Best New York Comedy

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Jimmy Fallon writer Morgan Murphy (above) headlines along with Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead tonight at Comix

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:

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): TV & movie star Kristen Schaal (one of the funniest women alive; shining star correspondent on The Daily Show; co-star of HBO’s Flight of the Conchords; Comedy Central Presents half-hour special; star of UK TV series Penelope: Princess of Pets; co-author of new bookThe Sexy Book of Sexy Sex), Reggie Watts (musical improv comedy genius; 2009 ECNY Award for Best Musical Comedy Act and 2007 Andy Kaufman Award; cast member of the new Electric Company; Jimmy Fallon; for video samples, please click here), and Carolyn Castiglia (VH1’s White Rapper Miss CKC) joining the fresh, sexy, and razor-sharp gals of Variety SHAC

[TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($29 & 2-drink min.): The host of the Jerry Seinfeld-produced NBC comedyThe Marriage Ref who’s appeared numerous times on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, and Jay Leno, and has performed two Comedy Central specials (with a third in the works) headlining tonight through Sunday at Carolines: Tom Papa

[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 8:00 pm ($22.60 online if you use code VIPAUG, plus 2-item minimum): The co-creator of The Daily Show shares a double-bill with an acclaimed stand-up and writer for Jimmy Fallon, both headlining tonight only at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Lizz Winstead and Morgan Murphy

[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($12): Sara Schaefer (brilliant, inventive, luminous comic; Emmy-nominated staff writer for Jimmy Fallon; VH1’s Best Week Ever), Nate Bargatze (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central), Rory Scovel (Comedy Central), Scott Moran, and Andy Haynes performing at 92Y Tribeca’s Comedy Below Canal

[TOP PICK] [$] 9:30 pm ($20): One of the finest stand-ups & storytellers in the country performs a fundraiser for The Nature Conservatory: Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk Unplugged

9:30 pm ($5): Daily Show producer Jimmy Donn, Black20.com performers Jessie Cantrell &, Sarah Walker, Mike & Ted O’Gorman and Pat Driscoll perform sketch comedy designed to make you “laugh, be slightly offended, laugh again, cough once or twice, recall a repressed memory, and drink :” The Dan Ryan

[$] 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

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

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