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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Doing Comedy Naked in Bushwick (But Were Afraid to Ask)

But were afraid to ask.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Doing Comedy Naked in Bushwick (But Were Afraid to Ask)

But were afraid to ask.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Doing Comedy Naked in Bushwick (But Were Afraid to Ask)

“This might be TMI, but I have really gigantic balls,” admits Billy Procida, a New Jersey-born comedian who has lived in Bushwick for most of the past decade. For the past year, he has been hosting stand-up comedy nights inside an orgy basement at the Hacienda Villa, an otherwise quiet brownstone in the neighborhood that doubles as a major site in the city’s kink scene. “Naked comedy in an orgy basement is, I think, what Republicans outside of New York think we’re doing. I think that’s what they think all of us are doing,” he says, laughing.

Of course, that is exactly what Procida is doing: his “Naked Comedy Show” celebrates its one-year anniversary on Saturday night. Over the past year, he estimates that “about 50-60 comics…

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