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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 176: James Fritz & Political Shmolitical

August 9, 2023

Few take on politics in their comedy like James Fritz, mostly because Fritz sees how everything in the world is politicized and accordingly satirizes it. For our money, he’s one of the best at it right now. James joins for this week’s TCB Field Report to talk how politics in and out of comedy and vice versa in 2023 and just how important basketball is.

Follow James @fritzisdead across socials

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 175: Mike Bridenstine & All Star Picks New Faces to Watch

August 2, 2023

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Despite their being several more months of the year left to go, right around now is the time of each year when a big share of the “comedians to watch” lists come out. Namely, the Just For Laughs Montreal New Faces of Comedy and Variety’s Top 10 Comics to Watch came out recently, highlighting what are supposed to be 2023’s class of comedians you should be paying attention to if you haven’t done so already.

That said, there is much more nuance that goes into picking the many dozens of comics between those two lists (FYI, Vulture’s Comedians You Should and Will Know List has yet to come out) and we enlisted comedy expert and historian and beloved comic Mike Bridenstine to make choice picks from those already highly selective picks. Essentially, Bridenstine and us do an all-star line-up of JFL and Variety’s all-star line-up in this very special episode of TCB Field Report.

Follow Mike @mikebridenstine on IG, pre-order his book The Perfect Amount of Wrong and get info/tix for Microdose and Flagship here.

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 174: Mark Vigeant & Finding the Path to a Solo Show

July 26, 2023

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A spirited, hysterical performer, Mark Vigeant, has been making his mark on the LA comedy scene in the short time that he’s lived in Los Angeles. In fact, Vigeant is about to go international as he is taking his lauded solo show, Mark Pleases You, for his debut run at the renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

This week’s TCB Field Report gets into Mark’s long journey in taking his darkest moments and sourcing joy in the form of a vibrant, silly solo show and why you one should go across the planet to perform said show as much as you physically can.

Oh yeah, Mark truly and deeply highlights the importance of self-love in the creative process, especially as it relates to doing comedy about your life.

FYI, the rest of JFL Montreal’s New Faces of Comedy can be found here.

Follow Mark @mark_vigeant on IG

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 173: Allison Goldberg & Taking on Patriarchy & AI Through Fun

July 19, 2023

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Allison Goldberg, creator of things to be enjoyed comedically, not only has a knack for showing a crowd a cracking good time through her own comedy driven game shows, but making a point with them at the same time. Goldberg pointedly made a feminist twist on the classic Dating Game format with her show, Love Isn’t Blind, where the bachelors aren’t allowed to speak and is exploring the extent (or limits) of AI when it comes to doing comedy with Comedians vs. AI. This week’s TCB Field Report explores Goldberg’s journey with addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time, but doing so with the tasty, tasty sugar of comedy.

Follow Allison @alli_goldi on IG and check on everything that she is up to at allisongoldberg.com. Tickets for Comedians vs. AI @ 7/20 available at comediansvsai.com.

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 172: JoAnn Schinderle & Being an Upright Citizen

July 12, 2023

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It’s kind of a sweet spot if you, as a comedian, can have your day job also be in comedy. JoAnn Schinderle has managed to land there with being the Venue Manager at UCB Franklin in addition to being a wonderful stand-up in the LA scene (and even making some dough from commissioned erotic fiction). Switching gears between all three and whatever falls in between can be a challenge, which is why we talk to her all about how she pulls it off (as well as what’s going on behind-the-scenes at Upright Citizens Brigade these days).

Also, “hot”/hot takes on this year’s Emmy nominees.

Follow JoAnn @joann.schinderle on IG

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 171: Matt Catanzano & Six Degrees of Comedy

July 5, 2023

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Matt Catanzano, not unlike us, does a lot of wonderful stuff in comedy. Perhaps, too much? Both Matt and TCB’s Jake Kroeger are too busy to really ruminate on that, but they do have time to talk how Matt amazingly balances doing and running stand-up and sketch shows on top of making his own short films and writing anything else in order to have every other comedy base covered (and the essentially genetic connection between comedy and horror).

Also, “hot” takes on the search for the British “Simpsons”, an A24 take on Barney, and more.

Follow @mattcatanzano and @protectedunderparody and @illpreparedcomedy all on IG

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by @dusty.zone

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 170: Isaac Landfert & Keeping Orderly Chaos in the YARD

June 28, 2023

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This week’s TCB Field Report invites The YARD Theater’s GM and overall “guy at the YARD”, Isaac Landfert, to talk shop with TCB’s Jake Kroeger. Landfert explains the ins and outs of being a small, but very crucial theater in the LA comedy scene, specifically one that caters to folks trying to do something different/experimental/wild, especially when Fringe season comes around. It’s this sort of wondrous strangeness and cavalier experimentation that really has us coming back to the YARD all the time.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 169: Chris Fleming & The State of Silly

June 21, 2023

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When it comes to be an untethered “silly goose” on stage, few comedians do it quite as well (and as satisfyingly for folks of all kinds) like Chris Fleming. With as much flexibility as those wavy arm inflatable tube men and the panache and comedic verve to match, Fleming orchestrates his comedic performances in such a thrilling way that he deserves to play such renowned places like Largo on a regular basis.

TCB’s Jake Kroeger talks to Fleming about what it’s like to preserve a spirit of silliness at such gritty, dark times as we continue to live in and even get in a bit of what it’s like bouncing around the scenes betweeen LA, Boston, and NYC for this week’s TCB Field Report.

Follow Chris Fleming @chrisflemingfleming on IG

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Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by Jill Petracek

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 168: Scout Durwood & Atlantic City Dreams

June 14, 2023

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To be a clown fronting acrobats, contortionists, and all sorts of other performers capable of astounding physical feats in a gambling town is something that seems, at first glance, to be at the core of clowning itself, an impossible task. Yet, amazing comedy multi-hyphenate/dancer Scout Durwood has uprooted herself from LA to do just that in Atlantic City. That’s in addition to constantly writing, developing a solo show, putting out music, and figuring out LA style comforts and queer community in a place as straight as Atlantic City.

TCB’s Jake Kroeger goes deep with Durwood on her many journeys (professional, emotional, self-discovery) that brought her to this milestone in comedy and in her life and where she’s looking towards in the distant and not so distant future.

Follow Scout Durwood @scoutdurwood across socials and check out her cover for “Hanky Panky”, complete with music video, on Jun. 23rd.

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 167: Babs Romen & The Green Room as The Green House

June 7, 2023

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In the time since Babs’ last appearance on TCB Field Report, she has helped erect a venue in the backyard of the one and only Paul Provenza dubbed “The Green House” (via Paul’s brilliant Showtime series The Green Room with Paul Provenza). Unlike the majority of shows that happen at a person’s home or “house venues”, there’s such a plethora of wondrous comedy gatherings that happen at the sane space of The Green House and Babs details all of it as well as the journey it took to get to transforming a patch of gravel by a hot tub into a joyous place for comedy and comedy adjacent things.

Follow Babs @babsromen on Twitter and @babsromen1316 on IG. Tickets for the live-stream of the latest Green with Paul Provenza (featuring special guest Doug Stanhope and others) on 6/17 are available at Nowhere Comedy here.

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 166: Sunanda & Finding Yourself in Britney (in Australia)

May 31, 2023

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From Bangkok to NYC to LA to Melbourne, Sunanda has an astounding comedy CV (resume for Americans) that ranges from directing a webisode of Broad City before it hit the big time to being awarded Best Newcomer at the renowned Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Sundanda’s journey took them all over the world, but it was doing a solo show about their deep love of inspiration drawn from the one and only Britney Spears that brought them into the spotlight.

TCB’s Jake Kroeger gets in deep with Sunanda about what goes into such a physical and creative journey, especially when it comes to what identity really means in comedy (and in life).

Follow Sunanda @youknowsunanda on IG

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 165: Josh Gondelman & Fighting for Deserved Slivers

May 24, 2023

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We’re in the fourth week of this Writers’ Strike and it doesn’t seem like the spirits or solidarity has wavered one bit. WGA East Board Member and beloved comedian and one of the all around nicest human beings Josh Gondelman joins TCB’s Jake Kroeger for this week’s TCB Field Report to break down exactly what’s at stake here. So many unions are joining in on the picket lines of this strike every day because this is very much becoming an overall fight for labor rights as a whole and just for the very immediate future for TV and film writers, many of which wheel and deal in comedy.

Follow Josh @joshgondelman on IG and Twitter.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by @michaelpielocik

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 164: Mike Bridenstine & Butthole Vietnam/Chronicling History of a Comedy Scene

May 17, 2023

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The collectors and curators of comedy history are rare, but they are usually delightful beings to not only shoot the breeze with, but learn the tenor of a comedy scene in decades past.

One of our favorite comedy folks, Mike Bridenstine, transplanted from a time period of Chicago comedy that has vastly influenced comedy at this very moment, has captured an exhaustive history of those years in his book The Perfect Amount of Wrong, which boasts the early days of Kumail Nanjiani, Hannibal Buress, Cameron Esposito, Jena Friedman, and many more. We talk to Bridenstine about what it takes to pull off a historical account of comedy, why to do it, and what is holding back TCB’s Jake Kroeger from doing his own comedy history book.

Also, Mike really wanted this episode to be called “Butthole Vietnam” and we love making our guests happy.

Follow Mike @mikebridenstine on IG & @brido on Twitter and listen to Hunk wherever you get your podcasts and, most importantly, pre-order his book The Perfect Amount of Wrong here or wherever you get your books.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 163: Nato Green & The Parallels Between Union Organizing and Stand Up

May 10, 2023

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As we’re getting into the thick of this latest Writers’ Strike, we got the perfect guest in one of the world’s only comedian/union negotiators with the one and only, amazing Nato Green.

Green has simultaneously been a long-standing and highly effective union organizer/negotiator and an equally shrewd and clever comedian based out of SF/Bay Area. This week’s TCB Field Report goes into Green’s notable work at the negotiating table and on stage and how the two are intertwined as well as his expert analysis on this current and very necessary WGA Strike.

Follow Nato @mrnatogreen on IG

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by @abhayoy

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 162: Noah Eberhart & Switching Lenses from LA to NYC Comedy

May 3, 2023

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Noah Eberhart, better known as @enemypixels in comedy circles had established himself as a go-to photographer in the LA comedy scene, but made the move to NYC in 2022 and has very quickly gotten roots planted in snapping some of the best shots of NYC comedy. This week’s TCB Field Report dives into how Noah sees LA and NYC comedy though his wildly colorful and imaginative lens.

Follow Noah @enemypixels on IG

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 161: Alan Kliffer & Planting Comedy Seeds and Watching Them Grow

April 26, 2023

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Alan Kliffer, the esteemed Artistic Director of Asylum NYC (as well as a million other things including pioneering a national high school improv program), joins us for this week’s TCB Field Report to give us the lowdown on NYC comedy. Specifically, we dive into NYC being on the precipice of a wave of comedy theaters opening/reopening focused on improv and sketch, which has been kind of wandering all around NYC since lockdown ended. Kliffer already has so many exciting things in the works all throughout North America (and even at The Edinburgh Fringe this Summer).

Follow Alan @klif on IG

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by @dylanwoodley

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 159: Joe Pickett & Nick Prueher & Living for Bits

April 12, 2023

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When all is said and done, the exploits of comedy pioneers Joe Pickett & Nick Prueher, founders of The Found Footage Festival, should be well documented and celebrated.

Thankfully, not only are the life long friends and comedy partners back out on the road for the fest’s latest edition, but they’ve got an astounding and nearly unbelievable documentary, Chop & Steele, following a giant media company suing them for doing a bit on a local morning news show set for release very soon (May 9th). Pickett and Prueher commitment to bits is almost unrivaled as they essentially making a living through having every bit of fun they possibly can conceive of. This week’s TCB Field Report talks to Joe & Nick about their whole journey to court and back because of “news experiments” and the ethos behind their comedy that centers on awkward, cringe, and the “unintentional”.

Also, “hot’ takes on Max (formerly HBO Max) ordering a new Big Bang Theory, Taiwanese Winnie-the-Pooh-getting-punched patches, and more.

Follow Joe @jojopickett and Nick @chimplips on IG and Found Footage Festival at foundfootagefest.com and all things Chop & Steele at chopandsteele.com including screenings at LA’s Alamo Drafthouse on 4/13 & 4/14 and in NYC 4/21-4/24.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

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

The Comedy Field Report Ep. 158: Addie Weyrich & Doin’ Transcendent Bits

April 5, 2023

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We here at TCB love comedy that takes big swings and there are few comedians that take the sort of big swings quite like one Addie Weyrich. Doing an entire solo show that involves very specific participation from every single person in the audience or playing a version of Ted Cruz with severe amnesia is only a couple wondrous bits that the ambitious Weyrich loves diving into. This week’s TCB Field Report has Addie talk us through her process and experience of needing as big of a creative sandbox as possible in order to bring joy to as many folks as she possibly can.

Follow Addie @addieyomind on IG & @addieweyrich on TikTok

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by @selashiloni

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 157: Addi Somekh & Better Living Through Balloons

March 29, 2023

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To our knowledge, there is no single joke ever written that can transcend all language barriers and bring people joy and make them laugh. However, internationally renowned and celebrated balloon twister/artist, Addi Somekh, has made folks all over the planet from virtually every background and identity smile/laugh/cry with joy through his craft of fashioning improvised balloon hats based off the aura he gets from them. Addi isn’t a comedian per se, but he’s very likely made more different types of people laugh than the majority of comedians in history. Thus, we follow Addi, on this week’s TCB Field Report, through his journey and philosophy that makes life better through simple, pure joy of some of the most intricate and exuberant balloon hats you’ve ever seen.

Follow Addi @inflatableplanet on IG and visit inflatableplanet.com. Also, you can get the book Inflatable Planet here.

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 156: Myq Kaplan & 2 Evolve 2 Enlighten

March 22, 2023

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Well, it has been officially three years that The Comedy Bureau Field Report has been bringing you all the going-ons in comedy from every possible corner that we know about or discover. With that in mind, it’s magically apropos that the great Myq Kaplan returns to not only talk about his new-old album release Live In Between Albums and his upcoming Edinburgh Fringe run, but to dive deep into the existential nature of comedy through the lens of Buddhism and high-minded philosophy (with some ultra-clever wordplay thrown in of course). Myq and TCB’s Jake Kroeger do indeed go deep, but, as this podcast has done for 156 weeks, bringing it all back to the wondrous, relief-giving art form that is comedy.

Follow Myq @myqkaplan across platforms, get his new album fresh from 2018, Live in Between Albums, here, and get into his Substack, his podcast Intra Quest, and more on his linktr.ee here.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 155: Ben Wasserman & Doing Comedy at Funeral Homes

March 15, 2023

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Though it might be strange to read, comedy can really exude its healing/relieving powers when done in a funeral home. NYC based Ben Wasserman has been proving that while touring with his most personal work to date, Live After Death, a wild solo show about grief and loss created in the aftermath of several deaths of family members and friends in the span of a few years. It’s a rambunctious show that brings an exuberance and a communal joy while also very much holding space for those any and all that are currently or have ever been beset with grief. Wasserman talks candidly to us about how all this came about and how it has changed his comedy and his entire trajectory with performing.

Follow Ben @benwassergram on IG and @benwassertweet on Twitter

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 154: Byron Bowers & Keeping It Raw

March 8, 2023

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Often, the idea of being raw on stage gets misconstrued with spouting off and saying shocking things for unfettered schadenfreude. The rawness of Byron Bowers and his comedy comes from such a genuine place as he is in between so many worlds and wants to speak his comedic truth in the purest way possible. The result often takes him and his audience into darker territory, but always subverted with hysterical observations, which has gotten him his first special on the coolest cable network, FX, and a number of roles on such high profile shows as Irma Vep and the upcoming Natalie Portman-vehicle Lady in the Lake. We talk with Byron on this week’s TCB Field Report on his whole journey, which might turn into a book that you very much should get and read, to being truly one of the funniest comedians working today.

Follow Byron across socials @byronbowers and watch Spiritual N**GA on Hulu.

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Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger
Photo by Troy Conrad

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 153: Mary O’Connell & Winning a Comedy Contest on OnlyFans TV

March 1, 2023

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Only Fans isn’t only for individually empowered adult content anymore and, to prove that, Only Fans put on their very own stand-up comedy competition on their safe-for-work side of the platform of.tv. Up and coming UK comedian Mary O’Connell emerged victorious for the Only Fans Creative Fund: Comedy Edition winning £100K and talks us through that entire wild ride as well as how UK comedy is getting on these days compared to us here, Stateside.

Follow Mary @marywiththegoldshoes on IG, @marydoesgigs on Twitter, and @marebearmarebear on Only Fans.

You can watch the entire Only Fans Creative Fund: Comedy Edition completely for free at of.tv here.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via Patreon or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 152: Shaun Landry & Having Space(s) for Diversity in Comedy

February 22, 2023

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For years and years and years, Shaun Landry has made her mission to really “do the work” and really, truly, and deeply commit shows and venues and festival (that she has all founded by the way) to include as many voices of all backgrounds as possible. That’s why she has seen her dream, The Ledge Theatre through several venue changes to its current home, a space shared by The Impro, on the second story of a strip mall in Los Feliz in LA to put on exactly the type of inclusive shows she would like to see more of.

Landry talks with us on this week’s TCB Field Report about her comedy journey throughout the decades (Shaun has so many great comedy biz stories) and making The Ledge Theatre her answer to the shortcomings of so many improv theaters/schools before she founded it.

Follow Shaun and The Ledge Theatre @ledge_theatre on IG, @ledgetheatre on Twitter, and @shaunlandry on TikTok.

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

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 151: Joel Mandelkorn & The Re-Rebirth of Hot Tub

February 15, 2023

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One of our favorite guests/people/minds in comedy, Joel Mandelkorn, returns as has one of LA’s biggest comedy shows, Hot Tub with Kurt Kristen, the show he has co-produced for almost a decade here in LA. Joel fills us in, as part of the “new normal” we live in, on moving the show from its historic time of 8PM on Mondays (it had that time in NYC for all the years that it ran there as well) to Wednesdays, being permanently outside, and his thoughts on Angelenos being properly prepared for any wintry conditions.

Also, “hot” takes on the return of @midnight, Tina & Amy’s four city tour, and more.

Follow Joel @cleftclips and follow Hot Tub with @hottub_show across socials.

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

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