Alex Hooper has been a fun fixture in the LA scene for quite some time now, working very hard for every single thing he’s gotten or built like his wins on Roast Battle, his secret show Crave, and way more.
Now, with so much under his belt, he’s ready to record an album a week from now. You can attend free of charge just by RSVP’ing here.
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Whitmer Thomas, Clay Tatum, and Budd Diaz, better known as Power Violence, offer up their latest fun piece of mayhem, an ad for the so-called “Husky Budd’s Home Movers”.
If you don’t care about your stuff, but want your movers to have a really good time, these guys just might be for you.
Watch and enjoy here.
Trevor Noah to Host The Daily Show Through 2022
Many late night hosts have their future secured up until 2020 and Comedy Central is more than doubling down on their current Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, who did win a Creative Arts Emmy.
No one else in late night is currently renewed that far in the future (Fallon is re-upped to 2021), which will see Trevor far past the next presidential election. It’s hard to say how exactly it’ll look, but we have no doubt that late night will have gone through many more changes by the time 2022 rolls around. Suffice it to say that Comedy Central has a whole lot of faith in Noah.
While rock stars and rappers have plenty wild tales of their lives going awry, those on the country music side of things also have many such stories.
Thus, Mike Judge has taken to not only sharing these stories of Waylon Jennings and Jerry Lee Lewis with the world through his new series, Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus, but also accompanying the stories with animation.
Get a taste of what’s to come with this teaser.
Chris Redd and Yamaneika Saunders will be kicking off the latest season of half hour stand-up specials, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents, respectively at Comedy Central starting at midnight tonight.
As far we’re concerned, that’s a pretty good pair to start off with.
Not only is this line-up pretty much as stacked as it can get, you’ll be going through decades of comedy history from Robert Klein and Fred Willard all the way to Kumail Nanjiani and Nikki Glaser.
Oh yeah, you’ll also be supporting the International Myeloma Foundation while doing so.
The 11th Annual Comedy Celebration is set for 8PM on Saturday, November 4th at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. Tickets range from $75-$1000 and you can get them here.
Jim Carrey to Reunite with Michel Gondry on Showtime’s Newest Comedy “Kidding” from Dave Holstein
A series that has a Mr. Rogers type character at the precipice of a mental breakdown sounds like something that Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry together would be perfect for. If you can imagine the alternate universe that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind operates in, this premise from series creator Dave Holstein (writer for Weeds and Raising Hope) would most certainly be another tale from such a place.
10 episodes have been ordered by Showtime already and, curiously enough, Carrey’s TV persona in the show is named Mr. Pickles. Though that, at this point, doesn’t seem to have any relation to the Adult Swim show of the same name, the name Mr. Pickles might just stop having such an innocent ring to it.
Also, take note that Carrey had a significant role in the making of Showtime’s freshly renewed I’m Dying Up Here and, pending how well this series does, we thusly wouldn’t be surprised at Showtime signing Carrey to some kind of overall deal.
Before you even ask–yes, original cast members and writers were responsible for this latest incarnation of the never-really-dead Futurama on the latest episode of The Nerdist Podcast.
There’s plenty to enjoy here as Chris Hardwick is a “podcast super villain”, an additional storyline about a classic show trying to live on in a podcast, and, of course, plenty of fake future ads.
Listen in here.
TBS Renews Wrecked, People Of Earth, and The Guest Book
Wrecked and People of Earth are getting a third season and The Guest Book is being re-upped for a second.
This would be an opportune moment to note that TBS programming line-up currently includes all of those shows as well as Angie Tribeca, Search Party, The Detour, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and Conan.
It’s pretty solid now and, we bet, beacuse of this, you’d have a hard time remembering what TBS used to be like and when exactly they were the channel had many more multi cam sitcoms.
Per usual, we have tickets to some of the best shows in town for you to win.
Enter to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Tonight, FX resumes their run as one of the most critically acclaimed basic cable networks ever, especially when it comes to comedy (Louie, Better Things, Baskets, Atlanta).
Earlier this week, you got the first look at Alexander Payne’s trippy sci-fi comedy Downsizing.
It turns out that this week is the week for trippy sci-fi comedies as the trailer for Bob Byington and Onur Tukel’s Infinity Baby just got released yesterday. As we said above, the movie is set in a world where abortion is illegal and, for some reason, some experimental babies live forever. That’s a premise ripe for some wry, absurdity comedy, no?
As you’ll notice in the trailer, the cast includes Kieran Culkin, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Martin Starr, Kevin Corrigan, Noel Wells, and Stephen Root.
This is the LA stop of Eddie Izzard’s latest tour. You better get your tickets quick because they will sell out sooner rather than later.
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Co-writer/director Tyler MacIntyre and Co-writer Chris Lee Hill’s Tragedy Girls just might be the dark comedy to catch theaters around Halloween time.
Seeming to be plenty gruesome as well as a bit of a send-up of these social media obsessed times, Tragedy Girls seems, from the trailer, to nicely land somewhere between Bobcat Goldthwait’s World’s Greatest Dad, American Psycho, and a recent favorite of ours, Ingrid Goes West.
See for yourself here.
The latest adaptation of Stephen King’s It is a box office hit, which has many clowns upset for allegedly promoting the idea that clowns are scary.
On last night’s Conan, O’Brien “let” one such clown (that’s some sort of unholy cross between Tim Curry’s Pennywise and John Wayne Gacy’s Pogo The Clown) “speak” to this injustice.
We’ve said it for awhile and we’ll keep saying it, Conan still has the best sketches in late night and this (written by Todd Levin) is just one more piece of proof.
For those wondering, that’s Andrés du Bouchet under all that objectively scary clown make-up.
Tommy Wiseau’s The Room holds a special place in cinematic history much in the same way Florence Foster Jenkins once did for opera.
Just like Florence Foster Jenkins got a pretty good biopic about how her awful singing was celebrated, the story behind The Room, from which the best selling book The Disaster Artist was written by Greg Sestero, is similarly getting a movie of the same name directed by and starring James Franco.
From the looks of the first full trailer, Franco really gets into the whole world of Wiseau, both emphatically and honestly. Also, James’ brother playing Wiseau’s friend adds another fun layer to this whole thing.
It’s been awhile, but Abbi and Ilana are coming back into all of our lives at 10:30PM tonight on Comedy Central.
Baron Vaughn, who many of you now probably know from MST3K and Grace and Frankie, is a force to be wonderfully reckoned with on stage. He’s doing five nights at the Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab at the end of the month and you should not miss out on it.
Tickets for all of these shows are $5 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
As they’ve already hinted at, Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg’s animated comedy Big Mouth, Netflix’s latest animated series geared towards adults, will revel in the surprising highs and the gross lows of puberty. In fact, there’s a bit of magical realism woven through that might just set this series apart from other coming-of-age animated series.
See for yourself in the full trailer here.
Comedy Central Developing ‘Weird Uncles’ Starring Brendon Walsh & Randy Liedtke
While the branding of ‘uncles’ hasn’t been great over the last several years, a sitcom starring professional goofballs Brendon Walsh and Randy Liedtke will, at the very least, do a lot for fun uncles around the world (if this goes to series).
Seriously, Brendon and Randy do some damn silly stuff on stage, on television, and elsewhere and we’re excited that they very well could get top billing on their own show playing uncles.
The last time that Alexander Payne’s name made the headlines, he was the mind behind a movie that was set in Nebraska, done completely in black and white, and was as grounded in reality as you could get.
Now, Payne is doing, arguably, the exact opposite in imagining a futuristic world where shrinking yourself is not only possible, but sold as a better way of living life with his latest work, Downsizing.
The result (and the subsequent questions that arise from it) appears to be undeniably fascinating and filled with plenty of funny set pieces (like an adult dramedy version of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids?).
See for yourself in the trailer here.
Jenny Zigrino returned to Conan’s stage for another delightful late night stand-up set last night. From her dangerous posterior to summarizing country songs, Jenny went through a tight five and a half minutes we really enjoyed.
Watch and also enjoy it here.
HBO has officially picked up Last Week Tonight with John Oliver through 2020.
As the next presidential election cycle will be in full effect then, we have a hard time imagining that Oliver and company won’t be re-upped again just so they can be around for the whole new mess of whoever is running and ends up winning.
Also, getting three more years offers, hopefully, leaves the room for Last Week Tonight to get back to breaking down topics like infrastructure or multi level marketing instead of spending so much time on Trump.
Of course, we’ll have to wait and see how much crazier Trump gets.
People being nice to each other is such a novel concept these days that having people competitively complimenting each other would indeed be a basis for a show worth going out to see.
That’s why we keep telling you to go to Kyle Ayers Boast Rattle, which has its latest edition this Thursday with a “joy-filled, rosy eyed” line-up.
Tickets are $7 and you can (and really should) get them here.
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Zach Broussard has spent a good deal of time and resources for large scale silly projects, which always peaks our interest.
His latest endeavor is taking marathons down a peg or, more accurately, making them way shorter so anyone really can say that they ran a marathon.
What he has dubbed the “New York Sorta Marathon” will be a race, if it raises $8K by next Friday, that’s so short that most people on Earth could finish it without any training or even breaking a sweat.
See how short it is in this Kickstarter video. Also, take note of the great stretch goal of being able to pay a professional marathoner to finish last.