{"id":34848,"date":"2025-11-05T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34848\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:01:07","slug":"side-splitters-comedy-club-bringing-250-seat-venue-to-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34848\/","title":{"rendered":"Side Splitters Comedy Club bringing 250-seat venue to downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Thompson first joined Side Splitters in 2007 as a bartender, then manager and GM. In June 2019 he purchased the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Side Splitters also has a location at The Grove shopping complex in Wesley Chapel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Over the years, Side Splitters has hosted comedy heavyweights including Louis C.K., Matt Rife, Jim Breuer, and Shane Gillis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Attendees have long been asking for a St. Pete location, prompting the search for a second space with clear sightlines, convenient parking, and room for a lively audience, yet still offering the same intimate experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe owners of Sundial have a great vision with the current mix of tenants and new businesses coming to the plaza. With high-quality restaurants on-site and cross promotion, we hope to attract 1,000 to 1,500 over the weekends,\u201d said Thompson, who started the site search last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thompson first joined Side Splitters in 2007 as a bartender, then manager and GM. In June 2019 he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-34848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}