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So, a Show Called “Kevin Can F*** Himself” by Valerie Armstong with Rashida Jones/Will McCormack EP’ing Is in Development at AMC

November 2, 2018

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So, a Show Called “Kevin Can F*** Himself” by Valerie Armstong with Rashida Jones/Will McCormack EP’ing Is in Development at AMC

Just off the name alone and it’s obvious middle-finger-esque reference to the Kevin James starrer Kevin Can Wait, we want this to get a greenlight and see what this will be.

Also, we’re fascinated by the prospect of that revelatory scene from Louie where they break the fourth wall on a hacky multi cam sitcom in the cold opening of the show being upgraded by Valerie Armstrong to following the perspective of the “sitcom wife” as a real person.

We haven’t been this excited by a mere show premise in quite a long time. So, order it to series already, AMC.

November 2, 2018

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On top of the one and only Bobcat Goldthwait putting on what’s sure to be a fantastic, special one-off show featuring the likes of Weird Al Yankovic, Dana Gould, Tom Kenny & The Hi-Seas!, Jim “Kimo” West, and Demetri Martin this Saturday, November 3rd at 8:30PM at Largo at the Coronet Theatre, you’ll be supporting Helen Crimmins, Barry Crimmins’ widow, and her current battle against cancer (you can donate here if you’d like).

Tickets are $35 and you can (and should) go get them here.

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

My Favorite Murder Announces Their 2019 Tour

November 1, 2018

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Just because Halloween is over doesn’t mean you should have to wait another 11 months before you can look forward to really delving into your fascination of the macabre, especially if it’s from the feminist perspective with a comedic bent.

One of the biggest podcasts around now, My Favorite Murder will be hopping all around the U.S. right as 2019 kicks off as you can see from tour schedule above. Please don’t miss Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark at a city near you from Jan.-May.

Get details and tickets (starting next week) here.

November 1, 2018

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The University of Southern California not only has the nation’s top film school, but is also one of the most respected institutions in the land to have a specific concentrations on comedy. Not only do they have minors in comedy, but Wayne Federman is teaching stand-up there.

With that being the case, they have been having a comedy festival on campus, specifically at the USC School of Cinematic Arts featuring exclusive panel discussions, advanced preview screenings, and live performances.

This weekend, they’ll have:
a screening of CBS All Access’ No Activity
a special edition of Dead Pilots Society
a Frasier 25th Anniversary Celebration
panels on women comedy showrunners, inclusion, and the stand-up special that include Ian Karmel, Neal Brennan, Natasha Leggero, Kenya Barris, Danielle Perez, JR De Guzman, and more!

Best, of all it’s all free so long as you RSVP. Get in on all of the USC Comedy Festival right here.

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

What We Do In The Shadows, the FX TV Adaptation, Gives Us a Halloween Gift of Its First Teasers

November 1, 2018

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Sure, Halloween doesn’t traditionally come with gifts, but we’d like to thank FX, Taiki Waititi, Jemaine Clement, and co. for the fun Halloween present of the very first look of the TV series version of one of cinema’s best horror comedies What We Do In The Shadows.

Please enjoy them here and here and then look for the series to premiere in the Spring of 2019 on FX.

IFC Adds Almost Asian, Annika Erotica, Art Thieves, Beth, and The Middle Passage to Development Slate

October 31, 2018

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IFC Adds Almost Asian, Annika Erotica, Art Thieves, Beth, and The Middle Passage to Development Slate

Respectively, IFC’s new additions to their development slate include a semi-autobiographical series about being a mixed race asian millennial from Katie Malia and Margaret Cho, a priest writing erotica under a pen name from FoD, an art heist comedy, an comedy about agoraphobia from Timm Sharp and Jonathan Ames, and a socio-political long form sketch comedy show focusing on the racial divide in the United States.

This all sounds very, very intriguing, especially as IFC is figuring out what to do with the face of their comedy brand once Portlandia ends. So, we hope we’ll get to see how any of this will look, sound, or feel in the not so distant future and get an idea of what IFC’s comedy will be like going onwards into the next decade.

October 31, 2018

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Well, with the holiday season upon us, the gifts are coming early. Specifically, another edition of the crazy variety/stunt stand-up show known as Late Late Breakfast is coming before 2018 closes.

This Saturday, November 3rd, Tyler Jackson & Danny Maupin host a cornucopia of comics attempting to do stand-up while facing some of the most absurd challenges they can come up with.

The line-up for this time around includes:
Amy Miller
Steve Hernandez
Logan Guntzleman
Jamel Johnson
Katrina Davis
Amy Silverberg
Turner Barrowman
Joann Schinderle
Lindsay Adams
Neel Nanda

So, once you’re rested from Halloween tonight, get yourself to Silverlake Lounge (2906 W Sunset Blvd.) on Saturday. Doors open 4PM and the show begins at 5PM. Donations will be accepted.

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

YouTube Has Just Ordered an Animated Presentation of the Dumb People Town Podcast

October 30, 2018

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YouTube Has Just Ordered an Animated Presentation of the Dumb People Town Podcast

So much of the fun that’s had by The Sklar Brothers, Daniel Van Kirk, and their guests might be brought further to life if this goes to series at YouTube.

If there does end up being a Dumb People Town animated series, we can’t wait to see how the riffs and runs as well as Dumb People Town’s most popular game Guess the Agee will play out in animated form.

BoJack Horseman Getting a Sixth Season at Netflix

October 30, 2018

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Even after 5 seasons of successfully exploring so many different tones and arcs and being topical in a sincere way and having some of the best animal sight gags in entertainment history, BoJack Horseman continues to surprise, delight, and enrapture us and stand out in a very crowded field of both animation and dramedy.

We won’t be surprised if there’s an elective college course on BoJack before too long.

Congratulations on a well deserved sixth season.

October 30, 2018

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Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi’s hit podcast Throwing Shade is on tour and making a stop at Largo on Thurs., Nov. 15th. If you, for some reason, want to be at a comedy show where the female and LGBTQ voices get to talk sh*t, then you probably know about and love Throwing Shade.

In case you don’t, you’ll definitely want to go to this.

Tickets are going for $35 and you can and very much should go get them here.

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

Episodes of ‘Heathers’ Got Pulled Off the Air Again Following Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

October 29, 2018

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Episodes of ‘Heathers’ Got Pulled Off the Air Again Following Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

You can still watch these pulled episodes that deal with school shootings in particular on Paramount Network’s app or on VOD, but we bet that this, of all the things you can be outraged about on TV with respect to what’s going on in the world, ranks pretty low.

We will say that Eighth Grade and BoJack Horseman did manage to handle the topic of mass shootings with delicacy, while also being caustically funny.

Don’t worry, something else terrible in the news cycle will pop up in about an hour or so and, as mentioned earlier, you can still see it via streaming before the finale tonight.

October 29, 2018

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On Halloween this Wednesday, there will any and all sorts of haunted houses that you can imagine all throughout LA.

For those looking for something a little funnier (and maybe a little less scary), but staying in the spirit of the night, you can check UCB’s version of a haunted house that they’re calling “Yanny or Laurel Present Internet Expl-Horror”.

Many of the UCB faithful will take over and utilized several of the rooms, spaces, common areas, closets at UCB Sunset to make for this immersive comedy experience.

They have four different times that you can enter this Wed., 7PM, 8PM, 9PM, and 10PM. Tickets are only $7 and you can and should get them here.

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

October 27, 2018

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The Netflix edition of Historical Roasts that will be hosted by The Roastmaster General himself Jeff Ross will be doing their tapings in front of a live audience over the next week. If you’re in town, you can actually go for FREE!

In fact, you can pick your favorite figure from history that they’ll be roasting as follows:

10/29-Cleopatra
10/31-Freddie Mercury
11/2-Abraham Lincoln
11/5-Anne Frank
11/7-Martin Luther King Jr.
11/9-Muhammad Ali

All tapings will be at Ben Kitay Studios, 6309 Eleanor Ave., at 7PM. Go RSVP here before tickets run out.

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

Richard Linklater Is Making a Bill Hicks Biopic

October 26, 2018

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Richard Linklater Is Making a Bill Hicks Biopic

We bet this will focus a good deal on Hicks coming up in Texas, perhaps specifically at the Comedy Stop in Houston where Hicks made his bones.

This is one of two biopics that Linklater, a filmmaker famous for working in pretty much any genre of film, has in the works. As such, we’re intrigued to see what angle, both story-wise and style-wise, Richard takes.

October 26, 2018

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Mark Normand and Joe List’s popular storytelling podcast, the aptly titled Tuesdays with Stories, is coming to LA for a special live episode this coming Tuesday on Oct. 30th at 8PM in the Main Room of the Hollywood Improv.

Stories from their line-up of Bert Kreischer, Henry Phillips, and Nick Vatterott are probably ones that you won’t want to miss. Tickets are $15 plus a 2-item min. Go get them here.

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

Well, We’ve Officially Been Doing This for 8 Years

October 26, 2018

This is our official, bureau-wide reminder that our 8 year anniversary is today (TCB was founded on Oct. 25th, 2010 and is indeed trademarked).

We’re appropriately thankful to all of our employees for their hard, non-stop, obsessive (maybe a bit unhealthy) work over the years to keep Los Angeles and the greater LA area (and the country and, hell, the world) informed on the overflowing riches of comedy that exist within the city for fans, performers, industry folks, etc.

Also, we’re thankful to all of you for giving us reason to keep the lights on (or sure that Jake always has a fancy hat) around here.

We’ll throw a more notable anniversary event at date TBD.

For tonight, you can come say hi (and maybe a thanks or something? whatever you feel comfortable with) to our staff at Tabula Rasa (5125 Hollywood Blvd.) near Los Feliz around 11PM.

October 25, 2018

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There are so many holidays to get hyped for in the next several weeks. May we submit that the Hindu celebration of Diwali is one of those holidays that you should look out for and, as part of that, look forward to the wondrous themed variety show called Indian Wedding that will be doing a Diwali edition of their monthly show at Three Clubs presented by Amritha Kaur & Neal Dandade.

This Diwali celebration of Indian Wedding will be on Friday, Nov. 9th at 7PM and tickets are $10. Go the them quick here.

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

Win Tickets to 11th Annual Schtick or Treat This Weekend!

October 25, 2018

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It’s that time of year again where comedians dress up as well known comedians for the wonderful annual event known as Schtick or Treat. Oh yeah, it’s also Halloween too.

Mark Normand and Matt Ruby’s creation is now 11 years old and a national phenomenon and always delivers on the costumed, fake versions of the comedians you know and/or love as you can see with Henry Zebrowski as Mike Myers/Austin Powers, Jason Saenz & Nick Turner (who are returning this year as the LA hosts) as Cheech and Chong, and Teresa Lee as Ali Song.

We got a pair of tickets (normally, they’re $15 online and $20 at the door) for you to win for Schtick or Treat, which is this Sunday at The Virgil. Just sign-up for our mailing list by e-mailing us at thecomedybureau@gmail.com ASAP.

Photo Credit: Kim Newmoney

Photo Credit: Kim Newmoney

Photo Credit: Mindy Tucker

Trailer for “The Long Dumb Road” Puts Jason Mantoukas and Tony Revolori on a Perhaps, Enjoyable, Charming Road Together

October 25, 2018

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After making the festival rounds, the succinctly titled buddy road comedy The Long Dumb Road is coming to theaters on November 9th from writer/director Hannah Fidell and writer Carson Mell (Another Evil, Tarantula).

The trailer promises stars Mantoukas and Revolori being the most realized versions of the characters that they’ve played throughout the their past filmographies and could be something to watch out for next month and onwards. See for yourself here.

The Vulture Festival Is Returnsing to LA for Nov. 17th & 18th

October 24, 2018

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Better find a good way to park (or Lyft to) Hollywood Roosevelt for Sat. & Sun. Nov. 17th & Nov. 18th.

The Vulture Festival will be taking over the Roosevelt that weekend and bringing: Bitch Sesh Live, a live table read of Big Mouth, a Schitt’s Creek Holiday Spectacular, Adam Pally and Casey Wilson: An Excuse to Hang Out: An Evening of Music, Comedy, and Friendship, Busy Philipps: In Conversation, and much more!

If that peaks your interest (and we’re betting that it does), you can buy individual tickets here.

Goatface’s Comedy Central Special Finally Gets a Trailer

October 24, 2018

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Goatface Comedy, the sketch group that includes oh, you know, Hasan Minhaj, Asif Ali, Fahim Anwar, and Aristotle Athiras, is about to have a special on Comedy Central. It’s been a long time in the making, but it’ll be arriving just after Thanksgiving this year.

We have a pretty damn good feeling about it (just binge through years of past sketches and you’ll see what we’re talking about) and if you’ve been missing the days of Key & Peele, you might want to mark down Tues., Nov. 27th when the Goatface Comedy special premieres.

For now, get a lovely taste of what’s to come here.

October 24, 2018

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Normally, December is a very sad time in LA (people leave, things wind down, and there is minor traffic because the city is empty).

That being said, those “orphans” (or locals that feel fine for also staying in town) do have the now annual big time podcasting event called the Pee Cast Blast to look forward to. So many of your favorite podcasts (perhaps all of them?), one right after the other, will tape live at the gorgeous Theatre at Ace Hotel on Dec. 15th. Undoubtedly, this makes December in LA not so sad.

Tickets are going from $50 for GA all the way to $125 for a VIP meet-and-greet. They’re on pre-sale here (you can use the code: PCAST2018 to get access, so you’re welcome).

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

James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders Sings About LA’s Proposed Measure B for a Public Bank to the Tune of “Let It Be”

October 24, 2018

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James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders Sings About LA’s Proposed Measure B for a Public Bank to the Tune of “Let It Be”

Two things here:

1) James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders is, without a doubt, one of the best political comedy impersonations of this decade as shown by this performance at this past weekend’s Defundraiser event for Measure B in Los Angeles in the upcoming midterm elections.

2) Go out and vote on Nov. 6th. (Here’s more on Measure B if you’re curious)

October 23, 2018

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An inflatable screen, a DIY picnic area outside of an animation studio, and a bunch of wondrous, as stated, “messed up cartoons” is what makes Let’s What Messed Up Cartoons a pretty damn memorable evening (perhaps, one of those only in LA sort of happenings?).

In any case, it should be one of the stops on whatever you’re doing this Halloween weekend. Get more details here.

Snapchat Is Launching a Comedy Creator Initiative and Is Taking Submissions Until Nov. 30th

October 22, 2018

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If you’re on or dabbling with Snapchat these days, here’s a nice little opportunity for you.

Snap is looking to produce 10 different short form comedy series that feature 3-5 min. episodes to feature on Snapchat. Those picked from submissions will get $20K to make the 10 episodes.

If you’re into it, you can find out more details and submit here.