Laughter@ Lincoln Center is NYLAUGHS.org’s FREE summer comedy series – please join us for an amazing stand-up comedy event in The Speakeasy / Jaffe Drive on Lincoln Center’s campus. Watch our social media @NYLAUGHS for announcements of performers! Show starts at 8pm and is free to all! First come, first served so arrive early to line-up. Beverages and light alcohol are available for purchase.
Come and get ready for some quality laughs at deflated prices!
Lineup
Jay Jurden Headliner
Jay Jurden is a New York based comedian, writer and actor. Originally from Mississippi, Jay regularly performs comedy all over the country and is currently a Staff Writer for Apple TV+’s ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart.’ Jay has been seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Featuring, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and HBO’s High Maintenance. His album, Jay Jurden Y’all, debuted #1 on iTunes. Jay has written for Vulture, Teen Vogue, McSweeney’s, and The New Yorker. Jay was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch in 2022. He was also listed on Vulture’s Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2020. Jay was selected to be featured in Just for Laughs Festival’s New Faces in 2019.
Eman El-Husseini Co-Host
Eman El-Husseini is a Canadian-Palestinian comedian currently living in NYC. She has performed at the “ Just For Laughs Festival” in Montreal as well as festivals in Toronto and Australia. El Husseini has recorded two comedy albums, “Unveiled” and “Handsome Daughter.” El Husseini is also part of the comedy duo “The El-Salomons” with her wife Jess Salomon. Together they have performed at the “Just for Laughs” Festival and the Boston Women in Comedy Festival.
Fumi Abe
Fumi Abe is a Japanese-American stand-up comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. Named one of Vulture’s Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2023, he was also selected as part of the prestigious Just For Laughs New Faces class of 2023.
Fumi has appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Dropout’s Smarty Pants. As a writer, he previously served as a Staff Writer for The Late Late Show with James Corden and, most recently, was a Story Editor on Seth MacFarlane’s animated series Ted.
His writing credits also include NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, the 2022 TIME100 Gala hosted by Simu Liu, the ESPYs, and Wieden+Kennedy’s Lost in McDonaldland series. In addition to stand-up, Fumi co-hosts the comedy and personal finance podcast Cash Cuties and previously co-hosted the acclaimed podcast Asian Not Asian.
He has toured nationally alongside comedians including Ronny Chieng, Ilana Glazer, Iliza Shlesinger, Tom Papa, and Hannah Berner.
Chanel Ali
Chanel Ali gained popularity after hosting the Food Network digital series “Food Debate!” and being featured on MTV’s “Girl Code”. In 2019, she won the “New Face” award in the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival. Ali can also be seen making appearances on Comedy Central’s “Taking the Stage”, Refinery 29’s “Speak Up”, and on the Netflix series “Dash & Lily.” Her debut comedy album “Chanel No.1” debuted at #2 in 2020. Ali’s solo comedy debut was made recently when she released an hour long comedy special on Epix.
Tom Thakkar
Tom Thakkar is a comedian you’ve seen on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” “Comedy Central’s Stand Up Presents,” “This Week at the Comedy Cellar,” “CONAN,” and as the host of Comedy Central’s “Stand Up with Tom Thakkar.” He was the co-host of “You Up with Nikki Glaser” on SiriusXM. He now hosts the podcast, “Girls’ Night with Tom Brady”, which has gotten rave reviews from listeners all around the country, and it is consistently among the top 50 comedy podcasts on podomatic.com. Tom has also been featured on Doug Loves Movies, VICE, NPR, The Todd Glass Show, PBS, and was named a “Comedian you should know” by Chicago Magazine
Martin Urbano
Martin Urbano is a New York based comedian and writer. He is a staff writer on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” He had a breakout performance at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2017. Since then he has performed in front of thousands at festivals that include Bonnaroo, Boston Calling, and the New York Comedy Festival, and made his late night television debut on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
