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Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[TOP PICK] a prime opportunity to experience a wide range of UCBT solo performers and sketch comedy groups, with performances appearing back-to-back and running for hours—and it’s all free!—at UCBT’s Second Winter Showcase (5:00 pm),
five free hours of improvisation in The PIT’s Super Free Wednesday (7:00 pm-midnight),
[TOP PICK] a blow-out line-up—Tom Shillue (star storyteller; Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show), Shayna Ferm (brilliantly funny singer/songwriter), Carolyn Castiglia (stellar stand-up and VH1 White Rapper with amazing new show Brown Ambition), Margot Leitman (ace storyteller; Conan O’Brien, Stripped Stories), Mike Drucker (writer for Saturday Night Live and The Onion), and Paul Oddo (Funny.com)—at a show hosted by the vivacious and razor-sharp Leslie Goshko (Manhattan Monologue Champion) in which top comics and storytellers reveal odd aspects of themselves in a carnival atmosphere (complete with accordion player and alcoholic audience prizes): Sideshow Goshko (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] one of the most razor-sharp and uproariously funny storytellers in the country performing a one-man show that should not be missed: Chris Gethard’s Magic Box of Stories (8:00 pm),
NYC stand-ups Claudia Cogan, Chelsea White, Mike Lawrence, Vikki Stone, Pat Breslin, Brian Longwell, and Troy Bynam at the free Shrink (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] some of the finest stand-ups and sketch comics in NYC—national comedy stars Ted Alexandro and Paul F. Tompkins, plus adorably shocking comedy duo Gabe & Jenny, Michelle Collins, and Paul Oddo—performing in Brooklyn at a blow-out free show hosted by the hilarious Joe Mande & Noah Garfinkel: Totally J/K (9:30 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 Carolyn Castiglia (Last Comic Standing, VH1’s White Rapper, tonight performing 20 minutes from her red-hot new one-woman show Brown Ambition), Sean Crespo (Comedy Central, co-host of Drink at Work), and Erin Judge (Comedy Central)—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 genius improv duo Eliza Skinner and Glennis McMurray, 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 typically stellar stand-up comics who perform their sets but are periodically interrupted by the host—one of the funniest men on the planet, Doug Benson—at a very special show called The Benson Interruption (11:00 pm).
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