NYC Top Comedy Choices for Sunday 3/15/09

March 15, 2009

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Bernadette Pauley

Bernadette Pauley

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] [$] one of the best and most respected stand-up comics in the biz performing a passionate one-man show about his recent second divorce: Marc Maron: Scorching the Earth (7:00 pm),

[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] typically some of the best comics in the country joining comedy giants Eugene Mirman & Michael Showalter—winners of the 2008 ECNY Award for Best Hosts—for their weekly shindig at Brooklyn’s Union Hall: Tearing the Veil of Maya (8:00 pm),

[FREE] typically superb stand-ups at what’s often among the funniest free shows in NYC, from hosts Greg Johnson and Jacqueline Novak: President Johnson (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] [FREE] terrific stand-ups Dan Naturman (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Presents), Roger Hailes (Comedy Central, VH1, MTV), Jamie Kilstein, Sean Donnelly, and Dan Mahoney at RG Daniels’ free Sunday Night Stand-Up (8:00 pm).

[FREE] typically sharp NYC stand-up comics at Vince Averill’s & Jesse Popp’s free show Beauty Bar Comedy (9:00 pm),

[FREE] and Bernadette Pauley (Comedy Central), Ali Wong (The Onion), H. Alan Scott (here! TV), and Hilary Schwartz at a free gay-themed show hosted by Brad Loekle: Electro Shock Therapy Comedy Hour (10:00 pm).

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Saturday 3/14/09

March 14, 2009

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World-class musical improv troupe Baby Wants Candy

World-class musical improv troupe Baby Wants Candy

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] a world-class sketch troupe specializing in physical comedy and music: Drop Six (7:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] superb stand-ups Kumail Nanjiani (red-hot rising stand-up star; Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report, 2009 ECNY Award for Best Male Stand-Up), Liam McEneaney (Comedy Central, VH1, Tell Your Friends), Pat Stango (Don’t Touch Me There), Rich Duncan (co-author of upcoming book The Werewolf’s Guide to Life), and Ali Wong (The Onion) at Sean Donnelly’s Lil Seany Boy (7:00 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 exciting new NYC show developed at Chicago’s legendary iO theatre in which veteran improvisors create a play on the spot based on audience suggestions: New Play (7:30 pm),

[$] a frequent comedic commentator on Countdown with Keith Oberman and VH1’s Best Week Ever headlining at Comix: Christian Finnegan (8:00 pm & 10:30 pm),

[$] comedy club lineups that tonight include one of the most brilliant & hilarious rising stars in New York: Anthony Jeselnik and More at Comedy Cellar (8:00 pm & 9:45 pm),

Dave Ahdoot and Ethan Fixell relating their YouTube-documented romantic adventures live on stage—possibly accompanied by visits from some of the gals—on Double Date Us (8:00 pm),

[FREE] 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 (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] one of my all-time favorite improv troupes—which in 2008 broke the UCBT improv competition record for winning streaks with 17 triumphs in a row, and recently delivered a magnificent performance to capture the 2009 Cage Match Championship—the brilliant and daring members of Death by Roo Roo (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] [DISCOUNTED] a musical made up on the spot from magical Chicago improv group Baby Wants Candy (10:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] improvised furious action from world-class troupe Reuben Williams (10:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] [$] Ted Greenberg (Emmy-winning David Letterman writer) performing a fun, quick-paced theatrical comedy show—complete with audience rides home!—at The Complete Performer (10:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and razor-sharp UCBT star troupe Hot Sauce hosting a show made special by knowing no boundaries: The Dirtiest Sketch in NYC Contest (midnight).

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Friday 3/13/09

March 13, 2009

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Derrick, which just won the ECNY Award for Best Sketch Comedy Group

Derrick, which just won the ECNY Award for Best Sketch Comedy Group

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] rising star Charlie Sanders performing one of the most vibrant and hilarious autobiographical shows you’ll ever see, plus sharp sketch comedy duo Greg & Lou debuting a show about an art heist, in the double-bill Minnesota Muslim and Grand Theft Auto…Oh (8:00 pm),

[$] a frequent comedic commentator on Countdown with Keith Oberman and VH1’s Best Week Ever headlining at Comix: Christian Finnegan (8:00 pm & 10:30 pm),

[$] two comedy giants as part of tonight’s lineup at Stand Up NY: Marc Maron and Todd Barry (8:00 pm),

stand-ups including Allison Castillo (Comedy Central) and Danny Leary (here! TV’s Hot Gay Comics) at a gay-themed comedy show hosted by Jenny Rubin: The Back Room (9:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] some of the finest improv in NYC from the comedy genius members of The Stepfathers (9:30 pm),

singing improvisors who use an interview with an audience member to craft The Made-Up Musical (10:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] a sketch show (with some improv thrown in) that just won its superb stars the 2009 ECNY Award for Best Sketch Comedy Group: Derrick (11:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] and UCBT’s free monthly open-mic stand-up show, where deliciously odd things tend to happen around 1:30 am, hosted by lightning-quick & hilarious Pete Holmes (Comedy Central, VH1; one of the finest comics in the country) at Gutbucket (12:20ish am).

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Thursday 3/12/09

March 12, 2009

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Story Pirates After Dark

Story Pirates After Dark

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] [$] a highly acclaimed theatrical comedy troupe that stages tales written by NYC schoolchildren after enhancing the details with adult content: Story Pirates After Dark (7:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] fearless and hilarious sketch comedy performer Alicia Levy performing her new one-woman show Red Carpet Ride (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] superb comics Seth Herzog and Baron Vaughn joining the fresh, sexy, and razor-sharp gals of Variety Shac (9:30 pm),

[$] The Chosen Chicks declaring “Faster, Pussycat! Kvetch! Kvetch!” at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad (9:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and two superb improv troupes, The Stepfathers and Secret Promise Circle, competing for audience laughs & votes at the raucous Cage Match (11:00 pm).

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Wednesday 3/11/09

March 11, 2009

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Todd Barry

Todd Barry

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:

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

[TOP PICK] [$] one of the funniest men in the world performing a deliciously long, wry headlining set at Carolines: Todd Barry (7:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] [$] two of NYC’s best rising comedy stars, Baron Vaughn (Comedy Central, MTV, Cloverfield, Shoot the Messenger) and Joe Mande (Totally J/K, Workdays with Maury), performing long stand-up sets at the elegant Comix Comedy Club: Baron Vaughn & Joe Mande (7:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] one of the most razor-sharp and uproariously funny storytellers in the country performing a one-man show that should not be missed: Chris Gethard’s Magic Box of Stories (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] superb comics Kurt Braunohler (sketch comedy master, frequently in partnership with Kristen Schaal), Andres du Bouchet (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central, FOX’s Talkshow with Spike Feresten), Andrea Rosen (Comedy Central, VH1, Variety SHAC), and Roger Hailes (Chappelle’s Show, Comedy Central, VH1, MTV, Bravo) at a free weekly Brooklyn extravaganza hosted by Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, and Max Silvestri: Big Terrific (8:00ish pm),

[TOP PICK] superb NYC stand-ups & sketch performers Jason Trachtenberg, The Bitter Poet, Dan Allen, Katina Corrao, E.J. Murphy, and Seth Madej at the free Shrink (8:00 pm),

[TOP PICK] three popular NYC sketch troupes—Elephant Larry, BriTANick, and Rue Brutalia—each performing one of their most popular bits and one of their personal favorites in the very fun sketch revue A-Side/B-Side (9:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] and a free, laid-back, and occasionally magical variety show where virtually anything can happen on a School Night (11:00).

For full details, please visit HyReviews.com.

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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Tuesday 3/10/09

March 10, 2009

For last night’s ECNY Award winners, please click here.

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Janeane Garofalo

Janeane Garofalo

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—at John Morrison’s Broadway Motel (6:00 pm),

superb NYC storytellers, singers, sketch comics, and stand-ups—who tonight include Margot Leitman (Conan O’Brien, Stripped Stories), Robin Gelfenbein (Sirius Radio, Wienermobile), Brandy & Sara, soce the elemental wizard (MTV), and Danny Leary (MTV)—at a show pretending to be from the Pennsylvania heartland: Skip & Sparkle Variety (7:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] Koren Shadmi (In The Flesh) and Brendan McGinley (Heist), joining in on a lively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture at Comic Book Club (8:00 pm),

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

[TOP PICK] TV & movie star Janeane Garofalo (comedy genius who’s currently an FBI agent on FOX’s 24), and other stellar comics performing at this wonderful 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),

[TOP PICK] brilliant star stand-up Ted Alexandro (David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, HBO, Comedy Central), rising star Hannibal Burress (Comedy Central, Awkward Kings of Comedy), and more at John Morrison’s Morrison Motel (8:30 pm),

[TOP PICK] Eugene Mirman (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Presents half-hour special, HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, VH1, Adult Swim), Craig Baldo (Conan O’Brien), Ahna Tessler (sketch comic & screenwriter), and Ali Wong (San Francisco-based stand-up) at the wonderful Seth Herzog’s Sweet (9:00 pm),

and fine NYC stand-ups joining delightful hosts Jackie Monahan, Leah Dubie, Amy Beckerman, and Gloria Bigelow at Dykes on Mics (9:00 pm).

For full details, please visit HyReviews.com.

For last night’s ECNY Award winners, please click here.

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