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Bindlestiff's Open Variety Stage Show
Mondays at 8PM February 1
Galapagos Arts Spac

A First Look at NYC's Finest Emerging Variety Talents
Circus * Sideshow * Vaudeville * Burlesque * Dance * Music
Come to Dumbo Brooklyn for a spectacular night of variety entertainment: tap dancing bears, Kung Fu juggling, trained rats, clown bands, aerial artists, wire walkers, sword swallowers, a bit of burlesque, physical comedy, contortionists and cowboys. Every show offers amazing sights, quirky surprises, and some of the best variety artists working New York and the world. And at every show you will witness your host Keith "Bindlestiff" Nelson attempt the Human Blockhead Kendama Feat. Always entertaining, nearly successful, this daring and painful feat has never been accomplished.

Galapagos Art Space has dedicated one Monday of every month to New York City's variety, vaudeville, aerial, and circus artists. Celebrating works in progress, emerging artists, and professionals trying something new, this night promises many surprises.

For more information and to buy tickets go to
http://www.galapagosartspace.com
And for all Bindestiff Family Cirkus updates, visit http://www.bindlestiff.org.

Door $5

Galapagos Arts Space|16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

Brad Loekle Hosts THE ELECTRO SHOCK THERAPY COMEDY HOUR!
Sunday, January 31st @ 10 PM
Therapy Bar

LADIES OF LAUGHTER!

Tonight, the longest running comedy show in Hell’s Kitchen welcomes women who will make you wet yourself! Host with the most, TruTV’s Brad Loekle, will be joined by Alli Breen (Boston comedy club); Kendra Cunningham (SNL); Adrienne Iapalucci (New York Comedy Festival); and headliner Helen Hong (E! Network).

And… as always…
NO cover charge, NO drink minimum, $6 cosmos all night. For more information, visit www.therapy-nyc.com.

therapy | 348 West 52nd St
(between 8th and 9th Aves.)

Comedy at Bar 13
January 27th, 2010. Doors open 8:30pm
Bar13

Free Stand-up Comedy every wednesday conveniently located off Union Square. Every week there's a famous comic and a couple that should be. Hosted by Dan Goodman and Dan Cartwright. This week's show is super fun:

Kumail Nanjiani(Just got done doing Letterman)
Pat Dixon(Comedy Central, Released his CD Goodbye Forever Fatty
Louis Katz(HBO's Down and Dirty)

Please Come and Drink till you wake up in Coney Island.

Free. More info or to RSVP email comedyatbar13@gmail.com

Bar13| 35 East 13th Street
(right off Union Sq.)

Dumpster Tequila Presents: Groundhog Time! Valentine's Edition!
Saturday February 13, 2010 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
The Creek

Who doesn’t like a big Broadway musical? Now imagine that there are no fancy costumes, no fancy sets, and everything is improvised. That’s what happens when Dumpster Tequila takes the stage, witness a full blown musical complete with dancing and singing, and the best part, it’s all made up! Come see Dumpster Tequila musical improv as they present a completely made up musical! Hosted by John Flynn(Nights of Our Lives, the Liar Show) and featuring improv by Pawnukkah and UCB Harold Team Robber Barron!

Free Show
http://www.dumpstertequila.com

The Creek
10-93 Jackson Ave(at 49th)
Long Island City, NY 11101

Kitty Nights Burlesque
Sundays @ 9:00 PM
Bar On A

Fem Appeal and Burgundy Brixx present Kitty Nights Burlesque.
Each weekly show features a talented crop of rising burlesque performers.
Part of the allure of Kitty Nights is its intimate setting and relaxed atmosphere and although it's a showcase for newbies, established performers have also graced the Kitty Nights stage. There's never a shortage of talent or creativity. Kitty Nights is CAT-TASTIC entertainment.

Admission: $5 For more information call 212-353-8231 or visit www.kittynights.com

Bar On A | 170 Avenue A @ 11th Street

MADE-UP MUSICAL
Every Friday at 10:00pm
Magnet Theater

Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Tuesdays through Sundays at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Ticket prices vary; reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824 . The MADE-UP MUSICAL sings and dances its way onto the Magnet Theater stage with a one-of-a-kind musical comedy every week. After an interview with an audience member, the cast weaves together a full one-act musical, complete with all the songs, trappings and melodrama an audience expects from our friends on Broadway. Featuring John O’Donnell, Tara Copeland, Jessica Allen, Morgan Phillips, Michael Martin, and Leah Gotcsik with music provided by Frank Spitznagel.

Tickets $7

Magnet Theater | 254 W. 29th Street, NYC

MOONCRACKERS!
Every Friday at 7:00pm
Magnet Theater

Magnet Theater hosts a variety of performances and special events by the best of New York’s improv masters and visiting international artists on Tuesdays through Sundays at 254 W. 29th Street, ground floor (between 7th and 8th Avenues), NYC. A detailed schedule and description of each night’s line-up can be found at www.magnettheater.com. Ticket prices vary; reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (212) 244-8824. MOON CRACKERS! every Friday at 7:00pm; Tickets $5
Abby Sher and special guests make up a new form each week. It’s cheesy. It’s moony. It’s one small step and one giant leap for crackerkind.

Magnet Theater | 254 W. 29th Street, NYC.

Morphium
A Cabaret by Kim Smith
Sunday, January 31 at 8PM
Don't Tell Mama

2009 Bistro Award Winner and 2009 MAC Award Nominee KIM SMITH Returns to Don’t Tell Mama, Sunday, January 31, charting a dark and whimsical path through the arrivals and departures of a neo-Weimar, musical misfit in “Morphium;” his latest sauntering jaunt through life's shadowy alleyways. Jerry Steichen accompanies on piano. Singing in German, French and English, Mr. Smith has chosen a compelling international collection of songs to showcase his extraordinary range as singer and actor, reinterpreting works by Weimar-era composers, and modern-day artists alike, including: Friedrich Hollaender, Mischa Spoliansky, Rudolph Nelson, The Supremes, Kylie Minogue, The Divinyls, Harold Arlen and myriad glittering others. Morphium was originally commissioned by the Neue Galerie’s Café Sabarsky as part of their March, 2009 season. After enjoying a sold-out debut at the Sabarsky, Morphium has since performed at Melbourne’s Butterfly Club in a limited run, before returning to New York’s iconic cabaret and alternative performance melting pot, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, in July 2009.

Tickets are $15 For more information or advance purchase, visit www.donttellmamanyc.com / 212-757-0788 / www.kimdavidsmith.com

Don’t Tell Mama| 343 W. 46th Street (bet. 8th and 9th Avenues)

NAKED GIRLS READING Pulp: Gotham's Seedy Underbelly
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Madame X

In January, hit nude literary salon Naked Girls Reading is throwing a nationwide book release party for the publication of burlesque-infused pulp murder mystery "The Corpse Wore Pasties" by Jonny Porkpie. The celebration kicks off this weekend in Chicago, the birthplace of Naked Girls Reading, with "Naked Girls Reading PULP! - celebrating the cheap and tawdry" on Sunday, January 3rd at noon. "When I think of cheap and tawdry, I think of Jonny Porkpie," said NGR Nationwide producer Franky Vivid. "So what better way to honor the release of his book than with a reading of other cheap and tawdry literature?" After the nude literary celebration kicks off in Chicago, it will travel through the NGR branches in Seattle WA, Key West FL, Dallas TX, (and perhaps Madison WI, Miami FL, and Denver CO as well) before landing in New York on Saturday, January 29 at 8:00pm for NAKED GIRLS READING Pulp: Gotham's Seedy Underbelly. Nasty Canasta (who is also fictionalized as a character in "The Corpse Wore Pasties") leads an all-star cast of burlesque performers reading selections from pulp novels set in the Big Apple, including Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, Cornell Woolrich, and (not co-incidentally) Jonny Porkpie. But Porkpie isn't the first burlesque performer to pen a lurid pulp murder mystery; he follows in the high-heeled footsteps of the great Gypsy Rose Lee, who published "The G-String Murders" in 1941. "We'll be reading from both burlesque murder mysteries," said star Nasty Canasta, "and determine who is the more attractive author. Oh, no, wait, we don't have to read from the books to do that. Gypsy is the more attractive author. Porkpie's cute, but come on. It's Gypsy, for crying out loud. Anyway, we'll read selections from both books." "Beautiful women nationwide reading my novel in the buff?" said Porkpie. "What more could any author ask for? And I hope this event will encourage everyone reading 'The Corpse Wore Pasties' to do so naked. Except if they're on the subway. That's probably not a good idea."

Tickets $20- $25. For more information or advance purchase visit www.pinchbottom.com

Madame X | 94 W. Houston St.
(bet. Thompson & W. Broadway)

Positively Awesome
Tuesday February 9th 8PM – 9:30PM
Cellar 58 Every

Tuesday, enjoy effervescent comedy along with your favorite glass of bubbly! Abbi Crutchfield warmly welcomes New Yorkers to a night of innovative, uplifting comic talent. Having built a reputation of camaraderie among the city's best comics with Brooklyn's The Living Room show since 2006, Crutchfield brings the same comfortable vibe to the art-infused East Village. Joined by co-producer and hip hop sorcerer Andrew Singer, this electric union will provide a spark that is sure to light up your night. Join us at 8PM for an event that features some of NYC's top emerging talent in stand-up comedy: Reese Waters, Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani and Sean Patton joined us in the first month. At 9PM, the night is capped off with the uniquely sophisticated hip hop stylings of Soce the Elemental Wizard! No cover. 1 drink minimum. For more information please call 212-420-1300 or visit: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=240856845705&index=1

Cellar 58 | 58 2nd Ave
(between 3rd and 4th streets)

Sunday Night Live
Every Sunday Night @ 8pm- 10:15pm
NY Comedy Club

Jamie Roberts hosts a mix of rising club comics and stand-ups who’ve already broken through to the cable-TV-spot level. Check out what is being called “The Best show to see on the weekends in NYC.” The show features two headliners a week and the best comics in NYC.

Tickets are $5(Online) $10 at the door. 2 Drink min
For more information visit www.jamieroberts.com or call 212-696-5233

NY Comedy Club | 241 East 24th Street

ERIC COMSTOCK AND BARBARA FASANO DEBUT
“THIS THING CALLED LOVE”
Tuesdays through Thursdays at 8:30 PM
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:30 and 11 PM.
No 8:30 PM shows on Saturday, February 20 or Tuesday, March 2.
February 9 - March 6th
OAK ROOM SUPPER CLUB at the ALGONQUIN HOTEL

ERIC COMSTOCK & BARBARA FASANO, the popular husband-and-wife team equally respected in both the pop and jazz worlds, begin their first joint extended engagement at the legendary Oak Room Supper Club in the Algonquin Hotel on Tuesday, February 9th and continue through March 6th, 2010. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, they will debut their new show, “THIS THING CALLED LOVE”, which explores the many sides of modern romance -- the joys and complications, the agony and the ecstasy. The evening includes music from the American jazz and pop songbooks past and present, from Cole Porter and Duke Ellington to Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Sondheim. They will be joined by bassist Sean Smith.

There is a $50 cover charge per person plus either a $30 food and beverage minimum per person or a $60 prix fixe dinner. Reservations: (212) 419-9331 or bmcgurn@algonquinhotel.com

Oak Room Supper Club in the Algonquin Hotel| 59 West 44th Street, NYC.

Aaron Haber's
The World Stand-Up Comedy
Sunday thru Thursday @ 8:30pm and 10:30pm
Friday and Saturday @ 8:30pm, 10:30pm, and Midnight
Broadway Comedy Club

See NYC's finest comics preform every night @ the Broadway Comedy
Club. Sunday thru Thursday @ 8:30pm & 10pm. Friday & Saturday @
8:30pm, 10:30pm, & Midnight.Featuring today's hottest comics from
Comedy Central, Letterman, and the Tonight Show, as well as the
brightest New York comics on the circuit.

$10 cover plus 2 drink minimum. For more info and to purchase tickets
please visit www.theworldnyc.com

The Broadway Comedy Club | 314 West 53rd Street

The World
Sunday thru Thursday @ 8:30pm and 10:30pm
Friday and Saturday @ 8:30pm, 10:30pm, and Midnight
Broadway Comedy Club

See NYC's finest comics preform every night @ the Broadway Comedy
Club. Sunday thru Thursday @ 8:30pm & 10pm. Friday & Saturday @
8:30pm, 10:30pm, & Midnight.Featuring today's hottest comics from
Comedy Central, Letterman, and the Tonight Show, as well as the
brightest New York comics on the circuit.

$10 cover plus 2 drink minimum. For more info and to purchase tickets
please visit www.theworldnyc.com

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The Broadway Comedy Club | 314 West 54th Street

Coming Soon

Brad Loekle Hosts THE ELECTRO SHOCK THERAPY COMEDY HOUR!
Sunday, February 7th @ 10 PM
Therapy Bar

COMEDY COCKTAIL

Tonight midtown’s most popular comedy show concocts a clever comedy cocktail, mixing 2 parts fan favorites with 2 parts fresh young faces! Resident “cubmedian” Brad Loekle (TruTV’s “The Smoking Gun”) is joined by comedians Edison Apple (Logo’s “Laughing Matters”); Liz Miele (Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham”); and headliner Ophira Eisenberg (Premium Blend).

And… as always…
NO cover charge, NO drink minimum, $6 cosmos all night. For more information, visit www.therapy-nyc.com.

therapy | 348 West 52nd St
(between 8th and 9th Aves.)

Ochi’s After Dark
Saturday February 6th 9pm-10:30
Ochi’s Lounge at Comix Comedy Club

The first half is a swinging variety show featuring the best mix of club and alternative stand-ups, and sketch characters . Then we close out the show with a storytelling jam session featuring all of the nights performers telling real life funny tales of triumphs and failure (let's be honest mostly failures) based on audience suggestions.
Hosted by Harry Terjanian with comedians:
Claudia Cogan
Dan Goodman
Jamie Kilstien
Reese Waters
Pat Stango

FREE
http://www.comixny.com/ochislounge.aspx

Ochi's Lounge (Inside of Comix Comedy Club)
353 W. 14th st. (Btwn 8th and 9th ave)
New York, NY
353 W. 14th st. (Btwn 8th and 9th ave)
New York, NY

Coming Soon

Ash Louis in The Shameless Self Promotion Show
Friday, January 29th @ 7:30pm
Ochi's Lounge (Inside Comix)

Join comedian/author Ash Louis (A Story Unintentional in Retrospect) as he performs his first full length show on January 29th, at Ochi's Lounge (Inside Comix NY). Hosting is Evan Morgenstern (Switzerland Neutral Comedy) with appearances by Jen Kwok (NBC's Stand Up for Diversity) and Andrew "Soce, the Elemental Wizard" Singer (MTV, VH1). A night of some of the best comedy in New York City, in one of New York's best comedy clubs, and best of all... it's FREE. Just a one item minimum.

FREE show (one item minimum) www.ashlouis.com or www.comixny.com

Ochi's Lounge (inside Comix) | 353 West 14th Street
(Btwn 8th and 9th Ave)

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