Veteran comic Jamie Kennedy is used to hearing applause and laughs from the stage — and even some occasional jeers.
But getting flashed by high-beams and hearing some weird noises paired with LED lights during his latest sets, well, that’s something new. The comedy club Kennedy’s currently playing? It’s a Hollywood parking lot.
Kennedy’s been one of the regular performers at the “Magic Asphalt: Drive-In Comedy Under The Stars” series, which takes place two weekends a month in the Magic Castle’s parking lot.
“The people are awesome. These cars, they’re all around you and they clack. They got these things and they just clack them back and forth when they like something. It was cool hearing that,” Kennedy said. “You can hear the laughs, too, but you can really hear the clacks and once you get used to that, it was just like, ‘OK, I’m going to do this again.’”
Married comedy producers Tammy Jo Dearen and Nikole Larson launched the series because indoor comedy clubs are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We were trying to figure out how to make this happen and continue to produce shows and bring laughter and allow the comics to have an outlet. We tried other things like Zoom shows but we decided the safe way to do it, and the only thing allowed here in L.A. County is a drive-in show,” Dearen said.
Every other week on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, ticket holders park their cars in front of a stage at the Magic Castle parking lot where they turn on their radios so they can hear the routine as more than a dozen comedians jump on the microphone in front of tons of metal.
“We really love live performance. There’s something magical about a live performance and the energy between the comics and the audience, even if they’re in cars,” Larson said.
So far, some pretty well-known comedians, such as Kevin Nealon, Bill Burr, Jay Pharoah, Michael Rappaport, Iliza Shlesinger and Doug Benson are among those who have performed in the parking lot.
Kennedy has been a repeat visitor. The veteran comic, who has appeared in the “Scream” franchise and starred in “Malibu’s Most Wanted” and TV’s “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment” has performed at the Magic Asphalt show three times since its launch this summer and hopes to do more.
“People just want to come out and see us, and we just want to come out to perform. I think we all realize we’re really craving a connection,” Kennedy said.
And while comics crave the laughs and applause at clubs, here they’re looking for the LED lights and the clanking sound of the clappers, which are LED-lit noisemakers shaped like little hands that are sold at the beginning of the night.
But for Kennedy, there’s something even better than the clacking.
“Sometimes if you do it really good they hit you with the high beams,” he added.
If You Go:
When: Bi-weekly with the next shows at 7 p.m. Oct. 23-24 and 25
Where: The Magic Castle, 7001 Franklin Ave., Hollywood
Cost: $125 per car, up to five people
Information: nightout.com/promoters/18475/events/tickets
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