Wed Oct 11, 2023 - Fri Oct 13, 2023

GAY CHURCH: An Hour of Musical Comedy with Tessa Skara

If Sarah Silverman and Jack Black had a very funny baby who listened to nothing but punk music and Melissa Ethridge, then you would have Tessa Skara. In Gay Church, armed with only their guitar and the voice of a gay angel, Tessa Skara leads you through a high-energy, unabashedly queer, and rock-n-roll-as-hell hour of musical comedy that will nourish your LGBTQIA+ soul. Using observational humor about being queer in an increasingly hostile America, and drawing heavily on Skara’s own time spent as a closeted, young (and very "straight") wife, Tessa promises to induce laughter, tears, and (hopefully) gay joy. Expect original comedy songs and stand-up about classic queer experiences like falling in love with your therapist, finding lesbian bliss in the mundane, and how freakin’ gay The Catholic Church can be. Named “The Goddess of Confessional Comedy Rock” by Bedford and Bowery, Tessa performs their unique blend of stand-up and music all over New York City at venues like Joe’s Pub, Carolines on Broadway, The Bell House, Littlefield, Ars Nova, Union Hall, The Duplex, The Brooklyn Comedy Festival, and The New York Comedy Festival. Tessa has appeared numerous times on

HBO, Comedy Central, Apple TV, and Paramount Plus. She was named a Comedy Central Comic To Watch and was selected to take part in The 2020 CBS Comedy Showcase. Tessa hosts and produces Gay Church as a monthly variety show in Brooklyn, which was recently selected for Time

Out New York’s Best of Pride. You can find Tessa’s comedy music streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp. 

“Tessa Skara lights NYC ablaze with her hard-rock aesthetic, scathing original songs, and white-hot

star power.“ — Time Out New York

Join comedian/musician TESSA SKARA (HBO, Comedy Central) and their house band the Gay Tears as they kick off Pride Month by worshiping at the altar of queerness. Guests this month include LARRY OWENS, ZACH ZIMMERMAN, RIVER RAMIREZ, UNTITLED QUEEN, & more. It's a big gay comedy spectacle to feed your big gay heart, but allies are welcome. In fact, if you're an ally reading this right now, you HAVE to come or you will legally be declared homophobic. :(

“[Tessa Skara] lights NYC ablaze with her hard-rock aesthetic, scathing original musical songs, and white-hot star power.“ — Time Out New York

Brooklyn's favourite queer safe space/monthly musical comedy show HIGH NOTES is back for a special pride edition at the Duplex. Join host Tessa Skara (Carolines on Broadway, Union Hall, Joe's Pub) and her band of Brooklyn rock stars, as they host a rock n roll comedy show featuring New York's funniest and LGBTQ-iest performers. Come catch Tessa and her funniest friends before they take over the world and force it to use they/them pronouns. Oh also: IT'S TESSA'S BIRTHDAY AT MIDNIGHT and her literal PARENTS will be there all the way from Canada :0

FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY:
Fat Carrie Bradshaw
Jessica Henderson
David Mizzoni
Arti Gollapudi
Jes Tom
and
Spi Ke Einbinder

“[Tessa Skara] lights NYC ablaze with her hard-rock aesthetic, scathing original musical songs and white-hot star power.“ — Time Out New York

$10 Ticket in Advance
$15 Ticket at the Door

Come join me for my headlining debut at Carolines on Broadway!

Rock Goddess is a rock cabaret about the universal truths in life: everyone loves the beach, non dairy creamer is actually just cum and Tessa Skara has a fucking GREAT voice. You might know Tessa as a Comedy Central Comic to Watch with her former sketch group Pop Roulette, from her sold out monthly show High Notes, or from her performances at Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, and Union Hall, but you probably didn’t know that Tessa is also: a Rock Goddess. Finally, the self-proclaimed Courtney Love of Comedy is back for the first and last night of her world tour, join her as she queers rock n roll with original songs and stand up about how gay Jesus was, leaving her husband to seduce women in her feminist book club, and how selfish it is for your therapist to go on maternity leave.

New Years Comedy Show at Union Hall

Opening up for Zach Zimmerman’s Album Recording!

For the first time ever at Joe's Pub, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang are proud to present Las Culturistas: Queers Live. In the tradition of VH1's iconic Diva's Live event, this will be an evening of musical comedy performances and appearances by the most exciting and queerest names in New York comedy. Music directed by Henry Koperski and featuring iconic talent to be announced, Queers Live will be an unmissable, gay and probably loud event.

High Notes is a high-energy, unabashedly queer, and rock-n-roll-as-hell live musical comedy show hosted by the self proclaimed Rock Goddess of Comedy: Tessa Skara. Featuring a backing band of basement rockstars at Williamsburg's Cloud City, High Notes is a show that brings together a revolving roster of stand up comedians, cabaret performers and musicians to belt out numbers on the meaning of life, love, and how kombucha tastes like salad dressing (which is why it's perfect!). If youre looking for a night of live music, jokes jokes jokes, and moody acoustic ruminations on how selfish it is of your therapist to go on maternity leave then High Notes is the show for you!

If you don't know what Showgasm is, then I express my condolences. 
Showgasm is one of the coolest, weirdest, most downright fun shows I've gotten to perform at in NY&C. It's also what Melania Trump calls her orgasms when she's talking to her sister over skype, AND why she has to get her husbands pants dry cleaned every time he makes a camera appearance. Haha, the jokes literally never leave me! I am trapped!

I'm going to be hosting this show with my wonderful band (featuring Eric Jimenez, Cris Neglia, and Kitt Kittridge) performing some of our greatest hits, as well as a new song I penned for Mommy Earth, called "Trees (Invisible Dick Song)"
So, yeaaaaah. That's something that I spent my time on.

We're also going to be joined by some amazingly talented
and exceptionally beautiful performers:
ELEANORE PIENTA (Cocoon Central Dance Dream Girl)
IKE UFOMADU (Joe's Pub Bébé) 
KAROLENA THERESA (Hidden Fences Hotness)
and
LENA EINBINDER (Queer Warrior/High Priestex of the Church Of Dog)

All wonderful. All weird in their own way. All complete babes ;)

I hope that you can join us for a wonderful night.

I'll be doing stand up at this wonderful show hosted by Sarah Lazarus and Daniel Lempert

You might know Tessa Skara as a Comedy Central "Comic To Watch," along with her sketch group Pop Roulette. You might know her from her performances at UCB, Ars Nova, Joe's Pub, and Every Shitty Gay Bar In Brooklyn. You might know her from her show Thank Goddess in which no straight white men are allowed to perform. Or you might know her as a 420 enthusiast in an all-consuming love/hate relationship with Whole Foods. 

But, you probably didn’t know that Tessa is also: A Rock Goddess.

The self-proclaimed Courtney Love of Comedy is back for the first and last night of her world tour, with original songs and stand up she wrote while hiding in her room, smoking weed, and cleaning the bathtub to have a bath and then never having a bath because she's too stoned and can't stop thinking about the CHEMICALS! You know — what rock goddesses do. Tessa, and some of Brooklyn’s real rockstars, present to you a rock cabaret featuring songs about losing your diva cup at the Apple Store, homoerotic church decorations and how selfish it is for your therapist to go on maternity leave. 

FEATURING: Eric Jimenez, Cris Neglia and Kitt Kittredge

$8 Ticket in Advance & a 2 Drink Minimum in the Cabaret Theatre*

$13 Ticket at the Door (plus service fee) & a 2 Drink Minimum in the Cabaret Theatre*

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A LITTLE DEATH: A NEW DEAL FOR CHRISTMAS IN JULY

A Benefit $pecial Benefit Gala Fundraiser Edition, to Benefit.... 
BUFFALO BAILEY'S RANCH FOR GAY HORSES, TROUBLED TEEN GIRLS & OTHER: a 90 minute time share presentation

STARRING
Deepali Gupta 
Erin Markey
Tahlia Robinson
Alex Rodabaugh
Tessa Skara
Peter Smith
Hannah Solow
Jaboukie Young-White
Piano Daddy Danny K Warbucks at the Upright!
AND MORE!

Hosted by Derek Smith and Jack Raymond

Featuring:
Astro Goddess Jaime Wright at the door!
DJ Buffalo Bailey & DJ Andy Kuncl spinning at the Disco Barn all night!
YOUR FATHER in the front row, as always!

RAFFLES! HORSEY TREATS! GIFT BASKETS! BUTTER CHURNING! LADDERWORK! PIG PITS! WOLVERINE ATTACKS! SKIJORING! 
THIS IS A 90 MINUTE TIME SHARE

Poster art by John Sperandeo

SHOWZ HAVE A HARD 9PM START, ORPHANS. COME EARLY TO GRAB A DRINK, A SEAT AND SOME GOVERNMENT-DISTRIBUTED PORRIDGE. 

Suggested Donation $10 (sliding scale, of course)

A Little Death is a monthly cabaret variety show hosted by two faggots who dreamed to dream the impossible dream of singing in the back of a bar.

You might know Tessa as an alt comedian, a 420 enthusiast, and a woman in an all-consuming love/hate relationship with Whole Foods, but you probably didn’t know that Tessa is also: A Rock Goddess. The self-proclaimed Courtney Love of Comedy is ready for the first and last night of her world tour, performing original songs and stories she wrote while hiding in her room and smoking weed for most of 2016. 

You know—what rock goddesses do. Tessa, and some of Brooklyn’s real rockstars, present to you a riot grrrl cabaret featuring songs about losing your diva cup at the Apple Store, homoerotic church decorations, and what Kurt Cobain would think of Nirvana’s lasting popularity. 

The Trump administration can have "Alternative Facts" so why can't they have "Alternative Oscars"?

Tessa hosts the show as comedienne/fascist sympathizer KellyAnne Conway with some of Brooklyn's best Alt-comedians. The show takes place at the art house movie theater Video Revival in Crown Heights, and is followed by a screening of the winner of 2017's best picture. Hint: Donald Trump LOVES Titanic ;)

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