Best New York Comedy

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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 perfect show for short attention spans—open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours, tonight including Kumail Nanjiani, Blaine Perry, Margie Kment, Chelsea White, Josh Comers, Sean Donnelly, Aalap Patel, Matteson Perry, and John Morrison—at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel (6:30 pm & 9:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] ace NYC stand-up comics Todd Barry, Chelsea Peretti, Christian Finnegan, Joe List, and Dan Boulger, plus stellar comedic storyteller Chris Gethard and UK comedy star Robin Ice, as the ingredients for a blowout show at tonight’s biweekly Comedy Central at Crash Mansion (8:00 pm),

superb comics including Arj Barker and Abby Crutchfield at a free weekly comedy show in Brooklyn hosted by the razor-sharp Jena Friedman: Entertaining the Bartender (8:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and one of the sharpest and most popular stand-up comics in the country performing an hour-long set: Demetri Martin (11:00 pm).

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