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Comedy giants Dave Hill and Janeane Garofalo perform tonight at Comedy Below Canal
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $12 marked with $) include:
[TOP PICK] 7:00 pm ($12): A news-based show with comedy games and funny conversation hosted by by Faith Salie (CBS Sunday Morning), tonight with writer/producer Gideon Evans (The Daily Show), writer/commentator Alison Rosen (McSweeney’s, podcast Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend), and more: The News Distillery
7:30 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): “Some people have amazing stories of wild nights and daring feats. Others have to make it all up. Andy Ross hosts the city’s best stand-ups and storytellers, some presenting written characters, others just characters themselves” in Ochi’s Lounge at Real Characters
7:30 pm ($5): Sharp improvisors directed by James Eason “take an audience suggestion and break it into a million funny pieces,” and veteran improvisors play with “elements of monoscene, deconstruction, and La Ronde,” in the double-bill The Deconstruction and Sleepover
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Comedy geniuses Gavin Speiller (Death by Roo Roo, Rogue Elephant), Ben Rodgers (Reuben Williams, co-host of Cage Match), and Jon Gabrus (Conan O’Brien, Best Week Ever, The Nights of Our Lives) perform as one of the most hilarious improv trios in NYC:Outlook of the Poet; and two more improv masters, Zach Woods (NBC’s The Office, Reuben Williams) and luminous comedic chameleon Lennon Parham (CBS’ Accidentally on Purpose, Reuben Williams) perform as duo Skinny Business
[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 8:00 pm ($37.50 online or at the box office using discount codeALIEN): Sharp comics and 80 Henson puppets collaborating on a show that’s partly scripted and partly improvised: Stuffed and Unstrung
[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($12): A blowout lineup with movie & TV star Janeane Garofalo, comedy genius Dave Hill (one of the most original and hilariously sharp alternative comics in the country; HBO, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, star of The King of Miami, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Salon, The Dave Hill Explosion), Joe Mande (Comedy Central, VH1; co-host of Totally J/K; author of new book Look at This F*cking Hipster), John Roberts (YouTube star), and Matt Goldich (David Letterman, Comedy Central) at 92Y Tribeca’s Comedy Below Canal
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): Wyatt Cenac (correspondent for The Daily Show), Todd Barry (HBO,David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Presents, The Sarah Silverman Program, Adult Swim, feature films The Wrestler and Pete Smalls is Dead), Tony Camin, and Amy Miles joining the fresh, sexy, and razor-sharp gals of comedy group Variety SHAC
[$] 10:00 pm ($31.25 & 2-drink min.) A provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, headlining through Sunday at Carolines: Paul Mooney
11:00 pm ($5): Two vibrant troupe troupes, Doppelganger and. Belgian Rattlesnake, competing for audience laughs and votes at the raucous Cage Match
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