{"id":307,"date":"2022-03-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/03\/01\/syracuse-comedy\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:00:00","slug":"syracuse-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/03\/01\/syracuse-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy finds a home in CNY at Funk n Waffles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Central New York Comedy has found a home at Funk n Waffles<\/a> in Syracuse. For the past few months, NYC comedian Brian Enck<\/a> has put together well-received and hilarious shows in Downtown Syracuse, in a music venue of all places.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian is a nationally touring comedian who\u2019s been in dozens of comedy fests, hosted award shows, podcasts and anything else you can think of. But his new home is here in Syracuse and his new favorite show is the monthly at Funk & Waffles<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honestly I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be able to get them. To be real, Funk & Waffles was my target college and my grades were not good enough. They\u2019re known for being this very cool music venue with amazing bands coming through and I walk up with my dumb face and go \u2018Hey how about I bring you some comedians?\u2019 We talked for a few weeks, tweaked out the details till we made it work.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had two of the past three shows sold out, and the comics love the space, so it must\u2019ve been the right call.<\/p>Brian Enck<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Enck, originally from Webster, outside of Rochester, moved to NYC once he started getting paid gigs freshman year of college in 2010. For over a decade Brian made stand up not just his passion but his career drawing on his influences like Dave Chappelle, Monty Python, Lenny Bruce, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford and others. \u201cI moved from Upstate because there wasn\u2019t a scene around here, it was just angry recently divorced 50 year olds yelling about their ex wives and giving me a hard time because I was working out jokes.\u201d Now the whole state has a great network of talented comics in well run rooms. From the clubs, to bar shows, to little pop up rooms, or monthlies in a place that had a heavy metal band the night before it’s like a renaissance for the New York comedy.\u201d Brian also spent his last few years as a comedy producer for a TV Network. \u201cI loved being able to work on scripts, talk out characters with actors, and making a budget work with the accountants, actually no that part sucked but the rest was fun.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian\u2019s shows have had the same outline grab the funniest people and turn on the microphone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of COVID, he would take some time to work remotely and spend time with his family. That summer Brian met his now wife and made the move from Brooklyn to Syracuse and hasn\u2019t looked back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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