BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:158263@kingstonhappenings.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T204500 DTSTAMP:20260909T194933Z URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/catskills-comedy-festival-openin g-night-kick-off/ SUMMARY:Catskills Comedy Festival - Opening Night Kick Off DESCRIPTION:\nThe Catskills Comedy Festival runs from October 16-18\, 2026. Check out https://tccfest.org/ for all the shows.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the 3rd annual Catskills Comedy Festival Opening Night Kick-Off comedy event.  Ophira Eisenberg hosts Jocelyn Chia\,  and Raanan Hershberg on the MainStage of the Community Theatre.\n\n\nTickets $28 (plus $1.85 ticketing fees). Click here to buy tickets.\nAGES 17+\n\nOphira Eisenberg is a Sta ndup Comedian\, Writer\, and Podcast Host (NPR\, CBS\, CNN\, The Moth\,  HBO\, Comedy Central\, iHeart) who headlines theaters and comedy venue s across the world\, tours regularly with the Moth Mainstage\, and hosts the weekly parenting-comedy podcast Parenting is a Joke (Webby Finalist for Best Host). Her new comedy special\, I Used to Be Nicer\, produced by Lewis Black/Stark Raving Black Productions\, is available now. She also h osted NPR’s Ask Me Another for 9 years. Her breakout memoir Screw Eve ryone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy (Seal Press) has been optioned for a t elevision series\, and her solo show Leaving A Mark: A Comedy About Scars  won Women in the Arts &\; Media Award for Solo Show Scripts and jus t finished a successful European tour. She recently returned from the Jus t For Laughs festival where she performed her 3rd gala for CBC/Global Te levision.\n\nJocelyn Chia is a Georgetown Law graduate and former M&\;A attorney. She eventually ditched corporate America to tell jokes to stran gers. She is now a regular at the New York City comedy clubs including the legendary Comedy Cellar and Gotham Comedy Club\, and is an internation al touring headliner. She has been featured in Vulture\, South China Mor ning Post\, CNN\, BBC\, The New York Times\, and The Independent UK. S he has been on The Howard Stern Channel of SiriusXM\, MTV\, AXS TV’ s Gotham Comedy Live\, Fox News Saturday Night\, Gutfeld! on Fox News\ , ABC\, Vice TV\, Discovery+\, and Comedy Central.\n\n\n\nRaanan Hersh berg is one of comedy's most explosive voices\, high-energy\, joke-dense\ , and relentlessly funny. He's performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy F allon\, The Late Late Show with James Corden\, and Comedy Central. His s pecial Jokes from the Underground was named one of The New York Times  "Best Comedy of 2022\," with critic Jason Zinoman calling it "the funniest YouTube special of the year". Raanan has since released Brave\, filmed a t The Comedy Cellar\, and It Could Have Been Better\, now streaming on A mazon. On stage\, his solo show Off the Grid premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival\, where Hy Bender of Best New York Comedy  declared it "one of the best one-man shows you are likely to see anywhere. ” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://kingstonhappenings.org/wp-content/upload s/2026/09/KickOFF20REVISED-2.jpeg CATEGORIES:@Featured,Comedy,Festivals and major community events LOCATION:Catskill Community Theatre\, 373 Main St\, Catskill\, ny\, United States GEO:42.21877;-73.865544 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=373 Main St\, Catskill\, ny \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Catskill Community Theatre:geo :42.21877,-73.865544 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR