Flying Carpet is the free monthly show I host at Rififi. The past few have been great...this video will give ya a peek at the last show:
Tomorrow (Tuesday) night is the next one...
FLYING CARPET
FREE comedy extravaganza
Tuesday, Feb 5 (9:45pm)
RIFIFI at 332 E. 11th St. btwn 1st and 2nd Ave.
Hosted by Matt Ruby and featuring:
Dan Boulger (http://www.myspace.com/danboulger)
Mike Vecchione (http://www.myspace.com/mikevcomedy)
Kumail Nanjiani (http://www.myspace.com/5kumails)
Becky Ciletti (http://www.myspace.com/ciletti)
Brad Steuernagel (http://www.myspace.com/bsteuernagel)
Joselyn Hughes (http://www.myspace.com/joselynhughes)
Dan Hirshon (http://www.danhirshon.com/)
Mark Normand (http://www.myspace.com/heresmarkk)
Dan Boulger won the Boston Comedy Festival. He and Mike Vecchione have both appeared on Comedy Central. Eugene Mirman called Kumail Nanjiani one of "the funniest comedians not enough people are aware of right now." And everyone else on the show is super funny too. In fact, if this show was a woman, it'd be one classy broad.
Sandpaper Suit is NYC standup comic Matt Ruby's (now defunct) comedy blog. Keep in touch: Sign up for Matt's weekly Rubesletter. Email mattruby@hey.com.
Moving on/Subscribe to my newsletter
I only post on rare occasions here now. Subscribe to my Rubesletter (it's at mattruby.substack.com ) to get jokes, videos, essays, etc...
-
Even the best standups seem to just scrape by. Then you hear about a guy who got a late night writing gig. Pay's nice. Long hours but he...
-
Never been to a Letterman taping. But I've heard the studio is chilly due to Dave's orders. Was talking about it the other day with ...
-
Patton Oswalt preaches love instead of hate in standup. “Actually, I think when you’re younger, anger and comedy mesh together very, very w...