Bonnie McFarlane put up quite the stand up set last night when she returned to the stage at The Late Show with David Letterman. Not only did it blend personal material with big issues of our day like being transgendered, it was damn funny.
The Harmontown documentary following not only the tour of Dan Harmon’s podcast, but candid interviews of people who are close and have worked with Dan is coming in limited release soon.
In fact, it’s coming out Oct. 3rd to select theaters and VOD and you can get a really good taste of what’s coming in this brand new trailer.
ON THE HORIZON
Public School Stories @ The Virgil Wed. Sept. 3rd 9PM FREE
Baby Talk with Dan Levy @ Nerdmelt Showroom Sat. Sept. 6th 7PM FREE
COMEDY CRAWL
Johnny Ryan’s Prison Pit Panel/Screening at Everything Is Festival @ Cinefamily 2:45PM $12
The Vacation Show: Benefit for A Place Called Home @ iO West 7PM $10
Aziz Ansari @ The Wiltern 8PM $52.50
Set List @ Nerdmelt Showroom 8PM $10
Channel 101 @ Downtown Independent Theater 8PM/10PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Surprise with Rob & Sofiya 9PM $5
12 Shiny Nickels @ Westside Comedy Theater 11:30PM $10
Tomorrow w/Ron Lynch Presents Tomorrow The Talk Show-Ron is Back @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
OPEN MIC RUN
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 2PM/Ends 4PM/First come, first served/Hosted by Trina Roderick
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 3:30PM/Starts 4PM/Ends 6PM/5 min./One item min
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 4PM/Ends 7PM/First come, first served/5-10 min./Hosted by Marty Wurst and Jeanne Whitney
MAKAI COFFEE 2771 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 4:30PM/Starts 5PM/First come, first served/5-7 min./No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BURBANK YOOHOO ROOM 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Starts 4:30PM/First come, first served
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd St. Promenade & 4th St.)/Sign-up 5:45PM/Starts 6PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Graham Rodgers and Scott Schnurr
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 6:45PM/First come, first served/5 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Kasey Koop and Jenny Young
GROUNDWORK COFFEE 1501 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 7PM/Ends 10PM/First come, first served/5 min./One item min./Hosted by Raab
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts around 11:30PM/lottery/3-5 min.
(via People)
According to a source for People.com, Patrick Warburton might be reprising his role, skin tight blue suit, antennae, and all, as The Tick for Amazon. Supposedly, The Tick’s creator, Bed Edlund will be writing and producing the revival of the series, but further details on Amazon’s plans for the series are currently unavailable.
For now, we can all just dream about shouting “Spoon!” and have it not be completely weird to do that.
Chris Hardwick is qualified in many regards with hosting “@midnight”, numerous companion discussion shows like Talking Dead, being a stand-up comedian, as well as being the leader of Nerdist.
However, while waiting for his interview at The Tonight Show, Hardwick fielded some questions that don’t really pertain to any of that. Though it may be “unqualified advice” it still is very clever and funny, so long as you don’t carry out most of it.
(via Deadline)
Having mastered the challenges of adapting 21 Jump Street and LEGO into successful film franchises, Phil Lord and Chris Miller are now being tasked with bringing 80s TV series The Greatest American Hero to the 21st century television.
Fox, which is already set to premiere Lord and Miller’s Last Man on Earth in the coming months, has made a put pilot commitment for the project that Lord and Miller will be executive producing with Rodney Rothman writing.
While reviving a sitcom about a teacher who gets a suit endowed with super powers from the 80s may seem daunting, Phil and Chris would be the duo to pull it off.
While you may be intending to have a nice Labor Day BBQ this weekend, you will no doubt expect that there will be some guests that are less than desirable that find their way to your get together.
CC:Studios’ CC:Social Scene held a fighting game style tournament (of sorts) to see who really is the worst BBQ guest.
Who wins? Just watch to find out. (Spoiler alert: no one wins in this contest. No one.)
ON THE HORIZON
The Imaginary Radio Program @ The Virgil Sun. Sept. 7th 8PM FREE
W. Kamau Bell “Oh, Everything!” @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre Tues. Sept. 23rd 8:30PM $25
COMEDY CRAWL
Kyle Mooney & Nathan Fielder’s YouTube Treasures @ Cinefamily 7PM $15 (stand by only)
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Harmontown @ Nerdmelt Showroom 8PM $10
Top Story Weekly! @ iO West 8PM $5
Neal Brennan & Friends @ Westside Comedy Theater 9PM $5
Church @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
French Toast @ Taix 9:30PM FREE
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)
OPEN MIC RUN
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 4PM/Ends 7PM/8-10 min./First come, first served/No purchase necessary/Hosted by Chris Gardener
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 4PM/Ends 6PM/5 min./One item min.
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 4:30PM/Starts 5PM/Lottery/5 min./Hosted by Lizzy Pilcher
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/First come, first served/5 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Mark Alexzandr
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/7 min./One drink min.
THE PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 8:45PM/Lottery/No purchase necessary/Hosted by Harry Moroz, Pedro Salinas, and Sarah Morisano
LYRIC HYPERION THEATRE 2106 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 9PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary
COCK N BULL 2947 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, CA/Sign-up 8:45PM/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/5 min./No purchase necessary
THE COMEDY STORE BELLY ROOM 8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 11:30PM/Lottery/3 min./Hosted by Erik Marino and Brian Moses
The latest day/episode of Comedy Central’s experiment of Comedians Crashing Couches where Nikki Glaser stays at the place of a bunch young people has led to a friendly football game.
Unfortunately, Nikki has volunteered to play without knowing too many of the rules and has recruited Emmy Blotnick, Henry Phillips, Brody Stevens, and Chris Fairbanks in a button down to play against one of her current roommates.
Watch it all go down here while you take a break from possibly watching pro football.
(via The AV Club)
The expansive board game Cones of Dunshire created by Ben Wyatt in Parks and Recreation was actually the idea from a gaming company, Mayfair Games, which, in turn, has made a real version of the game that was actually played at a gaming convention.
Currently, that’s the only version and time that Cones of Dunshire has officially existed outside the world of Parks and Recreation, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see it popping up in the not so distant future if only to figure out how to actually play it.
While there’s certainly football to watch or Labor Day sales to take advantage of, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab’s Channel 101 just uploaded its August 2014 edition with their top finishers Skateboard Cop, The Sign Spinner, Secrets & Science, Santiago, and Car-Jumper.
Whether or not you’re sure what these shows are, give them a watch anyway because football will be on for the next several months and every store is always having a sale of some kind.
ON THE HORIZON
Greg Proops: Smartest Man in the World @ Nerdmelt Showroom 9PM Tues. Sept. 2nd 9PM $10
Pints & Puns 1 Year Anniversary @ Angel City Brewery Wed. Sept. 3rd 8PM FREE
Guy Branum @ Hollywood Improv Fri. Sept. 5th 8PM $15/2 item min.
Come to Papa Live! with Tom Papa @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre Tues. Sept. 9th 8:30PM $30
COMEDY CRAWL
Schrab & Harmon’s Found Crap at Everything Is Festival @ Cinefamily 6:30PM $12
Mo and Tell @ iO West 9PM $5
OPEN MIC RUN
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 3PM/First come, first served/Hosted by Ryan Pfieffer/No purchase necessary
NERDMELT SHOWROOM 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/Lottery/No purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
IO WEST 6366 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:15PM/Starts 6:30PM/Ends 8PM/Lottery/3-5 min.
ANCHOR BAR 2675 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, CA/Starts 7PM/Sign-up at evan@dudelyjones.com/4-5 min.
THE WAREHOUSE LOUNGE 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA/Starts 7PM/Ends 7:45PM/First come, first served/5 min./8 spots only/No purchase necessary
THE GOOD NIGHT 10721 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 7:45PM/Ends 9:30PM/Lottery/3-5 min./1 item min./Hosted by Ever Mainaird, Lisa Laureta, Ryan Walker, and Caitlin Bergh
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 7:30PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
BREWDOG PUB 8300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 7:45PM/Starts 8PM/First come, first served/5-7 min./Hosted by Pamela/1 item min.
THE PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:45PM/Starts 9PM/3 min./Lottery/1 item min./Hosted by Meg Swertlow, Wanjiko Eke, Chloe McGovern
JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up 9:30PM/Starts 10PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary
Even though there has been plenty written on how great/hilarious/informative/effective/etc. Last Week Tonight has been, YouTube is of course a den where haters and trolls of all shapes and sizes of usernames can make themselves heard in a capacity of some kind which include digs on John Oliver and his show.
Watch it here and note the transparency that Oliver observes on his satirical news show versus real news.
It’s been over a whole year since the end of Superego’s 3rd season and today, the wait for the next season of one of the funniest podcasts on the Internet is finally over. Matt Gourley, Mark McConville, Jeremy Carter, and now, Paul F. Tompkins bring you another wave of downright, absurd fun.
Listen to the first episode here or here or both, so long as you go listen.
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail has sure been having as much on stage as they have off stage. Just check out Todd Glass give out ice cream “Ed Debevic’s” style and Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane, and Thomas Lennon jam out a “forgotten" Garfunkel & Oates cut as a three piece band in front of Garfunkel & Oates.
After watching that, make sure you’re watching every Wed. on Comedy Central at 12:30AM as well as going to the live show also every wed. at Nerdmelt, 8:30PM.
For most kids with dolls, they’re at an age where the complexities of American History that is riddled with war, slavery, etc. are probably not easily understood or enjoyed. That’s probably why a 100% accurate story behind American Girl Dolls isn’t told.
Well, UCB Digital is here to fill in that missing part of the story as they showcase the full backstories of a few of dolls that “lived” vastly different lives (i.e. it’s not all smiles when class and race become involved).
Bonnie McFarlane, who just killed on Letterman last week, has just come out with a documentary, Women Aren’t Funny, to hopefully put to bed that ridiculous inquiry of whether women are funny or not. Follow her and her husband Rich Vos as well as their interviews of the likes of Maria Bamford, Sarah Silverman, Joan Rivers, Wanda Sykes, Chris Rock, Todd Glass and more delving into this topic.
It’s available now on iTunes and make this what you watch today, especially as The Simpsons Marathon is ending today.
ON THE HORIZON
An Evening with Brooks Wheelan, Rory Scovel, and Jerrod Carmichael @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre Wed. Sept. 3rd 8:30PM $30
The Josh & Josh 6 Year Anniversary Month-Week 1 @ Bar Lubitsch Thurs. Sept. 4th 8:30PM FREE
COMEDY CRAWL
Doug Loves Movies @ UCB Theatre 7PM FREE
Put Your Hands Together @ UCB Theatre 8PM $5
This Show Was on My Vision Board @ Akbar 8PM FREE
Glendalia @ The Complex 8:30PM FREE
Sleepaway Camp @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Babe Island @ Bigfoot Lodge 9PM FREE
Greg Proops: Smartest Man in the World @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM $10
Happy Contest Time @ Three Clubs 9PM FREE
We’re Having Fun Here @ The Palace Restaurant 9PM FREE
10:15 to Tuesday @ Neon Venus Art Theatre 10:15PM FREE
Roast Battle @ Comedy Store Belly Room 11:30PM FREE
OPEN MIC RUN
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/Stand-up, sketch, improv all welcome/5 min.
GRINDHOUSE CAFE 1051 N. Havenhurst Dr., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/First come, first served/5 min./Hosted by Steve Hernandez and Paul Laier
HOLLYWOOD IMPROV 8162 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM/Starts 5:45PM/Lottery/20 spots available
AMSTERDAM CAFE 10905 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM
THE MOTH @ ZANZIBAR 1301 5th St., Santa Monica, CA/Doors open 7PM/Starts 7:30PM sharp/Stories on theme of “do over” only/Lottery/5 min./10 spots only/$8 cover at door
THE OTHER DOOR 10437 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/To get a booked spot, email mouthypants@gmail.com by Monday at 5 PM/20 names will be chosen at random/Sign-up for 20 lottery spots starts at 7:30 at the show/Go to facebook.com/mouthypantscomedy for more details
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO. 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/First come, first served/One item min.
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
KIBITZ ROOM @ CANTER’S 419 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 7:30PM/Lottery/6 min. w/$5 purchase, 3 min./without/Hosted by Burt Teplitzky and Danny McDermott
SOLO TAPAS 6250 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/Ends 9PM/7 spots/Lottery/3 min./Mixed in with booked spots/Hosted by Rasheed Stephens and Alex Duong
CAFE UNURBAN 3301 W. Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA/Starts 9PM/Sign-up is lottery/No purchase necessary
COFFEE GALLERY 2029 Lake Ave., Altadena, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/5 min.
PEDONE’S PIZZA 1332 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 7:45PM/Ends 9:30PM/5-7min.
33 TAPS 6263 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:30PM/First come, first served/4-6 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Doug Dixon and April O’Connor
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Starts 8PM/mixed mic
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 9PM/Starts 10:30PM after booked show/Ends 12AM/No purchase necessary
PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 9:45PM after booked show/Lottery
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 10PM/First come, first served/4 min./1 item min.
VOILA ART GALLERY 518 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts MIDNIGHT/Follows booked show/No purchase necessary
THE COMEDY STORE BELLY ROOM 8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 11PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary/Roast battle between 2 comedians at end/Hosted by Brian Moses and Rell Battle
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts 11:30PM/First come, first served
When you’ve been a comedian long enough, you likely have a catalog of material that’s taped over the years that perhaps was great, but didn’t quite fit in certain places in albums or specials. Often, those bits just get lost in the archives, but Joe DeRosa has put them together in an entire album. In fact, it was so much, that he made it into a double album.
Thus, Mistakes Were Made: The B-Sides was born and we suggest getting it from iTunes as it was just released today and enjoying it soon as you can.
(via Hollywood Reporter)
When it comes to awards for film, short films almost get overlooked despite having their own category in several major film festivals and awards ceremonies. No matter how acclaimed a short film is, it will likely never get to see the light of a movie projector onto a screen in your local theater.
Sundance is changing that by touring short films across the country and now plans, for this fall, to tour a curated selection of animated short films from coast to coast here in the U.S. Also, it almost goes without saying that animated shorts is one of a handful of categories where comedy gets a little recognition amidst primarily heavy dramatic fare.
So, hopefully, this becomes a trend and keeps going and some great animated comedic shorts (as well as live action ones) that would usually find a home online will make it to a theater screen near you.
(via Uproxx)
Flight of the Conchords’ Bret and Jemaine might be back at it again and you might be able, in the same turn, stop holding your breath.
According to a recent interview with Jemaine Clement, HBO has commissioned four episodes of a new comedy from Jemaine. It’s unclear if it’s going to stem from the world of the series of Flight of the Conchords or if it’s going to be something different, hopefully still with delightfully funny tunes and jams.
Whatever it ends up being, we’re glad that Clement is up to something that we’ll be able to readily watch in the States and we hope it makes to HBO soon.
For the last several weeks, many of all of our favorite late night programming has taken their summer vacations and we’ve all been left with reruns at 1 in the morning.
Now that Summer’s over, it’s all back to work for all of us, which includes brand new episodes of Letterman, Kimmel, Fallon, Conan, Meyers, The Daily Show, “@midnight”, Colbert, and Ferguson (that’s Craig Ferguson mind you, not Ferguson, MO).
For tonight, you should especially watch Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris on Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC 12:35AM) and Brett Gelman and Brooks Wheelan on Conan (TBS 11PM)
(via Deadline)
A couple of months ago, Bryan Cranston announced that he was officially developing a series based on The Dangerous Book For Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden.
That project has officially made the next step as it was just bought up by NBC. Greg Mottola, who has directed episodes of The Comeback and Arrested Development as well as Superbad, is set to write and direct the adaptation.
Along with other projects such as the one based on Joe Wengert’s life, NBC’s development slate gets more and more intriguing.
Putin on the ritz lol Shit, wait. Yeesh, I’m rusty…
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) September 2, 2014
Having taking the summer off from social media, Patton Oswalt has been able to take a step back, or rather look up from his smartphone and make some very keen observations as he’s wont to do.
In fact, he wrote a whole article on it over at Time and, after all of this, he’s thinking of making a Summer break from social media an annual tradition.
Now that’s he officially back, we’re sure he’s got plenty of worthwhile stuff in store for us all via his Twitter account.
David Huntsberger who we’d you would know from his stand-up and the podcast he co-hosts Professor Blastoff is going to do his first stand-up comedy special, but is intending to really emphasize how special it could be.
You’ve probably seen clips of stand-up or funny stories animated, but Huntsberger wants to have through animation throughout his whole special, but can only do so if he raises $25,000 over the next month on Kickstarter.
He’s at $1,585 as of this post being written and has 28 days left, so please make sure this extra special comedy special comes to fruition.