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"Brooklyn comedy" might officially be (back) on the map today with news that comedian Jenny Slate will join the cast of Saturday Night Live when it premieres with Megan Fox and U2 September 26th. Slate is best known around town as the co-host of Big Terrific, the weekly free stand-up show that has been drawing big names into small spaces in Williamsburg for the last two years. Slate, who talked to us a couple months back, performed her show Dead Millionaire at the UCB Theater this past spring. With the other new cast member Nasim Pedrad having performed at UCB LA, the theater continues to show its dominance over the comedy scene this decade. Last year UCB's Bobby Moynihan (the pride of Yonkers) joined the cast and in recent years, the theater has funneled through Abby Elliott, Casey Wilson, Rob Riggle and of course, UCB founding member, Amy Poehler. As for Big Terrific, co-host Max Silvestri says, "Jenny will be back at Big T soon to tell lots of showbiz stories about what Megan Fox smells like and how Ted Danson always has mints handy or whatever."

Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate are the saucy comic duo best known for co-hosting Williamsburg's signature weekly free stand-up show, Big Terrific, along with Max Silvestri. The show has moved on from the late Soundfix Lounge to its current home at Cameo, even closer to the Bedford L stop on North Sixth. Tonight they'll be celebrating Big Terrific's one-year anniversary with guests including Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal, Hannibal Buress and Sean Patton... Gabe and Jenny checked in with us to talk about the strange ways performers react to doing a show in the heart of Williamsburg, if there is a secret "positive comedy" movement currently taking place and just what a love triangle could be in store for the two of them and TI, set in a prison.

Max Silvestri can teach you how to use the internet, how to maximize your man style and, according to our research, about four other things. Each Thursday you can find him at Sound Fix for his Big Terrific comedy show (returning January 8th)—but he's also writing Top Chef recaps, hosting award shows, making videos for Details, entertaining Radiohead, and allegedly sitting in the basement of MoMA. He recently told us all about most of this.

ALERT: After their show at MSG with R.E.M. and The National, Modest Mouse will head to Brooklyn for a just-announced late show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Tickets for "A Morning with Modest Mouse" are on sale now (but probably not for long)! If you miss out, there's a free (okay, $3 suggested donation) Medeski, Martin & Wood (pictured) performance in Prospect Park at 7p.m. -- you'll get to bed much earlier.