The True Origin Story of Cobb’s Pub

So we were performing as Femprov in a bunch of different venues, like the Zoo on a certain night and The Other Cafe, also a run at the Spaghetti Factory on Sunday nights for quite a few weeks, but there was a lot of competition from a lot of more improv groups. they were doing stand-up showcases where they’d have four or five different slots especially at the Holy City Zoo and at the Other Cafe.

So Terry Sand was working at a health club on Fillmore Street at Chestnut Street. and she would go into this bar during the day, after her shift at the health club and chatted up the bartender and she posed the idea to him, because it’s a huge room at Cobb’s. It was a neighborhood place and he needed to drum up business. So she said, why don’t we have comedy here. I’m in this improv group and we can come in and perform here and all we need is a stage. And my boyfriend, Scott Pringle will build the stage. What do you have to lose? (mm-hmm) So that’s how Cobb’s started and Scott, bless his heart, did build the stage for us. and it was it was a great venue that we opened for us, improvisational comedy, but also tons of other stand-up comedians and other improv groups would perform there and it was because of Terry talking to the bartender that owned the place. ~Pat Daniels Recollections