Remain Champagne: “THE SERVER HAS UNDERSTOOD THE REQUEST, BUT IS REFUSING TO FULFILL IT.”
Remain Champagne: “THE SERVER HAS UNDERSTOOD THE REQUEST, BUT IS REFUSING TO FULFILL IT.”
I asked my computer to do something this morning, as I’m sure you did. And this is how it answered me:
“The Server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.”
That’s from my computer. Not from my maintenance man. Not from my landlord. Not from my agent (although there…
Morning Debriefing 2/18/11
1) Comedy Extravaganzas to Watch for: Jeff Ross’ Roast in Peace @ The Comedy Store Fri. Feb. 25th and The Paul F. Tompkins Show 9th Anniversary Celebration @ Largo Sat. Mar. 19th. I can’t really afford any of this, but if you can, you’d really should tear up your money for missing it.
2) The Ultimate Free & Cheap LA Comedy List 2/20-2/26. Thanks Wisepix.
3) Due to the circumstances beyond their control, the very popular comedy and variety show Trick @ Bordello Bar has been cancelled for the month of February. More details on the next show soon. Also, note to new management, people would have come to the show in herds.
4) Open Call for the March Comedy Madness is taking place today at the Comedy Store Original Room from 3PM to 7PM. They’re asking for 2 minutes of funny and apparently no entry fee, so what’s the harm in hitting another spot tonight. Here are more details.
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-Takin’ it easy… sort of…
The Jen Kirkman Talk Show @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Robot Seizure @ The Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $5
Stood Up Friday Night: Musical Comedy @ Moving Arts Theatre 10PM $5
Stand Up Spotlight: Dave Foley @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)
6) OPEN MIC RUN
SET LIST @ FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia, Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM
iCANDY 1708 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/$3 min.
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Silverlake)/Sign-up (lottery) 6:30PM/Starts 7PM
MAX BLOOM’S 200 N. Malden Ave., Fullerton, CA/Starts 7PM
GLENDALE DAYS INN 450 N. Pioneer Dr., Glendale, CA/Starts 8PM
TRINITY CHURCH 1015 California Ave., Santa Monica, CA/Starts 8PM
7) Recently: Justin Beiber made some very astonishing comments about rape, then was shot in an episode of CSI, and subsequently still makes his music. With all that in mind, I’d like to see him play Dwayne Wade one-on-one like comedian Matty Goldberg did. Over and over.
8) The Super Serious Show is why most people should equate stand up comedy to overweight balding men insulting front row audience members with bigoted commentary and subsequently why you should believe in live comedy.
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A Drink With Dave
Friday, February 18th
Special Guest: Comedian Matt Braunger
Part 5 of 5: “On The Dark Side”
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Double Rainbow guy, comedian Paul Danke
Double Rainbow guy, comedian Paul Danke
Stand up comedian Paul Danke in studio. Townie Talk with Zach, the drunks of the Lehigh Valley. Wanda Sykes is totally gay for PSAs. Logan and Cornell go at it in a fierce haiku battle. Double Rainbow guy explains what he’s been up to including a commercial with Jennifer Aniston and his quest for a new rainbow.
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Funny Or Die Presents: Episode 6 Sneak Peak
A sneak peak at this week’s episode of Funny Or Die Presents, including a new installment of Want to See a Dead Body? with Rob Huebel and Rachael Harris.
Catch the hilarity in its entirety tonight at midnight on HBO!
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Morning Debriefing 2/19/11
1) The Rooftop College Comedy Competition on Mar. 22nd pits students from LMU and Chapman University to see who is the funniest. How is this not an open mic that you’d have to pay to see?
2) Sell-Outs: Just a heads up on some great shows that are SOLD OUT, though you might just show up and see if there are any tickets at the door because people in LA tend to be quite flaky.
Matt Mira and Thomas Lennon present ONESTAR @ UCB Theatre Sun. Feb. 20th 9:30PM
West Memphis Three Benefit Show w/Oswalt, Silverman, and Tompkins @ Largo Mon. Feb. 21st 8PM $40
An Evening with Bill Maher @ Ice House Mon. Feb. 21st 8PM $40
3) Thank Brandie Posey (@brandazzle) for braving the rain for watching Dave Coulier’s set at Flappers last night tweeting it under the #CoulierGenius hashtag.
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-You better stay up tonight…
2 Milk Minimum @ Flappers Burbank 11:30AM $10/2 item min.
The Swarm @ UCB Theatre 7PM $5 (stand by only)
The Anytime Show w/Dominic Dierkes @ Smodcastle 8PM $8
Grand Theft Audio LIVE @ Meltdown Comics 8PM $8
Lettuce Entertain You w/Stand Up @ UCB Theatre 10PM $10 (stand by only)
Dole-White @ 1269 E. 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 10PM FREE
Magic Bag @ Smodcastle 10PM $8
The 12 Shiny Nickels Show @ Fake Gallery 11PM $5
The Tomorrow Show w/Ron Lynch Presents: Hook-Up @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
6) OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/people usually give feedback at end of set
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/one item min.
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATRE 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd and 4th St.)/Sign-Up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed
7) Recently: Radiohead’s new album came out to uproarious…. outrage especially via Twitter. Anyone think they will get to the point where fans will want to chase them with pitchforks like Patton Oswalt wants to kill George Lucas with a shovel?
8) A kid an open mic asked me where we can make money doing comedy in LA and I literally told him, a la Chinatown because it was raining and there were neon signs all around, “It’s LA. Forget about it.” Welcome to Jadedville. (also, I find it hilarious that I’m Jake and I’m the one saying it.)
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~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~: Mon 2/21 ~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~ Line Up !!!
~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~: Mon 2/21 ~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~ Line Up !!!
Last Week’s TigerLily was a super funtastic time! Greg & Dima rocked the house and helped make it one of the best Valentine’s ever! This week is going to be pretty stellar! So whatcha waiting for see ya Monday!
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
Monday February 21st 2011 – 8:00P
Hosted by:
JON…
#FF on Saturday New LA Show
@andytwood @shawnpearlman @joshuaheller and me, @edaslazar , are starting a show in Los Feliz called The Comedy Palace @Comedy_Palace . The first line up is intense: @BrentWeinbach @wittels @mrseanpatton and everyone’s favorite @mariabamfoo
The BBQ Pork buns at The Palace are realy good by the way. The show is free and there are drink specials. I am excited to start doing shows at this venue and I hope to see some of you there. (Meaning I hope I don’t go blind before then.)
Tip of the Hat 2/19: Lauri Roggenkamp
The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to LAURI ROGGENKAMP:
“@lauriroggenkamp I think I was given a sign last night that I eat too much because the drive thru lady cut me off while I was still ordering.”
The last few “Tips of the Hat” have been to performers that tour the world doing stand up or are sort of local legends in their own right. Lauri Roggenkamp may not get perform in Hungary or get to be on Chelsea Lately once a month, but she is fuckin’ hilarious on a consistent basis, which is one of the main qualifiers to be featured here.
Lauri Roggenkamp is a multi-faceted performer as she frequently switches caps between stand-up, sketch, and improv throughout Los Angeles very well having performed often at iO West and UCB Theatre. Still, the most enjoyable thing about Lauri, especially when it comes to her stand up performances, is the delightful, but unflinching brand of honesty she has honed.
Unabashed and unfiltered in her material about her weight/appearance and people’s constant curiosity as to what her sexual preferences are, Lauri delivers it in such an endearing way that you forget how dark it is while laughing hysterically. Her likability is so great that even at a roast, she was fact-checked by the person she was roasting, proved wrong, and actually acknowledged that she didn’t fact-check any of her jokes, then still got uproarious laughter the whole way through.
Currently, Lauri is part of the iO West sketch group Hot Toddy that performs weekly and does stand up everywhere from the Hollywood Improv to a Southern Style seafood restaurant in Orange County, but is undeniably funny in all of those circumstances. Follow her on Twitter, follow her on Tumblr, and check back here at the Comedy Bureau for details on her next performance.
Morning Debriefing 2/20/11
1) Though he has a penchant for provoking, it’s still amazing that Neil Hamburger (@Neil_Hamburger) proves that you can get heckled on Twitter and that, sometimes, the best way to deal with them is to let the heckler put their own foot in their own damn mouth. After a few tweets along the lines of: “I apologize to @BritneySpears and her fans. Feeling guilty after meeting her kids in line at local free clinic. #MentalIllness #Malnutrition,” Neil Hamburger’s Twitter feed filled with some, perhaps, ill-conceived “heckles” tweeted at him that he thankfully retweeted and are, now, featured here.
“Stop running your mouth you fucking ugly loser. You’re irrelavent. Don’t take it out on Brit, bitch!”
“wow @Neil_Hamburger….i never thought someone could be as ignorant and unsophisticated as you are. karma is a bitch…be ready for it.”
“FEMME FATALE will come for your ass you sad failed comedian. NOBODY knows who you are. LMAO”
“Sorry. mean people like @Neil_Hamburger aren’t amazing. Open ur eyes people. People like him is the reason why there’s so much hate…”
“Using Britney, her mental illness, and her kids for publicity, are we? Hope it makes you sleep better at night, sir.”
“America’s #1 Funnyman? HAHAHA You gotta be kidding. You’re such a nobody, look in the mirror… You fucking failed abortion.”
“You’re such a fail. Trying to become famous making fun of people who will always be more succesfull than you’ll ever be”
“Haha, dumb fuck. You’ll never be as succesful as Britney. Go DIE ignorant, motherfucker. FAILED COMEDIAN.”
“HEY!! BACK OFF BRITNEY SPEARS!!! BRITNEY IS THE QUEEN!! YOU ARE AN IGNORANT PERSON!!! I AM A BRITNEY & MJ FAN!!!”
“your second name is so unfortunate Lol, get ran over by a bus plz.”
“You can only wish your career is as successful as Britney’s.”
“could you please stop retweeting people who are sarcastically responding to you? it’s really annoying”
2) Josh Rencher’s Frolic is back from yet another hiatus, which I guess would make it Frolic 3.0? Mar. 2nd. 9PM FREE at Far Bar in Little Tokyo. What’s Frolic? Well, I wrote about it right here. Check back at the Comedy Bureau next week for more details.
3) The birth of a new open mic that could possibly fill in a void that the comedy community has been somewhat feeling on Mondays: Jake’s 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA. Sign-up (lottery) 7:30PM/Starts 8PM. First 15 spots are 5 min. paired with 3 min. work-ins throughout the show. Hosted by the gracious Steve Hernandez.
4) Again, in case you don’t like scrolling down, Tip of the Hat 2/19: Lauri Roggenkamp
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-even if it isn’t a 3 day weekend….
Jeff Garlin’s Combo Platter @ UCB Theatre 6PM $2 (stand by only)
Comedy Without a Cause @ Boardner’s 7PM FREE
Sunday Funnies @ Zoey’s (in Ventura) 7PM $5
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Comedy Barre @ Barre Vermont 8PM FREE/2 drink min.
An Evening with Ted Leo @ Center for the Arts Eagle Rock 8PM $10
Big Ten Comedy All Stars @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min.
French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Powerviolence Comedy Night @ 6470 Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood 8:30PM FREE
Top Story Weekly @ iO West 9PM $5
Matt Mira & Thomas Lennon Present ONESTAR @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Race Riot @ Hollywood Improv 10PM $14/2 item min.
6) OPEN MIC RUN
PALMS 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/one item min.
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed
7) Recently: Blake Griffin dunked over a car in his victory at the NBA Dunk Contest last night, but can he spin a cheeseburger on an umbrella like Michael Rayner (and also be funny while doing it?) Didn’t think so.
8) I went though nearly an hour of straight bombing yesterday just to have a good 7 min. set. In that time, I yelled at myself in my car while stuck in traffic, questioned myself in my intentions as a comedian, and depressed the few people that bothered to listen to me and not the person dancing outside in the rain. Sometimes, that’s what you need to do to prepare for a show.
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Charlyne Yi: Excerpt from my Romance Novel.
Charlyne Yi: Excerpt from my Romance Novel.
TITLE: THE CURSE OF THE VOLUPTUOUS SMILE
BY CHARLYNE YI
“THE SAD PART IS THAT ANY TIME I AM REMOTELY HAPPY, I AM INSTANTLY PUNCHED IN MY FUCKING FACE WITH REALITY, PUNCHED WITH A STRANGER’S LIPS, WRESTLED BY SOME SLUG OF TONGUE TRYING TO DEVOUR MY LAST BREATH — AND REMINDED OF HOW I’VE BEEN…
Cats and Pussy! Yay!
I run a podcast with Jake Weisman called Cats and Pussy. The name says it all.
We’ve got SEVEN, count ‘em SEVEN, episodes so far:
Episode 1: Intro to Cats and Pussy
Episode 2: Paul Jay
Episode 3: Joe Wengert
Episode 4: Emerson Dameron
Episode 5: Cornell Reid
Episode 6: Allen Strickland Williams
Episode 7: Susan BurkeHonestly, it’s not really about cats or pussy. It’s… Well it’s two guys who have an odd love for each other talking about how little they understand about anything.
Morning Debriefing 2/21/11
1) Kyle Kinane Interview by Ron Babcock in a nudie mag for women called Pool Boy. I’m just going to focus on the first six words of the previous sentence.
2) Would you look at that…? You can have a comedy special on Fuel TV. On Feb. 28th, Chris Fairbanks will air his special that he taped at M-Bar in November of last year, though just like every other channel that airs comedy specials, it’ll be on 1AM.
3) ON THE HORIZON: Shows you should be watching for because they might/should sell out
Welcome to Hollyweird Charity Event @ Hollywood Improv Wed. Feb. 23rd 8PM $15
The Sarah Silverman and Friends @ Largo Thurs. Feb. 24th 7:30PM $25
Conan Writers @ Hollywood Improv Thurs. Feb. 24th 8PM $14/2 item min.
Jeff Ross’ Roast in Peace @ The Comedy Store Fri. Feb. 25th 8:30PM $20
The Paul F. Tompkins 9th Anniversary Show @ Largo Sat. Mar. 19th 8:30PM $25
4) To go with Marc Maron coffee mugs, I just found WTF Roast Coffee.
5) Big Trouble in Little Tokyo is happening folks. Don’t worry. Glenn Wool and Jerrod Carmichael have got our backs on this one. Tomorrow. Señor Fish. 422 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA. Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM.
6) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-That’s the “nice price”
4 & 20 @ All Star Lanes 8PM FREE
What’s Up Tiger Lily? @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Melgard Mondays @ Melgard Public House 9PM FREE
Comedy Night @ Cherry Pit 9PM FREE
Keep It Clean Comedy @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
7) OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/one item min.
CLUB 705 705 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Starts 7PMish
JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 7:30PM/Starts 8PM. First 15 spots are 5 min. paired with 3 min. work-ins throughout the show.
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Starts 8PM-ish
HARLEM PLACE CAFE 124 W. 4th St. (in alley between Main and Spring St.)/Starts 8PM/e-mail speakeasyopenmic@gmail.com for spots
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5 Cover/Free coffee & water.
8) Recently: I read this headline, “Washington: the blackest name in America”. I also had trouble thinking of something to post in this section today, so I’m just posting something without much of a purpose besides it being hilarious: Claire Titelman.
9) When you ask to be brought up on stage by having the host say, “Our next comic comes all the way from the city of ASSHOLE!” I begin to wonder wy you ever left.
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Puddin’-Eddie Pepitone’s Daily Live Action Comic Strip-“Shoelace Broke!”
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