Club operator and accomplished stand-up Harry Basil is seated in the Rodney’s Place VIP booth at Laugh Factory at the Trop. The seating platform has for a decade served as a tribute to comedy legend Rodney Dangerfield.

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But the space is soon to be dismantled. The framed posters to be yanked from the wall, at least those that haven’t been pilfered already. The life-size, bug-eyed Dangerfield statue, which seemed to greet all guests at the club, is being dragged away.

Basil says this isn’t the end of the Laugh Factory in Las Vegas, just at the Trop.

“We are going to open somewhere else. We are in talks with four major properties on the Strip,” Basil says.