1.   A recent visit found an appreciative audience for an evening of young female comics like Laurie Kilmartin and Tina Georgio.

2.   Four female African-American comics earn their TV-MA rating.

3.   Leif is one of several female comics who regularly participate in benefits for the Theatre of Hope for Abused Women.

4.   Leifer blames the lack of women not on sexism but on a dearth of female comics.

5.   Female comics now seem to focus on vulgarity.

6.   Kathy Kinney, who plays Mimi, is one of many female comics to have been inspired by the daffy Diller delivery.

7.   Lewis had spoken affectionately of actor Dean Martin and other legendary comics before a member of the audience asked him which female comics he admires.

8.   Recently, comedian Jerry Lewis criticized female comics, saying the only ones he likes are Diller, Whoopi Goldberg and Elayne Boosler.