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Can ‘The Function’ function?

Stroy bets the #HellaFunny shows on one Black-owned room at 1414 Market, open seven nights.

First Black-owned comedy club opens in San Francisco

An Oakland comic, 98 venues later, opens the room he says the Bay Area had never had.

The Function opens after 18 years of planning

Co-owned with Johnny Hayes and Ludo Racinet. The dream, per the people in the room, was Stroy’s.

The Bay Area’s first Black-owned full-time comedy club is set to open

Named for the party. Stroy also found out his grandfather had owned Oakland’s Continental Club.

How one Uber driver is part driver, part matchmaker

Lester Holt’s broadcast on the San Francisco comic running a dating game between rides.

A dating show in an Uber goes from meme to mainstream

Rideshare the Love jumps from Worldstar to a production deal. Monami starts shopping the show.

Stroy Moyd on the MTV pilot

Ride Share the Luv gets a pilot. The interview covers the club years that came before the car.

Good Morning America

Back-to-back with NBC, the national spots that showed up just before Blindspotting.