Monday Night Live: How an occasionally homeless comedian created a comic’s haven at Pancho’s Restaurant
Danno Carter hosting Pancho’s Comedy Night #237 on Monday night. Next Monday is the show’s five year anniversary. Photo (CivicCouch.com) Danno Carter is a curator of sorts. One of his areas of expertise are the bars of the South Bay. He knows them all, pretty much. He arrived here 10 years ago, by way of Hollywood. He’d driven straight to Hollywood after graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. He was chasing a California dream: he wanted to be a comedy writer. But like so many such dreams, this proved illusive. Few twentysomethings find much creative work in Hollywood beyond becoming a glorified grunt — that is, in the nomenclature of the entertainment industry, a production assistant, which Carter did. And so he decided to become a comedian. This, too, proved to be a quixotic quest. “I wanted to work in comedy somehow,” Carter recalled. “But it’s very hard to find your start in stand-up in LA… It’s hard to get up [on a stage]. If you do an open mic at one of the big clubs, you sign up, there’s a lottery, they pull names out of a hat, about 20 percent of the dudes get on, and then you are performing three minutes your first time in front of all comedians who didn’t…
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