TV’s got a new favorite rivalry to watch: Danny McBride vs. Walton Goggins.
They’ll be squaring off as the pettiest and also most ruthless vice principals that high schools have ever seen.
Just see for yourself in this new trailer.
Vice Principals premieres on July 17th at 10:30PM on HBO.
9PM on TBS.
Whether you know or not, you probably need the unbridled silliness of Angie Tribeca back in your life. Luckily, a whole new season is coming tonight and should fill that void you have for puns and sight gags taken to the next level.
Again, the season 2 premiere is tonight at 9PM on TBS.
As No, You Shut Up! is no more, Fusion is going to fill its slot for its current events/politically charged comedy with a brand new show from “Egypt’s Jon Stewart”, Bassem Youssef.
Called Democracy Handbook, Youssef will learn about what America has done with the ‘grand experiment’ of democracy by going out and talking to people at on the street, Trump rallies, gun shows, and more.
Get a taste of it with this trailer here, then look for the premiere in July.
In addition to the above dates, Natasha and Moshe will be stopping back at home for The Honeymoon Tour, here in Los Angeles, at Largo at the Coronet Theatre on Monday, June 27th, 8:30PM.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Jerry Seinfeld, some very fancy and/or unusual cars, and John Oliver, Jim Gaffigan, Margaret Cho, JB Smoove, Lorne Michaels, Judd Apatow are the latest group to get coffee and show off what hanging out as very successful people in comedy is like in season 8 of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Catch a glimpse of it in this trailer, then look for new episodes to start streaming next week Thursday, June 16th.
John Oliver is making a great case for sainthood on top of being one of the funniest and smartest people on television.
His latest miracle involves showing how easy it is to start a company that buys personal debt by starting a debt buying company of his very own. Of course, Oliver opted for another choice. Instead of coming around to collect on his second hand debt, Oliver decided to forgive the entirety of the debt he just bought. That totals in $15 million of debt, even though the debt is bought at a fraction of a cent on the dollar. Oprah’s famous car giveaway doesn’t total that much as you’ll find in this week’s deep dive segment.
On Last Week Tonight last night, he delightfully forgave in grandiose fashion.
Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, Billy Connolly, Garry Shandling, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Hart, Dave Attell, Frankie Boyle, Omid Djalili, Kirk Fox, Eddie Izzard, Stewart Lee, Paul Provenza, Emo Philips, Bonnie McFarland, Tiffany Haddish, and more offer their take on the artistry and craftsmanship that actually goes into going on stage and doing stand-up comedy in the documentary Dying Laughing.
Directors Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood extensively interviewed all of the above and made what might be another documentary that showcases stand-up as being more than just a bunch of clowns rattling off jokes every night.
Watch the teaser here.
This is not some dumb alt comedy stunt. I. Want. To. Be. @KellyRipa ’s. Sidekick. For. Real. So. Bad. Dream job. #KellyAndGethard
Since the very sudden and public departure of Michael Strahan from Live! with Kelly and MIchael, there has been a void in the realm of morning television programming. There are rumors of names of who might sit beside Kelly Ripa going forward.
One of the more surprising names is Chris Gethard, host of the forward thinking talk show The Chris Gethard Show. Chris has opted to toss his own name in the hat for consideration.
In fact, earlier this week, Gethard typed out and posted the following in order to make his case to be a sidekick to Kelly Ripa.
*probably should say “now married”
No word has been given about where Gethard stands in the running to replace Strahan or how this would affect The Chris Gethard Show if he got the gig, but #KellyandGethard would likely bring a bunch of generations together that wouldn’t otherwise watch the same morning TV.
Lizzy Cooperman is one of our all time favorites and no one should miss when Katie Crown and Davey Johnson are hosting. The line-up of Glaser, Kilgariff, Abramson, and Desai is also a must-see. 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.
(via Rolling Stone)
Terry Crews is also on board to reprise his role as President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Since Donald Trump’s rise in this presidential election, plenty of people have made plenty of references to 2006′s Idiocracy from Mike Judge, who you probably now know from Silicon Valley on HBO, and Etan Cohen.
In case you forgot how much of a satirical cautionary tale that movie was, both Judge and Cohen, pending permission from Fox who owns the rights to the original movie, are ready to make new ads with President Camacho that will stick it to Donald Trump.
If they got to do it, it would be probably be another great piece of attire of this 2016 election. We just hope that it would be a bit of comedy that both those against Trump would enjoy as well as shutting up Trump supporters instead of making them dig their heels in deeper.
At The Comedy Bureau, we always strive to highlight great comedy that might not get seen by a good number of people otherwise.
Thus, we’re always open to having stuff sent to us whether it be a sketch, web series, podcast, short film, live show, book, movie, album, TV show, essay, art installation, festival, etc. etc. for consideration to be featured at the site like we did for Derek Sheen’s fantastic album Tiny Idiot.
NOTE: we are still solely based in LA as of this time. So, live show listings/coverage tends to skew towards the Greater Los Angeles Area. However, we’re still game for big, one-off, and/or annual events like festivals, tours, and the like around the country such as Bridgetown or even the world (Eddie Izzard’s Force Majeure, Comedy Central International Festival, Edinburgh Fringe)
Please send all submissions to thecomedybureau@gmail.com. Apologies in advance if it takes us awhile to get back to you as our staff is on the small-but-mighty side.
UpIsNotJump has found a niche in recreating pop culture in the world of popular video game Fallout 4.
His latest installment features some of the best scenes of one our absolute favorite shows Rick and Morty, which is kind of perfect since Rick and Morty spend a lot of their adventures in various wasteland settings.
Not only is it pretty impressive what UpIsNotJump manages to pull off, but we think you can get into it whether you’ve obsessed over Rick and Morty or not.
Eddie Pepitone and Sean Conroy, who used to host The Long Shot Podcast together, will thankfully host side by side once more. They’ll also have special guests including Drennon Davis and Jon Gabrus.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
It’s a bit of a surprise to us that Matt Dwyer hasn’t had an album under his belt already given his exhaustive comedy resume, but perhaps that is what makes this first album feel special and imbued with a sense of urgency.
Inside Looking Out is indeed Dwyer’s first album is being released by Jonah Ray’s imprint label Literally Figurative Records off of AST Records. Dwyer impressively spans his comedy repertoire, both in content and form, which he delights in as there is a lot to cherry pick from. He includes traditional stand-up, song, and reading of short form pieces that come from a very a brutally honest and sincere place, but, sometimes, ratchets the absurdity up to the nth degree. For all of that, Inside Looking Out gives you a really expansive scope of comedy at its core and its fringes.
You can get Inside Looking Out off of iTunes or on 12″ red vinyl. You can also stream it on Apple Music.
(via Deadline)
Workplace comedy is about get taken to a more wonderfully dark place than it probably has ever been.
If you’ve enjoyed WOMEN Comedy at all like we’ve done all these years, you’d know that Comedy Central ordering a workplace comedy series from two of the four members of WOMEN Comedy, Jake Weisman and Pat Bishop, and the very darkly funny Matt Ingebretson is something to celebrate, even if you’re by yourself right now.
The series is called Corporate and will star Jake and Matt as two junior executives that do the dirty work for their bosses at a gigantic corporation called Hampton DeVille. Pat took on directing the pilot and we can only imagine that he’ll continue behind-the-scenes (and probably cameo from time-to-time) like he’s done for so many of their sketches over the years.
We’d guess that it might be akin to one of our favorite WOMEN sketches, Hour Long TV Drama.
10PM on Showtime and 11PM on IFC respectively.
Showtime’s latest hour long stand-up special will come in the form of Ben Gleib: Neurotic Gangster. You might know Ben as the host of Idiotest on the Game Show Network, but he happens to be a skilled stand-up comedian as well.
After that, season 5 of Comedy Bang! Bang!, the TV series, on IFC will premiere its 5th season, which just happens to also be the first season that that musical parody king Weird Al Yankovic will serve as bandleader next to host Scott Aukerman.
It’s hard to resist the charm of Jim Gaffigan and even harder to do so when there’s a digitally rendered Paw Patrol of him.
That’s why they went with the the Paw Patrol Jim for the latest Jim Gaffigan Show season 2 ad.
For the last few years, Donald Glover has been tinkering with a show mysteriously known as Atlanta. Any sort of previews, teaser, clips, etc. have been scarce and all anyone really knew about it was that it would be a dramedy set in Atlanta’s thriving rap scene.
Well, as the show now has its sights set on a September premiere on FX, the veil has been lifted a little with the very first promo has just been posted online.
The story of Atlanta will follow Donald Glover as one of two cousins making their way up through the aforementioned rap scene in Atlanta. The promo doesn’t really reveal much else, but definitely sets a tone not unlike FX’s Louie.
Watching this should be one of your top priorities today.
Almost 3 years ago, Bo Burnham‘s last special what. and really succeeded in pushing the limits of what a comedy special as well as musical comedy can and should be.
Naturally, we’re excited that today is the day that his new comedy special, Make Happy, the follow-up to what., is now streaming on Netflix.
With that said, go watch it ASAP.
The amazing Sean Patton is bringing his one-man show to Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics later this month. Called Number One, Sean will share stories that focus in on his former life as a chronic bedwetter.
Tickets are $8 online and $10 at the door. Please 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 Caitlin Cook.
If there’s a takeaway from the trailer from the brand new season of Comedy Central’s Another Period, it’s probably to never challenge the outrageously wealthy to be more outrageous, especially in The Gilded Age.
The Bellacourts will see your challenge for this second season and raise you as much havoc as they can afford and then some as they probably have some more money stashed away somewhere or can marry into more wealth.
See for yourself in the season two trailer here.
Look for the series premiere in two weeks on Wednesday, June 15th at 10PM on Comedy Central.
(via Deadline)
This will be the first time that Hader stars, executive produces, writes, and directs.
Bill Hader will star in HBO’s latest comedy series that comes from both Alec Berg (who’s worked on many of your favorite comedies between Seinfeld to Silicon Valley).
Called Barry, Hader will be a hitman who has grown weary of the hitman life and finds his way into theater and becoming an actor.
Comedy where a hitman is trying to transition into a new life sounds like rich territory for Bill and the supporting cast of Stephen Root and Henry Winkler should be icing on the cake here.
It’s almost 100% guaranteed that you haven’t seen the America on Hidden America (unless you worked on the show).
If you’ve got Seeso or a friend or loved one’s Seeso password, you can now start streaming Hidden America with Jonah Ray. It’s a (mostly) faux travel show that sees the underbellies of America’s most beloved cities that are rarely seen (perhaps for a reason).
If you don’t have Seeso, you can get it for $3.99 a month here.
If you think that the latest revival of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is Hollywood not being able to control itself on cashing in your childhood, know that there were a plethora of very real live musicals that spun off of the franchise back in the first wave of popularity of TMNT.
Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers does the good service, along with an assist from the Nostalgia Critic, to make sure we don’t forget how excessive a franchise can really get by making an Honest Trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Their Shells.
The latest installment of Melissa Villasenor’s Daily Itineraries has, for our money, one of the best impressions, in every aspect, of Sarah Silverman.
Just watch how spot on Melissa is, but how she nails Silverman’s entire comedic persona.