The Stand Comedy Club Reviews 6

The place is quite small and cosy, let’s say. Seen some good comedians there.

This is the major problem that I have with this place, the staff. I’m afraid it’s a case of tar and brush where this is concerned.

During a performance, I very quietly whispered to my carer, I need to get to a bathroom quick, where is it? To that very quiet whisper I was shocked by the extremely loud SHOOOOOOSH!!! From one staff member. Tar and brush. That staff member should have shooshed themselves, inside their brain, instead of trying to embarrass a patron.

Anyway, we left and I rather sheepishly and carefully had to make my way down to the Princes Street public toilets.

I’m not going back there again. If you whisper extremely quietly, you get told to shoosh, very loudly. Anything other than a laugh is treated like an enormous disrespect towards the comedian. I mean, no way could the comedian hear me, especially me being at the very back of the place, furthest possible from the stage.

One staff member has completely destroyed my experience of this place. Would have been 5 stars, after that incident…. One.

If you’re disabled and need to communicate, very quietly, with your carer, don’t go to the Stand comedy club in Edinburgh.

What a BRILLIANT night out! We were welcomed in and guided to seats, given free gifts as it was our first time. The bar staff were lovely, drinks were well priced. The compere was dry, hilarious and viciously quick witted. The 4 comedy acts were absolutely brilliant and very well curated. We had a great time and left with face ache from laughing so much. Thank you 😊

Second time we've been here and it was a great evening out. The acts were as good as before and all funny. The host, Stu, was really good; easily engaging with the audience with a brilliant, slightly sarky style. The staff at club were superb. Corrine in particular went the additional mile, organising a taxi for us then insisting on going out in the rain to find it for us. Incredible customer service.
Favourite comedienne was the headliner Jay Lafferty, very relaxed and confident and so funny. An all in all thoroughly enjoyable evening and great value for money.

Bulled by the staff for clapping too loud. I have never felt so victimised in my life for doing nothing. Hopefully the owners will respond but probably wont

Acts were atrocious Wegie Christmas Show was rank rotten and the so called star comedian was woeful, left at first interval as we could not take anymore. Never be back if thats level of comedy, would rather pull my teeth out than suffer those acts to the end.

Friends and I went to back to back shows on Friday.
Jiaoying Summers was performing. So, we built an evening around that.
We saw Jim Florentine, Paul Virzi, Bonnie McFarlane and more.
Sherrod Small has gotten even more funny!

But there were some noteworthy down sides to the evening.
At the 12:00 show, there was a woman named Sienna who I think
was getting close to getting booed off the stage.
People don’t enjoy paying to see someone who apparently thinks
that being a train wreck in front of 200 people is a better idea than seeing a therapist.

The other (REALLY BAD) low light of the evening was the MC of the 10:00 show.
A loud, unpleasant fellow called Oscar.
Everyone was cringing. He was so loud I thought me ear drums were going to meet in the middle!
He had no material.
Just yelled insistently about being gay.

“IiIiIiIiIiIi’mmm GaAaAaAaAaAayyyy!!!!”

He asked if there were any gay people in the audience.
No one responded. The Stand is steps away from both Chelsea and the Village.
Very likely that there were lots of gay people in the audience.
But that’s how much no one wanted to interact with this a**hole.
He made 3 “jokes” the entire evening.
And of course it was lame stuff like glory hole references.

The guy isn’t funny and it really took away from the enjoyment of the show.
And let’s be clear, EVERY single act involved sex, religion, race, politics, etc.
So, it’s not the subject matter. It’s just that a loud, unfunny, obnoxious jerk can spoil a show and make folks look at other clubs in the future.
Oh! The one thing he said that was kina funny was
how he knew people would go home and write reviews about how
he was too much!

The Stand should consider this.

Another important issue is the online ticketing.
A service fee for an entire order is fine.
But $5 per ticket is really excessive.
We paid $30 in fees! Not good.

NYC is filled with comedy clubs.
And people have choices.....