Monthly Comedy Show S.U.C.K. Returns to the Stage at The Mockingbird Bar

The monthly comedy show S.U.C.K. (Stand Up Comedy Klub), returns to the stage on Friday, August 25th at 8:00 pm with August of Wind at The Mockingbird Bar in the East Village. Special guests include comics Drew Anderson (UCB, NPR, Littlefield), Aparna Nancherla (Crashing & Master of None/HBO, Inside Amy Schumer, The Jim Gaffigan Show), and Yedoye Travis (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Coming to the Stage/Hulu).

S.U.C.K. is composed of six of NYC's most intriguing comics, performers, and weirdos: including Hank Browning (Funny or Die, Broadway Comedy Club), Samantha Fontana (F'd in the East Village, Gotham), Gregory Lotsvin (Funny or Die, Broadway Comedy Club), Shane O'Neill (Tonight's Special, Characters Welcome at UCB), Jill Pangallo (Joe's Pub, Gotham), and David Perez (Shade at Steppenwolf, David on Demand).

With a broad range of perspective, styles, and levels of depression, S.U.C.K. creates a show as diverse as New York City itself except that they only feature one person of color. But they DO have two half-jews, an adopted person, a gay gentleman who's occasionally mistaken for trans, and a white dude who can grow an afro.

Performances take place at The Mockingbird Bar (between East 2nd and 3rd Streets), 25 Avenue B, New York. Subways: J/Z/M to Delancey-Essex Street.

Tickets are $5.00 and are available at: August 25 August of Wind - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/suck-presents-august-of-wind-tickets-35408775601

Doors open at 7:30 pm, no drink minimum.

More info available at www.standupcomedyklub.com

Former guests have included: Joel Kim Booster (Comedy Central, TBS's Conan), John Early (Portlandia/Neighbors 2), Cole Escola (Joe's Pub/Hulu's Difficult People), Lizz Winstead (The Daily Show/The Jim Gaffigan Show), Isaac Oliver (Joe's Pub/ HBO's High Maintenance), Joyelle Johnson (Comedy Cellar/ Wyatt Cenac's Night Train), Shane Torres (Montreal Just For Laugh's/Comedy Central), among others.

Biographies for The S.U.C.K. Team

Hank Browning is a comedian and actor living in Brooklyn. He hosts a weekly show at the Broadway Comedy Club, and has performed at the Del Close Marathon, New York Sketchfest and Boston Comedy Arts Festival. He is also the proud owner of some of his parent's old furniture.

Samantha Fontana is an actor, writer, producer and comedian born and raised in the East Village. You can find this Greek-Italian Jew hosting the Monday Salon at Double Wide (second Monday of the month), performing at Gotham, Sid Gold's Request Room, Joe's Pub, The Wild Project and more. Samantha is a featured producer in the Funny or Die Community. www.SFontana.com

Gregory Lotsvin is a United States Citizen. He was the host of long-running variety show Greg Lotsvin's Very Professional Comedy Show at the Broadway Comedy Club, as well as the host of the indie improv show What's the Deal. You can find him doing standup all over New York City, but only if you really try.

Shane O'Neill is a writer, performer, and video-maker. He and his work have appeared at Joe's Pub, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Refinery29, ArtNews New York, and at too many gay bars and DIY queer venues to mention here. He has performed extensively in the US and Europe with his Shane music project. His one-man variety show "Tonight's Special" occurs the first Tuesday of every month at Sid Gold's Request Room. He has a cat named Wanda, a boyfriend named Dusty, and a wonderful family-both chosen and by blood-all of whom he loves a great deal.

Jill Pangallo is a multidisciplinary performer best known for her funny and disturbing works that deal with identity and mass culture. In addition to performing solo, exhibiting internationally, and curating ensemble events, she works with some of New York City's most talented alternative performers to develop their own solo works. She collaborates with Alex P. White as the movement-based duo, SKOTE (now in residency at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn through August 2017). Her next project, Jane Johnson for the Home Shopper (in collaboration with fellow S.U.C.K.er, Shane O'Neill) will have its NYC premiere August 31 - September 2, 2017 at the Wild Project in the East Village. www.jillpangallo.com

David Perez is a Brooklyn based writer, performer, comic, and breakfast sandwich eater. He is a former theatre Director and Producer who founded the Chicago entity Pavement Group. He has worked with places like Steppenwolf Theatre Company, About Face Theatre, Teatro Vista, American Theatre Company, Upright Citizens Brigade, Joe's Pub, The Goodman Theatre and a lot of bars where he was paid in drink tickets and stromboli. He was the center of a popular internet experiment called "David on Demand" where for seven days everything he did was controlled by tweets. It was great and also super terrible and he has a bad tattoo to prove it. www.cargocollective.com/mrperezident

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