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The Comedy Club of Kansas City is a comedian-owned standup club at 1130 W 103rd St in south KC (Missouri side, just east of State Line), opened April 12, 2019 by Dustin Kaufman — a KC comic who started at Stanford & Sons in Westport in 2000, learned club operations inside LA’s Flappers Comedy Club, and came home to build his own room. National headliners on weekends, a Thursday open mic, and a full food and drink menu.

| Notable features | National headliners (George Lopez, David Koechner, Brian Posehn, Robert Kelly, Joe List); Thursday open mic (signup 8:30pm, show 9:30pm); Gold Pass membership; “The Comedy Club” podcast ||

Last verified: 2026-07-25 · Source: Official website menu page (accessed 2026-07-25, rendered via Firecrawl) · Confidence: High (verified per-item pricing)

Full food and drink menu with appetizers, salads, smashburgers, entrees, and desserts. Prices range $4–$18.

Opening Acts (Appetizers)

  • Spinach Dip — $131
  • Hummus — $121
  • House-Made Cheese Curds — $121
  • Baked Potato Fries — $131
  • Fried Pickles — $121

Salads

  • Spinach Salad — $141
  • House Salad — $141
  • Add Grilled Chicken (+$4), Shrimp or Crispy Chicken (+$5)

Smashburgers

  • The Original — $161
  • Comedy Style — $161
  • BBQ Bacon — $171
  • Make it a double for +$5; vegan option available

Stage Favorites

  • Chicken Tenders — $181
  • Grilled Chicken Wrap — $161
  • Buffalo Chicken Wrap — $161

Sweets & Drinks

  • Colossal Cheesecake — $131
  • Dudes Cookies & Milk — $151
  • Mint Choco-Chip Tini — $121

Full current menu: https://www.thecomedyclubkc.com/pages/menu

Description

Kaufman’s room is the working-comic’s club model executed in KC: touring national headliners Thursday–Sunday, a genuine open mic for the local scene, membership passes, private events, and a kitchen — the operational playbook he absorbed at Flappers in Burbank applied to his hometown.23 He deliberately built a roughly 250-seat house, betting KC audiences would turn out for a substantial room rather than a small one.2 Before the club, Kaufman produced a mock late-night program, “Kauf Drops,” in KC.2 His booking philosophy is explicit: “The clubs that try to prove themselves as funny, instead of trying to get rich out of the gate, are the ones that are still successful.”2

The opening filled a gap: Westport’s long-running Stanford & Sons had closed the year before, following the deaths of owners Craig and Jeff Glazer.2

Ownership and history

PeriodOwner / operator
April 12, 2019 → presentDustin Kaufman — began standup at Stanford & Sons (Westport) in 2000; toured the circuit; moved to LA 2010 and worked marketing/A-V/kitchen at Flappers Comedy Club to learn operations; returned to open his own club. Single owner; no transfers found.243

Name lineage: the historical name is not invented marketing — Kaufman found an earlier “Comedy Club of Kansas City” through a Missouri Secretary of State search and reclaimed it. Contemporaneous coverage says the 1915 registration put on “playlets and comedy operas” around Kansas City (including the Muehlebach) “all the way through the 50’s”; The Pitch has also carried a 1915–1965 framing. The two clubs share only the name, not a continuous operating lineage.32

Prior tenant of the room: the space at 1130 W 103rd was once Waid’s restaurant and, before that, Watt’s Mill Theater — Kaufman has said he saw Bambi there as a child with his grandmother and later ate cheese soup there when it was Waid’s.3

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Footnotes

  1. The Comedy Club of Kansas City — Official Menu Page — accessed 2026-07-25, rendered via Firecrawl. Verified pricing: appetizers $12–$13, salads $14, burgers $16–$17, entrees $16–$18, desserts/drinks $12–$15. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  2. The Pitch, “The Comedy Club of Kansas City aims to be far less generic than its name.” — asserts: Kaufman biography and Flappers years (2010–2014), ~250-seat venue, “Kauf Drops” mock late-night show, booking philosophy quote, reclaimed 1915–1965 name via Missouri Secretary of State search, Stanford & Sons closure after the Glazer brothers’ deaths. (Notes opening as May 2019; Martin City Telegraph and other coverage say April 2019 / April 12.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. Martin City Telegraph, “Comedy Club opens in south Kansas City” (2019-04-19) — asserts: opening night week of Apr 12, 2019; Kaufman biography; 1915 SOS name (playlets/comedy operas through the 1950s); prior tenants Waid’s and Watt’s Mill Theater. (A later summer-2022 feature at a dated URL path 404’d as of 2026-07-15; live open-night piece used instead. Wayback capture of the 2022 piece: web.archive.org) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. KSHB, “The inspiration behind Kansas City’s newest comedy club.” — 2019 opening. ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/comedy-club-of-kansas-city · record updated 2026-08-10