Category Archives: Comedy

RED BANK WEEKEND PICKS: Dog Days event, street fair, record fest and more. (click to read)

Red Bank's 70th annual, indomitable, rain or shine sidewalk sale tops the list of things to do on a spectacular weather weekend.

Summer heat slows us down, the calendar thins, but the music in Red Bank never stops. Redbankgreen's picks of things to do this weekend.

RED BANK: Drag queens and audience members strutted their fabulous stuff at a family friendly event that drew no protesters.

RED BANK: While other towns have their knickers in a twist over LGBTQ matters, borough slates a family-friendly drag queen event in a park.

RED BANK: Mayoral favorite Billy Portman is even more the entertainer than we knew, with movie roles and a 'filthy" rap record in his past.

RED BANK: With a deal to sell the second of two adjacent homes overlooking the Navesink River, Jon Stewart appears to have ended his time in town.

RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart has a deal to sell one of his two adjoining homes overlooking the Navesink River, according to a recent filing.

RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart, whose farm is helping feed Lunch Break clients, will host a virtual fundraiser for the nonprofit in late August.

RED BANK: Comedian Jon Stewart and wife Tracey Stewart donate harvest from their farm to Lunch Break to help out in COVID-19 crisis.

RED BANK: Comic Jon Stewart returns to the stage of the Count Basie this month for a Q&A to raise money for the theater's $26 million expansion.

RED BANK: Two River Theater employee gets surprise, earnest proposal on stage of 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' which centers on an offer of marriage.

LINCROFT: The EEK!spanded 15th annual Brookdale Haunted Theater returns for the first of three big weekends, starting, you guessed it, Friday the 13th.

LINCROFT: The men and women of the Harlem Globetrotters return to the Brookdale campus on their 2017 winter world tour.

RED BANK: Two River Theater offers two different takes on Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives of Windsor,' beginning with a Saturday night preview.

RED BANK: Improv Jam troupe's jamming, but in a jam, again, faced with losing its space in the Count Basie Performing Arts Academy.

RED BANK: As they did in December, writers for Jon Stewart's hush-hush new show are slated to offer a night of standup and improv here this week.

MIDDLETOWN: Monmouth Players take it into A.R. Gurney's engagingly experimental ensemble comedy 'The Dining Room" for six performances.

RED BANK: Madcap Brit John Cleese delivers 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' to the Basie Sunday for a screening and audience Q&A.

RED BANK: Comedy sensation Sebastian Maniscalco makes an unprecedented SIX-show stand at the Count Basie Theatre, this Thursday through Saturday.