Stand-Up Westchester Comedy Club: Comedy From Scratch at The Idea Kitchen "Best of Westchester"

Comedy From Scratch is where you go in Westchester County to hear top comics from TV and NYC's major clubs performing long sets on an intimate stage. Past performers include comedians from HBO, Netlfix, Colbert, SNL, the Daily Show, Letterman, the Tonight Show, Comedy Central, and more. Every month, Ben Asher's presents comedy that reaches up into your brain with the force of a fist through the nose. Named "Best Comedy Show in Westchester" by Westchester Magazine.

Every month you can hear some of the most talented comics perform long sets, that other shows don't give them the time to perform. Comedy From Scratch is your chance to get to really watch comedians flex their muscles and hit their stride on stage, at The Idea Kitchen.

Locally-grown comedian Ben Asher presents a tasting of what the area's best stand-up comics are cooking up, at 'Comedy From Scratch' at the Idea Kitchen every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month - that's right, you demanded more comedy, so we now give Westchester Comedy Twice a Month!

Tickets available at https://ComedyFromScratch.eventbrite.com

Show at 8:00 PM. Seating at 7:30 PM (bring your food and drink/wine with you and sit down at our tables to eat before the show and pick out your seats!!)

Admission is $25 in advance, and $30 if purchased the day of the show. (Unlike Comedy Clubs, There is NO 2-Drink Minimum at this show)(and there is Free Parking.) BYOB or wine and drinks.

Updates to line-ups may be posted the week of the show here or you can follow @the_ben_asher on Instagram (line-ups are subject to change, but rarely, and will always be amazing!)

The June 27th lineup features:

LAURA HIGH (TikTok; Caroline's On Broadway 'BreakOut Artist') - https://www.laurahighfive.com

Laura High is a New York actor and comedian, who grew up in Rye, NY. Laura has had lead roles on TV shows, and national commercials. Laura performs stand-up comedy at venues like Broadway Comedy Club, Bananas, and headlined Carolines on Broadway, has been featured on the New York Comedy Festival and won the 'Broadly Funny' Divison at the 360 Stand Up Festival. Laura has gone viral several times on TikTok and her following has grown exponentially in a short amount of time..

DAN VETRANO (NY Comedy Festival) https://danvetrano.com/

Dan Vetrano is a kind gay comic who's been performing for nearly two decades. He's been featured in New York Comedy Festival twice (2019 & 2025), was a two-time finalist in the Philly's Funniest competition, and has worked with comics like Michael Ian Black, Maria Bamford, Taylor Tomlinson and Jaboukie Young-White. He's hosted shows for Atlas Obscura and Betches, and has been on the popular podcasts Las Culturistas, Keith and the Girl, and Dark Tank. He also hosts the long-running monthly live show Get Work at Caveat in Manhattan, where comedians are given fake resumes and go on live job interviews with real-life hiring professionals. The theme of Dan’s Bar Mitzvah was "music.

Produced/Hosted by BEN ASHER (New York Comedy Festival; StandUp NBC; Iceland Comedy Festival headliner; Caroline's; Catch A Rising Star; DoublePlusGood Comedy) - http://www.benasher.net

Ben Asher, a writer and comedian from New York, is known for his “brave,” confrontational material, and his skills as a “brilliant joke writer” among fellow comedians. He performs regularly at comedy venues and colleges throughout the metropolitan area, East Coast, and Europe. Audiences are always quick to share their appreciation of Ben’s style of sardonic irreverence and absurd, satiric wit in which he doesn’t just dissect language and taboos - he explodes them. “What Ben Asher says makes me laugh, even though I feel like I shouldn’t."

In 2022 Ben recorded a half-hour special "An Intimate Evening of Provocative and Deranged Humor" at The Nest rock club, in Brooklyn, NY. In 2024, Ben recently opened for Greg Fitzsimmons and Nick Griffin. Also, in 2023 and 2022, Ben's show Arthur Avenue Comedy was featured in the NY Comedy Festival as one of only two comedy shows in Bronx. In 2014, Ben traveled to Iceland to headline in the Iceland Comedy Festival. He has appeared in the Chosen Comedy Festival, Borscht Belt Comedy Festival and Ben was also the finalist in the 2014 Funniest Jewish Comedian Competition. Ben Asher is a sought after Jewish comedian who frequently performs for Synagogues and on Jewish comedy shows and he recently headlined a Jewish comedy show for the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York and Temple Israel in Albany, NY. In 2013 Ben was first in the New York Comedy Festival.

Presented by The Stand-up Westchester Comedy Club - https://StandupWestchester.com