NYC Top Comedy Choices for Sunday 1/17/10

January 17, 2010

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Brilliant & deliciously raunchy comedic singer/songwriter Jessica Delfino helps celebrate the release of Kong Magazine

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] 7:30 pm ($10) and 9:30 pm [FREE]: UCBT’s signature improv comedy extravaganza, which typically includes stars in the improv world, and sometimes even TV & movie stars such as Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz: ASSSCAT 3000

[FREE] 7:30ish pm: NYC stand-ups (who haven’t been announced this week) performing at a free weekly LES show at Pianos hosted by Greg Johnson: The Comedians

[FREE] 8:00 pm: The Golden Globes and NYC live comedy join forces when stand-ups Adam Lehman, Jessimae, and Brad Loekle are your sarcastic hosts for the entire evening as Therapy telecasts the Awards on the Electro Shock Therapy Comedy Hour

[FREE] 8:00 pm: Sharp stand-ups Joe DeRosa (Comedy Central Presents), Dan Boulger (Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham), Lee Camp (writer for The Onion), Andy Haynes, and more performing at RG Daniels’ free weekly show at the Three of Cups East Village lounge: Sunday Night Stand-Up

[TOP PICK] [FREE] 9:00 pm: Superb stand-ups Sara Schaefer (brilliant, inventive, luminous comic; staff writer for Jimmy Fallon; VH1’s Best Week Ever), Joe Mande (Comedy Central; co-host of Totally J/K; author of upcoming book about hipsters from St. Martin’s Press), Sean Donnelly, (host of Ochi’s Motel and Lil Seany Boy), and more performing in the East Village’s Beauty Bar at Vince Averill’s & Jesse Popp’s free weekly show Beauty Bar Comedy

[TOP PICK] [FREE] 10:30 pm: Brilliant raunchy singer/songwriter Jessica Delfino hosts a show at Pianos celebrating the debut of a magazine for women mixing comedy and sex: Kong Launch: Naked on the 17th

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