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b'After talking with his daughter this week, GamerDude realized that the "going out" things that he used to do in his twenties don\'t really exist anymore. He remembers the various places he could go and the things he could do for entertainment on the weekends.\\n\\nGamerDude talks about the prevalence of comedy clubs back in the 1980s and 1990s, with names like "Bananas" or "Giggles." He talks about the many stars of the past twenty years who started as stand-up comics in the 1980s, from Eddie Murphy to Robin Williams to David Letterman. He also talks about how "Comedy Night" at the local bars would bring some young, aspiring comics into town to test their material, and you could have a front row seat.\\n\\nHe also talks about music clubs, and how going out to a bar or a club to listen to live music was a regular thing. He talks about a duo he met in college, and how they would pack the crowds in to the little bar at the local Holiday Inn on the weekends.\\n\\nGamerDude also talks about the dance clubs that seemed to be in every town, and discusses the various places he would go in New Jersey, from Connections to the Parsippany Hilton for dancing the night away. He also talks about a couple of the big clubs in New York City - The Limelight and Studio 54 - that he never went to but that he had heard about.\\n\\nHe also talks about how society has changed in so many ways so that venues like these clubs just don\'t exist anymore, and how people\'s attitudes, in general, have made the existence of these clubs - at least the way they used to be - almost impossible.'