1) 150 Best Jests via NY Post/@manydstadt-LA’s well represented with Kyle Kinane, Marc Maron, Maria Bamford, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, TJ Miller, Rob O’Reilly, Joselyn Hughes, Richard Lewis, Conan O’Brien, Morgan Murphy (whose coming back to LA), Andy Kindler, Jamie Lee (will hopefully come back to LA), Bil Dwyer, Alec Sulkin, Josh Comers, Dana Gould, Michelle Buteau, Kevin Nealon, Rob Gleeson, Jon Huck, Drew Droege, Jackie Kashian, Jen Murphy, Kyle Dunnigan, Jeff Ross, Whitney Cummings, Felipe Esparza, Doug Benson, Richard Lewis, and a few more I can’t remember off the top of my head.
2) Plop List-a brand new website dedicated to wrangling the best in comedy podcasting thanks to our friend Joel Mandelkorn.
3) The last chance to vote for the Scoomies-a comedy awards ceremony recognizing the best of people who were the best in the hometown and decided to come to LA to make it and are on their way up.
4) The beginnings/makings/refurbishings of the Nerdist Theatre, one of my favorite places to watch live comedy.
7) OPEN MIC RUN RED ROCK 8782 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/multiple sets allowed/$5 min. CLUB 705 705 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Starts 7PM-ish JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 7:30PM/Starts 8PM TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Starts 8PM/call (213) 483-4458 D’AMORE’S 8369 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 8PM/Purchase required GROUND ZERO USC 615 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA/USC Campus/Nestled between 3 dormitories approximately a block away from the intersection of Figueroa and Exposition/USC student sign-up 9PM/non-USC-student sign-up 9:15/Starts 9:30PM
SILICON VALLEY, CA (the fahey chronicles) – In an attempt to cater to the pathetic losers that frequent their web domains, all online dating websites will change their domain names from .com to .sad effective immediately.
“Let’s be honest, a large majority of our clientele are pitiful,…
Kyle Reiter and I created a new show for Channel 101 called Legend of the White Tiger. Shot by the incredible Todd Bishop and staring Halle Detrixhe, Kelsy Abbott, Jeremy LaPeer, Rob Schrab, Ryan Nagata, Sammy Primero and me. Voices provided by Kelsy Abbott, Steve Agee, Todd Bishop, Rob Schrab, Kate Freund and Kyle Reiter as Big Wind! Thanks to all of our friends for helping us and especially to Nick Plotquin! I had such a great time making this with my boys and am overwhelmed by the amount of positive feedback. Thanks again!
Exclusive Comedy Store clips from American: The Bill Hicks Story
The groundbreaking documentary about Comedy Store legend Bill Hicks, traces the life and legend of a Comedy outlaw the intense highs and lows, and the sacrifices comics make to bring laughs to an audience.
Screening at Laemmle’s Sunset 4/15-4/21 Special Comics, Friends and Family Screening at The Comedy Store on 4/13 (For an invitation e-mail: Talent@TheComedyStore.net)
Every single one of you definitely need to be watching out for this…
Who the fuck asks for a +5 over several nights to Doug Stanhope? On a slightly related note, I make no money writing about comedy currently and only ask for a +1. Am I still wrong?
The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to JERROD CARMICHAEL.
During the first edition of First Five, a delightfully refreshing stand up comedy show where all the comedians do their very first five minutes they ever wrote, Jerrod performed off a crumpled piece a paper and performed a set that he did at a high school talent show in which he started with telling the principal to go fuck himself and then, still in the spirit of poking fun at his former self, ranted how about he doesn’t understand Siegfried and Roy and their white tiger like damn… damn.
With the likes of Greg Proops, Paul F. Tompkins, and Reggie Watts receiving Tips of the Hat, you might just be wondering exactly who is Jerrod Carmichael. If credits are a concern, he’s a legitimate regular at the big clubs here in LA, but that’s not really why he’s being given this week’s “Tip of the Hat”. Simply put, Jerrod Carmichael is hilarious all the time.
Whether at the Original Room at the Comedy Store (where he’s a paid regular) or at the back of Meltdown Comics for the indie-alt comedy show Meltdown or even at a sparse college bar full of the drunken frat/sorority crowd, Carmichael kills it. As composed and mild-mannered as he may seem by merely staying in one place on stage, often keeping the mic in the mic stand, Carmichael keeps people hanging off every word he says, especially since he’ll linger on a couple of them in any given joke. Though he can be described as a low-energy comic, he’s still incredibly engaging with his stage presence as he’s genuinely delighted to be telling jokes wherever he happens to be and a delivery comparable to a lovely, slowly kindling Christmas fireplace.
When it comes to writing jokes and their subsequent economy of words, Carmichael, hailing all the way from North Carolina, has definitely honed what he writes, or even what he riffs, into often perfectly phrased lines making the fact that he’s broke, an extremely common topic amongst comics, both original and hysterical, “I’m at a point in my life… where… … $30… can change… everything.” No matter if he talks about his life or past wars of the United States, Carmichael’s observations on anything are, like I said earlier, hilarious all the time.
If you’re in LA, you’ll catch him popping up any sort of show from any size of club, so check back at the Comedy Bureau frequently to see when and where he’s going up.
It’s the first official episode and Dave welcomes his first official guest: Comedian Gil Ozeri! Gil recently watched Two and a Half Men in two and a half days straight for funnyordie.com and now he’s ready to share his wisdom with the rest of us in the inaugural vidchat session!
Check out the show’s fancy new site and share the episodes with your friends: adrinkwithdave.com
1) April 1st-There will be a piece about Downtown LA Comedy in the Los Angeles Times. Please look out for this.
2) At least the Shorty Awards (Twitter Awards) got one thing right: Conan O’Brien winning the Shorty Lifetime Achievement Award. @lord_Voldemort7 for humor. Yeah, right…
3) Earwolf, a podcast platform for many big comedy podcasts has a “secret project”. Besides it being called “Project Tippy Toe”, that’s all I can really say. [via Ploplist]
4) Bobby Bottleservice Joke Contest! Finish the joke, “Why did the mosquito cross the road?” to win tickets to a show with Conan O’Brien, Sarah Silverman, and Bottleservice’s alter-ego Nick Kroll, here in LA [via The Comic’s Comic]
8) OPEN MIC RUN BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE TOKYO @ SEÑOR FISH 422 E. 1st, Los Angeles, CA (downtown)/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/$5 min. MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizza)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed
9) While watching a stand up comedy show, I saw a passer-by through a window stop and look confused that someone would be just talking on stage, then quickly hurry off. I guess it’s weird that people want to laugh nowadays.
@mike_burns_ and I will be podcasting live TONIGHT at 8PM PST (www.gentlemenscumbags.com) with our producer, Patrick Melton and special guest, Rory Scovel. Rory has been on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Live at Gotham and a bunch of other shit. Because he’s funny.
Click here to subscribe. It’s not on iTunes, so click there. We’ll be discussing all kinds of grossout behavior. But we’re also having our WrestleMania preview! Be a gentleman and tune in.
The Comedy Awards, Comedy Central’s stab at becoming THE comedy authority and validator, taped Saturday night in New York. Bill Murray showed up, David Letterman and Eddie Murphy received vaunted awards, the usual suspects won things, and much merriment was had.
I wasn’t there, but…
Yeah, Cyrus was kind of just a footnote at the Comedy Awards, unfortunately.
