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Pick of the Day: DAD (in NYC) 10/16

October 4, 2023

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Once upon a time, there used to be a special gathering of the comedic powers of Alex English, Devon Walker, and Gary Richardson at the Jane Hotel in the West Village about once a month or so. Called Dad, you’d never really want to miss it when it came around, no matter that there are so many amazing things in NYC comedy that are happening every night and that not all three hosts worked at SNL yet.

Now, English, Walker, and Richardson all write/perform at Saturday Night Live and are returning with Dad at their brand spankin’ new home of The Georgia Room on the other side of the city (specifically Kips Bay, which is specifically-specifically north of Gramercy Park in Manhattan). Celebrate Dad’s glorious return on Mon. Oct. 16th at 8PM. Tickets are $17.85 a pop and you better go get them here now as we’re pretty sure they will sell out.

Pick of the Day: NYCF-Million Dollar Roasting 11/13

November 10, 2022

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The New York Comedy Festival is coming to a close this Sunday, but that leaves three days that are still absolutely jam packed with comedy that you absolutely shouldn’t miss across all of NYC.

In fact, on Sunday, at The Stand, we’d wager that you would very much get a kick out of some of the busiest and most booked of the NYC comedy scene (including one of SNL’s latest hires) roasting million dollar real estate. Called Million Dollar Roasting, Hanna Dickinson will lead Devon Walker, Kerryn Feehan, Lil Frex, and other special guests to go through Zillow listings that start at $10 million dollars. It can be hard to stick it to the 1%, but making fun of what sort of property they waste their money on can be a lot of fun.

Million Dollar Roasting is set for this Sun. Nov. 13th, the final day of NYCF, at 7PM at The Stand. Tickets are $25 and you can (and should) go get ’em here.

Pick of the Day: Ben Wasserman: Live After Death (in NYC) 3/26

March 15, 2022

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Death, even now, is still a strange, somewhat impenetrable topic to talk about in everyday conversation in America. While other cultures celebrate its relation to life and that, in some cases, is thought more of as a part of an infinite cycle, many of us think of it as something that’s inevitable and, in its inevitability, terrifying.

Comedy, from time to time, does what it does best and brings levity and illumination to the matter of dying whether it be doing a comedy show in Hollywood Forever Cemetery or Sean White doing an excellent entire concept album about losing a good majority of his family (on top of getting divorced) in a very small window of time.

Coming up soon, Ben Wasserman, a cherished, wild NYC multi-disciplinary comedian, is taking another step forward and mixing up death with comedy with his new solo show, Live After Death. Not only will be a show dedicated and inspired to the passing of several people he was close to within 3 years, but it’ll be a mix of stand-up, crowd work, and clowning, and it’ll be performed at an actual funeral home (Comedy Is Dead @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever can’t even claim that).

Wasserman will be performing Live After Death in the perfect setting, specifically at Sparrow: A Contemporary Funeral Home in Brooklyn with Devon Walker doing an opening set on Sat. Mar. 26th at 8:30PM ET. Tickets for what is sure to be an unforgettable, cathartic show are only $10 right now (and $15 at the door). We highly suggest you snag your tickets right now.

*poster by Zaq McCollum

Pick of the Day: 15th Annual 50 First Jokes RESCHEDULED (in NYC) 2/18

Well, we had already highlighted NYC’s 50 First Jokes for 2022 as a #pickoftheday already, but that was when it was set for this month right as the year had started. Well, The Bell House had scheduled it before it knew how Omicron would overtake the world and spark a whole new series of outbreaks that would force the good majority of live comedy to go dark for most of December 2021 and January 2022.

Unlike some other shows that were slated for Jan. 2022 and opted to cancel altogether, 50 First Jokes is still happening, but will be doing so for the first time in its storied history in February, specifically on Fri. Feb. 18th at 8PM ET at The Bell House. That will very likely mean that everyone’s “first” joke(s) of 2022 will be much sharper than if they had only gotten a week to work on it (even though it’s a perennial good time).

Thankfully, the host is still John F. O’Donnell and the line-up is still stacked with NYC Comedy’s best and brightest including: Alison Leiby, Anthony Devito, Chanel Ali, Charlie Bardey, Devon Walker, Dina Hashem, Emmy Blotnick, George Civeris, Kate Willett, Kenice Mobley, Martin Urbano, Max Wittert, Petey DeAbreu, Rojo Perez, Sam Taggart, Shalewa Sharpe, Sonia Denis, and Tom Thakkar. More TBA!

Tickets are still available at $15 and hopefully, Omicron will have subsided enough so that we won’t have to write about this being rescheduled again. Oh yeah, it should go without saying at this point in the pandemic that proof of vaccination is required for entry.

Go snag tickets here.

Pick of the Day: 50 First Jokes (in NYC) 1/8

A gathering of 50 comedians, much less 50 audience members indoors wasn’t really happening at the start of 2021. So, it’s been awhile since we’ve had the legitimate in-person annual comedy kick-off to a new year with 50 First Jokes.

Perhaps, pending some variants, an actual in-vaccinated-person edition of 50 First Jokes will happen for 2022 in NYC. The Bell House in Brooklyn will host the bright and shiny new jokes from the best of the NYC comedy scene, which ought to have a different, more electric urgency to them considering where we are now and where will be three weeks from now.

On the bill thus far: Alison Leiby, Anthony Devito, Chanel Ali, Charlie Bardey, Devon Walker, Dina Hashem, Emmy Blotnick, George Civeris, Kate Willett, Kenice Mobley, Martin Urbano, Max Wittert, Petey DeAbreu, Rojo Perez, Sam Taggart, Shalewa Sharpe, Sonia Denis, Tom Thakkar, and host John F. O’Donnell.

Of course, as you can tell by the count of those names, there will be way more comedians shuffling onto the Bell House stage to get out their freshest bits (as we round the corner on nearly two years of this waking nightmare).

2022’s 50 First Jokes is set for Sat. Jan. 8th at 8PM ET. Tickets are $15 right now and you best get them here before they sell out.

Pick of the Day: Give Me Your Chaos 11/7

November 4, 2020

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Welp, everything is up in the air after Election Night and it feels chaos reigns over everything at the current moment. To channel such an energy and let it all out, some of NYC comedy’s finest are going to tap into their own personal chaos for a very special comedy show presented by the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Give Me Your Chaos.

A line-up of Devon Walker, Joe Castle Baker, Angel Yau, Karolena Theresa, Dylan Adler, Arti Gollapudi, Marcia Belsky, Spike Einbinder, and more TBA along with host Tim Platt will be dishing out what these times have wrought within them in what will be a wild comedy live-stream. If you’re looking for catharsis and hearty laughs, look forward to Give Me Your Chaos this Saturday, Nov. 7th at 6PM PT/9PM ET.

Get more details/TVCO streaming info here.

Pick of the Day: DAD (in NYC) 10/16

Pick of the Day: NYCF-Million Dollar Roasting 11/13

Pick of the Day: Ben Wasserman: Live After Death (in NYC) 3/26

Pick of the Day: 15th Annual 50 First Jokes *RESCHEDULED* (in NYC) 2/18

Pick of the Day: 50 First Jokes (in NYC) 1/8

Pick of the Day: Give Me Your Chaos 11/7

Pick of the Day: 15th Annual 50 First Jokes RESCHEDULED (in NYC) 2/18