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Mini Fridge Comedy Returns to Brooklyn Farmacy for Standup and Sundaes

After a brief summer hiatus, the standup series resumes at Brooklyn Farmacy on Tuesday, Oct. 8.


Illustration of Brooklyn Farmacy interior
Illustration of Brooklyn Farmacy interior by Tim Le

Mini Fridge Comedy, the standup series by comedian-friends Lucy Cao and Katherine Nevitt-Chung, is fully restocked. The show has served standup and sundaes at Brooklyn Farmacy every month since March of this year, though Cao and Nevitt-Chung took a two-month break in July, at the height of many Brooklynites’ summer vacations.


On Tuesday, Oct. 8, Mini Fridge will return to Brooklyn Farmacy to feature standup from Sabrina Wu, who stars in the 2023 film “Joyride”; Negin Farsad, author of “How to Make White People Laugh”; Dan Toomey; Hope Woodard; and Dorian Debose. Tickets are sold for $23.18 via Eventbrite.


Cao and Nevitt-Chung, who both live near Brooklyn Farmacy, met about two years ago through a mutual friend. Cao, who works in marketing at TikTok, and Nevitt-Chung, a preschool teacher and former research associate producer for “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver,” started doing standup around the same time and would often travel home together after shows. The idea for Mini Fridge Comedy came about during one of their train rides home.


“How cool would it be if we had something in our neighborhood?” Nevitt-Chung recalled of their conversation.


“It was one of those lightbulb moments,” Cao said. “We were on the G back [from a show], like, ‘Are you thinking what I’m thinking?’”



Images courtesty of Mini Fridge Comedy / Michael Gebhardt


Cao and Nevitt-Chung approached Gia Giasullo, co-owner of Brooklyn Farmacy, about hosting a comedy night at the destination neighborhood ice cream parlor.


“Lucy and Catherine are absolutely wonderful people, full of energy and very professional,” Giasullo said. “If somebody comes in with an idea, typically our answer is, yeah, let's give it a try. We understand that connection of community.” 


On a hot evening in June, just before announcing its summer hiatus, Mini Fridge gathered a cross-generational crowd of friends and families, who packed into Brooklyn Farmacy to see an equally cross-generational, diverse lineup of comedians. “We feature people we personally admire and respect and who we think are really funny and on the up and up,” Cao said. “Imagine you caught John Mulaney and Nick Kroll five years before they had their Netflix special.”





Customers ordered from a cross-branded menu of dessert items – a noticeable, alcohol-free break from the two-drink minimum typically enforced at traditional comedy clubs. Despite the cold eats, the vibe was warm and cozy. It was the IRL version of sitting on your couch, ice cream in hand, to watch a Netflix special – only with more laughs, more interpersonal connection and in the setting of a restored 1920s apothecary.


Cao likened the experience of Mini Fridge to “hanging out in your friend’s kitchen – there's delicious food, really cool people that you want to get to know.” 


“Our show is a platform for people to try stuff,” Nevitt-Chung said. “We maintain an open attitude about our show, and we view ourselves as two hosts of a dinner. Our friends are just there.”


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