Finally, Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri will convene once again as Big Terrific next month at Largo at the Coronet Theatre.
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
Boyish Girl Interrupted, I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), and Neither Here Nor There are now available for the “listening-inclined”.
If you’re either the sort of person that prefers their stand-up with audio only or one that doesn’t have an HBO or Netflix account/password, you can now get to listen to three comedy specials from three of our favorite comedians making the rounds these days.
Tig Notaro’s Boyish Girl Interrupted, first premiered as an HBO special, is now on iTunes.
Jen Kirkman’s I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), first premiered as a Netflix special, is also now available on iTunes.
Henry Phillips’ Neither Here Nor There is set to premiere as a comedy special on Vimeo On Demand on August 15th, but you can stream the audio version on Audible’s streaming service, Channels, if you’re an Audible member right now. On August 19th, the album version will be available digitally at iTunes and wherever else digital albums or sold.
So, get in on all of these, especially for the fact that you can now probably clock in three new hours of fine comedy while working.
Netflix Accidentally Mashes Aziz Ansari Comedy Special Subtitles With ‘Planet Earth’ Docu-Series
Did this “accidentally” happen or is someone at Netflix just having the right amount of fun making a feature length meme montage?
Comedy Binge Is Offering a Special $5 Application Fee for Comedy Bureau Readers
Currently, if you want to apply to Comedy Binge, the first live online comedy festival, it costs $25.
However, the fine folks at Comedy Binge are allowing you fine folks that keep your tabs open to The Comedy Bureau to apply for $5 until the deadline on August 31st. All you have to do is be sure to enter the promo code “bureau” at the checkout.
Looks like learning how to spell ‘bureau’ will literally pay off now.
The madness, chaos, abstraction, and utter absurdity of the talk show format that is The Eric Andre Show all return for season 4 on Adult Swim tonight at midnight.
If his RNC/DNC appearances and Rapper Warrior Ninja are any indicator, you should definitely be strapping yourself in for one hell of a season yet again.
Here is just your friendly reminder that David Cross’ latest hour of stand-up (it’s been six years since that last happened) is now streaming on Netflix and perhaps you should go watch it before you get caught in the Rio Olympics.
This is another preview clip of David Cross: Making America Great Again just in case you’re not convinced and already on Netflix watching it.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Preview Rhea Butcher’s “Butcher” Coming Out This Month at Kill Rock Stars
Rhea is the co-host of Put Your Hands Together, the co-creator/star of upcoming Seeso series Take My Wife, and has been a great transplant for the LA comedy scene from Chicago.
Naturally, we’re excited about her first album coming out very soon as well as the above preview clip.
Specifically, Rhea Butcher’s debut comedy album Butcher will be coming on Friday, August 19th off of Kill Rock Stars, but you can pre-order it now and in on a sweet t-shirt and baseball cap.
HBO Orders Duplass Brothers Chain Hotel Anthology Comedy Series ‘Room 104’ | Deadline
FYI, all Togetherness fans, Mark and Jay Duplass are back at HBO. You can rest slightly more easy now.
Also, as this will be an anthology set at a chain hotel, this will be a fascinating, possibly more free sandbox for the Duplass brothers to play in.
We can’t wait to see what they come up with in 2017 when the series is set to debut.
Earlier this year, a judge in Georgia had one of the most heated, expletive laced exchanges with a defendant that has probably ever been on record in a court of law. Murder threats, sexual demands, and more are traded between defendant Denver Fenton Allen over first trying to get a different attorney.
It was such an insane back-and-forth that it actually sounds more reasonable when the voices of Rick and Morty are used.
So, Adult Swim took the transcripts and word-for-word did the whole scene with Justin Roiland’s voice talents with some courtroom sketches of Rick and Morty.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Is Getting Female Led Remake with Rebel Wilson Starring
Hopefully there are no Ghostbusters-like fanboys that Hollywood will have to pay attention to or attempt to satisfy for this particular female-led remake of a comedy classic.
Also, assuming that Rebel will be taking on the Steve Martin role, Cate Blanchett should be the other ‘dirty rotten scoundrel’ that was played by Michael Caine, right?
On A&E’s Black & White with Sherrod Small and Christian Finnegan, David Alan Grier wanted to share his wisdom as incredibly successful black actor for other black actors and did so by making an ad for his masterclass on acting that’s aptly called “Massa Class”.
Watch, learn, and get a kick out of it here.
Lily Tomlin Will Receive SAG Life Achievement Award
Now would be a good time to look at Lily Tomlin’s filmography, catch up anything you’ve missed from her long and storied career, and really get into why she absolutely deserves a SAG Life Achievement Award.
Hopefully, you watch her latest great performance in Grandma.
The Hollywood Reporter gathered up the recently Emmy nominated Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), David Mandel (Veep), Nahnatchka Kahn (Fresh Off The Boat), Marta Kauffman (Grace and Frankie), Alan Yang (Master of None), and Kenya Barris (Black-ish) for an in-depth discussion of running their Emmy nominated shows, the state of comedy, and more.
Give a watch to the hour plus conversation here.
The experimental variety show known as Cool Sh*t/Weird Sh*t is doing a ‘Sadie Hawkins’ show where they “women to ask men/women to do bits together”. It could be like the Sadie Hawkins dance that you hopefully went to in high school, provided that it was an unpredictable, but grand old night.
In any case, you can (and should) get your tickets for $5 here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
For years, all around the country, Jason Saenz has been creating faux prank signs that we’ve thoroughly enjoyed for the fact that they both clever and are actually posted in the real world as you can see above and below here.
“We” here at The Comedy Bureau urge you to follow Saenz Signs on Tumblr and/or Instagram to bring some, probably, much needed joy to your day.
The UK’s Peter Serafinowicz has a knack for dubbing various speeches, clips, and sound bytes of Donald Trump with several different fun accents.
He doesn’t change any of the words, but the effect really highlights how ridiculous Trump sounds, in case you don’t think he sounds ridiculous already.
For this latest batch, Peter gave the Donald an appropriately whiny sounding voice.
Please let this be the voice you now hear from now on when Trump speaks.
Comedians including Aparna Nancherla, Guy Branum, Judah Friedlander, Gilbert Gottfried, Jordan Carlos, Mike Lawrence, Janeane Garafalo, Todd Barry, Connor Ratliff, Eugene Mirman, Grace Parra, Brian McCann, Dave Hill, and more debating various topics such as babies, vaginas, cats, dogs, and other inconsequential arguments with Michael Ian Black hosting sounds pretty good to us.
That’s all of what’s in Debate Wars that’s coming soon to Seeso. See for yourself in the trailer.
If you’ve seen Nicole Byer’s stand-up, you might think that it’s the sort of crazy life that is worthy of its own sitcom.
Well, that sitcom has been created and it’s called Loosely Exactly Nicole and you can see what we’re talking about with her roller coaster of a life in this first trailer.
Look for the series premiere of Loosely Exactly Nicole on Monday, September 5th at 10:30PM on MTV.
Catch a glimpse of Roast Battle champion Mike Lawrence securing his championship in this final battle against Sarah Tiana while up at JFL Montreal for the special Roast Battle tournament.
You can clearly see how much of a roast joke machine Mike really is.
This is just another great morsel from David Cross’ Making America Great Again special that will hopefully keep you satiated until it starts streaming on Netflix this Friday.
…along with a live performance by Henry Phillips and guests Eddie Pepitone and Brendon Walsh.
Tickets are $5 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.
Just from this brief announcement video that reveals that the latest Christopher Guest movie Mascots will be streaming on Netflix starting October 13th, you can only imagine the wonderful bickering that Guest has captured in the world of mascots.
We can’t wait to see giant costumed individuals to get caddy.
At this point, the indie improv scene here in Los Angeles is beyond bursting at the seams and growing assuredly like the population sprung from mating rabbits.
You’ll get to see this indie improv in action at The LA Indie Improv Festival this Saturday, August 6th at 6 different stages around the city, as listed above, featuring such great improv teams we’ve seen around town as Crashbar, Elephants Gerald, Cat Bath, Nomi Malone, The Murge, Cat Ladies, Outside Dog, Big Grande, Boss Jr., Rococo, and many many more.
The one day LA Indie Improv Festival runs from 11AM to past midnight and accepts donations for admission.
Get more details here.
Accomplished and celebrated comedian Moshe Kasher had a wild childhood that lead to drugs, rampant disregard for the life, mental hopsitals, rehab, and being part of a gang that called themselves the Pure Adrenaline Gangsters.
For This Is Not Happening, he shares a great story, that really paints will the emotional colors, of being a Pure Adrenaline Gangster.
Oh yeah, his book that he mentions, Kasher in the Rye, is still available for purchase.