City Winery NYC Is Taking The Comedy Club Experience To The Next Level
Courtesy of City Winery. Photo credit: Ehud Lazin. This week marks a special time to be a New York comedy fan as the city’s annual & beloved comedy gathering in the Big Apple, New York Comedy Festival, celebrates 20 years in business this year. The mainstay festival officially kicks off its celebratory festival this Friday, […]
Colin Jost & Michael Che Will Stream Live On Peacock For New Special, “New York After Dark”
Beloved Saturday Night Live Weekend Update duo Colin Jost & Michael Che are partnering with Peacock for a brand new live comedy event called New York After Dark, premiering next Thursday, September 12th. This new & one of a kind comedy special, presented by Colin & Michael, will give a new glimpse into the New […]
NY Comic Shannon Fiedler To Release Debut Special, “Thirty, Flirty & Crying”
Photo credit: Alex Mendoza. New York based stand-up comedian, writer & content creator Shannon Fiedler has announced her debut comedy special Thirty, Flirty & Crying set to premiere on her YouTube channel September 25th. Thirty, Flirty & Crying is an hour performed from Fiedler’s unique perspective on what it means to be a woman who’s […]
New York Comedy Festival Announces 2024 Lineup & Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Judd Apatow, Tracy Morgan & Dan Soder. Courtesy of Peacock, NBC, & Dan Soder. The largest & longest-running annual comedy festival in the United States, New York Comedy Festival, is back and returning for its 20th anniversary this year from Friday, November 8th to Sunday, November 17th, 2024. Among the festival’s impressive lineup includes Judd Apatow, Tracy […]
Chloe Radcliffe’s Raving Solo Show “Cheat” Is One Not To Miss In New York This Month
Photo credit: Mindy Tucker. Stand-up comedian, actor & writer Chloe Radcliffe has been riding quite a wave this past year with her comedy chops. Among the notable feats include starring & writing in Steven Soderbergh’s web series Command Z with Roy Wood Jr. & Michael Cera, selling out her full-month run of shows at the […]
Paul Virzi Has Been Touring To “Level Up” What Will Be His Funniest & Best Hour Yet
Photo credit: Sam Ash McHale. Stand-up comedian Paul Virzi has been a New York comedy scene favorite since his 2018 debut special on Comedy Central, Bill Burr Presents Paul Virzi: I’ll Say This. So much of a scene favorite, Virzi caught the attention of fellow New Yorker & Staten Island native, Pete Davidson, who made […]
New York Comedy Club To Celebrate Its 35th Anniversary With Fourth Venue Opening This Summer
Ronny Chieng at New York Comedy Club. Photo credit: Sam Cashell. Courtesy of New York Comedy Club. For over three decades, New York Comedy Club has been delivering the quintessential stand-up comedy experience in the heart of the nation’s comedy scene: a comic, a mic, a brick wall, and a room packed full of fans […]
Joe DeRosa’s Working Out His New Hour, “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden”
Joe DeRosa. Photo credit: Jonathan Thorpe (@Jthorpephoto). It’s been a long time coming for New York comic, Joe DeRosa, to release a brand new hour of stand-up comedy since 2017’s You Let Me Down on Comedy Central. And that day is getting closer & closer as Joe’s been playing out his new material on his […]
Gorilla Specials: Sarah Tollemache Is A Struggling, Hilarious ‘Voluptuous Boy’
When comics have television sets to prepare for, they’ll often run the jokes they plan on doing over and over in front of audiences a week or so prior to their appearance. Every comic is different in their anxiety over this, and it’s a rare instance in which the audience can see how comics adjust […]
Saturday Night Live to Celebrate 50th Anniversary at Radio City Music Hall in 2024
Lorne Michaels & co over at Saturday Night Live have announced they are prepping a 50th Anniversary Celebration for the 50th Season of SNL in 2024 at the iconic Radio City Music Hall as heard via the Cannes Lions Festival. “Right now, there’s a Friday event at Radio City — a kind of homecoming night,” Michaels […]