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Best NYC Comedy Tonight Comedy Club Discounts Comedy Videos Favorite Jokes Archives Massive NYC Theatre Discounts NYCC 2019 Hy on Theatre Contact Hy Hire Hy Become an Insider Site Index Site Search HyReviews.com The Most Complete & Accurate Info on NYC's Best Live Comedy Shows —Stand-Up, Improv, Sketch, Storytelling, and More, With Most Shows Free-$15—Plus Comedy Discounts , Theatre Discounts , Jokes , and Videos From legendary NYC comedy site Brooklyn Vegan : Thank God for Hy Bender's religiously updated show bible Best New York Comedy (and HyReviews.com ). He is literally the only person in NYC providing daily summaries of what's happening comedy-wise. It must be exhausting keeping that monster of a website alive. It is your daily comedy itinerary and it scares me how on top of his shit this guy is. Last updated on Friday January 24th 2020 I'm one of the finest ghostwriters in the country; my 20+ books include two New York Times bestsellers, a phenom megaseller that hit #16 on Amazon.com and has sold over 340,000 print copies to date, and an interview book with legendary author Neil Gaiman that hit #240 on Amazon.com. I've also written five Dummies books and a Complete Idiot's Guide . I cover comedy as a labor of love. But if you need help with a book, let's chat, because there's no one better at ghostwriting, editing, and/or coaching. To learn more about my services, please visit BookProposal.net and then email me at hy@hyreviews.com . Do you like cross-genre stories (fantasy/comedy, SF/comedy, fantasy/horror, etc.)? Please check out my new podcast, Ghosts On Drugs , by clicking here . Please click to go directly to: NYC Live Comedy Recommendations Comedy Blog (For Subscriptions, Mobile Devices): BestNewYorkComedy.Com NYC Comedy Club Discounts—NO COVER on all Eastville & Broadway Comedy shows! ( Eastville Comedy , Greenwich Village Comedy , Broadway Comedy , Dangerfield's ) Massive NYC Theatre Discounts NYC Comedy Picks for January 2020 Last updated Friday 1/24 Please note that these listings are updated frequently. The best way to be instantly notified about new show postings is to subscribe to my BestNewYorkComedy.com blog and allow for email notifications, and to follow me on Twitter ( @hybender ). In addition, you can use the links below to explore the schedules of all the major comedy venues in NYC; and you can find excellent live comedy recommendations weekly via The New York Times . That said, my top NYC comedy recommendations for January 2020 (with much more to come soon) include: Friday 1/24: The Daily Show staff writers Kat Radley (stand-up album The Important Thing is That I'm Pretty ) and Josh Johnson (writer for The Daily Show; previously writer/performer for Jimmy Fallon; Comedy Central Half Hour, @midnight ) join host Rahmein Mostafavi for a roundtable discussion with the audience about relationships: Couples Therapy: A Comedy Show (7:00 pm, $20 cover and no min., The Stand Upstairs at 116 East 16th Street ; PLEASE NOTE: This show has SOLD OUT. ) Friday 1/24-Sunday 1/26: This solo show is described as follows: "''In my four years of living in New York, I’ve only ever swiped right on white men.' In this semi-autobiographical stand-up drama, Sim Yan Ying takes a bitingly honest look at white worship, postcolonial baggage, and politically correct culture. She tears apart her escapades with white men in New York and delves into her experiences growing up in Singapore, throwing into question how and why we are sometimes complicit in the very things we outwardly reject:" I Love White Men (7:00 pm, $22 , LES' Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street ; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street) Friday 1/24: "Amazon is a crazy big corporation. So big, in fact, it’s hard to even wrap your head around it. Web hosting, groceries, streaming video, home surveillance, holiday gifts...you can get almost anything from Jeff Bezos’ mega-company..." The online store & Web services company that changed the world, Amazon.com , is explored by host Mark Vigeant ( Funny Or Die, Prairie Home Companion ) with Kashmir Hill ( The New York Times ), Dhruv Mehrotra (Gizmodo), Caroline Haskins ( Buzzfeed News ), Samantha Reece (Head Writer of Buzzfeed's BTW ) and Rollie Williams (host of An Inconvenient Talk Show ), plus music by Darren Williams : Internet Explorers: Amazon.com (9:30 pm, $13.71 online or $15 at the door, LES' Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street ; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street) Friday 1/24: This popular podcast by Abdullah Saeed & David Bienenstock (bottom right) "blazes joints, cracks jokes, and explores the people, places, and events that make up the complex and fascinating 10,000+ year past of weed and weed culture, from Barack Obama's time in the Choom Gang, to an exclusive first-hand account of how the Hollywood sign briefly became the Hollyweed sign," tonight with guest Ben Sinclair (left and top right; co-creator, co-director, and co-star of HBO's High Maintenance ): Great Moments in Weed History Live (10:00 pm, $20 , Brooklyn's The Bell House at 149 7th Street ; take R subway to 9th Street or F/G to Fourth Avenue; part of the Brooklyn Podcast Festival ) Friday 1/24: Dave Hill (WFMU's The Goddamn Dave Hill Show ; bands Valley Lodge and Diamondsnake; books Tasteful Nudes , Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore , and Parking the Moose ; comedy album Let Me Turn You On ) gives his first-person account of different periods throughout history, while Jodi Lennon , Jim Biederman , and Chris Gersbeck "call bullsh*t on most of what he's saying:" for this live-on-stage recording of Dave's weekly podcast: Dave Hill: History Fluffer ( 10:00 pm, $15 , Brooklyn's Union Hall at 702 Union Street ; take R subway to Union Street; part of the Brooklyn Podcast Festival ) Friday 1/24: Come celebrate Josh Wesson 's birthday as he hosts Monroe Martin ( David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon , finalist on Last Comic Standing , Comedy Central's The Jim Gaffigan Show , Netflix's Master of None; host of podcast No Need for Apologies ), Molly Austin (TruTV's Late Night Snack, Comedy Central; stand-up album Zero to New Jersey ), Phoebe Bottoms (Adult Swim's Decker; Jim Henson Foundation-trained puppeteer; written for Tig Notaro's Twitter account; 4-time Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction winner), Lawrence DeLoach (CBS Sports Network; host of lifestyle podcast Sup? ), Charles Engle (co-host of podcast Please Send Nudes ), Ben DeMarco (Comedy Central, MTV, FX), and Danny Palmer : Late Night Stand-Up at The Stand (11:00 pm, $20 , The Stand Upstairs at 116 East 16th Street ; includes afterparty!) Saturday 1/25: "A fully improvised, obsessively sound-designed science fiction comedy following a team of misfit ambassadors attempting to establish diplomatic relations in the remote and crappy Zyxx Quadrant. 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. Carly says, "Romance today isn't what it used to b...