Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment:

• An old saying goes that the three most important things in real estate are: location, location, location.

Apparently the same can be true of comedy clubs.

Dave Robich, owner of the Funny Farm Comedy Club in Niles, takes no credit for booking one of the biggest names in comedy in one of the smallest rooms he’s played in years.

Less than two weeks ago, Robich got an unexpected call — “Would you be interested in having Louis CK at the club?”

His first instinct was that he was getting pranked, and Robich did some investigating when he got off the phone to make sure he wasn’t.

“Then she asked, ‘What size is the room?’ and I’m thinking this is where I’m going to lose it,” Robich said. “I tell her it’s 120 seats, but we do have a 200-seat spot next door that I could probably set up with chairs and table and bring sound in and make it work.”

She was OK with the smaller room. Louis CK is playing the Funny Bone in Columbus on April 1 to 3, and he is driving from New York, Robich said.

They were looking for a venue to pick up another date that was on the way. And lucky for him, Robich must have gotten the call before another club owner in, maybe Akron or Massillon, that was next on the list.

Louis CK will do one show at 7 p.m. March 31 in Niles.

If you don’t have tickets already, it’s too late.

Robich announced the show last weekend through the club’s social media, and tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.

“I thought in maybe an hour or two, we’d be completely gone,” he said. “At 10:03 we got the message that tickets were all gone, but people were telling me online that at 10:02 they were in the queue, but it was already sold out by the time they got in there.”

It’s not surprising. If you asked comedy fans in 2017 to make a list of the best standup comedians, Louis CK would have been in the top 3 for nearly everyone and topped many of those lists. Even after a sexual misconduct scandal that year involving female comedians and women who worked for him (which the comedian has said cost him $35 million overnight), Louis CK still regularly sells out theater-sized venues. Not only is the Funny Farm less than 10% the size of the venues he normally plays, the ticket price ($40 and $35) was less than those theater seats too.

Robich said he wasn’t told this specifically, but he assumes Louis CK is working on new material.

“That’s why they’re willing to do these smaller clubs, because they’re working on new material,” Robich said. “I’m excited about that. It’s kind of fun to get the person coming in doing new material for the first time, working on stuff. That’s part of the excitement of it.”

• Youngstown is used to being the butt of other people’s jokes (there’s a reason for those “Youngstown Hates You” T-shirts).

The latest came on “The Pitt,” the Max streaming series that essentially is “E.R.” set in Pittsburgh instead of Chicago (complete with Noah Wyle now playing a grizzled veteran E.R. doc instead of the newbie).

On last week’s episode, a character tells Wyle’s Dr. Michael Robinavitch, “If I get caught falsifying records, I’ll get kicked out of the residency program. You have tenure. If you get caught, the worst thing that will happen is you have to take a job in Youngstown.”

Having been in the waiting room at St. E’s in the middle of the night for an ailing parent or in-law, Wyle ain’t tough enough for that E.R.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com