You still get actual, physical mail these days. Thus, you should heed Tony Sam’s warning of why you shouldn’t mess with the person delivering said mail, whether this actually happens frequently or not.
If nothing else, please enjoy how great Tony can be while apathetically delivering letters.
Also featuring Megan Gailey, Ryan Singer, John Milhiser, and the band SWMs.
For thorough LA comedy listings and maps, visit www.thecomedybureau.com.
John Oliver and the team at Last Week Tonight pick up where they left off months ago by delving deep into the concept of those infamous ‘voter ID laws’, finding more than adequate fodder for roast style jokes of said laws.
So, welcome back Last Week Tonight as well as wise up about what those behind the voter ID laws are really up to here.
(via Deadline)
HBO is on a roll per usual.
Between, Silicon Valley, Veep, and Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO garnered four Writers Guild of America Awards this year. This is probably one of the few awards this awards season where the premium cable network didn’t have a streaming service like Netflix or Amazon challenging its critical acclaim supremacy.
Also, Inside Amy Schumer makes yet another victory lap with its win for “Comedy/Variety-Sketch Series”.
Here are the rest of the comedy winners announced last night:
Adapated Screenplay–The Big Short-Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay; Based on the Book by Michael Lewis; Paramount Pictures
Comedy Series–Veep-Written by Simon Blackwell, Jon Brown, Kevin Cecil, Roger Drew, Peter Fellows, Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons, Sean Gray, Callie Hersheway, Armando Iannucci, Sean Love, Ian Martin, Georgia Pritchett, David Quantick, Andy Riley, Tony Roche, Will Smith
Episodic Comedy–Silicon Valley-Clay Tarver
Animation–Bob’s Burgers-Dan Fybel
Comedy/Variety (including Talk)-Series–Real Time with Bill Maher-Writers: Scott Carter, Adam Felber, Matt Gunn, Brian Jacobsmeyer, Jay Jaroch, Chris Kelly, Bill Maher, Billy Martin, Danny Vermont; HBO
Comedy/Variety-Music, Awards, Tributes-Specials-Jimmy Kimmel Live: 10th Annual After The Oscars Special-Written by Jack Allison, Tony Barbieri, Jonathan Bines, Joelle Boucai, Greg Dorris, Gary Greenberg, Josh Halloway, Sal Iacono, Eric Immerman, Jimmy Kimmel, Bess Kalb, Jeff Loveness, Molly McNearney, Danny Ricker, Joe Strazzullo, Bridger Winegar; ABC
Comedy/Variety-Sketch Series–Inside Amy Schumer-Head Writer: Jessi Klein Writers: Hallie Cantor, Kim Caramele, Kyle Dunnigan, Jon Glaser, Kurt Metzger, Christine Nangle, Dan Powell, Tami Sagher, Amy Schumer; Comedy Centraland Jimmy Kimmel Live: 10th Annual After The Oscars Special won for Comedy/Variety Special.
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement-Elaine May
The full list of WGA Awards winners are here.
We’re back on the air tonight at 11 on @HBO. Does anyone on Twitter remember how to do a tv show? No reason.
So much has happened in the weeks since Last Week Tonight went on break and we’re just glad they’re back.
Don’t miss John Oliver and company at 11PM on HBO.
Kim Seltzer and Aliya Kamalova have made a great, unique storytelling show by simply putting two best friends, usually a comedian and their best friend, on stage together to tell a story.
The results are wonderful and offer depth, color, and undeniable charm to stories that are only discovered when best friends tell those stories together.
The latest edition of The Best Friends Show happens Saturday Feb. 20th at Nerdmelt with a pretty great bunch of best friends including: Anna Seregina, Daniel Sloss & Mike Mulloy, Moshe Kasher & Brent Weinbach.
Here’s an adorable promo video to further convince you to go.
Extended listings for LA comedy shows and open mics available at www.thecomedybureau.com.
At this week’s Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail, Riley Silverman, a trans female comedian, touched upon the continuing trouble that the TSA has when someone who is transgendered goes through routine airport security.
To say the least, they’re still figuring a lot of stuff out, which is why #TravelingWhileTrans is a hot button topic and has made for a nice, new five for Riley.
Watch Riley’s story here.
(via Deadline)
Even though it’s a dramedy, we’re still imagining Steve Coogan trading Michael Caine impressions with Paul Rudd.
Rudd and Coogan actually play a well-to-do couple that has to deal with a surprise grandson in a script from the writer and director of Hamlet 2, Andrew Fleming, who has also signed on to direct.
Coogan and Rudd on screen together ought to be a really good time as is. The two of them playing a couple should be
The line between reality and parody keeps getting more and more blurred.
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin sat down and chatted with Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders as played by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian and was so dazzled by their impressions that she wasn’t quite sure how to go about the interview and whether to talk the characters or the players behind them.
Either way, seeing Trump vs. Bernie on CNN is a pretty solid win for us all.
Poster by Barry Blankenship
The rest of the comedy listings for the rest of Los Angeles along with maps for shows and open mics available at www.thecomedybureau.com
(via Variety)
Did it take the success of a few live TV musicals to convince executives they should finally pull the trigger on this one?
Talk of a variety show fronted by Maya Rudolph at NBC, then later sharing top billing with Martin Short, have been around for years now. In fact, Rudolph already did a solid one-off special as a sort of proof-of-concept of the show. Yet, movement on the show from where we’re standing looked minimal at best.
Finally, this variety show with two consummate all around comedic talents (sing, dance, be funny, etc.) is going to series starting sometime in May, probably right around when Saturday Night Live has its season finale.
Speaking of which, we’re really anxious to see how a Maya and Martin variety show will fit in NBC’s comedy slate along side SNL.
If you liked how The Real Housewives and The Bachelor got skewered with Hotwives and Burning Love, respectively, odds are you’re going to like Seeso’s latest series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.
This show delves into how crazy the people who own and sell ultra high end real estate really are and also features a cast of comedy folks you should know like Drew Tarver as well as cameos from the likes of Patton Oswalt, Nick Kroll, Paul F. Tompkins, and more.
Watch the trailer here.
Giulia Rozzi has just released what might be a perfect comedy album heading into Valentine’s Day this year, whether you’re a fan of the day or not. True Love follows Giulia in her loves lost and her own ordeals with relationships in these overly modern times. Though self-deprecating, Giulia has a refreshingly upbeat energy throughout the hour.
Hear for yourself in this preview over at The AV Club
True Love is now available off of Comedy Records on iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Well, that’s definitely a good move on Paramount’s part.
While there is certainly a lot to be suspicious about as another 90s TV show is being adapted and repackaged for audiences in 2016, Hannibal Buress joining in is definitely a plus. He is currently in final negotiations to play one of the town locals in this feature adaptation of Baywatch.
If he has some of the best lines in Broad City, what’s to stop him from stealing this movie?
This episode of the Above Average exploratory comedy travel series takes Brooks Wheelan to France and delves into what’s up with French comedy these days.
Odds are that, if you’re stateside, you’ve maybe heard of Gad Elmaleh and that’s it.
Whether you know internationally renowned comedian Gad or not, the odds are also that comedy in France isn’t what you expect. Get into it all here.
You might not know it, but the time in many people’s lives where they stop drinking the beer that’s the cheapest has way more pomp and circumstance than you can realize.
Watch Josh from Man Seeking Woman get honored for this special occasion.
One of the funniest shows on television, Veep, is coming back at kind of perfect time in that the current presidential election and the one fictionalized on the show might just be equally ridiculous.
Watch the teaser for season 5 here, then look for the premiere on Sun. Apr. 24th on HBO.
What better way to observe Valentine’s Day than to watch Hal Ashby’s 1971 classic Harold and Maude in a theater?
It’s screening at both The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and the Sunnyside Cemetery in Long Beach at 7:30PM. Tickets are $11 and $12 in adv./$15 at door respectively.
For full LA comedy listings, check the calendars and maps at www.thecomedybureau.com
In the 21st century, clowns come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, including some that look more like followers of Insane Clown Posse or juggalos.
(via The Wrap)
We could see this being in black and white like his last picture, Nebraska.
A series of articles were written by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard in his travels across the Northern parts of the United States that specifically followed the tracks of Vikings hundreds of years before. They were published in the NY Times, entitled “My Saga”, and will be the source material for a feature film that Alexander Payne has signed on to direct.
From the sound of it, Payne’s delicate and nuanced touch is the perfect call here and we can’t wait to see what he does with it.
Silicon Valley is on the precipice of its 3rd season and your favorite underdog tech crew is getting ready to make a stand, yet again.
Watch the teaser here, then look for the season premiere on Sun. Apr. 24th on HBO.
Master of None Season 2 coming 2017. Thanks for all the support everyone!! pic.twitter.com/LSxo7dEVQ1
All the acclaim that Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s Netflix series got in their first season was well deserved, so we’re really thrilled to see that Netflix went ahead and renewed it.
Now we just have to wait until 2017.
It’s a constant worry these days if all the reboots and revivals will hold up and translate in 2016.
Cartoon Network’s revival of their hit animated series The Powerpuff Girls just released a preview clip and it seems like it’s going to stay faithful to the fun, offbeat spirit of the original series.
The Powerpuff Girls are set for their return sometime this Spring.
The vetting process for where Conan O’Brien takes Conan next is pretty great. A very creative, sincere letter plus foreign snacks seem to do the trick.
On top of how great that is, O’Brien is continuing to go where no American late night talk show goes as South Korea is his next destination.
Watch the announcement here.
On last night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert put on a display of verbal aerobics just based off a reporter mistakenly calling Sen. Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sandwiches.
Colbert really makes this desk piece way more fun than you think it’s going to be.