Comedy club · Escondido, California

Grand Comedy Club, Escondido, CA: Shows and Open Mic

200 East Via Rancho Pkwy, #125, Escondido, CA 92025 (North County Mall)

The short answer

Grand Comedy Club is a comedy club in Escondido, California, at 200 East Via Rancho Pkwy, #125. Shows run Friday and Saturday most weeks, at 6:30 and 8:45 PM, plus the Sunday open mic; tickets $15–$30, 18 and over, two-item minimum. For comics, it runs an open mic (Sundays, 6:30 to 8:30 PM), and publishes no other route to the stage — ask in person.

On stage soon

Lineups belong to the club and the comedians, and can change; the listing has the last word. More shows in California on the Comedy Calendar →

For comics

Open micSundays, 6:30 to 8:30 PM — Drop your name in the hat at 6:00 PM for the draw; everyone who shows up goes up; three minutes on stage, or five if you buy an item; comedy only; free source ↗
Getting bookedThe club publishes no submission route; ask in person.
ShowsFriday and Saturday most weeks, at 6:30 and 8:45 PM, plus the Sunday open mic; the club says shows typically run Thursday to Saturday source ↗

Per the club's own site, read 29 September 2026.

What the room asks of comics
What you can say on stage
  • The club does not restrict comedians' material; both clean and blue acts play, and shows run PG-13 to R unless billed as clean source ↗
Its other 7 rules
On stage
  • Open-mic sets are three minutes, or five minutes if you buy an item source ↗
  • The open-mic night is listed as 18 and over, younger only with a parent source ↗
Open mic and new talent
  • The open mic is on Sunday nights; the calendar and the club's social media carry the details source ↗
  • Put your name in the hat by 6:00 PM; the running order is drawn source ↗
  • Everyone who comes to the open mic gets to go up source ↗
House rules

From the club's own pages, read 29 September 2026 — hover a rule for its exact words, or open its source. Where two of its pages disagree, both are here.

More stage time: Stage Time has open mics by night, and the Gig Board has calls for comics posted by the rooms themselves.

For fans

Tickets$17 for most shows it listed; $30 for a featured headliner; $15 for a family magic show source ↗
Age18 and over; younger with a parent; most shows are R-rated source ↗
MinimumTwo-item minimum per person; food, soda, water or dessert counts source ↗
ParkingPlenty of parking at North County Mall; the club is on the mall's northeast side, in the former California Pizza Kitchen source ↗

As the club's own pages give them, read 30 September 2026 — tap or hover a source for its exact words. Not published there: the phone rule.

Club Etiquette: how to be the table the room loves →

Plan the night

The night planner builds an evening around Grand Comedy Club: where to eat before, the trip there and home, and what the night costs.

Plan a night here → The club's site ↗

Open, according to its own website on 29 September 2026. Listed then: Lachlan Patterson and Friends, Friday 2 October 2026, 6:30 and 8:45 PM.

Near Grand Comedy Club

Comedy clubs in California → · The Club Directory, coast to coast →

The Club Directory is also in the back of the D.O.C. book, Stand-Up Comedy: From Writing to Touring — $29, over 1,000 pages.

Updated 2 October 2026 · the club's facts from its own site, read 29 September 2026; its rules for comics read 29 September 2026; fans' facts read 30 September 2026