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Sketch group Dead Kevin, whilst celebrating Christmas, totally forgot that they didn’t invite their neighbor (Richard Bain) over when he just invited himself and won’t leave. This is probably much closer to the Christmas spirit if you’re in your twenties sharing an apartment (i.e. incredibly awkward).

Give it a watch while you’re enjoying your hopefully not awkward Christmas.

This is the third year in a row that we’ve done this, so it might as well be our annual holiday thing. Here’s a clip from one of our favorite Christmas specials of all time, Blackadder’s Christmas Carol, a perfect send up of the Dickens classic from one of the best historical comedies of all time that you should get and watch the entirety of, Blackadder. If you’re not into Christmas because you celebrate something else, then just watch it anyway because it’s pretty damn funny (or wait until next year when we do it again). 

Note: some of you might freak out when you see Hugh Laurie not being House.

ON THE HORIZON
Patrick Keane @ Irvine Improv Tues. Jan. 1st 8PM $17/2 item min. 
Jarrod Harris @ Flappers Claremont Fri. Jan. 4th & Sat. Jan. 5th 8PM/10PM $20 
Harmontown @ Nerdmelt Showroom Mon. Jan. 7th 8PM $10 

COMEDY CRAWL
Regifted @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 

OPEN MIC RUN
DANGERFIELD’S 3 2524 ½ James M. Wood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/Lottery/3-5 min./$2 donation
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM-ish/First come, first served/5 min./No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Starts 6PM/3 min./Stand-up, sketch, improv welcome/No purchase necessary
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/7 min.

Instead of doing the traditional interview as Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass have been doing over 30 of in promotion of Sleepwalk WIth Me, the hilarious Shelby Fero, who is more than just @shelbyfero on Twitter, decided to role play the interview having Ira conduct the interview and Mike and her switch roles. What Fero does as Mike Birbiglia is awesome even though this video is called “the Worst Interview in the History of Sleepwalking”.

Watch and laugh heartily now.

ON THE HORIZON
Guy Branum’s Talk Show: The Game Show/Guy’s Going Away Party @ Hollywood Improv Fri. Dec. 28th MIDNIGHT $5/1 drink min. 
Long Beach Playhouse Searches for Greatest Storyteller Finals @ Long Beach Playhouse w/special guests Wayne Federman & Paul Williams Sun. Dec. 30th 7PM $10 

COMEDY CRAWL
The Business LA @ Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe 8PM $5
The Josh & Josh Show @ Bar Lubitsch 8:30PM FREE
The Fogelnest Files @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
(Don’t) Talk to Strangers @ Groundlings 10PM $10 

OPEN MIC RUN
PALMS BAR 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6:15PM/Starts 6:30PM/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/No purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM-ish/5 min./First come, first served/No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Starts 6PM/3 min./Counts as audition/No purchase necessary
AMSTERDAM CAFE 10905 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
PALMS BAR 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 11PM/First come, first served/One drink min.   
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts MIDNIGHT      

Rainn Wilson’s Soulpancake has really started churning out some cool stuff over at their YouTube channel, namely a web series called Kid President. Whatever your stance on issues, you have to admit that the stance of a little more dancing and better grammar definitely would help.

Watch and be delighted now.

Stand Up! Records is bringing comedy in English yet again to Mexico next year. This time they have Glenn Wool, Alysia Wood, Brendon Burns, and more in tow. We’ll keep you posted for more details as they come along.

After much deliberation over how many man hours, lists we would have to cross reference, funny videos and podcasts we’d have to watch/listen to again, moments we’d have to meditate and remember, we here at The Comedy Bureau have decided to do our 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness To In No Particular Order for 2012. 

If you have no idea what were talking about, check out our list from last year, then check again on Jan. 1st, 2013 (because we make a true year end list and, all kidding aside, it takes a lot of time to compile).

The upcoming arrival of Put Your Hands Together at the UCB Theatre in LA, a new weekly live show from the efforts of the wonderful and funny Cameron Esposito, as we’re sure you’ve read in LA Weekly recently, and A Special Thing Records is great news for more than a couple reasons. 

1) If you’ve been missing stand-up at the UCB at 8PM (i.e. Comedy Bang Bang/Comedy Death Ray), then this will fill in that emptiness.

2) Cameron Esposito will be hosting every week and that in of itself will be a highlight/reason you should go.

3) It will be released as a regular podcast, which shouldn’t detract you from going because you could listen to it later, but rather, go because you could be witness to something special like at a live TV taping.

4) We’ve seen the line-ups for the first four weeks and let’s just say they are all very Comedy Bureau approved.

This won’t be your father’s New Year’s Eve TV special. In fact, it won’t be your mother’s, sister’s, cousin’s, uncle’s, grandpa & grandma’s New Year’s Eve TV special either (unless they’re into Adult Swim or Eric Andre).

Eric Andre’s New Year’s Eve Spooktacular seems like it’s going to mash-up Christmas, Halloween, and whatever else Eric Andre is feeling like mashing up according to this clip of a vagrant zombie Santa Claus.

It’s on tomorrow, 11:30PM on Adult Swim.

ON THE HORIZON
Dead Authors @ UCB Theatre Fri. Jan. 4th 6:30PM $5
50 First Jokes LA @ Downtown Independent Theater Sun. Jan. 6th 7PM $10 in adv., $12 at door 
Bill Burr @ Flappers Burbank Thurs. Jan. 10th 8PM/10PM $25/2 item min. 
Dave Attell @ Comedy & Magic Club Sat. Jan. 12th 6:45PM/9:30PM $27.50/2 item min. 

COMEDY CRAWL
The Not So Inappropriate Show @ UCB Theatre 4PM $12 (stand by only) 
New Year’s Eve Spectacular @ Groundlings 9PM $100
New Year’s Eve with Rob Delaney @ Hollywood Improv 10PM $35-$70 

OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM-ish/5 min./First come, first served/No purchase necessary