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The Grawlix @ Rebar (Seattle, WA) Sun. Jun. 10th 7PM $12
Conan in Chicago @ The Chicago Theatre (Chicago, Il) Mon. Jun. 11th-Thurs. Jun. 14th
Christina Pazsitzsky & Gina Yashere @ Cobbs Comedy Club (San Francisco, CA) Thurs. Jun. 14th-Sat Jun. 16th
Savage Love Live with Garfunkel & Oates @ Neptune Theatre (Seattle, WA) Wed. Jun. 13th 8PM $22
Matt Walsh @ Muse Books Fri. Jun. 15th 7PM
Brian Posehn TV Special Taping @ Neptune Theatre (Seattle, WA) Fri. Jun. 15th 8PM/10:30PM $16 in adv., $18 at door
Laughter is the Best Medicine @ Alberta Rose Theatre (Portland, OR) Fri. Jun. 22nd 7PM $10-$30
Greg Proops in London and Dublin in June
Eli Braden East Coast Tour in late June
Kristen Schaal & Kurt Braunohler @ Gothic Theatre (Denver, CO) Wed. July 11th 8PM $22
Mike Birbiglia’s “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” throughout U.S. thru Feb. 2013

Jonah Ray informed the general public of his issue with TJ Maxx on Conan last night.

For more late night stand-up tonight, don’t forget to watch The Half Hour on Comedy Central with Joe Mande at 11PM and Garfunkel & Oates at 11:30PM, which you can watch right after the premiere of Comedy Bang Bang and Bunk on IFC. Even before all of that, you can catch Jimmy Fallon on YouTube Presents performing songs from his upcoming album Blow Your Pants Off 5PM PST.

Thanks to Isabel Fay and The Clever Pies and their song Thank You Hater we victims of internet trolling now have an anthem to unite us all, or at least, delightfully enjoy while we process someone wishing we go fuck ourselves in various fashions. Coupled with Pete Holmes’ joke about YouTube comments, don’t let the bigoted whims of teenagers and unemployed adults get to you ever again.

(via thefjp)

Just in case you’ve been missing all the comedy goodness from The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim or the premieres of Comedy Bang Bang and Bunk on IFC, you can now download episodes from iTunes.

From the absurd minds of Conan writer Andrés Du Bouchet and Michael Ian Black to the behind-the-scenes folks like Joel Mandelkorn, here’s another round of written pieces on/about/making fun of/etc. comedy to enjoy over a chai latte* this afternoon. 

Bunch of Totally Fake Crap by Andrés Du Bouchet for his blog
Mind Thoughts… with Michael Ian Black I Will Kill You by Michael Ian Black for Vice
This Is How You Make Something Go Viral: An Impractical Guide by Neetzan Zimmerman for Gawker
Smart AND Beautiful by Sofiya Alexandra for her blog
A Promoter of Smiles: Joel Mandelkorn by Deborah Thomasian for Serial Optimist
Can Moonrise Kingdom Save Movies by Jake Kroeger for The Nerdist 

*Not to be enjoyed with any other kind of latte and we mean it**.
**We’re not actually going to do anything if you drink something else.  

Based on the trailer, Disney’s Wreck It Ralph might be the movie to get video game adaptations right even though Wreck It Ralph is not an actual video game, yet, at least.

Based on its trailer, Grassroots is a comedy movie with Jason Biggs that thankfully doesn’t have a pie and we’re interested in seeing.

Watch both now.

The Seattle Sketchfest has been taking submissions and will for another week. Shows for out-of-towners take place in early Oct. which we’re pretty sure you don’t have plans for yet (apologies if you and/or sketch group does).

Did you know that there was a Canadian Comedy Awards that just released their nominations for 2012 and that, if you’re Canadian, you could vote in several categories? Well, maybe you can comedy nerd out this Sun. afternoon and discover comedy from the North (we’re assuming that you’re South of Canada wherever you are).

San Francisco’s own, co-founder of Iron Comic, a third of Laughter Against the Machine, Nato Green has his album, The Nato Green Party, out both for download and CD on Rooftop Comedy. If you think political is a thin veil for espousing hardcore political opinions, Nato Green is a great example of how that’s absolutely not true.

Jimmy Fallon’s live concert at YouTube Presents featuring songs from his upcoming album Blow Your Pants Off is now all up for those of us probably stuck in traffic or at work still when it was broadcast. Watch Jimmy impersonate Neil Young covering the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme and more.

You can now get some of your favorite comedy records on vinyl, why not have a print comedy magazine that’s published on printer paper and not available at any newsstand or anywhere online?

That’s the thought that must have been behind the creation of Fortunate Soldier Magazine, a magazine that rounds up short form written pieces from such comedic luminaries as Jonah Ray, Jim Hamilton, Ron Babcock, Kelsy Abbott, and more. We have a copy and it’s worth definitely worth a read and a laugh, but as you can see below, there’s only 300 copies printed. On top of that editors Spencer Strauss and Paul Isakson hand them out personally at live comedy shows that they’re at. We’ve personally pleaded that there be some easier way to get it because we care about our readers that much, but alas, to no avail, you actually have to go see a live comedy show, most likely, in LA (What a chore, right? It’s not like there’s a collective calendar of great shows to check out on a nightly basis or something).

Hopefully, that will have to change because people bug Spencer and Paul enough or they literally run out of copies to hand our OR they have to publishing it online because there’s no more paper left in the world (assuming this zine keeps going through past 2090 or later)

This week Conan visits Chicago, which is without a doubt going to be a hoot the entire time considering all of Conan’s other trips over the years (Conan chasing his hat on the coast of Ireland is timeless). At the Chicago Theatre, Conan will chat with Jack McBrayer and Andy Samberg as well as have member of the former Chicago powerhouse the Blerds, TJ Miller on as well. There’s free t-shirts. The Conan writers are having their own show. TBS 11PM tonight through Thurs. That shouldn’t interfere with the NBA playoffs we hope.

While Conan is indeed in Chicago and that’s great, Rory Scovel will be doing a set on Ferguson and Eric Andre will undoubtedly be Eric Andre on Fallon. Maybe he’ll even get to play a game with Jimmy, which would be, especially if you’ve seen The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim, amazing.

Eric Andre on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC 12:35AM)
Jason Schwartzman and Rory Scovel on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS 12:35AM) 

The title of this episode of Fresh Air with Terry Gross is Joan Rivers Hates You and Everyone Else. There’s nothing else to be said to get you to check out the highlights and listen to the audio that will be posted at 2PM PST.

Just For Laughs Chicago starts this week with anything and everything from Henson Alternative to Patton Oswalt to Conspiracy Theory Live with Jesse Ventura w/James Adomian to a local Chicago showcase to Kyle Kinane to Eddie Pepitone’s Bitter Buddha screening to Delocated to Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, and much much more.

The Del Close Marathon starts at the end of this month Fri. June 29th and stretching non-stop to July 1st in NYC with anything and everything from an extra long episode of Matt Besser’s improv4humans to The Chris Gethard Show to Gravid Water to 30 Rock Writers to plenty of Ben Schwartz on different teams to Jason Mantzoukas & Seth Morris to Match Game ‘76 to the original Upright Citizens Brigade and much much more.

If you’re somehow able to get yourself to Chicago by tomorrow night and NYC at the end of this month, then we highly recommend that you do so along with plenty of 5 Hour Energy.

For those of you who don’t see far past the graphic and explicit nature of Doug Stanhope’s jokes to the incredibly valid points that he makes, here’s something a little more cut and dry for you: Doug Stanhope speaking against animals working for PETA. 

Surprised? You shouldn’t be if you were, again, actually listening to what he was saying.

Last night on late night:
Eric Andre sat and did panel interview with Jimmy Fallon, but made sure that he was incredibly comfortable and that everything was in working order form the mic to both his and Jimmy’s water as we’re sure he does at The Eric Andre Show before he kicks in his desk.

Conan tried to learn a traditional Irish dance at Chicago’s own Irish American Heritage Center, a former elementary school that is now currently filled with taps of Guinness.

On late night tonight:
Matt Kirshen on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS 12:35AM)

Apparently, Scott Aukerman hasn’t heard a song from Comedy Bang Bang bandleader Reggie Watts about him and, as the show’s host, wanted to hear such a song. Luckily, Watts has been working on one for a while though it might not be exactly Scott’s taste.

Let the comedy nerd/regular comic book nerd worlds rejoice because Pete Holmes is so f’n hilarious as Batman. Christopher Nolan has refused to make another Batman sequel, but we hope that the first selling point was that Holmes will continue to make these parodies with Front Page Films and Matt McCarthy as various other Batman characters.