The EastVille Comedy Club is a New York City comedy club located in Manhattan's East Village. It is the only comedy club located in the East Village, and has become a staple of the community.
Popular comedians from TV & film often make surprise appearances, therefore the EastVille Comedy Club is known for having celebrity comics perform secret unadvertised sets.
EastVille has hosted showcases for Late Night with Conan O'Brien and audition showcases for Montreal's Just For Laughs Comedy Festival.
EastVille was the object of a brief Howard Stern scandal involving Artie Lange in October, 2008. EastVille had been advertising a Stern Comedy Show featuring Stern regulars Mike Bocchetti, Shuli Egar, and Artie Lange. Three days before the show, comedian Mike Bocchetti was a guest on Stern's Sirius Radio Show plugging the EastVille Show. After Bocchetti mentioned Lange's appearance on EastVille's Stern Showcase; Artie Lange immediately denied having any idea of the booking.
Numerous scenes for Louis C.K.'s show on FX called: "Louie (TV series)" were filmed at EastVille in the summer of 2010.
In November 2012; Eastville Comedy Club was mentioned numerous times in a New York Times write-up about an up-an-coming comedian.
Eastville Comedy Club's Open Mic Nights are extremely popular and accumulate long waits for performers.
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—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The comedy of hollow sounds derives
From truth and not from satire on our lives.”
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