51.   Seven years ago it resembled a cross between a comedy club on a Monday night and PBS on a Friday night.

52.   She worked as a stilt walker at bar mitzvahs, delivered telegrams as a Joan Rivers impersonator and played comedy clubs.

53.   She was a frequent guest on late-night TV shows and was a regular in the comedy clubs and, later, theaters.

54.   Slayton spends most of his time on the road, doing weekend gigs at comedy clubs and occasionally sharing larger stages with other comics.

55.   She struggles in the comedy clubs of Denver against a chauvinistic hierarchy.

56.   Still holding your breath wondering who won the Funniest Rabbi in New York Contest sponsored by Stand-Up N.Y., a Manhattan comedy club?

57.   The audience received all the performers with a warmth that is sometimes absent in comedy clubs, where heckling is common.

58.   The difference depends partly on whether he is working in a performance space or in a comedy club.

59.   The idea of the Cyrano story came from an ABC executive, Quinn Taylor, and the comedy club setting was shaped by Manheim and Hench.

60.   The labored set pieces make this one play like open-mike night at a comedy club.