Live Comedy Show Listings for New York City: June 16 – June 22, 2016
New York Live Comedy listings for the week of June 16 – June 23, 2016. Curated by Christine Marie Evans and Emily Cohen. Scroll down to submit your listings! Some fun shows around town this week!
THURSDAY 6/16
Show: Geoff Tate at the Knitting Factory
Venue: The Knitting Factory
Location: 361 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn NY
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Geoff Tate w/
Sean Patton
Emma Arnold
& Tom Brady
Ticket Link: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?eventId=6561195&pl=bkfeatureswideoct2015&dispatch=loadSelectionData
Show: Stand Up New York #Skankweek Showcase
Venue: Stand Up NY
Location: 236 W. 78th Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ari Shaffir
Luis J. Gomez
Dave Smith
Chris Distefano
Hadiyah Robinson
Emma Willmann
Ticket Link: http://www.laughstub.com/events/451955?&&cart
Show: Right NOW! with Carolyn Castiglia: The Home Episode!
Venue: Union Hall
Location: 702 Union Street Brooklyn NY
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
“A heady mix of stand-up comedy, music and conversation, Right NOW! is refreshingly self-aware and just the right amount of raw. Rebecca Vigil leads the house band and is both hilarious and an amazingly accomplished improvisational singer who complements Castiglia’s equally hilarious and incredibly quick-witted hosting style. No, really—I’ve rarely seen anyone as quick on their feet as Castiglia, and it works beautifully with the tone and pace of the show.” – A Women’s Thing
Featuring:
Stand-Up Guest Sasheer Zamata (SNL)
Musical Guest Anna Wise (2016 Grammy winner Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “These Walls” with Kendrick Lamar)
Panelists comedian Kat Burdick (Moth Grandslam Champ), professional organizer and stylist Jeni Aron (Apartment Therapy, Clutter Cowgirl), and comedian and interior designer Danny Cohen (Comedy Central, Stencilicious) talk about how to turn a messy, cramped New York apartment into a home, with organization and decor ideas!
Contortionist The 6th Street Snake from Wu-Tang Clan’s dance crew Dv8tor shows us how to make a home out of the tiniest space!
…and more games and surprises! Plus, as always, featuring the music of Rebecca Vigil and The Righteous NOW!
Hosted by Carolyn Castiglia (MTV, VH1, HLN)
Ticket Link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1165781
Show: New York Comedy Club Showcase
Venue: New York Comedy Club
Location: 241 W. 24th Street NYC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Dan Shaki
Mike Cannon
Felonious Munk
Mike Lawrence
Sarah Tollemache
Robby Slowik
Jason Collings
Ticket Link: http://newyorkcomedyclub.laughstub.com/event.cfm?cart&id=454934&_ga=1.136898224.142746769.1423788391
*Followed directly by #SKANKWEEK “Skankaoke”
FRIDAY 6/17
Show: The Hardcore Comedy Show
Venue: Headquarters Gentleman’s Club
Location: 552 W. 38th St. NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Join AVN Mainstream Star of the Year Nominee and Comedian, Alia Janine for her acclaimed comedy show, The Hardcore Comedy Show! Alia hosts and takes some of the adult industry’s funniest comedians, along with the comedy industry’s dirtiest comedians and combines them for one of the craziest nights in comedy you’ll ever have! But there’s more! There are also some of the sexiest burlesque dancers around to make sure your night is even hotter!
Pat Dixon
Luchana Gatica
Alia Janine
Dave Smith
Wendi Starling
Felonious Munk
Ticket Link: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2559604
Show: The Stand NYC Showcase
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location: 239 3rd Avenue
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ted Alexandro
Bonnie McFarlane
Monroe Martin
Chris DiStefano
Ari Shaffir & more!
Ticket Link: http://thestand.laughstub.com/event.cfm?id=454729&cart
Show: Bad Karma
Venue: Karma Lounge
Location: 51 1st Avenue at 3rd Street
Time: 8:30
Description of Show and Lineup:
This Friday it’s another edition of Bad Karma at Karma Lounge!
Featuring:
Molly Austin
Tom Cowell
Jeff Cerulli
Grant Gordon
Francesca Day
Hosted by Diego Lopez and Cate Weinberg
Ticket Link: Free
Show: Gentrify
Venue: UCBEast
Location: 143 East 3rd Street
Time: 10:30
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.
This week includes Jeff Simmermon
Jason Van Glass
Matt Starr
Josh Sharp and more
Ticket Link: https://east.ucbtheatre.com/performance/47415
SATURDAY 6/18
Show: #SKANKFEST NYC 2016
Venue: The Creek & The Cave
Location: 10-93 Jackson Avenue
Time: 12pm-2am
Description of Show and Lineup:
Murderfist, Sam Morril, Joe Machi, Race Wars Podcast, SDR Rock and Roll Jeopardy, Gary Vider, Luis J. Gomez, Kurt Metzger, Sherrod Small, Laugh Button LIVE Podcast, Ha! The Musical, Mash-Up with Luis J. Gomez and Adrienne Iapalucci- (Tim Dillon & Liza Treyger, Jeffrey Joseph & Sean Patton, Jay Oakerson & Ron Bennington), Petey DeAbreu, Danny Palmer, Tom Cassidy, Reggie Conquest, Chris Scopo, J.P. McDade, Chris Distefano, Michael Che, Rachel Feinstein, Legion of Skanks Podcast, Luchana Gatica, Rae Sanni, Subhah Agarwal, Sarah Tollemache, Adrienne Iapalucci, Jaqi Novak, DEATHSQUAD SECRET SHOW w Brian Redban, Mike Lawrence, Ari Shaffir, Tim Dillon, Lucas Connelly, Rob Mailloux, Scott Chaplin, Greg Stone, Jermaine Fowler, Naked Roast w Zac Amico (Kaytlin Bailey vs Alia Janine, Johnny Roque vs Ryan Hernandez, Billy Procida vs Andrea Allan)!
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/skankfest-nyc/
*3rd stage at “The Standing Room” 47-38 Vernon Blvd LIC
Show: Darrell Hammond
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location: 1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm and 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Darrell Hammond headlines Carolines on Broadway
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/darrell-hammond/
*Shows Friday 6/17 and Sunday 6/19 as well
Show: The Weekend Drop
Venue: Experimental Comedy Gallery
Location: 272 Grand Street
Time: 8:30PM
Description of Show and Lineup: Weekly comedy show, this weeks lineup includes Mo Fathelbab, Camille Harris, Michael Lewis, Camille Theobald, Mutiya S-Vision, Brian Barron, Hannah Boone, Gabriel Pacheco
Ticket Link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1192303?_ga=1.246379148.961872617.1466026986&__utma=1.358183507.1466026986.1466026986.1466026986.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1466026986&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1466026986.1.1.utmcsr=theexcomedy.com|utmccn=%28referral%29|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/the-experiment-comedy-nyc/&__utmv=-&__utmk=253852424
Show: Epic- Experimental Picnic Comedy
Venue: Rooftop at 125 West 138th Street
Location: 125 West 138th Street
Time: 6PM
Description of Show and Lineup: The Audition Room Group is moderately pleased to present:
“EPiC: Experimental Picnic Comedy”
BYOB! Bring Your Own Blanket – Of course we’re giving you beer. Shouldn’t have led with that misleading abbreviation. Anyway, enjoy yourselves as we entertain you with an amazing lineup of comedians, live music and performances that this great city has to offer. The Audition Room Group will also demonstrate some live readings from our upcoming summer production — you will be the first to see it because we love you and you are very very drunk and we love drunk people.
So join us under the stars on a lovely Harlem rooftop night with wine, beer, beer & wine, stand-up, theatre, music, sketch comedy, and beer and wine. And vodka.
Jeff Cerulli
Tyler Richardson
Erik Bransteen
Stanford Reid
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/epic-experimental-picnic-comedy-tickets-25824004292
SUNDAY 6/19
Show: #SKANKFEST NYC 2016
Venue: The Creek & The Cave
Location: 10-93 Jackson Avenue
Time: 12pm-2am
Description of Show and Lineup:
Legion of Skanks AMA Podcast, Dave Smith, Sal Vulcano, Doug Stanhope’s Shotclog Podcast LIVE, Peggy O’leary, Kerryn Feehan, Kaytlin Bailey, Sydnee Washington, Ashley Gavin, Samantha Ruddy, Robert Kelly, My Wife Hates Me Podcast, Todd Glass, Bonnie MacFarlane, Rich Vos, Matt Pavich, Ian Fidance, Myka Fox, Dan Perlman, Sam Rubinoff, Noah Gardenswartz, Bronston Jones, Hailey Boyle, Robby Slowik, Yassir Lester, Casey Balsham, What’s Your Fucking Deal w Big Jay Oakerson (Todd Glass, Amber Nelson, Sal Vulcano, Mark Normand, Nick Turner), The Junkie Show (Rob Maillous, Mike Finoia, Perry Strong, Josh Wesson, Oni Perez, Evan Leslie Jones, DEATHSQUAD SECRET SHOW w Brian Redban, Tuesdays with Stories Podcast, Aaron Berg, Kris Tinkle, Mike Cannon, Nick Mullen, Zac Amico, Stavros Halkias, and Joe List!
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/skankfest-nyc/
*3rd stage at “The Standing Room” 47-38 Vernon Blvd LIC
Show: If You Build It!
Venue: UCBeast
Location: 153 E.3rd Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Hosted by TIM DILLON
MICHELLE BUTEAU
The Half Hour, Key and Peele
http://www.michellebuteau.com/
GARY VIDER
America’s Got Talent, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival
http://garyvider.com/
SHANE TORRES
Comedy Bang Bang, Last Comic Standing
https://twitter.com/syrupmountain
ANTHONY DEVITO
Adam Devine’s House Party, Montreal Comedy Festival
https://twitter.com/AnthonyDeVito_
SAURIN CHOKSI
White Guy Talk Show, Bridgetown Comedy Festival
http://www.saurinchoksi.com/
SARA ARMOUR
Last Comic Standing, Laughing Skull Comedy Festival
http://saraarmour.com/
FRANK LIOTTI
Gotham, Blue Bloods
http://frankliotti.com/
Ticket Link: https://east.ucbtheatre.com/show/2835
Show: Jim Gaffigan Show Official Watch Party at QED
Venue: QED: A Place to Show and Tell
Location: 27-16 23rd Avenue
Time: 9:30
Description of Show and Lineup: QED is proud to announce that we are TV Land’s official watch party location for “The Jim Gaffigan Show” Season 2!
Show(s) air at 10pm but show up early to grab your seat and FREE food. Yes. Free. Food. It’s what Jim would want.
Ticket Link: http://qedastoria.com/collections/shows/products/jim-gaffigan-show-official-watch-party
Show: It’s All Gonna Be Okay!
Venue: Troost Bar
Location: 1011 Manhattan Avenue
Time: 7:30
Description of Show and Lineup:
Monthly bar show with Prosecco hosted by Jamie Manelis o’Donnell
Josh Wesson
Chris Scopo
Rashad Isaac
Tracey Carnazzo
Anders Lee
Jacob Noah
And more!!!
Ticket Link: Free, tickets at door
MONDAY 6/20
Show: Stand Up to Hunger: A Night of Comedy Benefitting WhyHunger
Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location: 208 W. 23rd Street NYC
Time: 7pm VIP Pre-Party at 5:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
WhyHunger is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.
Proceeds from this event will benefit WhyHunger.
Pete Dominick
Gilbert Gottfried
Jared Freid
Roy Wood Jr.
Michelle Buteau
Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling
Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=455789&cart
Show: Frantic Mondays!
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location: 239 3rd Avenue
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
The best free show in all of Manhattan!
Hosted by Aaron Berg
Ian Lara
Damien Lemon
Dan Soder
Lawrence DeLoach
Kerryn Feehan
Derek Gaines
Yannis Pappas
and More!
Ticket Link: http://thestand.laughstub.com/event.cfm?id=454504&cart
Show: Service Industry Night! Free admission & 20% off drinks for service industry professionals
Venue: New York Comedy Club
Location: 241 E. 24th Street NYC
Time: 7pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
SIN Monday – Free admission & 20% off drinks for service industry professionals
Featuring:
Brendan Sagalow
Tom Cowell
Kate Wolff
Nore Davis
Rojo Perez
Monroe Martin
Ticket Link: http://newyorkcomedyclub.com/events/monday-night-headliners-06-20-2016
Show: Night Train
Venue: Littlefield
Location: 622 Degraw Street. Brooklyn, NY
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup: Wyatt Cenac’s Littlefield party is back with another installment. This week’s lineup includes Kyle Ayers, Adam Mamawala, Kyle Urbano and many more special guests!
Ticket Link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1184901?_ga=1.75099733.672960756.1466027600&__utma=1.591803221.1466027600.1466027600.1466027600.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1466027600&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1466027600.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=210818069
TUESDAY 6/21
Show: Eric Neumann: Breakout Artist Comedy Series
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location: 1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Here is what I can tell you about myself; I was a class clown throughout school. When I tried the same clownish behavior in college, my classmates were all like “Why are you calling out in class?! Raise your hand!”. I knew I needed an outlet to tell my jokes immediately. Enter Comic Strip Live. Comic Strip Live is the first stage that I had ever performed on when I was just shy of 21 years old. Now just a few years later, I’m a regular performer at Comic Strip, New York Comedy Club, Carolines On Broadway, Broadway Comedy Club and Greenwich Comedy Club, as well as New York’s alternative rooms. I have performed at various festivals including The New York Comedy Festival, Laughing Skull Festival, Laughing Devil Festival and Hoboken Comedy Festival, and have been featured on three Montreal Just For Laughs showcases. In 2015, I headlined Carolines On Broadway as part of the Breakout Artist Comedy Series and sold out the club. Hollywood Radio and Television Society named me “One of the hottest rising star stand-up comedians in New York”.My audio clips have been featured on Rooftop Comedy’s “Best Of” collection and have aired on Sirius XM Radio, Spotify and Audible, though my favorite rooms to perform in are nursing homes. But still with all of this stage time, I am yet to have a year that financially tops my Bar Mitzvah year. If you book me, you can help make this sad reality go away.
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/breakout-artist-comedy-series-presents-eric-neumann/
Show: Comedy Juice
Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location: 208 W. 23rd Street NYC
Time: 9:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
ComedyJuice is one of the top live comedy brands in the world, producing hundreds of All-Star stand up comedy events each year. ComedyJuice has been called the best standup comedy show in the nation by sources ranging from Sirius Satellite radio to People magazine.
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 regular shows at many of the top comedy clubs in the country, ComedyJuice is proud to add Gotham Comedy Club to that list and launch ComedyJuice NYC. Every Tuesday night at 9:30pm. You never know who will drop in, but you always know you will get the best in live comedy.
Todd Barry
Joe Bartnick
Judah Friedlander
Gibran Saleem
Michael Yo & more!
Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=435243&cart
Show: The Manhattan Childrens Center Presents: Comedy For A Cause
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location: 239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Since 2007, The Manhattan Childrens Center, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, has offered unparalleled instruction to children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). With a holistic approach and one-to-one, tailored teaching, MCC focuses on appropriate outcomes for each child and provides constant evaluation of success in reaching individualized goals.
Janeane Garofalo & more to be announced!
Ticket Link: http://thestand.laughstub.com/event.cfm?id=456072&cart
Show: Comedy Central Corporate Retreat Presents: First Set
Venue: UCBeast
Location: 153 E. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 9:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Corporate Retreat Presents:
First Set
Hosted By:
Giulia Rozzi
Featuring:
Mike Lawrence
Aparna Nancherla
Jon Fisch
Ticket Link: https://east.ucbtheatre.com/performance/47367
WEDNESDAY 6/22
Show: Risk! featuring Kevin Allison and more!
Venue: The Bell House
Location: 149 7th Street Brooklyn, NY
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Kevin Allison, Josh Gondelman, TS Madison, and more!
RISK! is a live show and podcast “where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share in public” hosted by Kevin Allison, of the legendary TV sketch comedy troupe The State. The award-winning live show happens monthly in New York and Los Angeles. It’s featured people like Janeane Garofalo, Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Nealon, Margaret Cho, Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, Lili Taylor, Rachel Dratch, Andy Borowitz and more, dropping the act and showing a side of themselves we’ve never seen before. The weekly podcast gets hundreds of thousands of downloads each month. Slate.com called it “jaw-dropping, hysterically funny, and just plain touching.”
Ticket Link: http://www.thebellhouseny.com/event/1188811
Show: Mookie Thompson: Breakout Artist Comedy Series
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location: 1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Mookie Thompson is a lovable degenerate whose comedy is a clinic on bad decision making and living by your own rules. As a native New Yorker, Mookie immerses himself in the party-fueled Brooklyn underground to give audiences a look at life with no responsibilities. Basically, Mookie lives this way so you don’t have to.
This year Mookie performed at SXSW and was awarded “Best Stand Up” at the LA Comedy Festival. Recently, he’s been a writer and performer on MTV’s new international show Bugging Out, and has had work featured on TruTV and Fox ADHD.
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/breakout-artist-comedy-series-mookie-thompson/
Show: Stand Up Labs Showcase
Venue: Stand Up NY
Location: W. 78th Street
Time: 10:15pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Kurt Metzger
Sherrod Small
Kate Wolf
Yamaneika Saunders
Mike Cannon
Jared Freid
Ticket Link: http://www.laughstub.com/events/444078?&&cart
Show: Cicadas- Bushwick’s Free Comedy Night
Venue: The House of Yes
Location: 2 Wyckoff Avenue
Time: 8:30, doors at 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup: CICADAS comedy night at House of YES continues its bi-weekly run! After 4 hysterical shows that packed out our front room and sets from SNL’s Sasheer Zamata and “30 Rock”‘s Judah Friedlander among many others, the surprises will continue Wednesday, June 22 at 8:30pm (with doors at 8:00).
And yep, this show is still FREE because we love you all!
As always, your co-hosts Jermaine Fowler (SHOWTIME, Netflix’s “BoJack Horseman”), Josh Rabinowitz (“Broad City”), and Kevin Barnett (“Broad City”, “The Eric Andre Show) will either tag along all three together to host, or trade off those duties show to show. Rest assured, their collective brand will be imprinted on each installment of CICADAS comedy night, which is every other Wednesday at House of YES.
WHAT IS CICADAS?
STAND-UP FROM THE NATION’S BEST COMICS
WITH YOUR HOSTS:
**JERMAINE FOWLER** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4VGmzruPf8
**KEVIN BARNETT* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V1P1XrEl-0
**JOSH RABINOWITZ**
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cicadas-bushwicks-free-comedy-night-tickets-26061008177?aff=fbEvent
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