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New York Comedy Festival Coming To NYC! · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One O six point seven Light FM. Good morning, it's
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  Speaker 1: Christine along with Jack and for Covey and producer Kristen.
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  Speaker 1: And before Covey went away, we spoke with Caroline Hirst.
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  Speaker 1: She's getting ready to put together the New York Comedy Festival.
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  Speaker 1: We look forward to this every single year. We've got
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  Speaker 1: a great lineup and so we talked to Caroline about
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  Speaker 1: it and here's what she had to say.
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  Speaker 2: It's Covey and Christine in the morning. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it was just Christmas, but it's already that time of year.
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  Speaker 2: We got to talk about the New York Comedy Festival,
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  Speaker 2: which is happening in November, right and on the phone
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  Speaker 2: with us. Sometimes she's in studio, but today she's on phone.
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  Speaker 2: We have Caroline Hirsch, who's kind of spearheading this whole
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  Speaker 2: thing every single year, the founder of this whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Caroline, Good morning guys. How are you so
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  Speaker 3: happy to be back again and so happy to bring
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  Speaker 3: the festival back again?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this is exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't believe it's time to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: We have a pre sale going on today, but you
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  Speaker 2: tell us everything we need to know right now.
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  Speaker 3: So we're back again. After all these years. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we're the longest running and one of the largest annual
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  Speaker 3: com League festivals in the United States, so we're really
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  Speaker 3: happy about all of that. And we have ten days
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  Speaker 3: of shows in the five boroughs with over two hundred
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  Speaker 3: comedians and over one hundred shows, and we're really excited
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  Speaker 3: to be back at all the great venues in New
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  Speaker 3: York like Tribeca Performing Arts, the Beacon Theater, the King's Theater,
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  Speaker 3: Town Hall, the Venue at the hard Rock. We love
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  Speaker 3: doing shows at the hard Rock Hotel. It's such a
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  Speaker 3: fabulous venue there. We have a lot of new people
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  Speaker 3: we're introducing this year, like the zee Weee at town
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  Speaker 3: Hall and the Gaming Show, which is also going to
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  Speaker 3: be at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. We're bringing back
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  Speaker 3: Tim Dillon, one of our all time favorites. He is
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  Speaker 3: just hilarious. Joanne McNally's new to us this year and
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  Speaker 3: she'll be at town Hall, and one of our old
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  Speaker 3: time favorites, Miss Pat will also be a residence at
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  Speaker 3: the Venue at the hard Rock. Jordan Jensen is somebody
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  Speaker 3: that we found a few years ago at New York's
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  Speaker 3: Funny and she's back, you know, doing her You know,
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  Speaker 3: big headliner show at the Beacon Theater, Adam Friedland. You
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  Speaker 3: know everybody knows about him and his wonderful podcast. He'll
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  Speaker 3: be back again with us. We're also doing something with
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  Speaker 3: Comic Relief in the Moth called a Funny Story at
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  Speaker 3: Town Hall Daniel Schloss. I mean it goes on and
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  Speaker 3: on and on. We have such great talent.
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  Speaker 2: So even though the New York Comedy Festival isn't until
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  Speaker 2: November sixth through the fifteenth of November, we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: it today because we have a pre sale today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Wednesday, July fifteenth is our pre sale.
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  Speaker 1: So Caroline, I feel like you're always cutting edge, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, the up and coming comedians. You've always had
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  Speaker 1: an eye for talent, you know, having Caroline's on Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: Who is it that is really signing for you right now?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you're familiar with Jordan Jensen, but
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  Speaker 3: she's a young lady that she's a wonderful talent. She's
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  Speaker 3: on the rise. She won New York's Funniest a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago, and we're very excited to present her at
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  Speaker 3: the Beacon Theater this year. So this is like a
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  Speaker 3: big coming out for her.
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  Speaker 1: In New York City and it's great to follow you
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  Speaker 1: on social media too. I just want to mention at
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  Speaker 1: NYC Comedy Fest and that's where you can see comedians
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  Speaker 1: being added in real time. You'll get an idea what's
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  Speaker 1: going on with the show.
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  Speaker 2: Pre sale begins at eleven o'clock today runs until Sunday
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  Speaker 2: at ten pm. You can sign up for that Comedy
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  Speaker 2: Festival newsletter at Nycomedyfestival dot com or follow the festival
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram at ny Comedy Fest and you can get
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  Speaker 2: that pre sale code there too. Tickets go on sale
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  Speaker 2: to the general public on July twentieth at eleven am,
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  Speaker 2: but today is that pre sale beginning at eleven and.
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  Speaker 1: That early access to tickets is provided by Bread Financial Caroline.
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  Speaker 2: It's that time of year. I can't believe it, and
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  Speaker 2: we're happy to have you on to talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: It's that time of the year again. Yes, thanks guys,