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 colored brackets) include:

stand-up comedy from Mark Normand, Ross Hyzer, John Knefel, and Dan Fontaine, plus music provided by Mike Milazzo during the Intermission (7:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] Violet Krumbein demonstrating she’s one of the most darkly funny talents in NYC, and 30 Rock actor and stellar storyteller Anthony Atamanuik delivering a fascinating autobiographical show about his doing massive drugs while writing children’s television, in the double-bill Human Painkiller and Pissing My Pants on Vine (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] Daily Show star correspondent John Oliver (Comedy Central’s Terrifying Times), rising star Kumail Nanjiani (The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live), and more at a stand-up show created by Co-Executive Producer of The Daily Show: Rory Albanese and Friends (8:00 pm),

superb & delightful comics Margie Kment (luminous host of Hold for the Laughs) and Leslie Goshko (stellar storyteller & 2008 Manhattan Monologue champion) making you laugh at the free Shrink (8:00 pm),

comics competing for laughs based on an assigned topic in So You Think You Can Stand (9:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] some of most razor-sharp and uproariously funny storytellers in the country—Anthony Atamanuik, John Flynn, Adam Pally, and Jesse Falcon—telling tales of being “On the Road” at one of the finest shows in NYC, The Nights of Our Lives (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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