WAYANS, REGAN ON FUNNY BONE REOPENING SLATE
The club at Crossgates reopens this weekend after closing for 13 months
Funny Bone Comedy Club at Crossgates Mall, dark for the past 13 months because of the coronavirus pandemic, reopens this weekend with a schedule of shows from top comedy names including stand-up comic and actor Damon Wayans, frequent area visitor Brian Regan and Dave Attell, whose act is revered by fellow comedians and who hosts Comedy Central’s “Insomniac with Dave Attell.”
Funny Bone reopens with 7 and 9:30 p.m. performances on Friday and Saturday by Josh Blue, who won the 2006 season of the NBC reality show “Last Comic Standing.” Wayans performs the following weekend, April 23 to 25, with two performances each night. Ali Siddiq, who began developing his comedy skills while in prison and went on to garner 10
million Youtube views for his comedic story about a prison riot, follows April 30 and May 1, also with two performances per night. All Wayans tickets are sold out, according to the comedy club’s website, as are three of four Blue shows.
Regan is scheduled for Aug. 11 and 12,
Attell for Sept. 3 and 4, and shock comic and TV host Tom Green has been booked for Sept. 28. The last show scheduled for this year so far is actor and absurdist stand-up T.J. Miller, who will perform Nov. 12 and 13. Additional comedians are expected to be added as
more acts begin to tour again and theaters and clubs reopen more widely across the country, Funny Bone management said in its announcement of the reopening slate. Of the 13 comedians so far scheduled, Leanne Morgan, performing July 1 to 3, is the lone woman.
New health and safety precautions include reduced capacity, tables only for two or four people in the same party, 6-foot distancing between tables, Plexiglas shields between seating tiers, patrons’ temperatures taken upon entry, masks for patrons except when seated and for staff at all times, and menus available online or via QR codes only, according to Funny Bone management.