April 14, 2009
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Gloria Bigelow, Amy Beckerman, Leah Dubie, & Jackie Monahan are Dykes on Mics
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:
the perfect show for short attention spans—open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours—and for tonight only on the East side, at John Morrison’s Broadway Motel (6:00 pm),
Hilary Schwartz Rachael Parenta debuting an intriguing show described as “emotionally inappropriate comedy:” Please, Someone Kill Me (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] Craig Yoe (Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster) and Fabian Nicieza (Trinity, Gotham Gazette) joining in on a lively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture at Comic Book Club (8:00 pm),
four full hours of improv for only five bucks—tonight featuring UCBT house troupes Ragnaröck, Bastian, The Stepfathers, Reuben Williams, and DeCoster, plus a great troupe reshuffling at 11:00 pm called The Blender—at Harold Night (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] typically stellar comics performing at this free show hosted by brilliant stand-ups Jessi Klein (Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, CNN, Adult Swim) and Pete Holmes (Comedy Central, VH1’s Best Week Ever, The New Yorker): Punch Up Your Life (8:30 pm),
[DISCOUNTED] NYC stand-ups Ross Bennett, Hari Kondabolu, Mike Trainor, Mark Normand, Josh Comers, David Cope, and more at John Morrison’s Morrison Motel (8:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] Morgan Murphy (Comedians of Comedy, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel), Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central Presents), Matt McCarthy (Comedy Central, award-winning Verizon FIOS guy), Donald Glover (30 Rock, Derrick), and more at the wonderful Seth Herzog’s Sweet (9:00 pm),
and sharp NYC stand-ups joining delightful hosts Jackie Monahan, Leah Dubie, Amy Beckerman, and Gloria Bigelow at Dykes on Mics (9:00 pm).
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April 13, 2009
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John Mulaney
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:
Rob Lathan debuting a new show starring his hyperactive life coach character in Get Psyched: Suck It, Recession! (6:30 pm),
the perfect show for short attention spans, open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours—tonight including Joselyn Hughes, Jared Logan, Dan St. Germain, Emily Epstein, Leah Dubie, Sean Crespo, Hilary Schwartz, Mark Normand, Sean Donnelly, Blaine Perry, Aalap Patel, and Matteson Perry—at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel (6:30 pm & 9:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] [DISCOUNTED] star storyteller Tom Shillue (Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, Comedy Central Presents) performing what’s likely to be a mesmerizing comedic one-man show: Supernormal (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] brilliantly funny comics Dave Hill (HBO, VH1, Spike TV, The New York Times), Victor Varnado (Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, NBC’s My Name is Earl, Comedy Central, Adult Swim), Josh Comers, Moe & Mary, and more at Liam McEneaney’s Tell Your Friends (8:00ish pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] and a free weekly show featuring some of the finest comics in the country—who tonight include John Mulaney (one of the best stand-ups in the biz; staff writer for Saturday Night Live; Conan O’Brien; just aired his first Comedy Central Presents half-hour special) and Jon Glaser (long-time writer & sketch performer for Conan O’Brien; creator & star of new Adult Swim series Delocated)—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central) at Whiplash (11:00 pm).
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April 12, 2009
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Hilarious sketch comedy troupe A Week of Kindness
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[FREE] sketch troupes A Week of Kindness, Rue Brutalia, and the Bilderbergs, plus one-woman-showster Jill Donnelly, performing Under St. Marks (7:00 pm),
[FREE] sharp comics Morgan Murphy, Dave Rosinsky, and more at what’s often among the funniest free productions in NYC, from hosts Greg Johnson and Jacqueline Novak: The Comedians (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] typically some of the best comics in the biz—tonight including brilliant stand-ups Todd Barry (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central, The Wrestler), Kumail Nanjiani (Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report), and Eric Drysdale (former writer for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report)—joining comedy giant Eugene Mirman for his weekly shindig at Brooklyn’s Union Hall: Tearing the Veil of Maya (8:00 pm),
[FREE] Sean Patton (VH1, Just for Laughs Festival), Sean O’Connor (VH1, NPR’s This American Life), Myq Kaplan (Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham), and more at RG Daniels’ free Sunday Night Stand-Up (8:00 pm),
[FREE] talented NYC comics at Vince Averill’s & Jesse Popp’s free show Beauty Bar Comedy (9:00 pm),
[FREE] the delightful Jackie Monahan (co-host of Dykes on Mics), Diana Saez (eight months pregnant and still stand-uping), Steve Hofstetter (Craig Ferguson, VH1, ESPN, ABC), and Shawn Hollenbach (co-producer of The Back Room) at a free gay-themed show hosted by Brad Loekle: Electro Shock Therapy Comedy Hour (10:00 pm),
[$] and a provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, headlining at Carolines: Paul Mooney (10:00 pm).
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April 11, 2009
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Mindy Raf
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[TOP PICK] a world-class sketch troupe specializing in physical comedy and music: Drop Six (7:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] star improvisation from writers & performers at 30 Rock, The Colbert Report, and The Daily Show who joyously declare Let’s Have a Ball (7:30 pm),
[$] a former cast member of Saturday Night Live who’s also performed a Comedy Central hour-long special, appeared frequently on Conan O’Brien, co-starred in the film Half Baked, and is an acclaimed stand-up comic, headlining at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Jim Breuer (8:00 pm & 10:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] clever wordplay, conceptual comedy, and relentless silliness—in an all-new show based around the already-goofy film Con Air—from sketch troupe Elephant Larry (8:00 pm),
[$] comedy stars at Stand Up NY, tonight including 30 Rock’s Judah Friedlander, Jessica Kirson, and Vic Henley: Judah Friedlander and More (8:00 pm & 10:00 pm),
[FREE] sharp NYC comics at a free stand-up comedy show hosted by star sketch/improv troupe Derrick in Queens’ Long Island City: This Is New York (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] one of my all-time favorite improv troupes—which in 2008 broke the UCBT improv competition record for winning streaks with 17 triumphs in a row, and this year delivered a magnificent performance to capture the Cage Match Championship—the brilliant and daring members of Death by Roo Roo (9:00 pm),
organic & energetic improv by the four guys of 4 Track! (9:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] inventive & hilarious sketch comedy from The Harvard Sailing Team (9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] improvised furious action from world-class troupe Reuben Williams (10:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] [$] Ted Greenberg (Emmy-winning David Letterman writer) performing a fun, quick-paced theatrical comedy show—complete with audience rides home!—at The Complete Performer (10:30 pm),
a small mob of talented comedic performers, including brilliant & sexy singer/songwriter Mindy Raf, and show creators Ilana & Eliot Glazer, performing highly unusual acts at High School Talent Show (midnight),
[$] sharp stand-ups Marina Franklin (Last Comic Standing, Chappelle’s Show), Big Jay Oakerson (Comedy Central Presents, HBO, Showtime), Becky Donohue (Comedy Central, TLC), Paul Mecurio (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Presents), and more providing Late Night Laughs at Comic Strip Live (12:30 am),
[$] and a provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, headlining at Carolines: Paul Mooney (12:30 am).
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April 10, 2009
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Jim Breuer
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[$] a former cast member of Saturday Night Live who’s also performed a Comedy Central hour-long special, appeared frequently on Conan O’Brien, co-starred in the film Half Baked, and is an acclaimed stand-up comic, headlining tonight and Saturday at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Jim Breuer (8:00 pm & 10:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] comedy stars Wyatt Cenac (correspondent for The Daily Show) and Paul F. Tompkins (host of VH1’s Best Week Ever, commentator on Countdown with Keith Olbermann) visit Jessica Chaffin & Jamie Denbo playing book authors offering sage advice to Jewish singles at Ronna & Beverly’s All Jew Revue (8:00 pm),
comics experiencing the rush of performing with no clothes on in The Naked Comedy Showcase (8:00 pm),
stand-up comics Brad Loekle (TruTV’s The Smoking Gun Presents, host of The Electro Shock Therapy Comedy Hour), Beth Stelling (Chicago Underground Comedy), Lisa Kaplan (here! TV’s Hot Gay Comics), and more at a gay-themed comedy show hosted by Jenny Rubin: The Back Room (9:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] some of the finest improv in NYC from the comedy genius members of The Stepfathers (9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] [$] a killer lineup of top national comedy stars at Stand Up NY’s late show, including 30 Rock’s Judah Friedlander, Dave Attell, Ted Alexandro, Jessica Kirson, and Vic Henley: Judah Friedlander and More (10:00 pm),
singing improvisors who use an interview with an audience member to craft The Made-Up Musical (10:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] a sketch show (with some improv thrown in) that just won its superb stars the 2009 ECNY Award for Best Sketch Comedy Group: Derrick (11:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] UCBT’s free monthly open-mic stand-up show, where deliciously odd things tend to happen around 1:30 am, hosted by lightning-quick & hilarious Pete Holmes (Comedy Central, VH1; one of the finest comics in the country) at Gutbucket (12:20ish am),
[$] and a provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, headlining at Carolines: Paul Mooney (12:30 am).
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April 9, 2009
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The Apple Sisters
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
a razor-sharp member of star improv/sketch/film troupe Derrick premiering a stand-up comedy show: Donald Glover: Weirdo (8:00 pm),
[FREE] Shayna Ferm (brilliant, hilarious singer/songwriter), Team Submarine (comedy duo Nate Fernald & Steve O’Brien), Ross Hyzer (host of NYC comedy show County Fair), and Micah Sherman (co-host of NYC comedy show Micah Myq Club) at a free weekly variety show in the East Village hosted by sharp dark comedy stand-up Jena Friedman: Entertaining the Bartender (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] star stand-ups Rich Vos (NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Presents special, Tough Crowd, Opie & Anthony), Bonnie McFarlane (David Letterman, Jay Leno, Comedy Central Presents special, HBO special), and Nate Bargatze (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central), plus other sharp comics performing at the only comedy club in the East Village: Rich Voss and More at Eastville (9:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] superb comedic storyteller Tom Shillue, hilarious comedic rapper MC Chris, standup Jessica Kirson (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central, VH1, Bravo), and music group The Psychedelic Knights of Zohar joining the fresh, sexy, and razor-sharp gals of Variety SHAC (9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] [$] three hilarious gals who won the 2008 ECNY Award for Best Musical Comedy Act, and are one of the most charming & entertaining groups in NYC—and now also one of the finest troupes LA, where they’ve lately been seeking well-deserved fame and fortune—performing their special magic tonight at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: The Apple Sisters (10:00 pm),
[$] a provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, tonight headlining at Carolines: Paul Mooney (10:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] and two of the finest troupes in improv history, The Stepfathers and Death by Roo Roo, competing for audience laughs & votes at the raucous Cage Match (11:00 pm).
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April 8, 2009
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Brooke Van Poppelen
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] six free hours of improvisation in The PIT’s Super Free Wednesday (6:00 pm-midnight),
[TOP PICK] stellar storyteller Adam Wade and comic Jake Goldman hosting a show in which top writers and comedians—who tonight are Jim O’Grady (The New York Times, Moth GrandSlam Champion), Ed Gavagan, and Bricken Sparacino—share their favorite campus anecdotes; plus a cake will be given to an audience member!; all at Real Tales of College (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] rising star Kumail Nanjiani (Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report), Brooke Van Poppelen (sketch duo Macho!), Sean Donnelly (co-host of Ochi’s Motel, host of Little Seany Boy), and more at a new free weekly comedy show hosted by Matt Maragno & the luminous Margie Kment: Now We’re Talking (8:00 pm),
[FREE] typically stellar NYC stand-ups at a free weekly Brooklyn extravaganza hosted by Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, and Max Silvestri: Big Terrific (8:00ish pm),
[FREE] NYC stand-ups Jamie Lee, Nick Turner, Vicki Ferentinos, and Calvin Cato; plus sketch troupe consisting of Kevin Tor , Evan Morgenstern, and Jen Kwok; plus improv group Aww Shucks, at a free show hosted by Sharon “Mama” Spell: Shrink (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] an hour-long play made up on the spot by razor-sharp, passionate improvisors Scott Adsit (30 Rock, Moral Orel) and Christina Gausas (Conan O’Brien, The Colbert Report) at Adsit & Gausas (9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] and a free, laid-back, and occasionally magical variety show where virtually anything can happen on a School Night (11:00).
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April 7, 2009
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Kumail Nanjiani
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:
the perfect show for short attention spans—open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours—at John Morrison’s Broadway Motel (6:00 pm),
comedians getting rid of their stuff by telling tales about the items and then selling to the highest bidder at the way fun Auction! (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] Jesse Blaze Snider (DC’s Dead Romeo) and Cliff Chiang (DC’s Green Arrow & Black Canary) joining in on a lively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture at Comic Book Club (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] witty writers offering delightfully silly lectures about color in the Brooklyn comedic show Adult Education (8:00 pm),
four full hours of improv for only five bucks—tonight featuring UCBT house troupes DeCoster, Ragnaröck, The Scam, The Law Firm, and The F*cking Kennedys, plus a great troupe reshuffling at 11:00 pm called The Blender—at Harold Night (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] Kumail Nanjiani (Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report) and other sharp comics performing at this free show hosted by brilliant stand-ups Jessi Klein (Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, CNN, Adult Swim) and Pete Holmes (Comedy Central, VH1’s Best Week Ever, The New Yorker): Punch Up Your Life (8:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] and Andy Blitz (comedy genius; writer & performer for Conan O’Brien since 1999), Wyatt Cenac (correspondent for The Daily Show), Kurt Braunohler (Comedy Central; Penelope, Princess of Pets; 2008 ECNY Award for Best Director), AD Miles (head writer for Jimmy Fallon), and more at the wonderful Seth Herzog’s Sweet (9:00 pm).
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April 6, 2009
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Tom Shillue
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:
the perfect show for short attention spans—open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours, at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel (6:30 pm & 9:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] star storyteller Tom Shillue (Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, Comedy Central Presents) performing what’s likely to be a mesmerizing comedic one-man show: Supernormal (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] brilliantly funny comedy stars Jessi Klein (Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, CNN, Punch Up Your Life), Andy Kindler (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Root of All Evil), Eric Drysdale (former writer for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report), Scott Jacobson (former Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show), and more at Liam McEneaney’s Tell Your Friends (8:00ish pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] and a free weekly show featuring some of the finest comics in the country—who tonight include Andy Kindler (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show, Everybody Loves Raymond, The Root of All Evil), Wyatt Cenac (correspondent for The Daily Show), and Laurie Kilmartin (VH1, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson)—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central) at Whiplash (11:00 pm).
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April 5, 2009
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Rich Vos
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[TOP PICK] [FREE] UCBT’s playground for celebrities and ace improvisors, ASSSSCAT 3000 (paid show at 7:30 pm, free show at 9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] a blow-up gathering of star comics—Andy Blitz (comedy genius; writer & performer for Conan O’Brien since 1999), Rich Vos (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Presents, Tough Crowd, The View), DC Benny (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central), and Bonnie McFarlane (David Letterman, Comedy Central Presents, HBO)—at what’s often among the funniest free productions in NYC, from hosts Greg Johnson and Jacqueline Novak: The Comedians (8:00 pm),
typically some of the best comics in the biz joining comedy giant Eugene Mirman for his weekly shindig at Brooklyn’s Union Hall: Tearing the Veil of Maya (8:00 pm),
[FREE] Mike Drucker (freelance writer for Saturday Night Live and The Onion), Keith Alberstadt (Last Comic Standing; contributing writer for SNL’s Weekend Update and National Lampoon), Jamie Lee (VH1, Collegehumor.com, Life & Style), and Nick Cobb (AMC) at RG Daniels’ free Sunday Night Stand-Up (8:00 pm).
[FREE] talented NYC comics at Vince Averill’s & Jesse Popp’s free show Beauty Bar Comedy (9:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] superb comics Kate McKinnon (hilarious cast member of Logo’s Big Gay Sketch Show), Michelle Buteau (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central), Brian Barry, and Zach Toczynskiat a free gay-themed show hosted by Brad Loekle: Electro Shock Therapy Comedy Hour (10:00 pm),
[$] and a provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, tonight concluding his headlining run at Carolines: Paul Mooney (10:00 pm).
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