There was a lot of great stand-up on late night last week. So much so, that you might have missed Joyelle Nicole Johnson’s great late night debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Catch up by watching and enjoying it here.
Well America, here’s your chance to see Aparna Nancherla headlining live.
She’s one of the best around right now and you shouldn’t make the mistake on missing out on one of these dates from August 18th-November 29th, if not more.
Get more details, tickets, and more here.
Poster by Andrew Shearer.
UK comedian James Acaster is joining the slight uptick in trying something different in comedy specials besides just doing one hour in front of a crowd.
Seemingly inspired by the famous “stages of grief”, Acaster is doing a Netflix special in four parts, each representing a “stage of James”. Acaster himself is more than polished enough to do a traditional special, so that ought to be interesting.
It isn’t out of the realm of possibility that Nicholas Cage would do live commentary of one his movies.
However, that doesn’t seem to be on the horizon quiet yet and, in the mean time, we have something pretty damn close with Kenny Stevenson as Nic Cage doing said live commentary of Nic Cage movies.
This Sunday at UCB Sunset’s Inner Sanctum, he’ll be doing just that with The Rock along with guests (that may or may not also be in character) Josh Covitt, Marshall Givens and Jessica Jean Jardine.
Admission is FREE. Get more details for Nic Cagentary here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, screenings, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Simply, we love that one, Jacqueline Novak, used the platform that a late night stand-up set on The Tonight Show provides to lay down the law when it comes to sharing fries when going out.
Also, we love the unexpected, but wholly wonderful twirling that happens during this set on last week’s Fallon.
Please watch and enjoy it here.
Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino are so good at improvising musicals that we honestly bet that someone who actually despises musicals might actually enjoy the podcast, Off Book: the Improvised Musical. From start to finish, with musical accompaniment by Scott Passarella, McKenna and Reino dazzle with making up a legit musical out of thin air and having it be funny from so many different angles at the same time.
Their latest live show will be at the end of April, specifically Sun. April 29th at 7PM at Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics. Tickets are $10 and they will sell out. 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.
That’s right. The world champ, Judah Friedlander will be doing over an hour of new material/crowd work at the still bright, shiny, and new venue Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door and you can (and really, really should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Late Late Breakfast is one of the best ways to spend a Saturday afternoon or, really any afternoon. Stand-up crashes into a bizarre game show where there are really no winners and losers, but just a bunch of fun, controlled chaos.
The line-up for the April 7th edition at Silverlake Lounge is stacked with:
Ad Spot by Whitmer Thomas
Blair Socci
David Gborie
Joe Kwaczala
Anna Seregina
The Puterbaugh Sisters
Lindsay Adams
James Fritz
Steve Ageyi
AND MORE TBA SOON
Hosted by comedians Danny Maupin & Tyler Jackson
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for the show.
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
Next week’s Hot Tub has a Roast Battle champ, a writer for The Jim Jefferies Show, a wonderful Irish comedian, and a Powerpuff Girl. Sounds pretty great, right? Of course it does! We’ve possibly got a pair of tickets for you! Enter to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
If you’re looking for a romantic comedy that is a shock, albeit a grounded and delightful one, to the romantic comedy genre, go watch The Feels, directed by Jenée LaMarque and co-written by LaMarque and Lauren Parks.
It’s a love story that delves into the finer nuances of sexuality and sexual identity in a way that’s more endearing and sweet than voyeuristic, which it could very easily have been. In fact, the movie, as a whole, exists in a space where any sort of hang-ups or pre-conceived notions about sexuality (LGBTQ specifically) are thrown out the window and all the characters just get to be who they are in a quietly beautiful way. The story takes places over a bachelorette party weekend in a cabin, showing what love could be if people, whoever they may be, loved who they loved without surface level judgment.
The direction from LaMarque of the fully improvised performances is very impressive as they really don’t seem improvised. The chemistry of the leads Constance Wu and Angela Trimbur along with comic reliefs Ever Mainaird and Josh Fadem all make it feel both real and well-crafted at the same time.
By the way, here’s the trailer.
The Feels is available now on VOD on all digital platforms. You can (and should) actually get it on iTunes right now right here.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Mark Normand is just one of those comedians that knows how to do a stand-up set on late night. His classic rhythm, cadence, presence, writing, etc. etc. are always there and always serve him well.
See for yourself in this latest set on Conan this week here.
Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump is fed up with how the real Trump can’t get the money for all of his dumb ideas.
So, they’ll be doing two “telethon specials” to raise the money that Congress won’t give him. It’s sure to be a lot of devilish, prescient fun.
The first one is scheduled for Tuesday, April 3rd at 11PM and the other one will take place later this Summer.
We’ll let Atamanuik/Trump do the rest of the talking.
Really, it’s been too long since we’ve all had some Brett Gelman in our lives.
Gelman’s experimental comedy is truly something to behold and this Sunday at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater, you can see it for yourself along with a very fine line-up of guests of Peretti, Jon Daly, and Desai.
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.
Bo Burnham really is making an impressive showing as a director after making himself into a formidable comedian. From his work on his own specials to directing comedy specials for Jerrod Carmichael and Chris Rock, Burnham has made the next step to a feature length film Eighth Grade that he both wrote and directed.
The trailer promises a coming of age of story that has a bit of wry, satiric edge and something that could be really special (perhaps, 2018′s Lady Bird). The trailer will definitely make you think about how painful a time 8th grade might have been for you.
Apple Scores Animated Musical Comedy “Central Park” From Loren Bouchard, Nora Smith, and Josh Gad
As you can see the streaming services build their war chest of content, we see here that Apple has just scored a big get with this series order.
It has Gad and both a Bob’s Burgers team of Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard and Bob’s Burgers EP Nora Smith. The cast will includes the likes of Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Josh Gad, Titus Burgess, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., and Kathryn Hahn.
In addition to Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s upcoming Amazon series Undone, it would seem as though Netflix’s line-up of critically acclaimed animated series might finally have some formidable competition this year and the next.
Paul Feig Launches Digital Content Company Powderkeg To Highlight Female, LGBTQ, and POC Voices
This new banner launched by Paul Feig and headed up by Laura Fischer will “…focus on scripted and unscripted series as well as incubator programs”.
It’s nice to see that Feig is expanding from his passion for highlighting women in comedy (just take a look at his filmography from the last several years). This move also comes on top of a doing an “inclusion rider” on his projects and promoting a diverse work environment.
Needless to say, we’re very curious to see what comes from all of this and if the company will live up to its name.
The Head Writer/Co-EP of The President Show Emmy Blotnick has also been a favorite stand-up of ours for years with her undeniably bubbly presence and deft joke writing.
So, whether you already knew that or not, you really should enjoy her set from Colbert earlier this week. We’re still smiling from watching it.
Ben Schwartz’s That Kind of a War, a comedy about Bob Hope trying to entertain troops at The Korean War, will be doing a live read with a top notch cast next week (just look at that cast above), Saturday, March 24th at The Montalban Theater.
We’re pretty sure this will sell out soon. Tickets are $20-$25 and you really ought to get them ASAP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Mary Mack may sound as midwestern as you possibly imagine a person can sound like, but there’s an undertone of innocent mischief in all of her stories and jokes that we find endlessly charming. “Folk humorist” is what her bio describes her as and we couldn’t help but further that notion.
See for yourself in her latest Conan set here.
Running a comedy show in either NYC or LA for over a decade is a remarkable feat in of itself. To do so in both is another thing entire together that requires a bit of magic.
Such is Greg Barris’ Heart of Darkness, which will be marking its 15th year of galavanting back and forth across the U.S as a comedy/variety/quasi-spiritual experience show with a great line-up at the ultra hip Zebulon. Don’t miss out on this.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door 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.
Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Kinane, Gina Yashere, Joe List, Rachel Feinstein, and Brent Morin are the latest batch for Netflix’s half hour stand-up special series The Standups and should make for a very solid showing of Netflix’s continued march forward in dominating the world of televised stand-up comedy.
It’s a hard feat within the realm of comedy to be both positive and being funny at the same time. The crux of so many jokes comes rely on a critical, yet pithy and/or clever angle of the world by the comedian/writer/humorist/etc.
Still, that doesn’t mean that being funny about something that’s good can’t be done. That’s where the podcast All Fantasy Everything comes in.
Wonderful comedian and writer Ian Karmel hosts a fantasy draft like you would for football, but, as the title suggests, for everything else. That includes: Taco Bell menu, moments in songs that give you chills, what you would do with a billion dollars, what fictional character you’d date, movie soundtracks and treating yourself just to name a few. The draft itself has a bit of drama kind of like an actual Fantasy Football draft, but nothing too heavy as the podcast is a round-robin of what and why one loves what they love in a certain category.
Karmel is often joined by David Gborie and Sean Jordan along with great guests who really swing for the fences with their pick. They’re 72 episodes in, and, just this past weekend, did a live episode at SXSW, which should give you plenty of reason to binge All Fantasy Everything. Do so here.
Starburns is up to a lot of things these days.
On top of everything they do as a production company, they just inherited the podcast line-up from Feral Audio and launched SBI Audio. They also have a publishing arm SBI Press that’s offering up a “Tape of the Month Club” for those willing to contribute and potentially be “founding member”.
Literally, you’ll be getting cassette tapes in the mail (and a cassette player if you pledge enough) featuring the likes of:
Dan Harmon, Roy Lynch, Natalie Palamides, Dino Stamatopoulos, Johnny Pemberton, Future Ladies of Wrestling, Alan Resnick & Dina Kelberman, Dynasty Handbag, Magic for the Blind, Jeff B. Davis, Rob Schrab, ASMR Live!, Lance Bangs, DJ Douggpound, Kron, Open Mike Eagle, Erin Hayes, Sorry About Everything, Rob Tanchum
(There’ll be a way to get the tracks from the tapes digitally too).
If that sounds like it’s right up your alley, get in on SBI Press and Starburns Industries Tape of the Month Club here. FYI, there’s only 5 days left, as of this post, to be a founding member.
Netflix has been really piling it on in their late night/talk show line-up.
Not to be outdone, HBO has gotten Wyatt Cenac his own mini-doc late night series, Problem Areas, which looks like it will compliment HBO’s line-up of Last Week Tonight and Real Time quite nicely.
You can see what we’re saying in this announcement trailer here.
Look for Problem Areas to premiere on Friday, April 13 on HBO.
Boots Riley’s satire centered around a black telemarketer is making plenty of noise down at SXSW and you can kind of see why from this crazy and great trailer.
Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson star in what might be the trippiest movie this year.
See for yourself here, then look for Sorry To Bother You in theaters on July 6th.