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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 77: Chase Bernstein & Letting Go
September 15, 2021
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Chase Bernstein. Perhaps, the guest we have the best chemistry with on The Comedy Bureau Field Report? You judge for yourself as Chase and TCB’s Jake Kroeger delightfully run through the news of the passing of Norm MacDonald, season renewals of Only Murders in the Building and The Amber Ruffin Show, and Jim Breuer refusing to perform at venues that require proof of vaccination. Chase also details the virtue of really just not giving an “F” and the freedom of it when doing comedy.

Follow Chase @chasebernstein on IG and listen to her podcast Composed with Chase Bernstein.

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

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.

Pick of the Day: Writers LIVE! Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar: You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey 1/19
January 6, 2021
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Virtual book tours, as far as we saw, worked surprisingly well throughout 2020, especially when it came to comedy books that had planned a nationwide schedule pre-pandemic. Not only could you tune in from wherever you were (so long as you minded the time zone difference), but if you missed one, odds are that it was pretty easy to tune into another one because virtual access could, again, be gained from wherever you’re hooked up to WiFi.

So, one of the first comedy book events of 2021 ought to be a riveting and very important one as Amber Ruffin and her sister Lacey Lamar will be having a conversation about their book, You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey. Akin to the bits you’ve seen Ruffin do on Late Night with Seth Meyers and her own newly minted series The Amber Ruffin Show, the book will offer up tales of their particularly ridiculous experiences with racism (hopefully, folks know that racism is still very much here in 2021).

On Tues. Jan. 19th at 4PM PT/7PM ET, Ruffin and Lamar will be chatting with Mykel Hunter of WEAA in the latest edition of Writers LIVE! and it’s free to attend (just RSVP here). Also, you can order a copy of You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey right here.

Pick of the Day: Padma Puts On a Virtual Comedy Show 12/17
December 15, 2020
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We told you that there would be plenty of big time comedy benefit shows for the Georgia Runoffs and, lordy lordy, there sure are. This latest one is being put up by the one and only Padma Lakshmi that’s very explicit in this regard by being called, “Padma Puts on a Virtual Comedy Show for the Georgia Runoff Elections: An Evening to Benefit FairFight”.

Stacey Abrams’ FairFight was instrumental in registering voters and contributing to Biden’s 2020 Election win and will undoubtedly be crucial in the upcoming special Georgia Senate Runoffs.

So, they tapped Padma for a live benefit show and she, in turn, got one hell of a line-up that includes:

Hasan Minhaj, Phoebe Robinson, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Peretti, Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, Benito Skinner, Mike Birbiglia, John Early, Roy Wood Jr., Julio Torres, Michelle Buteau, Patton Oswalt, Aparna Nancherla, Caleb Hearon, Wanda Sykes, Joel Kim Booster, Tituss Burgess, Meg Stalter, Patti Harrison, Nikki Glaser, Ayo Edebiri, Jo Firestone, Amber Ruffin, Dulce Sloan, Naomi Ekperigin, W. Kamau Bell, Mitra Jouhari, Sydnee Washington, Marie Faustin, and Andy Cohen.

There will also be music from King Princess, Perfume Genius, Waxahatchee, Brittany Howard, Local Natives, Aloe Blacc, and Cautious Clay.

Lastly, the evening’s virtual festivities will be hosted by none other than the Las Culturistas themselves, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.

Reads like a festival line-up, doesn’t it? Well, we still can’t do that in person right now, but you can enjoy this gigantic Padma Puts on a Virtual Comedy Show comedy live-stream on Thurs. Dec. 17th at 6PM PT/9PM ET at youtube.com/padmalakshmi and donate to FairFight here.

Upcoming Book “Notes from the Bathroom Line” Has One of Hell of a Line-up of Contributors
November 2, 2020
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If you’re looking for something way in the future to look forward as a way to potentially have something to get you through the end of the year all the way into 2021 when maybe, possibly, hopefully there will be a vaccine that we all can get for COVID-19, there will be a magnificent collection of essays, poetry, toons, short stories, art, and so much more for well over 100 of the best women in comedy (from all corners including stand-up, writing, sketch, acting, podcasting, musical comedy, and more) in Notes from the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy.

Amy Solomon (producer on Silicon Valley, Barry) curated the incredibly impressive literary gathering for this book and we really can’t wait for Mar. 16th, 2021 when Notes from the Bathroom Line is set for release.

Thus far, slated to contribute are:

Lolly Adefope, Maria Bamford, Aisling Bea, Lake Bell, Rachel Bloom, Rhea Butcher, Nicole Byer, D’Arcy Carden, Aya Cash, Karen Chee, Margaret Cho, Mary H.K. Choi, Amanda Crew, Rachel Dratch, Beanie Feldstein, Jo Firestone, Briga Heelan, Samantha Irby, Emily V. Gordon, Patti Harrison, Mary Holland, Jen Kirkman, Lauren Lapkus, Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci, Natalie Morales, Aparna Nancherla, Yvonne Orji, Lennon Parham, Chelsea Peretti, Alexandra Petri, Natasha Rothwell, Amber Ruffin, Andrea Savage, Kristen Schaal, Megan Stalter, Beth Stelling, Cecily Strong, Sunita Mani, Geraldine Viswanathan, Michaela Watkins, Mo Welch, and Sasheer Zamata.

More contributors will be added down the line for a book that’s so much more promising than a lot of what 2020 has given us.

By the way, you can pre-order Notes from the Bathroom Line here.

 

 

JFL Montreal Announces Line-Up For Their First Online Edition
September 9, 2020
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JFL Montreal, one of the biggest, longest running comedy  festivals in the world, is pushing forward with having a festival of some kind this year. It won’t be quite the limited capacity, mask-wearing attempt at a festival that the Venice Film Festival just had, but JFL has assembled a handful of big stars including Hannah Gadsby, Nicole Byer, Kenya Barris, Amber Ruffin, and Andy Kindler for what will be the very first online JFL Montreal Comedy Festival. Oh yeah, it also will be free.

It’s a much, much more trim version of what is normally just over a week of the main festivities, but a showcase of Variety’s Top 10 Comics to Watch will still be happening and the “Creators” category of New Faces will be featured (doing live stand-up or sketch over Zoom probably wasn’t the best way to feature New Faces). Andy Kindler on the line-up most certainly means that there will be another annual State of the Industry Address from Kindler (one of JFL’s biggest highlights for our money) and what Andy has to say about the state of comedy this year will very likely be even more unforgettable than it normally is.

This virtual edition of JFL Montreal will be streaming for FREE on Fri. Oct. 9th & Sat. Oct. 10th right here. No need to RSVP or get one of several different festival badges.

Amber Ruffin and Larry Wilmore Are Getting Their Own Weekly Late Night Shows on Peacock
August 11, 2020
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As part of Peacock’s programming announcement yesterday, Peacock will expand on NBC’s late night offerings of Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with another duo, exclusively for their streaming service, Peacock.

Amber Ruffin, one of the Internet’s favorite parts of Late Night with Seth Meyers, is getting her very own weekly late night show, giving her take on the news with The Amber Ruffin Show. Also, Larry Wilmore will get to take top billing as a host once again (after his tenure at The Nightly Show at Comedy Central ended in 2016) and have his yet-to-be-titled show focus more on conversation about pressing topics with high profile guests (i.e. the most intriguing part of The Nightly Show). This move by Peacock does make late night a little more diverse with two less slots occupied by cis-straight-white-men.

The pairing of Wilmore and Ruffin for the late night offerings at Peacock might be a good call. Both late night series are set to premiere in September and will undoubtedly be thrown immediately into late night’s mandatory coverage of the 2020 Election. We can’t wait to see what they’ll be bringing to the late night table that will set them apart.

NBC Announces Their Streaming Service ‘Peacock’ with New Mike Schur/Ed Helms Show Rutherford Heights, The Amber Ruffin Show, and More
September 17, 2019
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NBC Announces Their Streaming Service ‘Peacock’ with New Mike Schur/Ed Helms Show Rutherford Heights, The Amber Ruffin Show, and More

While Seeso ended up not working out, NBC is taking another crack at an exclusive streaming service, though it won’t be limited to just a vast library of original and acquired comedy programming.

Peacock, announced today, will carry a bunch of NBC exclusive content including a scripted series that will bring Mike Schur and Ed Helms back for the first time since The Office, former Late Night with Seth Meyers writer/star Amber Ruffin with her own streamlined version of a late night show in The Amber Ruffin Show, and SNL behind-the-scenes series called Who Wrote That.

Also, a movie sequel to the off-beat detective comedy series Psych and the third season of A.P. Bio are line-up for Peacock.

There are a bunch of drama properties that NBC has planned for Peacock as well, but we do think that much of Peacock success will have to do with a new Schur/Helms series.

Also, when this launches, NBC will technically be the first network to have four late night style shows (Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, A Little Late with Lilly Singh, and soon The Amber Ruffin Show). 

If this all sounds good to you, look towards spring of 2020 to get in on NBC’s Peacock.

Please Enjoy Drunk History’s Season 6 Trailer
December 27, 2018
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Even though the word “drunk” is in the name, Drunk History is a well oiled machine going into its sixth season on Comedy Central.

A cavalcade of funny people get wasted and try to recount an important person and/or event in history, then a lip-synched, word-for-word reenactment is attempted. Creator Derek Waters and company been magic since Drunk History’s early days on Funny or Die and, as this trailer shows, continues on into 2019.

Look for the season 6 premiere of Drunk History on Tues., Jan. 15th at 10PM on Comedy Central.

Please Enjoy Drunk History’s Season 6 Trailer
December 27, 2018
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Even though the word “drunk” is in the name, Drunk History is a well oiled machine going into its sixth season on Comedy Central.

A cavalcade of funny people get wasted and try to recount an important person and/or event in history, then a lip-synched, word-for-word reenactment is attempted. Creator Derek Waters and company been magic since Drunk History’s early days on Funny or Die and, as this trailer shows, continues on into 2019.

Look for the season 6 premiere of Drunk History on Tues., Jan. 15th at 10PM on Comedy Central.

Amber Ruffin To Host the 22nd Annual Webby Awards
March 27, 2018
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Amber Ruffin To Host the 22nd Annual Webby Awards

Late Night with Seth Meyers stand-out Amber Ruffin is getting on the awards hosting track with this Webby Awards hosting gig. If her track record on Late Night serves as any indicator, we’ll be excited to see what Ruffin does for the ceremony, which is pretty weird as it is (ex. acceptance speeches have to be 5 words).

Seth Meyers alums are doing quite well as of late. Ruffin undoubtedly has bigger and better things coming her way on top of the Webby Awards in the not so distant future and Michelle Wolf is already having a hell of a year (WHCD, Netflix late night series)

Amber Ruffin, Who Made Her Name Really Known on Late Night with Seth Meyers This Year, Is Set to Host 2018 WGA Awards in NYC
December 4, 2017
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Amber Ruffin, Who Made Her Name Really Known on Late Night with Seth Meyers This Year, Is Set to Host 2018 WGA Awards in NYC

Of the writers on Late Night with Seth Meyers, odds are that you’ve probably seen Amber Ruffin in sort of bit or segment on Late Night the most throughout 2017. She even has her own recurring solo segment where she lets loose because the Internet has responded to Ruffin so well.

That’s probably she has just been tapped to host the WGA Awards next year in NYC on February 11th. 

This will be Ruffin’s first big hosting gig and we have no doubt that she’ll picked more often if all goes well.

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