If you just lie perfectly still maybe an imaginary breeze will waft through your dwelling as the sun melts everything around you. Hey, one can hope. Escape the great glowing orb in the sky for An Evening of Humorous Readings this month at (le) Poisson Rouge. You’ll be able to experience the most literary of humorists reading their asolutely literary humor! If you are not totally convinced yet, the show has featured short humor pieces of writers from Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Onion, and more. Thursday, August 2nd buy tasty beers and take in the humor from these gentile wordsmiths:
David Guzman (The Onion, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, UCB)
Miranda Kronfeld (Reductress)
Sasha Stewart (The Nightly Show, The New Yorker, The Belladonna, McSweeney’s)
& YOUR HOSTS:
Brian Agler (The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Esquire)
Luke Burns (The New Yorker, The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, UCBT)
James Folta (The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Neu Jorker)
Everyone will be boiling over with amusement (vs. boiling from heat stroke). GO!
Mentions: Show 8pm. FREE!!! The Gallery at (le) Poisson Rouge is located at 158 Bleecker Street.