Jongleurs Comedy Beats Winter Blues

After a decade, Jongleurs has returned to the same team that founded and built the brand that made it such a huge success in the first place. Jongleurs new clubs will be better than before, providing the highest quality of entertainment and value for client’s money.

Jongleurs will also now employ the synergy of using both its venues and media savvy expertise to take the brand to the next level.

Maria Kempinska and John Davy (MK & JD) built Jongleurs comedy clubs into the world’s largest comedy chain. Founded in 1983 Jongleurs became a global brand.

During the period 1983 – 2000, when both the clubs and the digital rights were under the same ownership, the pair produced over 70 Jongleurs branded television shows. They also made and distributed over 1000 comedy clips to web and mobile networks. The value of the media content produced greatly enhancing the brand value and image.

MK & JD sold the Jongleurs branded clubs to Regent Inns PLC in August 2000. Regent Inns purchased a perpetual licence to own and operate these 8 clubs.

However, all of the Intellectual Property rights of Jongleurs, media rights and internet rights of the Jongleurs brand remained in the ownership of MK & JD. Regent Inns expanded the group to 15 clubs during the period of 2000 – 2009.

On October 21st 2009 Regent Inns PLC went into administration.

The effect of this administration is that all of the previously sold intellectual property has been returned to MK & JD. Now for the first time in almost 10 years, all of the rights are held under the same ownership.

Maria Kempinska and John Davy are now planning to build a new chain of Jongleurs comedy clubs.

We are back at the following places:

Hammersmith
Piccadilly
Notting Hill
Birmingham
Leeds

All of these venues will have mega roll out in the New Year along with the launch of http://www.Jongleurs.com

Jongleurs founder Maria Kempinska said:

“This is an incredibly interesting time for Jongleurs and we are extremely excited about the future. The new clubs we are opening will breathe life into UK comedy and radically shake-up the industry.

“We want everyone to stay-tuned as this is just the beginning of something really special.”