NYC Top Comedy Choices for Tuesday 12/2/08

December 2, 2008

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Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks marked by brackets) include:

the perfect show for short attention spans—open-mic stand-up with 4½ minutes per set and 25 comics crammed into 2½ hours, who tonight include Aalap Patel, Doug Adler, Leslie Goshko, Chanelle Futrell, and John Morrison—at John Morrison’s Broadway Motel (6:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] Scott Adsit (cast member of 30 Rock and Moral Orel) and Jonathan Bresnan (author of MAD About Star Wars and The Art of Star Wars, Episode I) joining in on a lively & hilarious discussion about comic books at Comic Book Club (8:00 pm),

three full hours of improv for only five bucks—tonight featuring UCBT house troupes Whorenado, Ragnaröck, Bangs, Bastian, and DeCoster—at Harold Night (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] and a breathtaking collection of all-star comedy talent—Nick Kroll (star of ABC’s Cavemen, Conan O’Brien, MTV, VH1), Anthony Jeselnik (HBO, Comedy Central), Arj Barker (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central), Robin Ince (UK’s The Office), and Kumail Nanjiani (Comedy Central)—at this blowout edition of one of the finest and funniest shows in NYC, Sweet (9:00 pm).

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Monday 12/1/08

December 1, 2008

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Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks marked by brackets) include:

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 Kumail Nanjiani, Blaine Perry, Margie Kment, Chelsea White, Josh Comers, Sean Donnelly, Aalap Patel, Matteson Perry, and John Morrison—at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel (6:30 pm & 9:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] ace NYC stand-up comics Todd Barry, Chelsea Peretti, Christian Finnegan, Joe List, and Dan Boulger, plus stellar comedic storyteller Chris Gethard and UK comedy star Robin Ice, as the ingredients for a blowout show at tonight’s biweekly Comedy Central at Crash Mansion (8:00 pm),

superb comics including Arj Barker and Abby Crutchfield at a free weekly comedy show in Brooklyn hosted by the razor-sharp Jena Friedman: Entertaining the Bartender (8:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and one of the sharpest and most popular stand-up comics in the country performing an hour-long set: Demetri Martin (11:00 pm).

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Sunday 11/30/08

November 30, 2008

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Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks marked by brackets) include:

[TOP PICK] UCBT’s playground for celebrities and ace improvisors, ASSSSCAT 3000 (7:30 pm and 9:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] comedy legend Jim Gaffigan performing the final evening of his smash hit NYC run at Town Hall: The Sexy Tour (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] typically stellar stand-ups at one of the funniest productions in NYC—and winner of the 2008 ECNY Award for Best Variety Show—The Greg Johnson Show (8:00 pm),

fine NYC comics Joey Gay, Dan Fontaine, Jesse Popp, and Mike Lawrence at RG Daniels’ Sunday Night Stand-Up (8:00 pm),

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 (9:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and four talented stand-ups describing themselves as “foul-mouthed females”—Jessimae Peluso, Jill Twiss, Diana Saez, and Yameneika—at a free gay-themed show hosted by Brad Loekle: Electro Shock Therapy Comedy Hour (10:00 pm).

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