[Music] looking for some live entertainment this weekend there's music sure and theater of course but here's something else you may not have considered our Storyteller Robert price has the story Bakersfield has always been known for its particular sound in music but these days it's becoming known for another sound the sound of laughter and there is something different about Bakersfield laughter just like there was something different about that twangy music that came out of this town in the 60s
Daniel Betts owner of the well the first and only six days a week comedy club in Bakersfield says local audiences are a little more patient I think in La you know you you've got 17 million people they go out to Comedy all the time they expect you to get right to it you better have your first laugh in 15 seconds whereas here uh we've never had a comedy club before so people are showing up they don't quite know what to expect it's not as well of a trained audience and they let you get into a littl
e bit of Storytelling they'll give you a little bit of a leeway for the first minute or so to build towards where you're going you kind of don't get that in some of the major cities the well which Betts owns with his wife Lindsay is coming up on its first year of business as a full-time comedy only Club that's all we do we're not doing Quinceaneras or or funerals or whatever that's a veteran who's also executive director of portrait of a warrior Gallery is celebrating the comedy club's anniversa
ry for Friday night with what they're calling a secret show yes three professional comedians whose identity will be revealed when it's their turn on stage oh come on Daniel a hint so you want to know about the secret show but it's like the first rule of Fight Club I can't we don't talk about it he said he doesn't even know his booking team made all the arrangements so what kind of person attends a comedy show people that are coming out here or they're just looking for a way to check everything a
t the door whatever's going on you're you know your your job stinks or maybe you're struggling your marriage or or you just rear-ended somebody whatever it is you walk through the doors and you just you forget about all of it for an hour or two the well is probably the first comedy club in town since the Rocket Shop Cafe on Union Avenue closed pre-covered a year later audiences are still cracking up a television reporter walks into a bar to tell a story about a comedy club in Southwest Bakersfie
ld Robert Price 17 News oh I want to hear how that ends Bob
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