Here’s links to episodes of podcasts I’ve recently* appeared on
*Note: recently may in some instances mean a long time ago
If you don’t know Asterios Kokkinos, study up (especially when it comes to Pokemon references).
Morning Debriefing 7/27/11
1) Zach Galifianakis’ plan all along for making it in comedy in America [via HuffPostComedy]
2) The New Faces of Comedy are unveiled at Just For Laughs Montreal. Congratulations to some our favorite comics to watch: Jerrod Carmichael, Barry Rothbart, Nick Rutherford, Nick Turner, Johnny Pemberton, Ron Funches, and Sean O’Connor. Please make an effort to catch them live because you will absolutely not regret it.
3) Late Night with Jimmy Fallon was the place to be/thing to watch last night with appearances by Marc Maron (pt. 1 and 2) and Steve Carell (pt. 1 and 2).
4) We have been wasting time on separate fantasy sports leagues. It’s time to unite everything according to Paul Scheer on the Daily Habit.
5) Hari Kondabolu makes some people in somewhere, MA feel uneasy.
6) Variety names top 10 comics to watch. Another special congratulations goes out to some of the Comedy Bureau favorite comics: Jerrod Carmichael (again), Pete Holmes, and Josh Fadem.
7) Andrés Du Bouchet as head of Schmecky & Schmecky on Conan.
8) The LA Weekly interviews the hilarious Barbara Gray before she hosts Holy Fuck next week.
9) Cornell Reid (@corneezy) KNOWS music like nobody’s business. Here’s the proof on Funny or Die.
10) Wanna be part of a fake telethon at the Nerdist Theater? Of course you do.
Dan Savage’s New Threat to Rick Santorum from Dan Savage
12) Web series that need to be on TV (a list by us on Laughspin.com).
13) LA Weekly has their say on the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts… Not a bad a list at all.
14) We love the Super Serious Show, so we wrote about it for our friends at Serial Optimist.
15) Moshe Kasher is going to have a book that you’re going to want to pick up.
16) Puddin’-“Tears”
17) ON THE HORIZON
The End @ The Last Bookstore Wed. Aug 3rd 8PM FREE
18) COMEDY CRAWL
Come Out Laughing @ Long Beach Laugh Factory 8PM $12-$22/2 drink min.
Meltdown Movie Night @ Nerdist Theater 8:30PM FREE
The 5 Year Anniversary of the Ed Galvez Punk House 9PM $5
RTDOK and Jake’s Presents @ Jake’s 9PM FREE
Facebook @ UCB Theatre 9PM $5 (stand by only)
Beer in the Shower @ Dreams Bar & Cafe 9:30PM FREE
The Ho Ho Show @ Hollywood Hotel 10PM FREE
Comedy Revolver @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5
19) OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
THE SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 7PM
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/first come, first served
GRINDHOUSE CAFE 1051 N. Havenhurst, West Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM
CAFE ON 2ND 7 S. 2nd St., Alhambra, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/$3 cover/10 min. guarantee
LIBRARY A COFFEE HOUSE 3418 Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:30PM
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/7 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 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available
20) If I run into traffic at 2AM here in LA, I apologize in advance to highway workers who I will uncontrollably abuse through vicious cursing and a stiff middle finger.
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Hosted by the slightly dangerous Stephen Falk
TUESDAY AUGUST 9TH AT 9PM! M-Bar at 1253 Vine.
RSVP to reserve a space for your brain
@Nerdmelt Presents: CARNYVILLE with @DanaJGould& @DavidKoechner
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of a carnival. Creepy dudes running creepy rides while creepy clowns smile creepily. Dave Koechner (Anchorman, The Naked Trucker & T-Bone) and Dana Gould (The Simpsons, Conan) join forces to recreate the golden era of life along the midway. With stand-up, special guests, music, and a creepy sense of creepitude. Join us, won’t you?
Featuring Chelsea Peretti, Pat Healy, Jim Turner, Mark Fite, and The Poubelle TwinsAugust 12th, 2011 8PM
Meltdown Comics
7522 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
323.851.7223
Morning Debriefing 7/28/11
1) TONIGHT: Catch the awesome Jarrod Harris make his late night TV debut on Lopez Tonight (TBS MIDNIGHT) and right before that Louis C.K. on The Late Show with Letterman (CBS 11:35PM) and even right before that, you can catch an episode of Louie (FX 10:30PM) and in between that catch The Green Room with Paul Provenza (Showtime 11PM) and guests Doug Stanhope, Dave Attell, and more!
2) Speaking of Stanhope and Attell, watch them interview each other after the taping of their episode of the Green Room.
3) There’s even newer faces at Just for Laughs Montreal (that don’t have representation)… Congratulations to another one of our favorite performers, Lauri Roggenkamp on getting on this list.
4) Here’s a Weird Al Yanovic interview… with himself.
5) Paul Cibis’ Twitter Feed Theatre #Comic-Con Problems
6) Drew Droege’s Chloe Sevigny has become so interesting after performing at show and hosting parties around LA that she was written about in a blog all the way from Australia.
7) How to Get Paid for Comedy Online via Connected Comedy
8) The Compatish takes it to Dunk Monkeys…
9) COMEDY CRAWL
Danny Mahoney’s Terrific Party Demo @ UCB Theatre 8PM $5
6 Degrees @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $5
1642 Comedy Social Club @ 1642 Beer & Wine 8:30PM FREE
Hamclown @ The Mezz (2nd Floor of Alexandria Hotel) 8:30PM FREE
The Josh & Josh Show: Joshfest ‘11 @ Bar Lubitsch 8:30PM FREE
One Last Try for Comedy (Show) @ Fake Gallery 8:30PM FREE
Comedy Palace @ The Palace Restaurant 8:30PM FREE
Gelmania @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
The Hilarium Birthday Show @ Hollywood Improv 10PM $14/2 item min.
Rest in Peace @ Hollywood Hotel 10PM FREE
10) OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 6PM/$4 minimum/first come, first served
COFEE BEAN 16101 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA, Suite 180/Starts 7PM/mixed mic/no purchase necessary
SANDWICH SPOT 3101 Ocean Park Ave., Santa Monica, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/first come, first served
CAFE ON 2ND 7 S. 2nd St., Alhambra, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/first come, first served/10 min.
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
CAFE UNURBAN 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 9PM/No purchase necessary
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 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available
11) Yeah, we’re not in Montreal. Sorry about that.
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Read Marc Maron’s Amazing, Inspiring Montreal Comedy Festival Keynote Address | Comic’s Comic
Read Marc Maron’s Amazing, Inspiring Montreal Comedy Festival Keynote Address | Comic’s Comic
It’s long so click through for the whole thing.
(via Buzzfeed)
~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~: Mon 8/1 ~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~ Line Up!
~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~: Mon 8/1 ~What’s Up, Tiger Lily?~ Line Up!
Last week’s show was amazing! Stellar performances all around! This week we welcome some Tlily favorties and some super cool NY comics you should get to know! Also chances to win FREE drinks at the show! So we will see ya Monday!
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
Monday August 1st 2011 – 8:00P
Hosted…
Morning Debriefing 7/29/11
1) Jarrod Harris does stand-up and Girl From Impanema in Vietnamese on Lopez Tonight.
3) We don’t get screeners here cause well (cough cough)… Anyways, sci-fi action comedy Attack the Block is started its limited theater run at Arclight Hollywood today and by the looks of the trailer and everyone we know and respect saying nothing but great things about it, you should probably, at the very least check it out.
4) Yesterday, Marc Maron gave a heartfelt, inspiring speech about being a comedian that we have posted at least twice already. Read a transcript of the entire speech at the Comic’s Comic.
“I am the future of show business. Not your show business, my show business. They want me to do this speech because I am the future of our industry.
Then my new manager got back to me and said, “They liked the jokes you did when you introduced Kindler a couple of years ago. That’s why they asked you.”
There’s a reason we’re posting it for at least a third time and maybe more. Cringe Humor even caught a small excerpt on video of the keynote address at Just For Laughs, which in our opinion, should be reprinted several times over like the Gettysburg Address in souvenir stores across America.
5) Please read Patrick Melton’s open letter to Flappers Comedy Club and the comedy industry in general.
6) There will be an Arizona Comedy Festival and they’re currently taking submissions. [via Laughspin.com]
7) Our first piece for the Nerdist: "Why You Probably Haven’t Heard Any Funny Amy Winehouse Jokes”. Already, there’s an amazing comment from eric:
“The formula [comedy = tragedy + time] can be revised thus: (tragedy + time) / context = comedy. Time is inversely related to context–or–the more context you add, the less time between the present and the tragic event is needed in order to be funny. Less context, more time, conversely.”
Think about it. It’s kinda true.
8) TJ Miller interviewed in GQ.
9) HBO renews Real Time with Bill Maher for a 10th Season.
11) COMEDY CRAWL
Faygo Fridays w/Brendon Walsh, Nick Youssef, and Esther Povitsky @ Sal’s Comedy Hole 7:30PM $10/2 item min.
Stand-up Spotlight w/Sarah Silverman & Chelsea Peretti @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Re-Animator @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $30
The 12 Shiny Nickels Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $10
The Second City Late Night w/Howie Kremer @ Second City Hollywood 9PM $5
Cavemen Jet Pilot @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $10
12) OPEN MIC RUN
UCB THEATRE 5919 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/lottery/all spots 5 min./only 10 spots available
SET LIST @ FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia, Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/given “set list” of topics to do jokes off of/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
iCANDY 1708 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/first come, first served/$3 min./mixed mic/booked show in middle around 8PM
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Silverlake)/Sign-up (lottery) 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/4 min./no purchase necessary
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
MAX BLOOM’S 200 N. Malden Ave., Fullerton, CA/Starts 7PM/booked show after/no purchase necessary
GLENDALE DAYS INN 450 N. Pioneer Dr., Glendale, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 8PM/No foul language/No purchase necessary/first come, first served
FLOODLAMP OPEN MEG[APHONE] 3201 W. Verdugo Blvd., Burbank, CA/Starts 8PM/lottery/no purchase necessary/under floodlamp in park
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 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts MIDNIGHT
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Starts MIDNIGHT
13) This girl can’t be real [via Laughspin.com] Also, is “true love” still a thing?
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‘The Onion’ Writers Could Go On Strike | Buzzfeed
‘The Onion’ Writers Could Go On Strike | Buzzfeed
This headline is not a joke. Writers for ‘Onion News Network’ are threatening to go on strike over compensation and benefit disputes. The Writer’s Guild Of America and The Onion are currently in negotiations, but as of now, no agreement has been reached.
IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER TRICK!
July 31st is the last day of the summer before The Dark Horse Saloon gets remodeled! Come laugh & dance, fancy pantses.
Hostesses EMILY MAYA MILLS & BRANDIE POSEY Present:
OGRE MAGE – The greatest D&D Rock&Roll Band In The Land
MORGAN MURPHY – Jimmy Fallon
BARON VAUGHN – Fairly Legal, Cloverfield, HBO
JUSTIN IAN DANIELS – Montreal & Boston Comedy Festivals, Lifetime
THE GET GO – Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
ERIC DADOURIAN – Rest In Peace (That’s his show. We didn’t book a zombie)Featuring Trick’s Dark Horse Dancers: ALL THE ANGRY KITTENS
DJ Denver Smith will be spinning jams before & after the show too – so bring your smiling faces and your dancing shoes.
FREE SHOW
FREE PARKINGThe Dark Horse Saloon (formerly Bordello Bar… formerly Little Pedro’s)
DOORS 8:00 PM
SHOW 8:30 PM
901 East 1st Street, (*****ENTRANCE ON VIGNES*****)
Downtown Los Angeles, 90012
Click the flier for the FB invite!
The 4 & 20 is the only place in Los Angeles to see some of the best underground comedians in town working out rare, long form sets. This ain’t no showcase, folks. Also, it’s FREE. And there are cheap drinks. Plus it’s a bowling alley. Literally nothing could be a better Monday night. Oh, did I mention there’s a parking lot for parking and/or loitering?
Hannah Gansen.
Greg Barris.
Taylor Williamson.
Brandie Posey.Hosted by Abbey Londer.
All Star Lanes
4459 Eagle Rock Blvd.8PM
FREE
Morning Debriefing 7/30/11
1) Marc Maron’s keynote address from the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal is now online in its entirety. Listen here.
2) No one ruined the Open Meg[aphone] last night in Burbank, so it will be happening again on August 12th.
3) One of our absolute favorite shows in town, The Tomorrow Show with Ron Lynch, is celebrating their 6th Anniversary on August 6th and we were lucky (or cool) enough to get a leak of the amazing line-up they have in store, which is as follows:
Craig Anton
Brendon Small
Neil Hamburger
Brett Loudermilk-sword swallower
Jack Dagger-knife thrower
Gabriela Crowe-chanteause
Bryan Coffee-physical story teller
Ten West
Unknown Hands Puppet Troupe
Frank Conniff
David Higgins
Laura Silverman
Demetri Martin
Eddie Pepitone
Mike O’Connell
&
Cookie Monster
Admission is $15, BUT if you go to the Tomorrow Show tonight, you’ll only have to pay $5 for the astounding anniversary show.
4) If you go to Holy Fuck next Tuesday, this will be happening…
5) The Ultimate Free & Cheap LA Comedy List 7/31-8/6 via Wisepix.
6) Doctor w/Pete Holmes & Matt McCarthy-“Prostate Exam”
7) Troy Conrad and Paul Provenza’s Set List gets written about overseas.
8) Of the recent Variety Top 10 Comics to Watch/JFL New Faces, a few of them got a Tip of the Hat of us before they hit the big time.
Jerrod Carmichael (Top 10 Comics to Watch/New Faces)
Pete Holmes (Top 10 Comics to Watch)
Lauri Roggenkamp (New Faces)
9) ON THE HORIZON
This is Not Happening @ Hollywood Improv Tues. Aug. 2nd $5/2 item min.
10) COMEDY CRAWL
Happiest Hour @ Flappers YooHoo Room 7:30PM $10/2 item min.
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
The Anytime Show w/Dominic Dierkes @ Underground Annex Theater 8PM $5
The Heart of Darkness @ Nerdist Theater 8PM $10
Re-Animator: The Musical @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $30
Channel 101 Screening @ Downtown Independent Theater 8PM/10PM FREE
Magic Bag @ Underground Annex Theater 10PM $5
Seth & Ed’s Puppet Talk Show @ UCB Theatre 10PM $10 (stand by only)
The Tomorrow Show Presents Limbo @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
Lil’ Draper’s Date Nights @ UCB Theatre MIDNIGHT $5
11) OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/feedback given at end
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/coffee & water provided
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd and 4th St.)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/no purchase necessary/4 min.
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
12) Hollywood Blvd. you really need to get your shit together… and we’re not just talking about the riot.
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