Book of Mormon is returning to The Pantages Theatre. Let that be one of the good things you’ll be looking forward to this year.
Tickets range from $39-$195 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.
Comedy Crawl All Updated for First Week of 2017
Whether you do New Year’s resolutions or not, there is plenty of comedy, all types, shapes, and sizes, to go see, start seeing, or continuing seeing in 2017.
We’ve got it all conveniently listed for you in and around the Greater LA Area.
Before 2017 rolls in for America, please enjoy, thanks to AOK, a slightly more realistic depiction of what would take if the beloved Power Rangers of your childhood did as much as damage as they were shown to do.
For some reason, even though it’s not 2017 yet, this seems to capture the spirit of 2017.
We would very much like to watch a reunion panel of TV show starring Greg Proops, Jon Dore, Baron Vaughn, and Gareth Reynolds.
Josh Androsky and Bryan Cook’s Reunited offers up something possibly better with bringing that line-up together for a faux TV series that they starred in without any of them knowing ahead of time what that fake TV show was.
Pretty great, right? Well, you can (and should) get your tickets for the show’s latest edition happening this Friday, January 7th here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps at www.thecomedybureau.com.
We’re on the precipice of 2017 and leaving 2016.
For several people, that change is met with an angrily muttering of “good riddance!”
For Steve Harvey in this latest mash-up/remix done by Vic Berger for Super Deluxe, the changing of the years doesn’t seem to matter as hosting Family Feud has taken on a more Sisyphean task.
Here’s the best glimpse, thus far, to see what Oh, Hello on Broadway is like if you’re unable to snag some tickets.
Geroge St. Geegland/John Mulaney and Gil Faizon/Nick Kroll always have a different guest every night on their live Oh, Hello show on Broadway. Their guests have been all sorts of a-listers and celebrated New Yorkers.
Recently, they just had one of their best guests yet with legendary actor Alan Alda, who seems to fit in with St. Geegland and Faizon’s geriatric antics.
See for yourself here.
A two year celebration of one of the best weekly comedy shows in LA and a benefit for the ACLU make for a show that you absolutely shouldn’t miss.
Also, Kyle Kinane, Rory Scovel, Moshe Kasher, Aparna Nancherla, Kate Berlant & John Early, Curtis Cook, and hosts Dave Ross and Matt Ingebretson being on the bill make it even more of a show that you shouldn’t miss next Friday.
Get tickets here.
Poster by Jack Sjogren
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
HBO To Air Carrie Fisher’s Special ‘Wishful Drinking’ This Week in Tribute
A few years ago, HBO made a special out of Carrie Fisher’s stage show Wishful Drinking, which features Fisher’s wild stories told unapologetically and hilariously by her.
On, Sunday, January 1st at 9PM, will air the special once more in tribute to the late, legendary actress.
As you can see from Fisher roasting George Lucas at an AFI Award event, you might want to watch.
Laurie Kilmartin’s Special “45 Jokes About My Dead Dad” Now Streaming at Seeso
Already, Laurie Kilmartin and her new comedy special, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, now available on Seeso, has made plenty of year end ‘best of comedy’ lists.
We concur with those lists and think you should watch Laurie’s comedy special tribute to her late father, which combines joke craftsmanship, veteran comedy chops, and a wonderful vulnerability (lovingly accented with interviews with Laurie’s family, Patton Oswalt, Andy Kindler, and Conan O’Brien) usually reserved for solo shows.
You can get two months of Seeso free to watch this special w/promo code: kimartin
UCB’s got something up their sleeve with Gene Wilder & Fidel Castro’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (in Limbo). According to the description, you’ll be able to wander halls of limbo that includes:
A Facebook Echo Chamber
Westworld World
The Physical Manifestation of Reddit
A Limbo Karaoke Room featuring the music of the approx. 1,000 musical artists who died in 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Woods
The Set of a Multi-Cam Sitcom
Fake News Ground Zero
Taking place all night long at UCB Sunset tomorrow, Friday, December 30th, this probably means you’ll get to actually wander the halls of the building (instead of just sitting in the theater), perhaps Sleep No More style, and see UCB’s go to performers recreate what they think 2016′s version of limbo is.
Interested? Good. You can (and should) get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
There is a lot of reasons that comedy will be simultaneously a bigger deal and something to watch even more closely in 2017.
Jen Kirkman will undoubtedly be one of those reasons.
You’ll get a sense of why in the trailer for her latest Netflix special, “Just Keep Livin’?”.
It starts streaming on Tuesday, January 3rd.
2016 has been beleaguered with loss of beloved figures. Within the LA comedy scene, there has been another recent loss: beloved improviser/comedian/actor Gian Molina.
The Pack Theater is holding two shows in remembrance of Gian featuring many of the teams he coached, stories from people close to him, and more. Donations will be collected for his family.
The show will be held in this Friday, December 30th and you can find out more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Maybe if there’s a RTJ4 or RTJ5, they’ll get to actually do some of these release “strategies”? The apocalypse one might seem more feasible next year maybe?
In any case, the new season has a sketch with Run The Jewels on it, so you should be looking out for the season premiere on Thursday, January 5th at 10PM.
Several weeks ago, Zach Broussard released his list of his picks for the Top 1000 Comedians of 2016. Not satisfied with just posting the list online, Broussard enlisted a billboard company to put all 100 names across a handful of billboards across LA.
Thus, a fun scavenger hunt to see who made the list was born. You can actually still see where the billboards are in LA here and see the picks in person for one more week.
However, the billboard for comedians 600-501 did not get posted.
Due to some sort of clerical error, you could have only see 900 of the 1000 of Broussard’s list. Thankfully, today, he posted what would have gone up on a billboard for those 100 names as you can see in the image above.
If you need to read the list more clearly, here are 600-501:
600 JONAH RAY
599 GRANT LYON
598 JEFF WATTENHOFER
597 JOHN DALE
596 JOE KWACZALA
595 LAUREN ASHLEY BISHOP
594 ALISON STEVENSON
593 BECKY LUCAS
592 ELLIE MCELVAIN
591 JF HARRIS
590 RYE SILVERMAN
589 ROB HAZE
588 ABBY ROSENQUIST
587 DANNY WHITSON
586 JAY WEINGARTEN
585 ROBERT BUSCEMI
584 JERMAINE FOWLER
583 PATRICK HASTIE
582 DREW MORGAN
581 ALINGON MITRA
580 BILL ENGVALL
579 SAM TALLENT
578 JEANIE DOOGAN
577 STEVEN WILBER
576 JONAH JURKENS
575 CHRIS CUBAS
574 DAN SODER
573 JADE CATTA-PRETA
572 CHAD DANIELS
571 MATT FULCHIRON
570 BRYCE DAMUTH
569 MICHELLE WOLF
568 MITCH KURKA
567 BONNIE MCFARLANE
566 LANE PIESCHEL
565 JOE LEEPER
564 GIULIA ROZZI
563 CARROT TOP
562 ALEX STOKES
561 HEATHER LAWLESS
560 SAURIN CHOKSI
559 MATTY RYAN
558 PATRICK SCHROEDER
557 SHANE TORRES
556 LIZ RUSSO
555 VICTOR AGREDA JR
554 JASON MELTON
553 STACY PAWLOWSKI
552 JAKE LAMBERT
551 CHRIS GETHARD
550 CARMEN MORALES
549 SEAN SIMONEAU
548 STEVE BREESE
547 JEREMIAH WATKINS
546 AARON WESTLY
545 AARON BERG
544 TIM HUNTER
543 CHRIS LAY
542 TAMALE SEPP
541 BOBBY HILL
540 DAN SHEEHAN
539 ERIK GRIFFIN
538 KATHRYN RYAN
537 RACHEL MCCARTNEY
536 ANNA SEREGINA
535 WANDA SYKES
534 LARISSA RADTKE
533 JESSICA DELFINO
532 COLT CABANA
531 TAVARIS SMITH
530 PHIL HANLEY
529 IAN ABRAMSON
528 JASON BURKE
527 YANNIS PAPPAS
526 LANGSTON KERMAN
525 KRISTEN TOOMEY
524 CHRIS CALOGERO
523 REFORMED WHORES
522 BRENT GILL
521 ROSEANNE BARR
520 TREVOR SMITH
519 SCOTT LUHRS
518 ALI WALLER
517 CHRIS THAYER
516 JAKE WEISMAN
515 NORE DAVIS
514 ANDY KINDLER
513 SHAWN PEARLMAN
512 HAMPTON YOUNT
511 PAIGE WELDON
510 JOHNNY PEMBERTON
509 CATHY LADMAN
508 KURT BRAUNOHLER
507 STEPHANIE SIMBARI
506 MICHAEL BUSCH
505 JANINE BRITO
504 PETE HOLMES
503 CASEY LEY
502 LANCE PAULLIN
501 DANNY SOLOMON
On top of this getting this final piece of the puzzle, you can catch a live show of Zach Broussard’s Top 1000 Comedians of 2016 at UCB Sunset tomorrow at 7PM.
It’s not often that you see concept specials/albums in comedy. Generally, those go in to the territory of solo shows (or they’re marketed as such), but doing jokes for an entire show on one single topic is a rare bird as it’s very hard to pull such a feat off well.
The passing of Laurie Kilmartin’s father lead to a joke writing frenzy on Twitter that caught the attention of the Internet. From there, she took the jokes on stage and put together an entire special that is very clear in its intentions, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad.
The jokes are as well-crafted and funny as they are dark and honest, as you’ll see in the trailer. Also, there are thoughtful interviews in the special with Laurie, her family, Patton Oswalt, Andy Kindler, and Conan O’Brien that give some insight as to how the whole special came about. Overall, Kilmartin really showcases how powerful comedy can be in dealing with loss and does so hysterically.
Watch the trailer for 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad here, then stream it on Seeso this week on Thursday, December 29th.
If you want to ring in 2017 at an indie comedy show, look no further than Backyard Bootlegs at Cafecito Organico in Silverlake. The likes of LA favorites like Brodie Reed, Erin Lampart, and Richard Bain will join hosts Simon Gibson and Devin Blake for a lovely night of stand-up.
Best of all, the show starts at 8PM this Saturday, so you won’t have to worry about the show being interrupted by the LA New Year’s countdown and/or you can make it to another party before 2017 arrives. More details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
As of late, AOK has been on a streak with their recent live action sketches.
This “solution” to horse infestations is yet another home run for their great, weird, outer limits humor.
Please watch and enjoy it here.
If you honestly look at a lot of the lyrics of Christmas songs, they too often are vague, steeped to deep in symbolic imagery, or throw around various positive platitudes all while wrapped up in a catchy melody.
This is not the case with the new country-leaning holiday song from Paul F. Tompkins, “Please Don’t Joke About ‘I Robot’ This Christmas”.
It’s very specific and very personal (and a tad bit silly sure).
It should be your new favorite holiday song as the 2016 holiday season comes to a close and something to enjoy at the end of 2017.
Do you want to hear some insightful discussion (and probably some sh*t talk) on the Electoral College? Would you like that to be done by the likes of a history professor and the hilarious Moshe Kasher, James Adomian, and Baron Vaughn?
If your answer is yes, then tomorrow at UCB Franklin is the show for you as Moshe is recording his discussion podcast Hound Tall focusing on that very topic with those very guests.
Tickets are $5 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.
Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week
We’ve got you covered for all your comedy open mic needs for New Year’s Eve and everything leading up to it. Check back frequently as listings might change because of the holidays.
Of the many shows that the wonderful Jo Firestone is involved in NYC, one of the more noted ones is Punderdome 3000, created by her and her father Fred Firestone.
Now, Jo and Fred are sharing a bit of their wordplay magic with the world by making a Punderdome card game that challenges people’s pun making skills.
For those who need something besides Cards Against Humanity or Apples to Apples, this might be for you.
Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week
We’ve even got listings for live comedy around LA for a bit of 2017 too.
One of the rowdiest Christmas traditions around is Santa Con, which is much more innocent than it sounds. Several adults dress up as Santa and then, under the umbrella of ‘Santa Con’ get lit and try starting a party wherever they can, especially if a camera is watching.
Viceland’s Desus & Mero went down and tried to do a segment covering this year’s Santa Con. They knew what was coming, but still got more than they expected.
If you don’t already have plans for New Year’s Eve, go to the show that knows how to do shows about today turning into tomorrow, Ron Lynch’s Tomorrow!
Eddie Pepitone, Martha Kelly, Jay London, Ember Knight, champagne, live music, dancing, and, of course, host Ron Lynch are all in store for Tomorrow! Auld Lang Show.
Tickets are $20 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.
German comedy Toni Erdmann from writer/director Maren Ade is racking up plenty of nominations and wins this awards season and deservedly so.
Somehow, it manages to be an R-rated comedy, thanks to some downright hysterical nude scenes, but also manages to be incredibly sweet and gleefully strange. In fact, it’s quite a heartwarming story about an estranged daughter played by Sandra Hüller reconnecting with her father who just happens to be a top shelf goofball played by Peter Simonischek.
As far as foreign comedies go, Toni Erdmann stands tall this year with our other favorites, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and The Lobster.
Starting on Christmas Day, Toni Erdmann will starts playing in theaters, such as the Nuart in West LA, in limited release.