Legendary Club to Close This Week

The legendary North Beach comedy club The Purple Onion will close this week after hosting amazing acts since 1952.  If you’ve never heard of The Purple Onion, you’re not alone.  But it’s never to late to learn about a great stage, and in this case, you still have one last chance to visit before they close their doors.  The Purple Onion is one of the most historic stand-up comedy venues in the world and hosted a long list of bands as well.

In the past 60 years, diverse performers such as the late Phylis Diller, Robin Williams, and Woody Allen have performed there. Lenny Bruce was arrested there and Maya Angelou performed poetry there as well. In 2005, Zach Galifianakis recorded a DVD there, called Live at the Purple Onion and the Smothers Brothers recorded their first album there.

It’s also been featured in our own Blue Centerlight Pop.

The last comedy show will be September 24th, produced by Dan Dion under the name Jim Short & Friends and will feature “a marathon of great comics.”

Read more at sfstation.com and visit purpleonionlive.com.

(photo via purpleonionlive.com)