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Keith Lowell Jensen’s Latest Album “Bad Comedy for Bad People” Also Features Plenty of Adorable Stories About His Daughter

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The wry title of Keith Lowell Jensen belies the heart and warmth that Jensen has throughout this new hour.

Jensen has plenty of well-crafted observations including such as varied, yet niche topics as anti-gay tattoos and Charlie Chaplin. Alongside that are a bunch of stories and vignettes featuring his precocious daughter, who apparently, due to some lucky retweeting, has gotten some notoriety over her own. Keith is charming though pointed when he chooses to be, making for a very enjoyable listen.

So, get Bad Comedy for Bad People from Stand Up! Records on iTunes here.

Win Tickets to See Jonah Ray, Kate Berlant, Nina Conti at Next Week’s Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen

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From the heights of being the host of the new MST3K to expert puppetry from across the pond to the several dimensions that Kate Berlant occupies, next week’s Hot Tub, per usual, ought to be a doozy.

As you also should know by now, we’ve got a pair of tickets for you to win to catch this magic. Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

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Of the things that you could get nostalgic about from the 90s, Wayne’s World is definitely something worth revisiting in a big, dark room with friends and strangers alike, followed by an Q&A with the director.

Get tickets here for that exact thing happening next Sunday at The Regent in DTLA.

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

2018 Bonnaroo’s Comedy Line-Up Announced

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Per usual, a comedy tent in Manchester, Tennessee this June will be host to some damn good fun with comedians that you might have seen on TV, but really ought to go see live (i.e. Reggie Watts, Aparna Nancherla, Melissa Villaseñor, Drennon Davis, Martin Urbano, and more)

Get more details and passes about this year’s Bonnaroo here.

The Last O.G. Premieres Tonight on TBS

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This premieres marks Tracy Morgan’s return to being a sitcom star following that long break from a near fatal car accident, Jordan Peele’s delving back into comedy as co-creator, TBS’ latest scripted series, and another milestone in Tiffany Haddish’s continuing meteoric rise from 2017.

Your curiosity has got to be peaked at the very least.

The Last O.G. will debut tonight at 10:30PM on TBS.

TruTV Will Be Doing Another Round of Their Comedy Breakout Initiative Renewed at NY TV Festival

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TruTV Will Be Doing Another Round of Their Comedy Breakout Initiative Renewed at NY TV Festival

Whether scripted or unscripted, TruTV will be looking once more for new ideas via a contest at the New York Television Festival.

It’s free to enter and you should keep in mind that they’re looking for something with a distinct point of view. Submissions open up on May 2nd and are accepted through May 23rd. The winner, who will get a $25K budget to officially develop the project with TruTV, will be announced in July.

Get more details here.

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Some of LA’s best improv troupes are headed down south this week to the OC for The Orange County Improv Fest. That includes the likes of Jetzo, Cobranauts, Dr. God, King Ten.

So, if you were down in the OC and weren’t able to make it out to see some of the stellar, innovative long form improv offered up all in and around LA, don’t miss your chance to catch it at Fullerton’s STAGEStheatre from Apr. 4th-Apr. 7th.

Tickets are $25 for one night, and $40 for a festival pass. 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.

‘A League Of Their Own’ Reboot Being Developed by Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham at Amazon

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‘A League Of Their Own’ Reboot Being Developed by Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham at Amazon

As reboots and adaptations are still the orders of the days at studios and networks, a new version of the 90s sports comedy period piece classic A League of Their Own developed by half of Broad City and Mozart in the Jungle’s Will Graham sounds kind of exciting to us.

There’s no word on what the “modern take” exactly will be yet, but we are intensely curious how Abbi and Graham will make A League of Their Own that connects for 2018 beyond just tapping feminism’s current hot streak.

Here’s the Trailer for Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity Netflix Special

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Tiffany Haddish, John Mulaney, Ike Barinholtz as Satan, Nick Kroll, Sarah Silverman, and more joined Seth Rogen in raising a bunch of money to fight Alzheimer’s Disease in an exclusive event.

Normally, none of us would get to watch, but this year it was taped as a special for Netflix, so we’ll get to see what happened for this annual big shindig, charity event on April 6th.

Get a taste of it with the trailer here.

“Just turned on my wifi on our flight to Chicago and found out that #CrazyExGirlfriend has been renewed for a final season.

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“Just turned on my wifi on our flight to Chicago and found out that #CrazyExGirlfriend has been renewed for a final season.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has always been a show that does everything, from top to bottom, on its terms, especially being a dark musical rom com done from a feminist perspective and getting acclaim from the get go and subsequently winning awards.

Something tells us that Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, and company are going to keep doing just that as they will bring Rebecca Bunch’s story to a close.

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Bassem Youssef, Egypt’s Jon Stewart, will be doing his solo show over at the Comedy Central Stage on Thursday, April 12th and Monday, April 16th. It’s something you shouldn’t miss as one of the Middle East’s top satirists gives their perspective on the insanity of these times.

Best of all, tickets are FREE w/RSVP here and here, respectively.

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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Not only are you going to get see a comedy equivalent of the phenomenon known as “cuckolding” from the fun bunch that is Jason Saenz, Grant Gordon, and Eddie Della Siepe, but this is your chance to see Reggie Watts, Rory Scovel, and Garfunkel & Oates on the same bill.

We have no doubt that this will sell out. Get tickets here quick.

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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When it comes to where being daft and brilliant meet on the comedy spectrum, few duos coming up are quite as good as Joe McAdam and Chris Stephens otherwise known as Butt.

That’s why we highly urge you to catch them on an early evening this coming Thursday for $5 at UCB Sunset. Get tickets here.

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

Max Mutchnick, Co-Creator of Will & Grace, Wants to Donate a Copy of Last Week Tonight’s “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo” to Every Grammar School in Indiana

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Max Mutchnick, Co-Creator of Will & Grace, Wants to Donate a Copy of Last Week Tonight’s “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo” to Every Grammar School in Indiana

“Blown away by @iamjohnoliver’s new book, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo..”

–@MaxMutchnick

What started as a highly satirical, well-crafted prank by John Oliver and Last Week Tonight on VP Mike Pence turned into an Amazon bestseller and has now become an actual gesture of inclusivity, support for LGBTQ rights, love, and community as demonstrated today by Mutchnick’s move to donate copies of the book to schools in Indiana, Pence’s home state.

This is further evidence of original suspicion that comedy can actually make a direct difference for good. Let’s hope all of these Indiana grammar schools take Max Mutchnick up on his offer.

Claudia O’Doherty Showcases Her Acting Range on Conan as She Is Now Unemployed

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Unquestionably, one of the best parts of Love on Netflix is Bertie played fantastically by Claudia O’Doherty.

As the series is coming to close, O’Doherty, during her Conan appearance this week, “revealed” that she’s looking for work and can do more than just be a expertly silly Aussie that has a particular talent for not breaking character.

Really, more Claudia O’Doherty in the world is just a good thing. Watch this bit here.

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Next week, the opening night of LA’s newest comedy venue The Ruby LA will be a 12 hour feminist and inclusive comedy and arts festival featuring wondrous stand-up, sketch, improv, and music from some of LA’s best.

Admission is free until 7PM, after which tickets are $10. You can buy said tickets and 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.

Will Weldon’s “F*** This Guy” Is a Wonderful Debut Album Even with a Very Self-Deprecating Title & Cover Art

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Will Weldon is one of those comedians that we’ve enjoyed for years and years here in LA and almost quietly wondered when he’s going to drop an album or something.

Finally, that’s going to happen with his debut release “F*** This Guy”. Every bit of Will’s pitch perfect, delicious rage is caught in this performance. In fact, much of the joy of watching Will is seeing him balance his open mindedness with his cynicism (especially his cynicism of himself).

F*** This Guy comes out this Friday, but you can (and really, really should) pre-order it here. Also, if you send proof of purchase to willweldonalbum@gmail.com, Will will supposedly send you “a reason that he feels shame”.

Staffs of The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole Have Unionized at WGA East

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Staffs of The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole Have Unionized at WGA East

Some of the cleverest writers around should be part of the Writers Guild of America, no?

In a way, you can see this as comedy on the Internet “growing up” and becoming more of a viable and sustainable endeavor. Onion Inc., the umbrella that operates The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole under the bigger umbrella of Fusion Media Group, still has yet to hammer out a specific agreement with WGA East, but it seems that they’re ready to come to the bargaining table.

So, in the not so distant future, comedy writers can tell their parents that writing satirical headlines can get them guaranteed pay and benefits.

Wanna see a co-host of Who Charted?, a Moth winner, and the mind behind one of the best Guy Fieri jokes out there for FREE?

Well, per usual, we got tickets for you to win to see just that at next week’s Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen!

Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

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One of the more renowned and stacked teams in improv comedy is Theme Park with Ian Brennan (co-creator of “Glee”), John Michael Higgins (“Pitch Perfect”), Jessica Makinson (“South Park”), Oscar Nunez (“The Office”), Vanessa Ragland (“Pop My Culture” Podcast), Cole Stratton (“Pop My Culture” Podcast), Janet Varney (“The Legend of Korra”).

Only so every often does the team assemble for a show, which means you shouldn’t miss out when that happens. Their latest show just happens to be next week, Wednesday, April 4th at 8PM at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater. Alison Rosen (“Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend” Podcast) will be joining them as a guest monologist too.

Tickets are $15 and you can (and really 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.

The Ruby LA Will Be LA’s Newest Comedy Venue (and Taking Over the Nerdist School)

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While Meltdown Comics and the Nerdmelt Showroom are indeed closing, the space that was known as Nerdist School at 7518 W. Sunset Blvd. (right next door to Meltdown Comics) will be reopened as The Ruby LA, a comedy venue focused on inclusivity, specifically intersectional feminism. They’ll be “…bringing in women, people of color, and queer voices to round out leadership and faculty positions, while also creating and producing shows by underrepresented voices,” as stated in their press release this morning.

Led by Nerdist School’s heads Jen Curran, Lindsay Barrow, and Randy Thompson, The Ruby LA will have a launch event that will go from noon to midnight on April 7th with comedians of all sorts from all over LA.

The dust has been settling from all the LA comedy closures, but we can now thankfully chalk one point on the side of comedy venues opening.

Follow The Ruby LA on Twitter @the_ruby_la.

Chris Garcia Tells His Story of Trying Boxing to Win a Girl Back

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Normally, the stories featured on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening aren’t usually described as “sweet”, however Chris Garcia’s story of trying to win his girl back via boxing does definitely have all sorts of sweet throughout.

Don’t worry, there’s plenty of cursing and violence too (otherwise, it really wouldn’t be a TINH story, would it?)

Give it a watch and enjoy it here.

John Mulaney’s Next Special “Kid Gorgeous at Radio City” Drops May 1st on Netflix

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This is just a friendly neighborhood reminder that just over a month from now, there will be a new hour of stand-up from John Mulaney in your lives.

Doing a special at Radio City Music Hall is almost as big as it gets and we can only wonder where Mulaney goes from here. Maybe he’ll get another show of his own again?

Whilst Planning Their Italy Trip, Conan O’Brien Makes Things So Weird That Jordan Schlansky Finally Breaks

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As the upcoming travel special, Conan in Italy, is pretty much an excuse to mock infamous Associate Producer Jordan Schlansky, it might be one of the best Conan travel specials yet.

While just discussing the trip, which Conan sort of surprised Jordan with at the last minute, Conan and Jordan get to a boiling point in their dynamic and finally, FINALLY, Schlansky displays some human emotion.

See for yourself here.

Oh, Conan in Italy premieres on April 11th on TBS. It’s pretty clear that you’re going to want to watch that.

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The irresistibly charming Mary Mack is back in town for a month and will be putting on a show every week in April at Molly Malone’s.

The first show, on April 3rd at 8PM, has a wondrous line-up of Jackie Kashian, Laurie Kilmartin, Ron Runches, Naomi Ekperigin, Tim Harmston, and Tommy Ryman.

Pretty swell, huh?

Well, tickets are $5. 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.