The very nice people from @lastcallcd came to @meltdowncomics and taped the show last Wednesday. The show was a blast from top to bottom. (Thanks again to everyone who came.) It is going to be on TV this Wednesday.
If you came to the show you should definitely check it out. You may be on TV and stuff. If you did not come to the show you should see all the fun you are missing.
~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~: Mon 1/31 ~What’s Up Tiger Lily?~ Melinda Hill CD release/Pilot screening!
Hey everybody don’t miss a special Tiger Lily this Monday! Melinda Hill is
celebrating the release of her 2nd comedy CD “The Accidental Bisexual” from Stand Up! RecordsPlus a screening of the pilot she co-created/ wrote with Tom Gianas called “Talking Hedz” starring Mary Lynn Rajskub, Sklar…
Yes I’m okay- thanks so much for asking. Yes.
No really- I’m okay.
Yes. Yes. I feel like you’re not even listening. I’m okay.
Happy 2011! The next INDIGLO will be Sunday, January 30th at 9pm.
Check out our crazy line-up:
Brett Gelman!
Chris Fairbanks!
Crystal Angel!
Mike Phirman (of Hard ‘n Phirm)!
PLUS:
This month’s show will be hosted by Alison Becker and GUEST HOST Michelle Buteau!
As always, it’s FREE admission. Come on by! We will be collecting donations this month for poor and disabled children in Jamaica, to help pay for their medical care. Come by to have fun while supporting a great cause!
1) This is the 100th Day of the Comedy Bureau. We have not taken a day off since Oct. 25th, 2010. I EVEN POSTED ON CHRISTMAS AT 3AM BECAUSE WE ARE DEDICATED TO BRING YOU THE BEST IN LA COMEDY EVERY SINGLE DAY… OR BUST. Some type of celebration will be organized in the not so distant future.-Bureau Director Jake Kroeger
2) The subsequent follow up to the Comedy Bureau’s outing for the Best in Saturday Night LA Comedy will be both extremely detailed and coming to you this week.
3) What has Matt Champagne, Jan Davidson, and one hell of a good time? I don’t know really. I know that Big Trouble in Little Tokyo this week has Matt Champagne, Jan Davidson (one of THE funniest moms in America), one hell of a good time AND $2 fish tacos, so you should probably go do that. Señor Fish. Feb 1st. 422 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA. Sign-up 6:30PM. Starts 7PM.
4) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-and you thought Sundays were for kicking back?
Jeff Garlin’s Combo Platter @ UCB Theatre 6PM $2
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Skinny Sundays 1 Year Anniversary @ Bar Lubitsch 8PM FREE
Neil Hamburger @ The Satellite 8:30PM $8
French Toast Presents Just for Laughs Showcase @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Indiglo @ M-Bar 8PM FREE/$10 food-drink min.
Conan Showcase @ The Comedy Store 9PM $10/2 item min.
Top Story Weekly! w/Pete Carboni and Thomas Fowler @ iO West 9PM $5
Deskpiece Nation @ iO West 10PM $5
6) Recently: Though this might only apply in a roundabout way to the events taking place around the world, Bill Hicks had something to say….
7) How did I get here? Anyone know? 100th day non-stop… Anbody?
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God, I love lookin’ at this picture! Makes me look kinda accomplished, doesn’t it? Just found it too. I Google myself every day to see what I’m up to because if I myself can’t feel good about myself, maybe my computer can feel good about myself for me. Fuck! Look at me, goddammit! I…
Matt Champagne and (I believe) Piper Perabo. Flukesville indeed…. still pretty darn funny.
This is the promo for “Mashup,” the new show I’m doing stand-up on. Jordan, the director, literally got shot with a paint gun for this (he’s the one with a TV for a head). For months I was making him show his horrible bruises at parties. Months.
Also, this is the coolest thing you will see all day.
Good Neighbor – Toast
Brand new Good Neighbor video! It’s great.
This is goddamn awesome.
In the waning hours of the 100th day, I type here alone at home watching an episode of Louie for the I-really-don’t-want-to-know-TH time mostly because it doesn’t feel like the 100th day at the offices of the Comedy Bureau.
If anything, today feels like any other day here at the Comedy Bureau rushing to get the Morning Debriefing out, constantly checking the Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter feeds and eschewing acceptable human contact, and partially sacrificing my own personal road in writing and performing comedy in order to continue writing ABOUT comedy. Like the Mission Statement claims, I’m dedicated to bring the best in LA Comedy to those good folks in LA, comic and non-comic alike as there are so many people that don’t know about this veritable “ground floor” of what I believe is the next generation in comedy. This is why I’m here a few minutes past 11PM, alone, maintaining my position that online dating is a complete waste of my time (not that I have any “time” anymore) because I believe that my sister is wrong when she tells me, “I don’t like comedy.”
I believe that you just haven’t found the right kind. I believe that you just think that “comedy”, whether it be stand-up, sketch, improv, etc. is only supposed to be one way and after 100 days of writing about the antithesis of this notion, I believe that people can find what they can like in comedy and they’ll be able to find here, at the Comedy Bureau.
So, there will be a celebration of sorts in the days to come, but, let it be known, that only in just a little over 3 months, The Comedy Bureau actually feels like a Bureau and for that, readers, I thank you.
With that, I’ll see all of you soon, hopefully with more than 70% consciousness due to mental exhaustion.
BUREAU DIRECTOR JAKE KROEGER/@mfjakekroeger
THE COMEDY BUREAU/@thecomedybureau
Just Added to the the What’s Up Tiger Lily? line up, the always awesome, we love them:
SKLAR BROTHERS!!!!
They join a supertastic line up that includes: Jon Dore, Lynn Shawcroft, Mary Lyn Rajskub, Nick Thune, Taylor Negron, Laura Kightlinger, Eddie Pepitone, Arden Myrin, Melinda Hill, Drew Droege +++ more & surprises!!!
MONDAY January 31st 8pm
@ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill
6122 Sunset BlvdBe there!
1) There have been actual reports of comedian Dave Chappelle sightings at both the Laugh Factory and the Comedy Store performing comedy and hanging around. More details to come as the Comedy Bureau receives them.
2) Not only is Heart of Darkness with Greg Barris having another Los Angeles run, but it’s going to have none other than Reggie Watts in its line-up (not to mention Chelsea Peretti and Sean Patton). YOU ARE A BAD PERSON IF YOU MISS THIS (*status of being a bad person subject to change). Feb. 12th at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood $8.
3) I want you to take a pen and go to whatever you use as a calendar and mark Feb. 25th as the date of Kyle Kinane’s “Comedy Central Presents” Special and then make sure you do nothing else that day that would prevent you from watching it.
4) Garfunkel and Oates “All Over Your Face” comes out tomorrow on iTunes and cdbaby. I don’t know about you, but this will be replacing the Tron soundtrack in my car and though that statement is out of context, that’s pretty damn significant (I’ve listened to Derezzed over 250 times).
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-You won’t have to go to 7-11 after this one…
What’s Up Tiger Lily? Presents Melinda Hill CD/Pilot Release @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Just for Laughs Showcase @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8PM/10PM FREE
Keep It Clean Comedy @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
Crash Test @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)
6) Recently: Valentine’s Day Flowers are trending over the events taking place in Egypt according to Yahoo, which means a major portion of the male U.S. population has been in quite a dry spell.
7) Another 100 days, here we go.
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Hollywood, CA (the fahey chronicles) – In what everyone in America is calling one of the most selfless acts of humankind, the nation’s celebrities took an entire 24-hours away from raising awareness of themselves to raise awareness for a good cause.
“I’m not here to talk about my…
Remain Champagne: THREAD-KILLER
Ever post a sarcastic or self-deprecating thought on Facebook and then another sarcastic person—totally getting the sarcasm—chimes in and offers their own sarcastic tag to the first sarcastic thing you said? And then maybe a third or even a fourth sarcastic person jumps on board and before…
“I don’t think he knew how aggressive Maron would be,” Gallagher’s manager Craig Marquardo said, adding that Gallagher is not at all sorry for walking out on the interview and that Gallagher “doesn’t care.” In fact, Marquardo relayed that after Gallagher left the interview he was seen being mobbed by fans on the street, where the comic took pictures with fans and signed autographs. “Where would you rather be?” Marquardo said.
Marc Maron reacts to Gallagher’s WTF storm-off, Gallagher’s rep responds
Hopefully he was able to bum a cup of coffee.
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1) @RealGallagher is fake. And shut down. After walking out on Marc Maron during an interview on the Maron’s WTF Podcast, for a few hours, many people on Twitter in LA and around the country were fooled into thinking that an angered Gallagher traded smashing watermelons for espousing an extremely conservative point of view and extremely bigoted jokes. Via Punchline Magazine several hours later, it was revealed that Gallagher indeed did not start a Twitter account and had nothing to do with those tweets. Though there are various takes on the events that took place, I think it’s speak volumes about how Gallagher is perceived by how disappointed (the announcement that it was fake had to be retweeted over 100 times) everyone was when they found out it really wasn’t his Twitter.
2) Garfunkel and Oates “All Over Your Face” is out today on cdbaby and iTunes. I’ll say it again: Garfunkel and Oates “All Over Your Face” is out today on cdbaby and iTunes. and again: Garfunkel and Oates “All Over Your Face” is out today on cdbaby and iTunes. That’s 3 times, so maybe, just maybe you should go to cdbaby or iTunes and just go buy “All Over Your Face” by Garfunkel and Oates (was the 4th time overkill?)
3) Going into its 4th month, The Big Trouble in Little Tokyo Open Mic is almost 1/3 of a year old, which is good enough celebration for me, not to mention Matt Champagne, Jan Davidson, and cheap, great Mexican seafood. Come on down to Señor Fish, 422 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA. Sign-up 6:30PM. Starts 7PM.
4) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL–
¡Satiristas LIVE! @ Actors’ Gang 7PM PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Just for Laughs Showcase @ The Comedy Store Belly Room (8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA) 7:30PM
Ballgame’s Laugh Lounge @ Red Rock 8PM FREE
Comedy Death Ray @ UCB Theatre 8:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Holy Fuck @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Lower Crust Comedy Presents: Just for Laughs Showcase @ Genghis Cohen 9:30PM $6
6) Recently: Just in case you forgot and needed a reason to smile.
7) Day 4 of not going up somewhere performing: I don’t know how I’m not yelling obscenities at strangers right now.
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