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May 28, 2017
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The “cat obsessed late night talk show” has some feline comedy royalty lined-up as the hosts of The Purrrcast and Jake Weisman, a comedian cat lover who also co-hosted a podcast about cats awhile ago will be joining host Joey Clift in really diving deep into their love of cats. 

Come see the show and see how deep that love of cats really is. Tickets are $7 and you can (and should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Here’s the First Teaser for The Dress Up Gang, the TBS Series
May 27, 2017
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One of the more exciting things, for us (and hopefully for you), coming to TBS soon is the new eponymous TV series from The Dress Up Gang.

If you’re a long time fan, this teaser for the TBS series is the newest bit of Dress Up Gang that has been dropped in quite some time. If you’re new to them, please enjoy this little morsel that captures what they do pretty well.

In either case, it’s pretty swell to see TBS is continuing to put money down on their off-kilter brand of comedy.
May 27, 2017
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Simply put, Natalie Palamides is one of the best around and this is one of our favorite things in recent memory. Also, this show is about to play The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This might be one of the last times you get to see it stateside for awhile.

So, go see LAID next week for $5 by getting your tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

For a Few Dollars a Month, You Can Help The Comedy Bureau Be More of a Real Bureau Rather Than Just Having a Desk with Tape on It That We Got Off of Craigslist
May 27, 2017
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For a Few Dollars a Month, You Can Help The Comedy Bureau Be More of a Real Bureau Rather Than Just Having a Desk with Tape on It That We Got Off of Craigslist

Yes, this is a real tanker desk we have that we used electrical tape to spell out a sign of sorts. 

Help us get to a better place as a fully functioning bureau via Patreon.

What You’ll Get If You Support The Comedy Bureau Patreon
May 26, 2017
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You might have heard that we’ve started this Patreon page in order to live our best life as an actually publicly funded bureau. As with all crowdfunding campaigns, we’ve got rewards on top of providing the invaluable service.

They are as follows (and there are more to come):

TCB “Electricity” Fund-$1 or more per month
You’ll be acknowledged and thanked at official Comedy Bureau meetings for keeping our lights on. Also, you’ll get access to pre-sale tickets to exclusive Comedy Bureau events before anyone else.

TCB “Hat” Fund-$5 or more per month
Support our penchant for hats. For this, you’ll get pre-sale access to Comedy Bureau events and be included on a Comedy Bureau “Digital Wall of Trustees”

TCB “Lunch” Fund-$10 or more per month
Help us be a more legit LA office by letting us order lunch for the office. For that, you get an official sticker of our fancy new logo done by Chris Fairbanks, access to pre-sale for Comedy Bureau events, and included on our “Digital Wall of Trustees”

TCB “Fossil Fuel” Fund-$20 or more per month
We can’t cover comedy like we do by taking the train here in LA, so covering our gas expenses would be a blessing. For that, on top of pre-sale tickets, Digital Wall of Trustees, and a sticker, we’ll send you a fancy, shiny enamel pin of our official logo. Also, if you’re against fossil fuels, you can give us way more money and we can be able to go get a Tesla.

TCB “Step and Repeat” Fund-$40 or more per month
Yet another part of being a legit LA operation is having a “step and repeat”. Helping us out with “that” will get you pre-sale tickets access, sticker, enamel pin, Digital Wall of Trustees and a download of our Comedians of Interest Vol.1 done in collaboration with AST Records.

TCB “Actual Office Space” Fund-$100 or more per month
Little known fact: We are a “mobile” operation. Help us “work a little less” at whatever coffee shop or bar has wifi. For that get everything above, then go on one “ride along” and grab drinks with The Comedy Bureau (availability pending and must be within the Greater LA Area)  

TCB “Spy Equipment” Fund-$1,000 or more per month
We are a bureau, but one that just doesn’t have spy equipment. Help us with “that” and you’ll get the rewards above, we’ll personally scout comedy for you with whatever you’re looking for to the best of our very highly regarded abilities. 

Also, if we get $9000 pledged monthly, we’ll start a NYC Branch of The Comedy Bureau (it’s probably the #1 thing we get asked about outside of “what are the good mics?).

So, please support The Comedy Bureau on Patreon and you could get a slick looking enamel pin and look slightly more official in the world of comedy.

Conan Tries Training Wonder Woman Style with Wonder Woman Herself, Gal Galdot
May 26, 2017
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Clueless Fighter with Conan O’Brien should be the next remote segment series that Team Coco does, right?

This attempt at going through martial arts training with Gal Gadot is just latest example. These other attempts at learning how to fight are pretty swell too.

Please Get Kate Willett’s Delightful, Sex Positive, Feminist Album “Glass Gutter”
May 26, 2017
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Kate Willett may work a bit “blue”, but she brings a certain intelligence, craftsmanship, and vulnerability in talking about sexuality on stage that evolve such a simplistic description based on how racy some people might find her material. 

She’s sincere and completely willing to dissect her life, including all the peaks and valleys. In that regard, the title for her brand new album “Glass Gutter” is perfect because Kate is set on a mission to ensure equality between genders at all levels no matter if they’re high or low.

Here’s a bit off the album accompanied by a clever reenactment. 

You can (and should) get Glass Gutter off of iTunes right now from Rooftop Comedy.

Larry Wilmore Goes on Desus & Mero and Reveals the Inner Workings of Being a Black Host in Late Night
May 26, 2017
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From one former black late night host to two current black ones, Larry Wilmore went in-depth on coming up to being a black host of a late night show and all the highs and lows of it on Viceland’s late night show, Desus & Mero.   

Larry specifically talks about his WHCD speech, how having some haters is good, and paints a clear picture of how being black on TV has progressed in recent years. 

Also, there’s something kind of heartening about seeing Wilmore and Desus & Mero all together.

Watch it here.
May 26, 2017
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The cast of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ is going to do an improv show, which could be a show on its own probably, to kick off the premiere of their third seaosn.

Advance tickets are currently sold out, but UCB sometimes releases tickets leading up to the show and there’s always a stand by line.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

2017 LA Podcast Festival Is Pretty Damn Stacked Even Though Its Months Away
May 25, 2017
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So far, they’ve got these podcast confirmed for this year’s LA Podcast Festival at The Millennium Biltmore Hotel in DTLA this October:

My Favorite Murder
The Dollop
WTF with Marc Maron
Chapo Trap House
Lovett or Leave It
The Todd Glass Show
Dumb People Town
The Jackie and Laurie Show
Bill Burr’s Monday Podcast
TOFOP with Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen
Bertcast
Comedy Film Nerds
Cashing In with TJ Miller and Host Cash Levy
The Dork Forest
The Jimmy Dore Show
The Boogie Monster
Mixed Feelings Podcast
The Mental Illness Happy Hour
My Brother’s Sneaker
We Hate Movies
Tigerbelly
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend

As far as comedy podcasts go, that’s pretty hefty list of heavy hitters. 

So get your tickets/passes here.

Watch Fargo-esque Trailer for Dark Comedy Thriller “Shimmer Lake”
May 25, 2017
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There’s a fine line when dark comedy just because dark. Then, there’s another line where it becomes funny again. The Coen Brothers accomplish such a feat very well as evidenced by several moments in their film Fargo from 1996.

Oren Uziel’s Shimmer Lake, a new upcoming feature film release from Netflix with Rain Willson, Rob Corddry, Benjamin Walker, Wyatt Russell, Ron Livingston, Stephanie Sigman, John Michael Higgins, and Adam Pally seems to hit that chord quite nicely in its first trailer.

If you’re on board, Shimmer Lake starts streaming on Friday, June 9th on Netflix.

Greg Fitzsimmons Tells His Story of a Heckler Jumping on Stage and Fighting Him
May 25, 2017
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Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening does capture some of the crazier things that happen in a comedian’s life. Though all comedians have heckling stories, few do involve getting into an actual full on fight during the show.

Greg Fitzsimmons shares one of those rarer stories here.

Both Veep & Silicon Valley Get Renewed By HBO
May 25, 2017
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Both Veep & Silicon Valley Get Renewed By HBO

Season 7 of Veep and season 5 of Silicon Valley will be happening as HBO just officially renewed one of its most reliable pair of comedies that the network has ever had. 

Both shows will be coming in 2018 and have yet another year where real events that transpire might be weirder than their plot lines.
May 25, 2017
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Mike Drucker is not only having comedians play video games, which is proven formula for a good time (see Conan’s Clueless Gamer), but he will be having them play some of the worst games of all time like Shaq-Fu, Bible Adventures, and more for Sh*t Arcade next month at Nerdmelt.

You might even get to win one of those infamous games at this show.

Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.

Sara Schaefer’s Doing a North American Summer Tour Plus The Edinburgh Fringe Festival
May 24, 2017
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Sara Schaefer, whose comedy we hope you enjoyed on her excellent album Chrysalis, has lined up an impressive span of dates which have her hopping around North America all summer long and finishing the off tour with a month long run at the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 

So, it’s a global tour that you ought to catch at one stop or another.

Get tickets for a show near you here.

Seaton Smith’s Beautifully Navigates Race Relations and Police Brutality on Conan
May 24, 2017
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Seaton Smith’s Beautifully Navigates Race Relations and Police Brutality on Conan

Being frank, honest, and vulnerable, Seaton Smith delivered an set that further illustrates the weirdness of the racial tension and the abuse of excessive force by certain police officers.

Also, he closes with one of the best jokes on the subject of police brutality that we’ve heard in a while.

Watch Seaton’s set here.

Leslie Jones Will Be Hosting the 2017 BET Awards
May 24, 2017
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Leslie Jones Will Be Hosting the 2017 BET Awards

On June 25th, Leslie Jones will be presiding over the evening’s ceremonies at the BET Awards. 

If anything, you should watch to see what or much The BET Awards will let Leslie do including, her as Trump.

Looks Like Netflix Made Another Deal from Twitter by Getting Ellen DeGeneres on Board to Do a Stand Up Special
May 24, 2017
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Looks Like Netflix Made Another Deal from Twitter by Getting Ellen DeGeneres on Board to Do a Stand Up Special

Netflix tweeted, “Looks like it’s been 15years since you did a stand-up special, @theellenshow. How about one for Netflix?”

Ellen responded, “Let me think about it. Ok I’m in.”

So, there you have it. It would appear that Netflix just started to make a deal for stand-up special that’s probably worth millions of dollars through some tweets. This follows Netflix’s move to develop the buddy comedy starring Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o that started as a fan’s dream vision. 

It would appear that if you’re big enough of a deal, you could tweet at Netflix and Netflix will be listening.

Jon Stewart & HBO Agree to Ditch His Digital Animated Series Project for Something Else
May 24, 2017
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Jon Stewart & HBO Agree to Ditch His Digital Animated Series Project for Something Else

Turns out that Jon Stewart was concocting a show where he could, in an animated form, satirize the news on the same day. Pretty cool, huh? 

Unfortunately, the news breaks too fast and they couldn’t lock down a workflow that would keep pace with whatever nonsense Trump is causing from hour to hour and both parties have opted to suspend making this project into a reality.

Don’t dismay though. Stewart still has something in the works at HBO that will be announced soon.
May 24, 2017
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Frank Conniff AKA TV’s Frank and the ‘bottom of the barrel’ of cartoon historian Jerry Beck’s archive all return for Cartoon Dump! next month at The Steve Allen Theater.

Screening of actual bad cartoons are interspersed with a live stage parody of those types of cartoons as dreamt up by Conniff and company.

Tickets are $20 and you can (and really should) get them here.

Please Watch Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King, Now Streaming on Netflix
May 24, 2017
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With Homecoming King as a special, Hasan Minhaj offers up an hour that’s equal parts heartfelt, innovative, clever, crucially relevant, slick, and expertly executed.

Along with killing it in hosting the WHCD this year, we wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up getting his own show very soon. 

The FCC Will Not Fine Stephen Colbert for That Somewhat Explicit Monologue
May 23, 2017
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The FCC Will Not Fine Stephen Colbert for That Somewhat Explicit Monologue

Finally, this FCC does something we’re on board for. 

Despite FCC Chairman Ajit Pai initially brushing off the blowback from Colbert’s comments about Trump in one recent opening monologue, thousands of complaints made them see if there was anything that could be subject to a fine. 

Since late night has a little bit more breathing room in regards to content, there was nothing objectionable that the FCC found and they have thus decided to take no action on the matter.

So, we’re going to count this as a win for Colbert, free speech, late night, and, as a whole, comedy. 

Comedy Central Just Ordered 7 More Episodes of “The President Show”
May 23, 2017
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Comedy Central Just Ordered 7 More Episodes of “The President Show”

This comes at a perfect time as SNL just had its season finale and leaving Anthony Atamanuik, the star of The President Show in playing Trump, in the throne of Trump impersonations. Also, Trump’s scandals are racking up at an unbelievable pace upping the demand to hear late night comedy’s take on it, specifically one with Atamanuik’s version of the POTUS. 

By the way, wouldn’t it be great if Trump got impeached and kicked out of The White House through the course of these 7 episodes? Crazier things have already happened from this Administration by the way.

Keep The Comedy Bureau Going Forever via Patreon
May 23, 2017
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Keep The Comedy Bureau Going Forever via Patreon

We have a Patreon page where you can pledge money to support us. As you probably know, supporting the arts will become more dire very soon and maybe, just maybe you can include us within that notion.

Also, you can exclusive stickers and enamel pins!

“Friends From College” Teasers Promise Fun Nights Gone Wrong with Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Fred Savage, Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse, and Jae Suh Park
May 23, 2017
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The title “Friends From College” is oft used when trying to explain to people you know why you might be associating with some ne’er do wells. 

The upcoming Netflix series from Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco seems to hone in on this sentiment as you can see from these two teasers. Also, they’ve got a pretty stellar cast as previously mentioned that including a Fred Savage that loses control.

Look for Friends From College to start streaming on Friday, July 14th.

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