LEARN: It's that special time again when hipsters gather round to discuss home-buying. The informational event clues in those looking for new digs about the logistics of purchasing their very own pad. Learn from Licensed Real Estate agents, Mortgage Brokers and Real Estate Attorneys whilst you sip on a cocktail or two. 6:30pm // Huckleberry Bar [588 Grand St, Williamsburg] // Free EVENT: It's like a never-ending President's Day this week; tonight enjoy a......

THEATER: Tonight is the first annual Downtown Clown Golden Nose Awards, where the highly coveted award for Clown of the Year will be announced, among other wacky honors. The semi-formal event – "noses optional" – will kick off with a glamorous red carpet entrance (expect tiny limos filled past capacity) and feature performances by nominees, spectacular dance numbers and fabulous door prizes. - John Del Signore 7:30pm Red Carpet, Show at 8:00pm // The Kraine......

PARTY: The L Magazine celebrates their fourth year and 100th issue tonight at their Fourth-Annual Centennial Party. There will be complimentary tequila and goodies from Brooklyn Industries and Crumpler. Come, drink, celebrate and don't think about the hangover you'll have tomorrow. 8pm // M1-5 [52 Walker St] // Free THEATER: This weekend concludes Stone Soup Theater Arts’ double bill of Edward Bond’s 1976 short play Stone and The Maguffin, an original farce that imagines a......

Jon Benjamin started performing in Boston in the early 90's with comedian Sam Seder before getting involved with the David Cross lead Cross Comedy. Since then, he's been a fixture of comedy in all mediums. Home Movies, Wet Hot American Summer, and the popular live revue Tinkle are amongst his many credits. Gothamist sat down with Benjamin to find out more about this highly saught after comedic talent. What's a typical day like for......

MUSIC: Once we saw Men, Women & Children open up for Gang of Four and were pretty unphased. We then saw them play the Annex, and we couldn't stop smiling. Not really our type of music - but they put on quite a show, to say the least. Tonight they headline Bowery with Army of Me, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and The Guts. Watch the below video to get an idea of what you're......

Comedian Mike Birbiglia discusses the development of his show Sleepwalk With Me, his recent Medium Man on Campus college tour, and his forthcoming role in the film Stanley Cuba. How was Oh, Hello ? It was good. I did Oh, Hello, Invite Them Up, and last night I did a show that Eugene did for the first time in Brooklyn at a place called Union Hall. It was Todd Barry, A.D. Miles, Eugene, and myself.......

READINGS: An afternoon event for those of you who don't need to be sweltering in a thankless office - Erica Jong has a conversation with writer Ariel Levy and reads from her new autobiography, Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life in the sunny Bryant Park Reading Room as part of the Word for Word Series. In the book, Jong tells spicy tales of New York and Hollywood, and describes life after best-selling novel Fear......

Thanks to everyone who came out to Pianos last night for our Laughable Hype comedy show! Above are pictures of 4 of the 5 comedians that performed (we didn't take a picture of Todd Barry because we thought he'd call us out for doing so). Thank you to all of the comedians: Eugene Mirman, Aziz Ansari, Todd Barry, Daniel Kitson and John Mulaney. Daniel Kitson was a last minute addition and we couldn't be......

Comedian Brent Weinbach has developed an establish following in San Francisco and has come to New York for his first performance at Mo Pitkins on July 7th. Tell me about your experience with the Craig Ferguson show. I got booked on the show. We spent a some time looking through a thirty-minute tape of mine and put together a five-minute set that would work. We taped the show, the audience responded very well, the staff......

Our comedy show, Laughable Hype 2.0, is happening tonight! Details: Tonght, June 27th, at Pianos (158 Ludlow Street) Doors are at 8pm, Show starts at 9pm Hosted by John Mulaney with Aziz Ansari, Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry and Daniel Kitson Tickets are...SOLD OUT! Since we just found that out in the midst of typing this we feel sort of bad. So we're going to give away two list spots (we think we're allowed to......

There's just one week until our comedy show, Laughable Hype 2.0. Details: June 27th at Pianos (158 Ludlow Street) at 9pm Hosted by John Mulaney with Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman and Aziz Ansari Tickets on sale here! $7 in advance, $8 day of show. One of them had the funniest interview to date on Gothamist. Another is on a label with some of our favorite bands. And another just opened for Radiohead at Bonnaroo,......

Last year we held a Laughable Hype Comedy Show at Tonic, a funnier version of our Movable Hype shows. This year, we're holding another one and it's going to be just like this Pitchfork Festival party - except, minus Sunset Rubdown, Voxtrot and the Joggers. If you did the math correctly you're left with the funny...here are the details: June 27th at Pianos (158 Ludlow Street), 9pm with Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman and Aziz......

THEATER: The Ohio Theater is the site of two of summer's best play festivals, and the first, Clubbed Thumb's eleventh Summerworks, started yesterday with Anne Washburn's I Have Loved Strangers, "in which true prophets, false prophets, and non-prophets battle for the salvation of ancient New York." On the company's website http://www.clubbedthumb.org/ you can do some "research" before going, via various eyebrow-raising links; or you can just rely on the winning trifecta of excellent track records:......

Todd Barry emailed us to say that he had done a segment for Sesame Street, so we checked out the clip on akjak. And it's so much fun - it's about the number 7, and the premise is that some detectives want to investigate rumors that "Seven Ate Nine" - heh! Plain Human also wrote about Todd's Sesame Street appearance - and showed off pictures of a Sesame Street set visit (we are SO jealous).......

Todd Barry, as you know, is a comedian. However, he wasn't always a comedian. Todd's new essay in the New York Times magazine today tells one of his true-life New York stories, pre-comedian days. This one is all about being a sub at the School for the Deaf...without knowing sign language. Ah, hijinks ensue. "The School for the Deaf needs a sub today," the woman on the line said. "I don't know sign language," I......

Aziz Ansari and his friends are taking over Pianos tomorrow night. Todd Barry and Nick Kroll are amongst those friends, but we hear there will be more (UPDATE: This just in, other friends include Leo Allen and Merlin and Zach. No last names, how mysterious!). Among the room full of funny there will also be a/v fun, like the debut screening of the new cut of "Illusionators" [watch the trailer here]. This is by the......

So far we've found nothing funny about the month of January, hopefully things will change starting this week. Check out our comedy picks: When something is called Bar Mitzvah Disco (the Variety Show) you just have to go. The BMD is brought to you by the one and only Movable Hype 6.0 host Nick Kroll, who may or may not be going by the name of Enrique Goldfarb - Northern New Jersey's #3 name in......

Whether you're celebrating Christmas or compiling Best of 2005 lists for your blog this weekend, if you're sticking around the city there will be plenty to do. And of course the subways are now back to take you where you need to go...it's a Chrismukkah miracle! ART & BOOKS: About Glamour is going to explore the art of books with a kickoff reception tonight. Not what you typically see at Border's, the exhibit will be......

This kind of weather makes us want to do one thing, and one thing only: walk through the snow filled streets with a hot chocolate in one hand and John Cusack in the other. Mmm...serendipitous. Reality, however, will leave us with wet jean cuffs as we trudge through dirty (and oft yellow) snow. But at least we'll be on the way to something fun. Here are some suggestions to get you out of the house......

Tomorrow night (Monday May 9th) comedian Colin Quinn (who, if you're like us, you know first from MTV's Remote Control) will headline an evening of stand-up comedy with Todd Barry, Greg Giraldo, and special guests. The evening will be hosted by the comedy duo and Saturday Night Live writers Slovin & Allen. All proceeds from the evening will benefit 826NYC’s writing lab for children. 826NYC was founded by Dave Eggers - it's a nonprofit tutoring......

Comedy shows in New York this weekend are going to be just like Debra Messing’s hair– all over the place but still really good. Here’s the rundown of what not to miss: Saturday April 30 This Saturday night will be a one night only affair with Holiness, Sri Swami The Guru Pitka, who may or may not be Mike Myers. “A Dharma-Talk and Sutra: The Four Laws of Happiness" features Guru Pitka, an altar ego......

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As we thought more about scientific allegations that today, January 24, would be a terribly dreary day for the soul, we remembered a cure: That Gothamist's former objet de stalking and now friend, Todd Barry, had a new comedy album, Falling off the Bone. Now, we're hardly partial, as we've been fans of Todd's wry observations of life for a long time, but who doesn't love a bit about watermelon yarmulke? Or how good the......

Last night Gothamist headed down the street to Pianos for the Tinkle show. We figured it was worth our 6 bucks to hear Todd Barry makes fun of blogs. So we got right up there and sat in the front row. We laughed, we drank, we even cried a little (that dude from LA was not funny.) And a few hours later we ended up with a bottle of Donald Trump cologne (smells like money!)......

Still haven't ironed out your New Years Eve plans yet? It's okay, we think that holiday is over-rated anyway. We suggest you gather some good friends, resolve in '05 to buy tickets before they sell out and get over to one or more of the following shows: *Amnesty International Firefly Project Benefit @ Pianos December 10th. The bill includes The Caulfield Sisters, The Witnesses and very special guests. Who could these special guests be?! Cough,......

Monday: you're tired, you slept in too late, you were late for work (well, those things apply to us today)... you just know it's going to be an uphill battle all week. Turn that frown upside down, people! Because tonight local comedian Eugene Mirman celebrates the release of his new two-disc comedy CD/DVD, The Absurd Night Club Comedy Of Eugene Mirman. Dress up your Monday (and we do mean dress up, in dresses and suits,......

Does the exodus of the RNC leave you feeling abandoned and used? Did the week's speeches leave you feeling frustrated and angry? Was it all just too... heavy? You can nurse your political hangover at State of the Union, an evening of left-leaning comedy, presented by Mother Jones. Todd Barry, Will Durst, Janeane Garofalo, Eugene Mirman, Ward Sutton and Lizz Winstead - unafraid to be called the "L" word - present their state-swinging rebuttals......

This is where Gothamist tells you about all of the shows you should buy tickets for NOW because they will in fact sell out, and you will in fact be scanning Craigslist in hopes of finding a ticket for double the face value at the last minute. So pay attention and purchase wisely. This months list was particularly hard to compose because of the ratio of really good shows to the amount of money we......

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Happy weekend! As many of you are checking out of work early (at least, we hope you are), Gothamist wants to wish you a great weekend. The police are on extra alert - they already confiscated 160 boxes of illegal fireworks from a day care center. Enjoy the weekend and leave your computer and 24/7 Internet access behind you! (Or at least cut it down to 16/5.) Eat hot dogs! Eat tofu dogs! Get sunburned......