Best New York Comedy

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Violet Krumbein

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

[TOP PICK] Violet Krumbein demonstrating she’s one of the most darkly funny talents in NYC, and 30 Rock actor Anthony Atamanuik performing a very funny autobiographical show, in the deliciously oddball double-bill Human Painkiller and Pissing My Pants on Vine (8:00 pm),

absurdist cult fave sketch comedy troupe Spurn (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] Jon Fisch (Comedy Central), Jacqueline Novak (CollegeHumor.com), and Wendy Ho (kinetic risque singer) as guests on the best sexy storytelling comedy show in NYC: Margot Leitman’s & Giulia Rozzi’s Stripped Stories (9:30),

[TOP PICK] master sketch comic and talented storyteller Kurt Braunohler in his new one-man show Back to Kurt (9:30 pm), and

[TOP PICK] two superb improv troupes, The Stepfathers and Fat Penguin, competing for audience laughs & votes at the raucous Cage Match (11:00 pm).

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