Best New York Comedy

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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:

four sharp storytellers trying to mislead the audience in The Liar Show (6:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] a comedy legend headlining at Comix for this evening only: Richard Belzer (7:30 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),

an improv troupe with a theatrical approach: Stray (7:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] one of my all-time favorite improv troupes—which this season broke the Cage Match record for winning streaks with 17 triumphs in a row, and is now taking over UCBT’s prestigious prime-time Saturday night slot—the brilliant and daring members of Death by Roo Roo (9:00 pm),

a small mob of talented comics—including the wonderful Kimmy Gatewood, in her final NYC stage appearance before moving to LA—telling funny, poignant, and at times unforgettable tales about their relatives at the gorgeous Sara Benincasa’s Family Hour (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 TV shows about audience members via world-class troupe Reuben Williams (10:30 pm),

and political sketch comedy from UCBT group Stone Cold Fox in That One (Midnight).

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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:

five free hours of improvisation in The PIT’s Super Free Wednesday (7:00 pm-midnight),

[TOP PICK] a fun Halloween horror play written by comedy star & UCB co-founder Matt Walsh, directed by UCBT artistic director Anthony King, and performed by some of the top comics in NYC: Killgore: The Resurrection (8:00 pm & 10:00 pm),

comics competing for laughs based on an assigned topic in So You Think You Can Stand (9:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] and crime being solved with laughs and sans scripts by brilliant comics Anthony King, Lennon Parham, Ben Schwartz, Gavin Speiller, Matt Fisher, and Jim Santangeli at CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation (11:00).

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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 Joe DeVito, Myq Kaplan, Becky Ciletti, and John Morrison—at John Morrison’s Broadway Motel (6:00 pm),

17 NYC stand-ups—including RG Daniels, Jen Kwok, Chelsea White, and Shawn Pearlman—competing for audience laughs and votes at Eric I’s Comedy Showdown (7:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] the wonderful Kimmy Gatewood at one of her final appearances on an NYC stage (before moving to LA), plus comics pro Todd Dezago, 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 Bangs, The F*cking Kennedys, The Scam, Bastian, and Ragnaröck—at Harold Night (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] comedy giants Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale (former co-hosts of seminal NYC stand-up show Invite Them Up), Craig Baldo (Conan O’Brien), and more at the Halloween costumes & sketches edition of one of the finest and funniest shows in NYC, the wonderful Seth Herzog’s Sweet (9:00 pm),

hilarious & thoroughly charming stand-ups Joselyn Hughes and Brooke Van Poppelen, and more, at the return of a popular weekly show mixing sketch & stand-up: Sweet Haven (9:00 pm),

a funny exploration of where comedy comes from in Roots (9:00 pm),

a spooky comedy blast from the past at The Paul Lynde 1977 Halloween Special (9:30 pm),

and former Kissing Booth hosts Brandy Barber and Sara Jo Allocco performing a sketch show directed by the superb Owen Brimer: Jar Full of Roaches (9:30 pm).

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