Comedy
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KICKING UP THEIR HEELS The comedic reading series How To Kick People moves into a new East Village performance venue. Guests at the next installment, which takes the nebulously enthusiastic theme “To the Max!!!” are Alison Castillo, Maura Madden, and Rusty Ward.Series curators Todd Levin and Bob Powers serve as hosts. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Mo Pitkin’s, 34 Avenue A, between 2nd and 3rd streets, 212-777-5660, $8.
SENSELESS SOCIETY The Social Experiment, a weekly comedy variety show, seeks to bring “senseless fun into the world” through joke contests, sketches, stand-up, and music. Tonight, 8:30 p.m. doors open, 9 p.m. show, Sin Sin Lounge, 248 E. 5th St., at Second Avenue, 212-253-2222, free.
SUMMER LAUGHS Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Brian Posehn, and Maria Bamford, aka the Comedians of Comedy, make a stop in the city during their northeast summer tour. Friday, 9 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place at 15th Street, 212-777-6800, $20.
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