At 35, HaHa comedy club is the epitome of the (funny) immigrant success story

Nate Jackson for the Los Angeles Times reports on an immigrant couple who Jack and Tere Assadourian, who run the rising HaHa Comedy Club in North Hollywood.   “They’re immigrants — an Armenian man from Lebanon who grew up selling handbags and managed restaurants after moving to the U.S. and a woman from Mexico City who never set foot inside a comedy club before becoming the co-owner of one. But 35 years later, running their mom-and-pop comedy club comes as natural as breathing.”

Jack fled Lebanon during the civil war in 1975 and came to the United States when he was 18.  He bought a place that would become the HaHa when it was still a Mexican restaurant.   Now it is a thriving comedy club. Kevin Hart, Damon Wayans, Gabriel Iglesias, and others have started off at the HaHa.

KJ