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Tonight is the UCBT debut of Dan St. Germain's & Jared Logan's sketch show They Hated Each Other...
...and the final FringeNYC performance of puppet indie rock musical The Princes of Persuasion
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] 8:00 pm ($5): Very smart and very funny comics Jared Logan and Dan St. Germain teaming up to debut a two-man sketch show about history’s most infamous rivalries: They Hated Each Other
[TOP PICK] [$] 7:00 pm ($24.50 & 2-drink min.) A one-of-a-kind comedy star headlining at Carolines: Gilbert Gottfried
[TOP PICK] 7:30 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): Star storyteller 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 in Ochi’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 ($5): Comedy dynamo Shannon O’Neill performing her extravaganza about an annual talent show in “Charlie Sheen Prison, the only talent show starring the criminally retarded and insane,” directed by the wonderful Will Hines; and “pop culture obsessed Billy Eichner takes you on a fun-filled 30 minute journey through his twisted and topical celebrity-fueled world,” in the double-bill Prison Freaks: A Talent Show and Billy Eichner Goes Pop!
[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 8:00 pm Tuesday-Saturday ($39.50 online or at the box office using discount code PPBBOX): This is a show for which I have enormous affection; although my joy came from watching not only what occurred on stage, but the faces of the women in the audience turning stonier and stonier as they visibly projected the thought, “Dick tricks? This entire show really consists of dick tricks? All my suspicions about men have just been confirmed…” If you cherish bravery in performers, go forth to the 45 Bleecker Theatre (right next to the #6 subway’s Bleecker Street stop) and experience Puppetry of the Penis
[TOP PICK] [$] 8:30 pm ($18): FringeNYC is one of the most delightful annual events in NYC, and it’s happening for the rest of August; to learn lots more, please click here. Be sure to check out the Festival’s superb comedy shows—including tonight’s final performance by pre-programmed puppets singing songs about romance and zombies: The Princes of Persuasion
[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($12): Wyatt Cenac (correspondent for The Daily Show), Tony Camin, Giulia Rozzi, Al Jackson, and more performing at 92Y Tribeca’s Comedy Below Canal
9:00 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): Delightful stand-ups Leah Dubie and Amy Beckerman hosting guest female stand-ups in Ochi’s Lounge at Dykes on Mics
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): The Emmy-winning writers of The Colbert Report gather on stage to perform an all-improvised show at Seize the Mustard
9:30 pm ($5): A new show by Matthew Holtzclaw and Prakash Puru that “explores the bizarre worlds of magic, mind-reading, and mutilation; not for the faint of heart:” Strange Things
[TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($5): Two vibrant troupe troupes, Rogue Elephant and Tesla, competing for audience laughs and votes at the raucous Cage Match
For full details, please visit HyReviews.com.
For Hy’s coverage of the spectacular FringeNYC 2010 Festival, please click here.
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