The Comedy Workshop and attached Comics Annex was a comedy club

Comedy club

A comedy club is a venue, typically a nightclub, bar, or restaurant where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists and other comedy acts...

 in Houston, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. It was quite popular in the 1980s and the breeding ground for a group of influential comics, once known as the Texas Outlaw Comics that included Ron Shock

Ron Shock

Ron Shock is an American comedian and storyteller who is best known for his reenactments of stories that he got out of newspapers.-Early life:Ron was born in Houston, Texas...

, Riley Barber, Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks

William Melvin "Bill" Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material largely consisted of general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy, and personal issues. Hicks' material was often controversial and steeped in dark comedy...

, Jimmy Pineapple, Steve Epstein, John Farnetti and Andy Huggins. Comedienne Brett Butler

Brett Butler (comedian)

Brett Butler is an American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian, best known for playing the title role in the comedy series Grace Under Fire.-Early life:...

 of Grace Under Fire fame and SNL longtime writer T. Sean Shannon

T. Sean Shannon

T. Sean Shannon is a comedy writer originally from Houston, Texas.As a writer for Saturday Night Live he won an Emmy Award in 2002 and a WGA Award in 2001 . He is the writer and creator of the sketch Bear City, which deals with a city completely inhabited by anthropomorphic bears due to a meteor...

 honed their skills as members of the CW competitive dysfunction. In addition, the great Sam Kinison had his beginnings at the Workshop as well. It closed in the early 1990s and is now a dry cleaners

Dry cleaning

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