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It Is Our 6th Anniversary.
October 25th, 2010 is when we started this bureau and, according to our own bylaws, we’re supposed to take some sort of break to acknowledge that we have lasted another year providing this invaluable resource to the LA comedy community and beyond.
So, this is us acknowledging that we’re now, as of today, six years old as a bureau.
Didn’t feel anything yet, but we’re sure that’ll change over time, right?
In any case, we appreciate your continued support of us and what we do to rid comedy of its “red tape” and we can’t wait to get to the end of writing this dispatch in order to get back to work.
We’re workaholics in case you didn’t notice.
Oh, we take donations again, FYI.
Word around the water cooler is that there will be a more official, “fun” anniversary event sometime next month. It would have happened tonight, but, as always, we’re too “understaffed” to have something organized for tonight.
Undecided: The Movie, the Movie Following Two Undecided Pranksters on the Campaign Trail, Is Now on Netflix
So much crazy stuff has happened this election just in the past month that it seems crazy that the rest of it even happened.
You probably even forgot that Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler starred in a faux documentary where they went along the election campaign trail as two “undecideds” and attempted to see what each campaign was about as well as prank the likes of Jeb Bush, Trump, Clinton, Rubio, Ben Carson, etc. Aasif Mandvi and Jena Friedman from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are pushing them along the whole way in this crazy journey captured in Undecided: The Movie.
Along with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s election coverage, you might feel slightly less on edge leading up to November 8th with this doc. It’s available to stream now on Netflix.
Conan O’Brien Desperately Tries to Cry on Cue Like Bryce Dallas Howard
Conan O’Brien might have just made crying funnier than it has ever been in the history of television.
In trying to mimic Bryce Dallas Howard’s uncanny skill to cry on cue about anything, Conan tried everything he could to really cry.
See if he pulled it off here.
Here’s a Preview of Pete Davidson’s Upcoming Hour Special “Pete Davidson: SMD”
SNL’s Pete Davidson will be showing off what brought him into the spotlight in the first place, stand-up (which then led to SNL).
He has a whole hour long stand-up special coming on Comedy Central, Pete Davidson: SMD premiering this Saturday, October 29th at 11PM.
Get a taste of Pete not in costume or character, but just himself dissing on Staten Island in this preview clip.
Adam Ruins Everything to Ruin the Election in TV Special Tonight
While so much of this election is unbelievable, Adam Conover and the good folks at Adam Ruins Everything are going to show that there is precedence for the craziness of this year, effectively “ruining” whatever you were misconceptions you were having about politics being the way it is now.
The Adam Ruins Everything Election Special premieres tonight at 10PM on TruTV.
Frankie Quinones Makes an Advanced Level for His Homie Workout Series “Cholofit”
First, there was the introductory video the life-changing, dope workout series, Cholofit from Frankie Quinones.
Now, if you’ve got that chill-as-hell series of exercises down, there’s Cholofit Advanced for when you ready take working out and just hanging out in East LA at the same time to the next level.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Tracey Ullman Gives an Inside Look at Her New “Tracey Ullman’s Show”
Tracey Ullman and sketch comedy on HBO are just about to happen once more this week. Just so you know Ullman’s done four seasons of a sketch/character show at the end of the 80′s and the end of the 90′s, but took a little more time off than usual before this latest iteration of Tracey’s own TV series.
Specifically, Tracey Ullman’s Show is set to premiere this Friday, October 28th at 11PM.
Let Tracey you give her own inside look.
Baron Vaughn Weaves Magical Realism Exquisitely into Comedy in “Blaxistential Crisis”
If you’ve not had the pleasure of seeing Baron Vaughn live, it is indeed one of those cases where you have not really lived until you have done so. He is really one of a kind at a time in comedy where that is incredibly hard to actually do (given how many comedians there are these days).
His new album, Blaxistential Crisis off of AST Records, not only shows off his great, theatrical performance chops, but also takes us through a journey through Baron’s own personal version of space and time that’s coupled with the undeniable fact that he’s black man in America. It’s simultaneously a bouncy, colorful flight of fancy and a commentary on the unnecessary divides between mankind. It’s not often that magical realism and stand-up intersect, but Baron makes the most of it in this instance.
So, get Blaxistential Crisis right here right now.
People of Earth’s Premiere Episode Now Streaming on YouTube Thanks to TBS
The series premiere of the alien abduction comedy People of Earth will feature two episodes back-to-back on Halloween night at 9PM on TBS.
As such, TBS was nice enough (or savvy enough) to give the first episode to the Internet by streaming it on YouTube. Hopefully, you’ll dig it and catch the premiere on next Monday on October 31st.
Watch now, in full, free of charge, here.
On Top of Seth Meyers’ TV Series Offer for Dropping Out, John Oliver Offers Up His Emmy to Donald Trump If He Gives Concession Speech
Maybe he’ll forget about doing Trump TV as well.
On last night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver offered a proposition to Donald Trump in the form of a bet that promised Trump to get Oliver’s Emmy award should he lose, which is become more and more inevitable everyday. That all stems from the Trump’s mention of how he should have won an Emmy for The Apprentice, and, of course, calling NATAS rigged when he didn’t.
So, at this point, Trump, if he was to take late night hosts up on their offers could drop out and get a fake TV show (maybe) from Seth Meyers and give a concession speech and get an Emmy that isn’t his. As far as runner-up prizes go, that’s way more than he deserves.
Andre Hyland Returns to Make Press Junkets Fun Again with “Bonus Features”
Comedy multi-hyphenate Andre Hyland, among his many talents, has a knack for getting the most lively interviews out of those usually droll press junkets where a film or TV show’s talent sit for hours and hours and answer the same questions over and over again.
Hyland has done this for years at various channels and digital platforms under various personas because, well, he boldly has fun like no other interviewer at these junkets does.
The latest iteration of Andre being mischievous amongst A-listers is with the new Super Deluxe web series Bonus Features. Watch the first episode where he plays around with Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot, Isla Fisher, Matt Walsh, and Maribeth Monroe, the cast of Keeping Up with the Joneses.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Is Already Off to the Races with a Parody of Beyonce’s Lemonade and Reluctant Foreplay Anthem
This past week, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend kicked off its second season and hit the ground running with the form that has won them awards right out of the gate in season one.
They’ve got a music video for Love Kernels that takes some surrealist cues from Beyonce’s Lemonade and sends them up exquisitely. Along with that, Josh and Rebecca sing a song that goes to all those bouts of foreplay that seem to needlessly beat around the bush, pun intended.
If they keep this up, they can definitely count on being a perennial awards season nominee.
The one and only Rob Schrab recreates a fake local horror TV show. If there’s anyone to pull off recreating campy horror, it’s Schrab.
Rob Schrab’s Shock Feature Theater is set to play this Friday, October 28th at Cinefamily at 10:30PM. Tickets are $12 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Open Mic Run Updated All for Next Week 10/24/16
Open Mic Run Updated All for Next Week 10/24/16
Rather than figure your costume, work on your jokes, improv, sketches, etc.
Barry Crimmins’ First Stand Up Special “Whatever Threatens You” Now Available at LouisCK.net
As Louis CK wrote in his e-mail announcing the release of his special, many comedians that started out in Boston see Barry Crimmins as a sort of godfather in the Boston comedy scene.
You’ve might have heard of Crimmins from the much lauded, powerful documentary, Call Me Lucky, by Bobcat Goldthwait. He is also held in such hard regard in Boston comedy for so many years. In fact, it’s almost crazy to think that this is his first live comedy special.
CK adds, “Barry is a legend. A great mind, an author and activist and political satirist. He has been an important voice of passion and reason since the 1970s. He has stood before thousands of audiences of every size and type and told them the truth with wit and wisdom, with anger and compassion. Barry was a towering example to me when I started doing standup at age 18. He fostered the comedy scene that I cut my teeth on and later became my friend. More than all of that, I am his fan. I love his voice. He makes me laugh. He’s always right. There has NEVER been another comic like him.”
So, with that all of said, you can now get Whatever Threatens You, shot this summer in Lawrence, Kansas by CK himself for just $5.
Dream Corp LLC and Season 3 of Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell Premiere Tonight
It all starts at 11:30PM on Adult Swim.
If you’re looking to stay in the realm of the otherworldly after the return of The Walking Dead, look no further than Adult Swim tonight.
The workplace comedy set in the bowels of hell, Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, and the workplace comedy set in a questionable dream analyzation facility, Dream Corp LLC, both air at Adult Swim tonight.
Specifically…
11:30PM-Season 3 premiere of Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
11:45-Series premiere of Dream Corp LLC
The Simpsons’ Itchy and Scratchy Get the Making a Murderer Treatment
The latest episode of The Simpsons takes their long-running, ultra-violent send-up of Tom & Jerry to a whole new level by doing a Making-a-Murderer-inspired take on Itchy and Scratchy.
In this case, it’s a little more clear who did the murdering though.
Screen Junkies are doing a taping of two more of their roasts that are for Screen Junkies Plus. One will be for Harry Potter and the other will be for Star Wars and it’ll take place on Thursday, October 27th in Los Angeles.
If you’d like to go, get more details and free tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl All Updated For Next Week 10/23/16
Comedy Crawl All Updated For Next Week 10/23/16
There’s plenty of Halloween-themed comedy and, alternatively, comedy that has nothing to do with the holiday all next week. We got all of it that’s worth checking out all listed!
RIP Kevin Meaney, 1956-2016
Last night, one Kevin Meaney was found passed away in his home in Upstate New York at the age of 60 and, upon hearing about the news, many in the comedy world mourned at the loss of a man who was not only original and damn funny, but managed to do so for several decades.
You can see here Meaney, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, really nail bringing talking about your mom on stage and doing an impression of her to a whole other level as well as getting a bit meta and absurd. It’s pretty amazing as is, but even more so as this set happened in 1989.
Meaney maintained that same bubbly, slightly off-kilter energy and cleverness, dabbed with some vulnerability, all the way to this set just posted 2 years ago. Keeping all of that up in the ever changing landscape of comedy is a near impossible feat and yet, Meaney pulled it off.
Oh yeah, on top of being the sort of comedian who got did HBO specials and late night routinely, did we mention he was on the very first episode of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and was in Big?
Yeah, Meaney did a lot and you should take your time to pay respect/really get a kick out of his vast body of work.
Comedian/actor/meta-humor performance artist Moses Storm is getting a night at Nerdmelt where he’ll do whatever the hell he wants as well as having Rory Scovel, Jerrod Carmichael, and Jak Knight tag along with him.
Tickets are free and you can (and should) RSVP for them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Poster by Dave Kloc and Garrett Ross.
“Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night: Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Sh*t?” Gets Its First Promo
You can always count on Stephen Colbert for catchy titles.
The live election day special that Stephen Colbert will be hosting over at Showtime, as opposed to The Late Show over at CBS, will begin at 8PM PDT on Election Day Tuesday, November 8th.
This very first promo is a hint that Colbert will be definitely making use of the lack of censors.