1.   And I knew all about that place from my childhood, from listening to the great comics like Zero Mostel who broadcast from there.

2.   Humphries is not only a loopy social satirist but also a great instinctive physical comic.

3.   The great physical comics, Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin, were underdogs who had nothing but their surrealistically resourceful bodies with which to fight the overdogs.

4.   The Village Gate, the barnlike Greenwich Village nightclub where great comics and jazzmen held court for decades, has permanently gone out of business.