Ari Shaffir, Adrienne Iapalucci

Ari Shaffir may be the closest thing we have to a modern day George Carlin. Primarily focused on crafting wicked tales and genuine, sometimes rough-around-the-edges, takes on heavy subjects, Ari is recognizable as one of the boldest comedians working today. With his current tour, "Jew," Shaffir confronts his heavily religious upbringing, the loss of his faith, and how he currently consolidates the two. Ironically aggressive, Shaffir leaves no stone unturned. With Adrienne Iapalucci.

8 pm on 9/19 and 8 & 10:30 pm, 9/20-21, Comedy on State. $25.

press release: Stand-up comedian, podcaster and actor Ari Shaffir is currently on tour, and he’s headed to Comedy on State.

His most recent Netflix specials, titled Double Negative are presented in two 45 minute episodes called Children and Adulthood. Self-described as his version of a “Smashing Pumpkins Double Album,” this type of double header release hasn’t been seen since George Carlin’s 1972 release of FM & AM. In Children, Shaffir discusses the pressure he is getting from his family and friends to have kids, and why he is getting more and more thoughts in his head about why he doesn’t want to do that and in Adulthood, he discusses the freedoms of being child-free.  Decider.com called Shaffir’s Netflix debut “positively audacious.”

Shaffir recently finished 3 seasons as the host and co-creator of Comedy Central’s weekly storytelling series This is Not Happening. He was a regular panel guest on the series @midnight, and TBS’s Conan. In 2016, Shaffir co-starred Zach Galifianakis, Gal Gadot and Jon Hamm in Twentieth Century Fox’s comedy Keeping Up With The Joneses.

Shaffir also hosts the wildly popular podcast, Skeptic Tank, a weekly interview show where he chats with everyone from parents to comedians to prostitutes “to help better understand humanity and also to make fart jokes.” The podcast is consistently among the top-rated podcasts on iTunes and averages over 100,000 downloads per week. Shaffir is also an avid sports fan and gets together with Sam Tripoli and Jayson Thibault once a week to record the Punch Drunk Podcast, in which the guys discuss sports thoughts, arguments, bets and more.

For more information go to www.AriShaffir.com or follow Shaffir on Twitter – @AriShaffir.