In-Unit Laundry — Stand-Up Tuesdays

Comedy is best in rooms where the hosts know each other's material well enough to sabotage it mid-set, and you are sitting close enough to watch it happen.

MK Paulsen and Simon Gibson run this one in Silver Lake, in the small theater beside the cafe — around a hundred seats, a stage low enough that eye contact is unavoidable and everyone in the room is complicit. The bill rotates: touring headliners passing through, LA circuit regulars roughing out material that is not ready and knows it, the occasional unannounced drop-in that makes the whole room react to a person simply walking onstage. The audience is the alt-comedy audience, which means most of them already knew who was going up before the lineup posted.

Lyric Hyperion on Hyperion Ave, Tuesday nights, cheap because the room is small, with the cafe side open after.

Bring the friend whose sense of humor is slightly too specific for the big clubs. They have been waiting for a room this size.