Dec. 7th Comedy In-FUNNY!

December 7th, 2012 is a date which will live in infamy (or should we say inFUNNY...you know, cause it's hilarious)!

Host of Honor LANCE WEISS from The Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2012

APARNA NANCHERLA - Totally Biased with W. Kamua Bell

CAROLE MONTGOMERY featured on Comics Unleashed!

GREG BARRIS star of The Heart of Darkness

JOSH GONDELMAN - Headlined Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival

Show 44: Dry Idea

Photography by Aemiessence Fine Arts



Not rain nor puddles nor drips nor drops could keep our crowd away from their comedy show! Okay maybe they popped in to dry off. But they came to the right place, because the room was cozy, and the jokes were fresh like biscuits from the oven.

Host of Honor Pat O'Shea introduced the following lineup:

Abbi Crutchfield
Lance Weiss
Michelle Buteau
Kumail Nanjiani
Jay Abbondanza
and musical comedy by Soce the Elemental Wizard

With special guest appearances by Andrew Warshack and Dr. Brains.


Abbi and Luke welcomed viewers to the forty-fourth show and debated over whether or not they're too young to get married. Abbi revealed she had cooties, and Luke promptly dumped her.


If anyone knows about age gaps it's Pat O'Shea who shared stories of his octogenarian mother. Maybe she's the one who taught him to get crotchety when folks ask him for directions.


Abbi returned to the stage to tie her love of The Parent Trap to her loathe of generic cereals.


Whether you love him! want him! need him! or not, visual artist Andrew Warshack shared his creative take on the current events. The delicious, scrumptious, irresistible current events.


Living Room regular and good buddy Lance rolled through to confess things he has done in the early stages of dating. His bravado balanced out his trips to Bed, Bath and Beyond.


Michelle Buteau enjoyed her first time on our stage by giving a shout-out to future black women in the White House and current Dutch men in her own house.


Don't ask him unless you REALLY want to know...The Living Room presented its first "Ask Dr. Brains" segment starring the very opinionated Dr. Brains. Tonight's dissertation was the biological reasons women aren't funny. Don't hate him for his smarts or his laminated diploma.


Kumail Nanjiani celebrated his debut with cake-- or at least jokes about it, and the wonderful wizardry performed by Food Network specialists.


Jay Abbondanza also graced the stage for the first time sharing his beef with Peruvians...or his ambivalence towards them.


Don't call it a comeback! Soce the Elemental Wizard visited us for the second time, but this round he came to throw down some of his illest rhymes. He became our first rap artist accompanied with music and only the second freestyler (preceded by Miss CKC) to masterfully close out the show. Celebrity Sighting: that's writer Thomas R. Pryor giving him a sitting ovation.


The Hat of Chance preferred brunettes tonight. Kumail Nanjiani became the Funniest Comedian of All Time! In our not-so-subtle hint, he receives the book McDuff Goes to School, about a foreign dog that learns to speak English.



Hey shy guy. Step out of the shadows and into the spotlight for our next show September 26th! We mean you Phil!

Show 38: Interracial Extra Special

Photography by Aemiessence Fine Arts


Emily Epstein hosted a splendid lineup:

Jay Nog
Abbi Crutchfield
Lance Weiss
Elon James White
Kyle Fincham
a sketch by Delusions of Spandex

With special guest Chef Pepe Le Mans, and an exclusive sketch by Luke and Abbi!

Abbi and Luke opened the show with observations about interracial unions. Observations in the form of an improvised musical that made Luke uncomfortable.


Emily Epstein picked up where Abbi left off remarking about her own couple with a comedian of color. She is committed though. She lives in Bed-Stuy.


Jay Nog took the mic and never mentioned the race of his girlfriend. Just the benefits of an alias and the cruelty of kids.


Chef Pepe Le Mans (et oui, that Le Mans!) hosted a brief cooking show while giving us our current events between chopped vegetables. A few peas, a few carrots...

and voila! A coffee cake.



Abbi returned to the scene of her hate crime (having earlier accused guests of having pasty, white kids), and bared her soul, stand-up style. Philosophizing on the true value of a Greyhound dog, a bearded friend and a Morgan Freeman.


Lance Weiss is back at The Living Room to confide in the audience about his tattoo desires and his fear of flying...when the plane is repaired by morons.


Like Ashford and Simpson, Luke and Abbi worked together to make magic. Friends Teri and Ramon discuss their friend Antonio's confession of being straight, and decide how they feel about it.


It was the same old story of acceptance vs. intolerance and just like all tales of friendship, it ended with choreography to Color Me Badd.


Living Room regular Elon James White played match maker to a young guy and gal in the first and second rows. Were they interracial? Yes. Did they hit it off? Time will tell.


Surprise guest Kyle Fincham took some time to check out the show and ended up checking it out from the stage!


Phaea Crede and Becca Jones of Delusions of Spandex brought a Ladies News segment to present more current events, but this time from a woman's perspective. A loud, sensitive, conniving and violent woman's perspective.


The Funniest Comedian of All Time award went to first-time recipient Elon James White! He became the proud owner of this presumably African and decidedly potent Fertility Statue.


Join us for another melting pot of hilarity on April 25th!

Living Room Alumni Sweet 16 Finalists in March Comedy Madness

Three comedians who have graced our stage made it all the way to the Sweet 16 round of the March Comedy Madness competition at Caroline's!

Reese Waters, Lance Weiss, and J.L. Cauvin showed their stuff and proved their worth over an original pool of 64 comedians! You can't do that with fart jokes and a hypnosis kit.

The show is the brainchild of another Living Room homey, Josh Filipowski of Like2Laugh Productions.

Check out the rest of the competitions as the Elite Eight and Final Four showdowns are bound to make you more money than your awful college ball brackets.

TUESDAYS, 9:30pm
Carolines on Broadway
1626 Broadway (btwn 49th/50th)
212.757.4100

Great job guys!

Show 17: J is for Jeveryone!

This past Living Room was chock full of coincidences. Everyone in our line up had a name that begins with J! And everyone else's name begins with L! (File it under irony that J.L. Cauvin did not perform on this fated night!)

The hardest working man in pro-bono showbiz Lance Weiss hosted this amazing group of talent:
Jeff Cerulli
Jacob D'Eustachio
Jason Roberts
Luke Thayer and
Jiwon Li

Lance opened the show and warmed up the crowd to just the right temperature. They were instantly transported to a restaurant where Luke and Abbi performed another original sketch. This time about the blind date gone wrong that goes right but then really is wrong when you think about it.

Jeff Cerulli grabbed the room by its horns and made it listen! The room doesn't even have horns, so how's THAT for a second appearance on the show?

For the first time at The Living Room, we offered free haircuts to everyone in the crowd when Coney Island wonder Jacob D'Eustachio juggled actual knives inches above their heads! That'll teach 'em to be too scared to sit up front!

Luke Thayer brought sweat shirt truth to his performance and dropped some biblical knowledge. A church lesson within a comedy show? Two for one!

The fresh-faced and many-friended Jason Roberts taught us all a boat-full and kept us laughing heartily. Like a hearty stew. I'm hungry.

Special (and by that we mean obscure) guest Doo Wa Diddy--a.k.a. half of P.Diddy's twins--came by to read the news, and that is impressive that she can read because she's only a couple months old. She was escorted by Fonsworth Lukely.

Jiwon Li closed the show with flashbacks to cheating on tests in high school and the woes of being a daughter.

From The Golden Box of Knowledge someone selected a carefully crafted question, and the winner with the right answer took home two movie tickets! Get over to our show, and get there early to submit your trivia question. You can play even if your name doesn't start with J.

In honor of the upcoming Oscars, Jiwon Li was awarded a statue! A turkey statue with a pilgrim's hat. Why? Cause she's the Funniest Comedian of All Time, ya heard? Oh, you're asking why was it a turkey. That's our secret. Have to come to a show to understand!

See you March 9th!

For more photos of this night's show check out our Flickr.com site here!

Show 16: Spread The Love!

The heart of The Living Room was a-flutter with construction paper decorations (in addition to the artwork by P.S. 124), but that didn't stop us from keeping it real. Our candy heart/wall ornaments doubled as anti-valentines for that less than special person in your life.
Lance Weiss is our honorary host this month and opened the show by offering hygiene tips including the proper way to shower.
He introduced the squeaky clean and sparkling fresh talent of
Jon Lang
Luke Thayer
Mike Ennis
Maria Shehata and
Neil Charles!

Gravel-voiced legend Carol Channing gave us her take on the young person news as well as a little shong and dansh.

Jon Lang made his second appearance at the show and dazzled the audience with his winter-time beard.

Crystal Valentino introduced a segment called, "Y'all Feel Me" where she related to the the crowd about everyday annoyances like stale marshmallows your mom makes you bring to pass out on Valentine's day in grade school, you know?

Mike Ennis had one eye on the crowd and one eye on his car outside to keep it from getting towed.


Luke Thayer dug into his childhood to share the wonders and horrors of muscle bound motivational speakers.


Maria Shehata made new friends in the crowd as she recounted her relationship tales. But new friends just means more tales in the future...

Abbi & Luke performed their first sketch at the show! One woman's study of the homeless lifestyle leads to a fast friendship with a man missing three toes. Just wait until Lifetime picks it up.

Closing out the show we had Neil Charles relive his relationship mistakes and take us back to the early '90s. (Baritone voice) Aw yeah, Girl.

The beards have it! Jon Lang won his first Funniest Comedian of All Time Award, just in time for Valentine's day. His copy of The Improvised Woman: Single Women Reinventing Single Life will certainly help him score some jaded ladies in their 40s.

Then this handsome young man and his date answered our Love Story trivia to become the proud recipiencts of a delicious, hand-tossed pizza from Albanese Pizza on 5th avenue!

And now, a Valentine's Poem by the Living Room:
Roses are red
Brown is a turd
See our next show
Feb 23rd!

For more photos, check out our Flickr.com site here!
And P.S....