New York tortures comics

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on March 23rd, 2009

The magazine, not the city. Although some might make the case that the city can sometimes do a good job.

From New York Magazine:

We asked the citys comedy tastemakers—club bookers, improv teachers, already-famous comedians, borderline-creepy groupies-to tell us about their favorite up-and-comers. Then we invited our ten nominees to the Gotham Comedy Club to perform a show. For each other.

We wondered if the “borderline-creepy groupies” were allowed in? Hey, why not?! They may have helped get their idol into the showcase!

One of the “victims,” Reese Waters said, “The idea was scary. But in reality it was okay.” So maybe we overstate the torture thing.

We liked the “signature joke” of Ophira Eisenberg (who is one of The Female Half’s fellow Us Weekly Fashion Police-ers)–“When the economy fell apart I thought, Oh no! What’s going to happen to me? And then nothing happened. Because I have… nothing. No savings, no investments, no mortgage. It’s like the world is rewarding me for being a transient screwup.”

We also liked her other quote: “The recession has been good to comedy in New York. Because comedy is cheap.”

Click on the slide show to connect the names with the faces.

Or just read the names here and try to guess which is which. Desiree Burch, Max Silvestri, Claudia Cogan, Hanibal Buress, Sara Schaefer, Kumail Nanjiani, Craig Baldo and Carla Rhodes.

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