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June 20, 2018
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Even if you actively try to not read the news, you most likely know about the horrific separation of immigrant children from their immigrant parents at the U.S. Mexico border happening under the Trump Administration.

Largo has thrown together an unbelievably stacked line-up, as you can clearly see above, for this Friday to benefit the Florence Project (an organization that assists in offering free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in Arizona.

Go get your tickets ($30 tickets were just released FYI) here. We have no doubt that it will sell out.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Aasif Mandvi’s Satirical Muslim Family Sitcom “Halal in the Family” Seems More Important Than Ever

November 17, 2016
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Aasif Mandvi’s Satirical Muslim Family Sitcom “Halal in the Family” Seems More Important Than Ever

This web series was released awhile ago and won a Peabody Award, but given how fighting Islamophobia is, for some reason (potential Muslim registry, anyone?), now more important than ever, Aasif Mandvi’s Halal in the Family is a nice satirical reminder that we have more in common with each other than we don’t. 

Oh, also, it’s so darkly funny on top of all of its social commentary. Watch, enjoy, and share.

Undecided: The Movie, the Movie Following Two Undecided Pranksters on the Campaign Trail, Is Now on Netflix

October 25, 2016
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So much crazy stuff has happened this election just in the past month that it seems crazy that the rest of it even happened. 

You probably even forgot that Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler starred in a faux documentary where they went along the election campaign trail as two “undecideds” and attempted to see what each campaign was about as well as prank the likes of Jeb Bush, Trump, Clinton, Rubio, Ben Carson, etc. Aasif Mandvi and Jena Friedman from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are pushing them along the whole way in this crazy journey captured in Undecided: The Movie.

Along with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s election coverage, you might feel slightly less on edge leading up to November 8th with this doc. It’s available to stream now on Netflix.

Aasif Mandvi Developing Dark Comedy ‘Fatwa’ at Showtime with Writer/Producer Dave Holstein

August 31, 2016
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Aasif Mandvi Developing Dark Comedy ‘Fatwa’ at Showtime with Writer/Producer Dave Holstein

It’s about time someone made an entire dark comedy series about cartoonists who get death threats for certain cartoons that cross certain religious lines. 

Aasif Mandvi and Dave Holstein, who Mandvi worked with on The Brink, are developing the dark comedy Fatwa over at Showtime that will focus entirely on that and have Mandvi star.

It should be a nice follow-up to the last series that Mandvi got top-billing in, Halal in the Family.

Watch Profiles of Jen Kirkman, Paul F. Tompkins, Beth Stelling, Zach Woods, Chris Garcia, Kurt Braunohler, Tony Hale, Kathryn Hahn, and Way More From “Last Call With Carson Daly”

May 26, 2015
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Basically, there has been a bevy of great profile interviews from the 2015 episodes of Last Call with Carson Daly.

Watch profile/interviews of such good comedy folks including

Beth Stelling
Kathryn Hahn
Aasif Mandvi
Jen Kirkman
Zach Woods
Marcella Arguello
Solomon Georgio
Ben Gleib
Pete Holmes and Rob Bell
Dan Levy
Ryan O’Flanagan
Chris Garcia
Paul F. Tompkins
Henry Winkler
Tony Hale
Jay Larson
Kurt Braunohler
Randall Park
Tony Hinchcliffe
Jack McBrayer
Jamie Lee
Rob Corddry
Thomas Lennon
Jemaine Clement
David Cross
Iliza Shlesinger

If you’ve somehow ran out of stuff to binge watch this Memorial Day Weekend or just in general, these interviews should be the perfect thing to watch next.

Aasif Mandvi’s “Halal In The Family” Not Only Fights Islamophobia, But Makes An 80s Multi Cam Style Sitcom Watchable in 2015

April 10, 2015
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Aasif Mandvi really ran with what could have been just one segment on The Daily Show with correspondents Jordan Klepper and Samantha Bee and made it to something potentially groundbreaking.

A couple of months ago when Mandvi crowfunded the money to finish his spin on an classic multi cam sitcom depicting a Muslim American family in the suburbs facing all the problems that all the other American families have faced in similar suburbs over the years, we didn’t know that Halal in the Family could be this good.

Aasif does accomplish his goal of cutting down stereotypes long held by many Americans about Muslims through the lives of The Qu’osby Family (hopefully, we’ll think more positively about this family rather than the other one with the “C” instead of the “Qu”) as you can see when there is a whole “mistaken identity spy” mishap. 

While there is a veil of a classic style sitcom, Halal In The Family’s intention is to be as satirical as possible and, as such, they don’t run away from the jokes that cut deep. No matter if it’s mistaken perceptions of terrorists, misguided racial slurs, or downplaying ethnicity, the show stays where most multi cam sitcoms wouldn’t dare go. Perhaps, this is the secret to doing a multi cam sitcom in an age where people often question whether the format is played out or not.

Whether that proves to be the case or not, definitely give the four episodes of Halal In The Family on Funny or Die a watch now. 

Watch Aasif Mandvi at the RTCA Dinner

March 28, 2015
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Even though it’s “The JV squad” to The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Aasif Mandvi still makes it quite the night.

You probably weren’t watching C-Span this week, which means you missed Aasif Mandvi at The Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner. That means you missed plenty of great digs at Congress and C-Span and Islamophobia and more.

Watch all of that here.

Aasif Mandvi Successfully Funded and Will Be Finishing His “Halal in The Family” Web Series

February 4, 2015
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Aasif Mandvi has made a web series intended to broaden the portrayal of Muslims here in America via a classic multi-cam sitcom. 

Appropriately called Halal in The Family, Mandvi has raised $31,000 on Indiegogo, which is $11,000 more than his goal. There’s 6 more days on the campaign and you can contribute more.

His Daily Show co-correspondents Jordan Klepper and Samantha Bee are in the web series as well as multi-colored-patterned crew neck sweater.

Here’s Aasif giving you the full rundown as well as clips from the show.

Michael Che Makes A Great Daily Show Debut

June 5, 2014
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The newest correspondent of The Daily Show, Michael Che, made his debut last night and it was so good that Aasif Mandvi, mid-segment, had a thing or two to say about it.

Watch Che’s debut here.

Both Aasif Mandvi and Michael Ian Black Join Fox’s New ‘Us & Them’ Making It Much More Intriguing

August 24, 2013
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Both Aasif Mandvi and Michael Ian Black Join Fox’s New ‘Us & Them’ Making It Much More Intriguing

Sitcoms that lean towards romantic comedies are certainly nothing to get excited over as that seems to be the focus of many of them.

However, casting both Michael Ian Black and Aasif Mandvi for the new Fox series “Us & Them” makes for a much more enticing series that has definitely peaked our curiosity.

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