{"id":31299,"date":"2025-11-06T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31299\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:41:09","slug":"new-york-comedy-festival-returns-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31299\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Comedy Festival returns this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Comedy Festival kicks off Friday with more than 200 performers participating in over 100 shows across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Hirsch, founder of the New York Comedy Festival, and John Dela Cruz, one of the comedians participating, joined &#8220;The Rush Hour&#8221; on Thursday to preview the event.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Comedy Festival kicks off Friday with more than 200 performers participating in over 100 shows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3110,25,9,24,55,54,12,56,2370,3111,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-31299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-annika-pergament","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-ny1-interviews","17":"tag-the-rush-hour","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31299","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=31299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}