Cool is in. 

It’s back in style and it won’t stop coming. Not cool like neat-o, cool like Cool. We’re talking Big Cool. The cool it takes to make it in this jive town full of false fronts and bogus backs. Moxie. Jimmy Carter had it, Taylor Swift has it and so does every single last one of our guests on The Moon this Tuesday, May 21, at 8PM at Union Pool!

Gaze Steadily at Our Ice-Cool Guests!

Nod Knowingly at Our Famous Features!

Kick it with The Moon Players: Jordan Clifford, Camille Harris, and Tim Skinner! No big deal.

Hosted by Bob Walles and Nat Towsen

Streaming LIVE if you’re too cool to live in NYC. We understand.

$5, 21+

at Union Pool
484 Union Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

 
2 hours ago
SHARK ATTACK IS ONE OF THE BEST, CHILLEST AND FUNNIEST WARM WEATHER MUSICS TO COME OUT OF ASTRO NAUTICO, WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING.  COCOON TRADITION.  TURN IT UP.  YOU’RE WELCOME.  THANKS OBEY CITY AND KUHN.

SHARK ATTACK IS ONE OF THE BEST, CHILLEST AND FUNNIEST WARM WEATHER MUSICS TO COME OUT OF ASTRO NAUTICO, WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING.  COCOON TRADITION.  TURN IT UP.  YOU’RE WELCOME.  THANKS OBEY CITY AND KUHN.

1 week ago
feat. in TRISKELION ARTS’ 4th annual COMEDY IN DANCE FESTIVAL / APRIL 19-21 + 25-26 / all shows @ 8PMCCDT performs APR 19, 25 & 26 A curated smorgasbord of work with a comic bent featuring over 20 works by choreographers, comedians, and clowns from near and far. This sampling of dances is sure to tickle our collective funny bone, serving as a refreshing reminder that dance need not always take itself so seriously in order to be really good.Tickets: $15 general admission $12 students/seniors $30 for 3-show package

feat. in TRISKELION ARTS’ 4th annual COMEDY IN DANCE FESTIVAL / APRIL 19-21 + 25-26 / all shows @ 8PM
CCDT performs APR 19, 25 & 26

A curated smorgasbord of work with a comic bent featuring over 20 works by choreographers, comedians, and clowns from near and far. This sampling of dances is sure to tickle our collective funny bone, serving as a refreshing reminder that dance need not always take itself so seriously in order to be really good.
Tickets:
$15 general admission
$12 students/seniors
$30 for 3-show package

1 month ago
COCOON OPENS FOR SBJM / TONIGHT 4.11 / 930 PM @ THE PIT Universally acclaimed** sketch-comedy duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting have returned from their cave of golden dreams and yellow steams to bring a new monthly show to the PIT Mainstage! Katie “Jumping Bear” Hartman and Leah “Tugboat Leah” Rudick make sketch comedy that is sweet, salty, sticky, icky and a tad lumpy. Join them, won’t you? New sketches! Special guests! Every Month! www.SkinnyBitchComedy.com For the past five years SBJM has performed all over New York City and in dozens of comedy and theater festivals, including The New York City SketchFest, East to Edinburgh at 59E59, Austin’s Out of Bounds Comedy Festival and Ladies Are Funny Festival, the Charleston Comedy Festival, the Los Angeles Comedy Festival, DC’s Capital Fringe, Boston’s Women in Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. **Arf!

COCOON OPENS FOR SBJM / TONIGHT 4.11 / 930 PM @ THE PIT

Universally acclaimed** sketch-comedy duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting have returned from their cave of golden dreams and yellow steams to bring a new monthly show to the PIT Mainstage! Katie “Jumping Bear” Hartman and Leah “Tugboat Leah” Rudick make sketch comedy that is sweet, salty, sticky, icky and a tad lumpy. Join them, won’t you?

New sketches! Special guests! Every Month! www.SkinnyBitchComedy.com For the past five years SBJM has performed all over New York City and in dozens of comedy and theater festivals, including The New York City SketchFest, East to Edinburgh at 59E59, Austin’s Out of Bounds Comedy Festival and Ladies Are Funny Festival, the Charleston Comedy Festival, the Los Angeles Comedy Festival, DC’s Capital Fringe, Boston’s Women in Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. **Arf!

1 month ago

THIS THURSDAY.

1 month ago
THURSDAY APRIL 4/9PM/BAM CAFE/FREE GET IT OUT THERE: COMEDY BY BAM & IFC Featuring: MurderfistThe Stone BrothersReformed WhoresCocoon Central Dance TeamAdira Amram & The ExperienceHosted by Ben Kissel Get It Out There: Comedy by BAM & IFC is a new comedy showcase that allows comics to experiment recklessly with humor while causing only minimal harm to themselves and others. Each event features a handful of emerging comics testing out fresh material and probing the depths of their twisted souls for new forms of funny.

THURSDAY APRIL 4/9PM/BAM CAFE/FREE

GET IT OUT THERE: COMEDY BY BAM & IFC

Featuring: 
Murderfist
The Stone Brothers
Reformed Whores
Cocoon Central Dance Team
Adira Amram & The Experience

Hosted by Ben Kissel

Get It Out There: Comedy by BAM & IFC is a new comedy showcase that allows comics to experiment recklessly with humor while causing only minimal harm to themselves and others. Each event features a handful of emerging comics testing out fresh material and probing the depths of their twisted souls for new forms of funny.

1 month ago
1 month ago
YO BOSTON: TONIGHT AT OBERON CCDT DOES THE WOMEN IN COMEDY FESTIVAL. WE WEAR SOMETHING A LITTLE COOLER, A LITTLE MORE DARING. 7:30PM. I LOVE YOU. http://www.womenincomedyfestival.com/oberon-8pm-march-22-2013

YO BOSTON: TONIGHT AT OBERON CCDT DOES THE WOMEN IN COMEDY FESTIVAL. WE WEAR SOMETHING A LITTLE COOLER, A LITTLE MORE DARING. 7:30PM. I LOVE YOU.

http://www.womenincomedyfestival.com/oberon-8pm-march-22-2013

1 month ago

WOMEN IN COMEDY FESTIVAL 2013

On Friday morning, we’re getting on a legal bus and safely screaming towards our old land Boston.  Cambridge, to be specific, at the Oberon!  Here we come, Harvest Coop!  Toscanini’s!  Hi Rise!  Punjabi Dhaba!  And our FRIENDS.  Shane, Alison, Sarah, Josh…  Sean…  Everyone.  Did you know we met at Emerson College?


TICKETS. / DIRECTIONS. / THAT VIDEO OF US WEARING WHITENING STRIPS.

FRIDAY 22 MARCH
Hosted by the hula-hooping boogie magic of Nikki Luparelli (Steamy Bohemians), the 2013 Women in Comedy Festival presents a Musical Show at the Oberon. The show, which combines a hilarious mix of stand-up and music, will feature Velveeta (saucy dance moves and sassy lyrics), the Reformed Whores (the “Smothers Brothers of their generation”), COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM (energy-packed dance comedy) and Rogue Burlesque (slapstick striptease). The show begins at 7:30pm on Friday, March 22nd.

NEW DANCE PREMIERE.  OH BOY OH BOYO.

2 months ago

THE MOON: The Moon: 77th Show

YEEHAW!  Our friends at The Moon have some hearty spirit.  Enjoy the softer side of Union Pool (less aggression, more laughing and laughing and laughing) and sit with at least one Cocoon member.

themoonshow:

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The ides of March are upon us and you know what that means: You still have a month to file your taxes, but you should probably stab Julius Caesar if you haven’t gotten around to it yet. Don’t worry, though. The Julian calendar is 13 days behind ours, so you still have plenty of time to get to…

2 months ago

You were right here all along.  Today, on Women’s Day, marry Jessica Biel.  And don’t forget where you came from.  COCOON is by women and for everybody.  This love song is for our wives.  Love love.  Take care of your ladies.  Stand up to baddies.  Breathe in pain and breathe out light.  Happy Friday.  Kiss someone on the mouth.

2 months ago
Tonight is the final two showings of THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT starring our Tallie, at Anthology Film Archives in NYC. 7pm! 915pm! Q&A’s, big deal-stuff. This film has been travelling the world at Karlovy Vary, Viennale, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, and winning awards along the way. New York Times, Indiewire, ARTFORUM, hup hup! Jump on the wagon! #moviemagic

Tonight is the final two showings of THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT starring our Tallie, at Anthology Film Archives in NYC. 7pm! 915pm! Q&A’s, big deal-stuff. This film has been travelling the world at Karlovy Vary, Viennale, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, and winning awards along the way. New York Times, Indiewire, ARTFORUM, hup hup! Jump on the wagon! #moviemagic

2 months ago
COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM backs it up for ILLUSTRATE (Cue: sirens, magic, deer parade, and gold coins) Tonight these baby b-ballin’ thugs will join ILLA (aka Josh Board, On Board Productions) at a rap show y’all CHECK OUT THAT LINEUP. MMMHMMM

COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM backs it up for ILLUSTRATE (Cue: sirens, magic, deer parade, and gold coins)

Tonight these baby b-ballin’ thugs will join ILLA (aka Josh Board, On Board Productions) at a rap show y’all

CHECK OUT THAT LINEUP. MMMHMMM

2 months ago
HAPPY VEEN DAY XOXO

HAPPY VEEN DAY

XOXO

3 months ago

CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FEST accepts SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY

 See You Next Tuesday
Drew Tobia, 82 min., Video, 2013, USA
The Chicago Underground Film Festival is pleased to present the World Premiere of See You Next Tuesday, the first feature film from writer/director Drew Tobia (the one that makes movies like Leperfuck and Ladyfemmes, not the one that teaches bartending school in New Jersey.)
Mona (Eleanore Pienta) is a mentally unbalanced and very pregnant young woman in a hideous orange coat. Without any friends to speak of and alienated from her hoochie mama coworkers at a crummy Brooklyn supermarket, Mona maintains a strangely close relationship with her campy, recovering alcoholic mother May (Dana Eskelson). Mona’s sister Jordan (Molly Plunk) is an unemployable party girl, estranged from May and making life hell for her increasingly fed up girlfriend Sylve (Keisha Zollar). In the final days of her pregnancy, Mona draws her mother, sister, and anybody who happens to get caught in her wake into her hectic life as she drifts further from reality.

Featuring a tapestry of diverse characters with varying levels of sanity and awful taste in wardrobe, See You Next Tuesday is a dark comedy the whole family can enjoy cutting themselves to.” (DT)

3 months ago