A former space at the Rosana Square shopping center will soon be filled with laughter again.
That’s the owner’s vision, anyway.
Longtime standup comedian Clint Warren first opened the comedy club, then called Clint’s Comedy Stop, about seven years ago at Overland Park’s Rosana Square shopping center near 119th Street and Blue Valley Parkway.
The club shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the space vacant. More recently, it has been used by neighboring businesses in the shopping center as an event space.
But when Warren drove by the storefront earlier this year and noticed that it was available again, it felt like the time was finally right to revive it.
“I’m grateful that I’m able to have the club, because I thought I wasn’t going to get it back,” he said. “I thought, ‘This is my opportunity.’”
The Overland Park standup joint, now dubbed Clint’s Comedy Club, will officially reopen in its former digs on Sept. 20.
Clint’s Comedy Club is opening at 7332 W. 119th St.
- The club will open in a space on the east side of the Rosana Square shopping center, just off 119th Street and Blue Valley Parkway.
- The space is near live music venue Guitars and Cadillacs (which has had its own revival in recent years) and Indian restaurant Aahaa Modern Indian Cuisine.
- Once it opens, Clint’s Comedy Club will generally offer live comedy from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, Warren said.
Clint’s Comedy Club will offer “top-tier” weekend comedy
Once it reopens, Warren said the stage at Clint’s Comedy Club will lend itself to both rising and seasoned comedians.
On Friday nights, the club will host improv shows, as well as open mic nights for aspiring comics.
Saturday nights will be reserved for professionals. Warren says he’s already working on a lineup leading up to the official reopening.
“We have a fun time from the beginning to the end — we don’t just sit around and wait for the headliner,” he said. “If you want to see the super famous guy at the T-Mobile Center, go down and see him, and we’ll see you next week.”
While the club won’t operate as a full-fledged bar or kitchen, it will offer a range of beers, wines, mixed drinks and snacks for the audience.
The space itself seats roughly 80 people, which Warren said lends itself to a more intimate environment than what you’d find at a larger venue — and therefore, a different experience.
“The club is different from most clubs,” Warren said. “People who walk in, they feel like they’re known somewhere. It’s not just going to a regular club and being one of the masses.”
This is Clint’s second run
When Clint’s Comedy Club (then called Clint’s Comedy Stop) first opened in 2018, it was attached to the famed Stanford & Sons Comedy Club — which began in the 1970s in Kansas City’s Westport area and briefly had a home at Overland Park’s Rosana Square before finally relocating to the Legends in Kansas City, Kansas.
At the time, Warren already had 30 years of standup comedy experience under his belt.
Clint’s original club hit its stride for a while with a decent following, Warren said, before things became harder during COVID-19.
“I was thinking that in a couple of weeks, we’d be back open,” he said about the initial pandemic shutdowns. “Nobody knew how it was going to go. I tried a couple times to reopen it, and then COVID reared its ugly head again.”
He said they tried a couple of times to reopen after the initial stay-at-home orders were lifted but ultimately had to shutter completely in the spring of 2021.
Now that the timing has finally lined up, Warren said he’s looking forward to bringing back the lively environment that customers had come to know and love.
After all, he said, comedy fans are hard-pressed to find something like it in Johnson County.
“People here got to know me, and I got to know them,” he said. “It’s a fun night out, that’s basically how I look at it. A ‘party at my house’ kind of atmosphere.”
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