For the rest of the year, the hilarious Jen Kirkman will be going on tour worldwide making stops in Lund, Dublin, Winnipeg, Palm Beach, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Tacoma, Minneapolis, Dallas, Buffalo, Boston, Halifax, Cleveland, Dallas, and Brooklyn.
If you’re anywhere in those parts of the planet, which it seems there will be plenty on this tour, please do go watch her live. Tickets for most of the shows are on sale now.
The documentary that follows the relationship between The National’s Matt Berninger and his brother Tom Berninger, Mistaken For Strangers, is being “adapted” into a play starring Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis. Of course, doing a play based on a documentary has seldom been done, if ever, and makes the rehearsal process more than a little taxing.
Watch Funny or Die’s inside look into Mistake For Strangers the play.
(via HitFix)
Along with running a marathon of The Simpsons canon on FXx, there will be a Simpsons World website/app that will allow anyone to find, watch, research, make playlists, and more of any Simpsons episode ever.
You’ll have to have cable in order to get in on this, but if you don’t already have the boxed DVD sets of The Simpsons, it might be worth it.
Reggie Watts returns to Conan to do something he’s never done before. There are no looping pedals, dancers, or memorable sweaters, but there is a heartfelt country song about the majestic creatures that are horses.
Watch it all really happen here.
(via Hollywood Reporter)
Despite being a home for proven, unique voices, FX has passed on Charlie Kaufman’s pilot How & Why.
Perhaps, the story that follows a man who can explain how and why a nuclear reactor works, but is otherwise clueless about life doesn’t fit quite as nicely as FX would like with the current run You’re The Worst, Married, and Louie.
Still, How & Why is being shopped around and we hope it lands somewhere to see John Hawkes star as the mostly clueless Goodman Hesselman and Michael Cera play his boss.
From starting Channel 101 or creating Community or being let go from Community or The Sarah Silverman Program, Dan Harmon chats intimately with Paul F. Tompkins on his Speakeasy web series, detailing his thoughts leading up to and post-mortem on one of the most prolific people working in comedy today.
Please watch the 30 min. conversation here.
ON THE HORIZON
The Moth Grandslam @ The Echoplex Mon. Jul. 28th 7PM $18
Summahfest @ Nerdmelt Showroom Sat. Aug. 2nd 2PM FREE w/RSVP
COMEDY CRAWL
Brent Weinbach: Appealing to the Mainstream @ UCB Theatre 7PM $5
Part Two! The Sequel Show @ Nerdmelt Showroom 7PM $10
Doug Loves Movies @ UCB Theatre 7PM FREE
TNT Improv @ The Clubhouse 8PM FREE
Slumber Party with Alie & Georgia @ The Virgil 8PM $5
Anxiety Factory @ Wood and Vine 8PM FREE
Good Luck Show @ Good Luck Bar 8PM FREE
Lachlan Patterson @ Comedy & Magic Club 8PM $15/2 item min.
Mike O’Connell-Sad Songs & Cabbage Patch Kids @ Little Joy 8PM FREE
Put Your Hands Together @ UCB Theatre 8PM $5
Redford @ Comedy Central Stages 8PM FREE w/RSVP
Comedy Living Room 8:30PM FREE w/RSVP
Sleepaway Camp @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Aftermath @ The Lexington 9PM FREE
An Evening with Ahmed Bharoocha @ Nerdmelt Showroom 9PM $5
Baked @ The Baked Potato 9PM/11PM $20
Cupcake Vagina @ Echoes Under Sunset 9PM FREE
Triple Dippers South American Tour @ The Satellite LA 9PM FREE
We’re Having Fun Here @ The Palace Restaurant 9PM FREE
Seinfeld: The Purge @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
10:15 to Tuesday @ Neon Venus Art Theatre 10:15PM Donations accepted
Roast Battle @ The Comedy Store Belly Room MIDNIGHT FREE
OPEN MIC RUN
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/Stand-up, sketch, improv all welcome/5 min.
GRINDHOUSE CAFE 1051 N. Havenhurst Dr., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/First come, first served/5 min./Hosted by Steve Hernandez and Paul Laier
HOLLYWOOD IMPROV 8162 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM/Starts 5:45PM/Lottery/20 spots available
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
AMSTERDAM CAFE 10905 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 7PM/First come, first served/4 min./1 item min./Hosted by Jenny Yang & Atsuko Okatsuka
THE OTHER DOOR 10437 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/To get a booked spot, email mouthypants@gmail.com by Monday at 5 PM/20 names will be chosen at random/Sign-up for 20 lottery spots starts at 7:30 at the show/Go to facebook.com/mouthypantscomedy for more details
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO. 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/First come, first served/One item min.
CAFE UNURBAN 3301 W. Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA/Starts 9PM/Sign-up is lottery/No purchase necessary
MAL’S BAR 2331 Hill St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/Ends 11PM/First come, first served/3 min w/o purchase/7 min. w/purchase/Mixed in with booked spots/Hosted by Martin Rizo
COFFEE GALLERY 2029 Lake Ave., Altadena, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/5 min.
PEDONE’S PIZZA 1332 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 7:45PM/Ends 9:30PM/5-7min.
33 TAPS 6263 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:30PM/First come, first served/4-6 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Doug Dixon and April O’Connor
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Starts 8PM/mixed mic
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 9PM/Starts 10:30PM after booked show/Ends 12AM/No purchase necessary
PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 9:45PM after booked show/Lottery
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd St. Promenade and 4th St.)/Sign-up 9:45PM/Starts 10PM/lottery/$1 cover
THE COMEDY STORE BELLY ROOM 8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 11PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary/Roast battle between 2 comedians at end/Hosted by Brian Moses and Rell Battle
IMPROV JAM @ THE CLUBHOUSE 1107-A El Centro Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts around 11PM after TNT Improv/Anyone can play/No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts 11:30PM/First come, first served
Congratulations to the Just For Laughs Montreal picks for this year’s New Faces of Comedy, many of which you’ve seen featured here in one way or another at The Comedy Bureau:
Stand-up:
Alingon Mitra
Brad Wenzel
Drew Michael
Eliza Skinner
Grant Lyon
Hampton Yount
Hasan Minhaj
Jack Robichaud
Jake Weisman
Jen D’Angelo
Jesse Elias
John McKeever
Justine Marino
Kate Berlant
Matteo Lane
Michelle Wolf
Monroe Martin
Nore Davis
Randy Liedtke
Ryan O’Flanagan
Whitmer Thomas
Characters:
Beth Hoyt
Chelsea Davison
Greg Tuculescu
Holly Laurent
John Reynolds
LaKendra Tookes
Mary Holland
Michael Antonucci
Michael Lehrer
In addition to the great NY Times Magazine piece that ran about the truly amazing Maria Bamford, there was a candid interview in where Bamford talked about doing an impersonation of her mother, one of her signature impersonations in her act.
Nerdist, Funny or Die, College Humor, Vevo, Yahoo!, Pop Crush, Amazon, and even The Wall Street Journal all got to release one of Weird Al Yankovic’s 8 music videos from his new album Mandatory Fun.
To our knowledge, there hasn’t been such an expansive rollout of music videos over so many brands that make or host original content and, as you might imagine, this move has gotten Yankovic has gotten tons of views and a #1 album overall on iTunes as well as possible #1 album on Billboard.
For any album, not just a musical comedy parody album, that’s impressive.
New Wave Entertainment, the company responsible for a large percentage of the comedy specials that you have seen/will see, is stepping into the digital realm by launching their own channel on Hulu.
Starting Jul. 29th, this channel, Comedy Dynamics, will feature forty years worth of stand-up to watch from Richard Jeni, Jim Gaffigan, Marc Maron, Bill Burr, Moshe Kasher, Roseanne Barr, Bo Burnham, Kathleen Madigan, Doug Stanhope, and more.
So, this might be your new thing to binge watch.
The city of San Diego thought it prudent to give one Kurt Metzger a jaywalking ticket while he was walking back from a bar rather than driving.
Little did they know that this great bit on Kurt’s Comedy Central hour long stand-up special White Precious would be the result (spoiler alert: they do not come off as the good guys).
By the way, you should buy White Precious off CC:Stand-Up Direct for $5. It’s pretty damn great.
Leading up to the premiere of SyFy’s Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda on Aug. 2nd, Conan O’Brien has gone out on a full blown ad campaign via billboards, Hollywood Reporter, etc.
(via Variety)
The fifth season of Louie has officially been ordered and we won’t have to wait over a year for the season premiere. Next spring, Louis C.K. will have his next batch of episodes rolled out.
However, there will be only 7 episodes for this fifth season, which makes us wonder if they all will just be a half hour long (i.e. maybe they’ll be longer?).
(via Entertainment Weekly)
On top of their being a crossover episode with Family Guy after a decade of being hit animated series on Fox, The Simpsons will have a cameo from the titular Bob of Bob’s Burgers in the very same episode.
The Simpsons’ other big crossover, the one with Futurama, is going to air on Nov. 9th that will indeed feature the voices of the Futurama cast.
The Simpsons are really going for the fences with this season and we can’t wait to see it.
ON THE HORIZON
Triple Dippers South American Tour @ The Satellite Tues. Jul. 22nd 9PM FREE
Crave in Silverlake Thurs. Jul. 31st 9PM $10
COMEDY CRAWL
Comedy Central’s “@midnight w/Chris Hardwick” @ Hollywood Center Studios 3:15PM FREE w/RSVP
Cindy Crawford Comedy Show @ MiMoDa 8PM $10 suggested donation
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal @ The Virgil 8PM $5 in adv., $10 at door
The Goddamn Comedy Jam @ The Lyric Theatre 8PM FREE w/RSVP
The Business LA @ Little Joy 8:30PM FREE
Drunken Tales of Shame & Glory @ Monty Bar 8:45PM FREE
Swallows Comedy Hour @ Spitz Los Feliz 8:30PM FREE
FRINGE with JC Coccoli @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
Round 2 @ El Cid 10:30PM $5
Crash Test @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5
OPEN MIC RUN
NERDMELT SHOWROOM 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/Lottery/Special Playboy Jazz theme night-fancy wear, robes especially, encouraged/No purchase necessary
SARDO’S 259 N. Pass Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/Ends 8:30PM/7 min./First come, first served/1 drink min.
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/5 min./First come, first served/1 item min.
IO WEST 6366 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:15PM/Starts 6:30PM/Ends 8PM/Lottery/3-5 min.
ANCHOR BAR 2675 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, CA/Starts 7PM/Sign-up at evan@dudelyjones.com/4-5 min.
THE WAREHOUSE LOUNGE 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA/Starts 7PM/Ends 7:45PM/First come, first served/5 min./8 spots only/No purchase necessary
THE GOOD NIGHT 10721 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 7:45PM/Ends 9:30PM/Lottery/3-5 min./1 item min./Hosted by Ever Mainaird, Lisa Laureta, Ryan Walker, and Caitlin Bergh
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 7:30PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
BREWDOG PUB 8300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 7:45PM/Starts 8PM/First come, first served/5-7 min./Hosted by Pamela/No purchase necessary
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:15PM/Lottery/One item min.
THE PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:45PM/Starts 9PM/3 min./Lottery/1 item min./Hosted by Meg Swertlow, Wanjiko Eke, Chloe McGovern
JIMMY’S PLACE 1623 N. San Fernando Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 9PM/First come, first served/Mixed mic/Hosted by Nikki Wantz
JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up 9:30PM/Starts 10PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary
IMPROV JAM @ THE CLUBHOUSE 1107-A El Centro Ave., Los Angeles, CA #110/Starts around 12AM after One Love Improv/Anyone can play/No purchase necessary
Hopefully, you’ve seen the comedic brilliance of Moses Storm throwing a birthday party at a Chili’s located inside the LAX airport.
After that, we also hope that you’d be ready for Moses’ next “piece” which will be an a “live performance art installation” wherein he’ll showcase the modern millennial in every facet that he possibly can. You know the millennial generation that everyone makes fun of? Storm wants to defend that, we guess.
There’s a Kickstarter for this project and if you donate enough, you could even be part of it and hopefully have ballet dancers just do stuff around you.
Gabe Delahaye and Max Silvestri’s new issue this week as friends in therapy is a diary, which is a weird thing to have if it contains hurtful things about your friend that you live with. Of course, none of that is as weird as the questionable status of Kumail Nanjiani as a therapist.
Watch a brand new episode of Gabe & Max Need Help here.
On the latest episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld pays tribute to his esteemed guest Jon Stewart from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart by picking him up in the car he used to drive in high school, which was the notoriously cheap AMC Gremlin.
They relive Stewart’s memories of having such clunker and compare doing Seinfeld to The Daily Show. Watch it here. They also go over the episode when Jerry stops by Jon’s show.
This week on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Nick Thune told the story of why he doesn’t imbibe or ingest marijuana anymore despite living here in LA where it’s completely legal.
Watch parts one and two and learn the dangers of just leaving your stash around for your wife or anyone else to find.
ON THE HORIZON
Brent Weinbach: Appealing to the Mainstream @ UCB Theatre Tues. Jul. 22nd 7PM $5
The Grand Budapest Hotel/Darjeeling Limited @ New Beverly Cinema Sun. Jul. 27th & Mon. Jul. 28th 7:30PM $8
COMEDY CRAWL
Mary Lynn Rajskub @ Irvine Improv 7PM $20/2 item min.
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction @ The Virgil 8PM FREE
Harmontown @ Nerdmelt Showroom 8PM $10
French Toast @ Taix 9:30PM FREE
Power Violence @ Theatre 6470 9:30PM FREE
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)
OPEN MIC RUN
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 4PM/Ends 6PM/5 min./One item min.
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 4:30PM/Starts 5PM/Lottery/5 min./Hosted by Lizzy Pilcher
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM-ish/5 min./First come, first served
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/First come, first served/5 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Mark Alexzandr
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/7 min./One drink min.
THE PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 8:45PM/Lottery/No purchase necessary/Hosted by Harry Moroz, Pedro Salinas, and Sarah Morisano
LYRIC HYPERION THEATRE 2106 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/5 min./No purchase necessary
COCK N BULL 2947 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, CA/Sign-up 8:45PM/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/5 min./No purchase necessary
THE COMEDY STORE BELLY ROOM 8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 11:30PM/Lottery/3 min./Hosted by Erik Marino and Brian Moses
After watching a few clips, you’ll wish that there was a how-to show as funny and inventive as Going Deep with David Rees when you were growing up.
Then, and only then, you’d know how to properly dig a hole, having minerals in your water, tying your shoe, and more.
For our money, Ben Roy, hailing from Denver’s vibrant comedy scene, is a name that you need to remember if you don’t know already for how damn great his stand-up is.
In a new web series called Working Comic that interviews, you guessed it, working comics around the country, Ben tells his story of transitioning from bands to doing stand-up.
Watch it here.
Despite what you may think, the movie sub genre surrounded by vampires isn’t quite finished yet. If anything, it’s only the romantic Twilight-esque notions of vampires that folks are growing tired of. Twists and redefinitions of the sub genre seem to be popping up and are pleasantly surprising.
Case in point: the New Zealand comedy What We Do In Shadows from Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, which follows vampires living in a flat, mockumentary style. Just check the trailer and see how much fun it might just be.
You might have heard that SNL cast member Brooks Wheelan was recently let go from SNL, but we would hope you know that Brooks is a really funny stand-up. In fact, that’s how he got noticed in the first place.
Now, he’s going on tour or “falling back (sorta)” to do that very thing that got him to a SNL audition.
From now through November, he’ll be stopping by Montreal, NYC, Amsterdam, Connecticut, Indiana, Seattle, LA, and St. Louis. Brooks says, “Go to my bad website for details.”