Is it a comedy club? Is it a bus?

It’s the Stand Up Bus!

Our motto: We’re taking live comedy to previously impossible places at a fare price!

SO WHAT WAS THE STAND UP BUS?

The Stand Up Bus was a comedy club on wheels. We had everything you’d expect from a comedy club, only instead of a brick and mortar theater, we were located inside of a big blue prison bus.

OUR HISTORY:

After a heated auction rally in July 2014, LA-based comedians Mike Frankovich and Dusty Trice found themselves the proud owners of a decommissioned 1990 Ford Econoline prison bus. Work began on transforming the bus into a comedy club in August 2014 with the placement of the first section of "brick" on the wall behind the fabulous "Grand Showroom" stage. The Stand Up Bus held twelve people comfortably (eighteen uncomfortably) and was equipped with a state of the art sound system and light show. Dusty and Mike would drive the Stand Up Bus around Los Angeles performing random stand up comedy shows wherever they were needed. Sadly, the Stand Up Bus hit the brakes back in 2018.

This unique comedy venue was a true LA original! We painstakingly recreated the experience of being in a live comedy showroom and infused it with all the excitement of sitting on a bus!

"The Stand Up Bus was Hollywood's most exclusive comedy club on wheels. We began performing free spontaneous comedy shows in a big blue prison bus around Hollywood back in 2014. There wasn't a bus schedule and we never sold tickets. We'd simply appeared like magic wherever jokes needed to be told, do a free show, and then disappear just as mysteriously. And we had a blast, right up until that horrific traffic accident. Just kidding, but there was a breakdown and we did have to sell it." -Dusty Trice

Stand Up Bus Fun Fact: The bus is nicknamed Ralph in honor of Ralph Kramden, the lovably loudmouthed bus driver played by TV legend Jackie Gleason on The Honeymooners.

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