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That said, my top NYC comedy recommendations for January 2020 (with much more to come soon) include: < Monday 1/27: Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson (authors of F*CKED: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That’s Screwed ) perform and host an original stage show—i.e., something separate from their wildly popular Guys We Fucked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast , but probably with the same delicious energy and quick wit: Guys We F*cked LIVE (7:00 pm, $24 , LES' Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street ; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street) Monday 1/27: Mary Houlihan ( The New Yorker; Difficult People, The Chris Gethard Show, Cartoon Monsoon ) & Nick Naney ( Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central) spearhead "a special lost episode HBO's classic The Sopranos put on by a local high school's drama department," with the other cast members Bardia Salimi Tommy McNamara , and Betsy Kenney : The Sopranos: The Musical (8:00 pm, $10 , Brooklyn's Union Hall at 702 Union Street ; take R subway to Union Street) Monday 1/27: Jordan Klepper (star of docuseries Klepper; former star of Comedy Central's The Opposition and correspondent for The Daily Show ) hosts a comedic debate about whether the US should pay reparations, with Kenice Mobley (host of podcast Love About Town , co-host of The Pasta Show ), Michael Cruz Kayne (sketches on Seth Meyers and The Chris Gethard Show; HBO's High Maintenance; former writer for @midnight and Billy on the Street; member of ace musical improv group Baby Wants Candy and UCB Saturday night improv group What I Did For Love ; co-host of monthly comedy show The Exhibition ) , Nelini Stamp (National Organizing Director at the Working Families Party), and Coleman Hughes (undergrad at Columbia University who's written for The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and The National Review ): Debate Club: Should the US Pay Reparations? (9:30 pm, $22.20 online or $25 at the door, LES' Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street ; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street) Tuesday 1/28: Readings of short humor pieces by sharp writers & comics TBA, plus hosts Brian Angler , Luke Burns , and James Folta (all writers for The New Yorker and McSweeney's) : An Evening of Humorous Readings (7:00 pm—arrive at 6:30 to hang out a bit with the guests, $12 , LES' Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street —take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street) Tuesday 1/28: Comics TBA perform for this monthly stand-up showcase named after Stevie Nicks and hosted by Marcia Belsky , Sam Taggart , and Drew Anderson : Stevie (8:00 pm, $10 , Brooklyn's Union Hall at 702 Union Street ; take R subway to Union Street) Tuesday 1/28: Jordan Klepper (star of docuseries Klepper; former star of Comedy Central's The Opposition and correspondent for The Daily Show ) hosts a comedic debate about whether the US should pay forgive student loan debt, with Michael Cruz Kayne (sketches on Seth Meyers and The Chris Gethard Show; HBO's High Maintenance; former writer for @midnight and Billy on the Street; member of ace musical improv group Baby Wants Candy and UCB Saturday night improv group What I Did For Love ; co-host of monthly comedy show The Exhibition ) , Lou Perez (former producer for Impractical Jokers ; half of sketch duo Greg and Lou ), and more: Debate Club: Should the US Forgive Student Loan Debt? (9:30 pm, $22.20 online or $25 at the door, LES' Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street ; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street) Wednesday 1/29: Moses Storm (co-starred in NBC's Sunnyside; Conan O'Brien; Last Comic Standing, This is Us,, Showtime's I'm Dying Up Here, NPR's Livewire ) performs a solo show in Brooklyn for one night only: Moses Storm (7:30 pm, $10 , Brooklyn's Union Hall at 702 Union Street ; take R subway to Union Street) Thursday 1/30: Stellar storytellers Jo Firestone (one of the most relentlessly inventive comics in the biz; staff writer for Jimmy Fallon ; star of Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents special; HBO's Crashing, Comedy Central's Broad City ; radio host of WFMU's Dr. Gameshow; live-on-stage co-host of Butterball ; comedy album The Hits ), Gastor Almonte (Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, host of Stoops2Stages , co-host of Sandwich , comedy album Immigrant Made ), David Heatley ( The New Yorker; Qualification: A Graphic Memoir ), Angel Yau ( Asian American Film Thing ), and Julian Fleisher (Joe's Pub: The Naked American Songbook ) tell tales about how they started out hosted by Blaise Allysen Kearsley : How I Learned In The Beginning: Origin Stories (9:30 pm, $13.71 online or $15 at the door, Caveat at 21-A Clinton Street ; take F/J/M/Z subway to Delancey Street/Essex Street) Friday 1/31: Alise Morales (above right; News & Politics Editor of Betches; Reductress, Above Average ), Michael Hartney (top left; TV Land's Throwing Shade , Broadway's School of Rock ; co-host of Characters Welcome ), Natasha Vaynblat (left; Comedy Central, IFC, Funny or Die, McSweeney's, Reductress; ace improv group What I Did For Love ), and John Trowbridge ( Huffington Post videos; co-founder of BOOGIEMANJA ) perform comedy for hosts Amanda Giobbi & Ariel Gitlin (middle), who ask you to "join us as we welcome some people we love to do some comedy they love and that we think you'll love too:" We Love You: A Fucking Positive Comedy Show (7:30 pm, $10 , Brooklyn's Union Hall at 702 Union Street ; take R subway to Union Street) You can find the vast majority of notable NYC live comedy shows by using the links below to explore the schedules o...