Best Side @ West Side

Best Side @ West Side brought to you by Danny Braff! Monthly show featuring some of the best comedians NYC has to offer!

Featuring:

Ron Josol
Usama Siddiquee
Derek Gaines
Danny Braff
Kate Nichols
Josh Mandl

Lineups subject to change.  Two Item Minimum Per Person.

Usama Siddiquee (formerly known by his stage name “Usama Bin Laughin”) is completely comfortable with writing a bio about himself in third person. His absolute ease should already be impressing you by now. Usama Siddiquee is a Bengali-American stand-up comedian and actor based in New York. He’s the kind of comic you want to follow right now, so you can totally gloat to your friends about how you were totally into him before he got huge. And then they’ll get really jealous of your impeccable foresight and superior taste. His act is an energetic (bordering on frenetic) and intelligent (bordering on genius) romp through his own life experiences. Family! Friends! Sex! Religion! Sex with religious friends! It’s all there, and Usama slings jokes on these topics and more with rapid-fire charisma and hilarity. And if you thought that last paragraph was self-serving, here is a shameless list of Usama’s achievements. He most recently was featured on the 2020 season of America’s Got Talent. He traveled to Montreal as one of the New Faces at Just For Laughs in 2018. Shortly after he was passed at the world famous Comedy Cellar in New York. He made his standup television debut on BET's 50 Central. He has been featured on Showtime’s Desus and Mero, MTV’s News, and Bravo’s Cash Cab. He was a finalist for the 2017 NY's Funniest Competition at Caroline's; a finalist in the 2017 NBC Standup Competition; 1st place winner of the 2016 Laughing Devil Cup Comedy Festival in New York; the 1st place winner of the 2015 Yonkers Comedy Festival as well as the 1st place winner of the 2015 Make Me Laugh Albany Comedy Festival. Usama has also featured on videos for NBC, Buzzfeed, Refinery29, The Scene, Mic.com, FusionTV, and Huffington Post. P.S. Usama can probably beatbox better than you can.

The man with the smile of a thousand angels, Derek Gaines, a California born New Jersey resident, raised a new face in the wonderful art of comedy. July 29th 1984 was the day that the Lindenwold's only campaign began. Derek started in the vicious comedy clubs of Philadelphia and than began to move around the tri-state area (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York) working and still working on what he would like to call the "Left field crusader show", the style of comedy that speaks to all but touches the very hearts of the Black, "can't-be-a-thug suburbanite only children" of the US. Derek trusts and believes God for this gift he has been given and just wants to bring it back for the people. "Progress and not peril" is his motto and he plans to take that with him through every stage of his career.

Ron Josol is a Canadian-Filipino comedian who is well received in every corner of the world. Ron stirs up and samples the multicultural melting pot that mirrors life in most urban centers today. He presents hilarious scenarios and comments on our global society inherent contradictions by combining one-liner and storytelling styles. He has been regularly performing globally for almost 20 years, making him one of the most sought-after and vibrant comics working today. Most recently, Ron’s "Dry Bar Comedy" special clip went viral – increasing his followers by over 150k in just a few months. He now has over 4 million views on Facebook, 5.8 million views on Instagram, 3.8 million views on TikTok, and 1.7 million views on YouTube. Ron was nominated for both “Best Male Comedian” and “Best Male Performance” in Canada, respectively. He has taped stand-up specials for “Comedy Now!,” Showtime, Showtime Arabia, and Comedy Central Asia, and he has appeared on “Gotham Comedy Live,” “Comics Unleashed,” “Last Call with Carson Daly,” and Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network. Currently, he can be seen in “Slanted” on Amazon Prime. Ron has performed in the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival 12 times, as well as in the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, LOL Comedy Festival in the Caribbean, Magners International Comedy Festival in Asia, Kings & Queens Festival in Malaysia and Singapore, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Maui and ALT Comedy Festival.