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 Joe DeVito, Amy Beckerman, Margot Leitman, Chelsea White, Karen Batista, Josh Comers, Myq Kaplan, Blaine Perry, Sean Donnelly, Aalap Patel, Matteson Perry, and John Morrison.—at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel (6:30 pm & 9:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] a comedic excavation of teen angst artifacts (journals, letters, poems, and more) as shared by their original authors in the hit storytelling show Mortified (8:00 pm),

Jamie Lee and other sharp NYC stand-ups at the biweekly Comedy Central at Crash Mansion (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] a blowout holiday event with stellar comics Dave Hill (HBO, VH1, Spike TV, The New York Times), Chelsea Peretti (Comedy Central, Variety SHAC), Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show), Joselyn Hughes & Brooke Van Poppelen (sketch duo Macho!), and more at a free weekly comedy show in Brooklyn hosted by the razor-sharp Jena Friedman: Entertaining the Bartender (8:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] an entirely improvised musical from a genius improv duo (and among Eliza Skinner’s final NYC performances before moving to LA), and an improvised soap opera, in the double-bill I Eat Pandas and Hot Lather: As the Diamond Burns (9:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and a free weekly show featuring some of the finest comics in the country—Anthony Jeselnik (Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central), Pete Holmes (VH1, Comedy Central), and Wyatt Cenac (correspondent for The Daily Show)—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central) at Whiplash (11:00 pm).

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