Pauly Shore and his comedy club are sued by patron claiming he was brutally BEATEN by

Pauly Shore and his club the Comedy Store are being sued by a comedian and improv educator who claims he was assaulted by bouncers working for the club.

Shore, 56, was named in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Eliot Preschutti, according to documents obtained by The Blast.

According to Preschutti, during a visit to the bar and club on December 15, 2023, he forgot to pay off his tab before exiting the bar, at which point multiple bouncers pursued him outside and allegedly began to brutally assault him on the sidewalk outside the club.

He also claims that one of the bouncers shouted ‘This is for Pauly!’ during the attack. 

DailyMail.com has contacted reps for Shore requesting comment. 

Pauly Shore, 56, is being sued in LA after a patron of his iconic club the Comedy Store claims they were brutally assaulted by bouncers in December 2023, according to The Blast; seen February 11 in Las Vegas

Preschutti writes that he has been a known entity to the club for years.

He says he ‘worked in comedy and entertainment business since 1995, and has been both a comedic performer and a teacher over the years,’ and he claims that his association with the Comedy Store dates back to 1999.

Preschutti also indicated that he had had past dealings with Shore and his mother Mitzi.

The iconic comedy club was founded in 1972 by Shore’s father Sammy Shore, who was married to his mother Mitzi at the time.

Two years later Sammy and Mitzi were divorced, and she took possession of the Comedy Store in the settlement.

The club became the stomping grounds for several up-and-coming comedians who would go on to be major figures, including Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Roseanne Barr and Andrew Dice Clay, among many others, and it continues to be a popular spot for both well-established comedians and newcomers.

Following Mitzi’s death in 2018, Pauly took over ownership of the club as the trustee of the Mitzi S. Shore Trust.

It’s unclear if Preschutti’s connection to Shore and his late mother had any connection to the alleged beating.

According to him, he left the club on December 15 to go home, but two bouncers allegedly ‘ran up, grabbed plaintiff and detained him.’

A server then told him he had failed to pay his tab, and Preschutti says he proceeded to pay the amount.

Eliot Preschutti, who said he has been involved in comedy since 1995 and has had dealings with Shore and his late mother Mitzi going back to 1999, claims he left the club on December 15, 2023, after forgetting to pay his tab; Shore pictured January 21 in Park City, Utah

Preschutti says bouncers and a server ran out to him to get him to pay. But he alleges that aftr he paid, a bouncer claimed he tried to attack the server and began to beat him; Shore seen January 19 in Park City, Utah

He alleges that a bouncer then ‘threw Plaintiff to the sidewalk, face-down,’ and the lawsuit says that a bouncer claimed that Preschutti had tried to hit the server.

‘While Plaintiff was face-down on the sidewalk, various bouncers for the Comedy Store began to hit and kick him for an appreciable amount of time,’ the lawsuit claims. ‘The bouncer that threw Plaintiff to the ground, while this beating was occurring, yelled “this is for Pauly!”‘

Preschutti alleges that he was kicked partially into the gutter on street and was wedged between the curb and a car as a bouncer sat on him while ‘screaming obscenities’ at him.

Preschutti says he was yelling ‘What did I do?’ repeatedly, before one bouncer allegedly told the others to ‘take him down the street and beat the s*** out of him down there.’

He claims there were five to seven bouncers involved in the attack, which included kicking and stomping him on the ground, and he alleges that ‘at times, their acts became so violent that other bouncers attempted to restrain them, lest they kill Plaintiff.’

Preschutti also says he was detained by Los Angeles County Sheriffs until the morning after the allegedly assault.

He is suing the defendants for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence, well as premises liability, negligent hiring, training, supervision and/or retention of unfit employees, and aiding and abetting.

‘Plaintiff suffered severe physical and emotional damages as a result of the beating to be shown according to proof at trial,’ he writes.

Preschutti claims that he was thrown to the sidewalk while being kicked and stomped by ‘five to seven’ bouncers, one of whom allegedly shouted, ‘This is for Pauly!’; Shore seen in 1990

He claims the bouncers had to restrain each other at times, ‘lest they kill Plaintiff.’ Preschutti is asking for a jury and seeks compensatory and punitive damages, plus the cost of the suit; Shore pictured in 1993

Preschutti has asked for a jury trial over his lawsuit, and he is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, according to People. He is also seeking for his legal fees to be covered.

The lawsuit is the latest legal trouble for Shore, after Sean Kehoe and his daughter Kirra Lyn Potts filed a similar lawsuit also alleging an altercation with bouncers.

According to the lawsuit, Kehoe and his daughter visited the Comedy Store on November 30, 2022, when Kehoe says he was ‘violently grabbed and attacked’ by bouncers connected to Shore.

The plaintiff claims Shore was both aware of the allegedly planned assault, and that he ‘agreed with and encouraged’ the bouncers.