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Matt Donaher Returns to Conan and Puts on Another One-Liner Clinic

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In the modern age of comedy, jokes in the form of one-liners have become an increasingly rare discipline and fewer and fewer comedians choose to focus in on such a skill.

Stand-ups like Matt Donaher not only keep the act of doing one-liners alive, but the execution is so good, it really shows off how precise the craftsmanship (structure, word economy, delivery, timing, etc.) of a joke can be.

Matt’s latest set on Conan is a great example of all of this.

Watch How Dumb Masculinity Can Be in an Art House Film in “Chevalier” Trailer

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If you dug the darkly comedic dig at masculinity, Force Majeure, it looks like you might be into Athina Rachel Tsangari and Efthymis Filippou’s upcoming film, Chevalier.

Six men compete against each other in any they can while on vacation on a yacht in the Aegean Sea and, of course, get ridiculous with it. See for yourself in the trailer.

Also, know that Filipou co-wrote the dystopian romantic comedy, The Lobster, that just opened this week.

Look for Chevalier in theaters on May 27th.

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Sean Green does a sports themed talk show with a stacked line-up that knows how to break down sports comedically for non-sports fans and sports die hards alike.

Andrew Sleighter, Jon Huck, Nate Craig, Justin Decker, and “Coach” Terrence Newman all join Sean this Tuesday in Santa Monica.

Get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

The Simpsons Will Be Making TV History Tonight When Homer Simpson Goes Live

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The Simpsons are venturing into new territory as Homer Simpson will be fielding questions live for both East and West Coast viewers, for a few minutes, in tonight’s episode.

Make sure to witness it live at 8PM tonight on Fox.

The Carmichael Show Gets Renewed for a 3rd Season

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Phew.

Plenty of shows got cancelled this past week, which left plenty nervous for any shows whose fate had yet to be decided. Though NBC had axed Mysteries of Laura, Telenovela, Crowded, and Undateable over the last few days, The Carmichael Show hadn’t received word on where they would end up.

Fortunately, they just got the renewal order for a 13 episode 3rd season just a few hours ago and we can rest a little more soundly that one of the few critically acclaimed multi cam sitcoms will be sticking around.

Here’s the Trailer for Mike Schur’s New Series at NBC “The Good Place”

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Parks and Recreation may be done and gone, but Parks and Rec fans have a new Mike Schur-NBC venture to look forward to this fall: The Good Place.

Set in an afterlife that seems dreamed up by Leslie Knope, Kristen Bell plays a woman who thinks she has ended up in “the good place” by mistake. Ted Danson will guide her around as a mentor-of-sorts in trying to navigate her way around, especially since she recalls not being such a good person. There are plenty of great quirks in this afterlife universe that we can already see as potential great running gags for the series.

We’ll let the trailer take it from there.

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Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at door.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Please Enjoy Kristen Studard’s Surrealist Comedy Web Series “Kristen Does Her Best”

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Mutli-hyphenate comedian Kristen Studard has made this great, trippy, and very personal web series Kristen Does Her Best. It shows her making the very well known struggle of making it in LA, but Kristen’s imagination takes it to a whole other great and weird place.

Watch all five episodes in full, together as a pilot of sorts (we’d recommend that) or watch them separately: one, two, three, four, and five.

Here’s a Preview “Dan Soder: Not Special” Premiering This Saturday

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Comedy Central’s latest hour special is coming this weekend from NYC comedy stalwart Dan Soder. More specifically, it’s airing on Saturday, May 21st at 11PM.

Here’s a taste of Not Special if you’re curious what you’re in for.

Jacqueline Novak and Julie Klausner Really Get Into the Finer Points of Depression on “How to Weep in Public”

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When you put comedian Jacqueline Novak and Julie Klausner from Difficult People in a room together for a web series called How To Weep in Public, depression will not only be talked about, but broken down in such colorful ways that you probably weren’t even aware of like feeling bad for not killing yourself.

Fox Unveils Trailers for “Son of Zorn”, “Making History”, and “The Mick”

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It looks like Phil Lord and Chris Miller are really rubbing off on Fox in the best way possible.

Two of the new comedies that were announced at Fox’s Upfronts presentation have Lord and Miller’s hands involved and those just happen to be two very enticing high concept comedies.

One, Son of Zorn, puts an animated He-Man type, voiced by Jason Sudeikis, into the 9-5 grind in the real world with Johnny Pemberton as a son, Cheryl Hines as an ex-wife, Tim Meadows as the ex-wife’s fiance, and Artemis Pebdani as his boss. Here’s the trailer.

The other involves Adam Pally as someone who has a time machine and has abused it. Thus, he enlists an accomplished history professor played by Yassir Lester to fix something he might have screwed up in the American Revolution. Here’s the trailer for Making History.

Both make Fox’s live action comedy line-up have a certain high concept sheen already laid out by Last Man on Earth and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

To round out the new series, Fox has a show that is basically a Sweet Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia standalone series. See for yourself in the trailer for The Mick starring Sweet Dee herself, Kaitlin Olson.

All in all, Fox has a lot of promise with this trio.

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The very first romantic novel book store in LA, The Ripped Bodice, is having a stand-up show, Romantic Comedy, featuring Laurie Kilmartin, Cathy Ladman, Emmy Blotnick, Caitlin Durante, Sean Keane, Jackie Monahan, Erin Judge, and Jenny Chalikian.

It’s a free show, not to mention that you’ll be surrounded by shelves and more shelves of nothing but romantic novels.

Romantic Comedy will be happening this Thursday, May 19th at 8PM (Doors at 7:30PM) at The Ripped Bodice (3806 Main St., Culver City, CA).

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Full Frontal and Samantha Bee Shine a Light on The Unfortunate Millionaires That Get ‘Taken to the Cleaners’ by Super PACs

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Last night, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee delves into a rarely talked about side of Super PACs: the donors.

Many are on board for the idea that Super PACs are one of the leading problems in politics, but few take the time to go to learn about one of the literal sources of those said Super PACs.

Samantha Bee actually sat down with one of the most unfortunate Super PAC donors and learned of his plight in another great remote segment. Watch it here.

18th Annual Del Close Marathon Announces Line-Up and Schedule

The names on the flyer are only a fraction of the flocks upon flocks of teams and performers that will be performing in NYC for the literally non-stop Del Close Marathon from Fri. June 24th-Sun. June 26th (i.e. shows will be happening for 24 hours a day the whole weekend).

Take a gander at the whole routinely massive line-up and schedule right here.

Individual tickets are now on sale, but passes won’t be available until the actual DCM begins.

Doug Stanhope’s “Digging Up Mother: A Love Story” Out Now

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Descriptions such as honest, dark, and unflinching are often give to Doug Stanhope’s comedy. Much of that is due to his upbringing, specifically with his mother who imparted as much comedy history to him as she did with life experience gained from bringing Doug to an AA meeting.

Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is the story of how Stanhope said goodbye to his singular mother as she came to a point where she didn’t want to live anymore. The sweetness of a sincere valediction gets outfitted in Stanhope’s unfiltered sense of humor for a book that will undoubtedly take you through that wide range of emotions that comedy is capable of encompassing.

You can get your copy of Digging Up Mother: A Love Story now.

Jimmy Kimmel Gets 3 Year Extension at ABC

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We have a feeling that the Jimmys of late night will be battling well beyond 2019.

As part of ABC’s Upfronts presentation, the network announced Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel Live will remain at ABC through Fall of 2019. The other Jimmy in late night, Fallon, has his contract currently extended through 2021. However Kimmel and Fallon are the current top ratings winners and that, for now, should keep them going in the late night arena for quite some time.

Here Is Homer Simpson Answering Questions for East Coast Feed of The Simpsons’ Live Episode

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Homer Simpson really did answer questions live this past Sunday on the latest episode of The Simpsons.

Here’s a clip from the East Coast feed, which not only features off-the-cuff, in character answers, but also features plenty sight gags in the background and foreground in case something went awry.

We’d definitely be curious to see if they could pull of a whole episode doing this.

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The Best Friends Show, the wonderful storytelling show that features best friends both telling a story at the same time is celebrating its first anniversary this week!

You can get tickets now for $8 or at the door for $10.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Here’s the First Teaser for Alien Abduction Comedy “People of Earth”

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Turner did their Upfronts presentation today and unveiled a teaser for their new scripted series at TBS, People of Earth.

While time travel seems to be a big trend this time around, People of Earth is a high concept comedy that follows a support group of alien abduction survivors and their latest member played by Wyatt Cenac.

Get a look of what TBS has cooked up with the teaser here.

Inside Amy Schumer Breaks Down the Disparity in Shopping for Different Women’s Sizes

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Amy Schumer and her team at Inside Amy Schumer takes on the issue of plus sizes versus “normal” sizes when it comes to women’s clothing by showing the vast disparity between the two.

How big is that disparity between shopping for a size 12 versus a size 6? Just look at it here.

CNN Greenlights “The History of Comedy” Series for 2017

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Unlike many comedy retrospectives these days, they’re going to go all the way back to the Ancient Greeks.

CNN is adding to their comedy offerings from United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell by making a brand new historical comedy series, The History of Comedy, that will trace the evolution of comedy as an art form over time and in branching out of genres within it.

Look for the series to debut sometime next year.

No word on who will host it or some of the guests that will be interviewed, but we’d be really surprised if Kliph Nesteroff didn’t fit somewhere int his.

Chris Gethard Tries to Learn How to Make ‘Real’ TV by Interning at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

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The Chris Gethard Show does things as differently as you can on television. From their set to the format of the show itself, Gethard bucks tradition on so many levels.

So, for his own reference, he tries looking into how a more normal television program is run through interning for a day at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Gethard finds out some shocking revelations in his time there in addition to finding out how awkward of an intern he is.

Watch it all here.

Rob Corddry’s Next Project at Adult Swim Will Be Pilot for “The Hindenburg Explodes!”

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If you’re really sad about Chlidrens Hospital ending, you can be a little less sad now.

Announced today, Adult Swim has just ordered a brand new comedy pilot from Rob Corddry that follows those aboard the infamous Hindenburg on its disastrous voyage back in 1937.

The pilot will be in Adult Swim’s 15 minute format and, we’re sure, really out there in the best way possible.

Hopefully, this’ll get picked up in some way, shape, or form, just so we can what Rob has concocted based off one of the most recognizable disasters of all time.

Watch Ana Gasteyer Play Maria Bamford’s Very Matter-of-Fact Agent on “Lady Dynamite”

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Something tells us that Lady Dynamite is going to be pretty great.

Well, actually there’s a lot of things including Maria Bamford, Maria Bamford’s life story, Mitch Hurwitz, Ana Gasteyer, Fred Melamed, all of that coming together in this clip, etc.

FYI, Lady Dynamite starts streaming on Netflix this Friday.

“Trump vs. Bernie: Shout The Vote!” Sketch Special Is Now on YouTube Thanks to Fusion

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Trump vs Bernie’s second comedy special on Fusion, Trump vs. Bernie: Shout The Vote! featuring James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders and Anthony Atamanuik’s Donald Trump in a bunch of great sketches is now available for your viewing pleasure, especially since it’s on Fusion’s YouTube page.

You can actually watch both the debate special and the sketch special all without trying to find what channel Fusion is again.