I've seen some great comedy shows at the Hollywood Improv over the years!

There was the time this unknown young comic from the Bay Area mesmerized a jaded, invite-only Hollywood crowd by switching from character-to-character at an alarming warp speed, named Robin Williams, who joined another unknown named Andy Kauffman and a barely known Jay Leno, at the Ten Year Anniversary of Budd Friedman's Improv, as it was known back then.

And the time I first fell in love with the outrageous and cute Jewish potty-mouth from New Hampshire named Sarah Silverman.

So when funny man and showbizzle.com host Jonny Loquasto suggested we bring his unique "Last Call" midnight shows into the original Improv on Melrose, we jumped at the chance.  As Jonny first pitched it to us, "working comics -- especially those based in town who work on sit-coms -- love doing late shows on Saturday nights to keep fresh and try stuff out on an industry-savvy crowd."

Apparently, as our friend Jonny likes to say, " Loquasto knows,"  because last Saturday night, a great group of working comedians took the stage and played to a packed and very appreciative house in the very first "showbizzle Presents: Last Call with Jonny Loquasto."

Last night's line-up included:  the very tall and very funny piano man Owen Benjamin;  the pretty and caustic Natasha Leggero from Chicago who has been on Chelsea Lately and The Tonight Show , and who reminded me of an Italian Sarah Silverman; Mo Mandel, a very buff Jewish comic  who "looks like a truck driver on meth" and who just booked a Fox pilot from the guys who created Will and Grace;  Deon Cole, a confident African-American comedian, who arguably got the biggest laugh of the night when he got down on his knees to pray before having sex; and the gifted headliner Al Madrigal, whose self-deprecating act chronicles his life as a man who is part-Mexican but cannot speak Spanish and who, despite his best intentions,  finds it can be tough being simpatico with his heritage.

Finally, a shout out to showbizzle's very own Jesse Spears, who worked with Jonny L. to promote the show and fill the seats.  When we put on our next "Last Call", you'll want to reserve your seats early because if it is anything like what we saw last night, it will be hilarious.