Morning Debriefing 1/23/11
1) “If I had superpowers, the only word in comedy clubs [to describe comedians] would be funny.” –Rick Shapiro
2) Bob’s Burgers. 8:30PM. Fox. Watch it (especially as you’ll probably won’t leave your couch after 7+ hours of football)
3) OK, OK, OK… the blur of showcases for Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival are all coming up this week and later today the Comedy Bureau will post a nice neat schedule for all of you to seem where and when LA’s best will put up their best in order to go to Canada in order to come back here, but bigger and famous.
4) Matt Claybrooks. Lauren Ashley Bishop. $2 Fish Tacos. “It’s all in the reflexes.” Big Trouble in Little Tokyo Open Mic @ Señor Fish. Jan. 25th. It’s your choice…. it’s also your destiny. 6:30PM Sign-up/7PM Start/422 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA.
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-even if you are a shut-in, you’ll feel bad for not going.
Jeff Garlin’s Combo Platter @ UCB Theatre 6PM (stand by only) $2
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Trick @ Bordello Bar 8PM FREE
French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Top Story Weekly w/Shawn Pearlman @ iO West 9PM $5
Sunday Sunday Sunday: Coast 2 Coast Edition @ Improv Space (Westwood) 9:30PM FREE
Witstream Live @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
7) Recently: a girl by the name of Xin Yan “speed reads” Dr. Seuss’ Fox in Socks and actually gets laughs. I think Josh Fadem is more impressive with pratfalls.
8) If you ever hear of Eddie Pepitone going to perform as Sven the Swedish Clown, drop whatever you doing and go and watch because it won’t be as funny as whatever you were thinking was funny that day.
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It’s a beautiful day for a Bordello night…
TRICK: Bordello Bar Comedy.
TONIGHT.
Tig Notaro.
Garfunkel & Oates.
The Birthday Boys.
Greg Barris.
Paul Jay.
Heather Thomson.
+ SPECIAL SURPRISE DROP IN GUESTS!
AND INTRODUCING The Trick: Bordello Bar Comedy Dancers:
All the Angry Kittens.w/ DJ Denver Smith.
Brought to you by Brandie Posey & Emily Maya Mills.
Doors: 8:00PM
Show: 8:30PMBordello Bar
901 E 1st Street (@ Vignes) ~ Downtown LAFree parking, cheap booze and a dance party afterwards. You like fun, right?
Los Angeles-Just For Laughs Showcases
As promised, here’s a rundown of the Just for Laughs-Montreal Showcases this week as LA’s best in comedy try to put their best funny foot forward to go to the actual festival then come back here to be more famous (hopefully).
*this will be updated frequently as more information is received. If there is showcase that’s not on here please e-mail thecomedybureau@gmail.com.
Monday Jan. 24th
Hollywood Improv Lab 8PM FREE-8165 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
w/Paul Jay, Eric Charles Nielsen, and more
Tuesday Jan. 25th
Three of Clubs 8PM FREE-1123 Vine St., Los Angeles, CA
w/Brian Swinehart, Paul Cibis, Brooks Wheelan and more
Wednesday Jan. 26th
Hollywood Improv Main Room 8PM $14/2 item min.-8162 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
w/Abbey Londer, Hampton Yount, Ron Babcock, and more. Hosted by Matt Knudsen
Thursday Jan. 27th
Three of Clubs 7PM FREE-1123 Vine St., Los Angeles, CA
w/Susan Burke, Randy Liedtke, Ed Salazar and more. Hosted by Karl Hess.
Hollywood Laugh Factory 10PM $10 for students/$20 general admission/$30 VIP/2 item min.-8001 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA
Hosted by Mo Mandel
Friday Jan. 28th
Hollywood Improv Lab 7:30PM FREE-8165 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
w/Paul Danke and more. Hosted by Dan Ahdoot.
Fake Gallery 10PM $5-4319 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
w/Dave Ross, Julia Bensfield, Zach Ames, Andrew DeWitt, Mike Holmes, John Vargas and more. Hosted by Dan Bialek.
Saturday Jan. 29th
Hollywood Improv Lab 7PM FREE-8165 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
Hosted by Mike Bridenstine
Fake Gallery 10PM $5-4319 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
w/Matt Claybrooks, Shawn Pearlman, Eli Olsberg, Tamra Brown, Allen Strickland Williams, and more. Hosted by Dan Bialek.
Sunday Jan. 30th
Three of Clubs 6:30PM FREE-1123 Vine St., Los Angeles, CA
w/Jake Weisman and more. Hosted by Hugh Moore.
Taix 8:45PM FREE-1911 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)
w/Raj Desai and more. Hosted by Mike Bridenstine.
Monday Jan. 31st
Hollywood Improv Lab 8PM FREE-8165 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA
w/Robert Buscemi, Scott Boxenbaum, Matt Manser and more. Hosted by Dan Ahdoot.
Tuesday Feb. 1st
The Comedy Store Belly Room 7:30PM-8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA
w/Nick Rutherford, Heather Thomson, Aparna Nancherla and more. Hosted by Dan Ahdoot.
Genghis Cohen 9:45PM $6-740 N. Fairfax Ave., Hollywood, CA
w/Barbara Gray, Taylor Ketchum, and more. Hosted by Karl Hess.
Wednesday Feb. 2nd
Comedy Store Belly Room 6:45PM-8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA
w/Brandie Posey and more. Hosted by Dan Ahdoot.
Whitehorse Cocktail Lounge Inn 10PM-FREE-1523 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA
w/Tess Barker, Sabrina Jalees, and more. Hosted by Karl Hess.
Morning Debriefing 1/24/11
1) You want something to donate to that will both fulfill that need to be a better person while simultaneously support some good natured hilarious people that I know AND even supporting people in their struggle with recovery from addiction? Go HERE and donate to the “We Are Not Saints” Comedy Concert Film Project featuring Ian Harvie, Felon O’Reilly, and Amy Dresner to accomplish all three of those goals at the same time.
2) Neil Hamburger is back in town. Here’s the proof.
2) Montreal Showcases Schedule. It will be updated frequently, I promise. (I just updated it ten minutes ago) Also, I can promise some of the funniest in LA will be showcasing, meaning they’ll “bring it” and it will be a good time.
3) The word is getting out-The Comedy Bureau is now linked in The Akaaba, a group of comedians and other live performing artists from around the country that all of you should definitely check out, the Serial Optimist, a side dedicated to being on the cutting edge of happiness (something that I would desperately wish to be closer to), and RentFoodBroke, a resource for the unemployed and the underemployed in LA. Continue good comedy folk to get the word out. PLEASE!!!
4) Big Trouble in Little Tokyo. Tomorrow. Matt Claybrooks and Lauren Ashley Bishop. I don’t think I can much more about it than that (besides it being at Señor Fish 422 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA, Sign-up 6:30PM, Starts 7PM)
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-Even if there was MNF, there’s no excuse…
The Comedy Stick @ The Talking Stick 7PM FREE
What’s Up Tiger Lily? @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Cartoon Dump @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $10
Just for Laughs Showcase @ The Hollywood Improv Lab 8PM FREE
Comedy Night @ Jake’s 9PM FREE
Keep it Clean Comedy @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
7) Recently: The premiere of MTV’s newest scripted “Skins” has prompted advertisers such as Subway to pull their sponsorship of the show. My suggestion: make Jamie Lee and Shawn Pearlman’s “Anne Frankly” a show as the “deleted scenes” are better than on-air episode of “Skins”. (Jamie already works for MTV, come on…)
8) Oh yeah, also Sabor Comedy Lounge debuts tonight. They have an open mic. $5/2 drink min.
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Louis C.K. on season one of Louie, drunken Sarah Palin tweets, and more | HitFix
Louis C.K. on season one of Louie, drunken Sarah Palin tweets, and more | HitFix
(via somuchfunithurts, zachdionne)
It’s like I called [my Twitter followers] on the phone and said that Sarah Palin has Chinese people living in her cunt, you know? So that context has caught up with me a little bit. Like, this is not what I thought it was when I was doing it, and so it’s not that I’m afraid of her. By the way, I said something that I think is true, I wrote one Twitter that I said, please find me a picture of Sarah Palin with more than one black person because I couldn’t find one. And then she went to Haiti a week later. She threw together a trip to Haiti. So I believe I made that happen. So that’s positive.
WHY??? Robot Stand Up Comedian (via Punchline Magazine)
WHY??? Robot Stand Up Comedian (via Punchline Magazine)
Trying to make it in the world of comedy is hard enough especially when you go night in and night out doing open mics to a crowd full of comics. What is the purpose of this comedy robot other than to further the depressive prospect of competition in our field?
NOTE: in the video, the robot registers positive and negative response through audio analysis of recorded laughs and the raising of green or red cards, which I would like to interpret as “getting the light”.
Morning Debriefing 1/25/11
1) If you did not catch wind of this yesterday, please read: Study: Family History of Alcoholism Raises Risk of One-Man Show. I mean “…Risk of One-Man Show”. Tell me you didn’t almost bust your head on the floor laughing at that one… because it’s true.
2) Garfunkel and Oates in LA Times. Why wouldn’t you read this?
3) EVEN MORE UPDATES to the Montreal Just for Laughs Showcase Schedule because I love all of you (…I got nothing else, you know?)
4) So…. of course you can’t take a joke? Many of us saw Jon Daly’s funny take on the incarnation that Charles Bukowski would take were he “Frankensteined” with comedy legend Bill Cosby into Bill Cosby Bukowski. Of course, poets, as some of them like remaining on a pedestal of intellectualism, which you can hide behind on stage (I should know as I’ve done plenty of spoken word before), cannot take a joke/don’t understand the art form of comedy.
5) OK, where would you celebrate the 100th day of the Comedy Bureau? Really, I’m not sure. Suggestions? (i.e. where would all of you folks have a drink with me)
6) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-clone yourself
The Good Luck Show @ Good Luck Bar 8PM FREE
Just for Laughs Showcase @ 3 of Clubs 8PM FREE
Patrick Keane @ Irvine Improv 8PM $20/2 item min.
Comedy Death Ray @ UCB Theatre 8:30PM $5 (stand-by only at 7PM)
Hamclown 3 @ Alexandria Hotel-The Mezz (2nd Floor) 8:30PM FREE
The Walsh Brothers Show @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5
8) Recently: there is much excitement for the State of the Union Address at 6PM, as some people intend to play a drinking game. Here’s a speech you don’t have to fret/worry/feel like you have to sit through so you don’t feel uninformed: Steve Martin’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
9) Anyone taking odds on what the most overdone Oscar joke premise will be? I feel like this would be a money making venture.
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Morning Debriefing 1/26/11
1) Thanks to those that came and witnessed and supported and performed and brought us all laughter and made the Big Trouble in Little Tokyo Open Mic the awesome show that is and BIG THANKS to Matt Claybrooks and Lauren Ashley Bishop to coming down and gracing us with their comedic prowess. (I’m a big fan of polysyndeton) On next Tuesday at Señor Fish and Jan Davidson and Matt Champagne and it will be great and amazing and damn inspiring.
2) Comedy Central’s Stand Up Showdown ends its voting tomorrow at 9AM PST…. so if you haven’t voted for I’m would theorize to be an increased circulation of someone’s special… THEN GET ON IT!!!
3) The Showcase schedule for Montreal Just For Laughs is updated yet again (I’m beginning to think I have too much time on my hands.)
4) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-You will regret this if you miss it…
“If This Doesn’t Work, I’m Moving Home” A Variety Hour @ Harlem Place Cafe 8PM FREE
Just for Laughs Showcase @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min.
Greg Proops’ Smartest Man in the World LIVE @ Bar Lubitsch (7702 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA) 8PM FREE
Mostly Normal Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $5
BITS Presents: Jennifer’s Juke Box Comedy Show @ Whitehorse Cocktail Lounge Inn 8:30PM FREE
Meltdown @ Meltdown Comics 8:30PM $8
Heino Happy Hour @ El Cid 9PM $15
The Ed Galvez Punk House @ Westside Comedy Theatre 9PM $8
Anna Lee Lawson Comedy Hour @ Next Stage Theatre 11PM $5
6) Recently: OK, I didn’t watch the State of the Union Address because I was busy helping people work on achieving their dreams by running an open mic. I don’t know how exactly went, but I wish it was something along the lines of Kyle Kinane handling this heckler.
7) I yelled furious, angry, let all my fears go, told the truth, and, honestly, had a decent set. Sometimes that’s what you have to do at 11:25PM.
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Beer in the Shower Presents: Jennifer’s Jukebox Comedy Show
Tonight at 9p! @brido @pauldanke @zachsherwin @joselynhughes @TesstifyBarker and more! Bday party for @JiffyBug to follow! #comedy #free #LA
Things I Vow to Not Allow to Go Undone While Unemployed
- The dishes
- My grad school homework
- Getting on a regular workout schedule
Things That Will Probably Continue to Go Undone Despite the Fact That I Am Unemployed
- Laundry/dusting
- My grad school homework any time than the day before it is due
- Getting on a regular workout schedule
INDIGLO shout-out on LAist.com.
We’ve got an amazing line up this Sunday! Come on by! 9pm at M Bar in LA.
Do it.
Morning Debriefing 1/27/11
1) OK, so the tickets for Patton Oswalt’s show on Saturday at Largo @ the Coronet Theatre are sold out. FRET NOT!!! Patton will be back in Southern California at the Galaxy Theatre on March 11th and tickets are already on sale right here. I’m telling you this so now so you’ll actually have a chance to buy them.
2) In less than 2 hours, the voting for Comedy Central’s Stand Up Showdown is coming to an end and so is your chance to vote for your favorite comics that have a Comedy Central Presents Special and your chance to win a trip to the South Beach Comedy Festival! SO VOTE NOW!
3) Less than a week to go before the release of Garfunkel and Oates’ “All Over Your Face”. LESS THAN A WEEK. (don’t worry, the Comedy Bureau keep you posted).
3) Initially, the Comedy Bureau was going to celebrate its 100th day at a designated bar this Sun. Jan 30th. These plans might change. Stay tuned for details.
4) Just to make it easy for you guys as well as adding a few more shows/people to the schedule-Los Angeles Just for Laughs Showcases.
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL–
Just for Laughs Showcase @ Three of Clubs 7PM FREE
4 & 20 @ All Star Lanes 8PM FREE
Literally Funny @ Last Bookstore 8PM FREE
Comedy Speakeasy @ TSR Lounge 8PM FREE
Just for Laughs Showcase @ Hollywood Laugh Factory 10PM $10 students/$20 general/$30 VIP/2 item min.
6) Recently: U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich took legal action against a cafeteria after “dental damage” had been done by a misplaced olive pit in a wrap he ordered. Upon hearing that, I wish he was in this video where Rick Shapiro “asks” questions to people on Hollywood Blvd.
7) If a comic asks you to “make some noise” at the top of their set, do literally as they ask and never stop.
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