41.   Ms. Essman, who will be performing on Saturday at the comedy club Stand-Up New York, has been one of the more fortunate female comics.

42.   No one ever notices him walk in the door of a comedy club.

43.   On stage at the comedy clubs, Margaret Cho jokes about her heritage.

44.   One main difference between an alternative comedy room and a traditional comedy club is a drink minimum.

45.   On a weeknight in early May, Essman was the featured act at Stand-Up N.Y., the venerable comedy club on the Upper West Side.

46.   Over the last five decades, Alan King has written three books, performed in comedy clubs from Seattle to Key West and produced five Broadway shows.

47.   Other proposals, real estate executives said at the time, included a comedy club called the Laugh Factory and a restaurant called Empire!

48.   Out of respect for the dead, most comedy clubs shuttered for a week or more.

49.   Poetry cafes are replacing comedy clubs, he says.

50.   Raised in River Vale, NJ, Maher graduated from Cornell and began his career in the New York comedy clubs.