And while uptown clubs generally mean work - and some pay - for comics, downtown clubs generally just mean play.

Steve Lewis, an executive director at Life, describes the uptown clubs as more sanitized versions of those downtown.

"I think the uptown clubs are feeling it too," he said.

And at an uptown social club, another dropped a crème brûlée on her head, which then went down her back.

Ms. Jones didn't ascend through more staid uptown clubs but first gained a local following downtown at the Living Room.

Sugar Hill, a golden ale that sports a saxophone on its label, is aimed at the rapidly expanding uptown club scene.

An uptown club that has its moments, Up & Down attracts a mixed crowd, tending more to 30s and above.

The beat was crisp New Orleans funk, thumping to keep the crowd dancing at the uptown club Tipitina's.

The Giants had been invited through the front door of a swanky, uptown club and today's game was their embarrassing pratfall right in the front foyer.

By December of that year, the original downtown club had to close, and by 1949, the uptown club was forced to shut its doors.