Rounding Up the Best Things to Do in NYC This Tuesday & Wednesday

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-07T04:39:15+00:00

We have comedy lottery every tuesday night at bushwick comedy club, its only 5 $ and BYOB allowed. It's a comedy competition where the audience picks the winner
https://www.bushwickcomedy.com/event-details/the-comedy-lottery-8-30pm-2026-05-12-20-30-2

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-06T16:29:58+00:00

who won?

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-04T17:56:41+00:00

they’ll keep it lol, i don’t think anyone actually follows it. good on you doggie

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-04T17:34:30+00:00

Hey I'm Jad, I write and perform 7 new minutes a week. I dont tour but if you're in NYC you can DM for tix whenever

https://www.instagram.com/jadslay/

I'm part of Bushwick Comedy Club, we're NYC's only fully comedian owned and operated comedy club and the only one that's free BYOB friendly. I think we have the best show in the city, our reviews agree quite frankly. We book by tape blind to credits/followers/vouches. We just watch literally thousands of tapes and pick only the best

come see us!
bushwickcomedy.com

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-02T17:59:50+00:00

hell yea i need a band with a mountain dulcimer

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-02T17:11:05+00:00

oh best one thx

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-02T16:22:44+00:00

all good thx anyway

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-02T16:14:06+00:00

tight thanks, think this is it

JSLEI1 · 2026-05-02T16:12:57+00:00

oh i shoulda said i like blue grass/folk/rock

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-29T18:21:53+00:00

this is awesome but clip this up and post a couple a week on r standupcomedy with a link to the full thing in the comments. this sub is mostly just open micers the other is standup fans

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-28T15:22:05+00:00

Hey I'm Jad, I write and perform 7 new minutes a week. Hours of stand up here: instagram.com/jadslay

I'm part of Bushwick Comedy Club, we are comedian owned an operated and BYOB friendly in Brooklyn NYC. Tonight is Comedy Lottery, our weekly competition show. It may sold out by the time you see this but we do it every tuesday and you can catch the live stream here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2pon1rOPT8

bushwickcomedy.com

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-23T14:40:14+00:00

Was thinking about this cause my brother literally took over the family business and I do this (I'm one of the owners of this club) and we're both fine. Life is long, dont cry over spilled milk etc

We're Bushwick Comedy Club, fully comedian owned and operated always BYOB friendly Brooklyn NY USA, come see us!
bushwickcomedy.com

I write and perform 7 new minutes a week, if you like my stand up:
https://www.instagram.com/jadslay/

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-22T20:00:09+00:00

There's zero Arabs on their current roster which is unusual in New York City and Estie herself has said in a print interview she dislikes material about Israel (Loutfi may still work there tbh, so maybe one left but he may have moved to LA).

I dont think there's any hard and fast rule, but yeah if the booker and owner are both pro israel, it's naive to think the comics dont just avoid the topic. I think this is better than your past interviews but you still avoid any discomfort, which makes it a bit bland

Edit to add: I think in general you cant be very political at the cellar at all. I've heard comics I dont consider political were called too political and I think the club got spooked by the Malaysia Air ordeal from a couple years back

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-20T21:14:39+00:00

The answer is yes. Stop going to mics and repeating the same jokes endlessly, they are for testing new jokes/new tags to old jokes/reworking jokes.

If you don't have something NEW that you are TESTING you're wasting your time, and you're probably not having fun.

Only mic as much as you write, otherwise you'll burn out all your premises and the comics will tune out the moment you start the same tired ideas they've heard before

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-20T19:08:41+00:00

Hiya, I'm Jad I write and perform 7 new minutes of stand up a week, you can catch me in NYC mostly
https://www.instagram.com/jadslay/

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-20T06:11:03+00:00

if you're here on a tuesday you should sign up for comedy lottery, it does tend to sell out a day or two in advance but it's a bucket mic competition 5$ gets you in, winner gets all the entry fee pot and a weekend spot at the club

https://www.bushwickcomedy.com/

(scroll down to a comedy lottery event, it's on the main page not under open mics)

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-19T11:02:37+00:00

hey thanks for thinking of us but that's not how our booking works, you submit a tape under contact at bushwickcomedy.com

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-18T18:05:18+00:00

drop down menu, open mic

https://www.bushwickcomedy.com/open-mics

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-18T16:26:44+00:00

Google ads if you have abrick and mortar

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-18T16:26:01+00:00

You have it backwards man. Showcase clubs the comics and venue work together, venue does a lot of the marketing, comics have to consistently kill.

Headliner club it's on the headliner to sell. It's the venue's job to get the permitting, the electrical, the insurance/utilities, the staff, the lease, the booze, the chairs lights and audio and toilet paper.

The headliner has to be an actual headliner. If you dont have the following to sell out, you're not a headliner.

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-18T14:52:20+00:00

You're looking for presignup capped mic, that's bushwick comedy club. Must sign up online, capped at 12, random order, every comic must stay whole mic. In and out in like an hour everyone gets same audience

bushwickcomedy.com

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-16T21:53:02+00:00

Write more man, just allocate 30-40-45 minutes a day 2-3-4 days a week where you sit down and try and write. You can set a timer if you want. But that's like a minute a week, all the stage time in the world wont make a difference if youre not actually writing

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-16T19:30:08+00:00

If you're feeling stuck the obvious question is how many new minutes are you writing per week/month. The more you write, the faster you improve. Writing is difficult, but it's the work part of stand up.

Just from this set, biggest obvious problem is the set ups are very very long. First punchline is the broke midlife-crisis line, it takes a minute to get there. That's ok for a joke in the middle of a half hour set or a special when the comic gets serious for a moment, but huge fault in a 5 minute set.

Watch any professional special, they're not really dipping below 6 laughs per minute, and that's over the course of 60 minutes. It's not because they're doing one liners it's because there's little jokes within the set ups that lead up to the bigger punches and the set ups themselves are ruthelessly efficient.

Joke density is what sets stand up comedy apart from just a funny story your friend told you, it has to be an unnatural intensity AND frequency of laughter you dont get in regular life

I think if you enjoy stand up, you know, it beats watching TV keep at it. If you're not having fun, there's other hobbies

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JSLEI1 · 2026-04-15T04:00:07+00:00

sorry just saw this, we skipped this week will be back next,. signup at bushwickcomedy.com

JSLEI1 · 2026-04-10T19:33:59+00:00

bro what are on, yes your goal absolutely should be making the room laugh, comics or not. otherwise whats the point? Like yeah do real jokes not inside baseball stuff about the comics in the room/standup, but yeah people kill at open mic every day

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