The show: "Curb Your Enthusiam" star Richard Lewis made his San Antonio debut and

launched Bruce and Colleen Barshop's new Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club with a VIP concert on Thursday with comics Jade Esteban Estrada and Danny Villalpando. Lewis performs two shows Friday and Saturday nights.

        Attendance: About 400 guests.

        First take: : Brimming with nervous energy, Richard Lewis hilariously bared his famously neurotic life. "Judge me, I don't care," said Lewis, 62. Stand-up comedy's man in black immediately ripped into himself about his garb. "I look like a Jew marionette from Venus," he said. The man is known for his rapid-fire, jazz-like riffs that recall Lenny Bruce. The stream of consciousness comedy connected, despite Lewis protesting. "I don't have an act." His mind works like a pinball machine. "You're at the Jack Ruby table?" Lewis asked some young people sitting near the stage. The star of the show joked about his physical ailments, marriage, dentists, hernias - and about the way he picks hotels: "Oversized shower heads." Lewis poked fun at his Jewish upbringing and Hebrew school. "What kind of weed could they possibly have been smoking," Lewis said about the authors of the Old Testament.

        Laughing out loud: Bruce and Colleen Barshop were exuberant after the show. "It was fantastic, really great to have a real pro open the club, "Bruce Barshop said. Lewis, however, couldn't resist kidding the owners on opening night at the sate of the art venue. "It's always good to open a club that's only 8 percent built," Lewis said. "It looks like a mess hall in Afghanistan." About the nightclub's shiny metal curtain behind the stage: "If they expect me to play the (expletive) harp, forget it!" he said. 

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