Best New York Comedy

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John Hodgman (above) and Moby are tonight's guests at The Dave Hill Explosion...

..plus hilarious and beloved sketch comics including Katherine Bryant Flaherty and Shayna Ferm (above) debut their spectacular 45-minute comedic musical at The PIT: "Grease 3: Threase"

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:

6:00 pm ($5): Three shows auditioning for a run at UCBT, including Corinne Fisher performing her one-woman show I Stalk You, all for five bucks at the showcase Spank

[TOP PICK] [$] 7:00 pm ($15): Top comics and comedic storytellers—who tonight are Kurt Braunohler (Comedy Central, Penelope Princess of Pets, co-host of Hot Tub Variety), Joe Mande (Comedy Central, VH1; co-host of Totally J/K; author of Look at This F*cking Hipster), Matt Higgins (Centralia), and Emily Gould (The New York Times, Gawker)—joining brilliant sketch comic and storyteller Kevin Allison (The State) to share tales on tonight’s theme “Dreams: Adventures in the Unconscious” at the Fall season opener of one of the finest storytelling shows in the country: Risk!

[TOP PICK] [$] 7:30 pm ($32.75 & 2-drink min.): Stellar Australian comic who’s been a regular onOpie & Anthony and who performed his own HBO special, I Swear To God, headlining tonight through Sunday at Carolines: Jim Jefferies

[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 7:30 pm ($32.40 online if you use code PLAYBILL, plus 2-item minimum): The co-author of He’s Just Not That Into You and It’s Called A Breakup Because It’s Broken, and star of HBO’s Mantastic, headlining tonight through Saturday at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Greg Behrendt

7:30 pm ($5): Sharp improvisors directed by James Eason “take an audience suggestion and break it into a million funny pieces,” and veteran improvisors play with “elements of monoscene, deconstruction, and La Ronde,” in the double-bill The Deconstruction and Sleepover

[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($8): The thoroughly wonderful comics of sketch troupe Fearsome—Shayna Ferm, Katherine Bryant Flaherty, Alex Goldberg, and Chris O’Connor—are joined by such other immense talents as Livia Scott and Amy Heidt to perform a new comedic musical that’s very, very loosely based on a classic Travolta/Newton John vehicle: Grease 3: Threase

[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Young talents doing a sketch show about cops, and Peter Blomquist and Jeff Wiens performing an all-new multimedia sketch show, in the double-bill The Sit Down and Shut Up NYPD Variety Hour and Franco & Billy: Diamonds of Fire

[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($12): Sean Patton (red-hot rising star; killer set on Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central, VH1), Julian McCullough (Comedy Central Presents half-hour special), Craig Baldo (Conan O’Brien), Costaki Economopoulos, and the hilarious Found Footage Festival performing at 92Y Tribeca’s Comedy Below Canal

[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): John Hodgman (Daily Show commentator, bestselling author of The Areas of My Expertise and More Information Than You Require, and the underrated PC in Apple Computer ads), music superstar Moby with band Diamondsnake, and surprises from host Dave Hill (one of the most original and hilariously sharp alternative comics in the country; HBO, Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, star of The King of Miami, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Salon, Big in Japan), all at The Dave Hill Explosion

[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 9:30 pm ($12.89 online if you use code PLAYBILL, plus 2-item minimum): Top stand-ups including Ted Alexandro, Amy Schumer, Joe DeRosa, Cipha Sounds, and Rob Cantrell performing at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Still Standing Up

[$] 10:00 pm ($24.50 & 2-drink min.): Maddog Mattern hosts a show with unhappy stand-ups—most notably including Judah Friedlander—tonight only at Carolines: Miserable Men of Comedy

[TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($5): Two vibrant improv troupes, Dog Court and Johnny Cash Money, compete for audience laughs and votes at the raucous Cage Match

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