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We're pretty sure Ben Lerman is posing here.
Here are two things we love: comedy and secrets. Or at least the whiff of secrecy that comes from calling something “underground.” Starting tonight, there are some really unique and hilarious acts coming to Public Assembly as part of the BK Underground Comedy Festival. The mini-series, which starts tonight and runs through Wednesday, features Stacy Mayer’s Funeralogues, the puppet artist Nick Jones‘ “Smart Phone,” Dr. Steam Whipple and the Prescriptions (with “deep roots in southern voodoo and eastern confusion”), and the hilarious and talented Ben Lerman*, tinkling away at his ukelele. Tickets are $10 a night, and you can see all of the shows here.
*Um, just saying… Ben Lerman will also be peforming this Wednesday at the awesome storytelling show at The Sackett Bar called The NutSackett. Just in case you don’t get enough of him Monday night … or want to see me as well.
Underground Comedy Festival at Public Assembly, 70 N. Sixth St. Williamsburg, 11211, (718) 384-4586, Sunday, Monday & Wednesday at 8 p.m.
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Outings
Judah Friedlander's been known to grace the Knitting Factory
“Do you like comedy?” Usually these words mean “Do you like to feel uncomfortable while a terrible and slightly offensive ‘up and coming’ comedian tries to make jokes at your expense while you guzzle expensive watered down drinks?” At least… that’s in Manhattan. Here in Brooklyn, you’re actually going to enjoy what’s about to happen—no two-drink minimum, no bull… just laughs. Here are some of Brooklyn’s top venues for a comedic night out: most free, a few pretty damn cheap, all HILARIOUS. 
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Photo by Seuss.
It’s a couple… 234 years later, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do this thing right. Brooklyn has a hallowed place in our country’s early days. This July 4, take part in some historically (in)appropriate activities to celebrate our founding fathers, freedom and plain, old 18th century good times. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
1) Drive out your British neighbors… to pick up some Sam Adams, that is. (Who do you think we are?)
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music
Williamsburg/ Greenpoint
David Hemmings and Veruschka von Lehndorff in Blow-Up
London in the ’60s was one of those places and brief moments in time that we think almost compares to modern-day Brooklyn when it comes to ‘cool’. It was a swingin’, mod-wearing time—an era so many of us would have loved to live through. And this Wednesday, we might get a pretty good taste. Future Cinema, the British event company behind feats of live, immersive, multimedia cinema, has crossed the pond for the first time (straight to Brooklyn) with one of its extravagant creations: Antonioni’s iconic 1966 classic Blow-Up, tomorrow night, Jun. 30, at Shangri-La Studio in Greenpoint.
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Services
Get your own "yes" man for $5
Would you go all Marilyn Monroe for a friend’s birthday for $5? Or maybe even take the ultimate blame at the party? Well, someone will be rakin’ it in for those services-rendered. And they’ll be doing it through Fiverr.com, a new marketplace site for anything and everything that could possibly be worth a good-old Abe Lincoln. Think of an all-for-$5-Etsy, of the mostly-intangible, with a little Twitter-aesthetic thrown in—that’s Fiverr.
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There's lots of crap out there. Nominate us some great local videos
Is there anything less Brokelyn than the pomp and flash of the Oscars? The carbon-belching limos and blinding glitz may not jive with our thrifty sensibilities, but the starry spectacle is still pretty fun to watch, even as we sit here fishing for our Superfunded supper on the Gowanus Canal.
Our film world dreams are really more of a YouTube budget than an Avatar one. YouTube is infinitely creative, totally DIY, and most of all, entirely democratic and free to all the people, of all shapes, sizes, budgets and dimensions.
That’s why we’re proud to announce the first-ever Brokecademy Awards, the most prestigious blog-based, statue-free but glory-rich awards to honor great achievements in Brooklyn YouTubery. And here’s the best part: you’re our nominating panel!
