Meet Scot Nery of Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap in Hollywood

Today we’d like to introduce you to Scot Nery.

Scot, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I’m 39 years old. I’ve been entertaining professionally since age 11. I started with magic shows. Going door-to-door in my small town of Columbiana, OH and letting people know, I’m available for hire. After highschool, I started performing on the streets across the country. In May 2015, I realized:

1) I have a huge network of amazing jugglers, mimes, hula hoopers, dancers, comedians, musicians and more.
2) My friend has a huge warehouse in echo park that we could use for shows.
3) My friend was a premier international event producer who would have no problem setting up a stage and lights and making it all work.

It was easy and casual at first, then people liked it. Every Wednesday, we’d do a circus variety show. The warehouse was set to be demolished in 3 months – so no real commitment to a show. We thought it would be done soon. The place didn’t get torn down for a year, so we kept going. When the year was up, we had a following of ravenous entertainers and audience members and we could stop!

We moved to West Adams for a year. We then moved to our current home in Hollywood. We’ve seen over 10,000 audience members in the past 3 years and it has been a total dream.

Many of these entertainers (myself included) travel ALONE around the world, rent cars, stay in hotels, and do shows where they might not be able to do their best for audiences that might not care. Then, travel ALONE back home. LA locals or international acts get the chance in Hollywood to perform for great audiences and with a lot of friends new and old – learning from each other and sometimes getting a little competitive motivation.

Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap is a stripped down show where we channel the best pure entertainment straight to the best audiences. It’s a show beyond the value of anything else live in LA for the low ticket price.

Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The show is made to run with a budget of $0 so we have challenges of the venues that we’re in possibly not having all the accouterments you’d expect in a high production situation. We’ve had to move twice so far and one night was performed at a replacement venue – the Bob Baker marionette theater.

Trying to do the show every single week non-stop is difficult for a number of reasons. I’m booking 15 acts per week. Each act can have up to a dozen people involved in it. That’s a lot of communication.

With my traveling schedule, I’ve luckily only had to miss 4 shows and book a dependable emcee to replace me (Ed Galvez, Justin Willman, Tom Arnold, Brett Loudermilk).

We don’t have an advertising budget, so the show started with me calling every entertainer and audience member every week. Now, we do a lot of different methods of outreach, but there’s still a lot of effort to connect directly with each individual.

Our first venue was really cool and underground, big and we had a lot of top-of-the-line stage production resources, but it wasn’t made to be a venue, so I took a lot of responsibility for stocking the toilet paper, hand soap, drinks, trash bags, etc. as well as emergency patching the ceiling and wet racing through a few rain storms. Buying heaters, blankets, thermometers for the winter and trying to add some comfort to a concrete and steel building.

When we moved out of the first venue Way2Much Entertainment, we didn’t know where we would be able to go that would be good for the audience, work with our tiny budget, and support a big crowd and aerial acrobatics. I wanted to keep it going every single Wednesday non-stop. It was a hunt before coming to the amazing Fais Do Do in Mid City. It’s a fun and funky little place and I still had to occasionally do some repairs and rewire the lighting and get handsoap for the bathrooms. Every week, we didn’t know what the other productions had changed, so sometimes we’d be doing tons of work to make the show happen.

Last June, we got a casual invitation to move to Hollywood – to our current place – and it seemed like a great opportunity. It’s run by a great hospitality company and we have the opportunity to be right on the walk of fame in a neat music club. Unfortunately, communication was really tough because the owners are so busy. June 28, Fais Do Do had a film shoot booked so that’s the date I picked for our moving date. As I was orchestrating the details with the new venue (all through text message), I was about 65% sure the show would happen there, so even on the 28th, I was outside the place at 10 am with the doors locked. We were having seats delivered in an hour and I didn’t hear from the venue that day until 10:30. I had a backup venue booked and it was just really funny to be not sure where the show was that night.

All this stuff happens with a million other things while I’m getting engaged, married, making money with my career and traveling and whatnot! 😀

Please tell us about Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap.
We bring world-class entertainment to the people of Hollywood every week. In 90 minutes they get an action-packed show with a house-band, comedy and 15 acts.

Los Angeles Magazine said we’re the best variety show in LA and we have 5 stars on Yelp and TripAdvisor

Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
I guess, getting a bike with a speedometer for Christmas.

Contact Info:

• Address: 6555 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
• Website: https://boobieLA.com
• Email: INFO@BOOBIELA.COM
• Instagram: BOOBIETRAPLA
• Facebook: http://facebook.com/boobietrapLA
• Twitter: BOOBIETRAPLA
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/scot-nerys-boobie-trap-los-angeles

Image Credit:
Richard Michael Johnson

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