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Thereâ€s no doubt the snowstorms of 2014 left Jersey City streets ripped up pretty bad.  How bad? I saw a woman park her Fiat in a pot-hole.  (Rim-shot!)

Everybody could use a good laugh these days and Craig Mahoney of Jersey City, a stand-up comedian and artist has taken it upon himself to help Jersey City reclaim its sense of humor. Starting Sunday, March 30^th and running all week through Saturday, April 5^th, Dos Equis presents the Jersey City Comedy Festival featuring 100 comedians performing in clubs and other venues all about town. This marks the second year for the “week-long, city-wide celebration of the art of comedy” and Hudsonites are invited to shed their winter blahs with a few belly laughs.

“The schedule is set: over 100 stand–up comedians and weâ€ve got four sketch comedy groups and one improv comedy group,” Mahoney says. “Weâ€re going to have two art shows as part of the festival, too.”

Mahoney will open the festival at a new performance venue The Rogues Gallery on Palisade Avenue in the Heights section of Jersey City.

“Thatâ€s where we will start and finish the week,” Mahoney says. “And at LITM on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, there will be a group art show of artists who are also comics.”

Last yearâ€s comedy festival featured 100 comics doing 18 shows over six nights at 14 venues; this year there will be 100 comics, 25 events, two after-parties, open mics and figure drawing

“Roughly the same amount of comedians will be coming,” Mahoney says. “We mixed it up with live podcasts and a live book reading, a web video marathon and shows on the big screen with a Q&A afterward.”

For one performance, Mahoney and his friend Justin Murray will do a live commentary of the 1986 movie TRANSFORMERS.

Mahoney has made sure every show has a female comic performing, and with ticket prices averaging $15, Mahoneyâ€s goal is to make sure all the comics get paid for performing, even if itâ€s just train fare.

“Most comics are coming across the river to be in the festival,” Mahoney says. “I donâ€t think the comics should have to worry about anything except showing up and being funny.”

If you go:

Sun, Mar. 30 – Sat, April 5

JERSEY CITY COMEDY FESTIVAL

Opening and Closing night at

The Rogueâ€s Gallery

467 Palisade Ave

Jersey City

For schedule information, go to

www.facebook.com/JerseyCityComedyFestival

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