1.   He even sets up a series of auditions with local comics, offering to buy their best material or even their entire acts.

2.   Hipsters packed the Mock Cafe on Valencia to check out a lineup of local underground stand-up comics.

3.   Naster was among the top draws among local comics then, as he is now, and he invited Sinbad to come to the open mike nights there.

4.   The half-hour series is one more step on his journey from struggling local comic to potential multimedia star.

5.   Effi believed the prospects for expansion of local comics were promising as sales for foreign works were sizable.