Screening

Co-producers Andy Zou, Katie Sicking, and Alec Cohen have collectively worked on videos for Comedy Central, Adult Swim, Above Average, College Humor, and more, and now they're here to curate a batch of short, fresh, weird videos from local filmmakers! Featuring unscreened films as well as fresh cuts made expressly for the show, Tootsie's Video Vault is a great chance to catch some quick shorts and meet other local creators! Starts 8PM ET

That Slapstick Show dives into the world of the animated cartoon short with a very special one time screening featuring New York City's favorite sons, Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo. Otherwise known as the Marx Brothers  presented this time in animated form. From their hight of screen popularity, the major cartoon studios took notice of the popular comedy team and featured them in many cartoons from the 1930s pre-code era, continuing throughout the 1960s with much fan fare. This screening […]

Selected Shorts is a program on NPR where famous actors and celebrities read award-winning short fiction. This show is that show's evil twin. New York's greatest writers and comedians join together to bring scorned satire, bad headlines, jokes that don't land, and other art smacked with the cruel hand of rejection to REJECTED SHORTS, the only show whose lineup is full of flops. Hosted by Michelle Cohn. With: Emily Flake (The New Yorker, St Nells) Gabby Wilson (Reductress) Graham Techler […]

Everyone knows that all you need is love and the same goes for our animated friends! Experience the powerful emotions of your favorite Saturday morning cartoons maneuvering crushes, first dates and relationships…and the backswing of heartbreak, breakups and unrequited love. Hosted by SecretFormula’s cartoon and cereal experts Michael Austin and Nell Casey! – Hundreds of cartoon series from the 1940’s through the early 2000’s and YOU get to choose what we watch! – Write a Valentine to send to your significant other, […]

Back in the days before live-tweeting, the only way to express your thoughts while watching a movie was to yell them out loud to the delight of your friends, and the disgust of some old people a few rows in front of you. Comedian Wyatt Cenac (HBO’s Problem Areas, Bob’s Burgers) and musician Donwill (Tanya Morgan, Adulting with Michelle Buteau & Jordan Carlos) invite you to join them as they recreate the kind of ridiculous, loud mouthed magic that is […]

A LOVE STORY TO BEHOLD: We invite you to join us for this heartwarming and historical one night only event on July 24th. Witness the bond of eternal love and the fair use defense, as indie darling Vera Drew legally ties the knot with The Clown Prince of Crime himself, The Joker. As everyone knows for the past 4 years, Vera Drew and the Joker have been romantically and creatively involved with many describing them as “the dynamic duo of […]