New York Live Comedy Listings for July 14 – July 20, 2016
New York Live Comedy listings for the week of July 14 – July 20, 2016. Curated by Christine Marie Evans and Emily Cohen. Scroll down to submit your listings!
THURSDAY 7/14
Show: An Hour With Kurt Metzger
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location: 239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Kurt Metzger is one of the top comics performing in NYC today! He is a writer and performer on Comedy Central’s Emmy Award winning show “Inside Amy Schumer”. He has also appeared on Louis C.K.’s series “Horace & Pete” and was a writer on “The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen”. Last year his hour special “White Precious” filmed at The Gramercy Theater in New York City was released on Comedy Central as well. He co-hosts the popular radio show “Race Wars” alongside Sherrod Small on Opie Radio on Sirius XM, which is also available for download as a podcast.
Ticket Link: http://thestand.laughstub.com/event.cfm?id=458016&cart
*Use code “IBANG” for $5 off tickets
Show: Jest For Fun
Venue: Lucky Jacks
Location: 129 Orchird Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Casey Balsham (Gotham Comedy Live, The Stand)
Derek Humphrey (Headliner’s Ball)
May Wilkerson (Caroline’s)
Rae Sanni (The Knitting Factory, Night Train with Wyatt Cenac)
Jeffrey Joseph (The Tonight Show)
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jest-for-fun-comedy-show-tickets-16981112966
Show: Right NOW! with Carolyn Castiglia
A live talk show with a live band hosted by a live wire
The GUN Episode!
A fundraiser for Moms Demand Action and Human Rights Watch
Venue: Union Hall
Location: 702 Union Street Brooklyn
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 Naomi Ekperigin (Comedy Central’s The Half Hour, writer for Broad City)
Musical Guest Reformed Whores (AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live, opening for Weird Al)
Panelists Kevin Allison (Risk!, MTV’s The State), Chemda (co-host, Keith and the Girl), Loren Hennessy (co-host, Kill Me Now w/Judy Gold), Jesse Wegman (New York Times editorial board) and representatives from Moms Demand Action and Human Rights Watch talk about violence against the LGBTQ community and how to effectively pass gun control laws!
…and more games and surprises! Plus, as always, featuring Katie Hartman (Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting) the music of Rebecca Vigil and The Righteous NOW!
Hosted by Carolyn Castiglia (MTV, VH1, HLN)
Ticket Link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1165791
*All proceeds from ticket sales as well as cash raised at the door will benefit Moms Demand Action and Human Rights Watch. Charity Fundraiser Link: https://www.gofundme.com/rightnowckc
Show: Grin & Barrett Comedy
Venue: Beauty Bar
Location: 231 E. 14th Street NYC
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Doug Smith (Conan)
Liz Barrett (Carolines Breakout Artist; Gotham Comedy Live)
Corinne Fisher (Guys We Fucked Podcast)
Tim Dillon (Last Comic Standing)
Kate Hendricks (@katethewasp, The View)
Charles McBee (Laughs on Fox TV, MTV)
Chrissy Mayr (Comedy at Stonewall, Laughs on Fox TV)
Ashlee Voorsanger (Carolines)
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grin-barrett-comedy-3rd-anniversary-show-tickets-26285381283?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button
FRIDAY 7/15
Show: Art School Acid Dropout
Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location: 10-93 Jackson Avenue LIC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Grant Lindahl is a world famous artist who was recently banned from MoMA PS1. He has been hosting this bizzare interactive comedy art show down the street from the museum for one full year. Come and also celebrate his 26th Birthday! Grant will be opening the show with a knife thrower who will be slinging blades at Grant!
Special guest interview with photographer: Mindy Tucker!
Performances by
Dave Hill (Comedy Central@midnight, Inside Amy Schumer)
Josh Gondelman (John Oliver, SeinfeldToday)
Joe Pera (Adult Swim, Seth Meyers)
Ashley Brooke Roberts (UCB Fresh Out)
Robert Watkins (Mentalist)
Famous Artist Roast Battle: George Seurat Vs Norman Rockwell
Grants Mom (Croatias poet laureate) will be reading a Poem
Stephanie Meyers- Briggs: Oracle of Delta Pi – will be doing predictions
The Audience is Provided Crayons and Paper to encourage drawing durring the show! Each member gets a limited edition show poster with the ticket price and free beer is provided to the first 10 audience members!
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/art-school-acid-dropout-5-2-2016-07-15/
Show: Ron Funches Headline
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location: 1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm & 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ron Funches is a very funny stand-up comedian with a unique delivery and lovable demeanor. You just want to hug and squeeze him like a big stuffed bear. His easy going, inventive style sounds the way fresh chocolate chip cookies taste. Ron performs stand up all over the United States impressing audiences everywhere.
This year, Ron made his feature film debut in the Will Farrell / Kevin Hart film GET HARD. Ron’s television appearances include recurring roles on Comedy Central’s KROLL SHOW and Disney’s CRASH AND BERNSTEIN. A guest starring role on Fox’s NEW GIRL and stand up performances on NBC’s THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON, TBS’ CONAN and Comedy Central’s JOHN OLIVER’S NEW YORK STAND UP SHOW. You can also catch Ron on his series regular role on NBC’S UNDATABLE
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/ron-funches/
*Shows on Thursday 7/14 & Saturday 7/16 as well
Show: Luenell Headline
Venue: Gotham Comedy Club
Location: 208 W. 23rd Street NYC
Time: 8 & 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Luenell headlines
Featuring:
Veronica Mosey
Harris Stanton
Jared Freid
Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=452355&cart
*Shows on Saturday 7/16 as well
Show: Comedy Quarterly
Venue: Bluebird
Location: 504 Flatbush Avenue. Brooklyn, NY
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup: Come see comedians do their best sets in front of a camera! The Comedy Quarterly Show aims to help New York’s up-and coming comics by setting up a showcase for them to record. Myles Hewette and Sam Zee have brought this trimonthly show from Gowanus to the other side of Prospect Park and they’re setting up the camera at Bluebird to film the Summer Edition on July 15th, featuring top-shelf material from Samantha Ruddy, Dan Perlman, Daniel J. Perafan and other household names of the future.
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-quarterly-tickets-26099797196
SATURDAY 7/16
Show: The Virgin Chonicles presented by Comic Sans
Venue: The PIT Loft
Location: 154 W. 29th Street NYC
Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
As if the Summer could get HOT ENOUGH!! This month, we’re hitting you with a special BONUS edition of the Virgin Chronicles as part of Story Fest at The PIT Loft!
That’s right! If you can wait until the end of the month to hear some eye-opening tales of first time stories, then you can get your fix on as part of Story Fest!
Hosted by Darin Patterson & Evan Morgenstern
Ophira Eisenberg (NPR’s Ask Me Another)
Liam McEneaney (WTF w/ Marc Maron, Tell Your Friends!)
Anna Drezen (Author, “How May We Hate You?”)
Dan Perlman (SF Sketchfest, Sirius XM)
Brandon Collins (co-producer/performer, “Comedy Outliers”)
Dean Masello (Laughing Skull Comedy Festival)
Ticket Link: https://thepit-nyc.com/festivals/story-fest-2016
Show: The Banter Show
Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location: 10-93 Jackson Avenue LIC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Every month, hosts Scotland Green (Comedy as a Second Language) and Alison Zeidman (New York Times Loose Ends) invite pairs of comedians to entertain the audience with their banter, without any prior preparation or discussion prompt. Whenever the conversation starts to lull, the hosts interrupt with a random discussion topic to keep the banter going.
This month’s show will be guest-hosted by the genius duo behind THUG PASSION PRESENTS: Shalewa Sharpe and Courtney Fearrington!!!
Featuring the banter stylings of:
Shane Torres (CONAN)
Rob HaZe (Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party)
Mike Lebovitz (Montreal Just for Laughs)
Carmen Lagala (Bridgetown Comedy Festival)
Ahri Findling (Funny Or Die)
Kelsey Caine (Moontower Comedy Festival)
Farah Brook (Fox Red Eye)
Erica Spera (Boston Comedy Festival)
Daniel J Perafan (Laughing Devil Festival)
Patrick Schroeder (Sports Balls!)
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/banter-show-5-2016-07-16/
Show: Colin Quinn: New York Story
Venue: Comedy Cellar at Fat Black Pussy Cat
Location: 130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 6:45pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
In Colin Quinn The New York Story, Colin waxes nostalgic about his hometown, the city formally known as NY, from its modest beginnings as Dutch outpost to the hipsters of modern Williamsburg. Quinn is once again at his satirical best, taking aim at the prejudices, paranoias and peculiarities that make New York City the crossroads of the world.
Ticket Link: http://www.comedycellar.com/reservation/
Show: Show and Tell
Venue: Over the Eight
Location: 594 Union Avenue Brooklyn
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup: Saturday July 9th… It’s Show/Tell Show at Over The Eight- a mix of show & tell and stand up comedy – with drink tickets, surprises, sets from some of the funniest comedians in NYC plus a $20 CASH PRIZE the best show & teller in the audience.
Bring something weird, bizarre, scary, smelly, wild, unique ANYTHING and talk about it for 1-2 minutes in front of the audience for your chance to win $$$
Hosted by Dan Fisher
Ticket Link: Free show
SUNDAY 7/17
Show: Aparna Nancherla Album Release Tour
Venue: Union Hall
Location: 702 Union Street Brooklyn
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Aparna started out doing comedy in her hometown of Washington D.C. and now resides in New York City. She can be seen in the forthcoming season of Inside Amy on Comedy Central and Seeso’s stand up series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac. Other television appearances include season 2 of Comedy Central’s Meltdown as well as Adam Devine’s House Party. In 2013, she made her late night stand up debut on TBS’s Conan and was one of the breakout New Faces at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. Her TV writing credits include Late Night with Seth Meyers as well as being a regular correspondent/writer on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. She is also an alumna of the NBC Stand Up for Diversity program and currently headlines throughout North America and has been seen at a number of festivals including Portland’s Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Maui Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Bentzen Ball, Outside Lands, Aspen’s Rooftop Comedy Festival and The Great American Comedy Festival. She has also been featured on and in NPR, Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post Magazine, XM Radio, and Slate V. She can regularly be seen performing at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade’s in LA and NYC. Her debut album will be released in summer 2016 by Tig Notaro and Secretly Canadian.
Ticket Link: http://www.unionhallny.com/event/1211463
Show: Joe Machi Headline
Venue: Carolines on Broadway
Location: 1626 Broadway NYC
Time: 7:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Since taking 4th place on Last Comic Standing’s 8th season, Joe Machi has been busy touring the United States as a headlining stand-up comedian. He has performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and has become a regular on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News. Joe also won the 2013 NY Comedy Festival’s Funniest Comedian Competition, and the 2010 NY Underground Comedy Festival’s Emerging Comics Competition.
Ticket Link: http://www.carolines.com/comedian/joe-machi/
Show: The Stand NYC Showcase
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location: 239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 9:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Sean Patton
Vladimir Caamano
Damien Lemon
Foley
Alex Pavone
Ticket Link: http://thestand.laughstub.com/event.cfm?id=458375&cart
*Use code “IBANG” for $5 off tickets
Show: White Chocolate Sundaes
Venue: The Standing Room
Location: 4738 Vernon Blvd
Time: 8PM
Description of Show and Lineup: Come join White Chocolate every Sunday at 8pm for free!
Hosted by rising stars Christi Chiello & Petey DeAbreu and featruing the smoothest comedians in town!
Simeon Goodson
Ray Kump
Will Miles
Mike Denny
Amber Nelson
and More!
Ticket Link: http://standingroomlic.com/event.cfm?id=458532&cart
MONDAY 7/18
Show: Rent Party
Venue: Union Hall
Location: 702 Union Street Brooklyn
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Rent Party is a musical improv and stand up show that’s about as much fun as you can fit into one place. Yedoye Travis and his backing band, The Original Lineup, invite New York’s best comedians to tell jokes and stories set to some of the best music in the city.
Yedoye Travis
Tim Dillon
Giulia Rozzi
Shalewa Sharpe
Kenny DeForest
Will Miles
Drew Hart
Joey Ziegler
Alex Lotito
Ticket Link: http://www.unionhallny.com/event/1233469
Show: NYC Crime Report Live
Venue: New York Comedy Club
Location: 241 24th Street NYC
Time: 9:15pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Join NYC Crime Report host Pat Dixon for a fun and fast-moving blend of stand-up, funny panel discussion, audience participation and surprises.
Ticket Link: http://newyorkcomedyclub.laughstub.com/event.cfm?cart&id=457669&_ga=1.167824929.142746769.1423788391
Show: Frantic Mondays
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location: 239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Hosted by Aaron Berg
Matteo Lane
Nathan MacIntosh
Nick Cody
Peggy O’Leary
Vladimir Caamano
Evan Williams
Tanael Joachim
Zainab Johnson
and More!
Ticket Link: http://thestand.laughstub.com/event.cfm?id=457867&cart
Show: Fresh Fifteen: A 100 % Organic Comedy Show
Venue: Experimental Comedy Club
Location: 272 Grand Street. Brooklyn, NY
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup: Join your host, Benel Germosen and Amy Jans, as they present some of the fiercest, fearless and funny people they know to entertain you for fifteen minutes at a time. It’s the Fresh Fifteen: A show so fresh, we put “fresh” in the title. This month features:
Katie Hannigan
Dave Rosinsky
Patrick J. Reilly
and special guest!
Ticket Link: http://theexcomedy.ticketfly.com/event/1240681-fresh-fifteen-100-organic-brooklyn/
TUESDAY 7/19
Show: The Bonfire w/ Big Jay Oakerson & Dan Soder One Year Anniversary Live Taping
Venue: The Village Underground
Location: 130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson & Dan Soder
One Year Anniversary Show
“Shaving Jacob”
The Bonfire invites listeners and friends to come and hang out by the radio bonfire as the blunt and candid duo talk about everything from comedy and entertainment to sports, sharing their funniest stories from the road and giving fans a chance to call in and get their opinions on the topics of the day. For the one year anniversary, the show will be taped in front of a live audience at “The Village Underground” in New York City.
Airs Wednesday, 7/27/16 at 6pm ET on Sirius XM Comedy Central Radio 95!
Big Jay Oakerson
Dan Soder
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS!!!
Ticket Link: on.cc.com/BONFIRELIVE
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 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.
Judah Friedlander
Robby Slowick
Yassir Laster
Aaron Berg
Ticket Link: http://gothamcomedyclub.com/event.cfm?id=452366&cart
Show: Stand Up NY Showcase
Venue: Stand Up New York
Location: 236 W. 78th Street NYC
Time: 8pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ari Shaffir
Marina Franklin
Greg Stone
Joe List
Elon Gold
Zainab Johnson
Ticket Link: http://www.laughstub.com/events/457580?&&cart
Show: Joe List “Are You Mad At Me?” Album Release Show
Venue: The Stand NYC
Location: 239 3rd Avenue NYC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Come down and celebrate the latest album, “Are You Mad At Me?”, from club favorite Joe List!
Featuring Joe and some of his closest friends in the NYC comedy world!
Joe List was a finalist in 2015 on Last Comic Standing, he’s the host of the hit podcast “Tuesdays with Stories” and he’s appeared on “Late Night” with David Letterman and” Conan”..
Since starting his comedy career just weeks after graduating high school in 2000 comedian Joe List has been impressing and delighting audiences and fellow comedians all over the country. Joe quickly began rising to the top of the competitive comedy scene in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts prompting one local headliner to call Joe ‘the future of Boston comedy’. However Joe has now set his sights on bigger things, recently moving to New York City, Joe is quickly becoming known as one of the hottest new comedians in New York as well, performing regularly at some of the top clubs in the city. In the fall of 2007 Joe was featured in the prestigious HBO comedy festival in Las Vegas to outstanding reviews. As well as being a regular favorite in clubs and colleges in New York and New England, in the last 2 years Joe has also been seen at many of the best comedy clubs across the country as the preferred feature act for Comedy Central’s Nick DiPaolo. As well as all his successes as a stand-up comedian Joe has also recently written a short bio for himself in which he chose to use the words ‘Joe’ and ‘he’ instead of the word ‘I’ as if someone else wrote it for him.
Ticket Link: http://thestand.laughstub.com/event.cfm?id=458376&cart
WEDNESDAY 7/20
Show: Ari Shaffir’s “This Is Not Happening”
Venue: The Village Underground
Location: 130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Ari Shaffir brings his Comedy Central storytelling show “This Is Not Happening” to The Village Underground. This shows theme is “Wasted: Stories About Drinking”
*This is a live show, it will not be recorded for television
Ticket Link: http://www.comedycellar.com/reservation/
Show: The New Show
Venue: The Creek and The Cave
Location: 10-93 Jackson Avenue LIC
Time: 10pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Every Wednesday at 10, Chris Laker hosts New York City’s funniest comics as they perform stand-up then have a discussion about what’s going on in the world and the mysteries of life.
Ticket Link: http://creeklic.com/events/the-show-2016-07-20/
Show: Sam Morril: You’ve Changed
Venue: The Comedy Cellar at The Fat Black Pussy Cat
Location: 130 W. 3rd Street NYC
Time: 8:30pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
Sam Morril headlines The Comedy Cellar at The Fat Black Pussycat
Ticket Link: http://www.comedycellar.com/reservation/
Show: Fuck, Marry, Kill Show
Venue: The Standing Room
Location: 47-38 Vernon Blvd LIC
Time: 9pm
Description of Show and Lineup:
The best comedians in LIC discuss who they’ve f*cked, would marry as they kill on stage.
Hosted by Luchana Gatica & Walker Hays
Ayanna Dookie
Sheba Mason
Tyler Richardson
Marc Gerber
Ticket Link: http://standingroomlic.com/event.cfm?cart&showTimingID=457270
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