NYC Top Comedy Choices for Sunday 4/26/09

April 26, 2009

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Leah Dubie

Leah Dubie

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] Anthony Jeselnik (one of the sharpest & funniest stand-ups comics in the country; HBO, Comedy Central Presents, staff writer for Jimmy Fallon) and more at what’s often among the best free shows in NYC, hosted by Greg Johnson: The Comedians (7:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] [$] a movie star demonstrating he’s also a top stand-up comic and killer funny impersonator in a deliciously long set that concludes tonight: Kevin Pollak Headlining at Carolines (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] [$] one of the finest and most respected stand-up comics in the biz, famed for his passion and honesty, headlining at Carolines (at the same time but in a different room from Kevin Pollak): Marc Maron Headlining at Carolines (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] superb stand-ups Matt McCarthy (Comedy Central, Verizon FIOS guy, 2009 ECNY Award winner), Kevin McCaffrey (writer for David Letterman), Jesse Pop (Comedy Central, Beauty Bar Comedy), 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] superb stand-ups Chelsea Peretti (Comedy Central, TruTV, Variety SHAC), Helen Hong (Comedy Central, TLC), Leah Dubie (Comedy Central; co-host of NYC live comedy show Dykes on Mics), and more 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: Paul Mooney Headlining at Carolines (10:00 pm).

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Tuesday 4/14/09

April 14, 2009

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Gloria Bigelow, Amy Beckerman, Leah Dubie, and Jackie Monahan are Dykes on Mics

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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