Uptown Showdown gets personal as comedians Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer), Myq Kaplan (A.K.A), Chase Mitchell (The Tonight Show), Aparna Nancherla (Corporate), Kevin Townley (The Talent Show), and Kate Willett (Reply Guys) debate from their homes on a topic that invites plenty of show-and-tell.
After all: there are two ways to organize your life. One involves overstuffing your closets with old clothes, tax returns, and heaps of scrap metal in case you ever become a welder. The other involves ruling over your tidy, barren kingdom with a Swiffer and a maximum of anal-retentive glee. In this digital edition of our comedic debate series, the neatnik disciples of Marie Kondo square off against the hoarding heirs of the Beales of Grey Gardens.
The popular comedy debate series invites two teams of funny folks from the worlds of stand-up and late-night television to tackle topics of great importance to pop culture, such as which pet is superior--cats or dogs--and is it better to be comfortable or fashionable? The verbal sparring and all-around absurdity stop only when the audience decides the winner. Hosted by Matthew Love.
Performers subject to change. Due to scheduling conflicts, Maria Bamford and Kerry Coddett will no longer be appearing at this event.
| Uptown Showdown : Neat Freaks vs. Pack Rats was broadcast live on October 29. Tickets are available to watch a recording of the live broadcast. Ticket holders may watch the recording through November 12. |
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Michael Ian Black is a comedian, actor, director, commentator, and author, who
starred in The Jim Gaffigan Show and Comedy Central’s Another Period. He
recently reprised one of his iconic film roles in Netflix’s Wet Hot American
Summer: Ten Years Later. Sketch comedy fans know Black’s work on The State,
Stella, and Michael and Michael Have Issues. Black is the author of numerous
books, including A Child’s First Book of Trump; Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies,
Mostly Mine (but also my mom’s, which I know sounds weird); America, You Sexy
Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom; and A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea. Black wrote
and directed the film Wedding Daze and co-wrote the comedy Run, Fatboy, Run.
His most recent book, A Better Man, A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son, was
published in September.
Myq Kaplan is a comedian named Mike Kaplan. He has performed on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien; The Late Show with David Letterman; Conan; Late Night with Seth Meyers; The Late Late Show with James Corden; in his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents special, and in his own one-hour special on Amazon, Small, Dork, and Handsome. He has appeared on America’s Got Talent and was a finalist on Last Comic Standing. His debut album, Vegan Mind Meld, was one of iTunes’ Top 10 Comedy Albums of the Year. Additional albums include Meat Robot, No Kidding, and A.K.A., which debuted at #1 in May and was called "invigoratingly funny" by The New York Times. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend and two podcasts, Broccoli and Ice cream and The Faucet.
Matthew Love is a performer and writer whose bylines has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, LitHub, American Theatre, Village Voice, Onion AV Club and Time Out New York, where he was formerly the Comedy and Books editor. He's currently a consulting producer for Selected Shorts and its spin-off podcast, Too Hot for Radio. He has interviewed or hosted shows featuring Chris Rock, David Byrne, Parker Posey, Jordan Peele, Stephen Colbert, Tig Notaro and many, many more. He's also putting finishing touches on his "grandma noir" novel, Tough Old Birds.
Chase Mitchell has been a writer for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as other shows that do not involve the words "Jimmy" or "Fallon," including the aftershow parody show What Just Happened!?! with Fred Savage on FOX, and the upcoming adult animated series Inside Job, coming to Netflix in 2021. He also has a dog who he considers his biological son.
Aparna Nancherla is a comedian, writer, and actress who can currently be seen on Comedy Central's Corporate and Space Force on Netflix. Additional acting credits include roles on A Simple Favor, You’re Not a Monster, Crashing, High Maintenance, Master of None, Two Woke Girls, and Inside Amy Schumer. In 2016, she released her debut album, Just Putting It Out There, and was named one of The 50 Funniest People Right Now by Rolling Stone in 2017. In 2018, she was featured on Netflix’s The Standups and co-hosted the Women’s March Rally in New York City. Nancherla has written for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and Late Night with Seth Meyers. She is the voice of Meena on Mira, Royal Detective; Hollyhock on BoJack Horseman; and Moon on The Great North.
Kevin Townley is an actor, comedian, and writer who has appeared in the films Men in Black 3, The Comedy, The Sitter, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and on television in Us & Them, The Following, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Sherri, The Detour, The Last O.G., and Madam Secretary. Townley wrote and co-directed the short film Who Knows? He is the co-creator/host of the live comedy variety show The Talent Show, along with Elna Baker, and has been featured in TimeOut and New York Magazine for his chic, unique, and off-kilter fashion sense.
Kate Willett is a comedian, actress, and writer whose raunchy feminist storytelling is both smart and relatable. Her 15 minute special will premiere on Netflix in 2018. She was recently a correspondent for the Jim Jeffries Show at Politicon 2017. She’s been featured on Viceland’s Flophouse, and her appearance on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening was on Splitsider’s list of “2016’s Best Late Night Standup Sets.” She has appeared in the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival, High Plains, Big Sky Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, LA Riot, and most recently Laughing Skull.
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Past Performers include Elna Baker, Maria Bamford, Michael Ian Black, Guy Branum, Wyatt Cenac, Ronny Chieng, Jo Firestone, John Fugelsang, Janeane Garofalo, Jon Glaser, Ilana Glazer, Josh Gondelman, Dave Hill, Maeve Higgins, Mehran Khaghani, Julie Klausner, Hasan Minhaj, Aparna Nancherla, Kristen Schaal, Baratunde Thurston, Kevin Townley, Michael Showalter, Dan Soder, Bowen Yang, Sasheer Zamata, and many more.
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