Best New York Comedy

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Patrick Cassels & Jeff Rubin explore the worst game-based films of all time (including "Super Mario Brothers" above) in Bad Videogame Movies: The Definitive History

Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $12 marked with $) include:

[$] 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm ($53 & 2-drink min.) Stars of In Living Color, Scary Movie, and much more headlining tonight through Saturday at Carolines: The Wayans Brothers: Marlon and Shawn

[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): A double-bill of vibrant improv troupes: Neil Casey & Anthony Atamanuik make up an entire feature film as The Two-Man Movie; and Nicole Byer, Sasheer Zamata, and Keisha Zollar form a surprise breakout hit as all-gal troupe Doppelganger

8:00 pm ($5): Young comic Cass Bugge performing a self-conscious one-woman show with the hopeful self-fulfilling title I Remember Edwina DeBooveman’s One Woman Show

8:00 pm ($5): John O’Donnell and friends improvise up a musical before your very eyes in The Traveling Musical Medicine Show

9:00 pm ($12): Terrific NYC stand-ups Eddie Brill, Carolyn Castiglia, Seth Herzog, Victor Varnado, and Liam McEneaney performing at Comedy Below Canal

[FREE] 9:00ish pm: Typically terrific NYC stand-ups performing on this weekly show at the Kabin Bar and Lounge hosted by Chesley Calloway and (throughout February) by the wonderful Brooke Van Poppelen: Comedy as a Second Language

[MEGA-TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): Patrick Cassels and Jeff Rubin, who write for College Humor and co-host the online video game talk show Bleep Bloop, explore the worst game-based movies of all time, with clips from Super Mario Bros, Mortal Kombat, and many more, for an unforgettably hilarious journey into the deliciously awful that’s non-stop laughs—and one of my favorite comedy shows of all time: Bad Videogame Movies: The Definitive History

[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($12): Top comics and comedic storytellers—who tonight include a blowout lineup of Michael Showalter, Heather Lawless, Ali Wong, Matt Oberg, and Todd Hanson—joining brilliant sketch comic and storyteller Kevin Allison (The State) to share tales on tonight’s theme “Eureka!” at one of the finest storytelling shows in the country: Risk!

[$] 10:30 pm ($15 & 2-item min.)  Rough, uncensored laughs from Mike DeStefano, Big Jay Oakerson, Joe DeRosa, Russ Meneve, Bobby Kelly, and more for one night only at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: The Nasty Show

[TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($5): Genius improv troupe Outlook of the Poet (Jon Gabrus, Ben Rodgers, and Gavin Speiller) competes with improv troupe Grandma’s Ashes for audience laughs and votes at the raucous Cage Match

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