Conan still has some of the best bits in late night these days since he lets folks like Andrés du Bouchet run wild.
Watch du Bouchet play one of the most suspect sound men of all time here.
This edition of Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction will be a taping for Seeso’s upcoming Comedy Show Show. It also happens to feature some of the best comedians to ever write pop-culture based sex tales.
So, don’t miss it this on Sunday at The Virgil (4519 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, Blvd) at 7:30PM.
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com
Conan’s Matt O’Brien, recent head writer Mike Sweeney, Todd Levin, Jose Arroyo, Dan Cronin, Andres Du Bouchet, Rob Kutner, Jessie Gaskell, Levi MacDougall, and Leah Krinsky all join Thrilling Adventure Hour creator Ben Blacker for a conversation about the inner workings of the Conan’s writers’ room.
The Writers Panel: Inside the Conan Writers Room will be at The Nerdmelt Showroom on Thursday, Apr. 14th at 7PM. Tickets are $10.
The rest of our listings for comedy events and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Stand-up comedians Hampton Yount, Josh Sharp, Nick Rutherford, Greg Barris, Andrés Du Bouchet, Kiran Deol, Clare O’Kane, and more join host Ryan Singer and guest co-host Dave Waite in not only doing anything that isn’t stand-up, but getting delightfully weird about the whole affair.
The sketches on Conan continue to be some of the boldest, most absurd, and daring in late night.
Schmecky & Schmecky’s Toilet Wolf Removal Service with Andrés du Bouchet and Dan Cronin is a perfect example of this.
Of all the Star Wars themed bits in late night over the last few weeks, this one on this week’s Conan is probably one of our favorites.
While you’re enjoying your turkey and the company of friends and family this Thanksgiving, know that there’s at least one person who isn’t thankful for, well, anything.
Conan O’Brien found that guy in his audience last week and this is what he had to say for himself.
Happy Thanksgiving (we guess?)!!!
From what we saw, Denver has a good thing going in its comedy scene.
As you might imagine, we don’t get out of LA often or, really at all since there is so much to cover around the scene.
However, last month, we found our way to Denver, Colorado for the 3rd Annual High Plains Comedy Festival and we sure didn’t regret taking a week to explore the ins and outs of comedy in Denver. The Grawlix, which created the upcoming truTV series Those Who Can’t, rose to their current station from Denver and following in their stead is a great bunch of comics operating in what seems to be a well-balanced eco-system of comedy.
With the bureau’s budget, we could only send one person to Denver, so here’s the highlights of what they were physically able to catch at High Plains as well as bit of the local scene on the eve of the festival:
-Everything we’ve heard about Comedy Works in Downtown Denver being one of the best comedy clubs in the entire country, which comes from so many respected people that we and everyone know, is absolutely true. The set up of low ceilings and no tables and stadium seating eliminated any possible distraction from the person on stage. We got to see Ron Funches warm up for his album taping and it was electric.
–The Fine Gentlemen’s Club has established as another solid, rising grouping of stand-ups in Denver. Chris Charpentier, Sam Tallent, Bobby Crane, and Nathan Lund made quite the showing at their own weekly show at The Deer Pile as well as their High Plains show at Three Kings Tavern.
-The storytelling showcase The Narrators, created by The Grawlix’s own Andrew Orvedahl, ran the gamut of emotions from hysterical to sobering to hysterical again. They just branched out to San Diego FYI.
-The three primary venues for High Plains were The Hi-Dive, 3 Kings Tavern, and Mutiny Information Cafe, which were all about two blocks from each other. That’s always a big plus at any comedy festival.
Sean Patton, photo by Carlos Madrid
–Sean Patton got to headline several shows throughout the festival, which is a real treat to see his rich and deeply colorful comedy for both fans and first timers alike.
Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, and Ben Roy, photos by Emily Coates
-Hometown heroes The Grawlix (Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, and Ben Roy) got a rousing, rollicking homecoming when they headlined at 3 Kings. At one point, Roy lead almost half the crowd, pied piper like, up on stage and through the green room just for the hell of it.
-Recent LA transplants via Denver, Kristin Rand and Haley Driscoll put on a display of how spirited and charming they are several times at High Plains as well as at a few shows we caught before the festival.
Kristin Rand, photo by Carlos Madrid
–Mara Wiles and The Funky Brunch was one of our favorite shows at High Plains. It pitted stand-ups to do sets that had to finish with a funk/soul-inspired obstacle/restriction like literally being tied up with rope as a silky smooth love song is playing.
-One of the after parties featured German rock “group” Total Ghost where The Nix Brothers, highly regarded directing duo from Denver, pretending to play their instruments during a crazy multimedia light extravaganza. It was a pretty solid way to kick off an after party of a comedy festival.
–Ian Abramson’s 7 Minutes in Purgatory made yet another great festival appearance that took its concept of isolating performers from the audience with sound proof headphones and made them perform on the street with a whole other random crowd watching. The sheer number of levels of which of which you could enjoy the show on were pretty great.
Ian Abramson, photo by Carlos Madrid
-High Plains’ marquee show The Paramount Theater was a real sight to see with a near 2000 people in attendance to see Anthony Jeselnik headline. As Anthony himself noted, it was nice to see that he didn’t get too high like some folks have gotten at past years of High Plains.
-Denver’s own Aaron Urist was also on that big show at The Paramount and killed with his dark observational humor.
Aaron Urist, photo by Emily Coates
-On a live recording of Kevin O’Brien and Taylor Gonda’s These Things Matter podcast, we really enjoyed Jay Larson not having seen a good majority of the favorite movies and TV of the hosts and guests Ron Funches, Jonah Ray, and Karen Kilgariff, which each guest has to defend why it’s their favorite.
-Hailing from Portland, Wisconsin, and NYC respectively, Sean Jordan, Sammy Arechar, and Noah Gardenswartz gave Denver a great taste of their comedy brand with Sean and Sammy on the more silly side of the comedy spectrum and Noah on the sharper, precise side.
–Guy Branum proved why he’s an exquisite comedy force over the course of several shows on the festival as well as why he deserves to be on way more stages doing comedy than the many he is doing currently.
-The edgy competitive Madlibs adjacent game of Uncalled Four, birthed and grown in Denver, showed why it could become a game show for those looking for something a little darker/more blue/more fun than Steve Harvey’s reactions to answers on Family Feud.
Kurt Braunohler, Matt Braunger, Beth Stelling, Byron Graham, and Guy Branum at Uncalled Four, photo by Emily Coates
-The absurdists Ron Lynch and Andrés du Bouchet had a ball at High Plains, making people double over while probably redefining their entire perception of the art form of comedy.
Ron Lynch, photo by Carlos Madrid
-Recently formed comedy music duo Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff have been making a case to rethink you possible prejudices against musical comedy so you can enjoy some of the funniest and best crafted songs, often made up almost entirely from Drennon’s loop pedal, to come along in the last several years. Their performances at the festival furthered that notion.
Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff, photo by Emily Coates
-We have to give a big hand to Andy Juett for being at the helm of High Plains as well as Sexpot Comedy, which he co-founded, being a big driving force behind the festival and making something that should become an institution in Denver comedy if it already isn’t one.
Andy Juett, photo by Carlos Madrid
Conan’s Andrés du Bouchet dons some intimidating glasses and casts his judgment based on seemingly nothing on a perfect send-up of any and every reality competition show’s final judgment/decision segment.
Watch Arbitrary Judgment Lineup here.
Any reason to see Andrés du Bouchet in a sketch on Conan must be a good reason. Such reasons do include a 50 Shades of Grey parody involving hardware store promotions that show what you could buy and how you could use it in reenacting scenes from or inspired by the movie.
Eric Andre has established himself as the type of talk show guest that doesn’t merely do a simple panel interview. Something always goes down when Eric sits on the couch. A lot of the time that “something” is him getting naked.
This time on Conan, Eric decided to go do his own monologue, which he “thinks” is better than Conan as well as try to dissect what’s “wrong” with his Tinder profile.
Also, though it might not make sense until after watching, props go, as they usually do every night on Conan to Andrés du Bouchet.
We’re not absolutely sure if this delightfully bizarre sketch on Conan was actually a plug for PayPal or not, but whether it is or isn’t, it’s still pretty damn funny and has gotten us thinking about PayPal. That’s how ads are supposed to work, right?
Anyways, watch this sketch that starts off with Conan getting his sweater stolen…
Andres du Bouchet is absolutely one of our favorite comedians to watch. Every performance is nuanced, absurd, richly textured piece and it’s simultaneously amazing and hilarious to watch.
So, we’ve been excited for his brand new album 20-Sided Guy, for some time now, as it features so many of those performances, some of which we were lucky to be at, all throughout Los Angeles and the various bizarre and/or wonderful places you can see comedy in this town.
The good folks at AST Records has released a vinyl version featuring 45 min. of du Bouchet with a link to download the full deluxe 2-hr version of 20-Sided Guy.
If you need a laugh today, we suggest that you get in on getting 20-Sided Guy now. Also, if you’re interested, du Bouchet’s release party in LA is also tonight at The Federal Bar in North Hollywood.
Conan O’Brien always let a good bit of chaos ride on his show, which usually makes for the unforgettable moments over the last several years.
However, it only takes one rushed pencil sharpening job and some guy named Larry who was only sharpening pencils gets wholly swallowed up in said chaos.
Take a watch at what “happened” and long live Brian Stack*.
*Just to be clear, Brian Stack is still alive, well, and making us all over doubled laughing
One of the albums we’ve been most excited to come out for this year is Andrés du Bouchet’s 20-Sided Guy from AST Records, a collection of various performances of du Bouchet’s wonderfully bizarre characters.
We’re happy to tell you that it’s now on pre-order on vinyl (that comes with a digital download) ahead of its Nov. 25th release.
If you were to pre-order a comedy album right now, this is the one we’d have you pre-order. We hope that was clear from everything else we said above.
Earlier this year, we reported that one of favorite comedians Andrés du Bouchet would be not only releasing his 2nd album, but that album would be a 2 hour long compilation album of different bits and characters performed at several different places.
Well, now, Nov. 25th is when 20 Sided Guy will come out from AST Records and mark that date down on your calendar for when you will buy the album, laugh heartily and simultaneously have your mind blown.
Andrés du Bouchet and Dan Cronin as Schmecky & Schmecky have found a new business in which to swindle help people improve their lives.
If there’s a photo that might compromise you in getting a job or making a deal, trust Schmecky & Schmecky to fix it up for you. Just watch they very professionally made ad, written by Todd Levin on Conan right here.
As there are complaints about the conditions down in Brazil during the World Cup, Conan O’Brien had a chat with the head of public relations down there to see what the deal is. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly), the guy (Andres du Bouchet) that Conan was able to reach was not unlike the guy (also Andres du Bouchet) who was covering PR for the Sochi Olympics earlier this year.
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen To Make a Double Album for Kill Rock Stars
You did read that right. Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal, which was one of the best comedy shows in NYC and is now one of the best comedy shows here in LA, is recording a live comedy double album for Kill Rock Stars. Joining Kurt and Kristen will be an amazing line-up featuring: Nate Bargatze, Emily Heller, Andres du Bouchet, Karen Kilgariff, Kyle Kinane, Heather Lawless, Eddie Pepitone, Eugene Mirman, and Aparna Nancherla.
Both tapings are happening at Hot Tub’s current home, The Virgil here in LA, on Mon. Jun. 23rd and Mon. Jun. 30th at 8PM. We highly suggest getting tickets for this ASAP.
A Special Thing Records keeps their streak of some of the coolest and most hilarious comedy albums around this year with Andrés du Bouchet’s upcoming 20 Sided Guy.
The amazing du Bouchet has put together a compilation of several hilarious performances of various characters and more, which you’ll probably really love if you’re a fan of his first album Naked Trampoline Hamlet. It’s set to span over 2 hours and features this bad ass cover art, shown above, by Skinner.
Look out for sometime this fall for the release of 20 Sided Guy.
Taking from the numerous complaints about the conditions of room and board for non-athletes at The Sochi Winter Olympics, Conan O’Brien and Yuri Tamarov, Sochi hotel PR rep/Andrés du Bouchet make a classic sketch.
How is it classic? Well, when Conan uses the superlative “dumbest” to describe something that just happened when the sketch is over, it’s pretty safe to say it’s classic.
All you need to know is that when Conan says, “That was a huge waste of everyone’s time,” it’s a pretty great sketch.
This is exactly what happened here with a great display by Conan staffer Andrés du Bouchet. Watch the possibly “original” ending to Darren Aronofsky’s Noah.
Listen to Andrés du Bouchet Bootleg Live Performances
Bootleg is a little of a misnomer here as the hysterically absurd Andrés du Bouchet, the man behind some of the funniest sketches on Conan, recorded all of these tracks himself and released them for all of us to delight to via his website.
Listen to performances at live shows over the last several months of excerpts from his one man show One Hundred and Me Percent or The Testiculating Horror as soon as you can because we found just listening to his album Naked Trampoline Hamlet wasn’t enough du Bouchet for us.
Some of the best, unabashed silliness that happens in sketches on Conan these days are from the minds of Conan writers hilarious Andrés du Bouchet and Dan Cronin.
Watch their latest installment of Schmecky & Schmecky to see what we’re talking about.
Andrés du Bouchet is one of the funniest, most innovative, original comedians working today. You might know him as a staff writer on Conan. We know him from such things as previewing his one man show by simply acting out the beginnings and ends of the supposed full 4 hour production.