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LAUGH RIOT Jersey City Comedy Festival – 100 Comics in 7 Days

By Sally Deering

jc comedy festival logoThere’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 30th and running all week through Saturday, April 5th, 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 we’ve got four sketch comedy groups and one improv comedy group,” Mahoney says. “We’re going to have two art shows as part of the festival, too.” Continue reading LAUGH RIOT Jersey City Comedy Festival – 100 Comics in 7 Days