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Netflix Lines Up Two Louis C.K. Comedy Specials, One of Which is Debuting in April

February 22, 2017

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Netflix Lines Up Two Louis C.K. Comedy Specials, One of Which is Debuting in April

Netflix has got specials on deck from Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Amy Schumer, Jerry Seinfeld, and now, Louis C.K. It’s almost like they’re trying do a stand-up comedy equivalent of a planetary alignment.

The first of the two specials that C.K. will be doing is simply called 2017 and was taped in, of all places that you could tape a special right now, Washington D.C. Given Louis being vocal on the POTUS having plenty of parallels to Hitler, there’s an extra layer of intrigue on top of a new C.K. special coming out. “2017″ will start streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, April 4th.

With all these gigantic comedy stars, one has to wonder where Netflix goes from here in regards to comedy specials.

February 22, 2017

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Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin catching up and talking shop on The Jackie and Laurie Show is absolutely one of our favorite podcasts.

So, naturally, when they’re recording a live episode, we think you should go and watch.

Next Monday, they indeed will be taping a live episode at Flappers in Burbank that costs $10 w/a 2 item minimum. Get tickets here.

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

February 22, 2017

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This is just a friendly reminder that Never Not Funny’s Pardcast-a-thon is just around the corner. Jimmy Pardo, Matt Belknap, Pat Francis and a cavalcade of special guests will do 12 hours of great “pieces of business” to raise money for Smile Train.

Over the years, the Pardcast-a-thon has raised well beyond a half a million dollars for the charity that aids children in developing countries with cleft palates.

Tickets have been sold out for awhile now, but you can stream the whole thing and donate at nevernotfunny.com on March 4th starting at 12PM PST.

‘The Mick’ Is Getting a Second Season Over at Fox

February 22, 2017

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‘The Mick’ Is Getting a Second Season Over at Fox

If It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia doesn’t going on forever, Kaitlin Olson’s future looks pretty secure

Season 2 of The Detour Premieres Tonight

February 21, 2017

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Despite everything they’ve gone through, the Parker family has stuck together just enough for a whole mess of trouble to come their way in another season of The Detour.

You can see things already unraveling in this clip.

The season 2 premiere of The Detour airs tonight at 10PM on TBS.

Here’s a Teaser for Mike Birbiglia’s Latest Special “Thank God for Jokes”

February 21, 2017

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Mike Birbiglia is set to serve up another hour of his masterful stand-up/storytelling on Netflix with his latest special, Thank God for Jokes.

Here’s a tiny morsel of the special that starts streaming next Tuesday, February 28th.

February 21, 2017

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Trepany House and Steve Allen Theater are still standing and shows that you should see are still happening.

One of our favorite shows that happens on their stage is the Tomorrow Show with Ron Lynch’s Hook-Up!, a great spoof of The Dating Game. Valentine’s Day is well past us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still all make heavily poke fun at love, relationships, and trying to date.

Hook-Up! is happening this Saturday at midnight. Tickets are $8 and you can (and should) get them here or at the door.

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

Watch Patton Oswalt’s WGA Awards Opening Monologue Where He Handles a Heckling James Woods

February 20, 2017

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Last night’s 2017 Writers Guild Awards opened with host Patton Oswalt and two “special” escorts. Everything seemed to be going according to plan.

Then, after a reference to James Woods in a joke, Woods, who just happened to be sitting up front, engaged in a bit (or a lot more) mischief than your average WGA Awards show attendee.

Strangely, though it didn’t seem planned, nothing seemed to get too out of hand and Oswalt closed strong.

Watch it all here.

Jenny Zigrino and Jen Saunderson Made a Cooking Show Actually Inspired by Jokes with “The Filling Is Mutual”

February 20, 2017

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If you’re a fan of any cooking show where chefs all have to use a weird ingredient, you’ll dig IFC web series The Filling Is Mutual.

Hosts Jenny Zigrino and Jen Saunderson pick out a single joke from their comedian guests’ acts and then dream up a dish based on said joke. Sometimes, it’s delicious and sometimes, it really embodies the joke as much as a recipe can.

In any case, you should watch The Filling Is Mutual and maybe get hungry for ‘dicks in a komono’ or ‘white devil eggs’.

2017 WGA Awards Winners for Comedy Include Atlanta, Last Week Tonight, and BoJack Horseman

February 20, 2017

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2017 WGA Awards Winners for Comedy Include Atlanta, Last Week Tonight, and BoJack Horseman

Comedy Series-Atlanta
New Series-Atlanta
Episodic Comedy-Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Comedy/Variety Talk Series-Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
ComedyVariety Sketch Series-SNL
Comedy/Variety Special-Trumph: The Primary Election Special 2016
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Last Week Tonight, BoJack Horseman, and, with a renewed jolt from the election and Trump Administration, SNL winning WGA Awards seem to be expected.

However, Atlanta nabbing both honors for both Comedy Series and New Series is a really nice, big win for Donald Glover’s freshman series as well as FX, the rare basic cable network that can run with premium cable networks and streaming services when it comes to prestige programming.

FYI, their show The Americans won an award for Drama too.

Get the full list of winners for last night’s WGA Award winners here.

February 20, 2017

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My Brother, My Brother and Me, the TV series, starts streaming on Seeso this Thursday.

In honor of that, Seeso will be screening the first episode as well as have a best Yahoo Answers contest, prizes, and more.

The fun begins at 7PM upstairs at The Lost Knight in Echo Park and the screening will start around 8:30PM and it’s free to attend. Get more details here.

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

Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week (2/19/17)

February 20, 2017

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Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week (2/19/17)

We’ve got you covered for all of your live comedy needs in any way shape or form that’s worth seeing or doing in the Greater LA Area. Check the listings at the link above.

Watch Trailer for Season 8 of Archer That Goes ‘Full Noir’

February 19, 2017

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Archer: Dreamland will be a special 8th season of Archer that will have be set in a time and place of overdramatic shadows, fedoras, and fine tailoring all around.

See for yourself how classy Archer and the gang are getting in the season 8 trailer.

Then, catch the season premiere on Wednesday, April 5th on FXx.

The First Episode of My Brother, My Brother and Me, the Seeso TV Series, Is Now Streaming on YouTube

February 19, 2017

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Travis, Justin, and Griffin McElroy, the trio behind the podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me, got to make a whole TV show based on their podcast.

My Brother, My Brother and Me, the TV series, is now set to have all episodes streaming on Seeso this week starting Thursday, February 23rd.

Leading up to that, Seeso was nice enough to put the entire first episode on YouTube in case you weren’t signed up for the NBC comedy streaming service and needed to be further enticed.

Honestly, after watching this first episode, it might be one of the best TV adaptations of a podcast yet.

Watch the first episode here.

February 19, 2017

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Arguably, Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen is one of the best comedy shows in the country, maybe even the world. It has become a staple in both LA and NYC that’s pretty much sold to capacity every week well over a whole decade.

This 12th Anniversary of Hot Tub that’s happening tomorrow is actually sold out, but there will be a small number of tickets available at the door. Both Kurt and Kristen will do some of their classic sketches in addition to the killer line-up that they always have.

This Monday night, February 20th, doors will be open at 7PM at The Virgil (we’re guessing some might be lining up well before that), tickets will be at $8 at the door, and the show will start at 8PM.

Poster by Nolan Fabricus

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

February 19, 2017

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Comedy Crawl All Updated For Next Week

President’s Day is next week and will, probably, be a much more bitter day than it ever usually it is given the times we’re living in.

Luckily, we’ve got plenty of live comedy listings in and throughout the Greater LA area to ease your anxiety, tension, etc.

Alex & Ariel’s First Feature “On The Rocks” Is a Great Whirlwind of Murphy’s Law

February 19, 2017

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Alex Kavutskiy and Ariel Gardner, sometimes known as Alex & Ariel, have made an impressive showing as filmmakers over the years with their off-beat dark comedy short films like Judy and short form series like Kill The Baby.

Now, they’ve confidently stepped into both feature length film arena with On The Rocks. They follow a marriage live up to the film’s title to the nth degree as husband and wife, played by Chase Fein and Nichole Bagby, really do go through everything going wrong that can possibly go wrong. We should add that they’re both far from being without fault.

The pace, accented by a Birdman-esque jazz score, is relentless which adds to the fun, chaotic tailspin that the audience is taken on.

Get a taste of all of that with this trailer.

On The Rocks is now available on iTunes $9.99 and is yet another milestone for what we feel will be a storied career of Alex & Ariel.

The Death of Stalin, The French Graphic Novel That Armando Iannucci’s Latest Movie Is Based on, To Get English Language Translation

February 18, 2017

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The Death of Stalin, The French Graphic Novel That Armando Iannucci’s Latest Movie Is Based on, To Get English Language Translation

The highly anticipated latest film Armando Iannucci following the struggle for power following the death of Stalin was actually based on a French graphic novel of the same name by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin.

With Iannucci’s name on it, a stellar cast, and North American distribution secured, it would only stand to reason that the source material graphic novel get an English language translation. Titan Comics will be stepping in to publish the translation and will release it later this fall.

It’s not everyday that there’s a graphic novel that’s less about alternate history focusing on Stalin that gets adapted into a movie by the creator of Veep. So, maybe it’ll be worth your time when the English language version comes out several months from now.

February 18, 2017

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A new weekly show is starting up between Thai Town and Little Armenia at the Urban Social House by a great bunch of Will Weldon, Casey Ley, Alison Stevenson, and Katie Felber.

Called “Fine. A Comedy Show”, the inaugural edition kicks off Tuesday, February 21st at 8:30PM with a robust line-up including Tim Dillon who is in town from NYC and Scotland’s Katia Kvinge.

Show is free attend and you can more details here.

Poster by Ramin Nazer

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

Ratings Wise, “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” Continues Ascent and Colbert Now Edging Out Fallon

February 18, 2017

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Holding the Trump Administration’s feet to the fire is finally taking precedence over non-topical games.

Since her debut on TBS, Samantha Bee has almost tripled her ratings with her weekly show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”. Though trailing Fallon and The Tonight Show since taking over The Late Show from David Letterman, Stephen Colbert has taken a slight nightly ratings lead over Jimmy in these recent weeks after Trump’s inauguration and the whirlwind insanity of executive orders, overturned bans, resignations, etc. have dominated the news. Stephen has not wavered in taking Trump to task and didn’t jostle his hair when Trump went on The Late Show.

That being said, The Tonight Show has got a bit edgier recently with having Jo Firestone play Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Additionally, there seem to be an uptick in Colbert dropping F-bombs in the opening monologue as an appropriate expression of his feelings about what’s going on in The White House. There might not be a correlation with the new ratings lead, but it’s a shift in tactics from when Stephen used to just make fun of sidestepping explicit language because of being on CBS at 11:35PM.

Going forward, Bee will undoubtedly get more latitude to do even more of what she wants and Colbert might just increase his lead with being a more defiant Colbert. We’re sure that’s the Colbert that will be hosting when The Late Show goes live after the February 28th Trump address to Congress.

Pixar Is Offering a Free Online Course on the Art of Storytelling with “Pixar in a Box”

February 17, 2017

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Pixar Is Offering a Free Online Course on the Art of Storytelling with “Pixar in a Box”

From the likes of Pixar heavyweights that were the key creative forces behind Inside Out, Up, Monsters, Inc., Brave, Sanay’s Super Team, and more, you can now learn some winning formulas on storytelling.

The lessons are offered up, in collaboration with Khan Academy, as part of the “Pixar in a Box” program and are only a handful of the knowledge, how to, wisdom, and experience that Pixar is willing to share.

Get into Pixar’s storytelling course here.

Silicon Valley Season 4 Gets Its First Teaser

February 17, 2017

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Just because the world is topsy turvy and satires seem less and less fictional these days doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy hit satirical comedy shows like Silicon Valley.

Watch this teaser for season 4 and you’ll hopefully find that you can still enjoy the insanity of the tech world.

Season 4 of Silicon Valley premieres on Sunday, April 23rd.

Myq Kaplan’ Latest Album “No Kidding” Might Be His Best Hour of Stand-Up Yet

February 17, 2017

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Over the years, we hope you might have been as lucky as we have been in seeing Myq Kaplan evolve as a comedian. His latest album, No Kidding, is, thus far, the pinnacle of that evolution.

Starting from his early years with impressive feats of verbal and linguistic acrobatics, Myq has now worked his way to presenting a very colorful, dazzling tapestry of who he really is a person, comedian, and artist. He has got a big following in the autistic community, defends not having kids, and explores the virtues of certain drugs. That’s just the tip of the ice berg that you get off of No Kidding. Of course, there are still plenty of threads of top shelf wordplay and clever callbacks that tie that tapestry together.

This might just be, as we mentioned up top, his best hour yet.

No Kidding was just released today off of AST Records (recent Grammy Award winners by the way) and you can get it on iTunes or on CD.

February 17, 2017

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Tomorrow night, Lindsay Ames’ My Diary will gather some of the best people from every corner of comedy and has them share a part of a diary that they kept at some point in their life. This usually includes accompanying pictures that show just how “expressive” they were in writing in their most private correspondence.

John Early, who you probably just saw on The Tonight Show, the voice of one of the new Powerpuff Girls Natalie Palamides, and Baron Vaughn (both on late night and in Grace & Frankie) is just half of this fine line-up.

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.

For Bob Odenkirk’s Latest Meta Late Night Bit, He Makes a Movie Where He Trades Places with Stephen Colbert

February 17, 2017

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For every Bob Odenkirk late night appearance, it isn’t satisfactory enough to just do a straightforward panel interview.

The co-creator of Mr. Show has to sneak in some mischief in some way, shape, or form and Odenkirk opted for taking the idea of “trading places” and adding a Mr. Show-With Bob & David twist to it while on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.