Have your heart strings pulled with exclusive art, screen caps, .gifs, as well as clips from their award winning feature length and animated short films every minute of every day with the Tumblr blog that Disney Pixar just started a few months ago. Though you may already know this (they have plenty of followers), we feel it our duty to tell you.
In a roundabout way, is getting emotional, then laughing heartily at work NSFW?
You might have heard that IFC just adopted Chris Gethard as part of their annual Adopt-a-Comic program. Here’s a video of Day 1/A Great Display of Why Chris Gethard Needed To Be Adopted.
Back for Season 2, Comedy Central’s hit sketch show Key & Peele is doing their round of tapings of the live portions of their show again at Nate Holden Theater. Aug. 29th, 30th, Sept. 4th, 5th, and 6th. It’s free as long as you RSVP.
Realize, you could see Luther, Obama’s anger translator, live, for free.
ON THE HORIZON
Karen Kilgariff’s Elysium @ Fake Gallery Fri. Aug. 24th 9PM $10
The Fogelnest Files @ UCB Theatre Thurs. Aug. 30th 9:30PM $5
COMEDY CRAWL
The Midnight Show with Pete Holmes Taping @ Warner Bros. Studios 2PM FREE w/RSVP
Gersh Showcase @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min.
The Josh & Josh Show @ Bar Lubitsch 8:30PM FREE
Sarah Silverman & Friends @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 9PM $25
The Comedy Palace @ The Palace Restaurant 9:30PM FREE
Entertainment Hollywood Live! @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
Hello Giggles Presents @ Hollywood Laugh Factory 10PM $10-$25/2 drink min.
Mike Truesdale’s Variety Verite @ Groundlings 10PM $10
OPEN MIC RUN
CAFE AMERICANO 5770 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/3 min./No purchase necessary
PALMS BAR 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6:15PM/Starts 6:30PM/First come, first served/One drink min.
ROCKPAPER COFFEE 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/lottery
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Starts 6PM/3 min./Counts as audition/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.
SANDWICH SPOT 3101 Ocean Park Ave., Santa Monica, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/first come, first served
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6:30PM/pre-booked 5 min. spots by lottery by e-mail/3 lottery 3 min. spots available if show up/One drink min./
COFFEE BEAN 12930 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA/Starts 7PM/mixed mic/lottery/No purchase necessary
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/mixed mic
CAFE UNURBAN 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 9PM/No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts MIDNIGHT
Chloe Sevigny Joins the Cast of Portlandia
Not only are we excited about Chloe Sevigny joining the show to make the hipster parody hit closer to home, but we’re sure this will make for some more fun parodies of Chloe Sevigny by Drew Droege.
Last night, John Oliver stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and gave his thoughts on the upcoming election. One of those thoughts was calling for Obama to call America out for its first half performance.
Previously just available on the iPad, Funny or Die’s digital magazine, The Occasional, can now be viewed on the iPhone in order to get more people their FoD fix. When and whether people with Motorola Razrs will ever get to enjoy The Occasional has yet to come.
So far, so good as there’s been more news of the upcoming reviving of Arrested Development over the last week. It’s going to happen everyone. It’s going to happen. We’re going to see George Michael Bluth grow up.
Arrested Development will premiere in Spring 2013.
There might be 13 episodes instead of the originally announced order of 10.
More Rumors About Bill Murray’s Party Crashing Tour Which We Won’t Believe Until We See a Video
Well, more reports of Bill Murray’s party crashing tour are spreading around the Internet as if it’s actually happening. We’re not going to verify it here just like we avoided doing the last time the rumors we’re spreading, but, if Bill Murray is doing karaoke and crashing at people’s houses, does anyone have video to verify?
Also, if it still isn’t true, get your fill of Bill Murray at Mandrake Bar in LA that has a bi-weekly Bill Murray screening with hot dogs and burgers called, Grill Murray. Next one, Sept. 3rd.
ON THE HORIZON
Joke Lab: In the Year 2045 @ Moving Arts Theater Sat. Aug. 25th 8:30PM FREE
Set List @ Nerdist Theater Sat. Aug. 25th 8PM $8 in adv., $10 at door
Star Wars Uncut at Everything is Festival @ Cinefamily Sun. Aug. 26th 11:45PM $12
Henson Alternative’s Stuffed and Unstrung @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre Mon. Aug. 27th 7:30PM/9:30PM $40
COMEDY CRAWL
EIF Talent Show at Everything is Festival @ Cinefamily 7:30PM $14
Love Good @ Little Modern 8PM FREE
Peachy Keen @ Bar Lubitsch 8PM FREE
Pixar Shorts Collection: Vol. 1 @ LACMA 8PM FREE
Impro(vs)tandup @ Nerdist Theater 8PM $10
Kitchen Sink @ Dangerfield’s 3 8PM $5
Neal Brennan @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $18/2 item min.
Norm MacDonald @ Irvine Improv 8PM/10PM $25/2 item min.
Wendy Liebman @ Ice House 8:30PM/10:30PM $20-$27/2 drink min.
Karen Kilgariff’s Elysium @ Fake Gallery 9PM $10
Found Footage Festival @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 9PM $25
The Middle Show @ Hollywood Hotel 10PM No cover/One drink min.
The Tony Clifton Revue @ The Comedy Store 11:30PM $20/2 item min.
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
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/lottery
The amazing Amoeba Records in Hollywood is giving away Mitch Hedberg posters with purchase of any Mitch Hedberg album, some of which include set lists. Not that you need a reason to go to Amoeba, but this is a pretty good one.
On Paper, There’s Will Be More Bob’s Burgers This Season
More scripts, not yet episodes, are ordered by Fox. Not sure what this means, but, at the very least, this doesn’t smell of what happened to Futurama or Arrested Development over there.
We wish this sort of thing happened more often: comedians recording specials/albums at comedy festivals. For a good portion of the time, the crowds are really thrilled to be at an entire festival of comedy, especially at the taping of a hysterical comedian they know and love.
Luckily, Brendon Walsh is doing exactly this on October 12th during the San Francisco Comedy & Burrito Festival, which you should just go to anyway.
Coming the weekend of Oct. 12th-14th, the first ever Los Angeles Podcast Festival will take place at the Sheraton Delfina. Never Not Funny, Smartest Man in the World, Sklarbro Country, The Todd Glass Show, Walking the Room, The Dork Forest, and more will have live episodes taped over the three day event.
If you’re still not on board with podcasts or think it’s an over-saturated medium, maybe this will change your mind later this year.
http://lapodfest.eventbrite.com
ON THE HORIZON
Jeff Garlin in Conversation with Conan O’Brien @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre Sun. Sept. 16th 8PM $30 (stand by only)
Beauty is Embarrassing @ Nerdist Theater Tues. Aug. 28th 8PM $8 in adv., $10 at door
COMEDY CRAWL
Long Way Down @ The Graff Lab 7PM $5
Norm MacDonald @ Irvine Improv 7PM/9PM $25/2 item min.
Sessions with Scott @ Dangerfield’s 3 8PM $5
Set List @ Nerdist Theater 8PM $10
Andy Kindler & Friends @ Hollywood Improv 8PM/10PM $20/2 item min.
Channel 101 Screening @ Downtown Independent Theater 8PM/10PM FREE
We Have A Hammock-Backyard Comedy Show 8PM FREE
Okay 8PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Joke Lab: In the Year 2045 @ Moving Arts Theater 8:30PM FREE
Bo Burnham & Friends @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 9PM $25
Cookie Pie @ Rafa’s Lounge Art Gallery 9:30PM FREE
Guy Branum Presents: Talk Show: The Game Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5
Off the Air w/Dave Hughes at Everything Is Festival @ Cinefamily 11:30PM $12
The Walsh Brothers @ UCB Theatre MIDNIGHT $5
The Tomorrow Show w/Ron Lynch Presents A Bachelorette Party Live @ 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
LA Weekly just released the nominations for their annual Web Awards, which includes several comedy relevant categories such as: Best Media Personality Twitter, Best Podcast, Best YouTube Star, and Best Web Series.
Vote for such things you may like as Burning Love, @robdelaney, The Apple Sisters, WTF w/Marc Maron, You Made It Weird w/Pete Holmes, @meganamram, Mermates, and more, which all happen here, we’re proud to say, in LA.
Revival cinema theater, New Beverly Cinema, is bringing an entire week of comedy, leaning towards the stoner kind, to their celebrated screens next week starting Sun. Aug. 26th. As they do double features in 35mm on a nightly basis, they have a lovely program lined up that only costs $8 on any night (that includes both movies).
Schedule of films:
Up in Smoke/Harold & Kumar Aug. 26th & 27th
Pineapple Express/Super Troopers Aug. 28th
Animal House/Knocked Up Aug. 29th
Beavis and Butthead Do America/Ghost World Aug. 30th
Fast Times at Ridgemont High/Our Idiot Brother Aug. 31st & Sept. 1st
The Big Lebowski Sept. 1st
Sound good? OK, then find a good parking spot at the New Beverly for the week to go to this.
ON THE HORIZON
‘Arthur’ Screening Presented by Rob Corddry @ Tropicana Bar at Roosevelt Bar Mon. Aug. 27th 8:30PM FREE
Le Village @ Rockwell Table & Stage Tues. Aug. 28th 9PM FREE
COMEDY CRAWL
Star Wars Uncut at Everything is Festival @ Cinefamily 11:45PM $12
Schrab & Harmon’s Found Crap at Everything is Festival @ Cinefamily 5PM $12
The Anytime Show w/Dominic Dierkes @ Little Modern 7PM FREE
Todd Glass @ Irvine Improv 7PM $20/2 item min.
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Super Kudzu @ iO West 7:30PM $5
Celebrity Celebrity: A Benefit Show for the Pablove Foundation @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 8PM $50-$250
Un Cabaret @ Bar Fedora 8PM $20-$55
Neil Hamburger w/Special Guests @ The Satellite LA 8:30PM $8
Skinny Sundays @ Hollywood Improv 9PM $5/2 item min.
Powerviolence @ Strait Jacket Society 9PM FREE
Before You Were Funny @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)
OPEN MIC RUN
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
BAR LUBITSCH 7702 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:15PM/Lottery/3 min./20 spots available/One drink min.
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.
FLAPPERS CLAREMONT 532 W. 1st St., Claremont, CA/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
Following exhibitions of several artists on the subjects of stand-up comedy, Bill Murray, Arrested Development, Community, and more, Gallery 1988 has their next comedy art show in line that’s centered around Step Brothers with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. It opens in their Venice location on Fri. Aug. 31st 7PM and will be on display until Sept. 22nd.
Maybe if this goes well, they’ll get to a Zoolander inspired show?
Shrooming comedian gets on ‘The Price is Right’, wins chocolate ring
This is one of the best headlines we’ve read in awhile not written by The Onion. We’re glad to personally know “shrooming comedian”/“skateboard rabbi”/Josh Androsky.
The New Top 5 Channel 101 Shows for August Are Now Up
Whether you’re a die hard fan or have just heard the name Channel 101 or you live in North Korea devoid of communication with the Western World, please watch the new shows for the always amazing Channel 101.
ON THE HORIZON
Nancy & Beth/Megan Mullally & Stephanie Hunt & Special Guest Jack Black & more @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre Thu. Aug. 30th 9PM $30
The Midnight Show hosted by Lorenzo Lamas @ UCB Theatre Sat. Sept. 1st MIDNIGHT $5
COMEDY CRAWL
Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption: The Village at Everything is Festival @ Cinefamily 7:30PM $14
Henson Alternative’s Unstuffed and Unstrung @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 7:30PM/9:30PM $40
What’s Up Tiger Lily? @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Cartoon Dump @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $10
Harmontown @ Nerdist Theater 8PM $10
The Del Close Awards @ iO West 8PM FREE (Students, Alumni, Performers only)
‘Arthur’ Screening Presented by Rob Corddry @ Tropicana Bar at The Roosevelt Hotel 8:30PM FREE
Melgard Mondays @ Melgard Public House 9PM FREE
Keep It Clean Comedy @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
Dat Shit @ Westwood Brew Co 10:30PM FREE
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
From Frank Caliendo to Rob Riggle: The New Fox NFL Sunday Pre-Game Show Story
This is the most excited we’ve been for sports mixing with comedy since Mayne Street on ESPN.com.
photo by Al Seib for LA Times
One of LA’s favorite indie/art house theaters, The Sunset 5, will be back this Fri. Aug. 31st under the umbrella of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Known for screening some of the great indie comedies that didn’t have the budget to get distribution elsewhere in LA or along some national chain, we’re glad that it’ll be back very soon.
Scheduled to screen there this Fri. are Marjane Satrapi’s (Persepolis) Chicken with Plums & raved about Robot & Frank.
