Oxnard Levity Live — Restaurant in Oxnard

This was the 2nd time attending Bert’s performance in the last 3-4 years, and he did not disappoint! The cool thing this time tho, was that the opening acts were all pretty funny as well! I don’t remember their names but the comic from NYC focused a good portion of his set on gluten, u know, the stuff that holds most foods together (it’s in almost everything people eat!) the TV series Southpark even has a dedicated episode about it! The strange and serendipitous part about it was, that before the show I had just been talking with my friend who came with me about gluten, but I couldn’t remember the what it was called! Then outa nowhere the opening act goes and does like 19 mins all focused on gluten! lol As soon as he said the word gluten, I nudged Shelby and said, that’s the word I was trying to remember from the southpark episode I was telling u about before the show, which made his 10 dedicated minutes about gluten so much funnier for me! The 2nd opener was pretty funny too, he was from Los Angeles tho saying things about his two moms and how they raised him as lesbian parents without needing a male role model to make the family dynamic work! For me tho, the part that stood out about him was that he looked like Michael J. Fox from the 90’s in Back To the Future, but with a completely different take on life in general since he had been raised with 2 female parents instead of the normal Mom and Dad dynamic, which was pretty funny to think about since I had no context besides his point of view! Then Bert came on as the headliner and killed it like he always does! This show was just as good as when I’d seen him 3 years ago right after doing his Netflix special called The Machine which is a great story set mainly in Russia during his college days while attending college down in Florida and the crazy misadventures he ended up being involved in all to get his language credit in Russian even tho he didn’t learn to speak hardly a word of Russian the entire 4 years! Bert’s account of the story is much better than how I’m summarizing it. But enough about the acts who performed, the Levity Live venue is probably one of, if not the nicest performance arenas that anyone could ask for, both for the audience and also for the acts who are performing! The staff was great from start to finish, along with the food and drinks that were both top shelf, and served perfectly by the staff without disrupting the flow of the show in any way at all (so a huge thanks to all the Levity Live staff that every other club and restaurant should strive to be as good as!)! The one gripe that I have, and I knew about the costs before coming to the venue (because they tell u when u buy tickets) that there is a mandatory 2 item min purchase per person, but I think they need to reduce the prices of the drinks or increase the portions of the food for how much it costs. I think I paid close to $60 for 2 beers, a jack and coke, and a flat French bread pizza, which seems expensive to me! Plus the cost of the shows tickets and service fee which came out to around $120, one night of awesome comedy totaled almost $200 for 2 people, which I guess isn’t that bad looking back! Keep on setting the bar high and see who competes! Thanks for the laughs Levity Live, I’ll be back for...

All I can say is wow..... I just got home from the Anjelah Johnson-Reyes Sunday 8:30 show. My wife has wanted to see her for years, and we finally found a show with tickets available. We made the trip up from Riverside to see her. The line was long to get in and we did not even get into the venue buy the time the show was to start. I can forgive this, since it's a popular comedian and they had to sit around 350 people. Three venue itself is nice, but very cramped. The service from the wait staff was great. The food was good, but overpriced as any comedy venue is. The problem that we encountered happened about 3/4 of the way through the show. A manager, I think named Carolyn came up to my wife. She accused my wife of taking pictures of the comedian. My wife had her phone out texting people pictures of my sisters dog who we are trying to find a foster home for. My wife denied the accusations, but the manager kept accusing my wife. My wife showed her the phone and the manger said that she must have erased the pictures. My wife said how could she erase it when she just walked up on her. The manager said we'll you don't have memory on the phone so the pictures wouldn't save. If that was the case then why would she even take a picture. This occurred all while the lady next to me took over 15 pictures.This ruined the whole test of the show for us. We then asked to speak to the manager and she came back. She was very rude and unprofessional and raised her finger and told me to stop talking and to listen. She said she caught who she caught. We said who did you catch, and she said "You." We said you didn't catch us because we didn't do anything. She said we were lying. Maybe if this ghetto azz manager could stop hitting the pookie long enough to get her eyesight straight she would have seen it wasn't my wife and it was the person to my right. This ruined the show for us. I have been to countless comedy shows and have never been treated so rudely and with so much disrespect. I will never ever ever ever ever ever come back to this horrible club. I will also be letting anytime I know to stay away from this...

Saturday the 28th, me and 7 other friends went to Levity Live. about 3/4 of the way through the final show, my Fiancé decided to film a video. We were unaware of the House rules stating no filming. immediately, a man in plain clothes came over and grabbed the phone from my Fiancés hand, shouted lets go and began to walk off. We both got up and asked what for? when he informed us of the no filming policy, we offered to delete the video , but he was extremely hostile and verbal. He attempted to grab my arm. after a few more words she deleted the file and we went back to our seats. When the show was over, we went to complain to the Gm and Eric the security guard came over again and would not allow us to speak with the GM. He lied and said he was the GM then again grabbed me and tried to forcibly remove me from the establishment. We all left and went next door to Cooper blues. We ordered a round of drinks and noticed my Fiance never came back from the restroom. Apparently, Eric decided to have Copper Blues security kick us out for no reason. We dropped almost $2000.00 that evening and were not treated respectfully. I'd suggest terminating Eric, since he is a liability for your establishment. He could have handle the situation differently by coming over and letting us know there was no filming allowed and we would have stopped and deleted the file immediately.

We Stayed calm and tried not to escalate the situation by raising our voice, but the ignorant Security guard, was getting verbally or physically abusive, and otherwise being rude. We Calmly and politely asked the guard he confiscated our phone. It was a rule you were unaware of, we offered to turn it off and delete the file He even refused to allow us to speak with Management. She later came outside and acknowledged his rudeness and gave us a few free tickets, but to be honest, why would we want to go back and have the same idiot kick us and ruin our...