Best New York Comedy

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Comedy geniuses Reggie Watts and Daniel Kitson perform tonight at a blowout edition of Whiplash

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

[FREE] 7:00 pm: Brilliant comedic singer/songwriter Shayna Ferm, and NYC stand-ups Joe List (Comedy Central), Jayson Cross (Nip/Tuck, The View), and Liz Faublas performing at a free weekly show in the Manchester Pub hosted by Phoebe Robinson: Case of the Mondays Comedy

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, Slow Burn and High Treason, trying out new bits at Maude Night

[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5 online or $8 at the door): Visiting UK comedy genius Daniel Kitson (if you don’t know, come and find out), Jessi Klein (fresh, unique, deliciously organic comic who’s one of the best stand-ups in the country; staff writer for Saturday Night Live; Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, CNN, Adult Swim), and Noah Garfinkel (VH1’s Best Week Ever, Huffington Post, co-host of Totally J/K) performing at Brooklyn’s Littlefield (622 Degraw Street) with sketches and more from NYC comedy royalty Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler: Hot Tub Variety

[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:00 pm: Wyatt Cenac (correspondent for The Daily Show), Andrea Rosen (Comedy Central’s Stella, Variety SHAC), musical comedy duo Stuckey & Murray, Susan Burke (Comedy Central’s Important Things), and Matt Peters (Weeds) performing at a free weekly LES show at Pianos produced by Adam Lowitt and Matt Goldich: It Is It

[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Brooke Van Poppelen (brilliant stand-up, writer, and storyteller; blogger for trutV; popular blogs NYisretarded.blogspot.com and RockBottom; for stand-up videos about overindulging at 30 and impersonating Morrisey, please click here and here), Matt McCarthy (Comedy Central, AMC, Verizon FIOS guy, Front Page Films, The Other Guys, comedy CD Come Clean), Jordan Carlos (Comedy Central), Kevin Barnett, Matt Donaher, and Barbara Holm performing at Aces & Eights (34 Avenue A, off 3rd Street) for John Szeluga’s Not Friday

[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Treasured Time Out NY Comedy Editor Jane Borden, Victor Varnado, Jullian McCullough, Chris DeLuca, Vanessa Hollingshead, and Emmett Montgomery performing stand-up in the Lolita Bar for producer Liam McEneaney’s Tell Your Friends

[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): Some of the finest improvisors in the country—Tara Copeland, Becky Drysdale, Jeff Hiller, Thomas Middleditch, Eliza Skinner, Mike Still, and tonight’s guest Will Hines—making up a musical on the spot along with virtuoso improv pianist Frank Spitznagel: Diamond Lion

[MEGA-TOP PICK] [FREE] 11:00 pm: Some of the finest comics in the country—with tonight’s blowout edition featuring UK storytelling genius Daniel Kitson, improv beatbox genius Reggie Watts, and stand-ups Ron Lynch and Jeffrey Joseph—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central) at Whiplash

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