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TV & movie star T. J. Miller performs stand-up tonight at Whiplash...
...and puppies are on parade in Brooklyn tonight at Kristen Schaal's & Kurt Braunohler's Hot Tub Variety
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: Kevin Allison (legendary MTV sketch series The State, HBO, Comedy Central, VH1, host of award-winning storytelling show Risk!) hosts this free open-mic show for storytellers, in which you can put your name in a hat for the chance to tell a five-minute true story…and if it’s a good one, possibly be included in Kevin’s popular podcasts on the Web: Risk! Storyslam
7:30 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 at the Luca Lounge (222 Avenue B off 14th Street)—at John Morrison’s Motel Luca
8:00 pm ($5): Two of UCBT’s fine house sketch comedy troupes, Stone Cold Fox and Gorilla Gorilla, trying out new bits at Maude Night
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5 online or $8 at the door): Hannibal Buress (staff writer for 30 Rock, Saturday Night Live; Comedy Central, Jimmy Fallon, Craig Ferguson), Dan St. Germain (quick-witted, hilarious stand-up; for reenactment of Dan’s breakup, please click here), Aparna Nancherla (Last Comic Standing), and Murderfist (NYC’s fearless heavy metal version of a sketch troupe; winner of the 2010 ECNY Award) performing at Brooklyn’s Littlefield (622 Degraw Street); plus “tonight is the 1st Annual 9/11 Memorial Puppy Hugging Parade. We’re going to have a real parade, with a full ‘marching’ band, and lots of puppies, and banners and awesomeness. You should come. And bring your dogs if you have them. We’ll have puppies for adoption and proceeds will be donated to Dog Habitat, a nonprofit dog rescue in Brooklyn,” hosted by NYC comedy royalty Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler: Hot Tub Variety
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:00 pm: Joe DeRosa (HBO’s Down and Dirty, Comedy Central Presents, new comedy CD The Depression Auction), Rachel Feinstein (finalist on this summer’s Last Comic Standing; Comedy Central; opens for Sarah Silverman on tour), Joe Mande (Comedy Central, VH1; co-host of Totally J/K; author of new book Look at This F*cking Hipster), Mike Lawrence, and Gary Vider performing at a free weekly LES show at Pianos produced by Adam Lowitt and Matt Goldich:It Is It
8:00 pm ($5): Jeffrey Joseph (Jay Leno, In Living Color), Jesse Popp (Comedy Central, co-host ofBeauty Bar Comedy), Nick Cobb (Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing), Brent Sullivan (Comedy Central), Nick Flanagan, and Chris Locke performing at Aces & Eights (34 Avenue A, off 3rd Street) for John Szeluga’s Not Friday
9:30 pm ($5): Two of UCBT’s fine house sketch comedy troupes, Thunder Gulch and Gramps’, trying out new bits at Maude Night
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 11:00 pm: Some of the finest stand-up comics in the country—tonight including TV & movie star T.J. Miller (Cloverfield, Get Him to the Greek), Jesse Popp (Comedy Central, co-host of Beauty Bar Comedy), and Mike Drucker (freelance writer for SNL, The Onion, McSweeney’s), and more—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central) at Whiplash
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