Our thorough listings for comedy shows and open mics (that includes sketch mics and improv jams) that you could need/want/etc. are all updated for the Greater LA Area this week.
Take a gander at the embedded calendars at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Here are a bunch of great comedy ticket giveaways for this week from our pals at DoLA!
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kurt and Kristen @ The Virgil 5/15
Fresh Out LA @ UCB Sunset 5/18
Punchlines for Paws with Silverman/Kroll/Leggero @ Candela LA 5/20
The Big Sick seems poised to be a big comedy hit this summer and, as such, there’s an accompanying live comedy tour with cast Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, Aidy Bryant, and Kurt Braunohler.
One of those stops is here in LA at The Belasco Theatre in DTLA and tickets are on sale now for $61.50. Get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The President Show Has Trump Visit a School (and Hide Away from the Nasty Grown Up World of Being POTUS)
Perhaps, this might be the most accurate portrayal of POTUS Trump yet.
Watch and enjoy Anthony Atamanuik’s brilliance here.
Wanna watch a few episodes of Difficult People on the big screen in a fancy movie theater and stick around for a Q&A with Julie Klausner, Billy Eichner, and Difficult People EP Scott King moderated by Deadline’s Anita Busch?
Well, if you’ve got Monday night on May 15th cleared up, specifically at 7:30PM, you can RSVP for that exact event at The Landmark in West LA here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
“Look very probable I’m going to put some miles on the Stair Car this summer. Just officially signed on to more ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT today.”
Arrested Development fans have been reinforced to hang on to every bit of news on whether new episodes will ever come out.
This is the best and latest indication that a new season is on its way.
Following Up a Whole Album About Death, Sean White Makes a Great Case for Anger and Loneliness with “Angry & Alone”
Exactly two years ago, we told you about Sean White’s bold debut album Dead & Gone that centered on death, both in his experiences with it and conceptually. Bold though it may be to essentially do a comedy album on death, Sean delivered and carved a really great hour.
This latest album, Angry & Alone, continues Sean focusing in on concepts through his own dark comedic lens. In a way, Sean delivers a hilarious new hour that makes a great case for the usefulness of anger and the value of being alone. His personal experience and carefully made observations make the pair of anger and isolation seem kind of fun and unique to himself as opposed to the many angry, lonely comedians that are out there these days.
Here’s a small morsel to show you what we’re talking about.
Get Angry & Alone now from AST Records as a CD or off of iTunes.
“Amy Schumer Presents Mark Normand: Don’t Be Yourself” Premieres Tonight
Mark Normand’s very first hour comedy special premieres tonight and is presented by none other than Amy Schumer.
In fact, you can see Amy give Mark a pep talk right before he taped the special and just how much she believes in him.
Catch “Amy Schumer Presents Mark Normand: Don’t Be Yourself” tonight at Midnight on Comedy Central.
ABC Renews Modern Family and black-ish, Orders The Mayor and The Gospel of Kevin to Series
(via Deadline)
ABC is sticking with its bread and butter by giving Modern Family a 9th and 10th season and black-ish a 4th season.
With that main part of the comedy brand covered, ABC will now be taking on some more high-concept comedies with The Mayor and The Gospel of Kevin that both pit unlikely, selfish lead characters into having save the people around them. To peak your interest, The Gospel of Kevin has Jason Ritter starring and The Mayor has Daveed Diggs, who you probably know from Hamilton, on board as an executive producer.
Interestingly enough, this does seem like ABC likes to have a white and black version of certain TV comedy formulas.
“I Love Dick” and Season 2 of “Master of None” Start Streaming Today
The award winning Master of None and Jill Soloway return to their respective streaming services, Netflix and Amazon Prime, to debut a second season and a new series, I Love Dick.
With that said, what a great time it is for “peak TV” and we hope that you’ve got a lot of free time this weekend.
Real life comedy power couple Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy will sit down to discuss his new book next week for Live Talks LA. As it’s is both of them discussing the book, we’re guessing that this’ll much different from your average “in conversation” event/book release.
Tickets start at $20. If you want to purchase a copy of Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours, tickets go for $43-$50. You can get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
NBC Renews ‘Great News’ for Second Season
NBC Renews ‘Great News’ for Second Season
Perhaps NBC has wised up and will not let another Tina Fey-Robert Carlock series get away from them.
Great News will get 13 more episodes for a second season despite ratings being a little rocky as of late.
On a day where a good majority of freshman comedies got the ax, we’re glad to see that Great News will get a chance to see if it can be worthy successor to 30 Rock and yet another great addition to the Tina Fey canon.
Frankie Shaw Takes Her Short Film “SMILF” Based on Her Life to Festival Circuit and Then All the Way to a Showtime Series Pick Up
Frankie Shaw is taking her story to the top of the mountain as what started as a short film made the rounds at Sundance and is now going to series with Rosie O’Donnell co-starring at Showtime.
If you’ve gotten a chance to see SMILF (a twist on the well worn slang term MILF), you’d know that this show, along with the return Twin Peaks, could signal a new wave of peak TV programming for Showtime.
Problematic’s Moshe Kasher Finds Out What Real People Are Using Bitcoin For
For the new show Problematic, Moshe Kasher investigates what’s really going on with people who use the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Spoiler alert: normal, law abiding citizens use it for normal stuff.
Watch Moshe have fun on sneaking up on them anyway here.
“The Last Man on Earth” Renewed for Season 4
While Fox cancelled a lot of their freshman series, at least Will Forte will get to continue to dazzle us with various hair arrangements as Last Man on Earth just got picked up for a 4th season.
Please Enjoy Dan Mintz’s Latest Set on Late Night with Seth Meyers
While many of you are probably very familiar with the voice of Tina Belcher on Bob’s Burgers, Dan Mintz is also one of the master practitioners of deadpan one-liner jokes these days.
See for yourself from his latest set from last night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers.
“Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King” Gets First Trailer as Netflix Stand-Up Special
2017 might just be Hasan Minhaj’s year. In addition to his stellar WHCD performance, he has an hour special coming out.
From solo show to The Moth to Off-Broadway to touring around the country, Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King has been not only a great hour of comedy, but an incredibly relevant story that he has gotten to share.
Now, Homecoming King will be presented as a comedy special on Netflix very soon, starting Tuesday May 23rd.
Watch the trailer here.
Running an indie show here in LA from a non-traditional venue is hard enough to do and pulling it off for a year is definitely impressive.
So, give some love to The Frogtown Show celebrating their one year anniversary of offering live comedy under the lovely LA sky and in the back patio of a great vintage store, The Left Bank.
Also, the line-up is pretty damn solid. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
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Donald Glover and His Brother Stephen Glover Will Now Get to Make an Animated Deadpool Series for FXx
Donald Glover and Stephen Glover or, The Glover Brothers, if we may, made their presence known right out of the gate with the award winning Atlanta (Donald created, starred in and wrote the series and Stephen also wrote along with doing some of the music for the show).
Now, they’ll get to take the R-rated comedy box office smash hit action comedy Deadpool and adapt for television on FXx for 10 episodes. At that network, we’re guessing the tone, style, and “blueness” of the humor will be mostly preserved.
At this point, we have no doubt that Glover could get score an EGOT if he wanted.
War Machine’s 2nd Trailer Gives You an Even Better Idea of the Absurdity of the War in Afghanistan
David Michôd‘s War Machine, the dark comedy about the long U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, just got another trailer and it looks, sounds, and feels like a wartime comedy straight from the pen of Armando Iannucci (i.e. it looks pretty damn good).
This new trailer gives a glimpse into the sharp, almost too close to home humor and the reveling in absurdity of the situation that perhaps this story deserves.
Look for War Machine to start streaming on Netflix near the end of the month on May 26th.
Norm MacDonald, Even in His Old Age, Remains Delightfully Mischevious with “Hitler’s Dog, Gossip and Trickery”
It has been six years since Norm’s last special “Me Doing Stand-Up” in addition to a long and illustrious career of being the delightfully clever, yet subtle rascal spanning decades. Still, Norm finds way to stick to being Norm and still be refreshing.
Norm has pretty much always stuck to his particular brand of refined silliness always honing more and more over the years. His latest special “Hitler’s Dog, Gossip and Trickery” is exactly what you’d expect from Norm, but completely satisfying and still surprising in its layers.
See for yourself as it it just started streaming on Netflix yesterday.
Mike O’Brien’s “AP Bio” Starring Glenn Howerton Gets Series Order at NBC
Mike O’Brien’s “AP Bio” Starring Glenn Howerton Gets Series Order at NBC
We’re glad that Mike O’Brien will have another show on the air and that it’ll involve Glenn Howerton scheming high achieving students.
Does that mean The D.E.N.N.I.S. System from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia find its way into an actual classroom?
Master joke craftsman Matt Knudsen will be recording his third full-length comedy album this Thursday at The Josh & Josh Show at Bar Lubitsch.
It’s free to attend and Allen Strickland Williams will be opening.
Get more details here.
There’s a Daily Show with Jon Stewart Reunion on The Late Show Tonight
At the stroke of 11:35PM on tonight’s The Late Show, Stephen Colbert will reassemble the old Daily Show gang including Jon Stewart, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Ed Helms, and Rob Corddry.
Like the poster above hints at, it really is an Avengers-esque reunion as each of those Daily Show correspondents have become legitimate stars on their own.
Since Comey got taken down today, odds are that they’ll have a nice, big camera pan off of all of them for some off-screen celebrating.