Bring your pup to the comedy show! Join Must Love Dogs and Comedy for an unforgettable stand-up comedy show. Enjoy top-notch comedy while your furry friend makes new friends, all while supporting a great cause.

🎟️: General Admission: $20 - includes entry to the comedy show and a donation to an animal rescue organization

Important Info

🐕 Dog-Friendly: Well-socialized dogs that are people- and dog-friendly are welcome! All pups must be leashed and up to date on vaccinations per NYC law.

☕ 2-Item Minimum: Please support our amazing venue by purchasing at least 2 items (food/drinks/merchandise) during the event

🔞 Recommended for ages 18+

⚠️ Comedian Lineup subject to change

Comedian Lineup TBA

Line-up subject to change

The opinions expressed by featured performers are not necessarily representative of Must Love Dogs and Comedy Inc.

What To Expect

• Stand-up comedy from talented comedians

• A room full of dog lovers and their adorable pups

• A donation to a local animal rescue organization with every ticket

• The chance to meet an adoptable dog looking for their forever home

• Good vibes, great laughs, and wagging tails!

WHO'S DANCING?™ presented by X&ND is a viral no-phones funk dance party for women, queer people, and trans people where there is NO CAMERAS whatsoever. We've ditched phones and cheap marketing for real connection to each other - and the power of funk.

Headlined by funk and soul revivalist, X&ND and their band, The Liberation. Come dance like no one is watching, leave with a new group of friends, and dance the night away to nothing but live funk music.

FUNK IS BACK, WHO'S DANCING?

Think of it as the ultimate dance party for people who love music and have kids. You don’t have to trade your groove for nap schedules—just bring the kids along.

Groove hard, nap later. See you there!

Hosted on your favorite Brooklyn dance floor (the one where you’ve spent late nights with epic beats), this time it's all about the kids and the grown-ups who love them.
Expect booty shaking favorites from your fav Family Biz DJs.

We’ve got:
Light snacks for the little snackers (don’t worry, parents, we’ve got drinks for you too).
A vibe that’ll have you saying: “Who needs a sitter when we’ve got this?”
Friends and Lovers
641 Classon Ave, Crown Heights BK

Awkward Sex is exactly what it sounds like: comedians reliving intimate tales about their sex life and breaking barriers about sex and dating.

Hosted by Natalie Wall, the show pairs sexual inclusion with humor and sheds light on the awkward universal experience we all know and love.

Awkward Sex is about taking taboo subjects and creating a safe space for people to feel seen and heard.

From cocaine infused one night stands to IBS flare ups during cunnilingus, you and your friends will be hanging on to every word and excited to go out and have a sexual misadventure of your own.

“Good sex is always good sex, but it takes a special person to turn bad sex into something amazing. And that’s where our New York comedian and podcaster Natalie Wall comes in.” -Philadelphia Gay News

“The voyeur within will delight.” – Refinery29

Strauss Hauss brings its Crown Heights living-room energy to Friends and Lovers for a one-night MLK Day special. A community-driven variety show featuring comedy, music, dance, and performance, plus food served by the Strauss Hauss team. Come for the culture, stay for the connection.

A hilarious comedy show about surviving Linked-In, layoffs, and late-stage capitalism. Featuring a line-up of comedians who have been there. Come get the corporate catharsis you need. Hosted by Amanda Has Bangs (Reductress) and Cat Montesi (Wolfpack).

Saturday’s Lineup includes

Marcela Onyango (Feel The News)

Jamie Linn Watson (What We Do In The Shadows)

Charlie Girard (Here To Pee Tour)

Nat Towsen (The Onion)

Shiv Shanks (Amazon Prime)

Alexis Lambright (Littlefield)

JT Anderson (The Stand)

This is a select from the "Shoot Your Shot" post. Brooklyn Talent Slamdown Supreme is a fast-paced, audience-driven performance showcase featuring live acts of all kinds, including music, comedy, spoken word, and more.

Performers sign up at the door on a first-come basis, with a limited number of slots available. Each act has up to five minutes to perform.

The night unfolds across three rounds, with top performers advancing each round. Acts are scored by a small panel of randomly selected audience judges, with audience reaction also considered.

The format is competitive but lighthearted, designed to keep the energy high and the audience engaged throughout the night. One winner is selected at the end of the final round and receives a modest prize.

Doors open at 6:00 PM. The showcase runs from 7:00–10:00 PM.

Straphanger Standup touches down at Friends and Lovers on sWednesday, January 14th, featuring Maggie Crane, Tom Delgado, Shaunak Godkhindi, Nora Jeffries, and Joyele Nicole Johnnon.

Part thought-provoking, part foolish: Discount Philosophy gathers some of the brightest minds in comedy to discuss life's most pressing ideas—one joke at a time.

What is the meaning of life? Are we alone in the universe? What's for dinner? Join host, Spencer Simpson, and a variety of talented comedians as they interrogate questions that have plagued humanity for ages. A comedy show where great humor is matched with great inquiry: Discount Philosophy asks you to come for the laughs but stay for the confusion. Or the drinks.

Saturday’s lineup includes

Arjun Ramrup

Gianny

Shaun Anthoney

Friday Night is all the way LIVE at FnL December 5th from 10PM until late as Dickbyair shakes the room alongside special guests playing classics cuts spanning Hip-Hop, Dancehall, Disco, Funk, Soul and more!

So pull up on BK’s most trusted dancefloor, throw on your finest threads, and flex with the best at 641 Classon Avenue in Crown Heights, BK all night long!

This is most definitely something you do not want to miss!

$10 general admission*

$5 early bird tickets (limited supply)*

$5 w/ RSVP before 11PM*

*=No Requests

ALL SALES FINAL

Workers of NYC with a penchant for singing, unite! Join us for a karaoke fundraiser to support NYC-DSA endorsed candidate Eon Huntley on January 8th! Invite your friends, lovers, and comrades alike.

Rachel Ordan invites four of her funniest friends to do standup and or musical comedy if they're so inclined. This is a traditional show in the sense that comedians are holding microphones, but untraditional in the sense that I don't exactly know what's going to happen. Pillowtown at Friends and Lovers is a comfy cozy space for all to laugh, make a friend, maybe cry, maybe discover something new. Wear PJs.

January’s lineup TBA

ALL SALES FINAL

Bells ringing, snow falling, a room full of thunderous applause…join Soundbox Improv to celebrate some of their favorite holiday sounds through the power of improv. Audience members will be given access to the coveted soundbox, and can use their discretion to elevate the set through the power of sound effects… This interactive experience is a proven hit around Brooklyn and is ready to grace the stage at Friends and Lovers.

$5 in advance

$10 at door

ALL SALES FINAL

Marcela has been writing, talking, and screaming about how much capitalism sucks ever since they were born. They have told everyone in their lives and on the internet why capitalism sucks. They have decided that's not enough so now they are going on tour to spread their hate for capitalism and love for humanity.

ALL SALES FINAL

Sip and shop through our curated market featuring vintage clothing, handmade ceramics, records, and more: all soundtracked by a live DJ. Drinks flowing, crates spinning, and one-of-a-kind finds in every direction.

Join small press independent poetry publisher blush for a celebration of our 2025 catalog. Readers include Christine Shan Shan Hou, Courtney Bush, M. Elizabeth Scott, and Francesca Kritikos. All will read from their recent published full-length collections. Copies of all books will be available for purchase. Poetry baby!

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Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and collage artist whose publications include Playdate (White Columns, 2022), The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing (After Hours Editions 2021), and Community Garden for Lonely Girls (Gramma Poetry 2017) amongst others. Their artwork has been exhibited at White Columns and various galleries in New York City. Their fourth collection of poems, A PROMISE (b l u s h 2025) is out now!

Courtney Bush is a poet, filmmaker, and childcare worker from Mississippi. She is the author of the poetry collections Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press, 2022), I Love Information (Milkweed Editions, 2023), A Movie (Lavender Ink, 2025) and The Lamb With The Talking Scroll (forthcoming, blush, 2025). 

Francesca Kritikos is the editor in chief of SARKA, a journal and publisher focused on works of the flesh. Her latest book of poetry, The season of lilacs is monstrous, was published by blush in October 2025. Her writing has been published in English, French and Greek in numerous online and print journals. She also writes the Substack column Body Composition. 

M. Elizabeth Scott is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of language, image, and ritual. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Scottish literature at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, examining the work of Roddy Lumsden through the lens of cognitive difference, personae, and poetics. She is the author of three pamphlets, including Apocalypsing (Blush Lit, 2023) and the forthcoming full-length collection Her Gloves Against the Mirror (2025). Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The Evergreen Review, The Poetry Project, and elsewhere. Currently based in Glasgow, Scott's practice spans poetry, curatorial work, and sound collaboration, investigating themes of mysticism, subjectivity, and altered consciousness.

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