Comedy From Scratch at The Idea Kitchen Larchmont “Best of Westchester Comedy Show” – BYOB – 3 Year Anniversary
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.
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 January 24th lineup features:
Liz Barrett (Gotham Comedy Live on AXS TV; Laughs on FOX) – https://www.instagram.com/lizcomedy
Liz Barrett is a New-York based stand-up comedian and writer. Raised in a military family and having moved all around the world, Liz is deadpan, dry, engaging, and offers shrewd observations about life and womanhood. You’ll remember her one-liners long after you see her.
Liz has appeared on AXS TV Gotham Comedy Live, Laughs on FOX, Lifetime, Funny or Die and New York Post Videos. You can also hear her on Raw Dog Comedy on SiriusXM. She’s a regular at Carolines, Gotham Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Catch a Rising Star and The Brokerage. She was a finalist at Laughing Skull Comedy Festival and The She-Devil Comedy Festival and a semi-finalist at Boston Comedy Festival.She has appeared at numerous comedy festivals including, Limestone Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival, Red Clay Comedy Festival, Rogue Island Comedy Festival, and Ladies of Laughter. For 5 years, Liz produced her own monthly show Grin and Barrett which was described as “puntastically named” and “one of the best shows in the city produced by a female comedian.”
Sam Rubinoff (NY Comedy Festival) https://www.instagram.com/samrubinoff
Sam Rubinoff is a stand-up comedian and writer that performs nightly around New York City. He’s also performed at the New York Comedy Festival, Red Clay Comedy Festival and the Hoboken Comedy Festival. Sam is constantly writing, producing, directing and acting in sketches, spec ads and shorts. Currently, Sam is working on “Mourning News,” a behind the scenes sitcom about a struggling late night style show. Previously, Sam created and starred in the web series “Dog Days,” a six-episode comedy about the misadventures of a dog walker in New York City.
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. Also, in 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 was also the finalist in the 2014 Funniest Jewish Comedian Competition. In 2013 Ben was in the New York Comedy Festival. Ben has been a guest on Sherrod Small’s ‘Races Wars’ podcast.
Ben currently produces and hosts the weekly Arthur Avenue Comedy show in NYC’s Bronx borough, the monthly Comedy From Scratch at The Idea Kitchen, which was named “Best Comedy Show” by Westchester Magazine, and Slide-In at Slate-Nightclub in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, and has produced and hosts a monthly comedy show in Park Slope, Brooklyn and New York’s East Village, DoublePlusGood Comedy, (formerly Nasal Vice! Stand-Up,) where, since 2013, rising comics perform long, 20+ minutes sets, every month. He also co-produces/hosts The Homebrewed Mic, giving New Yorkers a sample of homebrewed beers and comedy.
From TimeOut NY: For comedy connoisseurs tired of seeing their favorite comics squeeze their sets into five minutes, Ben Asher’s showcase provides full-length sets and a chill atmosphere for diverse acts to thrive in.
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
QUESTIONS:
Is This Venue Handicapped Accessible?
YES. And please let us know how we can help you if you need any assistance.
What Age is Appropriate For This Comedy Show? Should I Bring My Children?
The material comedians discuss may be what you consider ‘Adult’ material. Anyone under 16 years of age should be accopanied by a parent or guardian. We would discourage you from bringing any child under 11 years old. If you child is age 11-15, and loves dark stand-up comedy (think George Carlin or Sarah Silverman) and you do, too, then we don’t have any problem with them coming. However, if you child’s only exposure to comedy is watching Seinfeld, Friends, or any situation comedy from TV, please do not assume you will be comfortable with material being discussed. Comedians on the show may discuss ANY aspect of human existence, or non-existence, in the darkest, most absurd way possible
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You can always find out about upcoming “Best of Westchester” wining shows on The Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club website by going to StandUpWestchester.com .
What can you seriously expect? Just look which comics are frequently on my shows. This show is no BS.
Past performers on Ben Asher’s shows include comedians and writers from Saturday Night Live, the Tonight Show, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Daily Show, HBO, Netflix, including:
Ophira Eisenberg (NPR’s Ask Me Another),
Mark Normand (Comedy Central 1-Hour Special),
Phoebe Robinson (HBO, 2 Dope Queens),
Myq Kaplan (Netflix Special, Comedy Central Presents, Conan, Tonight Show),
Mike Lawrence (Comedy Central Half-Hour, Roast Wars champ),
Emmy Blotnick (writer Colbert, Comedy Central The President Show),
Sam Morril (Comedy Central 1-Hour Special, Colbert, special ‘Up On The Roof’),
Liz Miele (Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham”; Caroline’s),
Erik Bergstrom (Comedy Central Half-Hour, Colbert),
Matteo Lane (Netflix, Late Nite w/ Seth Meyers, Comedy Central Half-Hour),
Mike Recine (Conan; Comedy Central Half-Hour),
Jena Friedman (The Daily Show, Conan, Adult Swim),
Jacqueline Novak (‘Get On Your Knees’ off-Broadway hit produced by Mike Birbiglia, Comedy Central Half-Hour, The Late Late Show),
Josh Gondelman (Desus & Mero on Showtime; Jon Oliver HBO),
Harrison Greenbaum (Conan, AGT, Comedy Cellar),
Mike Vecchione (Comedy Central Presents half-hour special, the Tonight Show),
