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Spotify Is Expanding to Over 80 New Markets and Even More Folks Around the World Can Stream Comedy Albums
February 22, 2021
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When it comes to consumption of comedy albums, lots of folks have gone to and through Spotify to listen and comb through thousands upon thousands upon thousands of hours of stand-up, sketch, etc. While buying special vinyl releases for comedy has shown to bolster actual sales for the handful of comedians that can even do a vinyl release, the ease of streaming someone’s new or debut album on Spotify is hard to beat.

Now, Spotify is going to extend their global reach to just over 80 different markets that they hadn’t been in before, which means there will be an even greater chance of folks around the globe to discover whatever new comedy is in the audio streaming giant’s library.

The new markets will include:

Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Curaçao, Djibouti, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Hopefully, this translates to more plays/spins for comedians who have their material on Spotify translating to way more income for them (via SoundExchange or something).

Pick of the Day: Doughboys Munch Madness Finale 3/23
February 22, 2021
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The pandemic has taken away so many things away from us all, but one thing that has absolutely endured is fast food. In fact, several fast food establishments have thrived during this time and, along with them, the best podcast about chain restaurants, Doughboys with Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell, thoroughly endures.

With that in mind, Wiger and Mitch have also put on another round of their hallowed, but chaos-filled annual fast food tournament, Munch Madness. As the pandemic is still happening, they’ll be doing a very special LIVE, virtual edition of the finale of Munch Madness via On Location Live. The showdown of the most addictive, cheap food is set for Tues. Mar. 23rd at 5PM PT/8PM ET.

Tickets for livestream access are only $15.75 and you can (and should) get them here (NOTE: you’ll be able to stream it for a week if you can’t watch it live).

Please Enjoy Watching a Shiva Go Completely Awry in Trailer for “Shiva Baby”
February 19, 2021
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It seems as though the handful of big movie releases that have managed to happen in the last year on some streaming service, VOD, or, perhaps, at a drive-in haven’t really lived up to any of the hype. Maybe not watching them on the big screen has something to do with that or maybe the good stuff is being kept for when movie theaters can open in full.

Indie and arthouse fare, however, have gone strong throughout the pandemic and another indie comedy that one should be looking forward to is Shiva Baby.

Emma Seligman‘s feature length debut throws several flies into the ointment of the already cathartic experience of Shiva with a bisexual lead in Rachel Sennott just happening to run into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend. Sounds pretty fun to us. Here‘s a trailer to give you a sneak peek of all of that.

Look for the release of Shiva Baby on Apr. 2nd.

The Amber Ruffin Show to Air on NBC in Place of A Little Late with Lilly Singh Repeats
February 19, 2021
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(via Deadline)

The Amber Ruffin Show is the newest addition to the late night talk show/topical news comedy arena. That said, it only streams on NBC’s exclusive streaming platform, Peacock, unlike any other major late night show backed by a major network.

That’s all set to change as NBC has made a 1:30AM slot on Fridays (in place of repeats of A Little Late with Lilly Singh) for Ruffin and her weekly show, which will make her the fourth late night host at the network along side Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and Lilly Singh. NBC has maintained a more robust late night line-up than another network or streaming service with keeping The Tonight Show, Late Night, and The Late Late Show going in tandem for several years.

Now, it’s even more the case.

As of Feb. 26th, the gleeful, yet biting Amber Ruffin Show will make its network linear debut on NBC and the reach of the more diverse parts of late night will be just a little more visible.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Has Been Made the First President of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society
February 19, 2021
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge stands very, very tall these days from being one of the most successful veterans of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where her groundbreaking show Fleabag was first performed as a solo show before it became the beloved and acclaimed TV series.

So, the Fringe Society, the charity organization that supports artists performing at the world famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival, has appointed Phoebe as a President (FYI, most performers at the Fringe have to pay their own way to the festival from top to bottom and can only hope to make their money back through ticket sales). She’ll be reaching out on behalf of and represent the Fringe Society and she is pretty much the perfect person to do so.

We’ll be curious to see what her first moves in this capacity as Fringe Society President as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival isn’t happening live and in person until 2022. There will be some sort of virtual programming, but the details haven’t been announced yet.

In any case, it’s about time Phoebe Waller-Bridge had a title like president bestowed on her.

?Big news! ?

Yes, yes, it really is true…

We're excited to announce that @fleabag star, the excellent Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has been appointed as the first ever President of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society ❣️

Read more: https://t.co/ppPxOUo6DH pic.twitter.com/OyMoDKwtTU

— Edinburgh Festival Fringe (@edfringe) February 19, 2021

Pick of the Day: Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen 16th Anniversary 2/22
February 19, 2021
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Even without a pandemic, the idea of a weekly comedy show, especially a stalwartly funny one, going for 16 years is astounding. Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen has been one of the best shows hands down wherever it has been (including NYC, LA, and festivals all around).

Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal and their crew, currently CleftClips & HoldThePhone Comedy, have built a comedy institution over those several years, which was where we spent the majority of our Monday nights before lockdown. To keep going during the pandemic as one of the best, yet again, most reliable comedy live-streams deserves a standing ovation no matter where you are or what you’re doing currently.

To mark the occasion, they’ll be doing the show in their virtual Hot Tub: Home Edition format LIVE at HOLDTHEPHONE.TV with a brimming and bustling line-up of their personal favorites including Wyatt Cenac, Kyle Kinane, Jackie Kashian, Langston Kerman, Beth Stelling, and Christina Catherine Martinez.

You can stream it for free on Feb. 22nd at 8PM PT/11PM ET, as you’ve always been able to do during lockdown, or, you can support them and the comics and their home at The Virgil in LA by joining the Hot Tub Club at Patreon where you could be part of a limited live Zoom audience. We say do it if you haven’t already, especially for their 16th anniversary.

 

 

Bob Baker Day Is Going Virtual for 2021, But Will Explore Los Angeles With Its Marionettes
February 18, 2021
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One of LA’s best treasures, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, takes one day, Bob Baker Day, out of the year to really pull out all the stops and highlight why they are such the aforementioned local jewel.

Of course, they still can’t do their normal all day festival that would take place in person that is effectively like an entire carnival for the theater featuring puppet shows, live music, workshops, etc. Instead, while the pandemic has most of us stuck at home, they’re doing something different, but equally charming and also cleverly innovative.

The Bob Baker Marionette Theater will be putting on, in collaboration with Metro Arts, a virtual tour of Los Angeles starting at LA’s famed Union Station. This Bob Baker Day virtual LA tour will show off the city as well as feature plenty of the marionettes and puppets that the theater is famed for. Get a sneak peek of what’s in store with this featurette here.

Look for this exclusive Bob Baker Day to start on Sat. Feb. 27th and then be available to virtually watch/engage/play with for 7 days.

 

Finally, the Kevin Can F**K Himself Trailer Is Here
February 18, 2021
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Ever since we heard about the initial development of Kevin Can F**k Himself from Valerie Armstrong, Rashida Jones, and Will McCormack, which seems like decades ago at this point, we were so enthusiastically and completely on board. A satirical meta series about the stock multi-cam sitcom wife gaining her own agency and doing something about the hellish nightmare she has been stuck in with a slacker, overweight, dismissive, yet “lovable” husband? It’s like our subconscious, and, very likely, the subconscious of many who are sick of schlocky formulaic family sitcoms are finally getting realized.

As far as we can see, this is a much needed response to the plethora of outdated multi-cams where wives were one-dimensional and always way out of the league of their husbands (just check out most Kevin James led sitcoms).

Having Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy take on the lead role had us even more excited for what was to come for the show destined for AMC. Now, we all finally get a first look at what’s in store for us all with the first official trailer for KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF that just dropped today.

Getting tinges of Promising Young Woman and Groundhog Day and we’re still very much all in for it. Look for KEVIN CAN F**K HIMSELF this Summer on AMC.

Pick of the Day: The Couples Therapy Quarantine Party 1-Year in Isolation 3/13
February 18, 2021
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For the good majority of us in the U.S., the one year mark of lockdown (don’t you dare give it the label of something nice like an anniversary) is coming up. Whether or however you want to mark the occasion (or not at all) should be, at the very least, accompanied by the knowledge that you made it this far, which we’re pretty sure almost every on planet earth didn’t believe that they couldn’t do.

If you do choose to take note of going 1 year in lockdown/quarantine/quar, may we suggest enjoying it with one of our favorite comedy power/quarantine couples, Naomi Ekperigin & Andy Beckerman under the banner of their podcast/live-stream show, Couples Therapy.

They’ll be doing a special Couples Therapy Quarantine Party 1-Year in Isolation live-stream via Dynasty Typewriter after keeping each other, their special guests, and their faithful audience sane while staying indoors for a year.

Couples Therapy Quarantine Party 1-Year in Isolation is set to stream on Sat. Mar. 13th at 6PM PT/9PM ET and tickets are only $5-$10. Go get them here right now.

 

Nate Bargatze’s “The Greatest Average American Special” to Drop on Netflix on Mar. 18th
February 17, 2021
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The flow of comedy specials that would come out isn’t where it used to be, especially at Netflix. Yet, just because they’re not kicking out two or even three specials a week doesn’t mean they’re out of the goods.

Nate Bargatze’s latest hour The Greatest Average American is set to come out before too long. Well, specifically, it’s about a month away with a premiere date of Thurs. Mar. 18th. The soothing, slow burn delivery of Bargatze coupled with his fascinating, out-of-left-field observations have always busted us up and it’s been really a treat to see Nate become one of the go-to comics at The Tonight Show and having his first hour on Netflix really raise Nate’s profile more so than it already have been.

Again, look for The Greatest Average American on Mar. 18th on Netflix at netflix.com/NateBargatzeTheGreatestAverageAmerican

JFL Montreal Says They’re Going to Do a Mix of Virtual and In Person Shows This Summer
February 17, 2021
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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

There is live comedy that is happening in patches here and there across North America. Certainly, you’ve heard of comedians flocking to Florida and Austin, TX from NYC and LA. However, the big time comedy events have only whispers, thus far, as to what they’re going to do and when it’s going happen. The current wisdom, as far as we’ve heard, points towards fall and early next year for live, in-person shows to happen in some sort of fashion like they used to. Of course, that is all subject to the rollout of the vaccine.

JFL Montreal, one of the world’s foremost comedy festivals, is setting to formally return this Summer and have live in-person events, though virtual shows will still very much be a part of the festivities. As to the balance between the two, there are no details as of yet. Hopefully, whatever the share of in-person shows are will be based on the trending COVID-19 numbers and vaccine rollout in Montreal, Quebec, and Canada as we head towards their normal Summer dates from July 15th-31st.

So, maybe get ready to showcase if you’re still gunning for New Faces at JFL?

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 47: Leonard Robinson & New (Inclusive) Frontiers
February 17, 2021
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A member of the Groundlings Main Company, Comedy Store regular, and Taurean on Insecure, Leonard Robinson joins TCB’s Jake Kroeger  to talk on how the Groundlings have survived/thrived through both virtual improv/sketch shows almost kind of like they used to do in person (with a few clever changes for Zoom) and how they’re moving forward with diversity and inclusion measures (even beyond what they were already doing before last summer). Also, Robinson gives just a little insight on Insecure season 5 and “hot” takes on the Phoebe Waller-Bridge/Donald Glover reboot of Mr & Mrs. Smith and the reopening of Cap City and The Creek & The Cave down in Austin, TX.

Follow Leonard @iamleonardrobinson on IG.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).
Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

YouTube Originals’ Black Renaissance to Highlight Desus & Mero, Nicole Byer, and Ziwe Fumudoh
February 16, 2021
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YouTube’s move for Black History Month is to have an entire special to shining a light on the black innovators and leaders of our time, Black Renaissance: The Art and Soul of our Stories. So many different black folks will be have their story told in what should by a highly and tightly produced showcase of black excellence now and what it will very likely be in the near future.

For comedy, the special will be focusingn on late night disruptors Desus & Mero, beloved multi-hyphenate Nicole Byer, and upstart icon Ziwe Fumudoh, all four of which are some of our absolute favorites in comedy and should be more touted and awarded and hired than they currently are (which is quite a bit).

Look for Black Renaissance: The Art and Soul of our Stories to premiere on YouTube’s YouTube Originals channel on Feb. 26th (right before Black History Month ends) and get a taste of what’s to come in this trailer here.

 

Pick of the Day: Seek Treatment Live! A Valentine’s Day Post Mortem 2/19
February 16, 2021
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Now that the devastation of Valentine’s Day is over, it might be a good time to heal with you’re in a relationship in quarantine or you’ve been going this whole time of lockdown all alone.

So, the perfect thing, along those lines, my being a special live-stream edition of the amazing dating/relationship/love podcast Seek Treatment marvelously hosted by comedians Catherine Cohen and Pat Regan. In fact, they are doing a Valentine’s Day Post Mortem episode to soothe our souls with some lovely, lovely banter and dissecting the aftermath of this past Sunday.

Seek Treatment LIVE: A Valentine’s Day Post Mortem will stream this Fri. Feb. 19th at 5PM PT/8PM ET on YouTube via Dynasty Typewriter. Go get tickets (they’re only $10) and access/here.

Amazon Taps Phoebe Waller-Bridge & Donald Glover to Reboot Mr. & Mrs. Smith as Series
February 15, 2021
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(via Deadline)

So, Amazon is taking a proven IP and gathering two of the most sought after voices in comedy right now and stirring it all on a pot together. Let’s hope that works.

Both Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Donald Glover created two of the most acclaimed comedies of the last few years in Fleabag and Atlanta, respectively. Both shows had them starring and leading the charge creatively resulting in a plethora of glowing reviews, award nominations, and even a good chunk of award wins.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith was a blockbuster spy/action adventure rom com that most folks know from 2005 starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt with Doug Liman, one of the best action directors around, at the helm. As you may well know, it was a commercial success.

We’re curious to see how two of comedy’s current geniuses along with Atlanta writer/producer Francesca Sloane will reboot the series (we’d guess that it’s going to be quite different from the movie) at Amazon and make it more than just relying on something that has worked before a few times with beloved names attached.

As the wheels turn in our head, we’re imagining something between Run, Killing Eve, and the music video for This Is America. That works for us, but we’ll just have to wait, probably awhile because of COVID-19, and see what Waller-Bridge, Glover, and Sloane actually have their up sleeve.

Pick of the Day: Bling Empire: A Live Reading Fundraiser 2/24
February 15, 2021
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Comedians doing a live read for a reality show is already a good enough sell as is.

Having a line-up of Bowen Yang, Joel Kim Booster, Nori Reed, Jared Goldstein, Sherry Cola, Julia Shiplett, Tien Tran, and more do a live-read of a specific episode of Bling Empire is even better.

Doing that all for the sake of directly supporting Asian communities (at a time that Asian communities direly need backing from everyone due to an upward trend in hate crimes against Asians) in both LA and NYC shouldn’t even be the reason that you’d go in for this live-reading, but if that’s it, then so be it.

Thus, you should get tickets via a $10 suggested donation to the upcoming Bling Empire: A Live Reading Fundraiser on Wed. Feb. 24th at 6PM PT/9PM ET that’s raising money for Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (LA) and Send Chinatown Love (NYC).  You can and should get more details/donate/tickets/live-stream access here.

The Creek & The Cave to Reopen in Austin After Closing in NYC
February 12, 2021
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While comedy clubs/venues around the country have been closing, Austin, being one of the biggest comedy scenes in America that is actively doing in-person shows during the pandemic, seems to be gaining clubs left and right.

Yesterday, we reported to you that Cap City Comedy Club reversed its announcement that they were closing their doors for good and will reopen in October. It turns out that they will be getting another club as NYC’s beloved venue The Creek & The Cave is moving down to Austin, TX. They had to close their doors due to the persistent lockdown for performance venues in NYC after over a decade of faithfully serving the NYC comedy scene from open mikers all the way to Colin Quinn (he workshopped a whole special there).

Since live comedy is currently happening in Austin, Creek & Cave founder Rebecca Trent has taken that opportunity to given The Creek & The Cave a second life down there as well as growing the ATX comedy scene even bigger than it already is. As of April Fools’ Day this year, their doors will open. You can follow for more updates @creekandcaveatx on Instagram.

Please Enjoy Nikki Glaser Dissecting Her Conan Debut
February 12, 2021
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The Set Up has been one of the more illuminating web series when it comes to looking into the nitty gritty of the craft of stand-up comedy. Conan booker/producer JP Buck revisits his favorite stand-up sets on Conan with the very comedians that performed them. Breaking down every iota of the set and seeing the amount of detail, attention, care, and work that goes into a late night set is fascinating, especially if you’re a big comedy nerd or a comedian yourself.

Nikki Glaser’s attention to her particular crafting of jokes is painstaking, which she is through and through one of the best artisans of a joke that comedy has right now. That all clearly comes across in her episode of The Set Up where she revisits her very first set on Conan, which you can and should enjoy right here right now.

Issa Rae Continues Building Her Empire with Newly Ordered “Rap Sh*t”
February 12, 2021
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(via Deadline)

Between having a critically acclaimed dramedy series at HBO, Insecure, entering its fifth season, your own management banner, ColorCreative, running your record label, Raedio, repping the NBA playoffs last year in their first promos since lockdown started, starring in big time comedies, hosting SNL, co-owning a beauty brand, and, very likely, more that we’re simply forgetting, Issa Rae very much has her own empire that she has built from the ground up.

You can add another HBO Max series (sidebar: Is everything HBO releases during the pandemic going to be branded with HBO Max instead of HBO?) to that empire as Rap Sh*t just got a series order. Rae herself is set to write the pilot as if she wasn’t doing enough already. The show will follow old high school friends reuniting to form a rap group, which will be a pretty great canvas for Rae if you remember moments like Broken Pussy from Insecure.

No one has been cast yet, but Rap Sh*t is set to start shooting in the summer. You can rest easy with whatever happens in the next season of Insecure knowing that this Rae series is also coming relatively soon.

Austin’s Revered Cap City Comedy Club Will Actually Be Reopening in the Fall
February 11, 2021
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Though announced that it was closing its doors for good in September 2020, Cap City Comedy Club has had a reversal of fortune and will be reopening sometime this Fall.

The legendary club had served audiences from Austin and all around for over 3 decades, but suffered devastating financial losses due to the continued lockdown as a result of COVID-19. Thusly, the decision for a permanent closure was previously made.

Right at the moment, live comedy is happening in Austin, TX (though COVID-19 still runs rampant throughout America and both Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan recently contracted the virus while performing in Austin) and some comedians have made their way over there, even from LA, to do in-person shows. Austin has had a robust comedy scene for more than few years now and that is even under more of a spotlight since LA, NYC, and Chicago are not nearly as open as Texas is.

Whether or not the rollout of the vaccine improves will obviously determine reopening for comedy clubs/venues, but, at the very least, it’s great to hear that Cap City, one of comedians’ favorite comedy clubs will survive to the other side of the pandemic.

We're excited to announce that @CapCityComedy will be re-opening its doors this Fall!

We will continue our tradition of booking national acts, Austin-based comedians & cutting-edge up + comers, now in a new location at The Domain

Check back for more details & announcements pic.twitter.com/Iv66oEpldq

— Cap City Comedy Club (@CapCityComedy) February 11, 2021

Pick of the Day: Harmontown Reunion Show 2/21
February 11, 2021
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Looking back from this moment, it would seem that the last bit that you’ve heard from Harmontown was eons ago. Actually, it was just near the end of 2019, just as the before times were coming to an end.

Then, we all have had a collective lived experience of living the longest days and weeks of our lives leading up to what seems like a decade later for a Harmontown reunion. Yes, you did read that right. There will be a virtual gathering of Dan Harmon, Jeff B. Davis, Spencer Crittenden, Rob Schrab along with very, very special guests Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani later this month via live-streaming platform, House Seats.

For the uninitiated or those who it has been so long that the memory of the before times seems like a faint candle in the distance, Dan Harmon and the Harmontown gang really made an official session of Harmontown whatever they’d like, which might anything ranging from in-depth conversation the inner-workings of entertainment to the complexities and nuances of life to Dan using a vocoder to freestyle.

So, do not miss this Harmontown Reunion set to live-stream Feb. 21st at 5PM PT/8PM ET (it’ll be available to watch up afterwards until 2/28 9PM PT/12AM ET). Tickets for live-stream access are only $15 and you best get them here.

Please Get and Enjoy Rhea Butcher’s Latest Album “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootleg”
February 10, 2021
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Brand new stand-up that was recorded with a live audience (that’s pre-pandemic) is in short supply it would seem. It almost seems like an alternate universe whenever you do get to hear or see such a thing, especially if it’s a well-crafted, forward thinking.

Luckily, there’s such an hour that arrived last week from Rhea Butcher in Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootleg is their latest record and the latest release from the always stellar AST Records. Though it may take a second to adjust to hearing people clearly laugh while they’re gathered very close in an dark, enclosed place, it is a refreshing reminder of not only how truly wonderful it was to enjoy stand-up in the before times (and we’ll get back to enjoying stand-up like that at some point in the future), but how great Rhea as a stand-up deftly and joyfully dismantling our ideas of gender as a non-binary person. Butcher’s fills the album with carefully examined observations and polished stories that include facets of their non-binary identity intersecting with being a hillbilly and it is, simply put, a hoot.

With all of that in mind, go get or stream Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootleg here.

My new album “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootleg” is out TODAY! You can stream it, buy it, or even get a cool pin! Out now on @aspecialthing! https://t.co/yNAbXpXjHu

— Rhea "RB" Butcher (@RheaButcher) February 5, 2021

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 46: Aristotle Athiras & Keeping Up During COVID
February 10, 2021
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Aristotle Athiras is the rare sort of comedian that has actually flourished in improv, sketch, and stand-up and also worked in front of and behind the camera as performer and director. With such a diverse quiver of skills, Aristotle has found opportunities and managed to stay working, as a director for Will Smith’s home show, and very much look forward to be prepared for where the next thing in comedy might be (i.e. Clubhouse). Athiras zooms with TCB’s Jake Kroeger about his time in lockdown and the future of comedy as well as “hot” takes on Munawar Faruqui getting arrested on suspicion of jokes, Melissa Villasenor hosting The Spirit Awards, Search Party getting renewed, and the pilot for a live action reboot of Powerpuff Girls at CW.

Check out Aristotle’s work as part of Goatface Comedy here (this is the specific sketch we kept talking about during the episode)

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).
Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

Pick of the Day: Eddie Izzard in a Global Online Conversation with Elliott Forrest 2/12
February 10, 2021
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After capping off a month of running marathons on a treadmill and then doing shows afterwards, Eddie Izzard is going to just have a nice long chat with Peabody award winning broadcaster, Elliot Forrest. Izzard might just have more energy than any other than comedy alive.

If you happen to miss her wild virtual tour, this Fri. Feb. 12th at 1PM PT/4PM ET is your next chance to see Izzard in any sort of capacity (the sort of venues that Eddie would play will be very likely closed up until 2022).

Tickets are only $15, but you can watch the live-stream and get an Eddie Izzard “Make Humanity Great Again” hat for $75. Get more info/tickets/live-stream access here.

Chris Gethard’s Beautiful/Anonymous Debuting as a TV Series at Topic.com
February 9, 2021
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Through hundreds of episodes over the years, Chris Gethard has opened up the podcast void to take calls in from anyone and everyone so long as they remain anonymous. The resulting podcast, Beautiful/Anonymous, has become one of the best podcasts, no matter the category, for how endearing, vulnerable, funny, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and unmistakably human it is, has been, and continues to be.

Now, this experiment turned to weekly-salve-for-the-soul is going to get a bit of an upgrade and be its own TV series over at topic.com starting this Thursday. It’ll show Gethard taking calls in a studio and add visuals to accompany and accentuate the calls that will, of course, remain anonymous.

This first episode will be free, courtesy of topic.com, then you’ll have to subscribe for a few bucks a month for the rest (as well as exclusive series from the likes of Maria Bamford, Wyatt Cenac, etc.)

With all of that said, get a sneak peek of the Beautiful/Anonymous TV show with this trailer here.

Here's the trailer for the Beautiful/Anonymous TV show debuting this Thursday. You can watch the first one free at https://t.co/LXhe6VHAp8 – it's gonna be a real good time and I hope you enjoy it. pic.twitter.com/kVPjGeBH8F

— Chris Gethard (@ChrisGethard) February 9, 2021

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