Dorksplosion Podcast Episode 2: Part 1
It’s Friday and that means it’s time for another Dorksplosion podcast!
This week we have Will Weldon, Asterios Kokkinos, Andrew DeWitt and Dan Bialek. We cover music and setting in video games and table top games and how those contribute to game immersion. Strap on the head phones cause we use naughty words.
Word up.
Puddin’-Eddie Pepitone’s Daily Live Action Comic Strip-“Demons”
Note: Fuck Folgers, this is the best part of wakin’ up.
1) Series “House of Lies” that Ben Schwartz is in got picked up on Showtime!
3) The BBC recently visited NY and was marveled at their plethora of storytelling shows. Though the Moth started in NY, we’ve got plenty here in LA including This is Not Happening @ Hollywood Improv, Public School Stories at M Bar, Two Headed Beast at Stories Books & Cafe, and plenty more that keep popping up. Check it BBC.
4) The Ultimate Free & Cheap LA Comedy List 4/10-4/16. Thanks Wisepix.
5) If only I knew more about designing websites and HTML code, I could make an open mic map as pretty looking as this one on LA Comedy Insider.
6) The Comedy Bureau “Tip of the Hat” (meant to be written earlier this week) to the Walsh Brothers! (Next one will be on time)
7) ON THE HORIZON
Gelmania @ UCB Theatre Sat. Apr. 16th 10PM $10
West Memphis 3 Benefit @ Largo Tues. May 31st 8PM $30
8) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL
Laugh-Your-Ass-Off-Palooza @ Columbia College Hollywood 6:30PM FREE
Risk! True Stories Boldly Told @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10
Alonzo Bodden @ Ice House 8:30PM/10:30PM $17.50/2 drink min.
Christina Pazitsky @ Downtown Comedy Club 9PM $11/2 drink min.
Stood Up Friday Night: The Meaning of Life @ Moving Arts Theatre 10PM $5
The Also-Ran Comedy Hour @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5
9) OPEN MIC RUN
SET LIST @ FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia, Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/given set list to improv off of
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
10) Yes, that “Report 00167” means I’ve blogged for 167 days straight including Christmas, New Year’s, and Martin Luther King Day. You’re welcome.
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The Green Room With Sean Green and Hasan Minhaj & Rob Christensen
Hasan Minhaj & Rob Christensen in studio for this episode of The Green Room, America’s favorite free comedy podcast
-Rob threw a chair at an angry crowd
-Hasan had a college mascot open up for him
-Steve Nash’s wife had a baby, only problem the Dad is Jason Richardson
-Charlie Sheen booed of stage in Detroit
-Nick Cannon has gotten ANOTHER radio show
Remember To Tune In To The Inaugural NormCast This Sunday | Sports Show with Norm Macdonald
Norm Macdonald will be covering The Masters live on Sunday starting at 2/1c. Click here for the live stream.
1. Comedy is a community. Other comics are your resource. Comics who are on your level — that’s important. A lot of comics are restless — they want to network with the pros who they perceive as ‘one level up’ from them. Those guys can’t help you much. It’s your peers that will help you. Forget the dog-eat-dog stuff; like it’s just you and your jokes against the world. That used to work, but not anymore. Make friends with people who make you laugh, produce shows together, build an audience together. Don’t worry about trying to climb your way up the comedy scene, just hold hands with your friends and you’ll all rise up like a balloon, laughing along the way.
2. Comedy is a lonely road. Other comics are your enemy. Comics who are on your level — they must be destroyed. All comics are restless — they want to decimate the competition so that there is only one “level” left and they are the only one on it. The pros can’t help you much. Neither can your peers. Forget the dog-eat-dog stuff; like it’s just you and your jokes against the world. It’s even worse than that. You don’t have any jokes. Make friends with people who cannot possible encroach on your career’s success in any way. Produce shows specifically to sandbag people in the scene. Terrorize the audience. Worry constantly about trying to climb your way up the comedy scene, kicking your peers in the shins, watching them fall as you run to the finish line, laughing all the way.
3. Comedy is a landscape, a vast landscape. Other comics will come and go. Comics who are above, below, and at your level, though they are part of a community, at the end of the day, are also individuals that want to be in the spotlight – that’s important. A lot of comics are restless in wandering around helter skelter for an answer — they want to network with “so and so” at “this and that room” (whether they’re pros or not) because they perceive that’s a level they need to be at even if it’s below from where they are. Those guys won’t help you much. If anything, many of them want to watch and see if you can take the inevitable suffering, maybe throw you a bone, and then watch you suffer more. Your peers will help you to a point, but longevity and success in this game depends on your own constitution. Forget the dog-eat-dog stuff; like it’s just you and your jokes against the world. That used to work, but now you need that along with a whole lot of luck. You can increase your odds by making friends with people who make you laugh, producing shows together, and building a following together, but that might not even be enough to make it anywhere in a comedy scene. Just hold onto your love of doing comedy whether you rise up like a balloon or crash and burn miserably over and over like a dysfunctional phoenix because you need to be laughing all the way or else you’re in this mess for the wrong reasons.
1. Tom Shillue, via The Comic’s Comic
2. Allen Strickland Williams, via The Allen Strickland Williams Super System
3. Jake Kroeger, via The Comedy Bureau
Charlie on Parole-a “long” short with comedians TJ Miller and Joe Wengert. It’s been posted on Splitsider and the Comic’s Comic, but I think you have now have time to watch and will thus more likely click on it (meaning this is 22 minutes and you have time to watch now).
1) Want to be part of the audience of an episode of Norm Macdonald’s Sports Show (premiering tomorrow night on Comedy Central)? Click that link. Also, watch Norm MacDonald’s Sports Show tomorrow because, simply, it’s Norm MacDonald’s Sports Show and that should be reason enough.
2) Though it was posted yesterday, there may still be room for the Comedy Store screening of American: The Bill Hicks Story on Wed. Apr. 13th 8PM. Try e-mailing at talent@thecomedystore.net.
3) Entertainment Fund Chiefs Pen Op-Ed urging need to raise money for American Comedy Fund via The Comic’s Comic.
4) The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to Jim Hamilton. Article/profile to follow later today.
5) ON THE HORIZON
An Evening with Tina Fey in Conversation with Steve Martin @ Nokia Theatre Tues. April 19th 8PM $29
Humanist Comedy @ Bar Marmont Mon. Apr. 11th 8PM FREE
6) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL
LA Comedy Shorts Festival @ Downtown Independent Theater
Ogre Mage @ Silverlake Lounge 6PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Lit Up! @ St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Parish Hall 8PM $10
Christina Pazitsky @ Downtown Comedy Club 9PM $11/2 drink min.
The Anytime Show/Magic Bag @ Underground Annex Theatre 8PM/10PM $5
Dana Gould @ Hollywood Improv 8PM/10PM $20/2 item min.
Alonzo Bodden @ Ice House 8PM/10PM $17.50/2 drink min.
The Back Room @ UCB Theatre 10PM $10
The Tomorrow Show & Midnight Show COMBINE @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
7) OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/people usually give feedback at end of set
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
8) Said to someone last night, “I am the Comedy Bureau,” and felt more validated than ever for about 5 seconds before remembering I only have $5 in my wallet and my empty light is about to turn on.
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The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to JIM HAMILTON:
“I should tell my neighbors that I’m a registered sex offender. I’m not, but at least the parents would tell their kids to avoid me.”
“No, I’m not stalking you. I made this marionette from memory.”
“Drop everything you’re doing and grab a broom. You just made a mess.”
As Twitter continues to rise in prominence in the comedy world, more and more comedians utilize the microblogging giant in developing material and few are so good as Jim Hamilton.
Though he may not have the following of more famous comedians who tweet only sporadically and often don’t tweet jokes or funny non sequiturs, Jim Hamilton applies his comedic prowess deftly in under 140 characters everyday. Through this process he’s one of the few that have refined a comedic voice online appreciated by many as he was nominated by Punchline Magazine as one of the Best Tweeters of 2010.
Jim mixes dark observations on himself, extremely clever puns, and minutia throughout his feed along with jokes I’ve heard him tell live that echo of Mitch Hedberg, but are completely and uniquely Jim. I’m sure Hedberg would never write a joke about having bartenders announce, in place of last call, “Jim Hamilton’s here.”
On stage, Jim takes these very precise one-liners and, unlike many one-liner comics that adopt an almost pretentious persona, is just himself. His noticeable pauses in between jokes and fleeting glances to seemingly random portions of the room are genuine, only adding a rare nuance of vulnerability and, also, the hilarity.
Though having been on Comedy Central’s popular series Premium Blend, Jim has admitted that if it weren’t for Twitter, he might have quit comedy altogether. Now, Jim has built up such a reputation that when I once told a comic about starting a tweeting competition between comics here in LA, they simply told me, without any hesitation, that Jim would win.
So, follow @Jim_Hamilton and then take the opportunity to catch him at French Toast @ Taix for free tomorrow Sun. Apr. 10th 8:30PM or at The 4 & 20 @ All Star Lanes Mon. Apr. 11th 8PM also for free. You can also get some “extended” Jim Hamilton on Tumblr here.
THE MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT AT THE STEVE ALLEN THEATRE!! WE’RE DOING ABOUT 30 MINS OF AWESOME SHIT. 12AM, BTCH.THE MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT AT THE STEVE ALLEN THEATRE!! WE’RE DOING ABOUT 30 MINS OF AWESOME SHIT. 12AM, BTCH.THE MIDNIGHT SHOW TONIGHT AT THE STEVE ALLEN THEATRE!! WE’RE DOING ABOUT 30 MINS…
You’re not going to find many better line-ups than the one that will be at TAIX French Restaurant (1911 W. Sunset in Echo Park) on Sunday. The show is free. The soupe du jour is Split Pea. The time is 8:30 p.m. The stars are aligned:
Brent Weinbach
Kyle Kinane
Jim Hamilton
April Richardson
Ricky Carmona
1) As the Comedy Awards already happened and we already know who won, I’d say watch the premiere of Norm MacDonald’s Sports Show at 10:30PM April 12th first, but the Comedy Awards are chronologically on first at 9PM, so just watch both on Comedy Central.
2) You probably already suspected that American: The Bill Hicks Story was going to be reviewed like this, but it’s nice to actually read it in reality. [via PopcornBiz]
3) Weird Places to do Stand Up w/Chelsea Peretti, Pete Holmes, Howard Kremer, and more! [via HuffPo Comedy]
4) Tip of the Hat for Jim Hamilton
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL
Comedy Without a Cause @ Boardners 7:30PM FREE
Feel Good Comedy @ Hollywood Improv 7:30PM $10/2 item min.
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Ian Federgreen Presents @ Flappers YooHoo Room 7:30PM $10/2 drink min.
#hashtag @ Bar Lubitsch 8:30PM FREE
Powerviolence @ The Complex 8:30PM FREE
Chatterbox Comedy Night @ Chatterbox 9PM FREE
Top Story Weekly @ iO West 9PM $5
Lettuce Entertain You! (W/Stand Up) @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
The Sunday Sunday Sunday Show @ The Improv Space 9:30PM FREE
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.
TSUNAMEDY @ TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 9PM
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed
7) I apologize profusely for the tardiness of this post. There’s no excuse other than I can write an update this complex via my smart phone. Damn technology.
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Punchline Magazine: Interview: Who are you, Reggie Watts?
What Reggie Watts does onstage has been described in many different ways the last few years. Mostly it comes down to “comedian” or “musical comedian.” After all, Comedy Central Records released his album Why Shit So Crazy? last year; he’s toured with comedians (Conan, anyone?) and cut…
1) Comedian Barry Rothbart on national TV… again. After appearing frequently on national commercials for Taco Bell, web series “Do Whatever”, in which he stars, is set to air on IFC soon.
2) There’s still win a chance to win a spot on the Long Shot Podcast!!!
3) With an endorsement from Kate Micucci and this review, Re-Animator the Musical, might be something to catch at the Steve Allen Theater soon. It may not be the Human Centipede musical, but why the f*$# would you want to see that?
4) “All awards shows are bullshit made up clubs where people decide to give each other prizes. So, I want to thank Comedy Central for saying, ‘we could do that, we could give each other prizes.”-Tina Fey about the Comedy Awards/Reason the Comedy Bureau thinks that such awards shows really shouldn’t be broadcasted ever
5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL
What’s Up Tiger Lily @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
The 4 & 20 @ All Star Lanes 8PM FREE
Baron Vaughn opening for Adam Warrock @ Nerdist Theatre 8PM $10
Just for Laughs Showcase @ Hollywood Improv Lab 7:30PM/9:30PM $5
Stand Up Saloon @ Old Towne Pub 10PM FREE
Keep It Clean Comedy @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
6) 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
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
7) So Comedy Central is 20 years old. Subtracting the 170 days we’ve been live, the Comedy Bureau has just over 7000 days to reach the same prominence.
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INDIGLO Comedy: WHEN IS THE NEXT INDIGLO???
That’s a question that everyone keeps asking! We had so much fun doing the show in 2010, but 2011 has been so busy, we haven’t had time to keep up the monthly spectacle! NOT TO WORRY! We ARE coming back! The calendar has been a little hard of late with the “last Sunday of the month” stuff. There’s…
You are a beautiful nerd, Ed Helms. I want to spoon with you while we watch Harold and Maude.
Jeff Wattenhofer fucks ALL the cats. I mean women. Wait… No, cats.
I wuv him. Listen: Cats and Pussy Episode 10
