You might have a faint idea of filthy hotel rooms can be, but Not Safe with Nikki Glaser makes sure to hit the point hilariously home by asking the first wave of people, the housekeeping staff at a hotel, about their personal encounters of whatever debauchery goes down after folks leave for the day or check out.
Be careful here as you can’t un-know what you’ll see and hear here.
The Carmichael Show broke all sorts of new ground for what a multi-cam sitcom can be in 2016 because of its ventures into hot button topics. From the looks of it, they’re continue doing just that with season 2.
This new season has a special preview tonight at 10PM on NBC, then officially kicks off on Sunday, Mar. 13th.
Only a few days ago, the trailer for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters dropped and went viral.
Now, the international trailer has arrived and gives you a few more bits (not enough to spoil anything) for you to enjoy/ponder including more lines from Chris Hemsworth as the secretary.
Big Money with Eliza Skinner and Bryan Cook at The Virgil (4519 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA) presents a special evening with a full headlining set from Guy Branum that will feature the fantastic Brooke Van Poppelen and Mike Lawrence.
In case you forgot, all of this is free.
The rest of our comedy listings including shows, open mics, and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Conan managed to break another stand-up that deserves a spotlight into the late night circuit with Portland’s own (by way of Texas) Shane Torres.
Shane not only gives a solid debut, but some solid advice to deal with dead relatives’ unfinished business.
(via EW)
If kids are really tapped into the cultural zeitgeist, it could be for them too.
Called Carry This Book, Abbi Jacobson’s latest offering will bring her playful and colorful sensibilities, literally, to adults.
“What’s inside Martha Stewart’s hand-knit fanny pack?” will be the sort of thing the book will be focused on.
It’s sure to make a great gift heading into this year’s holiday season as the release date is set for Oct. 11th.
Often, inspiration come in the 11th hour and at the spur of the moment. Such is the case with Three, a sketch album from Dave Ross and Ryan Singer recorded in four hours after they were having dinner one random night.
Oddly enough, the sketches contained therein pretty much cover all the bases of what you’re not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, mostly sex and religion. Also, they seemingly improvise in such a ridiculous way that wouldn’t be kosher at any table, save for the one for the sketch group that Ross is in, Women.
The outright, ultra-blue absurdity of Three toes the line between being cringeworthy and the sort of comedy that breaks your brain for how farcical it is.
If you’re into really dark comedy, you might really get into Three (just probably don’t play it loud at work as we mentioned in the headline).
Oh, did we mention it’s free to stream and download?
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Amy Schumer is on pace to have her own empire.
The Girl with The Lower Back Tattoo will be a collection of the sort of personal stories that have shot Schumer to the stardom she has now.
Announced today, the book is due out on Tuesday August 16th, which should give you plenty of time to finish whatever you’re currently reading right now.
(via Deadline)
Be at Austin’s Paramount Theater, March 12th, Saturday night at midnight if you want to go.
The action comedy starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele where they save a cat is coming to SXSW. Though, it will be a “work-in-progress” cut of the movie, you’ll still have a chance to see it several weeks (premiere is at the end of April) before anyone else, even if it ends up being cut different. In fact, you’ll get to see a cut that no one else will probably see.
Either way, if you’re down in Austin, TX for SXSW, you should probably go to this.
This inaugural edition of Party in the Back on Wednesday March 9th features Guy Branum, Eliza Skinner, Frankie Quinones, and James Fritz.
The rest of our listings and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com
During election years, presidential candidates are promised equal air time at a given TV network. If one candidate gets to be on air for a specific amount of time, other candidates can request that same amount of air time on the same network.
In a similar line of thought, Samantha Bee made sure to grill both sides of the aisle in their individual debates on last night’s Full Frontal.
As she has been doing since day one at her show, Samantha goes for the jugular in her jokes with almost no remorse and we can’t get enough.
Watch her latest breakdown of the most recent GOP and Democratic debates and you’ll see what we mean.
Gil Faizon and George St. Geelgand/Nick Kroll and John Mulaney dug through an archive of Kroll Show and found a gem of an episode from their Too Much Tuna prank show featuring the one and only Paul Feig.
It turns out that it doesn’t matter if you know it’s too much tuna or not. It’s still too much tuna.
For Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening, Kurt Metzger shares some of the strange tales from growing up as Jehovah’s Witness that fall in the truth-stranger-than-fiction side of things.
Unquestionably one of the best films of the 90s, Election closed out the decade with a breakout performance from Reese Witherspoon and a great directorial showing from Alexander Payne.
TruTV’s truInside will explore the behind-the-scenes story of how improbably Election was to make despite being looked back as a brilliant satirical comedy that will probably hold up for decades to come.
Here’s a preview before tonight’s episode that airs at 10PM on TruTV.
Bonnie McFarlane’s journey in comedy is the kind of journey that you almost wouldn’t believe given how cool, calm, and collected that Bonnie is when you see her on stage or hear her on a podcast. Yet, you’ll hear all about what she went through in her new memoir You’re Better Than Me.
From climbing the ranks of stand-up atypically, directing her own films, and being one of a handful of female stand-ups to have done Letterman, Bonnie has more than enough stories to show the improbably winding road she had to take to do comedy on her terms and keep it together all while doing so.
Get You’re Better Than Me fresh off Anthony Bourdain’s publishing arm.
For many years, we’ve enjoyed seeing Stephanie Allynne hone her darkly humorous, yet grounded comedic sensibilities. In an ever-growing field of dramatic comedy, she manages to stand out.
Now, she’s written and directed a short, The Fun Company, that will be coming out in April and features the likes of Mary Holland, Tig Notaro, and Lauren Lapkus.
From the looks of this gloriously rant-centric trailer, Allynne might have something special (that might also tangle with your idea of feminism is) with The Fun Company.
Bobcat Goldthwait and Caitlin Gill have just started this great, new weekly show at The Hollywood Improv Lab. Tickets are $8 and you can and should get them here.
(via Deadline)
Now, we’ll just have to see if The Emmys will get any sort of controversy like The Oscars did and how Kimmel might handle it.
This September, Jimmy Kimmel will host The Primetime Emmy Awards for the second time and also “keep it in the family” at ABC is the current home of both Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Emmys.
Given the amount of awards given out at The Emmys and the growing amount of diversity on TV, an #EmmysSoWhite seems unlikely. However, six months leaves plenty of room for controversy, from any angle, to arise and potentially make for a very intriguing challenge for someone like Kimmel.
One of the most best run, independent channels that the Internet has to offer is back for this year.
It may have taken a little longer than we’d like, but the short form original series community known as Channel 101 has kicked off 2016 with the return of Markees Saves (starring Markees Christmas who was just in a Sundance movie), the dark, bizarre and hilarious King of YouTube and two brand spankin’ new shows, Pop-It and Typesetter’s Son.
Get into it all of it here.
Let us be clear here. Mike Birbiglia is an expert on cats and mice and not the idiom of “cat and mouse” denoting an ongoing chase.
His story on this week’s Colbert should prove that to you.
Seeso’s upcoming Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ is having two special events coming up.
First, they’re screening two episodes along with a Q&A with Paul F. Tompkins, Tawny Newsome, Dan Ahdoot, Kulap Vilaysack, Scott Aukerman and more! a week before it starts streaming at UCB Sunset’s Inner Sanctum. The screening is on Tuesday, March 8th at 8PM and free w/RSVP to attend.
A week later, the cast of Paul F Tompkins, Drew Tarver, Ryan Gaul, Tim Baltz, Dan Ahdoot, Mandell Maughan, and Tawny Newsome will do a Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ improv show at UCB Sunset’s main stage. The show is on Tuesday, March 15th at 8:30PM with tickets for $5 going fast.
The literally game changing halftime speech is a requirement for all sports movie.
When it comes to a satirical series following HS teachers barely getting by, the halftime speech probably doesn’t get a team riled up at all.
Watch such a speech from Those Who Can’t’s Andy Fairbell.
(via Uproxx)
Know that seven seasons is a hell of a run these days.
Rob Corddry has decided to end the uber-absurdist Childrens Hospital at Adult Swim after seven seasons and the distinction of being one of the few series at Adult Swim that have won at the Primetime Emmys.
In an Uproxx interview, Corddry explains that between doing the show and starring in Ballers on HBO and everything else he is involved in, he found less and less time for a growing amount of his own projects that he’d like to pursue. Fortunately, he also wants to continue working with the same folks, wants the end of Childrens Hospital to be an amicable one, and has plenty of pilots and scripts already in the works.
If you’re not watching the Pardcast-a-Thon right now, at least watch Jimmy Pardo’s appearance on Conan from this week. It’s a conversation that’s classic Pardo coupled with some of cringeworthy memories of Pardo’s yesteryears.
There is a YouTube livestream here and an audio only livestream here.
Jimmy Pardo and Matt Belknap are doing their annual 12 hour Never Not Funny podcast marathon affectionally called Pardcast-a-Thon right at this very moment until midnight tonight.
This time around, you have the benefit of not having to worry about sales on Black Friday, their usual date for the Pardcast-a-Thon.
As always, they’re raising money for SmileTrain and are even auctioning a plethora of prizes including a guest spot on Doug Loves Movies, a round of golf with Jimmy Pardo, Paul Gilmartin, and Mike Siegel, AST Records vinyl record collection, and much more at eBay.
Again, don’t waste any further time and get to watching here.