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Daily Show stars Wyatt Cenac (above) and Kristen Schaal perform tonight in Brooklyn at Sara Schaefer's Get Off Your Knees
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
7:00 pm ($5): “From the invocation of a name pulled from the obituary pages, the recently deceased gets a final chance to have his or her story told on stage through a series of improvised scenes.” Come celebrate the life and death of a complete stranger—good taste optional—at Dearly Beloved Presents The Wake
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:00 pm: A blowout debut for this terrific weekly show that’s just switched venues: wonderful The Daily Show correspondents Kristen Schaal and Wyatt Cenac, Nick Turner (co-host of Too Cool for School), and more performing at Brooklyn’s Southpaw Downstairs Lounge DownSouth (125 Fifth Avenue in Park Slope), hosted by the breathtaking Sara Schaefer (Emmy-nominated staff writer for Jimmy Fallon): Get Off Your Knees
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:00 pm: An all-musical edition, with brilliantly funny writer/singer Jessica Delfino (enjoys singing songs about her vagina, as demonstrated by her CD Dirty Folk Rock;created the hilarious and wildly popular YouTube animated short film I Wanna Be Famous; has a cool MySpace page, and an even cooler blog; to get a feel for Jessica’s amazing range and talent, please click here) and Esther Ku (seemingly bubble-headed finalist on the 2008 edition of Last Comic Standing) performing at Cellar 58 (58 Second Avenue) alongside delightful host Abbi Crutchfield and comedic rapster Andrew Singer: Positively Awesome
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): The creative team of comics series Feeding Ground—Michael Lapinski, Swifty Lang, and Chris Mangun—join super-hosts Alex Zalben, Justin Tyler, and Pete LePage in alively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture at Comic Book Club
8:00 pm to midnight ($5): Four full hours of improv for only five bucks—tonight featuring UCBT house troupes Bastian, The Opera, Badman, Ragnaröck, and Robber Baron; and at 11:00 pm UCBT students make up a story taking place in a single location in real time (i.e., Death by Roo Roo’s near-unbeatable technique at Cage Match)—all at Harold Night
8:30 pm ($5—but you get free pizza from New PIzza Town!): Dan St. Germain (quick-witted, hilarious stand-up; for reenactment of Dan’s breakup, please click here), Stone and Stone (Last Comic Standing), and Katina Corrao (Comedy Central) performing at the Magnet Theatre for Adam Lerman’s and Willy Appleman’s Deep Traffic
8:30 pm ($3): Adam Lowitt (producer of The Daily Show, co-host of It Is It!), Yannis Pappas, and more performing at the Housingworks Bookstore Cafe for an almost-free weekly show hosted by Joe DeRosa (HBO’s Down and Dirty, Comedy Central Presents, new comedy CD The Depression Auction) and Jared Logan (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central): Punch Up Your Life
[FREE] 11:00 pm: Free open-mic stand-up show that’s seldom much fun for audience members but is a nice opportunity if you want 4-5 minutes to test out your comedy material on stage: Bring It
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