This has the same wonderfully chaos of one of Conan’s remote segments, but it just so happens that Conan O’Brien is on his own soundstage as opposed to some sort of martial arts academy.
Watch and enjoy Conan vs. watermelons here.
10PM on Comedy Central.
You’ve heard all the stories by now, so, tonight, find out how much of this was a Roast of Rob Lowe and how much it was also a roast of Ann Coulter.
Also, there’s VIP entry for $25 that includes a Broad City Survival Kit.
More details and tickets available here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics/maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Before the television premiere of The Roast of Rob Lowe, you might want to get ready by watching this “newly discovered” tape amongst other certain tapes that will be brought up much to Lowe’s chagrin.
FYI, The Roast of Rob Lowe is set for 10PM on Labor Day on Comedy Central.
Open Mic Run Updated for Next Week 9/5
This includes listings for which mics are and aren’t happening on Labor Day.
Sweden’s Simone Giertz has made a career out of making robots that are seemingly designed to do a singular function, but are really made to only kind of do that one function in the quest to bring joy to all.
Giertz has a very popular YouTube channel where you can see a drone try to cut hair, a robot that can argue with the Internet, and more.
This week, she got to show off her wares to Stephen Colbert and The Late Show and it was a whole bunch of fun.
You’ll also be surprised to know that CBS censors curse words in foreign languages.
Lauren Lapkus, Mary Holland, Stephanie Allynne, and Erin Whitehead take their hit show Wild Horses from UCB to Largo for a night. They’ll be having a “candid, daytime-talk-show” style conversation, then improv off of that with special guest Amanda Peet.
You can (and should) get your 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 Updated for Next Week 9/4
Alex & Ariel’s Six Flags Magic Mountain, BriTANick, Neal Brennan 3 Mics, My Diary, and more.
When it comes to dark comedy, there are a lot of comedians that walk on the dark side merely as a stunt. They just say something shocking just to get a rise out of people and, more often than not, there’s no real depth or artistry to it.
Drew Michael deals in dark comedy, but does so by genuinely exploring the darkest corners of his already dark thoughts including his uncanny affinity for manifestos. On his latest album Funny to Death, he takes a wry journey through his psyche that offers pros and cons of his beliefs, flaws, and insecurities that’s hilarious if you choose to take the ride. It’s dark comedy that’s more personal and vulnerable than it is just the idea of being dark.
Michael had his half hour special premiere on Comedy Central earlier this week, but you can get a more unfiltered, uncut, uncensored, longer offering from him with Funny to Death, available here.
As Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland are about to take on Broadway, their real life counterparts Nick Kroll and John Mulaney went on The Tonight Show and explained to Jimmy Fallon and the rest of the country what’s at the core of both Faizon and St. Geegland and why they’re doing Oh, Hello.
Of course, Kroll and Mulaney have fun with it, especially in NBC Experience Store attire.
Thank goodness for Dan Cronin and also for Conan O’Brien letting this sort of thing happen on a nightly basis for more than 20 years.
Ian Abramson’s 7 Minutes in Purgatory, the live comedy show where the comedian performs alone in an empty room and the audience watches in another room via a live camera feed, is taping for Comedy Central this month at the rooftop of The Ricardo Montalban Theatre on Tuesday, September 13th at 8PM.
You can (and should) get your free tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics/maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Better Things star and co-creator Pamela Adlon has got a lot of buzz built around her series premiering next week.
In this first look, she gives a tour of sorts as to what to expect from what seems simultaneously like the spiritual successor to Louie and it’s own separate, very personal show.
Look for the series premiere of Better Things on Thursday, September 8th on FX.
These two Daily Show with Jon Stewart alums once had their own late night shows on the air at the same time.
Then, Comedy Central, seemingly out-of-nowhere, brought down the axe on The Nightly Show.
A few weeks later/last night, Stephen Colbert brought Larry Wilmore on The Late Show and commiserated the loss of his show as well as the strange experience of hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner.
At this point, we’d be surprised if several months go by without Larry hosting another show.
Midnight on Comedy Central.
Some of NYC’s finest have their episodes of The Half Hour airing tonight.
More specifically, Joe Machi’s half hour special is at 12AM and Drew Michael’s follows right after at 12:30AM.
Tune in, DVR, or whatever else you got to do to watch.
Conan O’Brien’s next trip special will be Conan in Berlin and we can only imagine what crazy sort of shenanigans he’ll get into while in the German metropolis.
From the looks of the announcement, Flula Borg will be tagging along as well.
By the way, as you read this, Conan and Team Coco are already in Germany, so it won’t too long before we get to see this new special.
Well, Bill Nye will be in good hands, comedy wise.
First off, you should be happy that Bill Nye is going to have another show, Bill Nye Saves the World, in a dire 2016 where there are people who think the earth is flat, staunchly deny climate change, and are more skeptical of science than we’ve been in recent memory.
Secondly, you should be happy that there’s a designated head comedy writer for the show and that gig has been bestowed on the very funny and clever Mike Drucker. Drucker is a great stand-up and his written for such big cultural institutions as Nintendo and The Tonight Show.
Thirdly, you should be happy it’ll be on Netflix, so you can watch over and over when you want.
One of The Midnight Show’s more enduring and weirder characters (and that’s saying a lot since it’s The Midnight Show) is Hal Rudnick’s Eric Jennifer. He’s an “awkward man child with a heart of gold” to put it lightly.
This Labor Day Weekend, The Midnight Show is handing over the keys to Eric Jennifer and he’s having a party with plenty of guests including:
Jason Kaye
Jeanne Taylor
Marshall Givens
Nick Gligor
Joey Clift
Stephen Perlstein
Cassi Jerkins
Michael Gabriel
and MORE!!
Eric Jennifer’s Labor Day BBQ is happening this Saturday at midnight at UCB Franklin and you can (and should) get your tickets here.
Season 3 of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail Premieres on September 28th
As it’s September 1st today, it’s less than a month away before a whole brand spankin’ new season of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.
If you can’t wait for four more weeks and not able to get your fix at the weekly live show, you could just catch up/rewatch past seasons here.
Really, we can’t handily describe just the weirdness of Chris Charpentier’s best day ever.
You’re just going to have to watch the whole thing to really grasp it.
Really, you need to watch the whole thing and appreciate the clever talents of The Nix Brothers.
Connor Ratliff’s Presidential Run Is Going to Name a New and Different VP Pick Everyday for a Month
A move like this almost approaches being as ridiculous as Trump’s flip-flopping.
Weeks ago, comedian Connor Rafliff announced that he was running for President merely as a joke and with no intention of winning. He actually endorses Hillary Clinton while continuing his campaign.
So, his latest attention-grabbing stunt is to make different a pick for his potential vice presidential running mate for 30 consecutive days.
We think he’s off to a great start with picking every living VP that has served assembled into a “Suicide Squad”.
Brent Sullivan has been very keenly described as a smooth operator when it comes to doing stand-up. He also has sharp, cutting material that juxtaposes quite nicely with that slick delivery.
His very first set on Conan was a solid exhibition all of that and you can see so for yourself here.
For years now, The LA Podcast Festival has been growing exponentially right along with the medium of podcasting itself.
As you can clearly see with the line-up on the flyer above, not only are there dozens of the biggest podcasts around, but they’re doing pay-per-view this year.
You can and should get your passes, tickets, and accommodations for this year’s LA Podcast Festival, still at The Sofitel in Beverly Hills, ASAP right here.
Arguably, the father of mockumentaries, Christopher Guest, has his latest film coming very soon to Netflix.
After covering the worlds of hair metal, dog shows, folk music, and more, Guest points his focus towards the world of mascots with his usual suspects of Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, and Parker Posey as well as the delightful Zach Woods, Bob Balaban, Sarah Baker, Christopher O’Dowd, Jane Lynch, Ed Begley Jr., and more.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but this is one of the funniest trailers we’ve seen in awhile.
Look for Mascots to start streaming on October 13th on Netflix.
In the quest of views, YouTube personalities will often times ignore the laws of decency and taste or actual on-the-books laws to pull off something “viral”. Eva Anderson has created the comedy project Radicalocity with Stephen Falk at FX to examine the absurdity of this phenomenon. We hope this goes to series just to see where they go with it.
By the way, this is the third comedy project that Falk has currently going over at FX from an overall deal on top of his critically acclaimed You’re The Worst.