The New York Comedy Festival will host two free, ticketed conversations centered on NBC comedy during its final weekend, bringing together performers, writers and producers from several notable television comedies. The events take place at the Hard Rock Hotel in Times Square on Saturday, Nov. 14, and Sunday, Nov. 15, as part of the festival’s Nov. 6–15 run.

The Saturday program is built around The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. It will include an advance screening of Season 2, Episode 3, then a discussion with cast members Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe, Erika Alexander, Bobby Moynihan, Precious Way and Jalyn Hall. Series co-creators and executive producers Robert Carlock and Sam Means are also scheduled to participate. Josh Horowitz will moderate the conversation.

For viewers, an advance screening means an episode will be shown before its usual public release window. That makes the session more than a conventional retrospective panel: its cast and creators can discuss a specific new installment with the audience in the room. The supplied event details do not identify story details from the episode, so attendees should not expect an announced synopsis or a promised preview beyond the screening itself.

A cast-and-creator discussion around Reggie Dinkins

The Nov. 14 lineup combines the show’s on-screen ensemble with the people responsible for its creative direction. Carlock and Means carry both co-creator and executive-producer credits. In television, a co-creator credit identifies a person involved in originating the series, while an executive producer is generally a senior production role with broad creative and operational responsibility. The specific division of duties between Carlock and Means has not been detailed for this event, but their inclusion alongside the actors should give the panel perspectives from both sides of a comedy series: performance and production.

Morgan, Radcliffe, Alexander, Moynihan, Way and Hall are all listed for the conversation. The event’s structure—episode first, discussion afterward—provides a clear reason for that large group: the panel can react to the newly screened chapter rather than speaking only in broad terms about the show. It also puts the festival appearance in a fan-facing setting instead of a standard press-only presentation.

Horowitz’s moderating role is similarly important. A moderator guides the pace of a panel, frames questions and balances time among participants. With eight announced onstage contributors including the moderator, a focused format matters, particularly when the program follows a full episode screening. No audience-question segment has been specified, so it should not be assumed that a public Q&A is part of the schedule.

Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici look back at NBC comedy

On Sunday, Nov. 15, Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici will lead a second discussion on the evolution of NBC comedy. They will be joined by Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Chelsea Peretti; 30 Rock performers Jane Krakowski and Judah Friedlander; and Jane Levy, who stars in Goor and Del Tredici’s forthcoming project, Sunset P.I..

The panel is designed to recognize series that Goor and Del Tredici have influenced as writers and producers, including Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. That framing makes the appearance a career-spanning conversation rather than an event devoted to a single returning show. Peretti, Krakowski and Friedlander each provide a direct performer connection to the programs named in the session’s description, while Levy creates a link to the duo’s next NBC series.

The phrase “evolution of NBC comedy” is broad, and no detailed agenda has been announced. Still, the participant list establishes the likely focus: the creative path from prior work on 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation through Brooklyn Nine-Nine, alongside a look toward Sunset P.I.. It is a notable mix of eras and formats without claiming that any particular behind-the-scenes stories, casting news or clips will be included.

Sunset P.I. is the forward-looking piece of the lineup

Goor and Del Tredici are preparing Sunset P.I., an NBC single-camera workplace sitcom. A single-camera comedy is a production format generally associated with a more cinematic presentation than a traditional multi-camera sitcom; the supplied information identifies the format but does not describe its visual style or episode length.

The series stars Jake Johnson as a cynical detective working at a private-investigator agency in Hollywood that has seen better days. Levy, Langston Kerman, Mary Shalaby and Keith David are named among the cast, with Spencer Moss, Nelson Franklin, Patrick Gallagher, David Paymer and Wrenn Schmidt rounding out the ensemble. NBC picked up the comedy to series in May.

That premise gives the Sunday panel an obvious present-tense topic: how the writers and producers are moving from their earlier credits into a new workplace comedy. However, the festival information does not establish a premiere date, episode count, trailer, release platform beyond NBC, or any further character descriptions. The safest takeaway is simply that the project has a series order and an announced ensemble, not that the panel will serve as its formal launch.

Free admission still requires tickets

Both sessions are free, but tickets are required. That distinction is practical: no admission price does not mean walk-up entry is guaranteed. Anyone hoping to attend should treat tickets as necessary rather than optional, and should look for festival scheduling and ticketing details before making plans around the Times Square venue.

The two talks also sit within NBC100 programming, the network’s campaign marking 100 years of storytelling. That wider commemoration is set to culminate in a three-hour primetime special on Dec. 10. The festival panels therefore function as public, comedy-focused extensions of a larger anniversary effort, connecting current and upcoming productions with shows associated with NBC’s modern comedy history, including Saturday Night Live and The Office.

For the festival itself, the programming offers two distinct kinds of event. Saturday is an episode-led gathering for a current series, with a substantial cast and its top creative team present. Sunday is a broader industry conversation, using several recognizable comedy credits to trace the work of Goor and Del Tredici while introducing the premise and cast context of Sunset P.I..

The panels also arrive amid a wider calendar of stage and screen-adjacent fan programming; for another example of a forthcoming live entertainment event, see Black Girls Rock! and Black Promoters Collective’s planned BGR! LIVE arena tour. In this case, though, the draw is unusually specific: free ticketed access to conversations involving creators and performers connected to Reggie Dinkins, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation and the upcoming Sunset P.I..

With the festival ending on Nov. 15, the Saturday and Sunday panels make up a concentrated closing-weekend showcase for NBC comedy. Fans interested in the advance Reggie Dinkins screening should focus on Nov. 14, while those looking for a cross-show discussion of Goor and Del Tredici’s body of work—and the setup for Sunset P.I.—should look to Nov. 15.