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Big Mouth’s Valentine’s Special “My Furry Valentine” Is Now Streaming

February 8, 2019

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Marked as the first episode of season 3, this very special Valentine’s episode (it’s also technically a double ep.) of Big Mouth is all the unabashed magic-realism-driven-blue-humor that you’ve come to, perhaps, secretly enjoy does a great job of covering almost every base for the holiday (as opposed to so many rom coms that fall short of the mark).

My Furry Valentine definitely satisfies that get a little existential or nihilistic on Valentine’s Day with several storylines, but also has enough sweetness for those who actually lean into the corporate created holiday about love.

In any case, Big Mouth Presents My Furry Valentine is now streaming at Netflix for you to enjoy a week before the actual Valentine’s Day as many folks, we guess, probably have other things lined up to do besides binge watching Netflix?

The passing of Kevin Barnett came out of nowhere and was a shock to family, friends, and fans alike. As such, a gigantic, stupendous benefit (as you can see in the flyer above) for Kevin’s family will be held this coming Tuesday at the Echoplex.

Tickets are only $10 and all proceeds will be going to Kevin’s family. Go get them here before they probably sell out.

Also, you can support Kevin’s GoFundMe too.

Bird Luger Forever.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

We’re Belatedly Throwing Ourselves an 8th Anniversary

February 7, 2019

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So, this was supposed to happen at the end of October, but, as you can see from our staff page, we’re a little overworked. Thus, it took awhile to celebrate being LA’s best resource for comedy.

Anyways, we hope you come down to Echoes on Pico and enjoy our favorites from every corner of comedy as well as our very own Jake Kroeger. Tickets are only $10 for this gala worthy show. Go get ‘em here.

The Simpsons Secure Their 31st and 32nd Seasons at Fox

February 7, 2019

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The Simpsons Secure Their 31st and 32nd Seasons at Fox

This puts The Simpsons at 713 episodes, furthering their run as the longest running scripted TV show in all of entertainment history. Perhaps, it might even crack beating some of the record holders for unscripted TV shows (those range in thousands FYI).

With their place in history/pop culture/zeitgeist well secured, we’ll be curious to see if and what they’ll do about Apu with these two new seasons regarding Hari Kondabolu’s Problem With Apu, if anything at all.

February 7, 2019

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The extreme friendship comedy troupe identified as Power Violence (AKA Whitmer Thomas, Clay Tatum, and Budd Diaz) will be putting on their very last show as a group next Sunday at The Satellite (as well as celebrating their 8th anniversary).

While we’re all waiting for their silly comedy swan song to arrive, take time to reflect on Power Violence’s journey from moshing and TPing the stage over at The Complex to open every show to making some of the best, unabashedly fun videos around to becoming the power (pun intended?) comedy trio they are now.

The full line-up has yet to be announced, but we hear it’s pretty damn special.

Tickets is $8, but, as always, comedians get in free at this show. Get the tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

The Lyric LA on La Brea Just Reopened

February 6, 2019

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The Goddamn Comedy Jam and great comedy specials for Henry Phillips and Laurie Kilmartin all took place near WeHo at an intimate, yet kind-of-spacious theatre called The Lyric (not to be confused with the lovely The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake).

For bureaucratic red tape reasons, they had to close up shop for awhile, but they just reopened their doors for all sorts of events. We’ll keep you in the loop about our favorites.

If you want to place a booking request for a comedy show, you can reach out to Hunter Hill at huntersayswhat@gmail.com.

February 6, 2019

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Once more, Eliot Glazer is gracing us with the most beautiful cover songs of what is considered to be the hot messes of the Billboard Top 100 this Friday. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, which undoubtedly will likely make for a wonderful collection of the most over-the-top love songs and, on top of that, Glazer will be joined by Este Haim from the band Haim and D’Arcy Carden.

It will be a great night whether you’re pro- or anti-Valentine’s day and whether you’re with someone or not.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 on the day of. Go get ‘em here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

‘Modern Family’ Will Get an 11th and Final Season at ABC

February 5, 2019

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‘Modern Family’ Will Get an 11th and Final Season at ABC

Without question, Modern Family is one of those era defining sitcoms and, as such, its exit after this 11th season might signal the end of an era. What’s interesting is that if you think about the pilot of Modern Family all those years ago, it seems to be kind of like The Office set within a multi-generational family. In a few ways, it got to be a multi-cam and single camera comedy at the same time, a very rare feat to pull off.

Of course, it became its own beloved show and garnered critical and commercial success over several seasons, but we’d be curious to see what sort of lasting impression it will leave on the next generation of sitcoms that will have a similar run.

Maybe that next long-running show will end up being The Good Place and it’ll be a new era of extremely high concept comedy with heart. Unfortunately, only time will tell, but you will at least get one more season of Modern Family in the meantime.

Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy To Explore Truly Risky Comedy Beyond Sacha Baron Cohen Hoodwinking Everyone

February 5, 2019

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Larry Charles, the frequent collaborator of Sacha Baron Cohen on such works as Borat and Bruno, is taking a break from pulling a fast one on everyone and taking a more exploratory, literal documentarian view with his latest project, Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy.

Charles has gone to places like Iraq, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Palestine where free speech isn’t quite what it is in America to see how comedy folks pull off, well, doing comedy over there. Also, from the looks of it, Larry will also explore “dangerous comedy” here in the States, which is it’s own breed of crazy.

It looks pretty fascinating and probably answers some questions that you might have been passively wondering (like “Can you and how do you do comedy in a repressive regime?”). Get a taste of it with this trailer, then look for the episodes to drop on Fri., Feb. 15th.

February 5, 2019

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OK, it’s Kyle Kinane headlining. Seeing Kinane actually get to headline around here is rare, so don’t miss out on the two shows he’s doing at Huntington Beach’s Rec Room this Friday.

There’s an 8PM show and 10PM show. Tickets for either are $20 in adv., $30 at the door + 2 item min. Get tickets here and here respectively

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Ryan Stout Makes the Case for Jokes Being Jokes and Ends Up With Another Sharp, Funny Album with “Man In The Suit”

February 5, 2019

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Where Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, amongst several other layers, deconstructs comedy in a way that points out some natural flaws, Ryan Stout takes a stand to defend the art and craft, effectively reconstructing it with his latest hour, and album called Man In The Suit.

Throughout, Stout manages to make his case for jokes being taken at face value as jokes (as opposed to being censored for offensiveness by anyone) on this record all while doing what he does best: play mental chess vs. the audience with his incredibly clever and dark jokes. Like Bill Burr, he hits points that you may disagree with, but usually gets you laughing anyway because that is what he primarily cares about. Stout might even be more calculated than Burr on Man In The Suit with how he pushes and pulls his audiences right to where he wants them.

The discourse between political correctness and comedy will never end (what subjective arguments in art are ever truly over?), but, at the very least, Stout gave us another fine hour of comedy in the process.

Man In The Suit just dropped today and you can (and should) get here.

FX’s What We Do In The Shadows Gets a Full Trailer

February 4, 2019

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The long awaited TV adaptation of the beloved What We Do In The Shadows is coming soon, March 27th on FX to be exact, and we’ve been teased and teased and teased for several months now.

Now, you’ve got a bigger tease with this trailer as the premiere date approaches and it’s all the silliness that you could want drenched in vampire lore (and clever things adjacent to vampire lore) and a muted color palate that you could want from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. We’re all so lucky that the minds and stars behind the original film are also EPs on the series.

February 4, 2019

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Well, looks LA, or Pasadena more specifically, is getting its very own comedy show on its a golf course because indie LA comedy has to do be “field-of-dreams-y” about where it does shows (don’t worry the rain will be well over by then).

Arroyo Comedy Show will be a new weekly show up in that neck of the woods at the Arroyo Seco Golf Course will be starting this Sunday with a very, very stacked inaugural line-up:

Kyle Kinane
Baron Vaughn
Bri Pruett
Troy Walker
Subhah Agarwal
with lovely hosts Brent Gill and Chris Charpentier

The show is this Sun., Feb. 10th at 7PM and tickets are $10. Get more details and please get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Gary Gulman Makes a Case That He Would Have Been a Great Millennial

February 1, 2019

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As we said yesterday when sharing his #GulmanTip writing advice, Gary Gulman is a master craftsman when it comes to stand-up comedy.

Last night, he got to back up our claim with his set on Conan, which is, in so many ways, elegant and funny. In regards to Gary’s idea that he’d make a good millennial, we would note that his vocabulary is much more expansive than your average millennial, but we think that’s absolutely fine.

Enjoy the set here.

February 1, 2019

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If you think about it, if The Chris Gethard Show was to be handed off to someone in its entirety, it would be unofficial, unauthorized, and keep the name even though someone not named Chris Gethard would be hosting, right?

Well, that’s what happening at the Lyric Hyperion on Fri., Feb. 8th at 8PM with the very, very funny Robby Hoffman (former writer and featured performer on TCGS).

Chris Gethard’s official statement on this whole happening is as follows:

“I am not involved in this and don’t really understand why it’s happening or what it is, but I love Robby, so go for broke. Again, this show in no way reflects, represents, or is The Chris Gethard Show.”

Whatever happens, we’re sure it’ll be some damn fun, controlled chaos (which is the true spirit of TCGS, isn’t it?). Go get tickets for the show for $8 here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

NBC Is Going Forward with a Series Greenlight for Their Cross-Disciplinary Comedy Competition ‘Bring The Funny’

February 1, 2019

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NBC Is Going Forward with a Series Greenlight for Their Cross-Disciplinary Comedy Competition ‘Bring The Funny’

Over 10 episodes, the supposed best in comedy across stand-up, sketch, improv, variety, etc. will be found in this new televised comedy competition, Bring The Funny. Effectively, it’ll take the place of Last Comic Standing at NBC.

Additionally, the judges will be Kenan Thompson, Jeff Foxworthy, and Chrissy Teigen and Amanda Seales will be covering hosting duties and a $250K “prize package” (we’re guessing that means you don’t get $250K in cash) will go the winner.

The concept, as we’ve said before, has us intrigued as we always appreciate any form of cross-pollination in comedy getting a greater platform and Seales as host is a solid move. However, we’re not thrilled with some of NBC’s choices for the judges panel or the cheesy name of the show or that they’re teaming up with Just For Laughs (essentially making this another JFL New Faces of Comedy?). If it gets someone truly original and undiscovered gets to rise to the top and receive the exposure they deserve, we guess it’ll be worth it then. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Hopefully, they’ll have open auditions where anyone will legitimately have a chance. We’ll keep you in the loop if we hear of those happening.

Big Mouth Valentine’s Day Special Will Be Coming to Netflix Feb. 8th

February 1, 2019

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The fine folks at Big Mouth will be delivering a Valentine’s Day special a week before Valentine’s, specifically Feb. 8th, called Big Mouth: My Furry Valentine.

As is the prerogative of the show, we’re sure it’s going to show you what Valentine’s is like for pre-teens, warts and all. Whether you love or hate the holiday, there should be something that hits close to home for how ridiculous that day is. Get a taste of it here.

Gary Gulman’s #GulmanTip(s) Are a Treasure Trove of Stand-Up Comedy Advice from One of Comedy’s Best Craftsmen

January 31, 2019

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When it comes to the craft of comedy, few are as expertly detail oriented these days as Gary Gulman. Just watch this Conan set to see what we’re talking about.

Now, Gulman, since the beginning of the year, has been tweeting out #GulmanTip for writing and performing stand-up comedy, which are pretty great.

Our favorite is:

16)Be the comedian you wanted to see. Think about the things that you wished someone made jokes about when you sat in the audience. Make a list of topics and ideas that you’d be EXCITED to see someone discuss. Become that comedian. You’ve got 30 years.

Coupled with John Roy’s Completely Free Online Comedy Class, you’ve got a pretty comprehensive text book from which to start/improve at stand-up.

You can (and should) read the rest in these Twitter threads @garygulman:

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Conan O’Brien Takes a Tour of the Samuel Adams Brewery

January 31, 2019

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In case you didn’t know, one of the best parts of Conan O’Brien’s late night tenure is his remote segments, especially when it comes to take tours of places that produce some sort of alcohol. In this particular tour, you’ll get to enjoy Conan doing a beer version of a “suicide soda”. It’s magnificent.

Glad to see that this is still in tact at the new streamlined Conan.

Please enjoy this latest and greatest Conan remote here.

January 31, 2019

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When it comes to setting the mood in comedy, few pay as much attention to detail as Todd Glass (there’s a whole mini-doc about it).

Thus, he might be the perfect choice for a Valentine’s Day comedy show, which, thankfully for you, is happening at the world famous Hollywood Improv. In fact, whether you’re in a relationship or not, we’ll bet that Todd will make it a great night.

You can (and should) get tickets (there is a 2 item min.) here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

This Barry Season 2 Teaser Is Pretty Damn Enticing

January 31, 2019

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Without spoiling anything, the critically acclaimed first season of Barry left on a pretty big cliffhanger. The teaser for season 2 manages you to leave you hooked with more questions than that cliffhanger (like a good teaser/trailer should).

So, without saying anything further, see for yourself in the teaser for what’s probably your current favorite hitman dramedy here. Look for season 2 to premiere sometime this Spring on HBO.

Eric Andre and Lil’ Rel Prank Movie ‘Bad Trip’ Set for Oct. 25th Release

January 30, 2019

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Eric Andre and Lil’ Rel Prank Movie ‘Bad Trip’ Set for Oct. 25th Release

Eric Andre along with Lil’ Rel and Eric Andre Show director Kitao Sakurai have made a feature length prank movie that will come out right before Halloween.

Effectively, it’ll be The Eric Andre Show: The Movie (with Lil’ Rel instead of Hannibal Buress), right?

We’ll be curious to see a teaser of just exactly what they got away with.

January 30, 2019

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The legendary storytelling/new material show Uncabaret (it has been running for a quarter of a century) is settling into its new home in Los Feliz at the swanky Rockwell Table & Stage.

That being said, it’s not a weekly affair anymore and thus, we’re keeping an eye out for you for the show’s upcoming dates including this one near the end of March with yet another stacked line-up (from several different generations of comedy by the way).

Anyways, tickets are going from $10-$30 (plus a 2-item min.) and you can get your tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Paige Weldon Makes a Great Late Night Debut on Corden

January 29, 2019

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The Late Late Show with James Corden is really picking up the slack for stand-up comedy being featured on late night in 2019. They’ve already had four sets this month alone including this late night debut of the wonderful Paige Weldon.

Paige is definitely one of those comics whose rise we’ve been following for years in LA (go get Girlfriend at the Time by the way) and we’re so glad to see her it kill it, especially in her own low key way, on Corden.

So, please enjoy her set here.

January 29, 2019

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NYC’s celebrated artist/comedian multi-hyphenate Lorelei Ramirez (Adult Swim, The Chris Gethard Show, VICE’s Creators Project), will be in LA next month along with their show ALIVE! (for now).

Ramirez has found a niche in bridging the worlds of art and comedy and pushing the boundaries of both to much acclaim. With that in mind, you ought to not miss the two dates that they have for this show over one weekend.

One will be at The Ruby LA on Sat., Feb 9th at 9PM for $5 and the other will be at Lyric Hyperion on Sun., Feb. 10th at 10PM for $10. Go get tickets now!

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.