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Karaoke doesn't have the same kind of draw as the kind of raucous rock pumped out at the Last Day Saloon next door.
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With no open mikes left, Bernat approached Seaport owner Lauren Han, who was amenable to the idea. Last December the Punch Line in Walnut Creek folded after a 10-year run. "Now for an open-miker, it's hell."Ī half-dozen full-time comedy clubs in San Francisco have been whittled to two, Cobb's Comedy Club in the Cannery, and the Punch Line in the Embarcadero. "When I moved here, a cold open-miker could get on a stage every night of the week," Bernat says. Not even that entry-level opportunity remains in a city once known nationwide for separating comic talent from class clowns. The audience consisted of two soldiers shipping out to boot camp in the morning and Bernat was grateful for them. This is what brought Bernat here way past midnight on his first night in town from Tucson in 1986. In its glory, anybody who signed up got at least three and at most five minutes in the lights, sharing the stage with bigger names throughout an evening. "For some reason, comedy doesn't want to let go of this address," says Bob Fisher, who owned the club in the 1980s and is helping promote its weekly return with a site on the World Wide Web. Karaoke itself is comical, so hilarity still a staple of the old rustic wooden railroad car. The stage has been moved to an opposite wall, is now a third the size and is partially obscured by a television monitor that prompts singers with lyrics. The wooden benches have been replaced by banquettes, and the old torn- up, off-balance stools, which were auctioned to comics on closing night, have been replaced by shiny new ones. What they won't recognize is the awning announcing Seaport Tavern, or the polished interior with its blue neon lights, lavender walls and dark carpeting where the plank floors and sawdust used to be. "I wouldn't open it up in any other room."Ĭomedy veterans will notice the familiar swinging doors with the clover-shaped windows. "Because it's the Zoo, it holds a lot of nostalgia, not just for comics but for audience people," says Bernat, 32.