NYC Top Comedy Choices for Wednesday 11/5/08

November 5, 2008

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Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks marked by brackets) include:

The PIT presenting the first of four evenings of comedy troupes each performing both sketch and improv at SketchProv Festival 2008 (7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, and 9:30 pm),

a comedy video contest sponsored by the New York Comedy Festival and hosted by one of quickest & funniest comics in the country, Pete Holmes (Comedy Central, VH1, The New Yorker): Web Video Cram-Off (7:30 pm),

veteran comic Judy Gold performing her new one-woman show Mommy Queerest (7:30 pm),

some of the finest stand-up comics in NYC—Jessi Klein (Comedy Central, NBC, VH1), Arj Barker (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central), Kumail Nanjiani (Comedy Central), and more—at a new show from a comedy giant, Eugene Mirman and Friends (8:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and a free, laid-back, and occasionally magical variety show where virtually anything can happen on a School Night (11:00).

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