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Margie Kment, Myq Kaplan, and Pete Holmes: Hold for the Laughs
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks marked by brackets) include:
five free hours of improvisation in The PIT’s Super Free Wednesday (7:00 pm-midnight),
a mysterious new show in which comics talk about God: True Religion (7:30 pm),
fine NYC stand-up comics Jackie Monahan, Leah Dubie, Moody McCarthy, Emmy Rivera, Christina Cataldo, and Arthur Carlson trying out new material at the free Shrink (8:00 pm),
30 Rock actor and stellar storyteller Anthony Atamanuik delivering a fascinating autobiographical show about his doing massive drugs while writing children’s television, plus “a one-man family sitcom,” in the double-bill Pissing My Pants on Vine and Sertainly Seth (8:00 pm),
comics, writers, and others telling tales of their worst NYC experiences in New York Sh*tty (9:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] a wonderful networking event mixing folks from the NYC theatre and comedy scenes—plus homemade cookies!—followed by a full-blown comedy show with Pete Holmes (one of the quickest minds & funniest stand-ups in the country; Comedy Central, VH1, The New Yorker), James Smith (HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, Comedy Central), Myq Kaplan (Comedy Central), and Becky Ciletti —hosted by the lovely & hilarious Margie Kment at Hold for the Laughs (9:30 pm party/networking/cookies, 10:00 pm show),
[TOP PICK] an entirely improvised musical from a genius comedy duo, 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, laid-back, and occasionally magical variety show where virtually anything can happen on a School Night (11:00).
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