Best New York Comedy

For full details, please visit HyReviews.com.

For a guide to the FringeNYC 2010 Encore Series, please click here.

Todd Barry (above), Adam Wade, Stuckey & Murray, and free pizza appear tonight at Deep Traffic

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] [FREE] 8:00 pm: NYC stand-ups Brooke Van Poppelen (TLC’s American Chopper, Maxim and Cosmo Radio, So-Low Show; popular blogs NYisretarded.blogspot.com andRockBottom; for stand-up videos about overindulging at 30 and impersonating Morrisey, please click here and here), Reese Waters, Danny Solomon, David Cope, and a gala open mic session to bid farewell to Brooklyn’s Bell House Front Lounge as the venue for this free weekly show hosted by the breathtaking Sara Schaefer (Emmy-nominated staff writer for Jimmy Fallon): Get Off Your Knees

[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Comics industry pros join super-hosts Alex Zalben, Justin Tyler, and Pete LePage in a lively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture at Comic Book Club

8:00 pm to midnight ($5): Four full hours of improv for only five bucks—tonight featuring UCBT house troupes Sandino, Ragnaröck, Badman, Bastian, and Robber Baron; and at 11:00 pm a comedy jam mixing students with improv veterans—all at Harold Night

[FREE] 8:00 pm: Hispanic comics night, with stand-ups Gonzalo Cordova, Rojo Perez, Gina Brillon, and Sergio Chicon, “plus surprise guests from LA,” performing at Cellar 58 (58 Second Avenue) alongside delightful host Abbi Crutchfield and comedic rapster Andrew Singer: Positively Awesome

[TOP PICK] 8:30 pm ($5—but you get free pizza from New PIzza Town!): World-class stand-up 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), world-class storyteller Adam Wade (two-time Moth GrandSlam Storytelling Champion (2006 & 2009) and record-breaking 15-time StorySlam Champion; The New York Times Magazine; host of hilarious monthly storytelling extravaganzas Real Tales of College and The Adam Wade show; for Adam’s award-winning tale of being an NBC page on Conan O’Brien, please click here), and world-class comedic music duo Stuckey & Murray perform at the Magnet Theatre for Willy Appleman’s Deep Traffic

[TOP PICK] 8:30 pm ($3): Hannibal Buress (staff writer for 30 Rock, Saturday Night Live, ; Comedy Central, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson; 2010 ECNY Award for Best Male Stand-Up; host of Comedy Night; comedy CD My Name is Hannibal), Seth Herzog (Jimmy Fallon, VH1, host of Sweet), Vince Averill (co-host of Beauty Bar Comedy), and Ron Babcock performing at the Housingworks Bookstore Cafe for an almost-free weekly show hosted by Jared Logan (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central) and guest-host Nick Vatterott: Punch Up Your Life

[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): Jen Kwok performs a one-woman show about dreams of becoming a star through song; and a one-woman show about “after being a lesbian for over 12 years and fighting society for acceptance, she faces a bigger challenge with the acceptance of the lesbian community after falling in love with a man!,” in the double-bill She Wants to Sing and I’m Coming Out…Again

[FREE] 11:00 pm: Free open-mic stand-up show that’s seldom much fun for audience members but is a nice opportunity if you want 4-5 minutes to test out your comedy material on stage: Bring It

For full details, please visit HyReviews.com.

For a guide to the FringeNYC 2010 Encore Series, please click here.