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The Laugh Factory is a comedy club with locations on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Long Beach, California, Chicago, and inside the Tropicana Las Vegas. The chain is owned by Jamie Masada. ==History== Masada arrived in America at age 14. He worked multiple jobs in Hollywood to support his family back home, while also performing on the comedy circuit to build his stand-up career. Despite the fact that he was living in a garage and barely spoke English, he combined Persian and Hebrew and soon was working with professional comedians like Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Redd Foxx. Masada's father told him, “Making people laugh is the greatest Mitzvah of all.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-masada/ )〕 In 1979, after a dispute over club owners refusing to pay comedians, a then 16-year-old Masada decided to open a new venue for comedians to perform. After obtaining a loan of $10,000 from Neal Israel, he opened the Laugh Factory in a building formerly belonging to Groucho Marx.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jamie Masada: The Laugh Factory Impresario's Biography ) 〕 Richard Pryor was the first comedian to perform at the club. Masada attends Tuesday Open Mic Nights to screen possible comedians for performances. The Laugh Factory now has branches in Hollywood, California and Long Beach, California, Las Vegas inside of the Tropicana Las Vegas, and in Chicago, Illinois. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laugh Factory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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