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Barry Crimmins, the Subject of “Call Me Lucky”, Is Getting His Own Stand-Up Special Through Louis C.K.

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“Then there’s guys like Barry Crimmins,15 who is a political satirist from the ’80s. I’m actually shooting a stand-up special for him that I’m producing and putting on my website. Barry’s a great voice from the past who’s still kicking.”

-Louis CK

Bobcat Goldthwait’s important documentary, Call Me Lucky, about longtime comedian and activist Barry Crimmins has given Crimmins’ achievements and comedy another much needed spotlight.

Louis C.K. will now be giving Barry more of that spotlight as he’ll be shooting a comedy special and releasing it through louisck.net.

If you’ve seen the doc, you should be more than intrigued at what Crimmins has to say about the world today.

Daniel Sloss Points Out the Absurdity of Tampons Not Being Covered in Healthcare

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Scotland’s own Daniel Sloss returns to Conan as one of the program’s favorite stand-ups.

On this time around, Sloss makes a sharp, well observed collection of jokes about how ridiculous it is that tampons are treated as anything else but a medical necessity.

Jack Whitehall to Return as Host of the BAFTA LA Britannia Awards

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Jack Whitehall is probably going to be the latest British comedian whose name you’ll have to commit to memory.

Jack Whitehall is a massive success in the UK and is making his way to have that popularity crossover in the U.S. Already, he’s hosted the Britannia Awards here in LA once before and made a nice stand-up debut on The Tonight Show.

His return as the Britannia Awards is just another stop on his rise stateside.

Netflix Will Be the Only Ones to Get Ricky Gervais’ “Life on the Road” Next Year

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America! You can watch #LifeOnTheRoad exclusively on @Netflix next year. Or you can fly to The UK to watch in movie theatres this August 🙂

–@rickygervais

The movie spin-off of the British version of The Office that follows David Brent’s forced music career will come across the pond via Netflix exclusively. In the ongoing and growing streaming service rivalries, this is a pretty big get for Netflix

There isn’t a set release date yet, but Netflix will have plenty of stuff between now and then to binge watch.

Watch the Plane Crash That Leads to TBS’ “Wrecked” Before the Series Premiere Tonight

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TBS’ latest series, Wrecked, is on deck for its series premiere at 10PM tonight.

So far, it looks like a comedic take on Lost, thought it has yet to be seen how weird the show will get for that comparison to really ring true.

In the meantime, you can watch the crash that brings all the survivors on the show together, sort of, here.

Samantha Bee Sticks with Her Trademark Fury in Response to the Orlando Shooting

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As Samantha Bee points out in this segment, late night hosts are supposed to take a sincere moment to reflect when hosting a late night talk show following a tragic event like this weekend’s mass shooting of Pulse in Orlando.

Bee has proved that she’s not like the rest of the boys club in her short time in hosting Full Frontal and has set herself apart by never pulling any of her punches on the show. Her segment covering the deadliest mass shooting in American history is no different and we love her for it. It’s a perfect mix of rage, comedy, and a timely message.

Please watch it here.

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Real life married couple Dan Black and Jamie Lee finally have a night together at a show that they’re putting on. Get your tickets for $5 here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” Returning for Season 9 at HBO

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Finally, something has happened that’s pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Announced this morning, HBO and Larry David have come to an agreement to bring back America’s favorite curmudgeon for a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Of course, Larry offered a perfect explanation for his return. “When asked why he decided to come back, David said, ‘In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, ‘I left, I did nothing, I returned.’”

Get a Look Behind “BrainDead” Before the Series Premiere Tonight

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Part dark political comedy, part sci-fi thriller, BrainDead will have a timely premiere tonight at 10PM on CBS.

The show explores the notion that the insanity in Washington might be explained by alien bugs eating politicians’ brains. Seems like a rational explanation these days.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look to prep you for what’s to come.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Titus Andromedon Made Audition Tape for ‘Hamilton’

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Hamilton won 11 Tony Awards this weekend making it even a bit more of a cultural milestone than it already is.

Naturally, getting tickets or auditioning for it will be in higher demand and, as such, Titus Andromedon from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt threw his hat in the ring regardless of him knowing a lot about the groundbreaking musical or not.

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Will Team Up Again in Animated Series “Big Mouth” at Netflix

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This time they’ll be playing teenagers as opposed to old men with a lot of spunk.

Oh, Hello has brought Nick Kroll and John Mulaney to the forefront of comedy as two senior best friends who are very, very, very opinionated, especially when it comes to tuna.

Taking notice, Netflix has ordered an animated series from Kroll and Andrew Goldberg that will put the voices of Kroll and Mulaney in the starring roles of two teenagers going through hitting puberty along with Maya Rudolph and Jason Mantzoukas. As it’s animated, we’re sure that they’ll up the ante on how ridiculous they can get.

Look for Big Mouth to start streaming in 2017.

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Tickets available here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Bill Murray to Receive Mark Train Prize for Humor

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Can’t wait to see what outfit(s), Murray will choose to sport at his acceptance ceremony.

The Mark Twain Prize for Humor, one of the highest honors in comedy, has got its next recipient in Bill Murray. The living legend has not only made his name through movies and TV for decades, but seem to make an entire mythos of himself by just randomly popping into strangers’ lives and bringing some unforgettable absurdity into their lives.

That seems fitting of receiving of this award

Murray is set to receive the award on Sunday, October 23rd.

John Oliver Demystifies Retirement Plans After His Own Recent Terrible Experience with Giving Retirement Plans to His Staff

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John Oliver may poke fun at the “John Oliver Effect”, but one should beware of trying to pull a fast one in actually offering up problematic retirement plans to the Last Week Tonight staff.

Otherwise, this latest deep dive segment will happen along with the aid and ire of Billy Eichner and your retirement company might be subject to that “non-existent” John Oliver Effect.

10 or So Things You Should Be Excited About in Comedy From Last Week 6/12

It’s pretty simple. Lots of great, important stuff happened last week in comedy. Like the title says, here are 10 (or so) of those things.

–Chris Gethard wanting to be Kelly Ripa’s sidekick

–John Oliver topping Oprah with nearly $15 million debt forgiveness giveaway

–Trailer for Bassem Youssef’s Democracy Handbook

–Second trailer for HBO’s Vice Principals

–This stand-up set from Brodie Reed

–Danny Jelinek and Chris Sartinsky’s “Mulchtown”

–The Lucas Brothers returning to The Tonight Show

–Comedy Central putting every Key & Peele sketch online

–Angie Tribeca is back for season 2 at TBS, Casual is back for season 2 at Hulu, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser returns to Comedy Central, Ladylike premieres at MTV

–Comedy Central’s next roast will be of Rob Lowe

–Amber Tozer’s memoir Sober Stick Figure

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Improv team Pretty, Pretty Pony was and is still one of our favorite things. More details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Brad Neely Takes Dunk Contests to a NSFW Next Level on “Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio”

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We honestly believe that you’ll never think of a dunk contest in the same way thanks to this clip from Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio on Adult Swim.

Just be sure you’re not at work or work at a super chill place before watching.

Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer Play Good Cop/Bad Cop for Funny or Die and Interrogate You in All 360˚

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You probably already know this, but VR is coming back in a big way.

As the technology is being made more and more readily accessible to everyone with a smartphone, more and more folks are finding different ways to utilize it.

For Funny or Die, they decided to use VR in a classic good cop/bad cop scenario played out beautifully by Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer.

You can watch the 2D version here or the 3D Google Cardboard version here and enjoy being accused of a crime that you didn’t (or did?) commit.

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Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. You can (and should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Poster by Reid Faylor.

Amber Tozer Tells the Story of Her Recovery from Alcoholism via Stick Figures in “Sober Stick Figure”

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The illustration of humans via stick figures is subtly powerful. It’s something kids resort to as many of them can’t draw that well, but it still communicates messages and points of a view in a way that almost seems universal.

Comedian/writer/ Amber Tozer utliizes this to a wonderful degree in her memoir Sober Stick Figure that chronicles her harrowing road into alcoholism and eventually to recovery. The bleakness of such a journey gets juxtaposed next to stick figure drawings throughout the whole book that delightfully illustrate how ridiculous all of these very true events really are. It’s the comic relief that keeps on giving .

Sober Stick Figure is available in hardcover now from Running Press.

“Mallrats 2″ Is Now Being Developed as a TV Series

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(via Deadline/WWMR 93.3 Philadelphia)

Come to think of it, plenty of long-awaited sequels might have fared better as a TV series.

It’s been 21 years since Kevin Smith released Mallrats. In that time, it has become a cult hit that propelled Smith’s career. Making a sequel has proven tough though, which is why Smith has opted to now developed Mallrats 2 into a 10 episode TV series.

Given that there’s a whole cinematic universe of Kevin Smith movies, a TV series will give what might have been an overstuffed Mallrats sequel the room to do as much as it wants to and play in said Kevin Smith-verse.

Jeffrey Tambor, Aziz Ansari, Jerrod Carmichael, Rob Lowe, Tony Hale, and Keegan-Michael Key Sit Down and Talk Shop with The Hollywood Reporter

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As campaigning for The Emmys is heating up, The Hollywood Reporter is doing another round of their great, in-depth roundtable discussions.

Their latest brought together comedy actors that are Emmys contenders, which includes…

Jeffrey Tambor…

…Aziz Ansari…

…Jerrod Carmichael…

…Tony Hale…

…and Keegan Michael Key.

They touch on anything from representation of minorities to the most embarrassing moments, which Rob Lowe probably takes the cake with his dark secret (it’ll probably come up during his roast).

Amy Schumer Does a Dark Satire of Multi Cam Sitcoms That Somehow Still Exist in 2016

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There are so many reasons to think that we’re living in the future that past generations dreamed of, this presidential election notwithstanding, including going to Mars, self-driving cars, living past 100, and having the Internet instantly available in our pockets.

However, in 2016, there are many sitcoms, often those of the multi cam variety, that are still culturally reductive and, in a manner of speaking, ‘way behind the times’. You’ve probably seen Louie call this out on one episode where they had a cheesy sitcom break the fourth wall.

Well, Inside Amy Schumer upped the ante and went even darker with their satire of sitcoms that should have stayed in the last millennium.

Watch it here.

Watch Barry Rothbart as a Sort of Underdog in “Underdog: The Devin Tate Story”

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The story of an underdog in sports has been told in every which way you can imagine.

Well, that was the case until this short sports mockumentary Underdog: The Devin Tate Story from Barry Rothbart and Andy Landen came along to The Kicker. There is literally no other underdog story like it because it’s almost not an underdog story

Brad Hall Gets Separation Anxiety While Reviewing Yeezy Boost 750

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Undoubtedly, one of the hottest sneakers right now is the adidas Yeezy Boost 750, which will undoubtedly skyrocket in resale value past whatever your rent it.

That’s kind of why famed shoe reviewer Brad Hall got a little beside himself while reviewing the shoes.

Watch what happened here.