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For Netflix’s Next Comedy Big Name Get, They’ve Lined-Up a SCTV Reunion Special to Be Directed by Martin Scorsese

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For Netflix’s Next Comedy Big Name Get, They’ve Lined-Up a SCTV Reunion Special to Be Directed by Martin Scorsese

The pull that Netflix has these days is undeniable.

The notion of Martin Scorsese doing a retrospective comedy special about a sketch comedy show wouldn’t have ever crossed our mind and yet, Netflix has not only gotten legendary auteur on board, but will have Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Dave Thomas, Andrea Martin, and Joe Flaherty reunited in conversation next month.

Second City Television, AKA SCTV, is one of Canada’s most renowned comedy exports and came into prominence right alongside SNL.

If you’re keeping a score, Netflix has a movie about National Lampoon and this special about SCTV. Maybe next will be a mini-series about Channel 101?

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The one and only Tracy Morgan will be doing a special one night only benefit for the Hydrocephalus Association (Hydrocephalus [HI’DRO-SEF’ A -LUS]: an excess accumulation of fluid in the brain that can only be treated with brain surgery with no current cure.) at The Novo at L.A. Live in DTLA later this month.

Joining Morgan for this special charity benefit will be Ardie Fuqua, Tracey Ashley, Ruperto Vanderpool, Marc Theobald. You’ll be backing a great cause and seeing Morgan hot on the heels of his new series The Last O.G.

You can find out more about the Hydrocephalus Association and donate here.

Tickets are $79.75-$154.75 and you can (and should) get them here.

We also happen to have a pair of tickets for you to win. Just enter here: http://dola.com/events/2018/4/27/in-stitches-an-evening-of-laughs-with-tracy-morgan-and-friends

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

Hasan Minhaj Will Be Hosting This Year’s Peabody Award in Addition to Getting Nominated for His Netflix Special “Homecoming King”

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Hasan Minhaj Will Be Hosting This Year’s Peabody Award in Addition to Getting Nominated for His Netflix Special “Homecoming King”

“Honored to be hosting the @PeabodyAwards…oh, and ‘Homecoming King’ got nominated! ?????? https://t.co/ZfbOHWCSdi”

–@hasanminhaj

Congratulations to the well-deserving Hasan Minhaj for the prestigious gig and the nomination. We look forward to the ceremony as it’ll double as a great spotlight for Minhaj and a nice warm-up for his weekly Netflix show.

Comedy Central Renews Broad City for Fifth and Final Season and Signs Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson to First Look Deal

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Comedy Central Renews Broad City for Fifth and Final Season and Signs Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson to First Look Deal

Netflix has been pulling in the biggest names in comedy for well over a year now from networks, both broadcast and cable.

Looks like Comedy Central does not want to lose stars and creative forces Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson in a similar fashion. Thusly (and smartly) have given Broad City a fifth season and the duo a first look deal with the goal of producing more of their projects.

You can look for the final season of Broad City to air in 2019, but bet on seeing Ilana and Abbi on Comedy Central well into the 2020s.

Conan in Italy Featuring “Very Special Guest” Jordan Schlansky Premieres Tonight

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For years, Conan O’Brien has ridiculed his Associate Producer Jordan Schlansky for how Italian he tries to be.

Tonight, a Conan Without Borders travel special will showcase O’Brien taking that dynamic to the next level by actually galavanting around Italy with Schlanksy being as serious and sobering and stonefaced as only one Jordan Schlansky can be.

Conan in Italy premieres tonight at 10PM on TBS.

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It’s been a minute, but one of our favorite shows, Full Moon Comedy, that melds the comedy and spiritual worlds is finally back for another round. Stand-up, guided meditation, metaphysical guests, and more are always brought to you lovingly by Lindsay Adams and Aaron Weaver.

This latest edition of Full Moon Comedy is set for Sunday, April 15th at 7:30PM at The Green Man Store in North Hollywood and will include the great comedic stylings of Jackie Kashian, Candy Lawrence, and Will Miles. To attend, they’d like a modest $5-$10 suggested donation.

Really, you should mark this down for your Sunday night this week. 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.

R.I.P. Mitzi Shore, 1930-2018

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The World Famous Comedy Store wouldn’t be “World Famous” without Mitzi Shore at the helm of the long standing LA institution. From the 70s onwards, Shore laid down a legacy at 8433 W. Sunset Blvd. on the Sunset Strip that spans several generations of comedy and will probably continue to do so for many more generations onwards.

Really, she even helped cement the notion of what a “comedy club” is before comedy clubs took hold nationwide in the 80s on top of personally passing comedy legends whose names are still up on the wall right now.

Today, Mitzi Shore passed away and, in her honor, The Comedy Store will go dark this evening.

Ron Funches Will Be Taping His First Hour Special for Comedy Central This Summer

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Ron Funches Will Be Taping His First Hour Special for Comedy Central This Summer

“My first hour comedy special is taping June 19th at The Neptune in Seattle for @ComedyCentral. ????????❤️?❤️??❤️????. I need everyone to come out from Florence Oregon to Bellingham Washington. NW represent.”

It’s sincerely a mystery why it’s taken this long to give the wonderful, magical, hilarious Ron Funches an hour special (just go look up any of his clips on YouTube or listen to his album and you’ll want to see him do an hour just like we do).

We’re glad that it’s happening and we’ll all get a chance to see it on Comedy Central in the not so distant future. If you have a chance to catch it in Seattle, you should absolutely go get tickets here.

Watch Trailer for Comedy About French New Wave Pioneer Jean Luc Godard “Godard Mon Amour”

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Director Michel Hazanavicius wowed Hollywood with a movie about silent film with The Artist. In that vein, he is continuing down his path of movies about movies with telling a specific story (it’s from the perspective of a woman that was married to Godard) in the life of iconic director Jean-Luc Godard, a trailblazing pillar to French New Wave Cinema.

Called Godard Mon Amour, it seems to float playfully between capturing this portion of Godard’s life in 1968 and also delving into his groundbreaking auteur style, which mischievously broke almost all previous filmic conventions.

Get a taste of it with the trailer here.

Look for Godard Mon Amour in a limited theatrical run on April, 20th.

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While Nerdmelt has now been laid to rest, Women Crush Wednesdays with Marcella Arguello will live on over at the Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab on the same day (Wednesdays), at pretty much the same time (7:45PM), and at the same price ($10).

Also, it’s pretty much a 5 minute drive from Nerdmelt/Meltdown and will continue have stellar line-ups. Get your tickets for the first Improv Lab show here.

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

R.I.P. Chuck McCann, 1942-2018

Chuck McCann’s long and expansive career spans a wide array of radio, TV, movies, puppets, and much more including a comedy album lampooning The Kennedys, The Bob Newhart Show, Adventure Time, and even that one time we personally saw him on Tomorrow! with Ron Lynch and was thoroughly delighted.

In fact, McCann provided voices for The First Family, that album about the Kennedys, and also got to contribute to a satirical album about Trump called Trump: The Last Family, recorded last year.

Making it in comedy is one thing, but lasting a few scores in it is a rarer thing to pull off and for that, we honor Chuck McCann. Take some time, when you can, to look and enjoy his work.

The Simpsons Tried Their Hand at Addressing the Issue Raised by Hari Kondabolu’s Documentary “The Problem With Apu”

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The Simpsons Tried Their Hand at Addressing the Issue Raised by Hari Kondabolu’s Documentary “The Problem With Apu”

If you’ve seen Hari Kondabolu’s doc “The Problem with Apu”, you’d know that one of The Simpsons’ longest running supporting characters, Apu, is voiced by Hank Azaria, a caucasian actor. This mark against the legendary TV series has flown under the radar for decades really until Hari’s documentary.

Last night’s episode attempted to address the issue of representation by effectively saying that The Simpsons now see the problem with Apu though it wasn’t a problem for them for so many years and aren’t exactly what sure to do about it at this moment. Kondabolu isn’t thrilled with this response since it really doesn’t offer any solution, but only a recognition of the issue he raised.

So, this cultural impasse remains with no definitive resolution coming at a specified date. However, that does make Hari pretending to be the voice of Hank Azaria on a god mic at his live shows even more poignant and hysterical.

If you want to watch The Problem With Apu, you can get it on iTunes here.

Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher’s Honeymoon Standup Special Gets a Trailer

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For us, The Honeymoon Standup Special is one of the specials that we’ve been really looking forward to in 2018. Not only will it feature solo stand-up from Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher, but it will also feature the couple analyzing/roasting other couples in a separate part of the special.

See it for yourself in the special’s trailer.

Look for The Honeymoon Standup Special to stream on Netflix next week on Tuesday, Apr. 17th.

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Tinder extraordinaire Lane Moore (Lane has indeed figured out a way to be good at Tinder) is returning to LA for another round, this time at The Regent in DTLA on Tuesday, May 1st at 7PM.

She’ll be going through Tinder swiping, messaging, and causing a bunch of fun chaos on the dating app for the show, which is pretty damn entertaining.

Tickets are $17.50-$22.50 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.

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The line-up, the hosts, and the poster (done by Joe Karg) are all so gorgeous. It’s almost like you shouldn’t miss out on the latest edition of Repentance at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake.

Get your tickets 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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The Broke LA Music + Arts Festival is just a few weeks away and their line-up just got announced. As you’ll see if you go, Prufrock Pizza will be chock full of LA comedians whose names you should get acquainted with.

By the way, tickets are $15 for one night and $25 for the whole weekend to see everything (including the multitudes of bands on the bill). Pretty nice, huh? Get your advanced tickets here.

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

Music Parody Is at Its Best on the “Punch Up the Jam” Podcast

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Within the ever burgeoning art form of comedy, musical comedy is unfortunately oft-maligned, especially when it comes to parodies of popular songs.

That being said, Miel Bredouw (YouTube star, writer) and Demi Adejuyigbe (currently a writer on The Good Place) not only do a smash up job of parodying songs that they feel they can “punch up” with an extremely clever change in the lyrics (that usually takes on a much more nuanced existential perspective than the original song), but also dissecting those songs every which way they can, lyric-by-lyric. That formula plus their irresistibly charming chemistry combine to make up their great podcast Punch Up The Jam.

Miel and Demi have wonderfully tackled and punched up anything from Auld Lang Syne to Friday I’m in Love to Mambo No. 5 (done live at SXSW).

So, get in on Punch Up the Jam right here, right now.

Trump Will Skip the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Again Because, Of Course, He’s Trump

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Trump Will Skip the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Again Because, Of Course, He’s Trump

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a childish, ill-tempered, egotistical, sociopathic bully who is unfortunately President of the United States will yet again ignore the White House Correspondents Dinner, which is essentially (and has thankfully always been) a “POTUS Roast”. It should be noted that if you can’t take a joke, that’s one big reason amongst many big reasons you shouldn’t be in a position that used to be referred to as “leader of the free world”.

In an interesting twist, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be in attendance and other White House staffers are encouraged to attend as well.

Michelle Wolf is hosting this year’s White House Correspondents Dinner and we have no doubt that will pull absolutely zero punches. What will be interesting to see if Trump tweets about it in real time and if Wolf would potentially to respond to it during the broadcast. That may sound crazy, but, then again, crazy is pretty normal these days.

Tiffany Haddish to Executive Produce “Unsubscribed” Comedy Series in Development at HBO,

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Tiffany Haddish to Executive Produce “Unsubscribed” Comedy Series in Development at HBO,

In 2018, you will have seen Tiffany Haddish do stand-up, be an actress in several different TV shows and movies (possibly even an animated series), be the spokesperson for Groupon, and just announced, an executive producer for a series project on black beauty and feminism via an “Instagram hustle” from Xosha Roquemore and Danielle Henderson.

It’s only the beginning of April, so don’t be surprised if this killer multi-hypenate career of Haddish expands even further before 2018 closes out.

Nate Bargatze on the Unexpected Lesson Gained from Moving a Dead Horse

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Nate Bargatze is the perfect combination of a keen comedic observer and a folksy storyteller and this latest set on The Tonight Show is a perfect example of that.

Watch and enjoy it here.

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Not only will you be benefitting animals that need a good home, you’ll be catching one hell of a stacked comedy show at the 3rd Annual Punchlines for Paws next weekend.

Tickets are going for $75-$150. Get them and 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.

“Sklars and Stripes” Audio Documentary Series Shows How Sklar Brothers Come Up with Material for Whichever City They’re Playing

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Coming up with jokes will always be a mystifying, magical process. Every comedian does it differently and their inspiration can range from anything including molecules to the entirety of the known universe.

The Sklar Brothers are fantastic comedians that definitely have a knack for the craft of joke writing itself. As such, Audible Comedy recorded an audio documentary series that followed Jason and Randy through their gigs across the U.S. Specifically, their actual observations about a place and time are juxtaposed with the distilled jokes that they tell later on. It’s a fascinating glimpse into a facet of the comedic process of two of the quickest wits in comedy.

Sklars and Stripes spans 12 chapters across 10 different cities, which includes a chapter where they had to perform the week after the 2016 election, and is definitely worth a listen. Get it all and hear it on Audible here.

Bo Burnham’s Latest “Gay Kid and Fat Chick” To Be Directed by Amy York Rubin

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Bo Burnham’s Latest “Gay Kid and Fat Chick” To Be Directed by Amy York Rubin

Bo Burnham continues to blaze a trail from behind the scenes. This year alone, he has made plenty of great noise with directing Chris Rock’s latest special and his own feature length film Eighth Grade.

Continuing in that direction, Burnham’s next project, which he wrote and will produce, is called Gay Kid and Fat Chick, centering on teenagers taking on their bullies via their alter egos, will be helmed by veteran TV director Amy York Rubin.

It’s totally up to Bo and he certainly has gotten success exploring work behind-the-scenes in comedy over the last couple of years, but we can only wonder what he’d do if he were to another stand-up special/concert film/etc. If that is what the future holds for Bo, it’ll be unlike anything we’ve seen before, kind of like what.

Scott Aukerman, Paul F. Tompkins, and Lauren Lapkus Have United to Form the “Threedom” Podcast

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Whether it be their own podcast or guesting on dozens upon dozens of others, Scott Aukerman, Paul F. Tompkins, and Lauren Lapkus are some of the most beloved figures in podcasting and have been for quite some time.

It only makes sense, especially because they improvise so well together too, that they come together as a sort of comedy podcast supergroup. Thus, their new show Threedom, available exclusively on Stitcher Premium, has arrived.

On Threedom, they flow in and out of free flowing stories and conversations into improvised scenes, giving them an endless canvas to do as they please. The trio speak more on that and podcasting in general in this Wrap interview.

They’re only on their second episode so far, but you can get a free month of Stitcher Premium to listen to Threedom and several other premium audio comedy content with the promo code: THREEDOM.

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These days, you might be missing the show known as Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.

Well, if you’re in the LA area later this month, you might get a chance to get your Bajillion fix as the stars which could include Dan Ahdoot, Ryan Gaul, Mandell Maughan, Tawny Newsome, Drew Tarver and Paul F. Tompkins will be improvising together once more at UCB Franklin.

Also, tickets are only $5 and we have a sneaking feeling that it will sell out. So get them here quick.

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