Flappers Comedy Club

Flappers Comedy Club and Restaurant is a live comedy club with two California locations, one in Burbank, and the other in Claremont. Notable celebrity comedians who have performed at Flappers have included Jerry Seinfeld, Maria Bamford, Kevin Hart, Gabriel Iglesias, Bill Burr, Adam Sandler, Christopher Titus, Jimmy Dore, Rob Schneider, Craig Shoemaker and others.

The Burbank club, which opened in 2010, is located at 102 East Magnolia Boulevard in Downtown Burbank,^[1] and includes a 200-seat Mainroom, a smaller 50-seat "Yoo Hoo Room," and a bar & patio area with smaller performance stages. Over 40 shows per week are produced, seven nights a week. A full-service restaurant and bar menu is available before and during shows. Friday and Saturday 8pm and 10pm shows feature national touring headliners in the Mainroom. Other notable shows include:

• Celebrity Drop-In Tuesdays at 8pm - a show in which famous comedians routinely drop in, with past guests including Adam Sandler, Whitney Cummings, Adam DeVine
• Two Milk Minimum every Saturday at 4:30pm - a family-friendly comedy show starring Michael Rayner (Sesame Street)
• Uncle Clydes Comedy Contest every Wednesday at 8pm - Flappers' fresh-faces comedy contest in which the audience votes for their favorite comedians to win cash prizes, gift cards, and Flappers Traditional "Huge Bowl Of Fries."

Flappers is also home to Flappers Comedy University, "where learning is a joke," and is one of the largest comedy schools in Los Angeles. The school offers classes in stand-up comedy, improvisation, marketing and promoting, writing for late night television, screenwriting, getting booked on the road, and more.

The Claremont Club, which also opened in 2010, is located at 512 West 1st Street, Claremont, on the second floor of the historic Packing House. Seating 100, the club offers a beer & wine list, appetizers, and desserts. Notable shows include:

• Headliner Friday and Saturday nights - featuring national headlining comedians
• Comedy Showcases - Sundays at 7pm featuring a mix of local talent, LA comedians, and national headliners
• Two Milk Minimum - select Sundays at 4:30pm

Events

Since 2014, Flappers has produced and hosted the Burbank Comedy Festival, sponsored by Visit Burbank and the Downtown Burbank Partnership. The festival features a full week of comedy shows, classes, industry panels, and parties.

In 2017 to celebrate Women's History Month, the club featured female headliners that included Cocoa Brown, Taylor Tomlinson and Laurie Kilmartin.^[2]

Acts

In winter of 2016, Cedric The Entertainer .^[3] performed every Monday for a two-month residency. In April 2017, Kevin Hart headlined four shows.

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