New Weekly West Philly Comedy Show + lots of other Comedy

There is so much comedy coming up! I started a weekly comedy show at Abyssinia in West Philadelphia with Betty Smithsonian and Jaime Chialastri. Abyssinia is probably the best Ethiopian restaurant in a neighborhood filled with Ethiopian restaurants. Most of the shows are upstairs in what used to be known as Fiume, now Upstairs at Abyss, we’re doing a mix of stand-up, sketch, small theater shows, cabaret, and game shows. It’s quickly becoming a favorite room for performers across the East Coast (we even have some LA folks coming through), it’s super intimate with low ceilings, it kind of feels like it was designed for comedy (that’s what West Philly Victorians were originally built for, right?) We’re also doing some special events downstairs in the big room. Our first one will be Weeding Out the Stoned on December 29. The premise of the show is all of the comedians are high except one, they are given sobriety tests and the audience has to figure out who is the Narc.

In other comedy news, I’ll be hosting at Helium for Mary McCool’s Stress Exorcist and Rose Luardo on January 4. This will be a fun one because typically, I’m by far the weirdest person on every comedy show, but I am by far the most traditional comic on this one at one of the more traditional comedy rooms in the city. This one is not too be missed, it will be super immersive and unlike anything you’ve ever seen in comedy unless you happen to know all 3 of us. I’ll also be back at Quig’s in Plays & Players for Sunday Best on December 18. This is one of my favorite shows at one of my favorite bars inside one of my favorite theaters. The lineups are always fun mix of character pieces and standup and one of the most entertaining shows in town. If it wasn’t going to be a blast, I wouldn’t come back in the middle of my cat sitting stint in NYC just to do it.