Haddish, Lee, and Hardwick will all get to sing their hearts out after telling the story behind their tune on Comedy Central’s brand new show, The Comedy Jam created by Josh Adam Meyers.
Catch the series premiere of The Comedy Jam at 10PM.
That’s right. The brand spankin’ new, revived Mystery Science Theater 3000 has just released a teaser for the upcoming season that starts streaming on April 14th on Netflix.
It’s only a brief look, but it looks like fans of the old MST3K and fans of Jonah Ray, The Meltdown, Hidden America, Baron Vaughn, Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt, Hampton Yount, etc. might all be happy with it.
The Bitch Seat, hosted by Lyssa Mandel, is a very entertaining version of show and tell that features comedians who probably never thought that they would have to do show and tell again, much less with things that possibly make them cringe about their childhood.
This LA edition of Bitch Seat (it’s based in NYC), is happening this Friday and tickets are only $5. 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.
David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black reunited for the most recent SF Sketchfest to give us and the whole world a new piece from Stella, their renowned sketch troupe.
We could you give more description/explanation, but we’re betting that you’re already watching it rather than reading this, so we won’t waste anymore of your time and just allow you to watch the new “Rip Van Winkle” from Stella.
Tina Fey’s ‘Mean Girls’ Musical to Start in Washington D.C. on October 31st
The Mean Girls musical is indeed happening as adapted by the original screenwriter, Tina Fey. The first run will happen at Washington D.C.’s National Theatre from October 31st through December 3rd.
It’s almost as if Tina Fey wants to make sure that she, on Halloween, can bother the White House, if she so wishes, in spirit.
Also, take note they haven’t found their lead who would play the role that Lindsay Lohan so famously played in the original film, but we’re guessing that Lohan isn’t in any sort of talks for the part.
As we’ve said before, there are a handful of people that get to go on late night talk shows and bring enough of their own spunk to make for several memorable moments that will endure the test of time. Bill Murray, Stephen Wright, and Charlyne Yi come to mind for us in this regard.
With several appearances with ridiculous get ups and entrances, including this most recent one from last night’s Conan, we’ll add Adam Pally to that list of who you should always catch on late night.
Honestly, we wouldn’t be surprised if people started cosplaying with Pally’s various costumes over the years.
Currently, one of the most best and most unique voices in comedy belongs to Joe Pera.
He’ll be doing an extended set at UCB Sunset next Wednesday, March 29th at 10:30PM that you shouldn’t miss.
In fact, knowing Joe, there might even be some truth to him allowing “anyone to drive his mid-size rental car wherever they would like to go” after the show.
Tickets are $7 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.
Well, the day is finally here. Over a decade has passed since Chappelle put out a stand-up special, but today you have two new ones.
They were recorded over the last couple of years in LA and Austin and now, if you have a little over two hours, you can binge watch both back-to-back.
Don Rickles Series “Dinner with Don” Coming Soon from AARP Studios
It seems like Don Rickles will be doing his version of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but with coffee replaced by dinner and cars replaced by perfect zingers off-the-dome from Rickles.
Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, Marisa Tomei and Martin Scorsese are some of the guests secured for Dinner with Don thus far.
AARP Studios will be announcing a premiere date and more details soon.
Adam Cayton-Holland
Anthony DeVito
Jenny Zigrino
Jo Firestone
Solomon Georgio
Casey James Salengo
Sam Jay
Josh Johnson
Joel Kim Booster
Lashonda Lester
Chris Redd
Yamaneika Saunders
Julio Torres
Shane Torres
Those are the 14 names that will get to do a half hour Comedy Central special that will be now called “Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents” later this Fall. If you take a closer look, this might be CC’s best, most diverse half-hour line-up yet (i.e. it’s mostly fantastic comics that aren’t straight white guys)
Kind of harkens back to the days of when Comedy Central had “Comedy Central Presents”, doesn’t it?
The tapings will take place next month, Wednesday, April 19th-Saturday, April 22nd, in New Orleans at The Civic Theatre. You can get free tickets here.
At the risk of spoiling anything for Tribeca Film Festival N.O.W. honoree/one of our favorite directors Andrew DeYoung’s latest amazing short film “Brown” (other works include 555 and plenty of other great short films), we’ll just tell you that it stars Kurt Braunohler with Jon Daly might be NSFW depending on where you work.
Other than that, we’ll let Brown surprise and delight you like it did for us. Watch it on Vimeo here.
The Best Friends Show is always pretty great.
This line-up though is pretty special, even by their standards as best friends and real life married couples Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani and Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher are on the line-up for this Saturday.
Tickets are $5 online and $6 at door. You can (and should) get tickets in advance here.
Comedy Crawl & Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week
The Ides of March are over. So, why not watch and/or do some comedy?
If you’re in LA, we’ve got you covered.
In case you’re like the majority of the planet and you weren’t able to go to the Sundance Film Festival this past January and catch a screening of Sydney Freeland and Shelby Farrell’s Deidra & Laney Rob a Train, you can now stream it at your leisure on Netflix, a thing that an constantly increasing percentage of the planet has.
Here’s the trailer in case you forgot about it or haven’t seen it.
As the pull quote on the flyer above suggests, Natalie Palamides’ solo show LAID is one of our favorite things of 2016.
Thankfully, she’s bringing it back once more, this Monday, in LA at UCB Franklin and you really ought to not miss the groundbreaking show.
Please get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week (3/19/17)
We’ve got all the comedy you can handle/need/want/depend on listed for next week (and even a little beyond that).
Click the link for all of our listings.
Letters to Santa, an organization dedicated to helping families in need, are throwing a swell LA show at the Pack Theater next Thursday, March 23rd at 8PM that will be stacked.
Just see for yourself in the flyer above.
Tickets are $35 and you can buy them in advance by calling (424) 442-9450.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The New V.I.P.S. comes from Life & Times of Tim creator Steve Dildarian and has the voices of Ben Schwartz, Matt Braunger, and Missi Pyle, Legend of Master Legend follows a real-life superhero as guided by the refined hand of director James Ponsoldt, Budding Prospects tells the story of a marijuana start-up in the 80s, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the latest work from Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls.
These are the new Amazon comedy pilots that you can stream for free and vote on/review.
If St. Patrick’s Day isn’t your thing, we’d bet that watching these is probably a great alternative.
How exactly to make comedy has always been up for debate for hundreds of years.
While the art form as a whole will change and defy any sort of formula applied to it, comedian and chef(?) Ron Babcock does have a convenient way to make– or rather bake a comedy album.
In fact, he even has a video to show you just how to do it just like he did for his upcoming album This Guy coming out at the end of the month from Sure Thing Records.
Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano’s latest round of showcasing the animated lives of animals as if they lived like us will be on HBO tonight.
That’s right, season 2 of Animals premieres at 11:30PM. Don’t miss it.
The latest Fictional Roast at the Nerdmelt Showroom is set for next Tuesday and will take on Disney Princesses.
Yes, that means the dais for this roast will be comprised of Disney Princesses.
Roasting as princesses will be:
Scout Durwood
Kate Quigley
Andy Erikson
Candice Thompson
Riley Silverman
Jenn Sterger
Leah Kayajanian
Heidi Heaslet
Atsuko Okatsuka
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
When it comes to comedy, one of Fusion’s favorite things to do is documentary specials hosted by or focused around individual comedians.
Their latest docu-special will come from the marvelous Baron Vaughn embarking on a search for his absentee father. Called Fatherless, you can get a glimpse of the long and winding road that Baron takes in this trailer
Fatherless premieres on Fusion on Sunday, April 2nd at 9PM.
Every once in awhile, the intersection at Beverly and Genesee at CBS Television City gets surprised with a presentation of a famous musical courtesy of The Late Late Show with James Corden that happens on the crosswalk while the light is red.
Of course, this means it’s a much, much, much more abridged version lest Corden and company wish to further run the risk of getting hit by cars.
Their latest ‘crosswalk musical’ takes on Beauty and the Beast and even has stars of the movie musical adaptation Luke Evans, Dan Stevens, and Josh Gad join in holding up traffic to sing and dance in period costume.
How much Corden is a taskmaster, especially since he has the credibility of a Tony Award to back him up, in these segments is pretty fun.
CBS Signs Overall Deal with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Co-Creator/Showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna
We hope this means that CBS will shake things up with some new comedies that are on the order of genre-bending, high concept nature of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
If they’re letting Colbert curse more during his monologues, maybe they’ll start earnestly exploring territory beyond multi cams.
Conan Writers Dan Cronin and Andrés du Bouchet Are Doing a Live Q&A About the Nut Spoon Sketch
You may say, “Nut spoon? What’s a nut spoon and how can that be fodder for a sketch?” Well, comedy legend Carl Reiner is a big fan of the ‘nut spoon sketch’ that aired on last week’s Conan.
As a result, Conan staffers Dan Cronin and Andrés du Bouchet are doing a Q&A just on that sketch alone with Aaron Bleyaert moderating. No other show would do a whole conversation on camera about a single sketch and that’s part of why we love Conan.
Watch the Q&A that’s live right now here.