Guide to Live Comedy Shows in NYC This Week: July 6 – July 12, 2017

Live Comedy in New York City This Week:

New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to Queens, Brooklyn and beyond. But with so many to choose from, it can be difficult to find them all and nearly impossible to decide which shows to see. Every week, Christine Marie Evans and Emily Cohen curate this list, carefully reviewing dozens of shows every night, to select the live stand up comedy shows you need check out. Comedy producers can submit their show for consideration for our listings each week.

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LIVE COMEDY THURSDAY 7/6

 

Show:  The Half Hour:  Rob Haze
Venue:
The Creek and the Cave
Location:
10-93 Jackson Avenue
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup:  

Creek Comedy, Club-style! Now at 8pm!!
Every month host Jenn Welch presents one of her favorite comics, live, on stage, for a full a half-hour!
Headliner: Rob HaZe (Comedy Central)
Feature: Ariel Elias (Jezebel)
Ticket Link: Free

 

Show: Clap Clap Boom!
Venue: Stand Up NY
Location:
236 W. 78th Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

It’s quick! It’s funny! It’s in your face.
Mike Feeney
Sean Donnelly
Yannis Pappas
Ticket Link: http://www.standupny.com/buy-tickets/

 

Show:  Comedy Juice
Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location:  
208 West 23rd Street NYC
Time: 9:30PM
Description of Show and Lineup:

ComedyJuice attracts such comedy stars as Sarah Silverman, Daniel Tosh, Aziz Ansari, Dane Cook, and Marc Maron on a regular basis and has consistently been a place to discover new comedy stars before they are famous.  With:
Dan Soder
Matteo Lane
Nathan Macintosh
Ronny Chieng
Jade Catta-Preta
James Mattern
and more!
Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=488081&cart

 

Show: New Joke Night
Venue: The Comedy Cellar at The Fat Black Pussycat
Location:
130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

WIl Sylvince hosts a night of NYC favorites trying out their new material!
Dan Soder
Justin Silver
Monroe Martin
Rory Albanese
Nimesh Patel
Ronny Chieng
Jared Freid
& more!
Ticket Link: www.comedycellar.com

 

LIVE COMEDY FRIDAY 7/7

 

Show: David Alan Grier
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location:
1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30 & 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Countless theater, television, film and comedic endeavors have pushed David Alan Grier’s career to remarkable heights. His ability to excel across all mediums and contexts is a testament to his inherent sense of comic timing and creative drive. The three-time Tony and Grammy Award nominee was trained in Shakespeare at Yale, where he received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Grier has received many accolades and awards throughout his career, not the least of which was his inclusion on Comedy Central’s list of the “100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time.” Although Grier’s acting career is rooted in live theater, he has since also made his name in the world of television. He is currently shooting his third season of NBC comedy series The Carmichael Show, in which he plays Jerrod Carmichael’s say-anything contrarian father. Grier had the chance to return to the Broadway stage in NBC’s 2015 live television production of The Wiz Live! as the iconic role of the Cowardly Lion. The Wiz Live! generated NBC’s highest-rated night (excluding sports) in 11 years, and earned Grier two Image Awards and two Critics’ Choice Awards nominations. Grier has also recently wrapped a nationwide comedy tour, where he was joined by In Living Color co-star Tommy Davidson.
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/david-alan-grier/
*SHOWS THURSDAY 7/6 & SATURDAY 7/8  AS WELL

 

Show: Stand Up NY Showcase
Venue: Stand Up NY
Location:
236 W. 78th Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Craig Gass
Greg Stone
Yamaneika Saunders
Mike Vecchione
& more
Ticket Link: http://www.standupny.com/buy-tickets/

 

Show: Late Night Snack
Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location:
10-93 Jackson Avenue
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

It’s a Late Night show. It’s a cooking show. Late Night Snack is a feast of food sketches, interviews, stand up, videos, and live cooking onstage. Join your host Jon Schoss as he brings together NYC’s best comedians and culinary minds for a show that’ll fill your belly with good laughs and some dope free eats
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/late-night-snack-5-2017-07-07/

 

Show: Gentrify
Venue: UCBeast
Location:
153 E. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

GENTRIFY is a weekly variety show that brings comedy’s hottest stand up, improv and sketch groups to the part of the city where no one would ever dare go: The East Village. GENTRIFY is the exposed brick of comedy, the working fireplace of laughter and the roof deck of fun at UCBeast.
Ticket Link: https://east.ucbtheatre.com/performance/55431

 

LIVE COMEDY SATURDAY 7/8

 

Show:  Bowery Comedy
Venue: The Bowery Electric
Location:  
327 Bowery
Time: 6PM
Description of Show and Lineup: Every second Saturday of the month, Carolyn Busa and Chelsea Taylor host a lineup of the funniest stand up comics in New York City as well as special out of town guests in the intimate Map Room upstairs at the Bowery Electric! The July lineup:
Clark Jones (Brooklyn Comedy Festival)
Casey James Salengo (Comedy Central Half Hour)
Petey Deabreu (NY Comedy Festival)
Kerryn Feehan (TLC, Comedy Central Roast Battle)
Joe Pera (Adult Swim)
Always free and happy hour prices throughout show!
Limited Seating. Unlimited Fun.
Ticket Link: Free, tickets at door

 

Show:  The Warm Up
Venue: Karma
Location: 51 1st Avenue NYC
Time: 7:30PM
Description of Show and Lineup:  

Sydnee Washington and Marie Faustin host this free monthly comedy show. This month’s lineup:
Christi Chiello (Comedy Central)
Hadiyah Robinson (NBC)
Karolena Theresa (Awkward Sex & The City)
Will Miles (GQ, Comedy Central)
Jaboukie Young- White (Elle Magazine)
Stavros Halkias
Ticket Link: Free show

 

Show:  Big Break Stand Up
Venue: Bluebird Brooklyn
Location: 504 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn
Time: 8:30PM
Description of Show and Lineup:  

Tyler Fischer and Charlie Kasov host this neighborhood favorite comedy show every 2nd and 4th Saturday at Bluebird, featuring the BEST comedians in NYC!
Plus, it’s Charlie’s birthday this week, so come piss on the grave he’s getting closer to!
This week’s show features:
Aparna Nancherla
David Tveite
Dan Perlman
Abby Feldman
Maria Wojciechowski
Plus Special Guests!
Ticket Link: $5 at door

 

Show: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 LIVE: WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES! TOUR
Venue: Playstation Theater
Location:
1515 Broadway NYC
Time: 6pm and 9:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

The first ever Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live comes to Playstation Theater next Saturday, July 8 for two very special shows on the Watch Out For Snakes! Tour. It is MST3K like you’ve never seen it: the show you love, but performed live and interactive and starring  Joel Hodgson, creator of the critically acclaimed TV show, its new host Jonah Ray (“Jonah Heston”), robot companions Crow (Hampton Yount), Tom Servo and Gypsy, Synthia (Rebecca Hanson) and her Bonehead henchmen plus the Mads, Kinga Forrester (Felicia Day) and TV’s Son of TV’s Frank (Patton Oswalt), who will check up on their unwilling test subjects via a video screen.

This is the first live touring production of cult comedy show MST3K and each event will include all the things expected from an MST3K experience: a cheesy B-movie, hilarious riffing, wisecracking robots, silly sketches, PLUS full stage set, costumes, Moon 13, the Satellite Of Love, robots, audience participation and more!

NYC audiences will be treated to MST3K favorite “Eegah”, featuring all-new riffs and sketches (early show) and a “Secret Surprise Film!” (late show), a fun, sci-fi thriller never before featured on MST3K and it will be performed only in select cities.

Ticket Link:
6pm: “Eegah”  
https://www.axs.com/events/335949/mystery-science-theater-3000-live-tickets?skin=playstation
9:30pm: “Super Secret Film!”
https://www.axs.com/events/335950/mystery-science-theater-3000-live-tickets?skin=playstation

 

Show: Parental Approval
Venue: Legion Bar
Location:
790 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Each month we invite a panel of PARENTS to judge New York’s funniest COMEDIANS. The most parent-pleasing comedian of the night wins the approval of the parents and a special prize.
Hosted by Colin Burgess
with special guest judges via SKYPE: Chris & Sheila Burgess
Patti Harrison (Seriously.TV’s Patti Reviews, Julio Torres (SNL), Rob HaZe (Adam DeVine’s House Party), Brett Davis (The Special without Brett Davis), Emmy Blotnick (Comedy Central’s Comic to Watch), Joel Kim Booster (Conan)
Ticket Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/683025295217019/

 

LIVE COMEDY SUNDAY 7/9

 

Show: Josh Gondelman
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location:
1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and works as a writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Onstage, Josh charms audiences using his good-natured storytelling and cracks them up with his sharp, pointed wit. He takes topics from surprise parties to his experience teaching preschool and makes them all equally hilarious. Last spring, he made his late night standup debut on Conan (TBS), and he can also be seen on the first season of Night Train With Wyatt Cenac (SeeSo). Josh’s newest comedy album  debuted in March of 2016 at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts (as well as #4 on the Billboard comedy chart)  and stayed there for…well…longer than he expected, honestly.

Offstage, Josh has earned a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and a WGA Award for his work on Last Week Tonight. He is also the coauthor (along with Joe Berkowitz) of the book , published October 2015 by Plume. In the past, Josh has written for Fuse TV’s Billy On The Street. His writing has also appeared in prestigious publications such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker.

Gondelman is the co-creator and co-author of the Shorty Award-winning  Modern Seinfeld Twitter account, and his own Twitter feed was named the year’s best by Paste Magazine in 2015. The Ellen DeGeneres Show took notice of Josh’s joke writing skill and featured him as part of their “Tweetly Roundup.”

Additionally, Josh has performed at the Rooftop Comedy Festival in Aspen, CO, and headlined at the Laugh Your Asheville Off Festival in Asheville, NC. More recently he has appeared in the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and SF Sketchfest. His debut stand up comedy CD, “Everything’s The Best” was released in November of 2011 by Rooftop Comedy Productions.

Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/josh-gondelman/

 

Show: The Stand NYC Showcase
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location:
239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Mark Normand
Joe List
Mike Vecchione
Sarah Tollemache
Yannis Pappas
Matt Broussard
Ticket Link: http://thestandnyc.ticketfly.com/event/1518476-mark-normand-joe-list-mike-new-york/

 

Show: If You Build It
Venue: UCBeast
Location:
153 E. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

GREG FITZSIMMONS
@Midnight, Louie
http://www.gregfitzsimmons.com/
JON RUDNITSKY
Saturday Night Live, The Groundlings
http://jonrudnitsky.com/
LOUIS KATZ
Comedy Central Presents…, This Isn’t Happening
http://www.louiskatzcomedy.com/
KYLE AYERS
Montreal Comedy Festival, First Cums Love
https://twitter.com/kyleayers
DEVON WALKER
Moontower Comedy Festival, Colossal Clusterfest
https://twitter.com/internetdevon
Ticket Link: https://east.ucbtheatre.com/performance/55348

 

Show:  Owen Benjamin
Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location:  208 West 23rd Street NYC
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup:  

Owen Benjamin is a comedian and actor, best known for his hilarious blend of stand-up and musical comedy. He has appeared in the movies The House Bunny (2008), All’s Faire in Love (2009), Jack and Jill (2011), and  Staten Island Summer (2016) with the cast of SNL.

Owen is no stranger to television, having recently held one of the lead roles on TBS’s Sullivan & Son. He’s performed his unique stand-up sets on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Chelsea Lately, Inside Amy Schumer, and Comedy Central Presents: Owen Benjamin. His first hour-long special High Five Til It Hurts premiered on Comedy Central in 2014. Owen can be also heard on an upcoming episode of the long-running Fox comedy Family Guy Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=486007&cart
*SHOWS FRIDAY 7/6 AND SATURDAY 7/7 AS WELL

 

LIVE COMEDY SHOWS MONDAY 7/10

 

Show:  Night Train
Venue: Littlefield
Location:
635 Sackett Street. Brooklyn, NY
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup:  

Hosted by Wyatt Cenac, with Josh Gondelman, Nate Fernald, Devon Walker, Robby Hoffman, Marie Faustin, Olivia Grace
Ticket Link: http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/1510590-night-train-wyatt-cenac-brooklyn/

 

Show: Side Ponytail Comedy
Venue: Friends & Lovers
Location:
641 Classon Avenue
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Rob Cantrell (Last Comic Standing, The Colbert Report, FX’s Totally Biased)
Reggie Conquest (Impractical Jokers)
Dan Weeks (Laughing Skull Festival)
Jennie Sutton (Comedy Central)
Ticket Link: Free at door

 

Show: The Funniest Show on Broadway
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location:
1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

A showcase of New York City’s best comics handpicked by Carolines on Broadway staff. The Funniest Show On Broadway comedians have been featured on ABC, CBS, Comedy Central, E!, Funny or Die, HBO, Hulu, MTV, NBC, Netflix, TBS, truTV, Vice & More!
Featuring:
Yamaneika Saunders
Joe List
Mike Recine
Katie Hannigan
Greg Stone
Hosted by Kerry Coddett
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/the-funniest-show-on-broadway/

 

Show: Frantic hosted by Aaron Berg
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location:
239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Derek Gaines
Chris Distefano
Damien Lemon
Matthew Broussard
Caitlin Peluffo
Graham Kay
Corey Reppond
Ticket Link: http://thestandnyc.ticketfly.com/event/1517233-frantic-free-show-hosted-by-new-york/

 

LIVE COMEDY TUESDAY 7/11

 

Show:  Our Famous Friends
Venue: Three of Cups
Location:
83 1st Avenue NYC
Time: 7:30PM
Description of Show and Lineup:

Jamie Manelis Remy Kassimir and Betsy Carroll host
John Fugelsang
Sam Morrill
Louis Katz
Napoleon Emill
Jake Flores
Ticket Link: Free, tickets at door

 

Show:  Comedy Juice
Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location:  
208 West 23rd Street NYC
Time: 9:30PM
Description of Show and Lineup:  

ComedyJuice attracts such comedy stars as Sarah Silverman, Daniel Tosh, Aziz Ansari, Dane Cook, and Marc Maron on a regular basis and has consistently been a place to discover new comedy stars before they are famous.  With:
Wil Sylvince
Carly Aquilino
Gibran Saleem
Drew Michael
Brian Scolaro
Matt Fulchiron and more!
Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=486983&cart

 

Show: Breakout Artist Comedy Series: Katie Hannigan
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location:
1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Comic Katie Hannigan is a demure powerhouse. She’s appeared on The Oxygen Network, CollegeHumor, Finebros, MTVOther,  Seeso, and Elite Daily’s Gen Y. Katie performs nightly in NYC,at clubs like Stand Up NY, Greenwich Village Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Caroline’s on Broadway, and sometimes even bars that double as fire traps. Katie also frequently features around the US. Currently Katie produces a monthly comedy show with Corinne Fisher, The Comedienne Project, which grew out of a sold out run at FRINGENYC ’15.
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/breakout-artist-comedy-series-katie-hannigan/

 

Show: The RoastMasters Hosted by Luis J. Gomez
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location:
239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Jeff Ross & Brian Moses presents The RoastMasters!
Head-to-head competitive roasting hosted by Luis J. Gomez!
Main event:
Erica Spera vs. Ian Fidance
Under cards:
Katie Boyle vs. Albert Kirchner
Will Watkins vs. David Del-Rosario
Christine Meehan-Berg vs. Lucas Connolly
With judges:
Big Jay Oakerson, Rich Vos, & Sam Roberts
Ticket Link: http://thestandnyc.ticketfly.com/event/1519129-roastmasters-hosted-by-luis-new-york/

 

LIVE COMEDY SHOWS WEDNESDAY 7/12

 

Show:  Double Plus Good Comedy Show
Venue:  Jimmy’s No. 43
Location:  
43 2nd Avenue NYC
Time: 8:30PM
Description of Show and Lineup:  
Ben Asher’s DoublePlusGood Comedy show brings you comedy that reaches up into your brain with the force of a fist through the nose. Top pro comics from TV and NYC’s major clubs performing long sets on an intimate stage in the east village.
Free Admission – RSVP for free to be entered into a raffle for prizes and free drinks.
The doubleplusgood July12 line-up includes:
Rae Sanni (Comedy Central’s “The President Show”; upcoming Half-Hour special) – https://twitter.com/raesanni
Matteo Lane (@Midnight on Comedy Central; Late Night w/ Seth Myers; MTV2) – https://twitter.com/MatteoLane
Eman El Husseini (Opener for Patton Oswalt; New Album “Unveiled”) -https://twitter.com/emanifique
Bruce Cherry (Comedy Central’s “Tough Crowd w/ Colin Quinn”; Marc Maron’s “Morning Sedition”)
Brian Jian (Last Comic Standing; Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival) – https://twitter.com/BrianJian
Ticket Link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/doubleplusgoodcomedy-show-tickets-35681798219

 

Show:  Out of Pocket
Venue: The Standing Room
Location:
4738 Vernon Blvd LIC
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup:

Monthly comedy show hosted by Pockets Graham. On the debut lineup:
Mike Denny
Chanel Ali
Phileo Shacor
Alex Babbitt
Ticket Link: Free show, tickets at door

 

Show: The Gone Girls Podcast LIVE
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location:
1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

The Gone Girls is a weekly podcast featuring stand-up comedians Shauna Lane and Ankara Savone.  These two performers are trying to get to the bottom of life while interviewing fellow comedians and anyone else they find interesting. Each episode includes a sketch written by one of The Gone Girls that’s then cold read by everyone on the show. It’s a traveling podcast, they meet their guests at different locations. The Gone Girls are super excited to perform in front of a live audience for the first time at Caroline’s on Broadway.
Featuring:
Frank Liotti
Yamaneika Saunders
Mike Vecchione
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/the-gone-girls-podcast/

 

Show: Comedians You Should Know NYC
Venue: The Gutter
Location:
200 N. 14th Street Brooklyn
Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:

Every Wednesday the Comedians You Should Know collective brings their signature Chicago-style stand up showcase to The Gutter in Brooklyn for an intimate night of comedy with NYC’s funniest.
This week features Drew Michael (SNL)
Ronny Chieng (Daily Show)
Josh Gondelman (This Week Tonight)
Marie Faustin (Today Show) and David Drake
Hosted by Mike Lebovitz (Last Comic Standing.)
Ticket Link: https://cysknyc.eventbrite.com/