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The comedy club Stand-Up, Scottsdale! The exterior was a drab gray with a hand-painted sign. The outdated interior featured chrome furnishings, red zebra-print booths and mustard-yellow chairs. The furniture was replaced with sleeker espresso-colored wooden tables and chairs. Weathered-wood accents now adorn the wall behind the main stage and the front of the main bar.

The smaller adjoining lounge got a similar treatment with modern furnishings. The staff was retrained by industry experts. New food and cocktail menus were introduced, and the kitchen got an update. For any bar owner, it would seem an impossible task. The show follows no-nonsense bar-industry expert Jon Taffer on his mission to revitalize money-losing bars and clubs across the country.

It later became a goth and rock club, and init switched to the gay club Forbidden. InAnderson changed the concept again to Stand-Up, Scottsdale!

A Bar to Take Pride In

Taffer, after observing how the club was run, said Stand-Up, Scottsdale! Their trailers, canopy tents, generators, film equipment and floodlights took over the parking lot and a dirt lot next to the club on Feb. They brought in expert mixologist Franky Marshall to teach the staff how to make new drinks that play off the Scottsdale comedy theme gay such names as the Opener, Ketel Crack-Up and the ScotchDale.

All the drinks are higher end but easy to make quickly. Comedy expert Gianluca Rizzo bar the staff how a successful comedy club should run. The staff was asked not to come by the club for the 36 hours of renovation. The crew went to work repainting the club, adding sleek dark-wood elements, new furniture and funky cartoonlike sketches of comedians on the walls.

Another major change was knocking out booth space in the back of the main room and adding a large high-end green room for performers. The primary staff, including Hughes and the Weissingers, lined up Thursday night for the reveal of the new club. Wearing blindfolds with their rescues turned to the club, the staff had to react to seeing the club for the first time over the course of multiple takes.

A large group of club customers and frequent performers, invited for the re-opening that night, watched the filming from a bar. Taffer is notorious for being a tough critic, often yelling at owners and staffers to drive home the urgency of the situation. Hughes has plans to make some more changes down the line, but he looks at the experience positively.

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