11.   She is well known on the comedy circuit, particularly in gay clubs, for her act, which focuses largely on lesbian themes.

12.   The Canadian-born star had developed a reputation on the Los Angeles comedy club circuit for his impersonations and manic humor.

13.   The show has a racially mixed writing staff of eight, including a few standups Spencer met on the comedy circuit.

14.   The word that has sat like a hand grenade in the courtroom where O.J. Simpson is on trial is used for laughs on the stand-up comedy circuit these days.

15.   These are drills not taught at Juilliard, or on the comedy circuit.

16.   These days, Ms. Essman, who would not tell her age, said the comedy circuit is more welcoming to women but that it is still not easy.

17.   Who would have thought such paragons prowl the comedy club circuit in the middle of the night?

18.   Years of struggle on the comedy club circuit and the lower rungs of the Hollywood casting ladder followed.

19.   Bantam Books snapped it up immediately, and it became a hit in bookstores as well as on the TV comedy circuit.

20.   Someone suggested Branson, but Smirnoff, who was appearing in movies, on television and on the comedy circuit, was dubious.