Why ask people to bring their "VIP" tickets at 8:15pm if you're not going to let anyone in until after 9pm?
LA Comedy club wasn't on the directory so we had to ask several employees where the club was. We purchased groupons that said to bring your VIP ticket between 8:15-9:00. We arrived at 8:20 and there were no employees anywhere and the club was closed. There was a make shift line of random customers with the same confusion. We left and came back at 8:45. There at least was now an employee who told us that it didn't open for another 20 minutes. We went to go lean against the wall to wait and found out if we hadn't left we would have been first in line as that was where the line started. About 7 people had filled in so we weren't that far back but I the employee did her job with information we could have been first.
The groupon said front row, we asked to be sat in the front row - we were sat two rows back - even though there were no people in the front row yet - when that row was occupied, it was because they were seated well after we were. The row we were in did not have tables or anything to lean on - only every other row had tables. Definitely not VIP seats.
I would not recommend this cluster-F of a "comedy club" nor will I come back.
**********UPDATE***********
I left the original review during the 45 minute wait for the show to start. After the show, I was accosted by the host who sat me. He apologized for not hearing me ask for the front row. Then asked me to prove to him that groupon listed front row seating because it didn't say it anywhere on the paper. He did this IN FRONT OF EVERYONE LEAVING - I was horrified. It was like he had zero customer service experience ever. So I pulled up the groupon page on my phone (something he could have done himself after reading my review) and showed him. He physically took my phone out of my hands to show it to the owner - again like he couldn't just pull up the page himself later. The owner looked like he couldn't care less. The host had told me he wanted to resolve the issue. I guess in his mind it was resolved - now that I proved I wasn't lying. And sent me on my way with an apology. If I could give a zero star review I would. Now instead of never going back, I'm going to tell EVERYONE about my shitty experience and make sure no-one else has to waste their money on LA Comedy Club!