Per usual, Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival in Austin, TX is stacked.
Patton Oswalt, Ali Wong, Colin Quinn, Aparna Nancherla, Barry Crimmins, Dana Gould, Goddamn Comedy Jam, Wendy Liebman, Guy Branum, and Drew Michael are just scratching the surface of this first line-up announcement.
Moontower is set for Wednesday, April 19th-Saturday, April 22nd and you get passes, ranging from ‘Front Row’ to ‘Club/Podcast’, here.
Just a few weeks after new year, when hopefully the world is back on its way to some sort of normalcy, the 5th Annual Riot LA Comedy Festival will have its run and bring some much needed comedic relief to any and all in DTLA from Jan. 20th-22nd.
So far, the festival is looking to go bigger for 2017 as the venues will be bigger and they’re going to have a ferris wheel. That’s in addition to a screening of Blazing Saddles complete with Q&A with Mel Brooks, Ali Wong headlining, a brand new round of Dr. Katz Live!, and much more TBA soon.
Passes and tickets will go on sale at riotla.com this Friday, October 14th at 10AM PDT, but there’s a AMEX and Goldenvoice pre-sale on Thursday at 10AM PDT as well.
The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival returns as one of the biggest comedy touring festivals ever.
It’s interesting that they went with the bold red font for top billed acts and listed the line-up alphabetically instead of doing the traditional top-to-bottom-big-name-to-up-and-coming. It’s one way to be an oddball we suppose.
You can get your tickets here.
Don’t miss out on this.
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Real life married couple Dan Black and Jamie Lee finally have a night together at a show that they’re putting on. Get your tickets for $5 here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Today is the day to really get into Ali Wong. Whether you’re already a devoted fan or you’ve only seen her recently start popping up in your social media feeds, her very first hour special Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (which she also amazing taped while 7 months pregnant) is now streaming at Netflix.
Here are a couple more clips to give you a taste of what you should be watching today.
Also, Ali is on WTF with Marc Maron today in the probably case that you can’t get enough of her.
We have a feeling that the latest comedy special that will be coming to Netflix might be a hell of a good one as it is an hour long stand-up special from the fantastic Ali Wong.
What might make it extra special aside from it being a “special” is that she dissects about becoming a mom and everything connected to that while pregnant.
Called Baby Cobra, it starts streaming on Friday, May 6th.
You can see a bit of what Ali has cooked up in this preview.
You’ve got to wonder if any of the other big streaming services will try to keep up with Netflix’s comedy specials output.
It’s been a long time coming that Ali Wong has been gearing up for a special and the next special from the brilliant Bo Burnham will undoubtedly be a must-see.
Mark your calendars on the following Fridays:
May 6th-Ali Wong: Baby Cobra
June 3rd-Bo Burnham: Make Happy
July 1st-Jim Jefferies: Freedumb
September 23rd-Iliza Shlesinger: Confirmed Kills
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Ali Wong has notched another late night set this week when she took the stage at Late Night with Seth Meyers. Enjoy watching her unveil the secrets behind getting married, immortality, and more.
Despite cancelling Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous, MTV is still thankfully pushing for more comedy series. This latest series, “Hey Girl”, is to be a sketch show directed by none other than Michael Showalter, head written by the hilarious Julie Klausner, and featuring the wonderful comedic stylings (that you should all be following) of Sara Schaefer, Shelby Fero, JC Coccoli, Ali Wong, Emily Axford, Esther Povitsky, and more.
Hey Girl premieres this Sunday Jul. 28th with four back to back episodes at 9PM on MTV and we think that watching it should be your Sunday night this week.
1) Meltdown @ Meltdown Comics IS simply what people should expect out of a good comedy show. Packed house and a great line-up (free beer also helps). Unfortunately, a large segment of the population, not only in LA, but around the whole country have a different idea of what a live comedy show actually is. Hilarious comedienne Chelsea Peretti pointed it out so poignantly during the evening when she mentioned how she would rather be a fat guy and THEN the audience would understand that “comedy was happening” and shout, “WE GET IT! WE GET IT!” The stereotype of an overweight vulgar man making fun of audience members then hitting on their date when they go to the bathroom has been reinforced by far too many comedy clubs. Meltdown has the potential to prove this stereotype FALSE of live comedy as I sat right in front as part of a crowd of about 100 for the entire show and was not made fun of once AND had a fantastic time. Host Jonah Ray, after thanking people for not watching Gallagher at Club Nokia, let Meltdown rip with awesome performances from Ali Wong, Jerrod Carmichael, Randy Liedtke, Nick Kroll as force of nature Fabrice Fabrice, Seth Morris, Steve Agee, and Chelsea Peretti THEN Kumail Nanjiani apologized for not being there by texting a joke. Again, this is what people should expect from a live comedy show. Meltdown is every Wednesday 8:30PM $8 @ Meltdown Comics, 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA.
2) The Jesse Miller Talk Show @ The Next Stage Theatre is the FUTURE of a live comedy show. Andre Hyland, as his absurdly fast-on-his-feet character Jesse Miller, hosts an off-air late night talk show that because of its brilliance, as sensational guest Joe Wagner commented, should be on TV. With completely dead-pan and completely hilarious musical sidekick Daryl and princess/straight-up girl/Jesse Miller Talk Show dancer Tanya, Jesse Miller takes absurdity in comedy to another level as he might seem like an unassuming yokel from Norwood, OH, but can rattle off quips, comebacks, and obscure Sonic Youth references with the best of them. Formatted with four amazing performers, a video of Jesse Miller (this edition included him in Cincinnati showing his Bengals Superbowl tattoo to people on game day), a heartfelt, bone-crushing song from Daryl, gut-busting interviews of all the guests, and an EATING CONTEST, there is no way you can beat entertainment like that for $5 on a late Tuesday night. “Straight-up hell yeah props” to Nicholas Rutherford, Melinda Hill, Joe Wagner, and Chris Fairbanks as last night’s line-up. The Jesse Miller Talk Show is on one Tuesday a month 11PM $5/one free beer @ The Next Stage Theatre, 1523 N. La Brea, Hollywood, CA (2nd Floor).
3) For all of you in the LA comedy community, the entire Comedy Bureau watched over 5 hours of live comedy yesterday.
4) For tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL, you need to discover instant cloning to not miss anyone of these shows. Seriously, get on it. Start off with Comedy Speakeasy @ TSR Loft 8PM (call 323-568-1616 to be audience member), then send your clone to Wil Anderson w/Brent Weinbach @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item minimum, then “original you” go to The Josh & Josh Show @ Bar Lubitsch 8:30PM FREE, then your clone should go to Holy Fuck! @ Downtown Independent 9PM FREE, then you go to Facepush @ Flappers-Burbank 9:30PM $10/2 item min. Make sure to kill your clone at the end of the night, mostly to prevent any bad reality show being made from your lives.
5) Brand spanking new Comedy Bureau feature, as promised, OPEN MIC RUN. For all you comics trying the impossible by getting up more than once in LA try this: Go to SANDWICH SPOT 7PM, 3101 Ocean Park Ave, Santa Monica, CA, TKO SHOW @ 212 Cafe 9PM, 212 Pier Ave., Venice, CA, CAFE ON 2ND 7:30PM 7 S. 2nd St./$3 cover/10 min. at least., MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 5PM-11PM, 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA $5 cover/free coffee & bottled water/go up as many times as you want. Just do it (and maybe get some laughs).
6) The Comedy Bureau will be live tweeting throughout tonight’s comedy odyssey. Follow here.
7) Announcing another new feature in the works: The Comedy Bureau will tip its proverbial hat, because we can’t afford a real one, to a single tweet a day from all the amazing LA based comedians it tracks on Twitter. Not only will they be retweeted, but they will be mentioned here and if its popular enough, maybe will have contest with a TBD prize.
8) The Comedy Bureau needs your support both in the way of hugs AND donations. Please donate here.
8) With Veteran’s Day here, please honor all the men and women serving our country and keeping us safe so we can stay out until 3AM talking about how we hate dick jokes/dick jokes.
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