21.   For Julia Sweeney, it started as a Sunday night exercise in an alternative comedy club in Los Angeles.

22.   Foxworthy exulted Monday night at the Punch Line comedy club in Sandy Springs, an Atlanta suburb.

23.   Given her choice, she would have spent the past decade hitting her marks on Broadway, not hitting comedy clubs from Portland, Ore., to Provincetown.

24.   He came up with his redneck shtik in Detroit, at a comedy club next door to a bowling alley with valet parking.

25.   He likes comedy clubs and laughs so loud he carries a towel with him to hide his high-pitched cackle.

26.   He now travels the circuit of regional comedy clubs and corporate conventions.

27.   He tried comedy clubs, too, and public debates with Liddy.

28.   He tried marriage to a waitress at a comedy club.

29.   He used to own a comedy club here, and he credits that experience with laying the groundwork for his current fame.

30.   He was also a hit playing Amateur Night at a comedy club in Denver, making total strangers laugh rather than just his friends.