Karen Kilgariff will take another “lovely” stroll down memory lane with Wanda Sykes and Sue Murphy as they watch and riff off of old sets of theirs from decades ago for another round of Throwback.
Normally in the Lab, this edition will be in the Main Room at The Hollywood Improv and should be a damn good time. Tickets are $18 (w/2 item min.). Get them here.
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Monrok has a really great sardonic opening that sets the table for the whole joyfully sarcastic set (that also just happens to be her first Conan appearance).
Give it a watch here.
The 77th Peabody Awards, one of the more prestigious awards to be bestowed in media, just named a few of their winners ahead of the ceremony on May 19th in NYC with host Hasan Minhaj.
As far as comedy is concerned, several comedy series scored a Peabody including:
American Vandal
Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King
Insecure
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
SNL: Political Satire 2017
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
On top of that, living and still working comedy legend Carol Burnett will be honored individually with a Peabody Career Achievement Award.
It should be noted that comedy pretty much dominated the entertainment category for the Peabodys this year, probably more so than in any other year in recent memory.
This is just a friendly neighborhood reminder that they are tickets available to see an evening with Nick Kroll at Largo next month.
Get tickets here before they inevitably sell out.
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So, according to Time, comedy can make a difference.
Definitely, Kumail Nanjiani is breaking down so many barriers and Tiffany Haddish is disrupting the biz. You can rest assured that Kumail, Tiffany, Jimmy, Greta, Roseanne, Trevor, and Issa will be making headlines for the rest of 2018,
Read their write-ups of being the Most Influential People in Time here.
Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero might now be the comedy power couple to be.
Not only do you get to enjoy their sharpened comedic perspectives on love, marriage, and parenting in their own individual half-hour specials, but you can see the strength in their bond when they’re both on stage. The way they roast other couples when going into their relationships is not only very fun, but complimentary to each other in a way that you know they’re pretty much perfect together.
The Honeymoon Stand Up Special is, as mentioned above, now streaming on Netflix, so you should enjoy and watch it ASAP.
The comedy of Aparna Nancherla has been, is, and continues to be a pick-me-up that America needs.
Please enjoy your latest dose of Aparna from her set on last night’s Corden here.
The unequivocally hysterical Heather Anne Campbell will be doing an entire show as the controversial author Ayn Rand this weekend.
That alone should be enough to make sure that you go, but she’ll be joined Pack Theater stalwarts Elizabeth Hayhurst, Jesse Arlen Klein, and Haley Mancini as well as the amazing James Adomian.
As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is Pay What You can.
Get more details here.
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A writer for The Jim Jefferies Show, SNL cast member, and a “mindnoodler” are just a few of the special guests joining in for Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen next week!
Lucky for you, as always, we’ve got a pair of tickets for you to win. Just enter here via DoLA: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
FYI, you can still also win tickets to catch Tracy Morgan at The Novo too!
With Broad City coming to its final season, you’re getting a look at Comedy Central’s hopes for their future.
Arturo Castro, who plays Jaime on Broad City, will be the next bet for the cable network’s sketch series with Alternatino (there were pretty fun digital episodes of this by the way) . Also, in connection with Broad City, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer will EP Gabe Liedman’s animated pilot Mall City USA.
This Week at Comedy Cellar will be the latest edition of Comedy Central’s vast collection of stand-up showcases series. However, this show will be focusing on comics developing fresh material including what they do behind the scenes.
Awkwafina, who audiences will get to know a little better when Ocean’s 8 comes out, is developing a pilot based on her life.
There is a pilot, Robbie, which probably affords the chance for Rory Scovel give a half-time sports speech. We are so on board for that.
If you though that the sketch show Friends of the People came to an end too early, there’s a chance you’ll get to enjoy alums Kevin Barnett and Josh Rabinowitz once more if their pilot Kevin vs. Josh goes to series.
Overall, there is plenty of promise here, leaving us to wonder if this will keep Comedy Central in the race with streaming services and premium cable networks that seem to be expanding their comedy line-ups more every season.
At Home With Amy Sedaris Is Getting a Second Season at TruTV
The part craft, part absurdist sketch show, At Home with Amy Sedaris, all hosted by Amy Sedaris, is indeed getting 10 more episodes at TruTV to be shot later this year.
We can only imagine that Amy Sedaris will double down on how Amy Sedaris-esque this show is for the second season and we can’t wait to see what that means.
Packchella, the comedy music festival that is pretty much right at your doorstep here in LA and not in far away polo fields, returns to The Pack Theater next weekend.
For this year, they’ve got the likes of Eliza Skinner’s Skinner Alive, A Mel Brooks Burlesque Show, Zach Sherwin & Friends, a special episode of This Is Dark Matters where “Music Director Rich Devletian will be joined by an orchestra and a psychic as we attempt to complete Schubert’s Unfinished 8th Symphony with help from the maestro himself FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!”, $1.000000 Identify That Song Game Show! with Kash Abdulmalik, and much, much more.
Sounds pretty swell to us (i.e. you should mark down on your calendars to
As always, all shows at The Pack Theater are Pay What You Can!
Get more details on Packchella 2018 here.
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Joe Pera has long been a purveyor of quiet whimsy and subtle absurdity surprising us at every careful turn for years now. That’s why we’re excited that he has his own show coming out at Adult Swim on May 20th at midnight called Joe Pera Talk With You.
We could give you a brief synopsis of the show here like we would normally do, but, as with all things Joe Pera, it’s best to just let it beautifully unfold without any idea of what’s coming.
Get a taste of Joe Pera Talks With You here.
Mike Rosenstein Goes From Red Hour to Setting Up His Own Production Company Sunset Rose Pictures
In LA, you’ve might have seen a thick, but neat beard and sunglasses roaming around the periphery of several live comedy shows not knowing that it was one of the power players in comedy, Mike Rosenstein.
Well, Rosenstein has quietly been pulling strings underneath the banner of Ben Stiller’s Red Hour, but now has his own banner, Sunset Rose, where he has projects in the works with Erica Oyama and Armen Weitzman.
Don’t be surprised if you hear the name Sunset Rose more coming up in the not so distant future.
Whether you want to continue riding the high of Coachella or you want to go to a festival where you don’t have to leave town and doesn’t break the bank OR you want to see a bunch of great comedy from local favorites lined-up back-to-back-to-back-to-back, you really ought to check out the Broke LA Music & Arts Festival happening this weekend in DTLA.
Lucky for you, we’ve got 10 weekend passes to giveaway!
All you have to do to enter to win is e-mail thecomedybureau@gmail.com and ask to sign-up for our mailing list!
The tapings for the New Negroes will be happening with a live studio audience that you can be a part of next week at Sunset Las Palmas in Hollywood. Tickets are FREE, so long as you RSVP, and you really shouldn’t pass up a chance to see and be a part of Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle’s showcase series that will air on Comedy Central.
Acts to be featured include Chris Redd, Candice Thompson, Tone Bell, David Gborie, Ian Edwards, Sam Jay, Yassir Lester, George Wallace, Dulce Sloan, Dwayne Kennedy, and more.
Go get tickets here.
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The absurdist way that Jamie Loftus explores her innermost anxieties and fears and presents them on stage, in videos, in animation, in articles, and, just from this past weekend, a Comedy Central digital series succinctly named Irrational Fears.
Jamie really goes to town with what that means and we love it. Watch the series here.
Hulu Renews Sarah Silverman’s I Love You America, America
Given how the mission of this talk show is Sarah Silverman going outside of her own bubble and past her own biases to reach out to all sorts of different folks, we’re glad to hear that it’ll be focusing on the upcoming midterm elections when it returns for a second season.
Also, we just love how I Love You, America has shown a whole different, beautiful side to Sarah Silverman. In general, it’s a more aspirational, positive comedy talk show, which is pretty much a unicorn these days.
A Bunch of Seeso Series and Special Just Found a Home at Starz
Take My Wife, Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, The UCB Show, Andy Richter’s Home for the Holidays, Sklar Brothers: Hipster Ghosts, Lachlan Patterson Live From Venice Beach, The Pistol Shrimps, Brian Posehn: Criminally Posehn and New York’s Funniest all just landed over at Starz and will be available on Starz’s own app and on-demand on May 1st.
Just in case you didn’t get around to watching anything on Seeso, there was a lot of innovative and fun stuff that was made and licensed over there. Hopefully, more people will come to realize that as they see Seeso shows and specials at other, more established networks and streaming platforms over the next year or so.
When it comes to the frontiers of comedy being boldly pushed and also still be damn funny while doing so, few accomplish that feat quite like Aussie comedian Sam Simmons.
Naturally, you should take up any chance to see him live, which will be next week as he does a full run of his solo show at the Lyric Hyperion in Silverlake.
Please get tickets here before they sell out.
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Though it has always been too long between every Apple Sisters appearance, we do always cherish any time that they’re around.
With that in mind, this coming Saturday, April 21st at 7PM at UCB Sunset, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, and Sarah Lowe reunite once again in their lovely green, yellow, and red dresses once more to give their dazzling classic musical revue that tends to be relevant to today.
Tickets are $7 and you can (and should) get them here.
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We’re doubling up on our ticket giveaways this week as you could win either see another rollicking line-up of Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen featuring Scott Thompson, Sabrina Jalees, Brooks Wheelan, and more OR Tracy Morgan at the Novo in DTLA next Friday, Apr. 27th.
Enter at DoLA here to win: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
From a show beloved in SF, then expanding to LA and NYC, then all uniting under the show’s home in LA, The Business has gone through and survived more than most indie comedy shows around, not to mention that they’ve kept it going for nine years.
They (that’s the current, rambunctious Business crew of Anna Seregina, Sean Keane, Chris Garcia, Bucky Sinister, and Megan Koester) will be honoring their 9th Anniversary this Monday at Little Joy. Per usual, admission is free (though we suggest you get there early if you want a seat.
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Ali Wong’s Next Special “Hard Knock Wife” To Drop on Mother’s Day
Two years have passed since Ali Wong’s first hour special that catapulted her into comedy fame and the wait for the next one, Hard Knock Wife, will be over next month on May 13th.
As mentioned above, that will be the date of Mother’s Day this year and might just make for the best day to release this special.
Whenever comedian/actor/postmodern prankster Moses Storm is given the reins to anything, you should most certainly try to see what Storm has up his sleeve.
So, when Team Coco is giving him the hosting duties of a comedy and musical show at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater that will also feature the likes of Pete Holmes, Ron Funches, Laurie Kilmartin, Matt Braunger, and more!
Up & Up is set for Wednesday, April 18th at 8PM. Tickets are $10 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.