PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 There\u2019s a new comedy club in South Philly, aiming to provide a cozy neighborhood bar experience and opportunities for up-and-coming performers to try out their material.<\/p>\n
Claude\u2019s was founded by Philly comedian Reid Benditt, who entered the city\u2019s intimate comedy scene eight years ago after a bout of unemployment and has spent years networking and building his name. He says the club is the culmination of that work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a comfortable place,\u201d Benditt explained. \u201cWe just aim it to be a low bar to entry. Come in, have a drink at the bar, hang out, come in and see a show for not a lot of money.\u201d <\/p>\n
He says he named the club for his mother, Claudia \u2014 whose brother always left off the \u201ci\u201d and \u201ca\u201d in her name \u2014 and says her approach to life inspired how he wants his club to run.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom was a very selfless person, and to me, that\u2019s sort of what the room is about,\u201d Benditt said. \u201cMy mom would always get out of the way to make people comfortable, and to me, any venue is just about that. It\u2019s just about creating the space for great comics, great performers, to do their thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claude\u2019s can be found at the southeast corner of South Broad Street and Alter Street, just off of the Ellsworth-Federal stop on the Broad Street Line. <\/p>\n
The club opens every day at 4 p.m., and holds a show seven days a week, with feature-length sets to showcase Philly comics every Sunday. The full calendar, which includes a slate of nationally touring comics and planned nights for local talent, can be found at claudescomedy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 There\u2019s a new comedy club in South Philly, aiming to provide a cozy neighborhood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95208,69,71,70,105848,645,32663],"class_list":["post-247715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-comedy-club","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philly-comedy","tag-south-philadelphia","tag-stand-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}