{"id":296510,"date":"2026-07-15T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296510\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T12:45:11","slug":"new-york-comedy-festival-returns-with-star-studded-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296510\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Comedy Festival returns with star-studded lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Comedy Festival is returning for its 22nd year, bringing hundreds of comedians to stages across the five boroughs this fall.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s festival will feature more than 200 comedians performing in over 100 shows, with a lineup that includes Sarah Sherman, Patty Harrison, Jordan Klepper, Mojo Brooks, Jess Hilarious and Ilana Glazer, along with many others.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers unveiled the lineup earlier this week with the help of local small business owners, highlighting the festival&#8217;s ties to New York City&#8217;s neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Hirsch, the festival&#8217;s founder and a longtime fixture of New York&#8217;s comedy scene, joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d to discuss what audiences can expect from this year&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Comedy Festival is returning for its 22nd year, bringing hundreds of comedians to stages across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[472,2274,25,157,2275,9,24,55,54,12,56,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-296510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-app-top-stories","tag-entertainment","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}