I have written here before about a golden period up at the Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard and in a few other venues in the seventies. This photo, source unknown, is making the rounds of sites where stand-ups hang out. It's the posted schedule at the Comedy Store for some evening in 1976 or 1977. As you can see, it's full of a lot of folks who later went on to great stardom…and a few of the folks there you never heard of were pretty darned good, too. (The photo, by the way, partially obscures the names of Tony DeLia and the comedy team of Roger and Roger.)
The program is remarkable. So is the fact that there may well have been others that evening. If Richard Pryor or Freddie Prinze or someone like that had shown up and said "I want to go on," they would have gone on and other comics would have been bumped accordingly.
And maybe the most remarkable thing is that this was for a Tuesday. The Saturday night lineups at this time couldn't have been much better…but they were probably better. And there's Robin Williams going on at two ayem…