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7 Best Performances We Saw at the New York Comedy Festival
The New York Comedy Festival included killer sets from comics Zarna Garg, Jeff Arcuri, Jordan Jensen, Ricky Velez, Jamie Wolf and Chris Distefano.
The Michigan-raised, Chicago-based comic opened the festival on Nov. 7, when he brought his Full Beans Tour to the Beacon Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and proved how he has blown up over the past year: with crowd work, which has gone viral on social media. The winner of the festival’s annual joke-off — which catapulted the careers of Jensen and Michael Che, among other comics — was New York-based stand-up Jamie Wolf, who delivered a polished set that closed with a killer, seemingly new bit on why he’s pretty sure God is a woman. This year, Bruce Springsteen, Norah Jones, Jon Stewart, Jim Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld and Mark Normand put on a really big show, which you can read more about here(and watch a video of The Boss performing “Long Walk Home”).
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