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Tonight's choices include "Puppetry of the Penis"...
...and Leslie Meisel's & Megan Neuringer's "Love Can Suck a Dick...and So Can I"
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:
[FREE] 6:00 pm to midnight: Six free hours of improvisation in The PIT’s Super Free Wednesday
6:30 pm & 9:00 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): The perfect show for short attention spans—open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours—with two installments running back to back every Wednesday at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel
[FREE] 7:00 pm (no cover, 2-drink min.): Delightful stand-up Phoebe Robinson, plus Willie Sweets, Trev Houston, and John Moses performing at the Laugh Lounge with host Damien Lemon: Comedy on the Hump
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): A delightful tale of heartbreak by Leslie Meisel—who manages the impressive feat of being adorable, sexy, and hilarious all at the same time, and is a sharp comedic talent very much worth keeping an eye on—quite ably abetted by co-writer Megan Neuringer in one of the smartest theatrical shows to grace UCBT this year: Love Can Suck a Dick…and So Can I
Plus brilliant improvisors Charlie Todd, Chuck Dauble, and Eric Scott (and the spirit of much-missed Charlie Sanders, who’s nabbing TV roles in LA) performing as C, C, & E Improv Factory
[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 8:00 pm Tuesday-Saturday ($19.50 online using discount code8PUPPET): 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] 8:00 pm ($8): Storyteller Andy Christie (The New York Times; host of The Liar Show), and stand-ups Colin Jost (writer for SNL), Jesse Popp (co-host of Beauty Bar Comedy), Chuck Nice (VH1’s Best Week Ever), and “a secret guest” at Dan Allen’s & Ray Devito’s monthly comedy event¡Sacapuntas!
[FREE] 8:00 pm: Kendra Cunningham, Matt Little, Nick Zimmerman, Beth Hoyt, Andrew Singer, and Subhah Agarwal performing at this free weekly show hosted by Sharon Spell: Shrink
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:30 pm: Adira Amram (fresh, sexy, hilarious rising star singer/songwriter), Seth Herzog (staff performer at Jimmy Fallon, VH1, host of Sweet), Calise Hawkins (host of S’Weird, Man), Lauren Bishop, Nick Vatterott, and Jamiee Lee performing at the East Village’s Angels and Kings with delightful dark humor host Jena Friedman: Entertaining the Bartender
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 9:30 pm: A free screening of a comedy film co-produced by Will Ferrell about “four guys, one camera, and their experience chronicling the exhilarating and terrifying rite of passage of losing your virginity:” The Virginity Hit
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For a guide to the FringeNYC 2010 Encore Series, please click here.
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