Noah Baumbach brought us the wonderful Frances Ha latest year and on Mar. 27th 2015, he’s got another wry, though, possibly his most playful, comedy with his latest film While We’re Young coming out.
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play a middle-aged couple that starts hanging out with a couple in their 20s, Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried,which should make for some nice cross generational humor.
Following the segment that The Daily Show they did earlier this week on Ferguson, Jon Stewart weighs in on the grand jury decision to not indict the NYPD officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, which was ruled a homicide by a coroner.
Stewart offers some sincere insight into the tragedy plus time equation that is supposed to equal comedy. Watch it here.
We’re not exactly sure what you’re thinking or feeling right now, but if you’re down for any number of reasons that just saw in any sort of news or social media feed, then you might need something to brighten your day, even a little.
We’re recommending you watch Billy Eichner singing his very own Taylor Swift style song “Glitter and Ribs” live on Conan. With any luck, Taylor Swift will do a cover of it soon.
Regular Fox News and CNN contributor Betsy Hart attended a live performance of Moshe Kasher’s recently with her daughter at Miami University and found it to be not to her liking. In fact, she not only didn’t like it, she didn’t find it funny… at all. This discovery of how unfunny she found Moshe Kasher prompted her to write him a letter personally telling Moshe how unfunny he is, referencing a bit, ironically enough, that is about how older generations have seen it all and there’s no need to censor yourself in their presence.
In most cases with most comedians, such a letter would be left to gather digital cobwebs in an e-mail archive, but Moshe felt the need to respond given Hart’s occupation and her insistence that she can “laugh at anything intelligent” amidst several other points in her letter.
Of course, Moshe’s response was brilliant and is a good template for any response to individuals who tell a comedian they aren’t funny, especially when the comedian has everyone else in the audience laughing.
Read both letters here in full.
The release of Chris Rock’s Top Five is almost here, next Fri. on Dec. 12th to be precise.
You’ve seen and enjoyed all the “safe” trailers, but here’s an uncensored red band trailer that really gives you a taste of what’s to come with Rock’s latest and, as many are saying, greatest film yet.
(via Variety)
HBO has a very intriguing addition to their comedy development slate with a comedy from Will & Grace’s Max Mutchnick based on a book by Laura Kightlinger.
So, it being at HBO and the book being about a single mom looking for a husband in the 70s from Kightlinger, it should make for a nice, ripe, dark comedy.
Apparently, Eric Andre has suffered a debilitating injury and needs Hannibal Buress to take the reins for a week on The Eric Andre Show.
So, tonight catch The Hannibal Buress Show with this intro at 12:15AM on Adult Swim.
The 2015 Writers Guild Awards, which will be hosted by The Nightly Show’s Larry Wilmore, just announced their TV and radio nominations. Out of the gate, Transparent and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver got nominated in their first seasons while perennial nominees The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Louie, Veep, and The Colbert Report also got nominated.
Take note how cable and online shows are dominating the field at the WGA as all the comedy nominees include:
Bill Maher: Live From D.C.
Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles
The Colbert Report
SNL
Real Time with Bill Maher
Inside Amy Schumer
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Transparent
Louie
Modern Family
Orange Is The New Black
New Girl
The Simpsons
Bob’s Burgers
Silicon Valley
Veep
See the full list of nominees here.
ON THE HORIZON
Hound Tall with Moshe Kasher @ UCB Franklin Tues. Dec. 9th 9:30PM $5
TJ Miller @ Hollywood Improv Sat. Dec. 13th 8PM/10PM $18/2 item min.
COMEDY CRAWL
Dead Authors @ UCB Franklin 6:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Unnecessary Evil @ Westside Comedy Theater 8PM $10
Brian Posehn @ Irvine Improv 8PM/10PM $20/2 item min.
How Did This Get Made Live? w/Paul Scheer @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 8PM/10PM $30 (stand by only)
Jimmy Pardo @ Flappers Burbank 8PM (stand by only)/10PM $20/2 item min.
Sauce @ Desano’s Pizza 8PM $5 suggested donation
Peachy Keen @ Bar Lubitsch 8:30PM FREE
Fitnesscise:A Stand Up Comedy Show @ Siesta Yoga 8:30PM $7 suggested donation
The Echoes Under Sunset Comedy Office Holiday Party @ Echoes Under Sunset 9PM FREE
A John Waters Christmas @ The Comedy Store 9PM $50-$100/2 drink min.
Chinatown Bust @ The LOFT Ensemble 9:30PM $10
A Very Spesh Evening with Jamie Lee @ UCB Sunset 10:30PM $5
Gangbusters @ The Clubhouse 11PM FREE
OPEN MIC RUN
SET LIST @ FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/First come, first served/must improvise set of never before seen provided set list/No purchase necessary
HOLLYWOOD IMPROV 8162 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM/Starts 5:45PM/Lottery/20 spots only/3 min./No purchase necessary
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./One item min.
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/5 min./First come, first served
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5;30PM/Starts 6PM/Lottery/Hosted by Megan Koester & Alison Stevenson
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 7PM/Lottery/One item min./4 min.
MAX BLOOM’S 200 N. Malden Ave., Fullerton, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/booked show after/no purchase necessary
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/First come, first served/5 min./1 drink min.
SABOR Y CULTURA 5625 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/Sign-up is a lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary
TAO COMEDY STUDIO 7466 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA #201/Starts 8PM/First come, first served/5 min./$5 cover/includes drink/Hosted by Bobbie Oliver
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts 11:30PM/lottery/3-5 min./1 item min.
You’ve saw the trailer earlier this week and you’ve probably been waiting much longer for a brand new hour from the one and only Bill Burr.
Well, it’s finally here. “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way” is now on Netflix shot all in gorgeous black and white. Not that we need to tell you, but drop what you’re doing and watch this ASAP.
(via Deadline)
While Amazon has gotten plenty of accolades for their comedy series line-up that includes Transparent, we always thought that they missed out on picking up the pilot Those Who Can’t from Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy, and Andrew Orvedahl (i.e. The Grawlix) to series.
TruTV has now made the smart move of ordering a brand new pilot of Those Who Can’t that features the aforementioned trio as dysfunctional high school teachers dealing with dysfunctional high school kids.
If we remember watching the pilot correctly at Amazon, this should be great and needs to go to series.
New Zealand vampire mockumentary has probably not been fully formed as a sub genre yet, but, nonetheless, we’re still pretty excited that Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s What We Do In The Shadows is coming stateside.
Funny or Die is now presenting the release and has made a date for Feb. 13th to roll What We Do In The Shadows out.
This is probably going to be a pretty good movie whether you’re celebrating Valentine’s Day that weekend or ardently ignoring it.
Going from Spanish to English, the word “loco” translates to “crazy”, though the cultural nuances and subtext can be lost in translation.
This discrepancy is probably most important when determining who is the most “loco” in a gang as Key & Peele found out.
The Grammys have just announced the majority of the nominees for their 83 categories, which include Best Recording Package, Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package, Best Album Notes, Best Contemporary Christian Music Album, and Best Comedy Album.
Of course, we’re only concerned with comedy here rather than how an album is packaged or what music is playing in your local chapel’s gift shop, so the nominees for Best Comedy Album are:
“Mandatory Fun”-Weird Al Yankovic
“Obsessed”-Jim Gaffigan
“Oh My God”-Louis C.K.
“Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time”-Patton Oswalt
“We Are Miracles”-Sarah Silverman
Honestly, it’ll be hard to tell who’s going to win as Silverman has an Emmy for We Are Miracles, Yankovic scored #1 Billboard spot with Mandatory Fun, and Oswalt, C.K., and Gaffigan are critically and commercially amongst the top tier of funniest people in comedy right now.
Also, we’d like to note that Joan Rivers got nominated posthumously in the Best Spoken Word Album category for “Diary of a Mad Diva”, Tenacious D got nominated for Best Metal Performance for covering Dio’s “The Last in Line”, and Tegan & Sara and The Lonely Island’s “Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie got nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
See the full list, if you dare, of nominees here.
The latest episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee takes Jerry Seinfeld all the way to Portland, OR to grab a coffee of the best fair trade, organic coffee on either side of the bridges in Portland with none other than Portlandia’s Fred Armisen.
The classic Saab that Jerry picks fits perfectly with Portland as they hit up food trucks, a taxidermy shop, and more commenting on how wonderfully Portland-y Portland is.
Not only will The Colbert Report have a special episode on Mon. Dec. 8th at 11:30PM on Comedy Central by going live from Washington D.C. as well as calling the whole event “The Stephen Colbert Presents: Mr. Colbert Goes to Washington, D.C. Ya Later, Legislator: Partisan Is Such Sweet Sorrow: A Colbert Victory Lap ‘014”, but Stephen Colbert has just announced that the POTUS will be his guest.
Indeed, President Barack Obama will sit down and chat with Colbert, which might be great timing as he could use a Colbert bump right now.
ON THE HORIZON
Cleftclips presents: An Evening with Hush Money @ The Virgil Tues. Dec. 9th 8PM $5
A New Stand Up Show w/Josh Fadem @ Copper Still Bar at Jaragua Wed. Dec. 10th 8:30PM FREE
COMEDY CRAWL
Stonecutters LA @ Nerdmelt Showroom 4PM FREE w/RSVP
Brian Posehn @ Irvine Improv 7PM/9PM $20/2 item min.
Broad City Feat. Sean Patton @ Troubadour 7:30PM/10:30PM $18 (stand by only)
Ronna & Beverly @ iO West 7PM $10
The Wheel Show @ Nerdmelt Showroom 7PM $10
An Evening with Amy & Friends @ UCB Sunset 8PM $100-$200 (sold out)
Ithamar Has Nothing to Say @ Second City Hollywood 8PM $10/$5 w/Goldstar
Jimmy Pardo @ Flappers Burbank 8PM/10PM $20/2 item min.
The Thrilling Adventure Hour @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 8PM/10PM $30 (stand by only)
Casey & Woods @ UCB Sunset 10:30PM $5
Ugh… A Comedy Show @ Neon Venus Art Theatre 11PM $5
12 Shiny Nickels @ Westside Comedy Theater 11:30PM $10
The Midnight Show @ UCB Franklin MIDNIGHT $5
Tomorrow w/Ron Lynch Presents “Tomorrow! Tonite” @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
BROAD CITY LIVE 1AM NOT SO SECRET SHOW @ UCB Sunset 1AM FREE w/RSVP (RSVP Full)
OPEN MIC RUN
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 4PM/Ends 7PM/5 min./First come, first served/Hosted by Joe Shelby
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 3:30PM/Starts 4PM/Ends 6PM/5 min./One item min
MAKAI COFFEE 2771 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 4:30PM/Starts 5PM/First come, first served/5-7 min./No purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
FLAPPERS BURBANK YOOHOO ROOM 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Starts 4:30PM/First come, first served
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
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/https://www.facebook.com/ComedydeBasement/First 20 spots guaranteed on Facebook/Lottery for remaining spots/Hosted by Pablo Avion & Eric Bustamante/5 min./1 drink min.
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
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 9PM/Starts 10PM/First come, first served/5 min./Hosted by Jason LaCour/1 drink min./Audience vote at end of mic for funniest and winner takes home cash prize
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts around 11:30PM/lottery/3-5 min./One item min.
If you need to watch more Bill Burr after watching his brand new Netflix special “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way” or are gearing up to watching it soon, here’s the perfect cool down/primer in Burr’s panel interview on Conan.
Bill takes on sports charities, FSU chant, Black Friday and more. In fact, just go ahead and binge on Bill Burr all day today.
Over a month ago, The Daily Show announced their two newest correspondents would be Hasan Minhaj and Trevor Noah, supposedly fillin in the vacancy left by Michael Che’s exit.
Hasan made a great debut last month and, this week, Trevor made his first appearance on The Daily Show bringing a whole new angle to the Best F#cking News Team. Watch it here.
Austin tix went on sale! RT @JenKirkman 1 Hour Comedy Special @ndaustin Jan 31st at 6PM & 8:45 http://t.co/vXKdkwrwPk pic.twitter.com/J97LAeqnev
— Jen Kirkman (@JenKirkman)
On Jan. 31st, 2015, Jen Kirkman will be taping her very first one hour special at The North Door in Austin, TX. It will actually be her first one hour stand-up special, giving you all the more reason to go to this taping if you can.
Tickets are now on sale and we suggest that you snatch them up quickly.
Don’t let the title “Drunk Driving with Brad Gage” fool you as host Brad Gage is completely lucid and sober when behind the wheel. However, his comedian guests are anything but those two adjectives making for a good time getting home.
This series could appropriately be named Drunk Comedians Going Home and Doing Other Stuff Along the Way. Watch the first playfully tipsy episode (again, Brad is sober) with a slightly (or more than slightly) buzzed, but still delightful Beth Stelling
ON THE HORIZON
Comedy Night 3 Year Anniversary @ Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Tues. Dec. 9th 8PM FREE
Big Money Presents Mike O’Connell @ The Virgil Thurs. Dec. 11th 7PM
COMEDY CRAWL
Truth & Soul, Inc.-The Films of Robert Downey, Sr.: Putney Slope Hosted by Louis CK @ Theatre at Ace Hotel 2PM $45-$75
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Sunset 7PM FREE
Brian Posehn @ Irvine Improv 7PM $20/2 item min.
Comedy Hack Day @ YouTube Space LA 7PM $10
2 Girls 1 Pup @ Tailwaggers LA 7PM $5 suggested donation
Gravid Water @ UCB Franklin 7:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Harmontown @ Nerdmelt Showroom 8PM $10
UnCabaret Special: Lauren Weedman @ First and Hope 8PM $10-$30
Jim Gaffigan @ Terrace Theater-Long Beach Convention Center 8PM $38.75-$48.75
Rendezvous @ Artisan House LA 8PM FREE
Sunday School Dropouts @ Vaucluse Lounge 8PM FREE
The Master Cleanse @ Boardner’s 8PM FREE
Church @ UCB Sunset 9:30PM $5
Neal Brennan & Friends @ Westside Comedy Theater 9PM $5
9:30PM FREE
Power Violence @ Theatre 6470 9:30PM FREE
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Franklin 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Search History @ UCB Franklin 11PM $5
OPEN MIC RUN
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
THE SATELLITE LA 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/Lottery/3 min./mixed in with booked spots/Hosted by Megan Koester and Alison Stevenson
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/Sign up is 12PM at Facebook page/See http://www.facebook.com/BombShelterComedy for more info and to sign up/Starts 5PM/Ends 9PM/Lottery/5 min./Hosted by John Silver & Ryan Pfeiffer
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
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
This past week, Hannibal Buress who Eric Andre’s sidekick on The Eric Andre Show got to fill in as host for Eric. With Buress in the host’s chair, he got to weird out Nick Cannon, walk around the streets in a cookie suit as Cookie Muhammad, and had Lil’ Big Jon on as a musical guest.
Per usual, it’s a fun chaotic time on The Eric Andre Show.
A wave in comedy that has been slowly building towards breaking across both TV and film has been crime themed comedy.
Already in the works, Johnny Depp has the high profile thievery comedy in Mortdecai and Zach Galifianakis is starring in Masterminds, previously titled Loomis Fargo, featuring a robbery by a more rag tag bunch. It might be a stretch, but you can this year’s unexpectedly funny revenge flick John Wick in there too.
Announced this week, Happy Endings’ David Caspe, Gil Ozeri along with producer Jamie Tarses are putting together a family crime comedy at Fox called “Frauds”. It will follow low level criminals trying to work up their way to ponzi schemes (via THR).
Todd Phillips has just cast Jonah Hill and gotten crime comedy feature “Arms and the Dudes” moving forward at Warner Bros. Hill will be part of a duo that were stoners that end up dealing arms for the U.S. government (via THR). Even though The Interview hasn’t made it to theaters and Arms and Dudes has to roll into production, we think the two would definitely make a good pairing.
Perahps, out of this trend, we’ll finally get the this decade’s Snatch.
Every month, we post the latest installment of the amazing self-contained, self-sustaining indie short from TV commune known as Channel 101 because it features some of the most original, logic defying, hysterical shows around.
Every year, Channel 101 has an awards ceremony officially called The Channel 101 Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Awards, affectionally coined The Channys, not unlike The Oscars (but way more fun) honoring the best of their best. Last night, the awards were presented and the triumvirate of police procedural parodies Car Jumper and spin-offs Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing and Skateboard Cop dominated with 10 awards.
This makes a convenient list of what you should go to Channel 101 and watch as soon as possible. Also, make sure you go to The Channys next year as you’ll see funnier and crazier things than you’d ever see at a televised awards show (i.e. Davey Johnson as Jeffrey Milkshake demanding a milkshake from The Downtown Independent otherwise he’ll call the Fire Marshall leading up to him announcing nominees for Best Other Thing)
So, without further adieu, The Winners of The Channel 101 Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Awards are:
Best Failed Pilot-Mike Stebbins Has a Motorcycle
Best Special Effects-Aegis
Best Original Music-Staff of Gelroth
Best Editing-Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing
Best Production Design-Aegis
Best Cinematography-Car Jumper
Best Other Thing-Best Comeback-Vatche Panos
Triscuit Presents: The People’s Choice Outstanding Episode Award: Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing Ep. 3
Best Supporting or Guest Star Performance Male-Ricky Carmona-Skateboard Cop
Best Supporting or Guest Star Performance Female-Nicole Bagby-Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing
Best Female Performance-Kelsy Abbott-Skateboard Cop
Best Male Performance-Aaron Alberstein-Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing
Best Writing-Skateboard Cop
Best Directing-Dave Seger-Car Jumper
Best Show-Skateboard Cop