in Newswire Published on November 24, 2025

$716K+ Gotham Comedy Club Settlement Resolves Case Over Allegedly Hidden Fees in Online Ticket Sales

Summerville v. Gotham Comedy Foundation, Inc.

Filed: February 27, 2024 ◆§ 1:24-cv-01484

A class action alleges the operator of New York’s Gotham Comedy Club illegally ambushes online ticket buyers with a $4.50 “service fee” during checkout.

Defendant(s)

Gotham Comedy Foundation, Inc.

Law(s)

New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law

State(s)

New York

Categories

Entertainment Class Action Settlement

New York’s Gotham Comedy Club has agreed to pay up to $716,389 as part of a class action settlement resolving a lawsuit over allegedly hidden fees and a lack of transparency in the club’s online ticket pricing.

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The Gotham Comedy Club settlement agreement received preliminary approval from the court on September 18, 2025. The deal covers anyone in the United States who purchased electronic tickets through ShowClix.com to any event hosted by the Gotham Comedy Club in New York from August 29, 2022, to May 17, 2024.

The court-approved settlement website is available at GothamComedyClubTicketFeeSettlement.com.

Settlement class members who submit a timely, valid claim form are eligible to receive a cash payment of $4.50 for each ticket purchased during the settlement period, court documents state. Class members can choose to receive the cash payment by check or electronically.

To submit a claim form online, class members can go to this page of the settlement website and enter their unique ID and PIN found in their class action settlement notice. Class members who prefer to submit a claim form by mail can download it here and mail the form to the address listed on the first page of the document.

Gotham Comedy Club settlement class members must submit their claim forms online or by mail by December 30, 2025.

A final approval hearing for the Gotham Comedy Club settlement is scheduled for February 5, 2026. Compensation will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval is granted and any appeals are resolved.

The Gotham Comedy Club class action lawsuit arose over the venue’s alleged practice of “ambush[ing]” online ticket buyers with a $4.50 service fee at checkout. The complaint claimed customers had no way of discerning the true ticket prices until checkout, when they were presented with an eight-minute countdown to complete the purchase.

The class action lawsuit argued that customers were pressured into accepting the bogus $4.50 service fee because of the artificial urgency created by the countdown.

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