JAMESTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Side by side on a sofa inside the National Comedy Center, Gail and Mario Cirasunda chuckled at a clip from the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties" that was playing on a TV screen. The show's oldest daughter, Mallory, was introducing her unconventional artist boyfriend Nick to her bewildered television family.

"I think our daughter brought him home once. Maybe two of our daughters!" Gail said with a laugh over coffee and donuts later.

"Five daughters, two sons," her husband Mario, 85, chimed in. "Sometimes I'd wonder," he smiled, shaking his head at the memories of the couple's own family antics over their 59-year marriage.

Moments like this are what brought the Cirasundas to the comedy museum in western New York and the memory cafe taking place inside. The monthly events i

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