The Tokyo Comedy Store is an English-language comedy show held in central Tokyo, which features stand-up comedians and improvised comedy. The Tokyo Comedy Store was founded in 1994 as the "Tokyo Comedy Club" by Kevin Burns. Burns gathered together stand up comics and a hypnotist by placing many ads in the "Tokyo Classifieds," (now called "The Metropolis") calling for performers. The first show was held at the Tokyo American Club and, the second at the British Club in Ebisu, Tokyo. Roughly around the same time a separate group called the "Tokyo Cynics" started an all stand up comedy show in the Takadanobaba area at a bar called "The Fiddler".