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Home Club: Up-and-Comers and Comebacks at Acme Comedy Company

By Patrick Strait
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By Patrick Strait
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A story of hard-won successes, staggering failures, and unlikely redemption, Home Club shows how a soft-spoken Chinese immigrant and his small Minneapolis club changed comedy and kept the lights on.

Before the sold-out crowds, world-famous performers, and national prestige, Acme Comedy Company was in trouble. Too much debt and too few customers. A product no one wanted in an economy where everyone struggled. Then it all changed.

Home Club is the story of Acme and its owner, Louis Lee, who ca...

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