But if you need help with a book, let’s chat, because there’s no one better at ghostwriting, editing, and/or coaching. This show will be filmed as part of a documentary: Rape Jokes by Survivors (7:30 pm, $17, UCB at SubCulture at 45 Bleecker Street—take #6 subway to Bleecker Street stop; #NYCF201), Friday 11/8: Baron Vaughn (Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central Half Hour, co-host of Comedy Central’s The New Negroes; Tom Servo in the Netflix reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000; cast member of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie and USA’s Fairly Legal; films Cloverfield, Black Dynamite, and his own documentary Fatherless) and Open Mike Eagle (stand-up and hip-hop artist; Adult Swim; co-host with Baron of The New Negroes) perform and host other notable stand-ups in this stage version of their Comedy Central showcase: The New Negroes Live (8:00 pm, $25, Brooklyn’s Littlefield at 635 Sackett Street; take R subway to Union Street; #NYCF2019), Friday 11/8: A unique game show in which an oddball Internet video is screened, and then over a dozen contestants have three minutes to prepare a dance routine inspired by what everyone just experienced. Six teams each perform the first 10 minutes of its mini-play, and audience applause then determines which shows will be allowed to move on to subsequent rounds. How do we keep the deal in drug deal?” Plus a post-show hour of networking: Drug Test: Psychedelic Economics & Networking Hour (9:30 pm, $16.89 online or $20 at the door, LES’ Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street), Sunday 1/19: Sherrod Small (Jimmy Kimmel, A&E’s Black & White, TBS’ Are We There Yet?, Comedy Central, VH1) produces and hosts this show with great stand-ups Sam Jay (writer/performer for Saturday Night Live; Jimmy Kimmel, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup, MTV’s SafeWord; former host of Adult Swim’s Ricking Morty; stand-up album Donna’s Daughter), Greer Barnes (HBO’s Crashing, Comedy Central Presents, David Letterman, Louie, Chappelle’s Show, For the Love of the Game; comedy album See What I’m Saying), Keith Robinson (HBO’s Def Comedy Jam, Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central, MTV, TBS, Wanda Sykes Show; special Back of the Bus Funny), Yamaneika Saunders (Jimmy Fallon, HBO’s Crashing, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Roast Battle; stand-up album Damsel in Distress), Cipha Sounds (Chappelle’s Show, MTV, Hot 97), and Dan Naturman (America’s Got Talent, David Letterman, Jay Leno): Small World Comedy/Stars at The Stand (10:00 pm, $25, The Stand Mainstage at 116 East 16th Street), Leave a Comment » | Best New York Live Comedy Shows | Tagged: Alison Leiby, Aminah Imani, Anthony DeVito, Ashley Gavin, Charles Engle, Chloe Radcliffe, Christi Chiello, Cipha Sounds, Dan Naturman, Derek Humphrey, Gary Vider, Greer Barnes, Hannah Berner, Ian Lara, Joe Perrow & Sam Mazany: "Sorry Not Sorry", Joyelle Johnson, Julia Shiplett, Kat Belinfante, Keith Robinson, Kevin Iso, Lauren Davis, Leah Bonnema, Lisa Curry, Live Comedy shows in NYC tonight, Napoleon Emill, Neko White, New York City Comedy, New York City Live Comedy, New York Comedy, Nikki Glaser, NYC Comedy, NYC Improv, NYC Sketch, NYC Stand-Up, NYC Storytelling, Opeyemi Olagbaju, Patrick Schroeder, Raanan Hershberg, Remy Kassimir, Ryan Schutt, Sam Jay, Samantha Ruddy, Sean Donnelly, Sherrod Small, Small World Comedy, Yamaneika Saunders | Permalink This will probably be awesome and almost certainly sell out in advance: Phoebe Robinson and Friends (8:00 pm, $15, Brooklyn’s Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street), Tuesday 3/24: Every Tuesday at 7:00, comics creators join super-hosts Alex Zalben, Justin Tyler, and Pete LePage in a lively & hilarious discussion about four-color pop culture, with giveaways of comics and gift certificates: Comic Book Club (7:00 pm, Free!, The PIT Loft at 154 West 29th Street), Tuesday 3/24: Comics TBA perform for this monthly stand-up showcase named after Stevie Nicks and hosted by Marcia Belsky, Sam Taggart, and Drew Anderson: Stevie (7:30 pm, $10, Brooklyn’s Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street), Wednesday 3/25: A live-on-stage recording of Willem Brian Smith’s podcast interviewing fellow comics about uncomfortable topics such as mental illness: Getting Uncomfortable with Willem Brian Smith (7:00 pm, $9, The PIT Underground at 123 East 24th Street), Wednesday 3/25: Bardia Salimi (Stephen Colbert, CBS’ Madam Secretary, TBS’ Search Party, Comedy Central, MTV) spearheads a sketch show about the Presidential race featuring Annie Donley, Drennen Quinn, Carmen Christopher, Brian Fiddyment, and Tony Zaret, and with an opening set by Mike Hanford: Bardia Salimi: Race To The Nut House (8:00 pm, $10, Brooklyn’s Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street), Wednesday 3/25: An untold episode of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone created on the spot by improv group SkyRats Comedy: Another Dimension (8:00 pm, $11, The PIT Mainstage (Striker) at 123 East 24th Street), Thursday 3/26: In this quick-paced show, 64 comics each perform a one-line joke for the sake of winning audience laughs and applause (for samples, please click here). Norm was a popular cast member of Saturday Night Live for five seasons and the anchor of Weekend Update for three seasons. ), Aminah Imani (host with Sydnee Washington & Marie Faustin of highly popular weekly Brooklyn stand-up showcase Comedy at The Knit; co-host of podcast Wine Before Nine), and Shane Gillis (co-host of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, frequent guest on Sirius XM’s The Bonfire; recent interview on Artie Lange’s Halfway House) perform in a top club’s elegant main room: Monday Night Stand-Up at The Stand (8:00 pm, $15, The Stand Mainstage at 116 East 16th Street), Monday 1/20: This show is about “the science of astrology, which is very real and definitely not fake. And she’s tonight’s guest of this NPR comedy trivia show taped live in Brooklyn hosted by the wonderful Ophira Eisenberg (one of the finest comedic storytellers and stand-ups in the country; author of bestselling book Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, comedy album Bangs! Sometimes it’s a person to whom you should have said, ‘I love you,’ or a second grade teacher who told you, ‘You can’t sing!,’ or a cancer that took a loved one’s ’s life. 254 West 29th Street; 60-seat theatre; strong on improv, musical improv, sketch, and energy; shows $5-$10, The Creek and the Cave And that refers to not only emotional and spiritual hardships, but permanent bodily mementos. But if you need help with a book, let’s chat, because there’s no one better at ghostwriting, editing, and/or coaching. ; former host of MTV’s Broke A$$ Game Show), Corinne Fisher (with comedy partner Krystyna Hutchinson, host of popular Guys We Fucked podcast & stage show, and author of F*CKED: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed), Shane Gillis (co-host of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, frequent guest on Sirius XM’s The Bonfire; recent interview on Artie Lange’s Halfway House), Devon Walker (Comedy Central), Ashley Hesseltine (co-host of podcast Girls Gotta Eat), and Richie Redding (HBO) trying out material at this weekly show hosted by Aaron Berg (TV series 24 Hour Rental, documentary A Universal Language) and/or Kerryn Feehan (Comedy Central, TruTV, Spike TV): Frantic! Featuring the great Sean Patton, SallyAnn Hall, Sam Evans, Jared Waters, and Dara Jemmott hosted by Joe Perrow & Sam Mazany: Sorry Not Sorry (7:00 pm, $10, The Stand Upstairs at 116 East 16th Street), Sunday 12/8: Lorelei Ramirez (fresh, explosively brilliant comic; Adult Swim, VICE), Tim Platt (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central, Sesame Street; member of The Story Pirates and Cartoon Monsoon; host of podcast Hampton High), and Peter Mills Weiss perform & host “a night of sketches and stories and sorrows” that provide “absurd, thoughtful catharsis.” If you enjoy the cool and different, consider going on A Date with Sloop Jumbly (8:00 pm, $10, Brooklyn’s Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street), Sunday 12/8: Stand-up from Mark Normand (one of the very finest stand-ups in the country; Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, Inside Amy Schumer, @midnight, Last Comic Standing, VH1’s Best Week Ever; Comedy Central Half Hour, stellar Comedy Central special Don’t Be Yourself, comedy album Still Got It; hosts podcast Tuesdays With Stories; tours with Amy Schumer), Francis Ellis (Senior Editor of BroBible.com, co-host of Oops the Podcast), Luis J. Gomez (Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Last Comic Standing, TruTV; co-host of podcast Legion of Skanks), Kristen Toomey (#1 on iTunes stand-up album Mother. Why? ...Christina Koch, NASA engineer and astronaut, joins us along with panelists Tom Bodett, ...On The Gist, late-night writers Steve Waltien, Bryan Tucker, and, ...Josh Gondelman has never seen Animal House, but he rewrote it, and we read his script, with help from. ), Lev Fer (Showtime; host of the Yung Daddy podcast), Dylan Adler (co-host of NYC stage shows Woke AF, Just Come, and Snowflake Mic; sketch comic at UCB’s Maude Night; co-composer of Goodmorning New York at New York Musical Festival), and Dylan Palladino (host of We’re All Psychos podcast): Bacon Bits Brunch Show (3:00 pm, $15, The Stand Upstairs at 116 East 16th Street), Sunday 3/8: Stand-up from Rachel Feinstein (HBO’s Crashing, Amazon’s Red Oaks, Netflix’s The Standups, Comedy Central special Only Whores Wear Purple; finalist on Last Comic Standing; Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Inside Amy Schumer, The View; films include Trainwreck and Top Five), Nathan Macintosh (Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien), Amarie Castillo (NPR, The Howard Stern Show, Heart&Skol), Ryan Long (Netflix, CBC), Chloe LaBranche (host of The Chlo Show pod, Weep at The Stand), Zarna Garg, Preston Gitlin, and Alex Gardes performing in an intimate club space: Privileged Pain (7:00 pm, $10, The Stand Upstairs at 116 East 16th Street), Sunday 3/8: Professional clowns Gemma Soldati & Amrita Dhaliwal won this year’s Best Comedy Award at the Melbourne Fringe Festival with this duo play about “two accountants working tirelessly to record the death toll…an absurd and physical jaunt brimming with audience interaction, existential phone calls, impaired dancing, and the love of a goldfish” that critics have called “a surreal, clowning, macabre wonder” and “transformative and hilarious:” The Living Room (7:00 pm, $15, Brooklyn’s Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street), Sunday 3/8: Noah Gardenswartz (Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half Hour) & Ester Steinberg (Oxygen’s Funny Girls) host stand-ups Roy Wood Jr. (above left; correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and host of This is Not Happening), Drew Michael (above right; writer for Saturday Night Live; Comedy Central Half Hour; NBC’s The Carmichael Show), Shalewa Sharpe (HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, Comedy Central’s The New Negroes; comedy album So, You Just Out Here? Join the crew and celebrate the upcoming Season 4 launch with a special live episode:” Mission to Zyxx (5:00 pm, $15, Brooklyn’s The Bell House at 149 7th Street; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue), Saturday 1/25: Sydnee Washington & Marie Faustin (co-hosts of highly popular weekly Brooklyn stand-up showcase Comedy at The Knit) host this live-on-stage recording of their podcast that tests stand-ups on their masterful knowledge of an intriguing subject (TBA), with tonight’s guests Stavros Halkias (Comedy Central Stand-Up, IFC; co-host of podcast Cum Town; host of Fat Tuesdays) and Paris Sashay: The UnOfficial Expert Live (7:30 pm; $13.83 online before day of show, $15 at the door; Brooklyn’s Union Hall at 702 Union Street; take R subway to Union Street; part of the Brooklyn Podcast Festival), Saturday 1/25: Carly Ann Filbin (luminous sketch comic/comedic actress/writer; on-camera correspondent for Cosmopolitan.com; host of Let Me Break You Up: An Anti-Dating Game Show) pushes boundaries with this comedic game show in three segments: straight date, lesbian date, and gay date.