Best New York Comedy

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Comedy superstar Tracy Morgan headlines tonight through Sunday at Carolines

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] [$] 7:00 pm ($15): Top comics and comedic storytellers—Rachel Dratch (cast member of Saturday Night Live), Christian Finnegan (three Comedy Central specials, commentator on MNBC’s Countdown with Keith Oberman and VH1’s Best Week Ever; Chappelle’s Show, The Today Show), James Braly (The Moth), Fiona Walsh (Galway Comedy Festival), and Jessica Grose (Slate)—joining brilliant sketch comic and storyteller Kevin Allison (The State) to share tales on tonight’s theme “Heroism: Saving the Day” at one of the finest storytelling shows in the country: Risk!

[TOP PICK] [$] 7:30 pm ($60 & 2-drink min.): A co-star of 30 Rock who’s one of the most hilarious guys in the biz headlining tonight through Sunday at Carolines: Tracy Morgan

[TOP PICK] 7:30 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): Adam Wade (two-time Moth GrandSlam Storytelling Champion and record-breaking 10-time StorySlam Champion; for Adam’s award-winning tale of being an NBC page on Conan O’Brien, please click here) hosts other superb yarn-spinners inOchi’s Lounge sharing their favorite real-life campus anecdotes at True Tales of College

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): Hilarious stand-ups Andrea Rosen, Sara Schaefer, and Michelle Collins, and raunchy storyteller Giulia Rozzi, perform along with wonderful hosts Brooke Van Poppelen (TLC’s American Chopper, Maxim and Cosmo Radio, So-Low Show; popular blogsNYisretarded.blogspot.com and RockBottom; for stand-up videos about overindulging at 30 and impersonating Morrisey, please click here and here) and Arden Myrin (Conan O’Brien, Mad TV, numerous other TV shows & films; for Mad TV samples, please click here and here and here):Power Suit

[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 8:00 pm Tuesday-Saturday ($29.50 online or at the box office using discount code PPBBOX through July 24th): This is a show for which I have enormous affection; although my joy came from not just watching what occurred on stage, but the faces of the women in the audience turning stonier and stonier as they visibly projected the thought, “Dick tricks? This entire show really consists of dick tricks? All my suspicions about men have just been confirmed…” If you cherish bravery in performers, go forth to the 45 Bleecker Theatre (right next to the #6 subway’s Bleecker Street stop) and experience Puppetry of The Penis

8:00 pm ($10): A fun sketch troupe (for video samples, please click here) present its latest work atInside Joke Films

[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($12): Top stand-ups Rich Vos, David Alan Grier, Morgan Murphy, Amy Schumer, Bonnie McFarlane, and Joe DeRosa performing at 92Y Tribeca’s Comedy Below Canal

9:00 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): Delightful stand-ups Leah Dubie and Amy Beckerman performing and hosting other gal stand-ups in Ochi’s Lounge at Dykes on Mics

[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): A one-man show from Michael Hartney about an obsession (which, given my comic book background, I consider utterly reasonable), and improv trio Charlie Todd (Reuben Williams), Chuck Dauble (Chuck D. & Jawnee Show), and Eric Scott (Reuben Williams), in the double-bill : So I Like Superman: A One-Nerd Show and C, C, & E Improv Factory

[TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($5): Two vibrant troupe troupes, Doppelganger and Sandino, competing for audience laughs and votes at the raucous Cage Match

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For Hy’s take on Last Comic Standing, please click here.