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PRESS-TELEGRAM en IMS Comedy Store comics come in all sizes (Conlinued from Page comedy, offers assistance, likes publicity, and wants his name spelled right. Inside, sitting at a work table by the bar, with a telephone that flashes instead of rings, and knobs for dimming stage lights close at hand, is Mitzi Shore. Mitzi, a short, dark-haired woman, used to be married to a comedian. She opened (he Comedy Store in April, 1972. There's no other place like it.

Her Comedy Store West caters to a younger crowd, the college set, and she sometimes sends promising amateurs over there to work out their routine during the week. Laughs there have to be geared to a different audience. "I never tell anyone his act stinks and to get out of the business. I never discourage anyone. Who am I to judge?" she says.

"If they show promise I let them work out at the Comedy Store West, get their material sharp and come back. they're really bombing, 1 tell them to up new material and come back in three 'wc'eks!" What does she gel out of it? "It gives us a nice name. This is training for them. It's like college." "Each of these comedians is different. Each one is unique.

They all write their own material, you see. And they all work with a tape recorder. That way they can listen to themselves afterwards and analyze. They all analyze what they're doing." UP ON STAGE NOW is Mark Curtis. He keeps his alloted five minutes and gets quite a few J.aughs.

He's telling everyone about his belief in the benefit of exercise and recommends a few. "The best thing about these exercises," he says, "you can do them anytime. I'm breathing right now. 1 try to breathe as often as I can. It's getting so I don't feel good if I'm not breathing." "I haven't always been a comedian," he says on stage as his material continues to be hot.

"Surprised?" The audience likes him. You know he'll be back. Polish can make all the difference in a comedian's material. The amateurs know it. That's one of the things that keeps them coming back Monday after Monday, to stand up, as often as not, in front of a half empty room for five minutes and.a free soft drink.

They get a laugh or two, seldom more. And many bomb out. Take Richard Mehana. (At this point a comedian would say, Mehana is a slight man in glasses and a liat who says he's been to Comedy Store 50 times to perform. "You learn by watching and seeing what's funny." True, he says, a Monday night audience can be difficult.

"No one wants (o listen. Listening is hard to do. Everyone wants to perform." Or add his own one-liner, as one man did to Mehana. Mehana was on stage telling a tale of how he came to be surrounded by Moors Frank Moor, Harvey Moor, Sonia Moor. Until his listener pleaded, "No more." BUT MONDAY NIGHT is more than first-timers.

It's a honing ground for the more a chance to get a feel for the stage. It's a chance to work ss a master of ceremonies. Joey Camen is in that category. Camen, 18, has been at the Comedy Store for 18 months, the four months playing to empty rooms and silent audiences. The last 14 months have been promising, he says.

a likes to do characterizations. One is a takeoff on a television cereal commercial where older brothers try to get Mikey to try the cereal first. In Camen's routine, it's marijuana. "Let's get Mikey to try it," he says, "he'll smoke anything." In Camen's eye, the only training for a comic is live. Classes are useless.

"I took one class. We were told to write jive jokes and bring them in. They were gearing the jokes to be accepted by everyone. But you can't do that. A lot of times it's the character or the personality of the comic that's important to the success of a joke.

And each audience is different. You learn by doing." Jamie Klein is another part-time emcee. "You just keep'going," says Klein. "You get discouraged. But if you're not thinking about 'making it if you go about it systematically, slowly, one step after another, polishing and gaining experience, you can keep yourself going." Three years, says the 20-year-old Klein, is the average time for a systematic progression to success.

He's been at the Comedy Store for three months and it's his impression of David Brenner that got him the emcee spot. OUT OF control arm gratis some laughs for this comedy duo in Los Angeles. Staff photo by ROBERT G1NN CLAIRE RYAN is another kind of comic. She has a couple of degrees, she says, ancI taught hyperactive youngsters for two years in the Newport Beach School-District. She still teaches, but to a more mixed classroom and tries out some of her material on the children: Kids and grown-ups have different senses for what's funny! Some of the parents try to catch her act in Newport Beach.

A Las Vegas comic told her more women are not in the business because they're "not ballsy enough, Audiences can be hostile and agressive as Claire Ryan has learned, and the comedian falls victim to attack, HA "But I'm basically agressive, she says. And part of the training is learning not to care. "A fear of bombing out is always there but it like an athletic event. You psyche yourself up for it and become inured to it. "I bombed for six months, but I knew I could do it.

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