Pauly Shore and his Comedy Store club are being sued by a comedian and improv educator who claims he was assaulted by bouncers who work for the club.
Shore, 56, was named in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Eliot Preschutti, according to documents obtained by The explosion.
According to Preschutti, during a visit to the bar and club on December 15, 2023, he forgot to pay his bill before leaving the bar, at which point several bouncers chased him outside and allegedly began brutally assaulting him on the sidewalk outside the bar. club.
He also claims that one of the bouncers shouted ‘This is for Pauly!’ during the attack.
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Shore for comment.
Pauly Shore, 56, is being sued in Los Angeles after a patron of his iconic club, the Comedy Store, claimed they were brutally assaulted by bouncers in December 2023, according to The Blast; seen on February 11 in Las Vegas
Preschutti writes that he is a known entity in the club for years.
He says he has “worked in the comedy and entertainment business since 1995, and has been a comedy actor and teacher over the years,” and claims his association with the Comedy Store dates back to 1999.
Preschutti also indicated that he had had past dealings with Shore and his mother Mitzi.
The iconic comedy club was founded in 1972 by Shore’s father, Sammy Shore, who at the time was married to his mother Mitzi.
Two years later, Sammy and Mitzi divorced and she took over the settlement’s Comedy Store.
The club became the playground for several up-and-coming comedians who would go on to become major figures, including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Roseanne Barr, and Andrew Dice Clay, among many others, and continues to be a popular venue. for both established comedians and newcomers.
Following Mitzi’s death in 2018, Pauly assumed ownership of the club as trustee of the Mitzi S. Shore Trust.
It is unclear whether Preschutti’s connection to Shore and his late mother had any connection to the alleged beating.
According to him, he left the club on December 15 to return home, but two bouncers allegedly “ran over, grabbed the plaintiff and detained him.”
A waiter then told him he hadn’t paid his bill, and Preschutti says he proceeded to pay the amount.
Eliot Preschutti, who said he has been involved in comedy since 1995 and has had dealings with Shore and his late mother Mitzi since 1999, claims he left the club on December 15, 2023, after forgetting to pay his bill; Shore photographed on January 21 in Park City, Utah
Preschutti says bouncers and a waiter ran up to him to force him to pay. But he alleges that after paying, a bouncer claimed he tried to attack the server and began hitting him; Coast seen on January 19 in Park City, Utah
It alleges that a bouncer then “threw the plaintiff to the sidewalk, face down,” and the lawsuit says a bouncer claimed Preschutti had tried to hit the server.
“While plaintiff was face down on the sidewalk, several bouncers at the Comedy Store began punching and kicking him for a considerable period of time,” the lawsuit states. ‘The bouncer who threw the plaintiff to the ground, while the beating was taking place, shouted “this is for Pauly!”‘
Preschutti alleges that he was kicked partially into the street gutter and was trapped between the sidewalk and a car while a bouncer sat on him while “screaming obscenities” at him.
Preschutti says he was yelling ‘What did I do?’ repeatedly, before a bouncer allegedly told the others to ‘take him down the street and beat him up down there.’
He claims there were between five and seven bouncers involved in the attack, which included kicking and stomping on the ground, and alleges that “at times, their actions became so violent that other bouncers attempted to stop them, lest they kill the plaintiff.”
Preschutti also says he was detained by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies until the morning after the alleged assault.
He is suing the defendants for assault, battery, intentional causing emotional distress and negligence, as well as premises liability, negligent hiring, training, supervision and/or retention of unfit employees and complicity.
“Plaintiff suffered serious physical and emotional harm as a result of the beating, as will be demonstrated at trial,” he writes.
Preschutti claims he was thrown to the sidewalk while being kicked and stomped by “five to seven” bouncers, one of whom allegedly yelled, “This is for Pauly!”; Shore seen in 1990
He claims that the bouncers had to restrain each other at times, “so that the plaintiff is not killed.” Preschutti asks for a jury and seeks compensatory and punitive damages, plus the cost of the lawsuit; Coast photographed in 1993
Preschutti has requested a jury trial on his claim and is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, according to People. He is also seeking to have his legal fees covered.
The lawsuit is the latest legal trouble for Shore, after Sean Kehoe and his daughter Kirra Lyn Potts filed a similar lawsuit also alleging an altercation with bouncers.
According to the lawsuit, Kehoe and his daughter visited the Comedy Store on Nov. 30, 2022, when Kehoe says he was “grabbed and violently attacked” by bouncers related to Shore.
The plaintiff claims that Shore was aware of the allegedly planned assault and that he “agreed with and encouraged” the bouncers.