The comedians on this particular edition of Comedy Confessional will have to work in confessions, anonymously submitted by the audience, into their set. That line-up on the flyer should have loads of fun with that challenge.
Tickets are $5 and available at the door.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Basically, Wendy McColm is a great filmmaker and actress on the rise whose work you’ve might seen and enjoyed, like we have, at Channel 101 and she and her feature film need your help.
She is currently working on completing a feature length dark comedy called Birds Without Feathers and is trying to raise $10K worth of finishing funds. As of this post, she has just over $4K of it raised with three weeks to go.
You can watch the Kickstater campaign video to see herself, the cast, DP, and other crew really explain to you why it might be worth donating $10 for a digital download of the movie.
In case you need a little more convincing of putting your money down for this, here’s one of our favorites, I Am Radio, from her unique body of work.
Today, you can add author to the comedy superstar multi-hyphenate Amy Schumer as her book The Girl with The Lower Back Tattoo just got its release today. Amy sticks to her unflinchingly honest brand of comedy in this collection of personal essays that will give you as deep a look into Amy’s life as she has probably ever given.
Wherever books are sold, you can get it in hardcover as well as getting it on Kindle or as an audiobook on Audible or even on CD.
TCM (that’s Turner Classic Movies for all you cord cutters out there) will be screening over 50 movies that celebrate the art of slapstick comedy in film. The likes of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Will Ferrell, and more will be featured in this tribute showcase that will be hosted by comedian and cinephile extraordinaire Greg Proops.
On top of all of that, there’s a free online class that will offer up the history of as well how to do slapstick comedy.
Ouch! A Salute to Slapstick starts on Tuesday, September 6th on TCM.
Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers goes all the way back to the year 2000 (yeah, that’s awhile back now) for their latest work to when Ridley Scott’s Gladiator set the standard, for better or worst, for all sword-and-sandal movies of the 21st century.
They also remind of us of how cringeworthy pop culture was back in at the turn of the millennium.
Kurt Braunohler indeed is taping an hour long stand-up special for Comedy Central. Called Trust Me, he’ll be taping it in Portland, OR at Revolution Hall on Saturday, September 24th.
Given his skywriting, jet skiing, driving a giant butt cross country, and other such large scale acts of absurdity, we personally can’t wait to see what Kurt does with an hour of stand-up on national television.
If you can go, you should go and you can get free tickets here.
Ahamed Weinberg will be a name that you’ll probably be seeing more of soon (and not just because we keep posting about him). Having just got New Faces at JFL Montreal, Weinberg has also really honed his skills as a comedic filmmaker that we routinely enjoy.
Here’s his latest work, “Lump”.
The annual neighborhood-wide party known as Echo Park Rising will have plenty of music, but will also make sure to include plenty of comedy as well.
This weekend, Good Heroin will be running 3 nights at Stories Books & Cafe (1716 W. Sunset Blvd.), Party in the Back will kick off Saturday night at the New California Barbershop (2203 W. Sunset Blvd.), and Sauce (typically at Hollywood’s Desano’s Pizza) will serve up an Echo Park Rising edition of their show at the 826LA Time Travel Mart (1714 W. Sunset Blvd.) on Saturday as well at 8PM with Chris Fairbanks, Kate Willett, James Austin Johnson, David Gborie, Chris Estrada, Danielle Radford, and hosts Barbara Gray, Eric Dadourian, Erin Lampart, and Jeff Wattenhofer.
Oh yeah, all these are free to attend.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Finland to Get Local Version of ‘The Office’
If you’re keeping score, this will be the 9th version of The Office joining the original from the UK, the U.S. version, and versions from France, Quebec, Chile, Israel, Germany, and Sweden.
As far as British comedy being translated to territories around the globe that’s a pretty singular feat. Eddie Izzard has not even learned to do stand-up in that many languages yet.
Four years ago, one Rory Scovel made a montage of video that he had captured everyday for an entire year. The result was a pretty amazing glimpse into the life of what a modern working comedian is like.
After that, Brooks Wheelan made an ‘everyday montage’ showing his whirlwind life getting hired on SNL and everything in between.
Now, Chris Garcia, one of our favorite comedians whose name should be on the tip of your tongue if it’s not already, just made his very own ‘everyday’ montage that shows him globetrotting from Dubai to all around LA to Hawaii for comedy as well as a stop to Cuba to get in touch with his roots. Like Brooks and Rory’s, it’s a look unlike you’d ever normally see what Garcia’s life is, day in, night out over the last 365 days.
Finally, the world now has a Henry Phillips special at its finger tips. For years, we’ve enjoyed Henry’s sly hijinks-laden humor and in Neither Here Nor There, directed by Steve Feinartz, that wonderfully mischievous spirit has been crafted into a very solid hour of stand-up and musical comedy.
Do yourself a favor and spend either $7.99 to stream and download Neither Here Nor There or $4.99 to stream over a 48 hour period right over at Vimeo on Demand.
Given the plotline of “a woman’s search for love and self-discovery in Los Angeles,” we’d be curious to see if this musical comedy might have a drastically different take on a musical rom com than the award winning one set 18 miles away in West Covina known as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Jill Soloway being attached to the project and it being developed at Amazon should allow for the creative room for this project to be something we haven’t ever seen before.
While coming out to friends and family as an LGBTQ person is often welcomed with support these days, there are still knuckleheads who don’t know how to handle themselves in that situation.
This short film, Coming Out, written by and featuring Anthony Gioe and Nick Mandernach is about one of those knuckleheads who is spectacular at, spoiler alert, being a knucklehead. Also note, fine performances from Kale Hills and Rose O’Shea and direction from Ian Brennan.
All Six Seasons of Community Are Now Streaming Exclusively on Hulu
It has been a long and winding road for Community going from NBC to Yahoo to, now, Hulu, especially having started off as a network sitcom and living through the rise of streaming services. Anyone still hoping for that #sixseasonsandamovie?
With that in mind, note how Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and others seem to be stockpiling TV series in their entirety when the majority of TV audiences become cut the cord to cable.
‘The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’ Canceled By Comedy Central
The post-Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert era for Comedy Central’s late night line-up has proven beguiling. Aside from @midnight with Chris Hardwick, reception for Trevor Noah as the host of The Daily Show has been mixed and, apparently, ratings for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore have not been what Comedy Central brass was hoping for.
Thus, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is no more and Comedy Central is on the hunt for a new 11:30PM show. There is no indication as what that show might be or who they might be going after, but, like it was when Colbert left for The Late Show, Comedy Central has another chance to break even more new ground here if they choose wisely.
With the election looming in November, we’d be curious to see if something might get fast tracked just to not miss out debates, election day, etc.
Ireland’s very own Dylan Moran is returning to the States to tour his latest show, Off The Hook. In LA, he’s doing a run of it over three nights, November 9th-11th (the 10th is already sold out) at Largo at The Coronet Theatre.
Tickets are $35 and you better them get them sooner rather than later for Wednesday, November 9th or Friday, November 11th (both shows are at 8:30PM).
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 All Updated For Next Week 8/15
Stand-up open mics, sketch open mics, improv jams, and more.
If you’re in over your head whilst cooking and want to see cooking far below perfection or simply need a pick me up in your day, you can always count on Henry Phillips’ Henry’s Kitchen.
Just see this Tuna Fried Rice episode and we’re sure you’ll feel much better about burning whatever you left in the oven for a little too long.
In their ongoing quest to be a worthy streaming service that only deals in comedy, Seeso has made sure to include plenty of programming from across both the Atlantic and Pacific.
A lot of UK and Aussie comedy from yesteryear to now (and even a few years ago) are currently getting their U.S. exposure through Seeso exclusively.
The latest acquisition comes by way of Australia from Connor Van Vuuren’s Soul Mates, a series that follows a friendship through the centuries between two literal, so it would seem, kindred spirits.
Just seem the flat out, absurdist fun that Soul Mates has with itself in this trailer.
Though it came out in Australia two years ago, you’ll be able to see Soul Mates stateside starting Thursday, September 1st on Seeso.
Festival Supreme Tickets Now on Sale
Just a friendly reminder that tickets for Tenacious D’s annual comedy and music extravaganza Festival Supreme went on sale this past Friday and are going for $99 for general admission and $250 for VIP.
If you’ve ever been to Festival Supreme and seen the masses of people there, you know that you better get in on getting tickets quick.
Mike Birbiglia’s extended interview on this week’s Daily Show not only shows some fascinating aspects surrounding his new movie, Don’t Think Twice, including making up a joke about Trump running for president before Trump announced he was running (The Simpsons did awhile ago, but the fact that Trump ran after anyone on TV and in movies joked about it is still pretty crazy) and the comparison of violent PG-13 movies versus the inexplicable R-rating that his movie got, but shows why you should follow anything Birbiglia is doing.
Ahamed Weinberg and Joshua Turek present an evening of stand-up where you get to see more than 5 minutes from comedians that you should be watching more than 5 minutes of.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
MoveOn.Org Is Putting on a Trump Comedy Contest, “Laughter Trumps Hate”
It’s free to enter, they’re accepting submissions for sketch, stand-up, and Trump impressions, and there is a cash prize for the winners as well as the potential “to be invited to participate in other comedy projects or events as part the Laughter Trumps Hate Task Force.”
The deadline is Wednesday, August 17th at midnight PDT.
This is just a morsel of the brilliant travel/food show satire that Hidden America with Jonah Ray is doing on Seeso.
Tickets are on sale from $25.50-$52.50 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.