barRestaurant Stakeout · Season 5, Episode 11 · Aired August 20, 2014
Stress Factory Comedy Club
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 5, Episode 11 · August 20, 2014 · comedy club (bar/restaurant service)
Non-restaurant venue: a comedy club with bar and food service, featured as a stakeout target.
What happened after
Official site stressfactory.com direct-fetched: confirms the New Brunswick, NJ location is one of three currently-operating club locations (with Bridgeport CT and Valley Forge PA), with live ticketing/events infrastructure.
What happened on the show
The Stress Factory was a change of pace for the show, a comedy club with bar and food service in New Brunswick rather than a straight restaurant, and Degel's stakeout treated it as one all the same. The hidden cameras captured the floor when management assumed no one was measuring the crew, and as aired the footage gave Degel a documented picture of how the club's hospitality side actually ran alongside the entertainment. His confrontation used that evidence to press on service and the systems the operation lacked, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of standards. The stakeout leaned on the format's central claim, that a venue lives or dies on the fundamentals behind the counter, a truth that holds for a comedy club's bar and kitchen no less than for any dining room.
After the cameras left
Stress Factory Comedy Club is open. Its official site was directly fetched confirming the New Brunswick location as one of three currently operating clubs, alongside venues in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, with live ticketing and events infrastructure in place. The live official site with active event booking makes this a high confidence survivor. The comedy club Degel staked out is still running strong, one of the show's most durable later targets.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.