In per week the place Stephen Colbert has been all around the information for a surprising cancellation, it was additionally introduced he’s celebrating one other present of his getting the axe.
The “Late Show” host — whose CBS program is now slated to finish in Might 2026 on account of “financial reasons” — is teaming up together with his fellow, former “Strangers With Candy” solid members Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello to commemorate the twenty fifth anniversary of the cancellation of their subversive, after-school-special skewering 1999-2000 Comedy Central sequence at New York Metropolis’s City Corridor on Saturday, Nov. 8.
Over its 30-episode, three season and a film run, Sedaris, Colbert and Dinello’s oft-hilarious, boundary-pushing sitcom adopted Jerri Clean (Sedaris) a 46-year-old highschool freshman who was once a “boozer, a user and a loser” and her paradoxically dramatized, highly-moralized foibles at Flatpoint Excessive. Colbert performs closeted historical past instructor Chuck Noblet; just a few school rooms away, Dinello portrayed his paramour, an artwork instructor named Geoffrey Jellineck.
This one-off reunion is a part of the 2025 New York Comedy Pageant. Different headliners on the 10-day, five-borough, 200+ comic occasion working Nov. 7-16 embrace stand-ups Louis CK, Hannah Berner, Pete Holmes, Margaret Cho and Chris Fleming together with widespread podcasters The Basement Yard amongst others.
Pageant founder and proprietor Caroline Hirsch described this 12 months’s crop as “a dynamic mix of global headliners and rising voices that reflect where comedy is right now and where it’s headed. We’re proud to continue to bring New York City the very best of the best.”
For extra info, our group has all the pieces you should know and extra about Stephen Colbert’s “Strangers With Candy” present and the 2025 New York Comedy Pageant beneath.
“Strangers With Candy” reunion tickets
If you wish to see Colbert again within the saddle together with his friends — who received their begin with the splendidly ridiculous sketch present “Exit 57” — tickets for the “Strangers With Candy” City Corridor reunion will be discovered right here:
NY Comedy Pageant 2025 schedule
A whole calendar of all introduced New York Comedy Pageant occasions together with venues, dates and hyperlinks to purchase tickets will be discovered beneath.
Friday, Nov. 7
Saturday, Nov. 8
Sunday, Nov. 9
Thursday, Nov. 13
Friday, Nov. 14
Saturday, Nov. 15
Extra NY Comedy Pageant reveals will likely be introduced at a later date.
Stream “Strangers With Candy”
All three seasons of the groundbreaking, boundary-pushing sequence — which actually must be seen to be believed — will be discovered on Amazon Prime.
Followers can buy particular person episodes or purchase seasons in complete.
We advocate choosing the latter; they’re nicely definitely worth the buy. Particularly the Colbert showcase “To Be Young, Gifted and Blank.”
Big comedians on tour in 2025
We’re completely happy to report there are lots of, many comedians coming to New York exterior of Nov. 7-16 this 12 months.
Listed here are simply 5 of our favorites you received’t need to miss these subsequent few months.
• Jerry Seinfeld
• Larry David
• Steve Martin and Martin Quick
• Adam Sandler
• John Mulaney
Who else is on the highway? Check out our record of the 107 largest comedians on tour in 2024 to seek out the present for you.
