Helium Comedy Club gears up for upcoming star-studded shows

A crowd at Helium Comedy Club in Alpharetta Photo courtesy of Helium Comedy Club It s been roughly seven months since Helium Comedy Club opened its doors in Alpharetta last October Now with the summer looming the club has a heavy-hitting lineup on the horizon Starting May Helium will host comics like Hannibal Buress Colin Jost Lisa Ann Walter and Damon Wayans Jr Tickets for the summer shows are on sale on Helium s website The Atlanta spot joined owner Marc Grossman s growing roster of comedy clubs which now includes nine clubs in cities like Philadelphia St Louis Austin and Rahleigh among others Grossman stated part of the reason for deciding to expand to Atlanta was the lack of clubs outside of the metro area The Punchline Comedy Club relocated from Sandy Springs to Buckhead in and the Funny Farm closed in Roswell in Marshall Chiles the owner of Funny Farm later opened The Snickering Skull in Midtown The comedy scene was definitely missing something Grossman announced Atlanta needed a good big A-level club that indicated well that comics craved to go perform at Especially as you get farther north everybody knows that the traffic in Atlanta is really rough People up towards Alpharetta and those areas they don t want to drive Downtown or even close because it just takes forever Helium has a main showroom with a quota of where bigger comics will play as well as a smaller room dubbed The Other Room for smaller events In addition to the big shows coming up this summer their schedule online is filled with smaller comics and open mic nights Comedy classes are also available at Helium for those who want to better hone their skills Photo by Barry King FilmMagic From top clockwise Damon Wayans Jr Lisa Ann Walter Hannibal Burress and Colin Jost are various of the comics that will perform at Helium Comedy Club in the next couple of months Photos provided by Helium Comedy Club It s deep Grossman noted about the talent pool in the Atlanta comedy scene There are a lot of really good comics I think that s a product of a large population Atlanta being an entertainment capital and certainly Marshall Chiles who owns The Cackling Skull has done a lot to foster that local scene When it comes to booking acts Grossman mentioned the secret sauce comes in trying to appeal to different audiences and demographics which means bringing in a wide variety of acts But there are a scant rules he abides by namely who s funny who can sell tickets and who s easy to work with We re trying everything he commented I think the things that work we ll do more of And the things that don t work we ll do less of We ll keep iterating constantly because we do want a club that appeals to broad audiences The May-June schedule at Helium Comedy Club can be exposed below George Wallace The Lady Killers Clean Slate May Hannibal Buress Broad City Tag May Colin Jost Saturday Night Live May David Koechner The Office Anchorman June Lisa Ann Walter Abbott Elementary June Damon Wayans Jr New Girl Happy Endings June The post Helium Comedy Club gears up for upcoming star-studded shows appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta