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Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club Presents: Comedy From Scratch, at The Idea Kitchen - BYOB
Comedy From Scratch is where you go in Westchester County to hear top comics from TV and NYC's major clubs performing long sets on an intimate stage. Past performers include comedians from HBO, Netlfix, Colbert, SNL, the Daily Show, Letterman, the Tonight Show, Comedy Central, and more. Every month, Ben Asher's presents comedy that reaches up into your brain with the force of a fist through the nose. Named "Best Comedy Show in Westchester" by Westchester Magazine. Our 3-Year Anniversary Show in this month!!
Every month you can hear some of the most talented comics perform long sets, that other shows don't give them the time to perform. Comedy From Scratch is your chance to get to really watch comedians flex their muscles and hit their stride on stage, at The Idea Kitchen.
Locally-grown comedian Ben Asher presents a tasting of what the area's best stand-up comics are cooking up, at 'Comedy From Scratch' at the Idea Kitchen every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month - that's right, you demanded more comedy, so we now give Westchester Comedy Twice a Month!
Tickets available at https://ComedyFromScratch.eventbrite.com
Show at 8:00 PM. Seating at 7:00 PM (bring your food and drink/wine with you and sit down at our tables to eat before the show and pick out your seats!!)
Admission is $25 in advance, and $30 if purchased the day of the show. (Unlike Comedy Clubs, There is NO 2-Drink Minimum at this show)(and there is Free Parking.) BYOB and your own food/snacks/pizza (Half-Time and Sal's Pizza in Mamaroneck, or Nicky's Pizza in Larchmont is recommended!)
Updates to line-ups may be posted the week of the show here or you can follow @the_ben_asher on Instagram (line-ups are subject to change, but rarely, and will always be amazing!)
The February 28th lineup features:
ELON ALTMAN (Comedy Central; The Comedy Cellar) – http://www.elonaltman.com/
Elon Altman was the winner of Season 3 of New York’s Got Talent, Elon Altman is a stand up comedian born and raised in New York City. Elon is a Comedy Cellar regular, was a finalist in the 2021 Boston Comedy Festival, has been featured on AXS TV’s “Gotham Comedy Live,” was a contributing writer for the Comedy Central “Roast of Alec Baldwin,” and was runner up in NBC Universal’s “Cozi TV Comedy Search.” Elon has featured for Dennis Miller and Demetri Martin, and has headlined the world famous Carolines On Broadway multiple times, including as part of their Breakout Artist Comedy Series. He can be seen regularly at comedy clubs around NYC. Elon is also co-host of the podcasts “Billy Joel A to Z”.
VAL PARKER (McSweeney's, the AV Club, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert) - https://www.valparkercomedy.com
Val Parker is a NYC-based comedian whose writing has been featured by McSweeney’s, The A.V. Club, Forbes, Vulture, Buzzfeed, and more. Val also does stand-up, producing her own line of shows and opening for Jerrod Carmichael while undergrad at UChicago. Val's most recent film is the short mockumentary, "Wax Paul Now," featuring Paul Giamatti, which was accepted to the Miami Film Festival and AFI Fest, an Oscar-qualifying film festival.
Produced/Hosted by BEN ASHER (New York Comedy Festival; StandUp NBC; Iceland Comedy Festival headliner; Caroline's; Catch A Rising Star; DoublePlusGood Comedy) - http://www.benasher.net
Ben Asher, a writer and comedian from New York, is known for his “brave,” confrontational material, and his skills as a “brilliant joke writer” among fellow comedians. He performs regularly at comedy venues and colleges throughout the metropolitan area, East Coast, and Europe. Audiences are always quick to share their appreciation of Ben’s style of sardonic irreverence and absurd, satiric wit in which he doesn’t just dissect language and taboos - he explodes them. “What Ben Asher says makes me laugh, even though I feel like I shouldn’t."
In 2022 Ben recorded a half-hour special "An Intimate Evening of Provocative and Deranged Humor" at The Nest rock club, in Brooklyn, NY. In 2024, Ben recently opened for Greg Fitzsimmons and Nick Griffin. Also, in 2023 and 2022, Ben's show Arthur Avenue Comedy was featured in the NY Comedy Festival as one of only two comedy shows in Bronx. In 2014, Ben traveled to Iceland to headline in the Iceland Comedy Festival. He has appeared in the Chosen Comedy Festival, Borscht Belt Comedy Festival and Ben was also the finalist in the 2014 Funniest Jewish Comedian Competition. In 2013 Ben was first in the New York Comedy Festival. Ben has been a guest on Sherrod Small's 'Races Wars' podcast.
Press: In addition to being a TimeOut New York 'Critics Pick', TimeOut NY has frequently called Ben's show the "best cheap things to do," of the week and one of the “most amazing things to do” of the month, and the New York Times has listed it show as an editor's choice multiple times.
Presented by The Stand-up Westchester Comedy Club - https://StandupWestchester.com
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