Seeso’s latest stand-up special comes from Adam Newman. Called Fuzzies, Newman not only dishes out his very well-crafted hour, but also sets a world record with a microphone.
Very few comedy specials ever get to see a world record just so you know.
Fuzzies is now streaming in its entirety on Seeso.
The March Madness style tournament of Roast Battle on Comedy Central begins tonight at 10PM.
Above, we’ve got the beginning match-ups and you can take a stab at making your own Roast Battle bracket.
Last night’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee couldn’t come a moment sooner as this past weekend will absolutely be put into the history books (actually, that depends on who will be writing and approving them). The dour affair of Trump’s Inauguration and the massive Women’s March all happened in the span of two days.
Of course, Bee did a smash up job of covering both topics by highlighting just how big and important the Women’s March is (despite what certain pundits were saying) and letting her correspondents see if and how overjoyed Trump supporters were during the Inauguration.
We look forward to the important work that Bee and her team will be doing now under the Trump Administration.
If you’ve followed us throughout the years, you’d know that we don’t make any secret of how Candice Thompson is one of our favorite comedians that people need to know about.
Last night, she got her first late night stand-up set on The Tonight Show and showed why she continues to be one of our favorites. Please watch and enjoy her set here.
The very fun Scott Rogowsky and his NYC late night talk show Running Late with Scott Rogowsky are coming to LA to The Virgil next month.
For five nights, he has the likes of Weird Al Yankovic, Reggie Watts, Greg Proops, Rory Scovel, Andy Kindler, Dana Gould, Open Mike Eagle, and so much more all as guests.
Get more details and tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
RIP Mary Tyler Moore, 1936-2017
Gee, it still feels a lot like 2016 still.
Icon Mary Tyler Moore from, of course, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show, has just passed away today.
Take time to watch whatever you can of the groundbreaking sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in honor of Moore’s memory.
There have been a number of documentaries over the years on where the “line” is in comedy and comedy’s role in pushing the boundaries artistically, culturally, socio-politically, etc.
Few, if any, have ever focused on a single seemingly controversial topic in humor like Ferne Pearlstein’s The Last Laugh does with comedy specifically about the Holocaust.
From the trailer, you can see how relevant, on so many levels, this documentary can be. Interviews in the documentary feature Mel Brooks, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Ross, Gilbert Gottfried, Rob Reiner, Carl Reiner, Susie Essman, and actual Holocaust survivors all discussing the importance of joking about such a ghastly tragedy.
Having made its way around the festival circuit, The Last Laugh rolls out into theaters on March 3rd.
Daniel Sloss is hands down one of Scotland’s best comedy exports today. He’s one of Conan’s favorite comedians to have back to perform again and again.
Watch and see for yourself in his latest set where he thoroughly explains his inner darkness lying beneath his good person exterior.
Shane Mauss is bringing his nationwide touring show on psychedelics to the beautiful Largo at the Coronet Theatre next week, Wednesday, February 1st at 8:30PM.
Not only has Shane toured dozens and dozens of cities with this show and is a seasoned comedian worthy of such a lengthy tour, but he has studied thoroughly up on the subject matter probably more so than you or anyone you know (if you know what we’re saying).
Anyhow, tickets are $30 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.
Bill Burr has a new stand-up special, Walk Your Way Out, coming out at the very end of this month and we don’t need to say much more than that, do we?
Well, there’s this trailer where you can get a first look at the special. Other than that, you know the drill when a new Burr special comes out.
Stephanie Allynne’s particular brand of dark comedy is great because of a certain grounded reality that it operates in. This way, the humor seems even a bit darker, in a good way of course.
You can see for yourself in Stephanie’s latest short, The Fun Company, which you could think of as a sort of slightly more sinister version of Don’t Think Twice from the point of Mike Birbiglia’s character Miles.
Thursday, February 9th at 10PM, CNN will be taking a break from going toe-to-toe with the POTUS and delving into the comedy through scores of years in America in a new TV special, The History of Comedy.
Also, Larry David will be one of many people weighing in. As you can see in this promo, he’s sure to be a delight.
*comedy nominees in italics
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
La La Land
Hell or High Water
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women
BEST ACTRESS
Emma Stone, La La Land
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Land of Mine
A Man Called Ove
The Salesman
Tana
Toni Erdmann
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Kubo
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia
Also, Hail, Caesar! got a nomination for Best Production Design, Florence Foster Jenkins received another nomination for Best Costume, and A Man Called Ove for Best Make-Up and Hair.
As to be expected with the amount of socially relevant movies and the uber-escapist La La Land, The Oscars heavily favored dramas this year over comedy.
While nominations for other awards gave a bit of hope for Deadpool to sneak in as an outlier to the otherwise, mostly heavy handed fare, it ultimately was edged out. Comedy, per usual, got its attention in the writing category with two brilliant films, The Lobster from Yorgos Lanthimos and 20th Century Women from Mike Mills. Of course, what would the Oscars be without a nod to Meryl Streep. Her turn as one of the worst singers of all time in Florence Foster Jenkins, was typical award worthy Meryl.
German comedy Toni Erdmann continues to rack up nominations, which will hopefully encourage people to go see it despite its nearly 3 hour running time.
The awards ceremony is set for February 26th and will air on ABC. Get the full list of this year’s Oscar nominees here.
Few are better at causing puckish mischief with a puppet than Robert Smigel and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. All throughout this last election cycle, he made following the campaign trail a little more tolerable with his Hulu specials.
So, naturally, Triumph went by the Inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States and made this, as expected, amazing remote segment for last night’s Conan.
Together, Chad Damiani, Juzo Yoshida, and Ithamar Enriquez bring a night of modern clowning, long form improv, absurdism, and a father-son comedy team from a Japanese fishing village. It’s a bit of undeniably fun chaos.
They’re at Second City Hollywood this Saturday, Jan. 28th and next Saturday, February 4th. Tickets are $12 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.
So, the Great Train Robbery of 2017 will be done by a diverse group of young, enterprising women?
We’re on board for that.
Watch the trailer for Deirdra & Laney Rob a Train here. It starts streaming on Netflix on Friday, March 17th.
The final rounds of Roast Battle II are just around the corner.
Leading up to that is some top shelf roasting from around the country. In LA, Jamar Neighbors and Guy Branum, two comics that definitely know how to dish out verbal cruelty, faced off in a regional round, though seemed like a final round to us.
Stephen Colbert to Host the 69th Emmy Awards
Fallon has The Golden Globes, Kimmel has the Oscars, and now, Stephen Colbert will host The Emmys. It’s his first time hosting the Primetime Emmys, but no one should be surprised if it goes well enough for him to keep the gig for awhile.
This year’s Emmys will be broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Downtown LA on Sunday, September 17th at 5PM PST on CBS.
While the Emmys telecast will be on CBS at an earlier time slot than The Late Show, one can only ponder what Colbert might say or do with the Emmys podium and stage at his command and wherever we’ll be during the Trump Administration, especially since he’ll most likely be watching it.
CAKE Comedy Now Using Kickstarter to Tour City by City
Carrie Gravenson, Abbi Crutchfield, Kaytlin Bailey, and Erin Judge, otherwise known as CAKE Comedy, having been touring together across the U.S. since 2012.
Now that it’s 2017, they’re looking to streamline their touring model via Kickstarter.
Basically, they’ll be selling tickets for a show directly through Kickstarter and if they meet their goal, a pretty great show will happen. If not, everyone walks away with no cost to them and then CAKE Comedy can move on to the next show.
Their first show that they’re crowdfunding is in Philadelphia on April 24th, but their deadline to raise money is 12 days away (as of this post). They’ve got $577 raised out of the $1000 goal.
Please support them as you’ll be supporting independent live comedy, women in comedy, and overall good comedy.
Comedy Central Presents for The Middle East Is Underway
Comedy Central is making good on their investment for making a Comedy Central in the Middle East and North Africa.
Comedians from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Sudan, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates will be featured on their own version of the Comedy Central Presents franchise.
We’ll be curious to see who stands out from the pack in this series and if they’ll get to transition to playing on Comedy Central in the U.S. If the right comic/comics is/are found, this could be not only great for Comedy Central, but great for normalizing people from the Middle East and pushing the art form of comedy around the world.
The fight for gender equality is on all fronts. That includes the lopsided motivations that movies have for women to go into space.
Bryan Safi and Erin Gibson follow through on the title of their show, Throwing Shade, and made this piece on the matter.
This weekend, Eliot Glazer returns with his Haunting Renditions where he takes gaudy pop songs from yesteryear and gives them a stirring, dramatic reinterpretation. Mamrie Hart and Pete Holmes will also be special guests (in case you needed, somehow, more of a reason to go).
Tickets are $11.50-13.50 and you absolutely should get them 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
For this first official week of the Trump Administration (and beyond), we’ve got you covered with what’s happening in live comedy all around Los Angeles whether you want to see it or do it.
Check our listings here.
Billy Wayne Davis is a clever, smart delight wrapped in a friendly Southern accent.
His set from Conan this past week is perfect evidence of that.
Also, you should get his Live from Third Man Records album that just came out because it’s even more proof of how great Billy is.
The short form TV LA institution Channel 101 makes it return, finally, for 2017.
It’s some of the most fiercely independent TV made anywhere and, as always, voted on and renewed directly by the people watching it.
So, make sure to catch the first batch of Channel 101 this Saturday. More details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.