November 22–28, 2019 Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 9
James
town
Comedy festival
returns to the
Bell House
A three-day comedy festival
celebrating Brooklyn comedian
Janelle James will return to the Bell
House next month for its second glorious
year. The Janelle James Comedy
Festival on Dec. 5–7, named for Janelle
James, hosted by Janelle James, and
featuring a lineup of stand-up comedians
hand-selected by Janelle James,
will offer audiences 90 minutes of belly
laughter on each of its three nights,
said Janelle James.
“This lineup is excellent,” she said.
“I chose people that I know will crush.
It’s 12-minute sets and I want people to
laugh for an hour and a half straight.
Then go home.”
In addition to James, the festival will
feature 13 comedians from across the
country, performing at shows titled “Comedians
Who Don’t Owe Me Money,”
“A Black Ass Show with Open Mike
Eagle and Baron Vaughn” — featuring
comedian and “art rap” artist Open
Mike Eagle, along with Comedy Central’s
“The New Negroes” host Baron
Vaughn — and “Comedians Who
Flewed Out,” in that order.
The second iteration of the show continues
a decade-long tradition set by comedian
Eugene Mirman, who launched
the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
as a joke in 2007, but which grew to
draw the nation’s top comedians to the
Gowanus venue.
James said her comedy festival still
captures the zany spirit of her predecessor,
but she has added her own flavor
to the proceedings.
Her inaugural show last year earned a
thumbs up from Mirman — the voice of
Gene in the Fox animated cartoon “Bob’s
Burgers” — who told this paper he was
happy to pass the torch over to James.
“She’s so funny and it’s a joy to see
the joke of a self-titled comedy festival
live on and be reborn,” he said.
She’s chairing this committee: Janelle James is the host and coordinator
Photo by Jennifer Walkowiak
of the Janelle James Comedy Festival, taking place at the Bell
House on Dec. 5-7.
In last year’s lineup of comedians,
James also mixed in a burlesque show,
a modern dance piece set to a spoken
word performance, and a ventriloquist
act. She said she has some tricks up
her sleeve this year as well, but she declined
to spoil the surprise of whatever
off-genre acts might appear.
“There will be things like that this
year,” James said. “But I am not going
to say what it is.”
James said the audience can expect a
friendly show, but she warned not to expect
it to be too warm and fuzzy.
“This isn’t Sesame Street,” the comedian
joked.
Janelle James Comedy Festival at
the Bell House (149 Seventh St., between
Second and Third avenues in
Gowanus, www.janellejamescomedyfestival.
com). Dec. 5–7 at 7:30 pm. $25
($20 in advance).
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