Our guide to stand-up, improv and variety shows happening this weekend and in the week ahead.

MICHAEL BLACKSON at Sony Hall (Dec. 20, 8 and 10:30 p.m.). Born in Ghana, Blackson gave birth to his comedy career in Philadelphia. This self-proclaimed African King of Comedy has a large fief on Instagram, with some 3.9 million followers, and an unspecified role in the upcoming movie “Coming 2 America” with Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall. You also may have seen Blackson as a regular panelist on the VH1 game show “Hip Hop Squares” or airing out his comedy beefs on Power 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Club.” Find out who and what’s on his mind at the end of 2019.

212-997-5123, sonyhall.com

‘DESIREE’S COMING EARLY!’ at the Huron Club at SoHo Playhouse (Dec. 20, 11 p.m.; Dec. 21, 7 p.m.; Dec. 23, 9 p.m.). The comedian Desiree Burch recounts her misadventures at the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in this one-woman show that contemplates her own personal history and that of other African-Americans. Burch took this show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer. It runs in SoHo as part of the playhouse’s annual Fringe Encore Series.

212-691-1555, sohoplayhouse.com