Positively Awesome

Positively Awesome Irreverence

2011-06-02T09:41:00.000-07:00

This month Positively Awesome brings comics who challenge your complacency with their quick wit, deep thoughts and snarky snarks.

For our 65th Show on Thurs June 16 we welcome

DAMIEN LEMON (Time Out NY, Carolines)

JAMIE LEE (LAST COMIC STANDING, VH1)

DAVID FOSTER (HBO, Showtime, MTV)

Thurs June 16, 8:00PM

Cover: $5

123 E. 24th Street

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Positively Awesome Returns!

2011-05-13T11:55:00.000-07:00

If you didn't already get some in the previous tax season, Andrew and Abbi are bringing you Positively Awesome Returns! Because the show is back and better than ever. After a brief hiatus in April, we are fitting comfortably in our new venue, the People's Improv Theater!

For our 64th Show on Thurs May 19 we welcome
SARA SCHAEFER(Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)
MYQ KAPLAN (Comedy Central Presents)
JAMIE ROBERTS (Broadway Comedy Club)

Thurs May 19, 8:00PM
Cover: $5
123 E. 24th Street
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October Shows!

2010-09-29T22:34:00.000-07:00

Here we go again!

October 5

BRIAN MCGUINESS (La Boca, Gigs & Spots)
MOLLY DYKEMAN ([Gay] Comedy Show, Comix)
BROOKE VAN POPPELEN (Sirius Cosmo Radio, American Chopper)
RANDY EPLEY (Cracked, Comedy Dungeon)
SHARON MAMA SPELL (Shrink, Comix)

October 12

AMY ALBERT (Delilah Dix, LAFF)
PHOEBE ROBINSON (Case of the Mondays, Gotham Comedy Club)
SASSY (Chic & Sassy, SEXPOT Gurls)
THE PARODIVAS (Comix, Gotham Comedy Club)

October 19

ADI BLOTMAN (Comix, Gotham Comedy Club)
GIBRAN SALEEM (Gotham, Nobody's Token)
MYKA FOX (Monday Rendezvous, Comical Radio)
CARA KILDUFF (Talking About, Hot Gay Comics)

October 26

Positively Awesome Parents!

These performers all have kids!! Go team!!

KEVIN TOR (Auction!, Freshwater Picnic)
VINNY FALLON (Tell Your Friends, SuperEgo Comedy)
DAVE T. KOENIG (The Commercials, The Cubicle Chronicles)
CAROLYN CASTIGLIA (Splurge!, Miss Rap Supreme)

September Shows!

2010-09-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

What a fun!

September 7

BORIS KHAYKIN (The Komedy Zone!, North Coast)
SUBHAH AGARWAL (Beloved in both Pittsburgh and Chicago)
NIMESH PATEL (Gotham Comedy Club, Variety SHAC)
BLAINE KNEECE (Andy Kaufman Award, Second City)
KIBIBI DILLON (soloNOVA Arts Festival, Launch World Wide)

**Special musical duet by soce and Hardcore Boris!**

September 14

Second ever Positively Awesome All Virgin Stand-up Show!!

The first one was such a smashing success that we're doing another one! These are all people who've never done stand-up but always wanted to! Come watch the nervous energy as they throw all their hopes and dreams directly into your hands!!

SCOTT FRIEDSTEIN
AMIN MAKHANI
TIM 'KEO' KEOUGH
MEGAN VENZIN
ZOE FARMINGDALE
TYLER OWEN PARSONS
LOU DAVIDSON

**Special musical performance by Phoebe Kreutz!!*

September 21

ADRIENNE IAPALUCCI (Last Comic Standing, People's Choice Award)
RAY DEVITO (¡SACAPUNTAS!, Carly Simon Comedy Hour)
JOE DEVITO (Fox News Red Eye, Last Comic Standing)
REGINALD FERGUSON (Gotham Comedy Club, Eastville Comedy Club)
GABE PACHECO (Get Lucky, Mic Club)
ARDEN MYREN (Mad TV, Chelsea Lately)

September 28

Positively Awesome Musicians!

The hottest musical comedy acts will provide both songs and jokes for you!!!

JESSICA DELFINO (Montreal Comedy Festival, Skits 'N' Tits)
ESTHER KU (Last Comic Standing, NYUCF)
SOCE, THE ELEMENTAL WIZARD (Comedy Central, Howard Stern)

Yay!!! Tuesdays at 8pm, and it's on!

August Shows!

2010-07-28T10:13:00.001-07:00

Hello, friends. What a night. I had a blast at the All-Comedy Central Presents spectacular. I'm looking forward to each of our shows for this month as well!

August 3

JASON SAENZ (Too Cool for School, Dumpster Tequila)
BECKY YAMAMOTO (Supercream Supreme!, ELECTRIC!)
KIBIBI DILLON (soloNOVA Arts Festival, Launch World Wide)
JASON VERLAINE (Life on Earth, Gotham Comedy Club)

August 10

LEIGHANN LORD (Def Comedy All Star Jam, Premium Blend)
DAN HIRSHON (Boston Comedy Festival, Funny Cakes)
BEN KISSEL (Brain and the Beast, Piñata)
TODD MONTESI (UG! COMEDY SHOW!!, MONTIKILLAVISION)
JC COCCOLI (Best Week Ever, MTV Movie Awards)

August 17

MIKE DRUCKER (The Writer's Room, SNL)
DANNY SOLOMON (MacGyver Show, Comix)
JEN KWOK (Eat Pray Love, Stand-Up for Diversity)
NORE DAVIS (Caroline's, Comic Strip Live)
JAMIE KILSTEIN (Citizen Radio, Montreal Just for Laughs)

August 24

ANTHONY DEVITO (Savage Practice, Hot Soup)
ANTHONY DEVITO (Conan O'Brien, Apostles of Park Slope)
MATT SINGER (Joe's Pub, Bowery Ballroom)
APARNA NANCHERLA (Last Comic Standing, NBC's Stand Up For Diversity)

August 31

Positively Awesome Hispanic Comedians!

GONZALO CORDOVA (Mish Mosh, CC Insider)
ROJO PEREZ (Comix, New York Comedy Club)
GINA BRILLON (Live at Gotham, Carolines)
SERGIO CHICON (Comedy Central, MTV)

And don't forget to watch or perform on our Night Shift as well!! 5-minute sets at around 9pm.. Sign-up is at 8pm!

July Shows!!

2010-06-30T10:12:00.001-07:00

Do we have some shows for you!!! We're very excited to continue bringing the comedy non-stopulous for the populace!! Tuesdays at 8pm. No cover, 1 drink min!

July 6

CREDE AND KANE (Phaea Crede and Alex Kane)
RAMTIN TAHERI (Under Pressure Comedy, Soul Glo)
DAMIEN LEMON (Comedy on the Hump, Comedy Cellar)
HANNIBAL BURESS (Jimmy Fallon, George Lopez)
ROB O'REILLY (Comedy Central, The Tonight Show)

July 13

KATINA CORRAO (Dream Role, Conan O'Brien)
KATRIN HIER (Sister Katrin's Confessional, Breast Milk of Satan)
ARTHUR CARLSON (Ultimate Experts, The Check Spot)
NATE KUSHNER (Caroline’s, Stand-Up New York)

July 20

GEORGE GORDON (Show Down, Request for Cookies)
EVAN MORGENSTERN (Switzerland Neutral Comedy, Broadway Comedy Club)
LUKE THAYER (The Living Room, Society Comedy)
LAURA PRANGLEY (Too Soon, Caroline's)

July 27

Positively Awesome CCP'ers!

A night featuring performers who have had their own Comedy Central Presents specials! Here's who's confirmed currently (subject to availability):

TED ALEXANDRO (Comedy Central Presents, Comix)
DC BENNY (Comedy Central Presents, Carolines)
CHRISTIAN FINNEGAN (Comedy Central Presents, The Today Show)
TOM SHILLUE (Comedy Central Presents, TELL: Worlds Collide at Comix)
MYQ KAPLAN (Comedy Central Presents, Last Comic Standing)

There are always surprise guests who drop in for The Night Shift at the end of the show!!! Stick around for improvised freestyles, prizes and more!

June Shows!

2010-06-02T14:34:00.000-07:00

Let's make it happen!!

June 1

BOBBY MIYAMOTO (Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comics Unleashed)
RAQUEL D'APICE (Ultimate Experts, The Subway Chronicles)
MARK NORMAND (Hot Soup, Laughing Skull Festival)
KEVIN ALLISON (RISK!, The State)
HARI KONDABOLU (Comix headliner, John Oliver's Stand Up Show on Comedy Central)

June 8

Positively Awesome All Virgin Stand-Up Show!!

All performers will be doing stand-up comedy for their first time ever! Come and breathe in the fresh air, filled with hopes and dreams!!!

STEVEN MATTSON HAYHURST
JUSTIN SHUBOW
EVAN WATKINS
MATT KOFF
ADAM RAUSCHER
RACHEL GORDON
SEAN MCMANUS
RANDOLFE WICKER

**Special performance of Beer Belly by Lester Greene!**

June 15

JEFF KREISLER (Get Rich Cheating, Shoot The Messenger)
ERIN JUDGE (Live At Gotham, The Meaning of Wife)
ALI WONG (What's Crackin'?, SF Weekly's Best Comedian of 2009)
ROGER HAILES (Live At Gotham, American Chopper)

June 22

MATT KELLY (NBA, BabyHole)
NEGIN FARSAD (Nerdcore Rising, Comedy Central's The Watch List)
DANNY LOBELL (Comical Radio, Magners Glasgow Comedy Fest)
SELENA COPPOCK (Comix, Boston Comedy Festival)

June 29

Positively Awesome Black Comedians!

JERMAINE FOWLER (NYUCF, Sirius XM Radio)
PHOEBE ROBINSON (Case of the Mondays, NYUCF)
NEIL CHARLES (Like 2 Laugh, NY Comedy Club)
ELON JAMES WHITE (Comedy Central, This Week in Blackness)

Life is Positively Awesome.

2010-05-13T16:54:00.000-07:00

I'm really excited about where our show is headed. As co-producers, we are improving our communication and sharing our goals together. We are each stepping in with new and innovative ideas to enhance promotion, setup, inventory, booking and all other behind-the-scenes details to make everything run smoothly.

Booking the show has been a lot of fun. I strive to deliver a diverse mix of the hottest up and coming comedians in the city. We rarely repeat bookings, and when we do, it's generally only once every few months, due to the staggeringly massive pool of available talent nearby. I wish we could book everyone we liked immediately, but we only offer a few spots per show, so sometimes it may take a few months or longer before we can put someone on.

Time flies though, so before you know it you'll be up on stage, pouring out your heart in front of a willing crowd.

For those who don't want to wait for their booked slot to perform, we offer a few 5-minute slots during our Night Shift portion that runs from 9:10 to 9:30. If you show up by 9pm that night, we can most likely put you on.

Hope to see you there soon!

May Shows!

2010-04-21T11:04:00.001-07:00

Will you look at that! How time flies. April's almost over, and May's looking ready to party. Let's not hold back.. Here we go with our May line-ups!

May 4

VIDUR KAPUR (Carolines, Comix)
LEAH DUBIE (Dykes on Mics, Generosi-titties)
STEPHANIE HOLMES (Bake Sale, Joe Franklin's)
DANNY SOLOMON (Comix, The MacGyver Show)

**Special performance of Spicify My Love by Jackie Silvestri!!**

May 11

BARATUNDE THURSTON (Popular Science's Future Of, The Onion)
DAVID LEE NELSON (Gotham, Village Lantern)
GIULIA ROZZI (Stripped Stories, Mortified)
BEN LERMAN (Match Game Live, Keith and the Girl)
BARON VAUGHN (Comix, Black Dynamite)

**Special duet featuring Ben Lerman and soce!!**

May 18

MIKE ENNIS (Wolfangle Films, Request for Cookies)
KAREEM GREEN (Showtime at the Apollo, BET's Comic View)
ADIRA AMRAM (An American Idol, Kid Koala)
CARRIE GRAVENSON (NYUCF, Catch a Rising Star)
DANIEL MAHONEY (Haiku, Comedy Central)

**Special duet featuring Adira and soce!!**

May 25

Positively Awesome Jews!

GILAD FOSS (Comix, Night Kitchen)
EMILY EPSTEIN (Ha!, Laugh Lounge)
AMY BECKERMAN (Dykes on Mics, Howard Stern)
MYQ KAPLAN (Comedy Central Presents, Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien)

Cheers!

April Shows!

2010-03-16T10:20:00.000-07:00

I know March is still happening, but I just couldn't wait to let you know who we've booked for April 2010.

April 6

WIL SYLVINCE (Carolines, Chapelle Show)
MARK NORMAND (Hot Soup, New Orleans Comedy Festival)
CAROLYN CASTIGLIA (Splurge, Edinburgh Fringe Festival)
CHRIS DOUCETTE (Gotham Comedy Club, Charleston Comedy Festival)

**Special duet featuring Miss CKC and soce!!**

April 13

ERIK BERGSTROM (Sunday Night Stand-Up, Grimmer Tales)
ASH LOUIS (Tijuana Yacht Club, A Story Unintentional in Retrospect)
KARA KLENK (Spike TV, Hug Life)
CALVIN CATO (Nouveau Poor, The Wade Wilson Experience)

**Special duet featuring Ash Louis and soce!!**

April 20

HARRY TERJANIAN (Laughing Liberally, Ochi's.. After Dark)
JOANNE FILAN (Caroline's, Gotham Comedy Club)
MINDY RAF (VH1, College Humor)
JOSH SANKEY (Camp Wayne, Caroline's)

**Special duet featuring Mindy Raf and soce!!**

April 27
Positively Awesome Homosexuals!

SHAWN HOLLENBACH (Hot Gay Comics, Miss Fag Hag Pageant)
MATT MILITELLO (Comedy Cellar, Big Apple Performing Arts)
ROBIN CLOUD (Caroline's, Triple Minority Report)
RICH KIAMCO (Fringe Festival, True Colors)

Come on out and enjoy! Drop by any Tuesday at 8pm sharp. Come early so that you don't miss my surprise opening hip hop set!

March Shows!!

2010-02-26T07:56:00.000-08:00

We couldn't be more excited to present all of the following performers to you for March!

Mar 2

LEE CAMP (The Onion, Huffington Post)
MATT RUBY (Hot Soup, We're All Friends Here)
DEL (Jamie Foxx's Laugh-a-palooza, New York Underground Comedy Festival)
DJ HAZARD (Ding-ho Club, Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story)
**Special improvised duet of soce and DJ Hazard! **

Mar 9

BRENDAN FITZGIBBONS (The Onion, Gandhi, is that You?)
CATIE LAZARUS (Dr. Lazarus, Tango Magazine)
KWAME ROBERTSON (Eastville, Laugh Lounge)
RYAN HAMILTON (Just for Laughs, Comedy Central's Live at Gotham)
DANNY LOBELL (Comical Radio, Glasgow Comedy Festival)

Mar 16

LANCE WEISS (Caroline's, Gandhi, is that You?)
KUMAIL NANJIANI(Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel Live)
SUSANNAH PERLMAN (Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, Obama Girls of Comedy)
RICK YOUNGER (BET's Comic View, Last Comic Standing)

March 23

ILANA GLAZER (High School Talent Show, Baby Steps)
DAN WILBUR (Comix, Acid Reflux)
CLAUDIA COGAN (Obama Girls of Comedy, Comix)
SNAKES (Comedy Central, Harvard Sailing Team)

March 30
Positively Awesome Ladies!!!

SUE FUNKE (The Treehouse, The Ultimate Experts)
ELIZA SKINNER (Shameless, Beatdown)
MARA HERRON (Boston Comedy Festival, Comix)
LESLIE GOSHKO (Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, Sideshow Goshko)

Yes, every final week of the month, we're booking a special theme. What will next month's theme be? Each show is going to be amazing, so please mark your calendars!

All Asian Showcase Featuring Vidur Kapur Feb 23!!

2010-02-19T14:23:00.000-08:00

Hi. I hope you can make it to our first ever Positively Awesome theme night, which is this Tuesday!!! Here's the complete line-up:

Feb 23, 8pm

VIDUR KAPUR (Just for Laughs, NBC's Stand Up For Diversity)
HARI KONDABOLU (John Oliver's Standup Show on Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live)
JEN KWOK (College Humor, NBC's Stand Up For Diversity)
SHAWN PEARLMAN (Comix, UCBT LA)

**Special live duet with Jen Kwok and soce!**

Cellar 58
58 2nd Ave, btw 3rd and 4th Sts
No Cover, 1 Drink Min

This is a rare chance to catch Vidur Kapur live in NYC. Hope you are able to come!!! The whole line-up is bananas good.

Show 3: Tall Tales

2010-01-29T14:23:00.000-08:00

Tues Jan 26th, 2010

AMY SCHUMER (Comedy Central Presents, Reality Bites Back)
JERMAINE FOWLER (NBC's Stand Up for Diversity, Comical Radio)
NICK COBB (Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, The Comic Strip)
ANDREW SINGER (Heaven)
SEAN PATTON (Tyra Banks Show, Montreal Just for Laughs Festival)

We had a string of lean, mean comedy machines who came ready to tell their stories. Musician extraordinaire Arthur Lewis was spotted in the crowd! Soce finished the night by rapping a re-cap of the show!

February shows!!

2010-01-28T10:52:00.001-08:00

We couldn't be more excited to present all of the following performers to you for February:

Feb 2

CRAIG BALDO (Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)
LIZ MIELE (Caroline's, Comedy Central's Live At Gotham)
BRENT SULLIVAN (Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps, Comedy Central's Live At Gotham)
JOHN F. O'DONNELL (Into the Wild, 50 First Jokes)

Feb 9

ADAM LOWITT (It Is It, The Daily Show)
HADIYAH ROBINSON (BET’s Comic View, NBC's Stand Up For Diversity)
TOM SHILLUE (Moonwork, Comedy Central Presents)
VLADIMIR CAAMANO (Comedy on the Hump, Comix)

Feb 16

TOM MCCAFFREY (Comedy Central, truTV)
KEITH ALBERSTADT (Late Show with David Letterman, Last Comic Standing)
BARATUNDE THURSTON (Jack & Jill Politics, The Onion)
JIWON LEE (Carly Simon Comedy Hour, AMC's Date Night)

**Special live performance of Less Money, Mo Problems by TMC!**

Feb 23

Positively Awesome Asians!!!

VIDUR KAPUR (Just for Laughs, NBC's Stand Up For Diversity)
HARI KONDABOLU (John Oliver's Standup Show on Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live)
JEN KWOK (College Humor, NBC's Stand Up For Diversity)
SHAWN PEARLMAN (Comix, UCBT LA)

**Special live duet with Jen Kwok and soce!**

Yes, every final week of the month, we're booking a special theme. February's theme is Positively Awesome Asians. March will be Positively Awesome Ladies. And who knows what we'll come up with in future months! Each show is going to be amazing, so please mark your calendars!

Who is this comedian?

2010-01-27T20:21:00.000-08:00

This is not even a very old photo of an excellent comedian, but he looks quite different here from the way he looks now. Can you guess who he is? Photo via Livingroom Comedy. Another hint is that he'll be performing at Positively Awesome quite soon.

Show 2: Lighten Up

2010-01-27T12:21:00.000-08:00

Tues Jan 19th, 2010

My what big headlights you have Grandma! The better to see the comedians with, Child. This week we welcomed

MYQ KAPLAN (Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central Presents)
ANDREA ROSEN (Variety Shac, Michael and Michael Have Issues)
SEAN DONNELLY (Don't Touch Me There, The Lil Seany Boy Show)
LUKE THAYER (Tyra Banks Show, The Living Room Show)
KEVIN ALLISON (The State, Risk!)

This show is getting buzz! Well-known New Yorkers spotted in the audience included comedians Colin Dempsey and William Mullin and writers Andy Horwitz, Twanna Hines and Rachel Kramer Bussel.

We had special guests Miss CKC (Carolyn Castiglia) and Shawn Hollenbach join Soce on stage to debut their first live performance of the Internet Sensation "Lemme See"!

(Video coming soon!)

Show 1: Positively Awesome Beginning

2010-01-27T08:53:00.000-08:00

Tues Jan 12th, 2010

T-G-I-Tuesday! Mondays are for mourning and Wednesdays are for humping, and that's why our show lands on the perfect day for you to unwind with a glass of wine. We, Andrew Singer and Abbi Crutchfield, have started a weekly show called Positively Awesome.

There is a one drink minimum for the audience. Who can resist a sparkling Prosecco rosé?

As host Abbi welcomed
REESE WATERS (Live at Gotham, Michael and Michael Have Issues)
MARK NORMAND (New Orleans Comedy Festival, DC Comedy Festival)
ANDREW SINGER (Your Dreams)
OPHIRA EISENBERG (The Moth, The Liar Show)
JAMIE LEE (Charleston Comedy Festival, Diamonds in the Fluff)

The room is narrow and dimly lit like Pete's Candy Store, but with all the panache of sophisticated wine cellar. It's the kind of room that Keanu Reeves would use to seduce Diane Lane. Soce the Elemental Wizard freestyled off of the most "positive" member in the room, visiting comedian Luke Thayer. Special thanks to Matt Ruby, Jonathan Powley and Dan Mahoney for attending the inaugural show!

In honor of the comedy hour, here is a positively awesome picture of Abbi's family enjoying their holiday pears:

Positively Awesome
Cellar 58, 58 2nd Ave (3/4th streets)
New York, NY 10003
Tuesdays at 8PM, 1 drink min
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