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Jimmy Pardo’s everyone roasts everyone show Write Now! has a new episode featuring the stand-up of Moshe Kasher and some solid AIDS material. Ed Lee, Laura House, and Jarrett Grode along with Jimmy then try to come up with roast style jokes, some which kill and some which we can laugh at the long pause after. 

Watch ep. 5 of Write Now now.

This weeks’ This Better Be Funny is with Wayne Federman! 

Inside the comforts of a Jerry’s Deli, Wayne Federman (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, wrote a book on Pistol Pete Maravich, and is hilarious stand-up comedian) along with Jake and Jeremy navigate the waters of racial slurs, Fozzy Bear, mental illness as well as challenge each other in NBA trivia. Listen to see if they get thrown out of this fine dining establishment or not. 

This is an extended, uncensored version of Kinane’s latest hour special, Whiskey Icarus, which you may or may have not seen this past Saturday night on Comedy Central. Whether you saw it or not, you should pick it up and revel in that sweet cover art while listen to the fine jokes of one Kyle Kinane.

So, we have good news and more good news.

Here’s the good news about Key & Peele getting a third season.

Here’s the good news about Totally Biased getting 13 more episodes.

Go, rejoice, and remember to watch. 

Conan on TBS 11PM is what, where, and when you’ll be doing tonight. Not to mention it’s a great span of comedy history, we love all these people and can’t help but have trouble catching our breath we’re laughing so hard. 

ON THE HORIZON
The Business LA w/Marc Maron, Rory Scovel, & More @ Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe Thurs. Nov. 29th 8PM $5
Crave: The Comedy Rave Fri. Dec. 14th 8PM $5 in adv., $10 at door 

COMEDY CRAWL
Not for Nothin’ @ Little Modern 8PM FREE
Meltdown @ Nerdmelt Showroom 8:30PM $8
Hamclown 2 Year Anniversary & Final Show @ Little Modern 9:30PM FREE
Facebook @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Dot Comedy @ Hollywood Laugh Factory 10PM $20-$30/2 drink min. 

OPEN MIC RUN
DANGERFIELD’S 3 2524 1/2 James M. Wood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/Lottery/3-5min./$2 cover
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/5 min./First come, first served/No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Starts 6PM/3 min./No purchase necessary
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO. 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/lottery/One item min.
REDWOOD BAR & GRILL 316 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA (Downtown)/Starts 6:30PM/No purchase necessary
DAVE’S CHILLIN’ AND GRILLIN’ 2152 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/Women only can sign-up/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/5 min./first come, first served/one drink min.
TRIBAL CAFE BEVERLY 3253 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/First come, first served/6 min./No purchase necessary
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/mixed mic
SPANISH FLY GASTROPUB 3800 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/Ends 10PM/mixed mic/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/7 min.
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/First come, first served      

That’s right, Rock comedy duo Tenacious D’s jazz album is not some humorous rumor. ‘Simply Jazz’ is a real thing that we can’t wait to see in album racks next to Thelonious Monk perhaps. If you have no idea what we’re talking about, watch Jack Black and Kyle Gass jazz it up on The Late Late Show.

You can buy it now.

The panel interviews with Mel Brooks and Kristen Schaal are lovely featuring stories of unintentional extras in Blazing Saddles and llama filled weddings, so much so that the whole show went too long to have a set from Jon Dore. If you, however are so impatient that you want to watch this episode in clips, here’s part one–two–three–four of Mel Brooks and parts one and parts two of Kristen Schaal.

If not, then here’s the entire episode.

We love Sean Patton and his comedy as well as Scott Moran’s web series “Modern Comedian” and we’re very glad that the two crossed paths and had this latest episode of the series touching on neighborhoods and how it affects a comedian and their process.

That being said, there’s a lot of LA hate in this from Patton, which, if you’re observant enough, is pretty much relegated to Hollywood, specifically Hollywood Blvd. The NYC portion features the coolest parts of Brooklyn. To put it in perspective, a similar take could have been made in the reverse comparing Times Square to Los Feliz/Silverlake/Echo Park. The bigger point here, we think, is that the environs of an artist are both crucial and integral to their art. Seldom few other artistic media rely so heavily upon your surroundings and trying to understand, process, and ultimately make fun of your experiences no matter how real or absurd they end up being like comedy does. So, before you go writing off Sean’s hatred of Hollywood or this episode, which does have credence to it and he makes great jokes out of, know, first off, there are parts of LA that Sean does love (Moran assured us of this), and any city that hits around the 10 million people mark is bound to have a lot of things in it worthy of bitching about.

In regards to the Vice magazine piece recently written by a UK transplant (which Death and Taxes has a good response to), we’ll say this: LA is not like wherever you’re from, just like any city that isn’t the city where you’re from, so before you go saying LA is the worst place on the planet, just think about living in the majority of places in Africa where the death rate is the highest on the planet. 

If you had any doubts about Maria Bamford doing a stand-up special in her living room with her lovely parents, of which she does voices of to them, (along with Wayne Federman on keyboard,  Jackie Kashian introducing, and, a source tell us, Jordan Brady, director of ‘I Am Comic’) in attendance, well, look no further than this trailer for “The Special Special Special”.

After that, do what you were already planning to do and buy it for $5 and watch it to cope with the stresses of not knowing what to get anybody for Christmas/being too poor to Christmas shop/etc.

Marc Maron continued his record setting number of appearances on Conan last night by telling his wonderful story of trying to have a good vacation with his girlfriend at an island timeshare; the key word being “trying”.

Here are parts one and parts two.

No tour guide that offer you a drive to the homes of celebrities will actually go knock on the door and then talk to the gardener unless that tour guide is “management mogul" Jesse Miller (played by the hysterical Andre Hyland). Watch him do exactly that and more like trying to crash the Playboy Mansion.

Though it would seem one of our favorite web series of all time, Henry’s Kitchen, had ended in a blaze of glory, there are now lost, now found, episodes for us to enjoy the most bizarre cooking show/therapy session ever.

Check out this latest one on how to make “Holiday Potatoes”.