Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club presents: Westchester Comedy Loft & Speakeasy @ Locals 10538
The Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club’s ‘Comedy Loft’ & Speakeasy, at Locals 10538 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, while eating and drinking the finest foods and cocktails prepared by chef Peter Sherman. Past performers include comedians from HBO, Netlfix, Colbert, SNL, the Daily Show, Letterman, the Tonight Show, Comedy Central, and more. Every month, Ben Asher and the Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club presents comedy that reaches up into your brain with the force of a fist through the nose. Ben’s show was 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. The Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club’s ‘Comedy Loft’ & Speakeasy, at Locals 10538 is your chance to get to really watch comedians flex their muscles and hit their stride on stage, at Locals 10538.
Locally-grown comedian Ben Asher presents a tasting of what the area’s best stand-up comics are cooking up, at Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club’s ‘Comedy Loft’ & Speakeasy, at Locals 10538 every 1st Thursday of the month.
Tickets available at https://WestchesterComedyLoft.eventbrite.com
Show at 7:00 PM. Seating at 6:30 PM (There is a required $20 minimum purchase of food/drink. Food orders must be placed by 7:00 PM. Orders will not be taken after 7:00 PM and you will be charged the $20. Please make sure you arrive on time so the show can start. You are welcome to arrive prior to 6:30 PM and dine at Locals 10538 and have that applied as your required minimum purchase. Make sure to tell your server you have tickets.)
Admission is $25 in advance.
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 May 7th lineup features:
LIZ BARRETT – (FOX; Sirius XM; AXs.tv’s Gotham Comedy Live) – https://www.lizbarrettcomedy.com
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.”
CALVIN CATO – (Netlfix; SiriusXM; Oxygen) – https://www.calvincato.com
Calvin Cato was named one of Time Out New York’s LGBTQ Comics of Color to Watch Out For and has dazzled audiences around the world. His on-air and radio appearances include Oxygen, Netflix, Sirius XM, RISK!, WIRED Magazine, and an unaired pilot for Vice Media called Emergency Black Meeting. His comedy has been featured in numerous festivals and events including San Francisco Sketchfest, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Gotham Storytelling Festival, Brooklyn Pride, and FlameCon. In early 2021, Calvin was published in Kweendom, an anthology of essays by queer comedians and entertainers. In 2022, Calvin concluded a 3 month run hosting a daily talk show on RushTix.com.
Ron Nobles (NY Comedy Festival) – https://www.ronnoblescomedy.com
Ron Nobles is a New York City–based stand-up comedian known for his sharp storytelling and clean-cut, everyman charm. A staple of the NYC comedy scene, Ron performs regularly at clubs, colleges, and theaters across the country. He has been featured in the New York Comedy Festival and has toured across Europe, bringing his unique brand of humor to international audiences. Ron’s debut album, Trailer in the Sky, hit #1 on Spotify’s comedy charts and is now available on all major platforms.
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 and Nick Griffin. Also, in 2023 and 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. Ben Asher is a sought after Jewish comedian who frequently performs for Synagogues and on Jewish comedy shows and he recently headlined a Jewish comedy show for the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York and Temple Israel in Albany, NY. He has appeared in the Chosen Comedy Festival, Borscht Belt Comedy Festival and Ben was also the finalist in the 2014 Funniest Jewish Comedian Competition. In 2013 Ben was first 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 12 years old. If you child is age 12-15, 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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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),
Ben Kronberg (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central Half-Hour),
Vlad Caamano (Jimmy Kimmel Live, HBO, Comedy Central),
Nick Vatterott (HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Comedy Central Half-Hour),
Langston Kerman (Comedy Central Half-Hour),
Josh Gondelman (Desus & Mero on Showtime; Jon Oliver HBO),
Mehran Khaghani (TruTV, MTV, Comedy Central),
Harrison Greenbaum (Conan, AGT, Comedy Cellar),
Seaton Smith (Conan, Comedy Central, The John Mulaney Show on FOX),
Tony Deyo (Conan, Letterman),
Jon Fisch (Colbert, Letterman, The Tonight Show),
Mike Vecchione (Comedy Central Presents half-hour special, the Tonight Show),
Jordan Carlos (HBO, writer Colbert Report; The Gods Honest Truth),
Beth Stelling (Netflix, Conan, Comedy Central Half-Hour),
Aparna Nacherla (Netflix ‘Master of None’, HBO, Comedy Central Half-Hour),
Jamie Lee (Ted Lasso, HBO’s Crashing, Conan),
Matt Koff (The Daily Show),
Alingon Mitra (Conan; Last Comic Standing),
Khalid Rahmaan (Conan; Comedy Central),
Charles McBee (head writer The Gods Honest Truth Comedy Central, MTV),
Chelsea Davison (The Tonight Show, writer on Comedy Central’s The Opposition @Midnight),
Yannis Pappas (Comedy Central Half-Hour, History Hyenas Podcast),
J-L Cauvin (The Late Late Show, The Howard Stern Show),
Rae Sanni (The Good Place on NBC, Comedy Central’s “The President Show”),
Ryan Beck (Comedy Central Every Day; MTV; The Daily Show),
Chloe Radcliffe (The Tonight Show, TBS, EPIX Unprotected Sets),
Liza Treyger (Netflix),
Kate Willett (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Netflix, Jim Jeffries Show),
Sarah Tollemache (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; NBC’s Last Comic Standing; Comedy Central’s Adam Devine House Party),
Kunal C Arora (Colbert, FOX’s Laughs, TruTV’s Late Night Snack),
Pedro Gonzalez (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert),
Kerry Coddett (Flatbush Misdemeanors, Ramy on Hulu, The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show, Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas),
Rosebud Baker (Comedy Central, HBO),
Stone and Stone (Twins Adam and Todd Stone)(Last Comic Standing; Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler’s “Penelope Princess of Pets”; Friars Club Roast of George Takai),
Justin Williams (Fraudsters podcast, FOX’s LAUGHS, Comedy Central),
Brian Parise (writer Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj),
Abby Feldman (Netflix’s ‘The Fix with Jimmy Carr’),
Sam Morrison (lolGBTQ Fest; Travel Channel, one-man show Hello, Daddy!),
Gianmarco Soresi (TBS’s The Last O.G., Comedy Central)
