Apparently, everyone, including people working the red carpet, just went along with the fact the guy said he was famous comedian and actor Hannibal Buress.
We can only hope that this prank is the start of a rabbit hole that Hannibal will dive much further into.
There have been a lot of cancellations at Netflix lately, but you can rest a little easier knowing that Justin Simien’s Dear White People will make it through to next year.
The inaugural edition of this show was so much damn fun. If you thought that comedians playing very bad video games was a winning formula, you were right on.
Again, Mike Drucker put together another great line-up that will play and riff through some of the worst of the worst in the video game canon.
Tickets are $10, but you can enter to win free tickets via our friends at DoLA.
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Dana Gould’s Latest Album “Mr. Funny Man” to Come Out This Fall From Kill Rock Stars
When considering what goes into the craftsmanship of stand-up comedy, Dana Gould is, without a doubt, one of the art form’s best practitioners. His past three albums are absolutely required listening for any comedy fan.
We’re pretty sure his fourth album, Mr. Funny Man, will be required listening as well. As Dana has just announced it, look for it later this fall on Kill Rock Stars, a label that has a pretty stellar record in terms of comedy albums (Esposito, Braunohler, Karmel, Kondabolu, etc.) over the last few years.
If it’s possible, Issa Rae seems to have managed upping the ante on the show’s title for the second season.
Rae dives hard into dating and, as you can see in the trailer, it’s full of opportunity to be anxiety-ridden on so many levels.
Look for the season 2 premiere of Insecure on Sunday, July 23rd at 10:30PM.
Though you might say, “Shut up and take my money!”, this brand new mobile Futurama game is actually free to play on iOS and Android.
On top of that, you’re able to build your own New New York and enjoy dialogue from Futurama writers as well as David X. Cohen and Matt Groening.
Get to playing here or here, respectively.
Right now, FX is flying pretty high with all the honors and praise that they’ve garnered for Atlanta and The Americans.
With new seasons of You’re The Worst on FXx and Better Things on FX on deck, we’re confident that they’ll keep that high flying feeling going.
So, mark down September 6th, a Wednesday, and the 14th, a Thursday, to catch new seasons of each show, both critically acclaimed in their own right we might add.
Throwing Shade 2017 Tour Dates Announced and Tickets on Sale
Hey, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, Atlanta, Washington D.C, NYC, Philadelphia, Boston, LA, and London, Bryan Safi and Erin Gibson are bringing Throwing Shade, their lovely podcast and show, to you all throughout September and October (and then a stop in the UK in December).
Get more details and tickets here.
The marvelous Beth Stelling is having her the very first of her own night at Largo that has a pretty great name.
Please get your tickets here.
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For Comedy Bureau Patreon supporters, we’ve got pins and stickers. For more, you can actually hang with us for a night (if you’re in the LA area) or for a cool $1K a month, we’ll actually do some professional comedy scouting for you.
Find out more about and pledge to our Patreon here.
Sentient pickles, a parody of Mad Max, and more multiverse Ricks are just a bit of what makes season 3 of Rick and Morty seem like it will rise to the occasion of being one of the most highly anticipated new seasons of television right now.
See for yourself in the trailer.
Then, mark down Sunday July 30th at 11:30PM EST/8:30PM PST to tune into Adult Swim for Rick and Morty’s season 3 premiere.
As you all are probably well aware of, resisting takes a lot out of you.
So, you might be like Samantha Bee from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and need some much needed words of encouragement.
Bee got it from one of the most best around, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Watch it here and feel free to imagine yourself in Bee’s seat as well.
Abbi Jacobson To Host a New Podcast, “A Piece of Work”, That Has Jacobson Break Down Art with Guests
In addition to being the Abbi from Broad City that you know and love, Abbi Jacobson has made plenty of her own milestones in the art world with a degree in art school and getting her own illustrated books published.
Now, Abbi will act as a bridge from the art world to the general public with a new podcast series in collaboration from WNYC and MoMA. Called A Piece of Work, Abbi will focus on specific art movements and have on big time guests that come from both the art world and Tinseltown.
It’s only going for 10 episodes, but we would imagine it could much longer if Abbi’s up for it. Look for the episodes to start dropping on Monday, July 10th.
Louie, Better Things, Master of None, Lopez, I’m Dying Up Here, and Dice are just a few sitcoms in recent memory that follow the lives and times of various real people (or reasonable facsimiles of real people) in and around comedy.
Andrea Savage’s I’m Sorry coming to TruTV on July 12th at 10PM will be the latest to join that subgenre and, from the trailer, it looks like it’ll be able to hold its own.
See for yourself here.
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner Are in Talks to Write That English Language Remake of “Toni Erdmann”
The key creative forces behind Girls, Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, might be teaming up once again to write an English language version of the hit R-rated European comedy about how important family is, Toni Erdmann. If things are lining up the way that murmurs about this project say they are, Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig might be involved.
We happened to love the original a whole lot by the way.
If this ends up being a way to both make a reliable remake for U.S. audiences and encourage another round of viewing of the aforementioned original, we’re more on board for this than we originally were.
We really do love every time we get to catch David Gborie take the stage here in LA. Knowing that, we think the rest of America might love him too if they get to catch him on his Tourcation ‘17: The Comeup with Keith D that goes through to beginning of August.
So, if you’re in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, or New York, please go and watch David’s shows nearest to you. Follow @thegissilent on Twitter for more updates.
The stories between former adult stars Alia Janine and Sovereign Syre are definitely one of a kind and unlike what you get at your average storytelling show.
So, you won’t want to miss an evening with them at Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics this Sunday that’ll be joined by comedian and podcasting legend Marc Maron and Tamer Kattan.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at door and you can (and should) get them here.
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Netflix Renews “F Is For Family” For Season 3
Bill Burr will officially get to continue to curse as patriarch of a cartoon family set in the 70s for a third season and we’re totally on board for that.
For a very long time, playing NYC’s Carnegie Hall as a comedian was an unquestioned achievement in comedy of the highest order. As is, playing Carnegie Hall is an incredibly rare feat no matter what your artistic discipline might be.
Still, mostly comedians that play Carnegie Hall are stand-up comedians. We looked through the list of past performers, we found that the only other instance of improv was Drew Carey doing night with some Whose Line Is It Anyway? folks like Jeff B. Davis and Greg Proops for the New York Comedy Festival. The Firesign Theatre, which only had an improvised feel, also performed there several decades ago.
So, Amy Poehler, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, and Matt Besser, often referred to as The UCB 4, will be kicking off 2018′s Del Close Marathon performing together once again and simultaneously being one of the only groups to do their version of long form improv on such a hallowed stage.
With that in mind, you better keep a close eye on tickets going on sale if you want to go.
Now that we’re in a world where everything seems to get ruined every day, it’s a perfect time for Adam Conover to come back and thrive in his element.
So, in a couple of weeks, Adam will get back to work in season 2 of Adam Ruins Everything by ruining the ever diminishing amount of things that we, society at large, take for granted.
Get a taste of that here, then look for the season premiere on Tuesday, July 11th on TruTV.
The Polka King, the True Crime Biopic Comedy Starring Jack Black, Will Be Coming to Netflix
A documentary called The Man Who Would Be Polka King by Joshua Brown and John Mikulak followed a Ponzi scheme gone awry with an actual polka legend, Jan Lewan.
Jack Black stars as Lewan in the biopic adaptation of the documentary entitled The Polka King and will be coming to Netflix later this year.
Based on the premise and Black starring, we’re automatically thinking this could be a very dark spiritual sequel to School of Rock.
Facebook Willing to Pay Millions Per Episode for Exclusive Scripted and Non-Scripted Series
Facebook is making it known that it wants to step into the arena with likes of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube by letting Hollywood’s top agencies that they’re putting up millions, potentially $3 million per episode, for exclusive access to a star studded TV show.
For sitcoms specifically, they’re thinking about mid-six figures, though it should be noted that they’re aiming for family friendly content, probably because the streaming giants have a big focus on shows for high brow mature audiences.
Any specific projects have yet to be announced, but don’t be surprised to see something in your FB feed soon.
Lake Bell made a hell of a feature length film debut with In A World… and is now on her to sophomore work, I Do… Until I Don’t (maybe Bell has a thing for titles with ellipsis).
Bell will take a satirical look at the concept of marriage through three different marriages that just happen to feature Ed Helms, herself, Wyatt Cenac, Amber Heard, Paul Reiser, and Mary Steenburgen.
See for yourself in this trailer, then look for a release on September 1st.
Tonight, James Davis will start to expound and dissect the duality of his cultural identity that comes from living near the “hood” on his new Comedy Central series Hood Adjacent with James Davis.
Watch how James will do that in this clip where he and his considerably “non-hood” friends try to get “hood pass” in South Central.
Eric Jennifer (one of Hal Rudnick’s most charming characters) is throwing an early 4th of July party/show this weekend, probably because he couldn’t find someone to give him a ride to an actual party happening on the 4th.
So, watch him and some friends(?) do a “good job” at UCB Franklin this Saturday night.
Tickets are $5 and you can (and should) get them here.
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