Comedy festival, 200 comics. November 8-17, NYC.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. What is this morning? Is calin Hush? The New York Comedy Festival. It’s that time of year again and it will be on from November seventh to November eighteenth, and they’re going to have festivals all over and Caroline tell all New Yorkers where’s it going to be, how do they get tickets? Etc?

0:23 Speaker 2 Okay, So the New York Comedy Festival, we are celebrating our twentieth anniversary and it’s from November seventh through the eighteenth at venues all over the five boroughs. We have close to three hundred shows, over two hundred comedians, and we have opening nights with a tribute to Joan Rivers at the Iconic Apollo, and we will have shows all

0:44 over all over New York City. You can go to New York Comedy Festival dot com and look at the listing and you’ll be quite impressed about what we’re doing. Also, our other big fundraiser is November eleventh, which we do Stand Up the Heroes, which is again at the David Geffen Theater and we have raised in over our eighteen years,

1:05 over one hundred million dollars for Warns of the Iraqi and Afghanistan War, and this is raised by the Bob Witcher Foundation. Yeah, we’re really really proud of that. John.

1:16 Speaker 2 We’ve done wonderful work for the vets, and we’re really proud of continuing that work.

1:22 Speaker 1 So tell me they go to that website. Tell me that website again.

1:27 Speaker 2 New York Comedy Festival dot com. Do we have you know, we have. We have lots and lots of shows like we have. Judd Apatow will be at the Beacon Theater, Zarna Greg will be at town Hall, David Tell at town Hall. Bill Maher will be at the Beacon Theater, Tracy Morgan will be at town Hall. Nurse John, Miss

1:49 Pat we’ll be at town Hall, and some more will be at the hard Rock Hotel. You know, we’re doing a lot of the shows that we really do at Carolines, We’re doing at the hard Rock Hotel. Hell.

2:00 Speaker 2 They have a beautiful venue there on forty eighth Street, and we’re also doing our New York’s Funniest there. And we also have comics to watch at another club called the Stand. So we have we have shows all over going on.

2:15 Speaker 1 That’s great.

2:16 Speaker 2 We’ll be doing shows at Second City and the New and the new uprights of the Brigade. We’ll be doing shows there, so we’re all over town.

2:25 Speaker 1 Well, I look forward to it. And it’s November seventh and November eighteenth, and the website one last time.

2:33 Speaker 2 New York Comedy Festival dot com and you’ll find everything listed there and when you go on you’ll really be impressed and you can buy ticket tickets through the site.

2:42 Speaker 1 Calan Hirsh, thank you for everything you do making people happy, because you know something. When people laugh and people are happy, you know what they do.

2:51 Speaker 2 They live longer, right, they do, it’s better for you to laugh.

2:56 Speaker 1 Thank you so much. Hello fork John I