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SUMMARY:Comedy From Scratch at The Idea Kitchen Best of Westchester Comedy Show - BYOB
DESCRIPTION:Every 4th Saturday comedian Ben Asher presents a taste of what the NYC-area’s best stand-up comics are cooking up at Comedy From Scratch \nComedy From Scratch is where you go in Westchester County to hear top comics from TV and NYC’s major clubs performing long sets on an intimate stage. Past performers include comedians from HBO\, Netlfix\, Colbert\, SNL\, the Daily Show\, Letterman\, the Tonight Show\, Comedy Central\, and more. Every month\, Ben Asher’s presents comedy that reaches up into your brain with the force of a fist through the nose. Named “Best Comedy Show in Westchester” by Westchester Magazine. \nEvery month you can hear some of the most talented comics perform long sets\, that other shows don’t give them the time to perform. Comedy From Scratch is your chance to get to really watch comedians flex their muscles and hit their stride on stage\, at The Idea Kitchen. \nLocally-grown comedian Ben Asher presents a tasting of what the area’s best stand-up comics are cooking up\, at ‘Comedy From Scratch’ at the Idea Kitchen every 4th Saturday of the month. \nTickets available at https://ComedyFromScratch.eventbrite.com \nShow at 8:00 PM. Seating at 7:30 PM (bring your drinks/wine/beer with you to your seats!!) \nAdmission is $25 in advance\, and $30 if purchased the day of the show. (Unlike Comedy Clubs\, There is NO 2-Drink Minimum at this show)(and there is Free Parking.) BYOB or wine and drinks. \nUpdates to line-ups may be posted the week of the show here or you can follow @the_ben_asher on Instagram (line-ups are subject to change\, but rarely\, and will always be amazing!) \nThe September 26th lineup features:\nCHLOE RADCLIFFE (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon; TBS) – https://www.chloeradcliffe.com \nChloe Radcliffe is a NYC-based standup comic\, actor\, and writer. Her Comedy Central: Featuring set debuted in 2022\, and before that she worked as a writer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Chloe starred in Steven Soderbergh’s COMMAND Z\, and was nominated for a 2024 WGA award for her writing on the series. She also can be seen in Bradley Cooper’s latest film Is This Thing On?.. She was named a TBS Comic To Watch at the New York Comedy Festival\, has been seen on Epix\, and was selected for NBC’s 2019 Late Night Writers Workshop. She produces Minneapolis’ 10\,000 Laughs Comedy Festival. Originally from Minnesota\, her comedy is all smiles\, no matter how exasperated she is with the world around her. She balances being incredulous with being delightful\, and draws from her experience of having a huge birthmark on her cheek (but she doesn’t talk about it too much…or\, just enough? Whatever’s correct). \nChloe’s one-woman show CHEAT\, about her history of infidelity\, led The New York Times’ recommendations for the New York Comedy Festival. She sold out her full-month run at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, with reviews calling it\, “Hilarious and sharply-crafted” (Deadline)\, “Worthy of the greats like Mike Birbiglia” (Chortle)\, and “A new take on an old topic\, with hard-hitting punchlines” (The New York Times). \nSTONE AND STONE (NBC’s Last Comic Standing; TruTV; Comedy Central) – https://www.stoneandstonecomedy.com \nAdam and Todd Stone have performed as Stone and Stone and were semi-finalists on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and have roasted celebrities including Dennis Rodman\, Padma Lakshmi\, and George Takei. They have written for and appeared on Comedy Central\, truTV and AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live\, and have performed in many of the largest comedy clubs in the U.S.\, including Carolines on Broadway\, Gotham Comedy Club\, The Laugh Factory\, New York Friars’ Club\, Stand-Up NY and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. They portrayed recurring roles as The Henchman in Penelope Princess of Pets\, a comedic online series developed by the comedy duo of Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal\, which also includes a theme song written and performed by comedian/musician Reggie Watts. In 2019 the Stones are released a new web series called “Going Both Ways.“ The Stones have made numerous comedic short videos featured on the web. With highlights including work for Comedy Central’s Atom TV. They also starred as principals in a national Verizon FiOS commercial. \nThe Stone twins are the co-creators of the award-winning “Going Both Ways” series and their live two-man show was a success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at 59E59 Theaters in New York. “Stone and Stone” have performed at the Comedy Cellar\, LA’s Comedy Store\, Carolines\, The Bell House and Gotham Comedy Club\, and they were featured in the award-winning dark comedy\, “The Mend.” You can also spot them as twin Hasidic bank tellers assisting Keanu Reeves in John Wick 2: Chapter 2! \nProduced/Hosted by BEN ASHER (New York Comedy Festival; StandUp NBC; Iceland Comedy Festival headliner; Caroline’s; Catch A Rising Star; DoublePlusGood Comedy) – http://www.benasher.net \nBen Asher\, a writer and comedian from New York\, is known for his “brave\,” confrontational material\, and his skills as a “brilliant joke writer” among fellow comedians. He performs regularly at comedy venues and colleges throughout the metropolitan area\, East Coast\, and Europe. Audiences are always quick to share their appreciation of Ben’s style of sardonic irreverence and absurd\, satiric wit in which he doesn’t just dissect language and taboos – he explodes them. “What Ben Asher says makes me laugh\, even though I feel like I shouldn’t.” \nIn 2022 Ben recorded a half-hour special “An Intimate Evening of Provocative and Deranged Humor” at The Nest rock club\, in Brooklyn\, NY. In 2024\, Ben recently opened for Greg Fitzsimmons and Nick Griffin. Also\, in 2023 and 2022\, Ben’s show Arthur Avenue Comedy was featured in the NY Comedy Festival as one of only two comedy shows in Bronx. In 2014\, Ben traveled to Iceland to headline in the Iceland Comedy Festival. He has appeared in the Chosen Comedy Festival\, Borscht Belt Comedy Festival and Ben was also the finalist in the 2014 Funniest Jewish Comedian Competition. Ben Asher is a sought after Jewish comedian who frequently performs for Synagogues and on Jewish comedy shows and he recently headlined a Jewish comedy show for the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York and Temple Israel in Albany\, NY. In 2013 Ben was first in the New York Comedy Festival. Ben has been a guest on Sherrod Small’s ‘Races Wars’ podcast. \nBen currently produces and hosts the weekly Arthur Avenue Comedy show in NYC’s Bronx borough\, the monthly Comedy From Scratch at The Idea Kitchen\, which was named “Best Comedy Show” by Westchester Magazine\, and Slide-In at Slate-Nightclub in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood\, and has produced and hosts a monthly comedy show in Park Slope\, Brooklyn and New York’s East Village\, DoublePlusGood Comedy\, (formerly Nasal Vice! Stand-Up\,) where\, since 2013\, rising comics perform long\, 20+ minutes sets\, every month. He also co-produces/hosts The Homebrewed Mic\, giving New Yorkers a sample of homebrewed beers and comedy. \nFrom TimeOut NY: For comedy connoisseurs tired of seeing their favorite comics squeeze their sets into five minutes\, Ben Asher’s showcase provides full-length sets and a chill atmosphere for diverse acts to thrive in.\nPress: In addition to being a TimeOut New York ‘Critics Pick’\, TimeOut NY has frequently called Ben’s show the “best cheap things to do\,” of the week and one of the “most amazing things to do” of the month\, and the New York Times has listed it show as an editor’s choice multiple times. \nPresented by The Stand-up Westchester Comedy Club – https://StandupWestchester.com \nQUESTIONS:\nIs This Venue Handicapped Accessible?\nYES. And please let us know how we can help you if you need any assistance. \nWhat Age is Appropriate For This Comedy Show? Should I Bring My Children?\nThe material comedians discuss may be what you consider ‘Adult’ material. Anyone under 16 years of age should be accopanied by a parent or guardian. We would discourage you from bringing any child under 11 years old. If you child is age 11-15\, and loves dark stand-up comedy (think George Carlin or Sarah Silverman) and you do\, too\, then we don’t have any problem with them coming. However\, if you child’s only exposure to comedy is watching Seinfeld\, Friends\, or any situation comedy from TV\, please do not assume you will be comfortable with material being discussed. Comedians on the show may discuss ANY aspect of human existence\, or non-existence\, in the darkest\, most absurd way possible \nMore show info available at: \nhttps://www.instagram.com/the_ben_asher \no r \nhttps://www.facebook.com/BenAsherComedy \nor \nhttp://www.benasher.net \nYou can always purchase tickets for your local Westchester comedy club\, Comedy From Scratch – “Best of Westchester” winner – for top Westchester Stand-Up Comedy by going to The Standup Westchester Comedy Club at StandUpWestchester.com – WestchesterComedy.club – or Westchester-Comedy.com or WestchesterComedy.net \nWhat can you seriously expect? Just look which comics are frequently on my shows. This show is no BS. \nPast performers on Ben Asher’s shows include comedians and writers from Saturday Night Live\, the Tonight Show\, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, the Daily Show\, HBO\, Netflix\, including: \nOphira Eisenberg (NPR’s Ask Me Another)\, \nMark Normand (Comedy Central 1-Hour Special)\, \nPhoebe Robinson (HBO\, 2 Dope Queens)\, \nMyq Kaplan (Netflix Special\, Comedy Central Presents\, Conan\, Tonight Show)\, \nMike Lawrence (Comedy Central Half-Hour\, Roast Wars champ)\, \nEmmy Blotnick (writer Colbert\, Comedy Central The President Show)\, \nSam Morril (Comedy Central 1-Hour Special\, Colbert\, special ‘Up On The Roof’)\, \nLiz Miele (Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham”; Caroline’s)\, \nErik Bergstrom (Comedy Central Half-Hour\, Colbert)\, \nMatteo Lane (Netflix\, Late Nite w/ Seth Meyers\, Comedy Central Half-Hour)\, \nMike Recine (Conan; Comedy Central Half-Hour)\, \nJena Friedman (The Daily Show\, Conan\, Adult Swim)\, \nJacqueline Novak (‘Get On Your Knees’ off-Broadway hit produced by Mike Birbiglia\, Comedy Central Half-Hour\, The Late Late Show)\, \nBen Kronberg (Last Comic Standing\, Comedy Central Half-Hour)\, \nVlad Caamano (Jimmy Kimmel Live\, HBO\, Comedy Central)\, \nNick Vatterott (HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher\, Comedy Central Half-Hour)\, \nLangston Kerman (Comedy Central Half-Hour)\, \nJosh Gondelman (Desus & Mero on Showtime; Jon Oliver HBO)\, \nMehran Khaghani (TruTV\, MTV\, Comedy Central)\, \nHarrison Greenbaum (Conan\, AGT\, Comedy Cellar)\, \nSeaton Smith (Conan\, Comedy Central\, The John Mulaney Show on FOX)\, \nTony Deyo (Conan\, Letterman)\, \nJon Fisch (Colbert\, Letterman\, The Tonight Show)\, \nMike Vecchione (Comedy Central Presents half-hour special\, the Tonight Show)\, \nJordan Carlos (HBO\, writer Colbert Report; The Gods Honest Truth)\, \nBeth Stelling (Netflix\, Conan\, Comedy Central Half-Hour)\, \nAparna Nacherla (Netflix ‘Master of None’\, HBO\, Comedy Central Half-Hour)\, \nJamie Lee (Ted Lasso\, HBO’s Crashing\, Conan)\, \nMatt Koff (The Daily Show)\, \nAlingon Mitra (Conan; Last Comic Standing)\, \nKhalid Rahmaan (Conan; Comedy Central)\, \nCharles McBee (head writer The Gods Honest Truth Comedy Central\, MTV)\, \nChelsea Davison (The Tonight Show\, writer on Comedy Central’s The Opposition @Midnight)\, \nYannis Pappas (Comedy Central Half-Hour\, History Hyenas Podcast)\, \nJ-L Cauvin (The Late Late Show\, The Howard Stern Show)\, \nRae Sanni (The Good Place on NBC\, Comedy Central’s “The President Show”)\, \nRyan Beck (Comedy Central Every Day; MTV; The Daily Show)\, \nChloe Radcliffe (The Tonight Show\, TBS\, EPIX Unprotected Sets)\, \nLiza Treyger (Netflix)\, \nKate Willett (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, Netflix\, Jim Jeffries Show)\, \nSarah Tollemache (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; NBC’s Last Comic Standing; Comedy Central’s Adam Devine House Party)\, \nKunal C Arora (Colbert\, FOX’s Laughs\, TruTV’s Late Night Snack)\, \nPedro Gonzalez (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)\, \nKerry Coddett (Flatbush Misdemeanors\, Ramy on Hulu\, The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show\, Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas)\, \nRosebud Baker (Comedy Central\, HBO)\, \nStone and Stone (Twins Adam and Todd Stone)(Last Comic Standing; Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler’s “Penelope Princess of Pets”; Friars Club Roast of George Takai)\, \nJustin Williams (Fraudsters podcast\, FOX’s LAUGHS\, Comedy Central)\, \nBrian Parise (writer Last Week Tonight with John Oliver\, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj)\, \nAbby Feldman (Netflix’s ‘The Fix with Jimmy Carr’)\, \nSam Morrison (lolGBTQ Fest; Travel Channel\, one-man show Hello\, Daddy!)\, \nGianmarco Soresi (TBS’s The Last O.G.\, Comedy Central)
URL:https://riverjournalonline.com/event/comedy-from-scratch-at-the-idea-kitchen-best-of-westchester-comedy-show-byob/
LOCATION:The Idea Kitchen\, 1940 Palmer Ave\, Larchmont\, 10538
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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