Kings of being laid back through their groundbreaking web series and podcast, Yacht Rock are coming back to us live at The Roxy next month.
Tickets are $18 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.
Scott Aukerman Explains The Michael Bolton’s Big, Sexy Valentine’s Day Special
Tomorrow, to prep for Valentine’s Day, Scott Aukerman and Akiva Schaffer have directed a holiday special that Scott claims will get you in mood.
They have enlisted the services of the one and only Michael Bolton to make “Michael Bolton’s Big, Sexy Valentine’s Day Special” and in this interview with The Wrap, Aukerman explains how much of an aphrodisiac he wants the special to be.
Ali Wong Set to Publish a Book of Collected Letters to Her Daughter
Random House and Ali Wong have a struck deal for Ali’s first book, which will feature stories and lessons that Ali has learned throughout her life. All of that will be within the frame of letters to her baby daughter.
With Ali’s unapologetic brand of comedy, the letters might just be as satisfying to her daughter as any and all readers that pick up a copy.
The book doesn’t have a title yet, but it will be released sometime in 2018.
Judd Apatow Is Making a Documentary About Garry Shandling
The loss of Garry Shandling last year was devastating. The reverberations of his work are still being widely felt throughout comedy, especially when it comes to The Larry Sanders Show.
To honor his legacy, writer/director/producer Judd Apatow will be making a documentary about Shandling. In fact, Apatow is looking for any photos, videos, etc. that might help in the making of said doc.
No details as to when or where this might be released, but we will update you as soon as we can.
Over five days last week, each executive order related to a story we’ve done in the past three years,” Oliver said Monday during a roundtable with journalists to promote the fourth season of the show, which bows Sunday. He called it a “depressing exercise” for his producers to re-tweet links to stories on the fate of Iraqi military translators, the immigrant visa application process, and financial industry rules governing retirement and investment programs (“wave goodbye to it as it sails away in the distance”), among other topics.
John Oliver on Trump Administration (via Variety)
Here’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver YouTube page which features all of their deep dive pieces in case you want a comedic refresher of much of what’s at stake right now.
Also, take a deep breath, and realize that Last Week Tonight finally returns this Sunday.
For well over 300 episodes, Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy have had a damn good time dishing out unqualified advice on their own terms to their listeners on the My Brother, My Brother and Me podcast over at Maximum Fun.
Now, they’re going to have their own TV series on Seeso that upgrades the brothers to having adventures in their West Virginia hometown from the questions that they field.
This trailer looks like that they have a hell of a good time and promises plenty of delightful tomfoolery.
My Brother, My Brother and Me starts streaming on Seeso on Thursday, February 23rd.
The fantastic Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri continue their residency at Largo this week as their long running show Big Terrific.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl & Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week
Whether you need an emotional chaser for however you’re feeling after the Super Bowl or you need a laugh in general or you need a place to work your craft or get something off your chest (in a comedic way), we’ve got you covered within the Greater LA Area.
A good amount of Super Bowl commercials have already been released online before the actual Super Bowl broadcast.
Amongst those, there are plenty of subtle and (not so subtle) socio-political messages, broadly comedic, technologically impressive, and heartwarming ads.
For our money, the funniest one in that bunch before the telecast is this pair of John Malkovich-Squarespace ads that takes advantage of having the one and only John Malkovich in an ad.
Hopefully, we’ll get to find more laugh-worthy ads later today.
Watch the rest of those Super Bowl commercials here.
This night will go way back to the days that Adam McKay used to perform live and do improv. Ian Roberts being one of the UCB 4 is also another reason you shouldn’t miss this.
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
If you need a laugh somewhere in the greater LA area, we got you covered.
Jason Jones and his TV family are returning later this month to TBS for the second season of The Detour.
Hopefully, this trailer won’t spoil a whole lot if you haven’t seen all of season 1. So, watch at your discretion.
Season 2 of The Detour premieres on Tuesday, February 21st.
We admit that we’re a little late to the party here as Cristela Alonzo’s Lower Classy started streaming last week.
Still, you absolutely should give it a watch as Cristela gives an hour of stand-up that’s as truthful and funny as it is endearing in all of her observations and stories of her life of being uniquely herself between different worlds.
In fact, Lower Classy serves as a great, hilarious example of why Cristela should probably get another show of her own.
By the way, Netflix already is off to a hot start this year with comedy specials having Cristela’s right in line with specials from Neal Brennan and Bill Burr.
Follow That! pits comedians to the challenge of following a very emotional video being shown to the audience (i.e. troops coming home to the surprise of their family). Having any sort of very dramatic pause at a comedy show can prove very difficult, but the line-up with Chris Fairbanks, Nikki Glaser, Dan St. Germain, Nicole Byer, and Jon Huck for this show is pretty great. In any case, our curiosity is peaked as to see what might happen.
Tickets for Follow That! are $8 online and $10 at the door. You can (and should) tickets online here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Kellyanne Conway has caught a lot of flack recently for citing the “Bowling Green Massacre” in defense of Trump’s travel and immigration ban. The flack comes from there not being any such thing as the Bowling Green Massacre.
The Internet as a whole has been having fun throwing shade on Kellyanne and this non-existent tragedy. One of the best “pranks” is this legitimate looking donation page that raises funds for the “victims of The Bowling Green Massacre” that just leads to the donation page for the ACLU.
By the way, BowlingGreenMassacre.com also leads to the ACLU homepage.
Oh, in case it wasn’t obvious, you should, if you can, donate to the ACLU.
Joe DeRosa’s brand new hour special, You Let Me Down, premieres tonight at midnight on Comedy Central.
Please watch Joe hilariously and brutally pick apart the world around him, which is wonderfully accented by the asymmetrically hung, scary paintings surrounding him.
Also, You Let Me Down will be available as an album from Comedy Central Records next week on Tuesday, February 7th.
They’re dropping the old men get up and will be hosting the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards as just Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. Even with the wisecracks about tuna, Kroll and Mulaney might be a damn fine hosting duo.
They definitely look up to the task in this promo.
You can catch them hosting the Spirit Awards live on IFC on Saturday, February 25th at 2PM PST.
A family moves into their dream house that just happens to come with a larger than life actress played by none other than living comedy legend Carol Burnett.
The project called, “Household Name” just got a pilot order from ABC, but with Burnett and Poehler involved and broadcast networks still looking for the next big multi cam, it would be hard to imagine this not getting a series greenlight.
Two recent, great transplants to LA, Amy Miller and Lydia Popovich, are starting a new monthly stand-up show next week at the Hollywood Improv Lab called Two Doors Down.
They’ve got a killer inaugural line-up as well with Guy Branum, Debra DiGiovanni, Jesus Trejo, and Kevin Barnett.
Tickets are $5 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.
Todd Solondz’s Next Movie to Be an Oedipal Dark Comedy Starring Penélope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez
With films like Weiner Dog and Welcome to the Dollhouse, an oedipal dark comedy is just another day at the office for Todd Solondz, right?
Called Love Child, it’s currently in pre-production and will be looking for distribution at the upcoming European Film Market.
We’ve enjoyed Jason Gudasz’s work over the years, especially his series, Natasha, at Channel 101.
Now, he offers up a short film that poses the idea of the creator of the universe being an artist that perhaps didn’t think through his work in creating earth all that well.
Please watch and enjoy it immensely like we did here.
Joe DeRosa has a new stand-up special that premieres this Friday night at midnight on Comedy Central. Called You Let Me Down, it’s Joe first hour special and we personally can’t wait for the world to see what Joe can do with his dark, well-crafted brand of comedy when he has an hour to play with.
Also, it has one of the cooler backdrops that has ever been in a stand-up special.
Get a taste of You Let Me Down here.
Lucha VaVoom’s first show of 2017 will be a “Twisted Valentine” combining, as always, Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque, and comedy.
Between their two shows on February 8th and 9th at The Mayan, you’ll get Ron Funches and Dan Harmon will join hosts Blaine Capatch and Jeff Davies on top of all the crazy, high flying action that will be going down.
Get your tickets fast as Lucha VaVoom tends to sell out. Tickets are going for $40-$55 here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Dark, surreal, and altogether hilarious, 555 is absolutely worth the $3.99 price tag for five short films/mini-series episodes.
The comedic triumvirate of Kate Berlant, John Early, and Andrew DeYoung do not disappoint and have satisfying echoes of Todd Solondz throughout each short/episode.
Get 555 on Vimeo on Demand right now, right here.
In case you were in doubt of Doug Benson making court decisions on actual cases while being, per usual, high, here’s a teaser for the upcoming Comedy Central series The High Court to reassure you that this really happened.
If you look closely, you’ll note that Michael Ian Black, Jessimae Peluso, and Reggie Watts are all guest bailiffs in Benson’s High Court that are also pretty baked as well.
Look for the series premiere of High Court on Monday, February 27th on Comedy Central.