Microphones are like stiff drinks—both make voices louder, jokes easier to understand, and arguments into spectator sports. Summon spirited guffaws with today’s Groupon: for $18, you get two tickets to Goodnight’s Comedy Club (up to a $45 value).

As a staple of the national comedy scene, Goodnight’s counts such superstar standups as Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and Robin Williams among its laughing alumni. The club is also a comedy incubator, fostering chuckle chicks into the Foghorn Leghorns of standup. Goodnight’s upcoming calendar is penciled full of merrymakers, such as Mitch Fatel, Kevin Meaney and time-traveling medieval jesters. Performances run several nights a week, with many late and early shows, catering to early birds, night owls, and rubber chickens.

Though filling mouths with laughs is Goodnight’s primary responsibility, the club also fills stomachs with food and drink from one of three bars and restaurants. Make a pit stop at Old Bar, the downstairs grub-and-libation station with live music, burgers, Tex-Mex fare, and more than 20 different kind of beers.

Reviews

Google Mappers and eight Yelpers give Goodnight's Comedy Club a four-star average, and TripAdvisors give the club a three-star average:

• This is one if the best comedy venues I've been too [sic]. It's small inside so you really can never have a bad seat. – Luis A., Yelp, 2/23/11
• The drinks were good, and so was the service. Overall, I liked to [sic] feel of the place, and thought the service was top-notch – Laurie L., Yelp, 4/22/10