September 7, 2009
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Hannibal Burress, the newest staff writer of Saturday Night Live, performs tonight at Comedy at Cobble Hill
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:
[FREE] [FREE COOKIES] 8:00 pm: Hosts Doug Adler & Harris Bloom providing free chocolate chip cookies to celebrate the birthday of Bloom’s wife Josie; plus rising star Hannibal Burress (who was just hired as staff writer on Saturday Night Live), and stand-ups Mark Normand, Phil Murphy, and Danny Cohen at the Cobble Hill Bar performing Comedy at Cobble Hill
8:00 pm ($5): Sketch comedy from talented troupe Party Central USA
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): Several entirely improvised musicals from genius comedy duo Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner as I Eat Pandas
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 11:00 pm: John Mulaney (staff writer at Saturday Night Live, and one of the finest stand-ups in the country), Phil Jupitus (UK star visiting NYC), Hugh Moore (visiting from LA), the Found Footage Festival, and Dan Naturman—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, HBO, Comedy Central) at Whiplash
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September 4, 2009
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Huge congratulations to Jenny Slate on becoming the newest cast member of Saturday Night Live!
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] 8:00 pm ($10): Brilliant character performer Kate McKinnon (co-star of Logo’s Big Gay Sketch Show) playing five very different actresses waiting to hear which of them won an Oscar (keep an eye out for the old lady, who’s one of the funniest characters you’ll see this year, anywhere); and ace sketch troupe Pangea 3000 performing all-new routines, in the double-bill Best Actress and Pangea 3000 Sucks
[TOP PICK] [FREE] A CD release party for superb stand-up Rob Cantrell, with performances by such other superb comics as Victor Varnado, Tony Camin, and Yannis Pappas, at Brooklyn’s Coco 66 for Nick Turner’s Too Cool for School
9:00 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): Sharp NYC stand-ups Claudia Cogan (AfterEllen), Adam Lehman (here! TV’s Hot Gay Comics), William Mullin (PTown Favorite), Monrok (Winner of California’s Funniest Females), and more performing at Ochi’s Lounge at a gay-themed comedy show hosted by Jenny Rubin: The Back Room
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($10): Some of the finest improv in NYC from the comedy genius members of The Stepfathers
10:00 pm ($7): Singing improvisors who use an interview with an audience member to craft The Made-Up Musical
[TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($5): A comedic freestyle rap contest featuring some of the funniest & sharpest comics in NYC—who tonight are Baron Vaughn, Becky Drysdale, John Dixon, Diane O’Debra, and Nate Shelkey—plus a volunteer from the audience!, hosted by genius comedic musical performers Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan (Freestyle Love Supreme) and Eliza Skinner (I Eat Pandas), all at The BEATdown
[FREE] 12:20ish am:A free opportunity for you to perform sketch on the UCBT stage at Liquid Courage
[$] 12:30 am ($31.25 & 2-drink min.) A provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, headlining through Sunday at Carolines: Paul Mooney
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September 3, 2009
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Huge congratulations to Jenny Slate on becoming the newest cast member of Saturday Night Live!
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:
8:00 pm ($5): Sharp improvisors directed by James Eason “take an audience suggestion and break it into a million funny pieces” in The Deconstruction
8:00 pm ($8): “Pat Shepherd thought he was getting married. He was wrong. Follow his story in the premier of this hilariously heartbreaking one man show:” The Breakup
[TOP PICK] 9:30 pm ($5): Jessica Delfino (back from her UK tour!), Tami Sagher (writer for 30 Rock), Eric Slovin (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central Presents), and short filmmaker Edmond Hawkins joining the fresh, sexy, and razor-sharp gals of Variety SHAC
[TOP PICK] [$] 9:30 pm ($10 with code SETH online & 2-drink min.): Who but the wonderful Seth Herzog (VH1’s Best Week Ever, Jimmy Fallon, Sweet) would kick off the description of his debut show at Comix as “kind of the night you wish you could have at a comedy club all the time”—effectively pissing at every other show playing at that club? Seth is a dynamic performer and engaging stand-up; plus he’s friends with most of the top comedy talent alive, so there’s no telling who’ll be dropping in for Seth Herzog’s Night of Fun
[$] 10:00 pm ($31.25 & 2-drink min.): A provocative comedy star who’s written for Richard Pryor, Red Foxx, and Saturday Night Live, and performed on Chappelle’s Show and David Letterman, headlining through Sunday at Carolines: Paul Mooney
[TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($5): Death by Roo Roo tonight facing a challenger of equal brilliance—C, C, & C Improv Factory, the 2007 Season Cage Match Champion—in a battle for audience laughs and votes of such mammoth proportions the gods themselves will be watching Cage Match
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August 31, 2009
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Jason Sudeikis (SNL) performs with other TV and Broadway stars tonight at Gravid Water
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:
6:30 pm & 9:00 pm (no cover, 1-item min.): 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 Ochi’s Motel
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): Wonderful stand-ups Dave Hill, Victor Varnado, Joe DeRosa, and Dan St. Germain, plus sketch duo Laura & Bradford, performing at Lolita Bar in Liam McEneaney’s Tell Your Friends
[TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($5): TV stars Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live) and Scott Adsit (30 Rock), and luminous Broadway actors Stephanie D’Abruzzo (Tony nominee for Avenue Q; Sesame Street), Jonathan Kaplan (Tony nominee for Falsettos), Alison Pitt (Tony nominee for The Lieutenant of Inishmore), and more mixing it up with some of the best improvisors in the world—Becky Drysdale, Michael Delaney, Thomas Middleditch, and Tami Sagher—as they crash improv into classic theatre scenes at Gravid Water
9:30 pm ($5): Two comedy shows with intriguing titles trying out for a regular slot on the UCBT stage: The Movie Set and Morality Plays
[TOP PICK] [FREE] 11:00 pm: A gathering of some of the finest stand-ups in the country—who tonight are Eugene Mirman, Marc Maron, Hannibal Burress, Joe DeRosa, and Rory Scovel—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, HBO, Comedy Central) at Whiplash
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May 25, 2009
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Saturday Night Live star Jason Sudeikis
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] luminous Broadway, TV, and sketch actors Jeremy Bobb, Stephanie D’Abruzzo, Jonathan Kaplan, Ptolemy Slocum, and Shelly Stover mixing it up with some of the best improvisors in the world—Scott Adsit, Tara Copeland, Michael Delaney, Thomas Middleditch, and Tami Sagher…and tonight, also Saturday Night Live star Jason Sudeikis—as they crash improv into classic theatre scenes at Gravid Water (8:00 pm),
a comedic play about what goes in an adolescent female mind, and young performers putting on a sketch comedy show, in Fantasies of a 12-Year-Old Girl and People’s Sketch Association (9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] [FREE] and a free weekly show featuring some of the best stand-up comics in the country—who tonight include Pete Holmes (lightning-quick, organic stand-up; VH1’s Best Week Ever, Comedy Central, The New Yorker; co-host of Punch Up Your Life), Gabe & Slate (adorable and foul-mouthed comedy duo, co-hosts of Big Terrific), Rob Delaney (popular LA comic visiting NYC), and Dan Naturman (Last Comic Standing, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central)—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central) at Whiplash (11:00 pm).
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March 27, 2009
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Saturday Night Live's Darrell Hammond
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
sharp, funny sketch troupe Secret Hospital in America’s Sweethearts (7:00 pm),
[$] the longest-running cast member of Saturday Night Live (from 1995 to the present), and a comic who’s impersonated over 100 celebrities on national television: Darrell Hammond, Headlining at Carolines (8:00 pm & 10:30 pm),
[$] an acclaimed UK comedy star, and the winner of this past season’s Last Comic Standing: Glenn Wool and Iliza Shlesinger, Headlining at Comix (8:00 pm & 10:30 pm),
[$] a hilarious 30 Rock star as part of tonight’s lineups at Stand Up NY: Judah Friedlander and More (8:00 pm & 10:00 pm),
[$] [DISCOUNTED] lovely & witty Cathleen Carr & Daiva Deupree turning life’s darkness into comedy as Two Girls for Five Bucks (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] superb comics Kate McKinnon (hilarious cast member of Logo’s Big Gay Sketch Show), Leslie Goshko (irresistible storyteller/sketch comic; Manhattan Monologue Champion, host of Sideshow Goshko), Michael Carbonaro (Another Gay Movie), and Keith Price (Sirius OutQ Radio) 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),
odd and unsettling dark comedy from sketch troupe Murderfist (11:00 pm),
five women performing an improvised, and possibly tipsy, parody of The View at Focus (11:30 pm),
and a free opportunity for you to perform improv with UCBT veterans at Jammin’ with Ralph (12:20ish am).
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March 26, 2009
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Tom Davis' new book about his 12 years at Saturday Night Live
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[TOP PICK] [$] an intimate talk from the former writing partner of Al Franken about his new book, Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL from Someone Who Was There: Tom Davis (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),
[$] [DISCOUNTED] lovely & witty Cathleen Carr & Daiva Deupree turning life’s darkness into comedy as Two Girls for Five Bucks (8:00 pm),
[$] musical comedy duo Stuckey & Murray host a show with Bryan Tucker (writer for Saturday Night Live 2005-2008; also wrote for Chappelle’s Show, Mad TV, The Chris Rock Show, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn), Joe Mande (2008 ECNY Award winner for Best Emerging Comic; co-host of Totally J/K), Amy Schumer (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central), and more at Comedy Below Canal (9:00 pm),
TV writers Laura Krafft (The Colbert Report) and Peter Grosz (The Colbert Report), and Starlee Kine (This American Life), performing improvised monologues at Three-Piece! (9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] and two vibrant improv troupes, The Stepfathers and The F*cking Kennedys, competing for audience laughs & votes at the raucous Cage Match (11:00 pm).
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January 14, 2009
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SNL's Seth Myers and Bill Hader
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] stellar storyteller Adam Wade and comic Jake Goldman hosting a show in which top writers and comedians—who tonight are Mark Katz (former White House humor writer for President Bill Clinton), James Braly (NPR, The Moth), and Ophira Eisenberg (Comedy Central, VH1)—share their favorite campus anecdotes in Real Tales of College (7:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] LA comedy star Jackie Kashian (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Presents) performing a long set in a rare NYC appearance: Jackie Kashian Headlining at Gotham Comedy (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] brilliant stand-up John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live, Conan O’Brien, VH1), plus sharp comics Adam Newman (VH1, Street Meat), Jiwon Lee (Comedy Central, AMC), Aalap Patel, and Chelsea White performing at Matteson Perry’s New Young Comedians (8:00 pm),
fine NYC stand-up comics Ophira Eisenberg, Becky Ciletti, Bruce Cherry, Rob Gorden, DJ Hazard, and Pat O’Shea trying out new material at the free Shrink (8:00 pm),
[TOP PICK] Saturday Night Live stars Bill Hader and Seth Meyers, and SNL staff writer Simon Rich, presenting their new short comedy film series followed by a fun Q&A session at THE LINE Live! (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).
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November 10, 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 Sean Patton, Jiwon Lee, Emily Epstein, Mike Drucker, Matt Ruby, and John Morrison—at John Morrison’s Ochi’s Motel (6:30 pm & 9:00 pm),
a free weekly comedy show in Brooklyn featuring stand-up, sketch, music, and more, hosted by the razor-sharp Jena Friedman: Entertaining Tammy (8:00 pm),
three hours of new sketch comedy by UCBT students at Maude Night (8:00 pm & 9:30 pm),
[TOP PICK] and a free weekly show featuring some of the finest comics in the country—who tonight include John Oliver (star correspondent of The Daily Show), TJ Miller (David Letterman, ABC’s Carpoolers, Cloverfield), Baron Vaughn (MTV, VH1, The Awkward Kings of Comedy), and Rachel Feinstein (Comedy Central, The Onion, opens for Sarah Silverman)—hosted by the wonderful Leo Allen (Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central) at Whiplash (11:00 pm).
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