The Comedy Bureau Field Report

One of the realities of this pandemic era of live comedy is “drive-in shows”. As far as we know, a historic precedent is being set by those in comedy that organize and go and perform comedy in front of a parking lot of cars due to COVID-19 closing all indoor comedy venues. Two of those trailblazers are the longtime live comedy producing team of Tammy Jo Dearen and Nikole Larson who went from having a weekly show, Bitch, in The Belly Room of The Comedy Store to doing, Magic Asphalt @ The Magic Castle, the only recurring drive-in stand-up comedy show within LA city limits. Now that Los Angeles (as is the rest of the country) is going on lockdown again, drive-in shows are, for the time being, the only live, in-person shows that will be happening for the next several weeks.

Tammy Jo and Nikole zoom with TCB’s Jake Kroeger about figuring out how to pull off a drive-in show during a pandemic and also talk Quibi officially ending and NYC’s brand new venue, The Squirrel Comedy Theatre.

Follow Tammy Jo Dearen @tammyjodearen on Twitter & Magic Asphalt @asphaltcomedy on IG and Twitter

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Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

Lost Moon Radio, for our money, has long been a paragon of what a comedy group can be. Part high concept sketch comedy, part live musical comedy, part respected theater company, Lost Moon Radio has been putting on their runs for their one-of-a-kind live shows up in and around LA for over decade and, in this dire time of quarantine, they’re marching forward and doing a very special virtual edition called Lost Moon Radio’s Doing Fine (which we here at TCB happen to be proudly co-presenting) on Tue. Oct. 27th at 7PM PT/10PM ET. LMR’s Dan Oster and Ryan Harrison zoom with TCB’s Jake Kroeger to detail Lost Moon Radio’s journey as a big, happy comedy group dealing with these times of COVID-19 and how they came to doing a virtual show (and how they’ll pull it off). They also give some “hot” takes on the newly minted Best Presidency Ever and Adult Swim’s second virtual festival during lockdown.

Also, Jake had to get an emergency appendectomy over the weekend and thus had some hiccups throughout the episode. You’re welcome.

Please follow Lost Moon Radio at LostMoonRadio.com and @lostmoonradio on Twitter and Instagram.

Get tickets to Lost Moon Radio’s Doing Fine here (portion of ticket sales go to A Place Called Home, FYI)

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).
Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT