Sure you could bike there, we suppose. via Facebook Was anyone else aware the Brooklyn didn’t yet have its own comedy festival until just this year? I know, it’s crazy, right? It seems like you can get almost anything without leaving the borough, especially festivals. We got concerts, food, film, and art. And it’s Brooklyn, so of course we got jokes. This year, said jokes will be organized into a weekend-long festival under the appropriate header, “Brooklyn Comedy Festival.” It’s the only one there is. Going down for the week of August 19-24, the festival is set to showcase all kinds of yuks from sketch comedy to stand-up to improv. According to founder Chris Nester, a funnyman himself as well as a native Brooklynite, this is because our very own BK has become “a melting pot of comedy,” which either means that there’s a great variety of local things to laugh with, or, y’know…there’s… Read More