#the function comedy club

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65 likes, 6 comments - stroymoyd on August 10, 2026

Stroy Moyd explains the top 5 things he didn't know about running a comedy club until he opened one.

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This S.F. neighborhood was left for dead. Now a new wave of entrepreneurs is betting on its comeback

This San Francisco neighborhood has been plagued by empty storefronts and boarded-up buildings since the pandemic hit and tech tenants left

"Of all the places Stroy Moyd imagined opening San Francisco’s first Black-owned comedy club, Mid-Market was last on the list. 

After two years, more than 80 locations toured and repeated rejections from landlords unwilling to bet on a young Black entrepreneur without deep pockets, it was the only place where he heard “yes.” 

The Function Comedy Club and Cocktail Lounge sits across from the mostly vacant former Twitter headquarters at Tenth and Market streets, a stark symbol of the neighborhood’s boom-and-bust cycle that spiked before the pandemic with venture-backed tech and private equity groups taking over buildings that had been home to nonprofits and social services. Now many of those buildings are empty and storefronts boarded up. Nowhere to be found are the sort of buzzy restaurants, bars and boutiques that fuel nightlife and draw crowds to the main drags of neighborhoods like North Beach or the Marina."