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October 12, 2018

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This will be a rally in support of Charter Amendment B that aims to help LA defund wall street so we can build affordable housing & renewable energy with a public bank! If intrigued, you can learn more here.

The Defundraiser will also be an event that features the likes of Eric Andre and James Adomian as Bernie Sanders just a stone’s throw away from Los Angeles City Hall.

So, you might want to set a reminder for the afternoon of 10/20. Get more details here.

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

Jaboukie Young-White Will be The Daily Show’s Newest Correspondent

October 11, 2018

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Jaboukie Young-White Will be The Daily Show’s Newest Correspondent

Jaboukie Young-White is having quite the October.

Last week, he killed it on The Tonight Show and now, he’ll be the (perhaps) Senior Millennial Correspondent(?) on The Daily Show.

Can’t wait to see what Jaboukie has up his sleeve for Trevor and co.

October 11, 2018

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The annual Comedy Comedy Festival returns this weekend (starting tomorrow with a big Picture This! show) to Little Tokyo at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center and Aratani Theatre! As you can see above, they’ve got a plethora of comedy, especially if you’re interested in seeing Asian comedians of all sorts (stand-up, musical comedy, improv, animation, etc. etc.).

Go see the schedule and get your tickets here fast!

We’d like to note that following Adult Swim Festival, DTLA will have had two weekends in a row of comedy festivals. Nicely done.

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

Please Enjoy Jaboukie Young-White’s Second Tonight Show Set

October 11, 2018

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Behind the sweet face of Jaboukie Young-White is a clever, mischievous (yet, also still sweet) sense of humor. It’s the thing that has carried him to a big following online, TV writing gigs, and this second set on the Tonight Show from last week.

For us, the closer on this set is stellar.

Watch and enjoy it here.

Brew Haha, One of LA’s Best Underground Shows, Can Now Be Enjoyed as a Digital Series

October 10, 2018

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For years now, people have gathered a various backyards around LA to enjoy the live comedy show drinking game that has come to be known and loved as Brew Haha, dreamt up and created by Jimmy Ambrose, Aaron Black, Marissa Gallant, and Brad Silnutzer.

Both comics and audience get to engage in their own sides of a drinking game while they do/watch stand-up, making for a, put quite simply, a damn good time. Thanks to Thrillist you can enjoy the same sort of merriment that crowds that make it feel like your at a movie level house party as they’ve produced a digital series of Brew Haha.

For once, you actually won’t have to worry about getting there early to get a seat. So, please watch and enjoy the first episode (and maybe even play along with the drinking game) here.

October 10, 2018

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Gary Gulman is hands down one of the best artisans within the craft of jokes (and has been for quite some time-just watch any of his late night sets) and will be stopping by LA as part of his 2018 Must Be Nice! tour.

Specifically, he’ll be playing two shows at Largo at the Coronet Theatre on Thursday, October 18th at 8PM and 9:45PM. Tickets for the early show are already sold out, but you can still get tickets for the late show for $35 here. Do so quickly!

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

A24 Is Screening Eighth Grade at 100 Schools for Free This Month

October 10, 2018

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A24 Is Screening Eighth Grade at 100 Schools for Free This Month

Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade may be not only one of the best movies this year, but also a pointedly important one giving a glimpse into what it’s like to be a teenager in 2018 as well as growing up in general.

Sure it’s a commercial success for A24 and Burnham, but following the promotional tagline of “If you’ve been through eighth grade, then Eighth Grade is for you,” 100 schools (picked from submissions that are open right now) will get the chance for a free screening of the movie on the week of 10/22.

It’s a great chance for kids whom the movie is about to see it without worrying about the rating (or to see it again).

The deadline is 10/14. Get more details and submit here.

Adam Conover Set to “Ruin” the Country with Nationwide Mind Parasites Tour

October 10, 2018

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Adam Conover, probably best known as the host that “ruins” it all (i.e. enlightens with information where most of us just took things for granted) is going on tour throughout this Winter.

Called Mind Parasites Live!, we’re sure (well, pretty sure) there won’t be any actual brain-eating insects (though the inside of Adam’s brain in the poster looks pretty damn metal) and rather, a bevy of edutainment offered by one of the best in the game.

So far there are 24 cities and you can get your tickets right now. Do so here.

October 9, 2018

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A new weekly stand-up show, Faded, is coming by way of Los Feliz thanks to David Gborie, Sean Jordan, Mike Mulloy, and Zak Toscani.

Some of you may know them as LA favorites, but others of you, specifically All Fantasy Everything fans might enjoy The Good Vibes Gang + “Enemy of the Podcast” putting up a stand-up show on Fridays at Blue Rooster Art Supplies. They’ll be starting off Faded this Friday.

Tickets are $10 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.

Tig Notaro Might Have Another Show Over at ABC with Pilot Production Commitment Set for “Thicker Than Water”

October 8, 2018

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Tig Notaro Might Have Another Show Over at ABC with Pilot Production Commitment Set for “Thicker Than Water”

Tig Notaro along with her co-EP on this project Cara DiPaolo are aiming for a dramedy exploring the American experience centered on the center of the U.S.

From the premise of meeting half-siblings for the first time at a funeral, Thicker Than Water almost seems like a natural progression from Tig’s last show One Mississippi.

Right now, it has a commitment for a pilot at ABC, but if it goes to series, maybe it could end up being ABC’s answer to This Is Us (in dramedy form).

October 8, 2018

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Well, do you want to hear something, anything at all positive? Sure sounds like a compliment contest might be the thing you need.

It just so happens that the monthly, always fantastic Boast Rattle is happening this Wednesday at Dynasty Typewriter and is sure to be an escape to funny life affirmations, (maybe slightly awkward) expressions of affection, and more.

Get your tickets in advance here for $10. It’s $15 at the door.

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

October 7, 2018

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Depending on how you look at things, tomorrow is either Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day (officially recognized by LA in place of Columbus Day).

In honor of the latter, there will be a Native American comedy showcase jauntily titled The Ghost Of Christopher Columbus Theater Smudging Spectacular and put together by themed show innovator Joey Clift (he pulled off doing a cat themed talk show for quite some time), who is himself Cowlitz.

The rest of the line-up is as follows:
Stand Up from:
Jim Ruel (Ojibwe)
Darrell Dennis (Secwepemc)
Kaitlyn Jeffers (Sisseton-Wahpeton)
Jana Schmieding (Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux)

Characters From:
Jason Grasl (Blackfeet)
Timmy Mayse (Cherokee)

Storytelling From
Taylor Orci (Sandia Pueblo)
Lorna Silva (Lenca)

Videos From
Joey Clift (Cowlitz)
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo (Tuscarora)

Featuring A Sketch Written By Carolina Hoyos (Quechua Inca)
Starring Carolina Hoyos (Quechua Inca), Jason Grasl (Blackfeet), Rainy Fields (Muscogee Creek), & Jenny Marlowe(Ojibwe)

Featuring A Sketch Written By Vladimir John Perez (Taino) and Carly Garber
Starring Vladimir John Perez (Taino), Myrone Sumner (Tsimshian), Leigh Wulff (Taino), & Shannon Joy Rogers(Cherokee)
Hosted by Jenny Marlowe (Ojibwe), Joey Clift (Cowlitz), Lucas Brown Eyes (Oglala Lakota)

Also, tickets are only $5. So, get in on tickets here.

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

October 6, 2018

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After knocking out two shows in August, the pretty-much-anything-goes-100-second-variety-show-hosted-by-time-travelers, Speedface, is finally back!

Stay up and out this Sunday night, October 7th at 10:30PM, to see the likes of the following folks doing 100 seconds of whatever they want:
Megan Koester (VICE)
Simon Gibson (Riot LA)
Hannah Einbinder (UCB, Golf Media’s Golf News)
Isaac Kessler (Canadian Comedy Awards) & Ken Hall (Second City Toronto)
Erin Nicole Bounds (Gunslinger, Detention)
Dominique Johnson (Rude Mondays Spotlight Performer)
Katie Dahlson, Mike Abbate & Vincent Lacey (New Pack Sketch Team)
Matt Harbert (Royale)
Jessica Greer (Criminal Minds)
David Ayala (New Pack Sketch Team)
Shalimar Malimban (Second City Hollywood, New Pack Sketch Team)
Miles Roberts (SQUiSH, Bananas)
Kaeli Quick (Second City Hollywood)
Gerard Dean Peters (SQUiSH, Bananas)
Ethan Stanislawski (Nightchurch)
and more!

and hosts Dr. Time**** (Nick Gligor) & SPEEDFACE (John Paliferro)

As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is pay what you can! Get more details here.

Big Mouth Season 2 Is Now Streaming and Ready to Remind You, Yet Again, How Hilariously Gross Puberty Is

October 5, 2018

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The hormone monsters along with the voices of Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jessi Klein, Maya Rudolph, and Jason Mantzoukas are all back to give another fantastic animated glimpse into how adolescence/puberty/teen years in a way that is indeed gross, but very funny when you do it with a whole fun bunch of magic realism.

You can go binge it now on Netflix.

October 5, 2018

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‘Tis the spooky season and that means that the annual comedians-donning-a-costume-of-another-comedian-for-a-giant-show is coming soon!

Schtick or Treat (presented by Mark Normand and Matt Ruby), now in its 11th year, is back at the Virgil on Sunday, Oct. 28th at 7PM with wonderful hosts Jason Saenz and Nick Turner. As we said, your favorite comedians around town (and around the country) will dress up and perform as famous comedians, dead or alive. It’s always a blast (even that one year where an entire back table dressed up as ghosts and kept saying “boo” the whole time).

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 cash at door. Get them in advance here!

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

Please Get and Enjoy Nicolette Daskalakis’ Satirical Love Poems in “Portrait of Your Ex Assembling Furniture”

October 5, 2018

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The idea of poetry about love usually conjures up some sort of Shakespearean declaration diced up in iambic pentameter.

Nicolette Daskalakis’ latest collection of poems in Portrait of Your Ex Assembling Furniture takes a much, much more modern and nuanced approach that captures the anxiety, frustration, ennui, etc. that make up love’s potential side effects (and, consequently, make it the more great when you end up actually finding love, or so we hope).

Her poems break far from traditional form and have a refreshing bit of sass and verve that are akin to the age of the Internet, but not in any sort of way that’s exhausting or alienating (you know, like the Internet mostly is). You can take a gander at a few of them over at Amazon.

So, please go and get some poetry for once with Portrait of Your Ex Assembling Furniture by Nicolette Daskalakis here.

Looks Like That Heathers TV Series Will Go on Air After All

October 4, 2018

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Though it’ll be airing as a “5 night binge event” and is being touted as highly “controversial” (apparently, it will also have major edits and combined the penultimate episode and season finale into one ep.), the Heathers reboot/TV adaptation is going on TV after all on The Paramount Network.

It’ll start airing on October 25th. If there is another major school shooting between now and the end of their “binge event” (which, very sadly, could happen), we’ll be curious to see what Paramount does this time around.

Here’s an announcement from an OG Heather and a new trailer.

Here’s Your First Look at Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj

October 4, 2018

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Or, you could call this your first look at government surveillance watching Hasan do his upcoming weekly Netflix show.

In any case, if the (slightly?) fictionalized watching of Hasan Minhaj doing his topical comedy series is a new angle, which might play well in the arena occupied by Trevor Noah, John Oliver, and Samantha Bee.

We’ll be excited to see what Hasan has cooked up and if Netflix will have finally figured out how they want to do a weekly comedy show where they can’t release all the episodes at once.

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj starts streaming Oct. 28, then releases new episodes every Sunday after that.

October 4, 2018

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Starting tomorrow and going through the whole weekend, the maiden voyage of the Adult Swim Festival will kick off just East of DTLA.

As you can see above, the line-up is pretty damn stacked. RTJ and the Rick and Morty Musical Ricksperience is great enough reason alone to go to this even though the rest of the line-up makes one hell of a festival. You can still get festival passes here.

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

The Duplass Brothers Return for More Somewhat Contained Weirdness with Room 104 Season 2 (Teaser)

October 3, 2018

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AI, striptease musical numbers, and Michael Shannon seem to be just a few of the things that are coming to season 2 of The Duplass Brothers innovative genre bending anthology series Room 104.

Get a look for yourself in this teaser and see if you can figure out what Mark and Jay have up their sleeve.

Friday, November 9th is when season 2 kicks off on HBO.

October 3, 2018

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Few comedy shows party quite as hard as Late Late Breakfast with hosts Danny Maupin and Tyler Jackson and that’s why it’s special the few times that they come around to LA every year.

This Saturday, October 6th is one of those special days where uber-silly challenges meet stand-up during “late late breakfast” (that would make it “late brunch” hours too, we guess?).

Debra DiGiovanni, Kara Klenk, Jordan Doll, Phoebe Bottoms, Simon Gibson, Amy Silverberg, Langston Kerman, Will Miles, Sasheer Zamata, and Jackie Kashian will all be joining in the controlled chaos at 5PM (doors open at 4PM if you want to get a good seat) at Silverlake Lounge (2906 W Sunset Blvd).

Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. Get more details here.

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

The President Show Is Coming Back with a Mockumentary with the Very Hopeful Title “The Fall of Donald Trump”

October 2, 2018

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Sure, Trump humor can be well beyond exhausted in 2018. That being said, Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump is so good that it supersedes any sort of fatigue we may have gotten from political humor over the last three years.

So, naturally, we’re excited for the folks at The President Show at Comedy Central to make a mockumentary that goes behind an imagined (or maybe what will end up being a not so imagined) dismantling of the Trump Administration (often self-inflicted by Trump and his cronies).

Here’s a taste of it with a “leaked tape”.

Look forward to A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump premieres on Monday, October 22nd at 11PM and hopefully a turning of the tides in the midterm elections a couple of weeks later.

Please Enjoy Kyle Kinane’s Latest Conan Appearance

October 2, 2018

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There’s no need for any really savvy explanation here. Kyle Kinane is an everlasting comedy peach that sweet on so many levels. Thus, you should watch whatever Kyle does whenever he does it like his panel interview on Conan last night.

We won’t take up anymore time with describing. Just enjoy Kyle’s take on ghosts and old Kyles.

HBO Orders Televangelist Comedy ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ From Danny McBride to Series

October 2, 2018

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HBO Orders Televangelist Comedy ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ From Danny McBride to Series

Amateur baseball. High school administration. And now, televised ministry.

If you can imagine it, it’s three points in an ever expanding Danny McBride-HBO universe (including Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals) that paints an always entertaining, but razor sharp satirical portrait of America.

Danny McBride’s latest project The Righteous Gemstones just got a series order at the premium cable network and will feature him squaring off against John Goodman within a family of a televangelists. Of course, they wheel and deal in greed as much as they do with “the good book”.

We’ll be looking forward to when this premieres, we’re guessing sometime later next year.

Now, we can’t help but wonder if there ever will be any crossing over between McBride’s shows (even if it’s only some one-off sketch released online).

October 2, 2018

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This Friday, new films from the very, very talented, boundary pushing group (from all different scenes and even parts of the country-Lorelei Ramirez in town from NYC) above will be presented at Junior High LA thanks to Bobby McCoy and Ember Knight.

Come enjoy a night of weird/wonderful films, especially for the fact that it’s cheaper than almost every matinee ticket in LA. Get more details here.

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

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