Under its new owner, Johnny Buss, and general manager Penny Toler, the 63-year-old Pasadena comedy club tries to revamp without losing its soul.
This weekend the 63-year-old Pasadena comedy club, revered as the oldest in the country, is reopening three years after being snowed in by the pandemic. But it’s definitely not the same club its customers remember when it closed its doors.
Los Angeles Lakers Earvin “Magic” Johnson hugs team owner Jerry Buss in the locker room after they won the 1980 NBA championship against the Philadelphia 76ers in Philadelphia on May 16, 1980. The Ice House owner Johnny Buss and club general manager Penny Toler hang out by a polar bear statue at the comedy club in Pasadena.
“But I don’t know anything about a club, I’ve never managed a club,” she told Buss over the phone when he first offered her the job. “But Johnny said, ‘Oh, it wouldn’t be hard for you, all your skills would translate over here… and he said, ‘More importantly, I trust you.” To learn more about the bar side of the business, Buss also offered to pay for her to go to bartending school to learn about booze .
“It’s a little easier for me with the club because the Ice House has a legendary history. My phone rings off the hook when people want to perform,” Toler said. “For me personally I’d like to try to find the next young comic and groom them here,” Buss said. “For every famous comic, there’s 10 that are trying to break into the business. So that means there’s probably 100 really good comics out there that haven’t even shown their stuff yet.”
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