{"id":3096,"date":"2026-07-25T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:39:50","slug":"the-publisher-of-a-satirical-quarterly-is-determined-to-bring-the-laughs-to-south-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"The publisher of a satirical quarterly is determined to bring the laughs to South Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What happens when the publisher of a satirical newspaper wants to stop publishing his \u201csilly\u201d quarterly?  <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3094\">The beauty of a walkable Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He opens a comedy club. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a joke. It\u2019s the story of Reid Benditt, creator of  the Philadelphia Jabroni, which he will now put on a hiatus   to focus on running Claude\u2019s Comedy Club &amp; Bar, which opened last month.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Benditt, 43, has spent years of producing comedy shows behind the scenes. He hopes the South Philly venue, at 1123 S. Broad St.,  will become a premier destination for emerging acts to build their names, and for touring comics to engage with a wider range of fans. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re kind of like the \u2018Adult Swim\u2019 brand of comedy,\u201d Benditt said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Many rising stand-ups, he said, are reduced to backrooms at Philly dive bars and restaurants, where the crowd is more interested in clearing their plates and drink tabs than they are in comedy. Few, if any, venues are dedicated to rising comics on a nightly basis, Benditt said, which forces early-career comics to test their skills in larger entertainment markets before they\u2019re ready. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPhilly is a really underserved city as far as the number of [comedy] clubs,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s saying something when we only have a handful of clubs, and we have all this great talent around.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The clubs are even fewer in South Philly,  where Benditt said Claude\u2019s comes in. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Just under South Broad Street\u2019s United Check Cashing marquee stands Claude\u2019s doors. Visitors are immediately transported to a dimly-lit, subterranean space that\u2019s reminiscent of legendary clubs like New York City\u2019s Comedy Cellar. There are low ceilings, intimate lighting, and an audience that\u2019s fully invested in local comedy.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Down the steps is a full-scale bar, fashioned with lush seating, and a drink menu filled with spirits and nonalcoholic options. The food menu offers small bites like specialty hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches, dill pickle plates, and Tastykake flights garnished with small puddles of whipped cream.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>To the right of the bar are the doors to Claude\u2019s 100-person show space. Cushioned sheets rest on its perimeter, while small table sets are positioned toward the illuminated stage, with the Claude\u2019s logo serving as the backdrop. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s where rising comics can bring their mangled notebooks on stage to test  new material, and where touring acts can drop in to perform outside of the city\u2019s long-running venues. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In less than a month, the club has drawn the kind of talent and crowd Benditt envisioned two years ago when he decided to transform the former thrift store into a comedy hub. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Comics like Carmen Lynch, KC Shornima, and Lukas McCrary have headlined at Claude\u2019s, their signatures gracing the club\u2019s green room walls. Other comedians have participated in open mic nights, pun comedy showcases, and other themed events. Benditt also plans to establish programming for Philly\u2019s robust clown community. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>While he\u2019s spent the majority of his career as an event coordinator at Union Transfer and Electric Factory, Benditt has been a part of Philly\u2019s comedy scene for more than a decade. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3092\">\ud83c\udfc0 The King is coming to Philly | Morning Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>After taking an improv class in 2013, he began performing stand-up with the collective Laughs on Philly. In 2019, he helped organize the Whiz City Comedy Festival, a two-day, three-venue event on South Street. But he knew, even then, being a performer wasn\u2019t in the cards. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPerforming was never my thing,\u201d Benditt said. \u201cI\u2019ve done stand-up enough times to know which side of the microphone I belong on, and which side I want to be on.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He discussed the idea of opening a comedy club among friends, but it wasn\u2019t until late 2020 that his plans were set in motion. He took a small-business class at Temple University and began searching for potential venues. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Benditt looked at spaces in Passyunk and West Passyunk before signing the lease to the lower-level venue in November 2024. He  chose the South Broad Street location because of the absence of live comedy venues in the area. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the map where the comedy clubs are in the city, it\u2019s easy to see where there\u2019s a void,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He didn\u2019t reveal the  cost of construction but said he poured his life savings into transforming the \u201craw\u201d cement stage and barren walls into a formidable entertainment destination. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt was enough, where I had to put my house on the line as an insurance policy,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m going all in.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Originally, Benditt anticipated an October 2025 opening, but he didn\u2019t account for the mountain of permits required by the Department of Licenses and Inspections. But after securing the final permit needed to operate as a comedy club and sit-in restaurant in June, Benditt\u2019s  dream was finally fulfilled. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>For the name, Benditt wanted something catchy with a more personal touch. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSomething that gets out of the way and gives performers a spotlight.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>His mother\u2019s name is Claudia, his family affectionally calls her \u201cClaude.\u201d And like his \u201cselfless\u201d mother, who routinely puts others before herself, Benditt is determined to showcase local and national comics, even with his livelihood on the line. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><i>Claude\u2019s Comedy Club &amp; Bar, 1123 S. Broad St. Cellar, Philadelphia. Open everyday 4 p.m. to midnight. <\/i><i>instagram.com\/claudescomedy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3090\">A Penn professor thought she\u2019d sell 1000 copies of her \u2018Odyssey\u2019 translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reid Benditt, who used to publish \u201cthe Philadelphia Jabroni,\u201d has opened Claude\u2019s Comedy Club &#038; Bar on South Broad Street. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The publisher of a satirical quarterly is determined to bring the laughs to South Philly - Corporate Movers USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3096\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The publisher of a satirical quarterly is determined to bring the laughs to South Philly - 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