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Australian stand-up star Jim Jefferies headlines at Carolines tonight through Sunday
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] 7:00 pm ($5): In this fun show, 16 musical performers turn an audience member’s suggestion into two musical fairy tales that tell what happened from the viewpoint of first the hero and then the villain, with “all the music and magic of a Disney flick…plus the darkness of the Brothers Grimm:” Once Upon a Time
[TOP PICK] 7:00 pm ($10): Marc Bonnée, member of acclaimed sketch troupe Drop Six, goes solo with this show consisting of character bits and one-man sketches loosely tied to the theme of excess: Too…
[TOP PICK] 7:30 pm ($10): From the UK’s Cambridge University comes acclaimed UK sketch troupe Cambridge Footlights, performing an hour-long show at UCBT for one night only: Good for You
[$] [DISCOUNTED] 7:30 pm & 10:30 pm ($32.40 online if you use code PLAYBILL, plus 2-item minimum): The co-author of He’s Just Not That Into You and It’s Called A Breakup Because It’s Broken, and star of HBO’s Mantastic, headlining tonight through Saturday at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Greg Behrendt
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($10): A groundbreaking and surreal improv/sketch troupe performing with new guests each Friday and making a valid complaint: Centralia: We Were Supposed To Have Flying Cars By Now
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($7): Rachel Hamilton shares “tales from the frontlines of Internet dating” in the debut of her one-woman show Love.com
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 8:00 pm: Gorgeous Brooke Van Poppelen (brilliant stand-up, writer, and storyteller; blogger for trutV; TLC’s American Chopper, Maxim and Cosmo Radio, So-Low Show; popular blogs NYisretarded.blogspot.com and RockBottom; for stand-up videos about overindulging at 30 and impersonating Morrisey, please click here and here), Nate Bargatze (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central), Luke Cunningham (The Colbert Report), and Neal Stastny performing stand-up at O’Hanlon’s (14th Street off 1st Avenue), hosted by Mark Normand: Hot Soup
[$] 8:30 pm & 10:30 pm ($25 & 2-drink min.) An Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show, and creator & star of the new HBO Web series Got No Game, headlining tonight and Saturday at the Gotham Comedy Club: Paul Mecurio
[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($10): Some of the finest improv in NYC from the comedy genius members of The Stepfathers
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($10): Always fresh and imaginative world-class sketch troupe that uses song, movement, and clever scenarios to turn familiar rituals on their head (for a video about awkward goodbyes at the end of a party, please click here) delivering a brand new collection of sketches titled Ms. Larsen’s Class: The Harvard Sailing Team
[TOP PICK] [$] 10:00 pm ($35 & 2-drink min.): Stellar Australian comic who’s been a regular on Opie & Anthony, and who performed his own HBO special I Swear To God, headlining tonight through Sunday at Carolines: Jim Jefferies
10:00 pm ($7): Singing improvisors who use an interview with an audience member to craft The Made-Up Musical
10:30 pm ($10): Jonathan Gabrus, Sue Galloway, and other fine improvisors make up scenes about an audience member’s legal dispute at The Law Firm: Law & Disorder
[TOP PICK] Midnight ($5): A comedic freestyle rap contest featuring some of the funniest & sharpest comics in NYC—who tonight are comedy giant Dave Hill (The Dave Hill Explosion), Billy Scafuri (member of award-winning comedic rap group Snakes and award-winning sketch troupeThe Harvard Sailing Team), Streeter Seidell (iconic fearless writer/performer for College Humor), Jen Dunlap (College Humor), and Chaz Kangas (My Hoodie)—plus a volunteer from the audience!, hosted by genius comedic musical performers Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan (Freestyle Love Supreme) and Eliza Skinner (I Eat Pandas), all at one of my favorite monthly shows: The BEATdown
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