The Great American Shit Carnival A torrid celebration of all that is wrong and unholy.

Now playing at UCB Theatre, *The Great American Shit Carnival* is a live comedy event that uses a carnival frame to sort through contemporary American messes. It leans on sketches, characters, and rapid shifts in tone, treating public life like a midway where spectacle and sincerity sit side by side. There is no documented NYC premiere history available here, but its downtown setting places it in a long New York tradition of using comedy as informal civic reporting. The show’s sharpest move is refusing to clean up its subject.