Carolines on Broadway

Even comics who are regulars at the city’s other stand-up rooms have to work extra hard to get stage time at this venerable institution. Carolines is the best place to see marquee names, including sitcom-ready stars, familiar faces from the ’80s comedy boom, Friars Club–style spritzers and cable-special ravers while tossing back punny cocktails and bottled beers or noshing on standard cheeseburgers and extra cheesey nachos. Show times vary.