Tracy Morgan goes full 70s with his attire in this latest special “Staying Alive” and wears it pretty damn well.
After a near death experience, Morgan seems back to being a tireless goofball, but with a new outlook on life. See for yourself in this teaser.
Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive starts streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, May 16th.
It might seem eons ago that The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore was yanked off the air, but it was only less than a year ago, in the election year of all election years no less, that Wilmore’s run in replacing The Colbert Report came to an end.
Yet, Wilmore impression on the media landscape was too good to fade away for good. Bill Simmons’ Ringer podcast network has thus given Larry Wilmore a podcast where he’ll get to talk politics, entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond as well interview folks like Norman Lear, Bernie Sanders, and Neil deGrasse Tyson (i.e. kind of what he was doing at The Nightly Show).
Called “Black on the Air”, it gets released this Thursday, May 11th. Here’s Bill and Larry giving the official announcement.
The Dollop is absolutely one of our all-time favorite podcasts around. The riffing and the unbelievable tales from the hidden archives of American history that are dug up make for pure comedy gold.
Now, Dave and Gareth have just come out with a book to accompany the podcast that include full page illustrations, which should even further bring to life all those stories that are so absurd that wrapping your head around them is almost absurd in of itself.
So, with that said, please get The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History for you, a loved one, or even a not-so loved one here.
Bryan Cranston’s TV Adaptation of “The Dangerous Book for Boys” Ordered to Series at Amazon
As the book is a special kind of “how-to” book, there’d have to be an episode about who knocks, right?
One of the UK’s brightest stars right now, Russell Howard, returns to LA to play The Roxy next week.
More specifically, Saturday, May 20th at 8PM, Howard will take the stage and you shouldn’t miss out.
Tickets are $25 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
“Psych” Is Being Brought Back in the Form of a Holiday Movie
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen both Psych and a new holiday movie based on a TV series that has our curiosity peaked.
Given the trend of non-traditional detectives that have followed since Psych was on the air, one has to wonder how this will hold up or how much USA Network will update it to fit into today’s Golden Age TV landscape.
Following the announcement of his show returning and the premiere of his HBO special, May has been pretty great to Gethard fans.
From May 30th through June, Chris Gethard will be embarking on tour for both his stand-up and his beloved podcast Beautiful/Anonymous.
Stops, so far, include Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, Ferndale, MI, Arlington, VA, Baltimore, and Asbury Park, NJ.
Get more details and tickets here.
(via Deadline)
The creative heads behind black-ish as well as Transparent and I Love Dick re-upped the lease on the big sandbox that they get play with.
Announced today, Kenya Barris and Jill Soloway just renewed their overall deals. Barris has another 4 years locked in with ABC Studios and Soloway has three more with Amazon.
So, you can imagine that the development slates for both the broadcast network and streaming service will be bending genres, doing well to take care of Hollywood’s representation issues, and being more in the zeigest even more than they currently are doing now.
Conan is one of the few late night shows that not only features stand-up, but often lets comedians tell a story, which often ends up being a pretty fantastic.
Joe List’s story of him and his teeth is one of those stories. Watch it, from last week’s Conan, here.
Cuck returns for its second go around this Friday having the host watch their jokes performed by other comedians in front of them. That’s on top of an already very solid stand-up show.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This is Jesse Popp’s sophomore album and it has become clear that he has a knack for hiding the seams of his bits.
On, “I Am The Best”, just released this week off of Capsule Records, Popp shows off what it is to make great, succinct observational comedy in 2017. He delivered his jokes in such a casual, low key manner that the comedic twist is often more surprising than it would be with any other sort of cadence or delivery.
So, get I Am The Best off of iTunes here.
Dozens of cities across the continental U.S. will be graced by a Rick-Sanchez-shaped vehicle that houses a Rick and Morty merch store over the next few months.
The tour starts this Thursday, March 11th in Atlanta and goes in and around the country across several states.
Get more details, dates, locations, etc. here.
This is a great line-up of LA’s best and brightest. Also, some of the best views in LA are to be had on hills in Echo Park and should have your interest peaked.
Get more details here.
Comedian (specifically what we’d like to dub as “gonzo comedian” as he becomes part of the joke he’s making), storyteller, actor, and performance artist Moses Storm has just released his latest piece where he hysterically tries to cheat running the LA Marathon for bragging rights.
At the risk of giving anything away or sounded more convoluted, we’ll let you enjoy Moses comedic genius right now.
Please watch CHEATING A MARATHON here.
NOTE: This video will be only up for 24 hours from the time it was posted, which means you have the rest of the afternoon, tonight, and tomorrow morning to watch it.
By now, you’ve probably caught wind of #FireColbert controversy, which has a certain group of people up in arms against Colbert for this line about Trump:
“…the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s c— holster.” Watch the whole monologue here.
There have been accusations that the joke is homophobic, which we vehemently disagree with. The joke may be blue, but it hardly comes across as reflecting negatively on the sexual congress of the LGBTQ community. Even with that line taken out of context and transcribed here, the idea that Colbert should be sacked for this is ludicrous and sounds more like cries from people who already hate Colbert and we’re looking for a reason to launch a #FireColbert hashtag.
The new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai commented on the incident, “It’s a free country, and people are willing and able to say anything these days.” Yet, Pai and the FCC have somewhat changed their tune and will now be looking into the joke and whether it falls under “decency rules” in response to a number of complaints that the FCC has gotten about the joke.
We personally weren’t even going to write anything about this because we saw controversy being made where there wasn’t any controversy to be made.
However, Pai (who was promoted to FCC Chairman by Trump after Tom Wheeler stepped down) announcing that they will be officially looking into the monologue, after he was clearly aware of the “situation” and pretty much dismissed it, seems problematic and unnecessary.
If you didn’t get a chance to catch it at UCB or Off-Broadway in NYC, tonight is your chance to see Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide solo show as an HBO special.
Specifically, it airs at 10PM on HBO tonight.
Before then, here’s Chris giving you some backstory of how he got here with this show and what it has meant to a lot of the audiences that have seen it.
One of our favorite shows, Underbelly, is returning as it has found yet another new home in The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe. It’s one of our favorite shows to see because it pushes stand-up comedians to perform everything but stand-up.
This latest edition will include:
Scott Thompson
Marlena Rodriguez
Josh Fadem
Drennon Davis
Emily Maya Mills
& more!
With hosts Ryan Singer and Chris Garcia
Pretty swell, huh?
The show is free to attend and you can get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Specifically, NBC will be holding open auditions for their annual stand-up comedy talent search (and semifinal auditions on the following evening) as follows:
6/10-Chicago-Laugh Factory Chicago
7/8-San Francisco-Cobb’s Comedy Club
8/12-Philadelphia-Helium Comedy Club
9/23-Atlanta-Laughing Skull Lounge
8 finalists will be flown out to LA to perform for NBC brass and other industry. Also, as a plus, there’s no purchase necessary to enter.
Get more details here.
A premise where ex-partners from a creative partnership is well trodden territory, but the pairing of Goldblum and DeVito in this project from Simpsons writer Tim Long is pretty tantalizing. Also, since they’re a music duo, Goldblum will probably be belting out tunes plenty if this goes to series, which will undoubtedly be icing on the cake.
We have to admit that picturing DeVito and Goldblum standing next to each other already kind of makes us laugh.
This segment shows how The President Show can satirize Trump happenings and gaffes beautifully and in a way that other late night shows really can’t do.
Calm, collected, and just a tad eccentric, Sarah Tollemache got to make her debut doing stand-up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night.
Please enjoy it here.
If the title of this special refers to what we think it refers to, you guys are in for one hell of a story somewhere in Al Madrigal’s new special.
So, catch the premiere of Al Madrigal: Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy at 9PM tonight on Showtime.
“Wait Wait…Don’t Kill Me!” combines a quiz show, the talents of Lily Tomlin, June Diane-Raphael, Casey Wilson, Whitney Cummings and Craig Ferguson, the hosting skills of Paul Scheer, animal trivia as curated by Scheer, and a benefit for Voice For The Animals Foundation.
If any of that’s up your alley, you might want to catch this event this Saturday night at UCLA’s Royce Hall at 8PM. Tickets range from $25-$100 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Since launching our experience on Airbnb, the “Comedy Bureau Ride Along”, we’ve had guests from here in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and the Middle East.
Their thoughts on the experience:
“Jake was an amazing host, it was great hanging out with a local comedian and having a glimpse at the standup comedy community in LA. I would definitely book this experience again!”
“Expert guidance from a local celebrity. Jake will be able to answer any question you throw at him, and pretty much guarantees you a good time. Highly recommended.”
Both gave five out of five stars.
Honestly, it’s been quite the privilege to share the LA comedy scene with folks from around the globe that might have not gotten to see it otherwise.
Oh, by the way, we’ve got dates available if you want to book an evening with us.
