The New York Comedy Festival, which is scheduled to go down in early November, has just revealed a number of additional performances for this year’s highly-anticipated event. Among the newly-announced comedians are Jenny Slate, Jay Pharoah and Dan Harmon.
Slate is most well known for the 2014 film Obvious Child, in which she starred alongside Gaby Hoffmann, David Cross, Jake Lacy and others. Prior, she had a short run on Saturday Night Live, a recurring role in HBO’s Bored to Death and voiced Ted’s mother in The Lorax. Most recently, she appeared alongside Kroll Show comrade Nick Kroll in the film My Blind Brother. For her NYCF appearance, she will be performing her popular comedy show Big Terrific with fellow comedy troupe members Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman at Bric House in Brooklyn on Nov. 5.
Harmon built up an arsenal of devotees through his beloved NBC comedy series Community. He currently runs a weekly podcast, Harmontown, and is the man behind the animated series Rick and Morty, which returns for Season 3 this year. He will bring Harmontown Live with Dan Harmon to the festival with a performance at The Gramercy on Nov. 6. Pharoah’s appearance at the New York Comedy Festival the night before (Nov. 5) at The Gramercy comes only months after it was announced he would be leaving SNL. He spent all summer touring his stand-up act and can be seen in Jamie Foxx’s forthcoming comedy White Famous.
In addition to the above additions, NYCF is also proud to announce A Conversation With The Writers Of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, during which Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Sam Means, Dan Rubin, Leila Strachan, Azie Dungey, Meredith Scardino and Lauren Gurganous will engage in discussion around the popular Netflix comedy series.
The 13th addition of the New York Comedy Festival, in association with Comedy Central, runs Nov. 1-6 with performances at iconic venues across NYC including the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, 92Y, the Beacon Theater, the Theater at Madison Square Garden, NYU Skirball Center and Town Hall. The festival boasts a stacked lineup with top tier comedians including the aforementioned Pharoah, Slate and Harmon as well as Marc Maron, Eric André, Dane Cook, Tig Notaro, Hannibal Buress, Patton Oswalt, Cameron Esposito, Bridget Everett, Tracy Morgan, Chris D’Elia, Fred Armisen, Anthony Atamanuik, Bill Maher, T.J. Miller, Hari Kondabolu, Tim Minchin, Hasan Minhaj and Trevor Noah.
Drop by the New York Comedy Festival’s official website for a complete lineup and ticketing information.
