Mitzi Shore

AA: I was doing a show in the Main Room and one night while I was onstage Mitzi Shore was in the audience. She came up to me after my set and said, 'Hey you're very funny,' and I said, 'Thank you.' and she said, 'Are you A-ra-bic?

I started out as the assistant to Mitzi Shore at The Comedy Store. So I was helping book The Comedy Store in its giant heyday, and I actually thought, although I was getting paid maybe $150 a week [laughs], I knew that it was the place to be…