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  • Voice Choices

    March 14, 2012

    LAUGH LINES

    Calling all improvisers

  • Voice Choices

    January 4, 2012

    HOLLYWOOD SQUARES

    Comedians take on the tough questions

  • Voice Choices

    November 9, 2011

    GIRL POWER

    Mel & El just wanna have fun

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    LAUGH IT UP

    Three nights of Paul F. Tompkins

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Tracy Morgan Apologizes for Anti-Gay Tirade

    ​While performing in Nashville last weekend, 30 Rock's Tracy Morgan allegedly went on an anti-gay tirade. Audience member Kevin Rogers wrote on his Facebook page that Morgan said "'Born this Way' is bullshit, gay is a choice," and that "if his son -- was gay he better come home and talk to him ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2011

    PETAL PUSHERS

    Delight in this flowery Brooklyn festival

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Harriet Holloway Kills With Comedy

    ​ Downtown fave Harriet Holloway "is a six-foot, blonde, buxom, former burlesque dancer-turned-comedian. "Her shows touch upon issues relating to sex, alcoholism, sex, crippling loneliness, more alcohol and sex. All topics gay men love most!" Harriet is bringing her all-star standup comedy ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2010

    POSITIVELY CRAZY

    Seven steps to a new, ridiculous you

  • Voice Choices

    October 20, 2010

    FUNNY OR CRY

    Is it possible to get a laughing hernia?

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2010

    CUTIE PIE

    Kristen Schaal makes us laugh

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2010

    PARTY CRASHER

    Jim Gaffigan jokes around with the folks of The Daily Show

  • Voice Choices

    June 29, 2010

    MAD AS HELL

    Jamie Kilstein has some ideas for Obama

  • Theater

    June 22, 2010

    New York Comics Go Laughing Into the Heart of Darkness

    Comedian Greg Barris hosts a 'Tent Revival' at Park Slope's Union Hall

  • Voice Choices

    March 24, 2010

    TRACY, YOU SO CRAZY

    Tracy Jordan, er, Morgan, for your pleasure

  • Voice Choices

    March 24, 2010

    My Custom Van

    Tracy Jordan, er, Morgan, for your pleasure

  • Voice Choices

    February 16, 2010

    MONSTER MASH

    Local comics team up for new Comedy Central cartoon

  • Voice Choices

    February 16, 2010

    GO GREEN

    The 'Bum Bum Song' really did it for us

  • Voice Choices

    January 26, 2010

    LIVE FROM NEW YORK . . .

    Skip 30 Rock and head downtown

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    CMJ Day Two: Margaret Cho at the Living Room

    Stacey Anderson Margaret Cho plus Emilyn Brodsky, Elon James White The Living Room Wednesday, October 21 I don't know what the true barometer for stupidity is, but it may just be this: not realizing you are watching a bisexually themed comedy show, instead of a depressed Russian folk singer-songwr ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2009

    A STATELY AFFAIR

    Rarities and unseen footage from a sketch comedy favorite

  • Voice Choices

    August 18, 2009

    FUNNY PEOPLE

    A double bill of correspondents from The Daily Show

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2009

    A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN

    Jon Lajoie raps about pot and your genitals

  • Voice Choices

    August 4, 2009

    SUNDAY MORNING

    Richard Unterberger discusses his new book on the Velvet Underground

  • Voice Choices

    July 8, 2009

    NEW YORK IS OZ

    Ashanti's got nothing on Diana Ross

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    FUNNY BUSINESS

    Three days of the best sketch comedy

  • Voice Choices

    April 1, 2009

    GOAT BOY

    The original Saul Silver hits the stage

  • Voice Choices

    January 28, 2009

    ALL MIXED UP

    Beirut sounds like more than just Brooklyn

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Zipper Theatre Closes

    The Zipper Factory theatre is a lovely, slightly old-fashioned little facility, affordable to and used by all kinds of performers from burlesque queens to emerging dramatists to high-powered acts like Margaret Cho and Ute Lemper. It's also connected to a bar and a restaurant, where theatre types o ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    SURE SHOT

    No one’s safe when Todd Barry’s on stage

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    ALL GROW’D UP

    Aziz Ansari is the biggest star in the universe

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    SPECIAL DELIVERY

    An eccentric new gift from Young Jean Lee

  • Voice Choices

    November 5, 2008

    Katt Williams

    An eccentric new gift from Young Jean Lee

  • Voice Choices

    November 5, 2008

    LAST HURRAH

    Goat Island gives its final performance

  • Voice Choices

    October 22, 2008

    LAUGH AWAY YOUR 401(K)

    Find refuge in a few hours of certifiably funny stand-up

  • Voice Choices

    September 23, 2008

    LAUGH RIOT

    Hone your craft, or just heckle others

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2008

    Sweet Twang

    Brad Paisley channels his inner stand-up comedian

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    Voice Choice: Mike Birbiglia

    Brad Paisley channels his inner stand-up comedian

  • Voice Choices

    June 17, 2008

    Laugh In

    Comedy Central comes to Central Park

  • Voice Choices

    March 25, 2008

    NERD RAGE

    Comedian Brian Posehn’s pretty cool for a dork

  • Voice Choices

    February 26, 2008

    COMEDY IS THE NEW BLACK

    Stand-up gets an experimental update

  • Voice Choices

    February 26, 2008

    BACK TO WORK

    Fred Armisen performs just for us one last time

  • Voice Choices

    February 19, 2008

    BACK AT WORK

    We just want these comedians to have something to do

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2008

    Stupid Shit: Mike Ditka's Pork Chops

    We just want these comedians to have something to do

  • Art

    May 29, 2007

    The Sunday Comics

    The Whitest Kids U Know would maybe like to screw a deer. Welcome to New York sketch-comedy boom time.

  • Film

    October 3, 2006

    'Employee of the Month'

    The Whitest Kids U Know would maybe like to screw a deer. Welcome to New York sketch-comedy boom time.

  • News

    July 27, 2004

    The Art of Party Crashing

    Artists and activists stockpile Dick Cheney jokes, Dubya drag, and phalluses in preparation for the Republican invasion

  • NYC Life

    November 19, 2002

    Listings

    Artists and activists stockpile Dick Cheney jokes, Dubya drag, and phalluses in preparation for the Republican invasion

  • Film

    July 2, 2002

    Talk Talk

    Artists and activists stockpile Dick Cheney jokes, Dubya drag, and phalluses in preparation for the Republican invasion

  • Film

    June 4, 2002

    The Crying Games

    Artists and activists stockpile Dick Cheney jokes, Dubya drag, and phalluses in preparation for the Republican invasion

  • Film

    October 27, 1998

    Look Who's Talking

    Artists and activists stockpile Dick Cheney jokes, Dubya drag, and phalluses in preparation for the Republican invasion

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