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Pick of the Day: PSYCH! A Diagnostic Stand-Up Therapy Comedy Show (in NYC) 4/27

April 4, 2024

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It’s not a hard requirement to have mental health issues when pursuing a career in comedy, but there certainly to seems to be a strong common thread between many stand-up comedians and their difficulties with anxiety, depression, and the like. It certainly comes through in many of their wonderfully crafted jokes/bits/stories.

Other times, you hear comedic material and you might ponder, from the audience, is the person on stage OK?

With that in mind, Aimee LeCours, both a comedian and LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) is going to talk to a rousing line-up of NYC comedians about what they talk about on stage and possibly see what exactly lies beneath what might seem, on the surface, just a pretty great joke for the upcoming live show, PSYCH!

Emily Flake, Kate Sisk, and Kenice Mobley will get put under the emotional microscope on Sat. Apr. 27th at 4PM at Caveat in NYC’s LES. Tickets are only $15 and you best go get them here.

Pick of the Day: Some Fun Lines (in NYC) 3/24

March 1, 2024

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If you’re on IG or TikTok, you definitely know where the comedians are these days, but where are the humorists and satirists? Thank goodness for NYC’s satire/humor mic, Some Fun Lines, that has comedy folks live read written satire out loud to a live crowd.

To celebrate one year of this mic going, hosts Johnathan Appel, Chandler Dean, and Maeve Dunigan are putting on a very special showcase with some of the sharpest pens in NYC comedy including:

James Folta (The New Yorker)
Josh Gondelman (Desus & Mero)
Rima Parikh (The Onion)
Freddie Shanel (Reductress)
Charu Sinha (Inside Job)
Jen Spyra (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)

This very special one year anniversary of Some Fun Lines is set for Sun. Mar. 24th at 5PM at Caveat in LES/Manhattan. Tickets are $18.80 and you can (and should) go get ’em here.

Pick of the Day: Filipino Comedy Festival (in NYC) 10/20 & 10/21

September 27, 2023

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It’s comedy festival season in NYC. The New York Comedy Festival is on the horizon, there is Apartment Fest 2023, and now there is the very first Filipino Comedy Festival, presented by the NYC Filipino comedy collective that is Banana Ketchup, that’s coming to NYC as well (just in time for Filipino American Heritage Month, FYI).

Keith Pedro, Patricia Dinglasan, and Kyle Marian will indeed be taking over Caveat in LES for four shows over two night highlighting some of the best Filipino comedians, many of which have gotten shine elsewhere on TV or in LA & NYC including Michael Cruz Kayne, Andrew Orolfo, and Clare O’Kane. Fingers crossed that there will be plentiful lumpia as well instead of the typical comedy show staple of chicken fingers.

Come kick off this inaugural Filipino Comedy Festival on Fri. Oct. 20th and Sat.. Oct. 21st and you can snag $15 tickets if you go buy them right now (this will also be available for livestream if you’re not in NYC or maybe in the P.I.).

Pick of the Day: Raaaatscraps 2 Yr. (in NYC) 8/6

July 25, 2023

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Since the return of live long form improv in NYC, Raaaatscraps has dutifully filled in the gap of NYC comedy needing a marquee improv show with scenes based off of esteemed guest monologist (you guys remember ASSSSCAT, right?) that gives New Yorkers top tier improv every week. That was an especially tall order considering UCB’s absence in NYC for the last three years (don’t worry, there’s a new space coming to Manhattan later this year) and the coming and going of many a comedy venue.

That said, Raaaatscraps has planted its roots at Caveat and simulcasts their live, in-person performances and have been making Sunday nights an improv in NYC, especially in LES for quite some time now. They’ll be celebrating two years of being one of NYC’s go to improv shows on Sun. Aug. 6th at their normally slotted time of 7:30PM ET/4:30PM PT. Tickets will still be $8 and they will very likely have an unbelievably special monologist for this one.

Go get your tickets right now right here.

Pick of the Day: FUN by Design: The Interior Design Game Show (in NYC) 1/18

January 13, 2023

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Though it’s not necessarily “peak TV” or considered part of this current Golden Age of television, shows about interior design are undoubtedly some of the most popular programming around. People may not talk about HGTV the way they do Severance or The Bear, but that doesn’t seem to stop The Property Brothers from being some of the most famous people on TV.

Taking note of all the above, NYC comedian and interior designer Laura Fabius has devised a way to bring in some more (and much needed) clever fun by crossing the worlds of interior design, comedy, and game shows into one very special night. Called FUN by design: The Interior Design Game Show, top flight designers will throw down to see how good they really are.

Oh yeah, they’ll be answering interior design questions as well!

FUN by design: The Interior Design Game Show will be happening at Caveat next Wed. Jan. 18th at 7PM ET (including a livestream). Tickets are $15 (and $10 for the livestream) and you really ought to snag ’em here.

Pick of the Day: Ismael Loutfi-HEAVENLY BABA: MY DAD’S PLAN TO CONVERT FLORIDA TO ISLAM (in NYC) 1/17

January 6, 2023

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We put the brilliantly funny Ismael Loutfi on our 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness To for his great half hour special that was released via Comedy Central. 2023 should be yet another year where you should take every chance to catch Ismael comedically explore the Muslim American experience in an unforgettable and astute and, of course, damn hilarious way.

This solo show has Loutfi follow the story of his Dad’s ill-fated plan to try to convert all of Florida, one of the wildest states in the lower 48, all to Islam. Already, that sounds like a movie and Loutfi will probably deliver the tale in a way where it should be even more clear that it ought to be a movie.

Heavenly Baba: My Dad’s Plan to Convert Florida to Islam is set for Tues Jan. 17th at 9:30pm at Caveat on NYC’s LES. Tickets are $15 right now and you really ought to go get them here.

Pick of the Day: NYCF: Apocalypse Soon with Eddie Pepitone 11/12

November 9, 2022

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It should never be forgotten that Eddie Pepitone’s For The Masses was named as one of 2020’s best comedy specials, not only by us, but The NY Times. At such a low point, Pepitone’s humor is both the necessary medicine and sugar to help get through such a wildly dark time, probably unlike any that we’ve all collectively lived through in our lives.

Eddie has been that sort of comedian for decades now and, as such, should never be missed no matter what he’s up to, especially if he’s in town (like he is this week for The New York Comedy Festival). Specifically, Eddie will be doing a live taping of his podcast, Apocalypse Soon, at Caveat on Sat. Nov. 12th at 3PM. Tickets are $15 right now and $10 for a livestream.

As the fate of the US seems to hang in the balance of incoming election results, getting a ticket to see Eddie live right now will help. Do so here.

Pick of the Day: DUTY FREE LIVE! UNAUTHORIZED IMPORTED GAME SHOWS! (in NYC) 10/21

October 4, 2022

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While the good ol’ U.S. of A loves its game shows, Americans really seem to love how wild game shows can be from overseas. Takeshi’s Castle, Brain Wall, and more represent some of the more boundary pushing things that can happen in a game show and have proven addicting to audiences state side.

So, you really ought to not miss a chance to see some of the wilder game shows that have never found their way to the U.S. thanks to veteran comedy writers/performers Kent Morita, Grant Mulitz, and Christopher Morucci, otherwise known as The Game Show and Segments Research Club.

Together, they’re doing a very special evening they’re calling DUTY FREE LIVE! UNAUTHORIZZED IMPORTED GAME SHOWS!, which ought to be filled with truly hysterical twists and turns on Fri. Oct. 21st at 7PM ET (you’ll be able to live-stream it as well) at Lower East Side’s treasured comedy/performance haven, Caveat.

Tickets are $15 right now and only $10 for the livestream and you really ought to get them here.

Pick of the Day: The George Lucas Talk Show (in NYC w/Livestream) 9/29

September 22, 2022

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The latest chapter in the Star Wars Universe, Andor came out this week as the Star Wars series for “grown-ups” with critically acclaimed, very grown-up writer/director Tony Gilroy set at the helm. If this tale of how the Rebellion, devoid of any wielding of the Force, manifested itself indeed is your inroads into Star Wars, you might want to hear what Connor Ratliff’s version of George Lucas has to say about it.

That’s right, The George Lucas Talk Show is back again, live, both in person and on livestream, from Caveat in the heart of NYC’s Lower East Side. Griffin Newman as Watto and Patrick Cotnoir will be, of course, joining in all of the fourth-wall-breaking-fun on Thurs. Sept. 29th at 9:30PM ET/6:30PM PT. Tickets are $20 right now for the in-person show and $10 for the livestream via Stellar.

Best go get them now as more than just Star Wars fans will be in attendance.

Pick of the Day: HOW TO DIE IN SPACE: A CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN ADVENTURE THAT YOU PROBABLY WON’T SURVIVE (in NYC w/Livestream) 9/30

September 6, 2022

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The prospect of traveling to outer space is increasingly more enticing to more and more folks as the earth seems to be choking humans in their habitat and we need another planet to terraform. Perhaps, you just have billions and billions of dollars around, but feel empty inside and have decided that going into the vast abyss of space is the way to fill your own personal abyss. In any of those cases, the actual process of going to space is a lot more complex than just popping yourself into a rocket and heading on out.

Thus, accomplished research professor and theoretical cosmologist Paul M. Sutter is going to play a very special, much grittier (but much more hysterical) version of Choose Your Own Adventure called How To Die in Space in which you’ll discover how exactly you can die in space in the myriad of ways that can happen (solar flare, asphyxiation, freezing, space debris, etc.). Perhaps, you’ll survive if you pick correctly and you can live (kind of) happily ever after like at the end of Interstellar.

If such an existential, edutainment, comedy game show is your jam, look for How To Die in Space: A Choose Your Own Adventure That You Probably Won’t Survive at Caveat on Fri. Sept. 30th at 7PM ET. Tickets are $20, but you can go in for a live-stream version at $15 a pop.

Get more details and tickets here.

Pick of the Day: Depths of Wikipedia (in NYC) 8/23 & 8/26

August 12, 2022

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Born out of a passion project during quarantine, one Annie Rauwerda has excavated many of the most intriguing nooks, cracks, crevices, corners, and, of course, depths, for her creation, Depths of Wikipedia. Shooting up to be a popular hub for what’s most fun on the Internet’s favorite library, Depths of Wikipedia has since become a live show that Annie tours with, even coming out all the way to LA at Dynasty Typewriter just last week. We caught the wonder that she has curated from her extensive combing through all of Wikipedia and it was one of the more delightful things we’ve seen throughout 2022.

So, NYC, you shouldn’t miss your chance to see two live editions of Depths of Wikipedia, happening in both Manhattan and Brooklyn, this month. Tues. Aug. 23rd at 6:30PM ET, Annie will take over Caveat in LES and even livestream it. Tickets are $20 for in-person and $10 to stream it from anywhere. Fri. Aug. 26th at 8PM ET, Annie will go to the heart of Gowanus, Brooklyn to bring Depths of Wikipedia to Life World. Tickets are only $15 and you can (and should) go get them here.

Also, if you’re curious about becoming a Wikipedia editor, Annie does a pretty great job of selling everyone of joining into that wondrous community.

Pick of the Day: The Crossword Show with Zach Sherwin 7/19 & 7/20 (in NYC)

June 13, 2022

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After the last two or so years, you’ve probably gotten into crossword puzzles or some form of them or even just had a period of quarantine where you got into it because you were looking something that wasn’t the news.

With all of that said, the mystery of crossword puzzles doesn’t just have to be limited to solving it over coffee or while on break or while hiding the bathroom during your 15. The ever clever Zach Sherwin has devised both one of the most astonishing displays of linguistics and a damn fun live show where a panel of comedians (and the audience) solve a crossword puzzle in real time. Sherwin exquisitely weaves master level wordplay, original rap, and so much more into an experience that will leave you dazzled and wondering, for quite some time, how he came up with all of it.

Zach is bringing The Crossword Show out east to LES’ favorite comedy venue, Caveat in NYC on Tues. Jul. 19th & Wed. Jul. 20th at 7PM ET. Tickets are $15 and you can (and should) go get them here.

Pick of the Day: Asian Comedy Fest 2022 (in NYC) 5/6 & 5/7

April 19, 2022

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Having had to weather getting a comedy festival on its leg through COVID-19, the Asian Comedy Fest has persisted to its third year and still very much featuring the best Asian comedy acts that you really, really ought to know, but, for too many reasons, have not become a house hold name yet.

The Asian Comedy Fest is set to due a full on, in-person events at both Stand Up NY on May 6th and a curated sketch/variety show at Caveat on May 7th.

The ACF stand-up showcases are really stacked with many of NYC comedy’s finest including Dylan Adler, Julia Shipplett, Jes Tom, Usama Siddiquee, Wilfred Padua, Michael Cruz Kayne, and many, many more for 6PM ET, 8PM ET, and 10PM ET shows. The Caveat shows have got the comedy stylings of Karen Chee, Youngmi Mayer, Yuhua Hamasaki, and many more also lined-up for 6PM ET, 8PM ET, and 10PM ET shows that will also be live-streamed.

Don’t miss out on any of this if you’re in and around NYC at the beginning of next month. Find full-line-ups and more at asiancomedyfest.com.

Oh, before we forget, ACF is doing a Rizzle app contest again for $1K prize. AAPI comedy creators can create a 1 minute talk show for their chance to win. Get more details here.

Pick of the Day: Dylan Adler: Hit That Track (in NYC) 2/18

December 30, 2021

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We might have told you before (and we will definitely tell you again in our best 100 year end list) that Dylan Adler is one of the funniest people that we got to see for the very first time in 2021. His vulnerable, personal, dark, physical (and often musical) comedy had us doubled over when we first saw it on a rooftop in DTLA earlier this year and it’s imperative to us that you go catch Dylan wherever he’s playing. Thankfully, for New Yorkers, that’s all over town all the time (and perhaps in LA in January).

Adler is actually doing his very own full length show that is a treat that no one in around the NYC’s LES should miss. Hit That Track will have Dylan headline Caveat on Feb. 18th at 7PM ET (so, hopefully that’s far enough from the reaches of this recent COVID-19 surge) and tickets are only $15.

Go get them right here right now and enjoy looking forward to something in mid February rather than worry about Valentine’s Day.

Pick of the Day: One Star New York (in NYC) 1/3

December 17, 2021

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Welp, left, right, and center, comedy shows right now in NYC are getting postponed and cancelled because of the Omicron surge of COVID-19. So, we’ll just have to look past the holidays for something that is, as of this moment, still on the books and will still be a damn good time.

With that in mind, we’d like to highlight Back Fat Variety’s One Star New York, a show that celebrates the worst of NYC as told by some of its best funny people. We’ve always thought of NYC as a place that requires Stockholm Syndrome to live there and it looks like this show revels in that notion.

Expressing their love for the Big Apple through their worst recollections of it will be the lovely collection of Ophira Eisenberg, Martin Urbano, Linsday Boling, and host Emily Winter. One Star New York will be taking place at Caveat where vaccination and masks are thankfully required on Mon Jan. 3rd at 7PM ET. Tickets are $15 right now and you ought to get them here.