The Knockouts 

The HERlarious Show

Hailed as an “improper quintet of funny ladies” by the New York Times, “a lady tastic treasure” by Buzzfeed and “demented” by TimeOut NY, the Ladies Who Ranch is a five-person comedy group known for their individual voices. This live show will showcase a grab bag of raucous characters, raunchy songs, clown-inspired chaos and dreamy monologues - it's like watching the female experience, unhinged. In the past they’ve shown Lin Manuel Miranda berating people for not seeing Hamilton enough. Sandy from Grease, but a lesbian. A live egg auction. A girl who’s in jail for being too hot. And a woman explaining her dark past to a person buying her couch off Craigslist—this collective is nothing short of batshit. Their work has found success on platforms like The Daily Show, Adult Swim, Earwolf, Apple TV+’s Dickinson, Comedy Central, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Slamdance Film Festival.

Ladies Who Ranch

The Knockouts

Triple Headliner

The Cat's Meow 

Join us for a fantastic panel on how to take your show from pitch to stage or screen!Sophie ZuckerMoonie DesvarieuxHollie HarperModerated by Gold Comedy’s Maggie ScudderSophie Zucker is a comedian, living in Brooklyn. She's currently the youngest writer at The Daily Show. Prior to that, she wrote and starred as Abby on Apple TV's Dickinson. She can be seen in the upcoming New Line/Picturestart movie Sweethearts, directed by Jordan Weiss. Sophie has performed original work at Joe's Pub, Union Hall, The Bell House, Littlefield, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Second City, UCB, Vital Joint, and Lifeworld and trained at some of those places, too.Hollie Harper is a writer and a standup/sketch comedian/actress from Cape May, New Jersey. She’s a co-host of the nationally trending Twitter Storytelling Chat “BlerdDating” as well as the female comedian-paneled talk show "Broadish". Her blog “Hollie Harper INK” on Medium quickly gained Top Writer status in Parenting, Black Lives Matter and Racism. Her popular sketch comedy show AMERICAN CANDY has played the Comic Strip, Gotham Comedy Club, BAM Café as well as the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. Team CANDY is presently editing a pilot they shot last winter. She's a regular host at West Side Comedy Club. She recently starred in the Off-Broadway production of Melanie Maria Goodreaux's "The White Blacks".Moonie is a Haitian-American lawyer turned stand-up comedian and screenwriter. In three years of honing her newfound craft, she has made it to the finals of Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson’s 2022 National Comedy Competition and she has opened for D.L. Hughley, Bob the Drag Queen &amp; Peppermint. During the pandemic, when comedy was on pause, she co-wrote the screenplay, Butch Baby Mama, with her sister/creative partner, Jess Desvarieux. Moonie is also the co-creator of the award-winning episodic web series, Moonie, which has been selected and screened in over fifteen national and international film festivals along with being nominated for a 2023 Queerty award in the category of Best Web series.Maggie Scudder is a comedy writer, director, producer, and instructor. Her award-winning pilot script, The GOAT, is being developed with Emmy and Peabody-winner Ryan Cunningham. She is also the writer, showrunner, and lead of a new web series about NYC’s new Rat Czar. Her directorial work includes BFF4L (featuring Janeane Garofalo), Mutually Beneficial Union (featuring Keisha Zollar), and PRESSED: A live sketch show (Brooklyn Comedy Collective, NYC Sketchfest, The PIT, iO Chicago, DC Sketchfest).&nbsp;

Make Your Show Happen: From Pitch to Stage or Screen

Good Vibes: Brought to you by Dame

Unpack low-grade trauma and heal minor childhood wounds at Cheap Therapy by Hoes With Feelings. Untrained Professionals Karolena Theresa and Melissa Rich provide laughs and unsolicited advice to the show's comedians and audience. After their stand up sets, comics receive a therapy session to unpack an issue and see what's really hiding behind those jokes... Audience members are invited to enter their name (and what they'd like to focus on this session) for a chance to take the stage and heal in real time. Unlike actual therapy, cocktails are both allowed and encouraged.Doors at 7:30. Show at 8:00 in the Living Room at Arlo SoHo, drinks are available in Foxtail!Line up tba!Karolena Theresa (featured in Dazed magazine) is a New York-based, Queens-native, stand-up comedian, actress, comedy writer, and short plus size model. She is a tour member of Awkward Sex and the City and a recent cast member of the productions Handmaid’s Tale: The Musical and Hidden Fences.Melissa Rich is a comedian and writer based in Lower Manhattan. She is a Party Reporter for NYLON Magazine where she writes a monthly nightlife column. Past works include "Handmaid's Tale: The Musical" and "The Pieces: A 9/11 Conspiracy Told Through the Music of Ashlee Simpson." Her podcasts "Hoes With Feelings" and "CHIC NYC" cover relationships, culture, nightlife and mental health.

Cheap Therapy by Hoes With Feelings

My Life as a Rom Com 

Constellation Prize is an astrology-based comedy game show hosted at famous astrology-themed bar Mood Ring!Watch 6 comics who all have different zodiac signs, and witness a professional astrologer attempt to guess everyone's sign! You will also have a chance to guess their signs, and there will be prizes!

Constellation Prize

Get ready to laugh and sniff each other's butts! Must Love Dogs and Comedy is a 501(c)(3) pending organization that produces comedy shows you can bring your dog to, which also raise money and awareness for animal rescue. They are the only charitable, dog-friendly comedy show in New York City and have raised over $22,000 for animal rescue so far!See: Jolie Dudley, Amber Singletary, Mariel Jimenez, Patricia Dinglasan, Sabeen Sadiq, Shari Diaz (&amp; Knope, of course)

Must Love Dogs and Comedy

Jewesses

Cracked! 

THE EXPERTS is a rapid-fire improv comedy show created by comedian and host Olivia Scenna. An extensive panel of "historians" will dive into some of the most notable past and current events with a powerpoint slide, a laser pointer, and 90 seconds on the clock. Join Olivia as her comedic colleagues aid in her lifelong quest to become all-knowing. It’s like TEDTalks - but faster.Featuring:Aarushi Agni (@aarushifire)Amy Shandro (@ace_shandro)Chika (@chika.ek)Darby Kersten (@himynameisdarby)Jenny Klupka (@prettypanini)Maggie Olmsted (@maggieolmstedpretty)Mckenzie Fleischer (@flush_her)Nico (@noooonico)Oona O'Brien (@oonie.oonie)Rowan Zeoli (@rowanzeoli)Sydney Duncan (@sydneyduncanonem)Sunny LaPrade (@sunnylcomedy)

The Experts (Get Smart)

A little about us…The Sav + Sal Show is a standup comedy show featuring women, POCs, and LQBTQ+ comedians. We’ve been producing shows for the past two years in New York where we’ve fostered community between comics and audience members. Our show was even featured in Time Out Magazine’s article “12 Places New Yorkers are Making Friends.” We have been featured in Time Out numerous times, as well as having a feature on Secret NYC.This show features:1. Emmy Wilson2. Sureni Weerasekera3. Lissa Lenis4. Kat Smith5. Vannessa Jackson6. Brooke Finegold7. Savannah McMenemy

The Sav + Sal Show 

Comedy show with a twist at the end where we interrogate a special guest, to see if they need to "raise" or "lower" their dating standards, with the help of our audience!

Kimchi Confessions 

Women Uninterrupted! 

Unladylike  

Gossip themed comedy show! Comedians do their sets and then have 1 minute to share some juicy tea.Featuring: Ayanna DookieGina BrillonPatricia DinglasanPaula J. LeonLinette Paladino

The Chismosas!

Mishegoss Comedy, presented by Lily Lester and Skye Grayson, are thrilled to announce that Mishegoss is teaming up with Stand Up NY’s Knockouts Women’s Comedy Festival and Stone Street Café in Manhattan to bring you MISHEGOSS x KCF, on March 7th at 8pm.Lineup includes very, very, VERY funny women, seen on Comedy Central, HBO and Netflix!Liza Treyger (Netflix, HBO)Isa Medina (Sounds Like a Cult)Julia Desmond (Acme Comedy)Tatiana Frank (The Stand)Lily Lester (New York Comedy Club)Skye Grayson (SiriusXM)Sureni Weerasekera (Amazon Prime, Don't Tell)

Mishegoss Comedy

Presented by Knockouts Women's Comedy FestivalHosted by Yasmine Hamady and Zoë TantonLINEUP:Amelia RitthalerNatalie LinNataly AukarStef DagzSydnee WashingtonYasmine HamadyZoë TantonPlease buy a drink to support the bar &lt;3Photos by Winter BrowneGraphic design by Lily Turner

Local Starlets

Hosts Kayla Kirk and Emily Baker encourage comics to share their latest flops (failures) and sauces (successes) at The Grassy Noll, a cozy Brooklyn dispensary.Featuring:Riylan MillsMcKenna MooreAllie LawrenceNora FriedAmanda Vasco

Flopsauce

It's 2004 and two girls whose moms are friends but they are not, are having a sleepover and the only way they can entertain themselves is with cable TV.

What's On Cable

Laughing Woman

SUSD is a unique show that combines stand-up comedy with lively conversations between host Sarah Ross and New York's funniest comics. After each performer's set, Sarah joins them on stage to explore their influences, get behind-the-scenes stories, answer audience questions, and more! Part late night talk show, part green room banter, totally hilarious!Featuring:Liz GlaserVannessa JacksonJulia Zhenwith music by Fia James

Stand Up, Sit Down

Rebels

Get ready for a night of laughter and empowerment as a squad of knockout comedians takes the stage to raise funds and awareness for the Endometriosis Foundation. Brought to you by Bellesa and Tushy, this show promises an unforgettable evening where comedy meets a cause, breaking the stigma around endometriosis and supporting women’s health. Your ticket not only guarantees a great time but also contributes to vital research and advocacy efforts.

Stand Up for Endofound

Knockouts Fest Presents: Energizer HoneysFeaturing:Alise MoralesChristi SomersChikaChloe CunhaHosted by Nell Kessler and Delia Kemph

Energizer Honeys

Together, two women redefine contemporary beauty standards by continuing to be beautiful while also telling jokes (which is usually a boy thing). Pretty please join us for an epic night of girl comedy hosted by comedians Roxanne Ruth and Vivian Herbert, featuring perfect jokes from MC Nanda, Chika, Amelia Ritthaler, Kate Franklin, and Bekah Hess. Bring friends, family, loved ones, enemies, and we will alllll laugh laugh laugh and make memories to last a lifetime at Fiction Bar &amp; Cafe. Ultimately the goal of this show is to create the perfect homage to the idea that beauty is more than just a specific image or body time but actually beauty is when you tell an intricately-crafted fart joke and it kills. Could it get any better than that?

Who Says Two Beautiful Women Can't Host A Comedy Show?

Brings the comedy club experience right in your own backyard. The producer, Can Can, grew up in Carroll Gardens and when people ask her what it was like growing up in Brooklyn, she always says “it felt like living in a small town.” She wanted to bring a small-town community feel to a New York City comedy show.

Carroll Gardens Comedy

WSU has a newbie program so the lineup will feature alumni from each cohort as well as a star studded headliner!

Women Stand Up NYC

Midwives-Aversary

Funny Women of a Certain Age

Jess Elgene (New York Comedy Festival’s Content Creators to Watch) fled the lone star state, picked up a microphone, and transitioned. But what do those things have in common? Original music, characters, and stand up comedy clear a path for the story of one woman finding herself, fighting to exist, and proving she is a girl who can do anything.

Jess Elgene: Less of a Man

"Claire and Sarah Are Afraid Of Commitment" is an hour-long standup comedy show about two women navigating life, dating, elevators, and their omnipresent fear of settling. Sarah and Claire will each perform half hour sets that dive into the good, the bad, and the butt-stuff of womanhood. We invite the audience to join us as we uplift one another and trudge through short king spring.

Claire and Sarah Are Afraid of Commitment

Kugels and Komedians feat. Jewish Knockouts

Ruthless

This is one of the most fun, funny and reliably entertaining comedy shows in New York with an all female lineup!

Tuesdays at the Red Room

A passion project inspired by comedy in NYC brought to life on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Bite Me! is a sold out biweekly shows that run fire line ups all summer. In winter is travels to the Upper East Side at Iggy’s on 2nd ave once per month. Bite Me! regularly runs female dominated line ups but will proudly deliver a 100% lady line up March 5th at 7:30pm.

Bite Me!

Jokeando

In Bed By 9

Queen Bees: A Variety Show

Knockouts of the Week 

<h5 style="text-align: start">Your favorite dating show is back for a shortened version to play as part of the Knockouts Festival. </h5><h5 style="text-align: start"></h5><h5>Love is Live&nbsp;is an onstage actual dating game show that combines elements from reality dating shows like&nbsp;The Dating Game&nbsp;and&nbsp;Love is Blind. Through three rounds of questions and activities, two lucky contestants will hopefully find a match worth exploring beyond the show.”</h5>

Love Is Live

Join Dumpster Fire Productions and LGTBQ+ hosts, producers and comedians, Kristina Kelley, Kat Soriano and Robert Ima, for a night filled with laughter and fabulousness! 3 Non-Straights is a stand-up comedy show celebrating diversity and inclusivity for all. This event creates a safe and welcoming environment where everyone can let their true colors shine. Every first Monday of the month, 3 Non-Straights will be upstairs at the historic Stonewall Inn. Free cookies and a free raffle ticket comes with every ticket purchase. Audience give-aways are valued over $250. Doors at 6:30, Show at 7pm, UpstairsSee: Meka Mo @mekasocialVeronica Garza @veros_got_jokesCaitlin Cook @thecaitlincookMarcy Smiles @marcy_smiles602Kristina Kelley @kknthecityKat Soriano @whosmansisthisAunt Sylvia (host) @auntsylvianyc

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