The holiday of Purim is full of sheroes! We’re hosting a night of comedy celebrating women and roasting cancelled men— from within the story of Purim to pop culture.

We’re going to “boo” toxic masculinity with New York’s best comedians including Kelly Bachman, Orli Matlow, Anna Roisman, Jess Salomon, Julia Shiplett, and our returning Ha"MAN" of the evening, Josh Gondleman.

Join us for a Megillah (the story of Purim) reading before the show at 6 pm, and a Purim party with hamentashen and drinks after the laughs. It's traditional to dress in costume on Purim, so feel free to come dressed up! Check out a breakdown of our evening below:

• Megillah Reading: 6 pm
• Comedy Show: 7 pm
• Purim Party: 8:30 pm

All proceeds benefit Housing Works' mission to fight AIDS and homelessness in New York City.

$20/per ticket with one drink on us!

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Kelly Bachman is a writer, director, producer, comedian and musician from North Carolina—currently based in New York. Kelly’s latest production, Rape Jokes by Survivors, was recently featured at New York Comedy Festival. Kelly performs stand-up around New York City, and also co-produces Stoked Comedy the first and third Thursday of every month at Mad Tropical in Brooklyn. Kelly regularly writes, produces, hosts and is featured in an hour long, live-streamed, sketch variety web series, “Sofa Kingdom," and her punk band, Boys Drool, also performs around New York.

Orli Matlow is a comedian and writer from Toronto, Canada. She recently in the writers room for the upcoming Soft Focus with Jena Friedman special on Adult Swim. Orli was featured at the 2019 Alaska B4UDIE Comedy Festival, and in the NBC Spotlight Series at the 2018 Women in Comedy Festival. Orli was listed as one of "8 Rising Jewish Female Comedians That Will Make You Pee Your Pants" by Alma. Orli co-hosts Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, a comedy show fundraiser of all immigrant comedians, as seen in The New York Times. She also hosts the monthly show Comedy Time Machine at QED Astoria. Her sketch team God Should Not Have Chosen Us recently was a featured act at the 2020 Chicago Sketchfest and performs regularly sold-out shows at The Peoples' Improv Theater. Orli represented Columbia University in TBS' National College Comedy Competition, and was a finalist in the 2014 New York's Funniest Professional Comedy Competition, winning the Funniest College Student division. She performed at the 2016 Brooklyn Comedy Festival and her writing has appeared on McSweeney's and Reductress. Her short film with Ziyad Gower, Partisan Hack, won the Audience Award at QuickieFest 2017. She is a contributing writer to Reductress, and worked as Staff Writer at Slant and an Entertainment Writer at Bustle. She contributed to New York magazine once, translating the Hebrew edition of Playboy. Her name and translation appeared in the April 1, 2013 issue with Matt Lauer on the cover, making her parents and Hebrew School teachers very proud.

Anna Roisman is a comedian, actress, writer and host in NYC. Anna was most recently the host of HQ Words & HQ After Dark, on the Emmy nominated HQ Trivia App. She is a regular commentator on Buzzfeed’s series ‘Did You See This?’ and ‘That Literally Happened!’ Anna's work has been featured in The NY Times, Huffington Post, Vulture/Splitsider, Buzzfeed, Funny Or Die, Ad Week, The LA Times, People, WhoHaha, MTV, Comedy Central, College Humor, Elite Daily, and more. She is the creator and host of the podcast, “Unemployed With Anna Roisman,” a spinoff of her long running livestream show, The Unemployed Show which was a finalist at the 2018 NYTVF in the TruTV competition. Anna went to the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival with a Snapchat short film called, "Owen Wilson Dates Himself"! Anna went to JFL in Montreal with her half hour pilot she co-created called, “This One Time @ Camp.” She is the co-creator & star of the series “There's No Place Like Home” on Elite Daily. Anna has had success creating viral parody videos such as I, NANCY (2018), a dog Homeland Parody, and National Donut Day. Anna is a co-producer and host of Quickie Fest: The One Minute Movie Festival in NYC and the next one is May 30th. Anna performs comedy all over the city, and hosts the show "Fashion Puhleeze.” She also sings with The Losers Lounge at Joe's Pub. For reels, press, and a good time, check out www.AnnaRoisman.com. Also, follow @AnnaRoisman on all social platforms...she makes a lot of soup!

Jess Salomon is a Canadian comedian now based in New York. She was a 2017 StandUp NBC Finalist and had her stand up featured on SiriusXM’s “Raw Dog”. She’s done lots of cool festivals including Just for Laughs, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Laughing Skull Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, and she recently taped her debut album at the 2018 New York Comedy Festival with 800 Pound Gorilla. Jess has written for the award-winning sketch comedy show “Baroness Von Sketch” (IFC/CBC) and her comedy has aired on television in Canada on the CBC and radio shows like SiriusXM’s “Canada Laughs” and CBC’s “LOL”. Jess is the regular host of “Dirty Laundry” at UCB (Hell’s Kitchen) Monday nights at 11pm. You can also catch her co-hosting The Lesbian Agenda at Union Hall in Brooklyn. She also performs as part of the comedy duo, The El-Salomon’s, with her wife Eman El-Husseini (@TheElSalomons). Fun fact: before comedy Jess used to be a U.N. war crimes lawyer. The jury is still out on whether this was a good move.

Julia Shiplett is a comedian and writer. As a biracial feminist from the Midwest, Julia has found her own unique voice in comedy over the years. She has performed around the country and was recently named one of Comedy Central’s Up Next comedians and a TBS Comic To Watch. Julia has also been featured on the Moth Radio Hour and made her television debut on season 2 of HBO's Crashing. In addition to performing, her writing has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker and McSweeney's. You can catch her every Wednesday and last Saturday of the month on Side Ponytail, a popular weekly comedy show she co-produces at Friends and Lovers in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Someone once told her she would make an adorable villain.

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and works as a writer and producer for Desus & Mero on Showtime. Previously, he spent five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, first as a web producer and then as a staff writer. He’s also the author of the essay collection Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results published September 2019 by Harper Perennial. In 2016, he made his late night standup debut on Conan (TBS), and he has also performed on Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC) and The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS). Onstage, Josh charms audiences using his good-natured storytelling and cracks them up with his sharp, pointy wit. He takes topics from surprise parties to his experience teaching preschool and makes them all equally hilarious. Josh’s most recent album Dancing On a Weeknight came out April 19th on Blonde Medicine Records. (His prior album Physical Whisper debuted in March of 2016 at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts (as well as #4 on the Billboard comedy chart) and stayed there for…well…longer than he expected, honestly.) Offstage, Josh has earned two Peabody Awards, four Emmy awards, and three WGA Awards for his work on Last Week Tonight. He is also the co-author (along with Joe Berkowitz) of the book You Blew It, published October 2015 by Plume. In the past, Josh has written for Fuse TV’s Billy On The Street. His writing has also appeared in prestigious publications such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker. Gondelman is the co-creator and co-author of the Shorty Award-winning Modern Seinfeld Twitter account, and his own Twitter feed was named the year’s best by Paste Magazine in 2015. The Ellen DeGeneres Show took notice of Josh’s joke writing skill and featured him as part of their “Tweetly Roundup.” Additionally, Josh has performed at the Rooftop Comedy Festival in Aspen, CO, and headlined at the Laugh Your Asheville Off Festival in Asheville, NC. More recently he has appeared in the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and SF Sketchfest. His debut standup comedy CD, Everything’s The Best was released in November of 2011 by Rooftop Comedy Productions.