Laugh through the Fest with these comedy picks

Your Guide to Comedy at the 2025 Tribeca Festival

The biggest comedies of the year are at Tribeca Festival 2025. Featuring raucous new narratives and documentaries about comedy’s biggest stars, you’ll be cracking up all Fest long. Check out just a few of our comedy programs below.

Andy Kaufman is Me

Friday, June 6 @ 8:00 PM, SVA Theatre

This revealing documentary offers unprecedented access to the private world of groundbreaking surrealist comedian Andy Kaufman through director Clay Tweel’s recreation of Kaufman’s unfinished semi-autobiographical book, The Huey Williams Story. Featuring interviews with Kafman’s family members, close friends, and collaborators like David Letterman, Carol Kane, and Tim Heidecker, this film tells the story of the man behind comedy’s most enigmatic provocateur.

Oh, Hi!

Friday, June 13 @ 8:00 PM, OKX Theater at BMCC TPAC

From writer-director Sophie Brooks, this clever and charmingly odd dark comedy takes us through the highs and lows of modern dating. Starring Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman, and featuring performances by John Reynolds and Geraldine Viswanathan, this fresh take on the rom-com asks the question, “What could go wrong on one romantic weekend away?” Apparently, everything.

Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story with Sebastian Maniscalco & Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Friday, June 13 @ 5:00 PM, OKX Theater at BMCC TPAC

Join us for the live event and world premiere of the new Apple Original Podcast Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story, exploring the rise and fall of Charles Ponzi, creator of the Ponzi scheme. Hosted by financial journalist Maya Lau and featuring comedian Sebastian Maniscalco with Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler, this audio docudrama brilliantly captures the story of a con artist who fooled the world and paid the price.

We Are Pat

Saturday, June 8 @ 5:00 PM, SVA Theatre

Take a look back at Julia Sweeney’s androgynous SNL character Pat, whose ubiquitous presence in 1990s culture fascinated filmmaker Ro Haber. Now, 35 years later, Haber has brought together a who’s who of queer and trans comedians – including Sweeney herself – to reframe Pat with a 2025 understanding of gender.

Before the Premiere: A comedy performance featuring Roz Hernandez, Nori Reed, James Tom, and more.

Long Live the State

Sunday, June 8 @ 8:00PM, The Indeed Theater at Spring Studios

Formed by friends at NYU in the late 1980s, The State was a sketch comedy troupe whose unique brand of edgy, offbeat humor quickly landed them their own show on MTV and launched the careers of big-name comedy stars like Michael Showalter, Jo Lo Truglio, and Michael Ian Black. Directed by Matthew Perniciaro, the film follows the troupe as they reunite for a live U.S. tour in 2024 and reflect on their rise to fame and the state of comedy today.

The Best You Can

Saturday, June 7 @ 5:00 PM, OKX Theater at BMCC TPAC

For the first time in 20 years, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon return together on screen — this time as two halves of an unlikely friendship between a security guard and a urologist whose chance encounter blooms into something deeper. As a series of text conversations over the phone lead to late-night revelations, the two navigate the ups and downs of their lives and their growing connection towards each other that feels impossible to describe.

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