Last night, Chris Rock stopped by The Daily Show and gave a glimpse into the obstacles he faces as one the most prominent stand-ups today with having to actually act, raising rich kids, and worrying about getting his unpolished jokes put on the Internet.
Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass Pulling Out All Stops For Sleepwalk With Me Premiere
Not only will be they at the various screenings in NYC, Chicago, and LA, but they’ll be doing everything else at the theater to make sure you have an unforgettable experience?
It’s in LA at the Nuart Theatre at the end of August.
Were excited for all three of these premieres tonight:
The series premiere of Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX 11PM (after Louie)
Season premiere of Children’s Hospital on Adult Swim 12AM
Season premiere of NTSF:SD:SUV on Adult Swim 12:15AM
Good news is that if you can catch all of these tonight without any overlap or having decide where your comedy allegiances lie even though you probably could DVR one or the other.
In its 7th year, The Small Film Festival out of London is looking for short films about anything from anywhere. More specifically, they have a comedy category, which promises £1000 and possibly up to £40,000 in production grants.
The deadline is Aug 15th and there is an entrance fee of £20-£30. We say if you have the quid, it might be worth it. (via Heller)
ON THE HORIZON
Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction @ Nerdist Theater Mon. Aug. 13th 9PM $8 in adv., $10 at door
Marc Maron @ Steve Allen Theater Tues. Aug. 14th 8PM $10
The Swarm @ UCB Theatre Fri. Aug. 17th 8PM $10
COMEDY CRAWL
Bluff You with Jimmy Pardo @ UCB Theatre 7PM $5
Melissa Villasenor @ Flappers Claremont 8PM/10PM $17
Set List @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10
The Class of Chicago Fest @ Westside Comedy Theater 8PM $10
The 12 Shiny Nickels Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $10
The Jesse Miller Talk Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10PM $5
The End of the World Show @ Lyric Hyperion Theater 10PM FREE
The Tony Clifton Revue @ The Comedy Store 11:30PM $20/2 drink min.
The 2012 London Olympics Wrap-Up Spectacular @ UCB Theatre MIDNIGHT $5
OPEN MIC RUN
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
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/5 min./One item min.
LITTLE MODERN 6476 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6:15PM/Starts 6:30PM/lottery/10 spots only/5 min./No purchase necessary
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Silverlake)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/4 min./no purchase necessary
AMSTERDAM CAFE 10905 N. Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/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
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/5 min./first come, first served/one drink min.
SABOR Y CULTURA 5625 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/Sign-up is a lottery/5 min. with 3 min. work-in’s/No purchase necessary
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/5 min./first come, first served/one drink min.
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/lottery
Conan Goes Naughty(?) with Conan.XXX
Find whether those three X’s are more associated with adult entertainment or winning a game of tic-tac toe with a whole bunch of clips including Will Ferrell called “Big dick, little chicks”.
On this latest episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s web series “Comedian In Cars Getting Coffee”, Seinfeld hangs out with top touring American comedian Brian Regan (grossed millions by doing a few shows in Salt Lake City, UT alone) and discussed a joke that was organically developed by them separately, yet almost completely identical, save for the examples/references.
We had the season premieres of 3 comedy series last night and it’s just so convenient that there are 2 finales tonight with Comedy Bang Bang and Bunk capping off their inaugural seasons on IFC. We don’t want to say it’s been a great run yet because we’re sure there’s more absurd goodness to come from both series that we can’t wait for.
They’re at 10PM and 10:30PM, again, on IFC, respectively, so don’t miss out.
Mockumentary behind the curtain improv web series, Inside the Master Class with Matt Besser (and a hilarious cast of Neil Campbell, Stephanie Allynne, Eva Anderson, Mike Cassady, Paul Rust, Mookie Blaicklock, Monika Smith, and Armen Weitzman), has shown the hardships to being a top flight improvisor, specifically in this episode, being so honest with your sexuality that you’re willing to discuss it with the ensemble while you’re doing it.
More so than the NC-17 rating the episode title of this or the NSFW nature of the series, we’ll tell you that it’s really dark comedy, but wonderfully so a la Todd Solondz.
ON THE HORIZON
Comedy Mutant: Brian Posehn & Arj Barker w/Holmes/Kinane/Feimster/Patton/Funches @ Club Nokia Fri. Sept. 21st 8PM
COMEDY CRAWL
Space Boners @ Silverlake Lounge 7PM FREE
Anna David’s True Tales of Lust and Love @ The Mint LA 7PM $5
We Have a Hammock-Backyard Comedy Show 7PM
Book Klub @ Stories Books & Cafe 8PM FREE
Melissa Villasenor @ Flappers Claremont 8PM/10PM $17
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Clownvis Presley @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5
The Tomorrow Show!! Anniversary Show Part II (Normal Sized) @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/feedback given at end
DAILY GRIND 109 E. Union St., Pasadena, CA/Starts 5PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary/5 min.
DANGERFIELD’S 3 2524 1/2 James M. Wood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/Lottery/3-5min./$2 cover
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/One drink min./First come, first served
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.
TRIBAL CAFE BEVERLY 3253 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/Booked show at 9:30/No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/lottery
Andy Haynes makes his second late night stand-up appearance on Conan (the first was on Fallon) and cleverly jokes through a variety of topics including gangsta rappers and how they’re going down and what NYC has an abundance of besides really intense people.
Robyn Von Swank: Here is a wedding photo I shot for Kate Freund and Rob Schrab. It features Dan Harmon, who was their Officiant, warming up for his duties. Have a nice day.
Elevator in the Brain Hotel marks the second album of Eli Braden, the self-proclaimed New King of Music Based Comedy. As one of LA’s leading comedic songsters, not to mention he once recorded a song a day as a podcast, we’re glad to hear this sophomore release, which you can get now off of iTunes and Amazon.
ON THE HORIZON
Comedy by the Pool @ The Compound Sat. Aug. 18th 7PM FREE
Rory Scovel @ Hollywood Improv Sat. Aug. 18th 8PM $18/2 item min.
COMEDY CRAWL
The Anytime Show @ Little Modern 7PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Magic Bag @ Little Modern 8PM FREE
Weird Al Yankovic @ Pacific Amphitheatre 8PM $20
Good Evening America @ Theatre Asylum 8:30PM $15
Neal Brennan & Friends @ Westside Comedy Theater 9PM $5
Powerviolence @ Strait Jacket Society 9PM FREE
Top Story Weekly! @ iO West 9PM $5
Hot Sauce @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)
OPEN MIC RUN
PARADISE PERKS 15475 Jeffrey Rd., Irvine, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/10 spots only/No purchase necessary
NERDIST THEATER 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (back room of Meltdown Comics)/Sign-up 7:15PM/Starts 7:30PM/lottery/30 spots available/no purchase necessary
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/mixed mic
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/7 min./One drink min.
DANGERFIELD’S 3 2524 1/2 James M. Wood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/lottery/$2 cover/3-5 min.
THE BARREL 4547 Van Nuys Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/7 min./One item min.
IO WEST DCT 6366 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts 10:30PM/No purchase necessary
The Roseanne Roast is on tonight 10PM on Comedy Central with roastmaster Jane Lynch and dais members Katey Sagal, Carrie Fisher, Ellen Barkin, Seth Green, Wayne Brady, Anthony Jeselnik, Jeffrey Ross, Amy Schumer, and Gilbert Gottfried – with a special appearance by Tom Arnold.
Finally, it’s a roast of a comedian that can level the heat right back at the dais, so watch it instead of seeing live tweets on your Twitter feed.
It’s been a while since we’ve rounded up a worthy set of articles, interviews, posts, etc. by and of funny people, so, as a result, we’ve got quite a few for you to read while coming off the final day of the Olympics. Everything from important JFL Montreal speeches to Chris Gethard laying out what it takes to do comedy to a purposefully misunderstood job listing by Asterios Kokkinos and anything in between is here.
Tracing the Birth of the Comedy Podcast Boom by Joey Grihalva for Splitsider
Black Dynamite Finds Hisself (interview) by Eli Kooris for Black Book
Back End Web Programmer Familiar with Magneto by Asterios Kokkinos for Whim Quarterly
Andy Kindler’s State of the Industry Address 2012 at JFL Montreal
Patton Oswalt’s Keynote Speech at JFL Montreal
Remembering David Rakoff (collection of short stories) at Byliner
The Funniest Thing I’ve Seen in Real Life by Andy Sanford for Dangatorium
‘The Eric Andre Show’: How an Unemployed Stand-Up Made the Weirdest Show on TV (interview) by Christopher R. Weingarten for Spin
The Chase is the Thing and the Thing is the Chase by Chris Gethard in response to a online submitted question
What This Picture of Louis CK Shooting with a 16mm Camera Means to Me by Jake Kroeger for The Nerdist
ON THE HORIZON
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World @ New Beverly Cinema Fri. Aug. 17th MIDNIGHT $8
Long Way Down @ The Graff Lab Sat. Aug. 25th 7PM $5
COMEDY CRAWL
What’s Up Tiger Lily? @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Jamie Kilstein @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $10
Comedy Tapioca @ iO West 8:30PM $10
Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction @ Nerdist Theater 9PM $10
Roast the Week @ Hollywood Improv Lab 9:30PM $5
Dat Shit @ Westwood Brew Co 10PM FREE
Pretty, Pretty, Pony @ Westside Comedy Theater 10PM FREE
Stand-up Spotlight w/Dominic Dierkes & DC Pierson @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5
OPEN MIC RUN
HAPPY HOUR STORY EXPERIMENT @ HOLLYWOOD STUDIO BAR & GRILL 6122 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6:30PM/Storytelling only/One item min.
CLUB 705 705 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Starts 7PM-ish/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
RED ROCK 8782 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/1 item min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served
ANCHOR BAR 2675 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/5 min.
PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA (Los Feliz)/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/No purchase necessary
RAINBOW BAR & GRILL 9015 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up before 8PM/Starts 8:30PM/$2 cover/mixed mic
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
OFFICE BAR & GRILL 3516 W. Victory Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 9PM/Starts 9:30PM/First come, first served/5-7 min./No purchase necessary
JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up 9:30PM/Starts 10PM/Lottery/4 min./No purchase necessary
Comedian Nick Turner gives us all a valuable lesson in this web video about what it would actually like if the world ended and you chose to only save yourself in a bunker with limited provisions. Though really funny, we’re pretty sure this is what would 100% happen.
Here’s Your Chance To Be an Indie Comedy Darling-Sundance Submissions Open
The internationally renowned Sundance Film Festival is now officially accepting submissions for narrative feature, documentary feature, and shorts both in the U.S. and internationally. This is the prime opportunity to potentially get limited distribution on your feature, then, a few years later, have a break out TV series, assuming that trend will pick up and continue.
Bill Burr’s Next Special To Be on Netflix
It’s not like releasing it on your own site, but we’re just glad Bill Burr is putting another special.
James Adomian’s debut stand-up album (as well as Earwolf’s first stand-up release) Low Hangin Fruit is now officially available for both digital download and physical copy.
It should be no secret that Adomian is one of the funniest comics working today, which is reason enough to pick up Low Hangin Fruit. Though, if you haven’t listened to the multitude of podcasts where he kills it (Comedy Bang Bang, Sklarbro Country, Todd Glass, etc.) and seen him do the same on the last season of Last Comic Standing or on Lopez Tonight, you might be in for a wonderful surprise that you can’t help double over in laughter from.
ON THE HORIZON
Good Evening America w/Drew Droege @ Theatre Asylum Sun. Aug. 19th 8:30PM $15
Tommy Johnagin @ Comedy & Magic Club Lounge Tues. Aug. 21st 8PM $15/2 item min.
COMEDY CRAWL
Performance Anxiety @ The Pleasure Chest 8PM $7
Marc Maron @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $10
P.O.V. @ Groundlings 8PM $10
Comedy Bang Bang @ UCB Theatre 8:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Blamblamblam! @ R-Bar 9PM FREE
Holy Fuck @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Public School Stories @ M Bar 9PM No cover/$10 item min.
Big Terrific @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 9PM $25
OPEN MIC RUN
HOLLYWOOD IMPROV 8162 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM-5:40PM/Starts 6PM/lottery/20 spots only/3 min./No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Starts 5:30PM/Stand-up, sketch, improv all welcome/5 min.
CLUB FORBIDDEN 8512 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
AMSTERDAM CAFE 10905 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM
THE MOTH @ BUSBY’S EAST 5364 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Doors at 7PM/Starts at 7:30PM sharp/Storytelling only/5 min./Must be on theme “sunny”/lottery/10 spots only/$8 cover
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO. 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/lottery/One item min.
WESTWOOD BREW CO 1097 Glendon Ave., Westwood, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
PEDONE’S PIZZA 1332 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/Ends 9:15PM/5-7min.
BLUE GOOSE LOUNGE 5201 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/1 drink min.
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Starts 8PM/mixed mic
DAVE’S BAR 708 Broadway, Glendale, CA/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/one item min./8-10 min.
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd St. Promenade and 4th St.)/Sign-up 9:45PM/Starts 10PM/lottery/$1 cover
Director of The Avengers, Joss Whedon, wants America to stop supporting indie cinema, specifically delightful and wondrous little films like Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk with Me opening at the Nuart Aug. 31st, to support tentpole, big budget movies that Whedon regularly makes. Though, his strategy involves getting Sleepwalk with Me into more theaters?
A Special Thing Records has had quite the summer with releases from Dan Telfer and Jim Hamilton. They’re thankfully keeping it up with albums from Michelle Biloon, “You Can Be an Asshole”, available now for download or as a physical copy, and Brent Weinbach with upcoming Mostly Live coming out Tues. Sept. 4th, which you can pre-order now.
Just get on all of this now, so you can finish out this Summer with big laughs, even if you never had air conditioning.
In NYC, the NYPD has instituted a “stop and frisk” policy, which is exactly what it sounds like as police officers, at their discretion, can stop and frisk citizens they believe to be suspect in some way.
On his new show Totally Biased, W. Kamau Bell explores how this new tactic to fight crime in NYC is received in Harlem. Hint: even if they got consolation prizes, people, to say the least, aren’t into it.
Totally Biased is on FX Thursdays at 11PM.