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the founders of Tokin Jew Will Cohen and Ben Kraim.

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Tokin’ Jew founders on using comedy and cannabis to build connection and fight antisemitism

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T4T celebrates three years of transgender comedy, creating safe spaces at the Bell House

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Bushwick

Bushwick bares all this Valentine’s Day with night of naked comedy

By Adam Daly

Jazz hands and giggles galore! Comics pack out The Bell House during New York Comedy Festival with their show Don't Stop, I'm About to Jazz.

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Musical comics bring the laughs with bawdy New York Comedy Festival set, ‘Don’t Stop, I’m About to Jazz’

By Jada Camille

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‘Adding fuel to the fires’: Famed Chicago comedy club The Second City to open in Brooklyn

By Ximena Del Cerro

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Schneps Podcasts

“New York’s Funniest Stand-Up” with Matt Koff

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AMNY

‘The Second City’ comedy enterprise will get the first laugh at Brooklyn location this November

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Coney Island Comedy Festival to return for fifth year

By Isabel Song Beer

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Comedy

‘Live After Death’ combines comedy and grief at Greenpoint funeral home

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Comedy

BP Weekender: Six things to do in Brooklyn March 11-13

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Comedy

BP Weekender: Six things to do in Brooklyn March 4-6

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Comedy

BP Weekender: Six things to do in Brooklyn Jan. 21-23

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Opening mic: Brooklyn gets a new, full-time comedy club

Film

BP Weekender: Six things to do in Brooklyn Jan. 14-16

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Coney Island Comedy Festival to return for three nights this month

By Jessica Parks

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Books

‘Kweendom’ comics bring LGBTQ stories from stage to page in new book

By Reyna Iwamoto

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Arts & Entertainment

Meet the New York City queens on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13

By Rose Adams

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Bushwick

High comedy: Bushwick performance space launches rooftop stand-up

By Kevin Duggan

one-liner

Coney Island comedy festival debuts one-liner joke competition

By Rose Adams

Peter Valenti, Simone Leitner, Sam Campbell

Gowanus

Flame on! Queer comedy series celebrates its two-year anniversary

By Ben Verde

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Music

Five things to do in Brooklyn, March 6–13

By Bill Roundy

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