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...adversaries were much different from today's, but the dispute was perhaps more rancorous. In the 1970s, the stucco box on Sunset Boulevard that housed the Comedy Store was a nightly practice field for up-and-coming comics who would troop onstage to hone their material, try out new jokes???and hope to get seen by the agents, managers and talent scouts who were regular clubgoers. The club's owner, Mitzi Shore?a pretty, petite brunet with a whiny, Roseanne-like voice who had inherited the Comedy Store in a divorce from comedian Sammy Shore?viewed the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Comedy Strike | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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