from this man, and that I would prefer to buy it from him. He vouched for this I'll mannered man and says that we should buy our tickets from the crass man. We left. Horrible staff. Bad experience.

03/31/10

Go here if you want to get cheat.

by uglyduck19 at Citysearch

Wow. If you're reading a positive review, then it must be them employees/owner who are writing the review themselves. LOL. Based on the # of audience--obviously, this place ain't that great.

Me and my girls decided to go to this place on Thursday March 25th, 2010 @ the 12:30am showing. We were lured in by one of the promoter claiming that they have well-known comedians playing that night. I asked the workers if there were any people inside the place prior to paying for admission. They stated that there was a big crowd and push us in. We entered the room and wtf?? We made up one-third of the crowd. There was about 10 people in there plus us 4 girls. The crowd was so bad that the owner and the workers also sat in so that it will make the number look better. We were pretty excited and were expecting a good laugh. Thus, we were cheering a lot. The first "comedian" who had no jokes to tell was picking on us the whole night. Yes, we are Asian people. So the whole time the comedian was making racist remarks. There's a difference between racist remarks and racist jokes. And he could not deliver the latter. So after a while we decided to tune him out and avoid eye contact wishing for the next comedian. He noticed that we were ignoring him and so he picked on us nonstop. So after a while we got fed up and started to make rude "remarks" back. (We got him back really good)hahahah...Jokes on him. Obviously, the crowd knew their was tension between us and the first comedian. The second comedian comes on and then again this comedian has no jokes to tell. He starts making some racist Asian remarks and we were like wtf? Are all their jokes based on how the audience look that night? We paid our tab and walked out. This place FORCES you to buy 2 overpriced items, on top 16% gratuity. And yes, they keep a very close eye on you to ensure that you buy 2 items each. We asked the manager for refund (for the door) for the reason that we didn't stay all the way to the end. He then tells us that it is OUR fault for being "disruptive" and he even let us be loud when we first entered in. I didn't know that cheering was being disruptive. And he also blamed us for LYING regarding making racist remarks vs. jokes. So my cousin tells him, "Do you think that we're lying when she's crying?!?!"--pointing to me. Silent awkward moment and so my cousin tells the manager: "Fine, you can keep our $10 (each)." I'm so shocked that we paid over $100 and this is how we are treated. Now I understand why there was no locals. Go here if you want to get scam.

• Pros: NONE
• Cons: comedian, employee, price, food, dungeon

02/23/10

Awesome Club and GREAT show- LMAO!

by ShaneRocks at Citysearch

I bought my tickets online to see LMAO at Ha Comedy Club. I had previously seen the show last summer when it played at the other times square club. On the day I went it was a Saturday night and the show was almost sold out. I'm glad I got there early and got my tickets in advance because it's general admission and the better seats go quickly on the busier nights. There were two large groups of college students from VA and WI on the night that I went so that made it a lot of fun for the interactive parts. .My group was seated promptly in front of the stage. The waitress was very friendly and personable. That's something you don't get a lot of in New York City nowdays. The show began with a warm up from the MC/Host where he asked for a few ideas to get the crowd going. Then the cast came out and sang a hilarious blues song about having to pay taxes - (LMAO) Awesome! From there they did some interactive stuff involving two audience members on stage making sound effects for two actors. Everyone in the entire audience was roaring with laughter. The did a few other funny skits that I hadn't seen them do before. My favorite was the original musical where upon request from the MC the actors had to break out into song repeating the last sentence. Overall I think it is worth a trip to see this show at least once. I can't imagine anyone NOT liking this show. I was also able to get tickets at the student price online in advance through a special promotion. What I also like is that there is no drink minimums for this show. Most of us ended up order a drink in my group which were decent pours and reasonable priced drinks. On the way out after the show the entire cast thanked us for coming and were all very friendly. Great show. Great fun. I HIGHLY recommend checking this show out.

• Pros: Awesome show, great club, fun people, laughter
• Cons: bathrooms ehh

02/21/10

LMAO - attended and YES laughed my ass off1

by DanielleTamona at Citysearch

Last weekend I attended LMAO with my family and LOVED it. Being an improv show, from what I understand the show is different every night. The show I attended was packed and it seemed like everyone in the crowd was laughing and having so much fun. I give the actors a lot of credit. I don't know how they can come up with all those rhymes for the songs on the spot! They were able to keep it smart without being vulgar or using any profanity. I didn't find anything distasteful as the previous review mentioned and we had 4 people under the age of 18 - the youngest being 7. My favorite part was when the actors dragged my youngest up on stage to make sound effects for the actors - I almost fell off my chair! I guess it's not for everyone but my family and "ham" of a 7 year old had the time of his life and so did I. LMAO

• Pros: so much fun
• Cons: show could be a little longer

02/20/10

LMAO: a TERRIBLE SHOW - in my opinion

by Mdacko at Citysearch

THE LMAO SHOW IS ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS in my opinion! DO NOT go see this show from what I experienced. It's one of the WORST SHOWS i've seen in a LONG time. The comedy club might be a decent host good comedians from time to time but the show LMAO is absolutely a waste of money in my opinion- I would recommend NOT seeing this show in my opinion. I hope this is fair warning for you to see before you possibly spend $50 on a ticket on a show that has little satisfaction for the viewer looking for a laugh - in my opinion. The entire audience included myself along with my 2 guests and about 6 other people. I asked for money back and the owner refused. Hopefully I'm able to alarm people ahead of time before they are dragged from Times Square to this theater to get their "discount" tickets right away which happened to me. Not a very happy customer. Shame on you LMAO.

• Pros: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
• Cons: EVERYTHING