Wonder What You Missed at the Walsh Bros. Show?
Wonder What You Missed at the Walsh Bros. Show?
Correct Answer: The Rest of Your Life
Here’s some photos of in case you missed The Walsh Brothers this past Tues.
TheSunsetStrip.com Interview w/Nick Youssef
TheSunsetStrip.com Interview w/Nick Youssef
Here’s quite the interview with one of the sharpest comics in LA and at the Comedy Store, Nick Youssef and one of the funniest heckler stories I’ve heard in some time.
Tomorrow Night’s “THE” Night….
The Comedy Bureau will be out in full force tomorrow evening for to really see what Saturday’s for the casual fan of comedy in LA are really like. Apologies if the title was misleading in any way.
Oh, you thought we forgot about it when we posted it here?
Well, the Comedy Bureau remembers everything. Actually, it remembers too much. Like that time when I was told I should go pick some different jokes if I really wanted to do this one show because all I have according to some people is good stage presence, despite having a killer set the evening previous, but none of that matters anyways because I’ve still spent the last I don’t even know how many days writing ABOUT comedy… OK, I’ll stop.
The Comedy Bureau will be out tomorrow night to looking for to have some laughter just like any unassuming person who probably doesn’t read this website does and then let you know about it. That is all.
Tip of the Hat 1/28: Greg Proops
The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to GREG PROOPS.
“@GregProops About this State of the Union. I’m taking the under.”
The extreme silhouette style picture above can only be pulled off, in my opinion, by a select group of people without coming off as narcissistic. Such an image suggests that the simple idea of the outline of this individual is enough to hint at their particular distinction.
With his exploits throughout the world of comedy in “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” to being a stand up comedian touring throughout the world and numerous festivals of the highest caliber, Greg Proops certainly can “pull off” such a picture.
In all aspects of his comedy, Proops is so quick on his feet (or sitting down off of them as he frequently does on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson) whether commenting on his “Dr. Seuss sock collection” or an election that audiences gladly stay riveted to the casual gait of Proops and his absolutely on-point assertions on society, politics, or Thanksgiving in England and laugh often and heartily. Though his unwavering dapper appearance in a perfectly cut suit and orange tinted glasses might, at first, seem “gimmicky”, Proops does away with any such notion as he drifts cooly through his very cerebral, yet accessible jokes/riffs/etc.
Currently, Greg Proops lives in Hollywood and performs stand up and also improvises w/Drew Carey’s Improv All Stars. His podcast, aptly titled, “The Smartest Man in the World” often goes live at Bar Lubitsch for free on Wednesdays at 8PM. Or you can follow him on Twitter @GregProops or check his website out or buy his album “Proops Digs In” on AST Records or just come back to the Comedy Bureau frequently to hear about his comedic outings in LA (and there are plenty).
Morning Debriefing 1/29/11
1) RT @thecomedybureau According to LA Comics Waiting to Go Up #hipstersitcoms. Though it might seem goofy, Twitter exploded with all the funny tweets at this joke hashtag: M*E*H (@blainecapatch) Two Guys, a Girl, and a Vegan Pizza Place That’s Just Alright, But Like, What Else Is In This Shit City? (@ShutUpAndrosky) There’s Gotta Be More Than 10 Things That I Hate About You (@lizzwinstead)
2) The Results for Comedy Central’s Stand Up Showdown (via The Comic’s Comic) Details about what it means to finish in the Top 20 means when I get them.
3) NY Times profiles the return of Chris Elliott and EAGLEHEART (which should really be watched by everyone on Feb. 3rd on Adult Swim via Cartoon Network MIDNIGHT).
4) Tip of the Hat 1/28/11-Greg Proops
5) Oh, yeah. Thank You Very Cool is on Comedy Central with Nick Kroll and other people bearing a slight resemblance to Nick Kroll 10PM tonight. Watch Nick and all of his peeps, will ya?
6) What would have been a day commemorating 100 Days of the Comedy Bureau is tentatively on hold. Details to soon follow.
7) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-because Patton Oswalt at Largo is sold out
Two Milk Minimum @ Flappers Burbank 11:30AM $10/2 item min.
Just for Laughs Showcase @ Hollywood Improv Lab 7PM FREE
2011: A Space Boners Odyssey @ Silverlake Lounge 7PM FREE
Humorous Event @ Aida Theatre 8PM $10
Channel 101 Screening @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Australia is Down Under Benefit w/Jim Jeffries @ Hollywood Improv 9:30PM $20/2 item min.
Ed Galvez’s Punk House Weekend Edition @ Westside Comedy Theatre 9PM $10
Just for Laughs Showcase @ Fake Gallery (4319 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA) 10PM $5
Tomorrow w/Ron Lynch @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
9) Recently: Comedian Charlie Callas just passed away at 83. With his plethora of voices and facial expressions such as this, stand up comedy was able to evolve several years later into this with Matt Braunger.
10) This is happening tonight and the Comedy Bureau will be out on the street (meaning at a comedy club/show, not actually the physical street)
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@Meltdown_Show on Last Call
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!
~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.
Annie from Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” (via mariannesierk)
January Line-Up Confirmed!
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!
Morning Debriefing 1/30/11
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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Remain Champagne: FLUKESVILLE
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.
(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
Good Neighbor – Toast
Brand new Good Neighbor video! It’s great.
This is goddamn awesome.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
The First 100 Days
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!
Morning Debriefing 1/31/11
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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the fahey chronicles: Celebrities Selflessly Take Day Off from Raising Awareness of Themselves to Raise Awareness of Good Cause
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…
