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The wild stories and succinct observations of Julian McCullough have had us busting up for years now and, finally, they’ll be presented in the form of an hour special for all of you to enjoy.
With the great title of “Maybe I’m a Man”, it premieres tonight at midnight on Comedy Central.
Get a “delicious” taste of with Julian’s glass-shard-in-his-arm story here.
Dave Mizzoni and Matt Rogers’ beloved NYC gay-trivia-game-show-for-straight-guys Gayme Show (check this highlight in Vulture) will be doing a special round here in LA this coming Monday, June 11th at 10:30PM at UCB Sunset.
FYI, it’s a pretty great way to keep Pride Weekend going.
Tickets are $7 and you can (and should) get them here.
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Given how Atlanta has already won awards in its first two seasons on top of being one of TV”s most acclaimed comedies, Donald Glover is having a red hot 2018, renewing Atlanta for another season is a pretty sensible move by FX.
It has been four years since Robin Williams, a legend not just in comedy, but entertainment as a whole, has sadly left us all when committing suicide in his home.
Robin’s career in comedy, TV, and movies was so vast that there are undoubtedly multiple generations that primarily know him from his stand-up or Good Will Hunting or Mork and Mindy, etc. In any case, he left an unmistakable mark on pop culture and was a force to be reckoned with on stage and screen.
Marina Zenovich’s upcoming documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind will attempt to present the man behind the legend with interviews from the likes of Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Williams’ family, and more. From what we can tell, you might get a little choked up.
See a bit of it for yourself in the trailer, then look for Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind to premiere on HBO on Friday, July 13th.
Absurdist extradordinaire Nick Vatterott dazzles with his latest work, a studio sketch album that sends up the sheer ridiculousness that comes with DJ’ing a rock radio station.
Though many of us only listen to music through Spotify, YouTube and have replaced the chit chat of radio station DJs with soothing voices of your favorite podcasts hosts, terrestrial FM radio, and specifically rock radio, still very much exists. They also have all the annoying trappings that have had for over twenty years.
Vatterott, along with the spot on production of Jesse Case (not the comedian Jesse Case) takes the promos, stings, songs, and even inner studio drama (that you might hear on a very real KROQ here in LA) and tweaks it oh-so-slightly and beautifully for maximum comedic effect. In many ways, it’s almost like a hilarious acid trip while turning your old school radio dial.
KROCK 90Q.BUZZ is available now and you really ought to get right here right now, right here right now.
If you want a mix of club music done up with an absurdist flair, might we suggest attending Club Comic @ The Virgil from Brooklyn’s Sam Taggart this Friday night. Sam will give you, we’re betting, the most unforgettable “club experience” you’ve ever had.
Also, special guests John Early, Naomi Ekperigin, and Mary Houlihan will be the cherries on top of the night.
Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at door. You can (and should) get them ahead of time here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Samantha Bee to Get More TBS Oversight After Ivanka Trump Slur
We have a bad feeling about this.
As State Farm and Autotrader.com pulled their ads from Samantha Bee’s time slot, TBS, even after the unnecessary apologizing from both Bee and themselves, feels they need to reassure advertisers that such a thing as Bee using a curse word she used all the time (without controversy we might add) won’t happen the same way again.
So, Bee will have gone from “full creative license” to the network watching her more closely. We don’t know how much of a muzzle that puts on Bee and her team at Full Frontal, but the precedent set here isn’t great.
If all of this is supposed to be making things “even-steven” between liberals and conservatives for Roseanne tweeting out what was barely a joke and horribly racist then having get her show immediately cancelled, then we can only see both sides getting more entrenched from here on out.
Still, we hope that Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will figure it out and this won’t be like when a late night host move from 12:30AM to 11:30PM and has to become, essentially, family friendly.
Del Close Marathon Will Be Moving to LA in 2019
For two decades, a literally non-stop weekend of improv comedy madness known as the Del Close Marathon has brought joy to the NYC comedy scene.
After marking a milestone by having the UCB 4 play at Carnegie Hall this year, UCB Sunset and UCB Franklin here in LA will be the home bases for DCM in 2019 and onward.
Personally, we can’t wait as that means many of the world’s best improv teams that rarely get to perform in LA will be making an annual trek here. Keep a close eye for tickets/passes going on sale.
Leave it to the always charming Nore Davis to showcase the follies of toxic masculinity and how it keeps men from enjoying many of life’s simple pleasures and crush it during his set on Conan.
It’s a set worth watching more than once. Do so here.
It’s been awhile, but Set List: Improvised Stand-Up is doing their next proper show next week at Hollywood’s Sycamore Tavern.
Whether you’ve never seen it or not, you should go check out watch how esteemed comedians’ brains work while joking about an abstract, never-before-seen topic. Set List started here in LA, but has, over the years, toured nearly every comedy festival as well as been adapted into a TV show overseas.
Creator Troy Conrad gathered a heck of a line-up for this one too.
Get tickets here.
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While you wonder the fate of Chris Pratt as Star-Lord in the MCU, you can enjoy what’s basically a LEGO inspired version of Star-Lord voiced by Chris Pratt in The LEGO Movie sequel.
In fact, to further the parallels between Peter Quill and Emmet Brickowski, there is a rescue mission deep in outer space resting on the shoulders Emmet (despite the odds again being stacked against him).
See for yourself in the trailer here. LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part is set for theatrical release in February 2019.
Just like you, we’ll be curious to see if the gang behind the LEGO Movie franchise can live up to the magic, surprise, and wonder of the first film. If they do, don’t be surprised to see even more LEGO sequels and one-offs ordered at Warner Bros.
Chelsea Peretti Will Be in Her First Leading Role in Coming of Middle Age Comedy “Spinster”
Brooklyn Nine-Nine fans ought to be doubly happy now that Chelsea Peretti’s Gina Linetti get to live on at NBC and that Peretti will be starring as a lead for the first time in the upcoming film Spinster from writer Jennifer Deyell and director Andrea Dorfman.
The film will follow Peretti as a woman who gets broken up with on her 39th birthday and the aftermath follows. Assuredly, we can’t wait to see what Chelsea has up her sleeve in playing such a character.
Also, this news, we’d bet, is probably the beginning of an even higher rising tide of Chelsea Peretti, which hopefully leads to another stand-up special from her in the next year or so.
The renowned WorkJuice Players (the folks of the Thrilling Adventure Hour) are set to reunite once more, this time under the roof of the lovely Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater.
Of course, that includes the illustrious cast of:
Craig Cackowski
Mark Gagliardi
Marc Evan Jackson
Hal Lublin
Annie Savage
Paul F. Tompkins
Janet Varney
We suggest getting your tickets ASAP. They’re going for $15 in advance and will be available (if not sold out) for $20 at the door. Get them ahead of time here.
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It’s already pretty exciting that the MST3K crew will be hitting the road all across the U.S.
On top of that, they’re doing so to commemorate 3 decades of beloved riffing on B-movies in space with two separate, completely different shows at almost every city that they stop in.
The frosting on top of all of that is both Joel Hodgson, the original creator and star of MST3K and Jonah Ray, who took on Hodgson’s role in the MST3K, will be riffing together, side-by-side on this nationwide The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live 30th Anniversary Tour.
The tour will kick off Oct. 9th and go through Nov. 17th at cities such as Boston, Atlanta, Washington D.C., St. Louis, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland (both), Seattle, Chicago, and more.
If you’re into this at all, buy your tickets when they go on sale at AXS.com this Friday at 10AM local time.
Like any art form, stand-up comedy needs its torchbearers, practitioners that are such experts they can always show you “how it’s done”.
Jared Logan, for a long while, has been such a comedian who blends tight, concise, personal writing, delightful flourishes of the absurd, and flawless, confident delivery with ease. This is especially true of his latest hour The Twilight Door. It’s such a well crafted hour of stand-up that it flows effortlessly, (even though it’s clear great care has been taken in assembling it).
Oh yeah, Jared’s opening joke is one of the best opening jokes we’ve heard for an hour of stand-up in years.
So, we strongly urge you to get The Twilight Door fresh off the presses from AST Records here or iTunes here.
It’s rare these days that you get to see someone like the amazing James Adomian (Our Cartoon President, Trump vs. Bernie, Low Hangin’ Fruit, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Future-Worm) headline in town. Yet, your chance will be coming very soon this month as Adomian will be taking over The Satellite LA in Silverlake with help from Kate Berlant, Rojo Perez, and Zach Noe Towers.
So, we highly recommend that you go get your tickets ASAP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
We’re still smiling about the new web series Please Understand Me from Steve Feinartz and Ahamed Weinberg, EP’d by Sarah Silverman that was released this week on Facebook Watch.
Seriously, it’s fantastic.
Anyhow, if you’re in LA and don’t want to wait in the coming weeks for new episodes, you can go to a live screening of the whole series (including episodes for the pilot presentation) at the Lyric Hyperion in Silverlake (2106 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA) on Saturday, June 9th at 8PM. We were lucky enough to go to the premiere screening and it’s such a damn good time watching it in a crowd.
Tickets are $10 and you really ought to 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.
For this month’s Entertaining Julia @ Akbar, The Puterbaugh Sisters are spoofing “a bad comedy club” and presenting “The Who Farted Factory”. That being said, they have a hell of a line-up including:
Joe Kwaczala – Jay Christopher aka “The Bearded Comedian”
Joe McAdam – Colin Keenan aka “the Kansas City kid”
Casey Ley- Jesse jesse – Laughs on fox
Nicholas Vatterott- Bobby Boots – Dr. panics
Anna Seregina – The Entertainer – Russias Got Talent
Ever Mainard- Daeanley Differs aka “the Big Diff”
Sam Wiles – Brandon Mayhow – Famous in downstate Iowa
Ryan Dalton- Eric Derick, our house Dj – Performs at Pressure Hut
Dave Ross – NY comedian aka “Jimmy catchphrase”
Sydney Adeniyi- 7 Dart – Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed
Drennon Davis- musical comedy featured at The Zoink Zone
Nikki Ashley- actress, comic, DJ , she’s been on girl code, bad girls club, good girls house, and girls gone wildly wrong.
Whether you’ve been coerced into buying two drinks/items to be yelled at for sitting up front or not, The Who Farted Factory ought to be a good time.
The show is at 9PM this Sunday and FREE. Get more info here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Scotland’s Daniel Sloss, one of the most featured stand-up comedians on Conan in the 2010s will be having two new hour specials coming out on Netflix.
One is called Dark and the other is called Jigsaw and, together, they should further Sloss quest to make his name known here in the States (and it should be for how funny he is).
Just see for yourself in this cheeky announcement for both specials.
The newly minted Ruby LA that opened with a mission of diversity and inclusivity is throwing a Queer Comedy Festival for LA Pride Weekend next week. They’ve assembled a big line-up featuring the great comedy stylings of Erin Foley, Riley Silverman, Ever Mainaird, Lauri Roggenkamp, and many more queer comedians for six hours of shows on June 9th.
FYI, the LA Pride Parade is on June 10th, so you can enjoy comedy on Saturday and floats on Sunday.
Also, take note that it’s only $15 for a pass and $5 for tickets to individual shows. Get your tickets here.
The brilliant Emily Heller is about to record a new hour special and you can catch a preview of that later this month at The Clubhouse that will have Solomon Georgio opening.
In fact, you’ve got two chances to catch her before she heads up to Seattle to do the actual taping and you can do so for FREE.
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.
Well, here’s an intersection of a Venn diagram we never would have thought of.
Celebrated author and humorist David Sedaris does indeed read an excerpt from his latest book Calypso (available now) while appearing on Adult Swim’s SportsCenter send-up Fish Center Live.
The extreme juxtaposition here is worth a good laugh, especially given how NSFW some of Sedaris’ selected reading is.
OK, we’ll just let you enjoy it without any further attempt at explaining.
Sunday, July 15th is when Our Cartoon President, the animated satirical send-up of the Trump Administration, returns for 7 new episodes on Showtime.
Specifically, they’ll air on Showtime at 10:30PM on Sundays.
Though it’s animated (making it hard to be up-to-the-minute topical), we are curious to see if they will do any sort of riff on Samantha Bee’s Ivanka joke that she apologized for today.
In any case, here’s a teaser for what’s to come.
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen took Memorial Day off, which has given us a bit of Hot Tub withdrawals.
Luckily, the next show is this coming Monday and, per usual, we got tickets for you to win!
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