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Sunday July 30th will bring a one day comedy and music festival to Lincoln Heights (just north of DTLA) to an ultra cool Victorian style house known as HM 157.

Danger Collective Records’ Concerto Con will feature comedy from Baron Vaughn, Brent Weinbach, Matt Braunger, Jay Weingarten, Rachel Scanlon, Max Baumgarten, Ellory Smith, Sydney Feyder, and in house host comedian, Pierre Concerto to name a few and music from Jerry Paper, Boyo, C Roy, Momma, Brutus VIII, Wild Wing, Astral Mary, DJ Temple Judea, and DJ Marshall.

Tickets are $20 at the door and $15 online in advance. You can (and should) get your advance tickets here.

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

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Hey Downtown LA, you’re getting a new indie stand-up show. It’s monthly and starting up at The Escondite by lovely LA transplants Troy Walker, Caleb Synan, Adam Christie, and Steph Tolev.

It’s free, has a great line-up, and there are $2 tacos.

Their inaugural show is this Tuesday and you can get more details here.

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

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Mike Drucker is not only having comedians play video games, which is proven formula for a good time (see Conan’s Clueless Gamer), but he will be having them play some of the worst games of all time like Shaq-Fu, Bible Adventures, and more for Sh*t Arcade next month at Nerdmelt.

You might even get to win one of those infamous games at this show.

Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.

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Public School Stories is always a storytelling show worth catching, but this latest edition for May is particularly stacked with your favorite folks from You’re the Worst, Boy Meets World, MST3K, Review, Legion, and more.

It’s free to attend, but you can RSVP here.

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

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Recently, Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle’s live show New Negroes got a series order at Comedy Central.

If you wanna catch the live show before it launches on TV, you can catch New Negroes this Sunday, April 23rd at 7:30PM at UCB Franklin.

Joining Baron and Mike will be Phoebe Robinson, Tashi Condalee, Bianca Da Silva Cristovao, Madison Shepard, Opeyemi Olagbaju and Lil’ Rel Howery.

Tickets are $7 and you can (and should) get them here.

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

For 2017-2018, Comedy Central Announces a Reggie Watts Competition, New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle, and Pilots from Arturo Castro, Neal Brennan, Noël Wells, and Awkwafina

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For 2017-2018, Comedy Central Announces a Reggie Watts Competition, New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle, and Pilots from Arturo Castro, Neal Brennan, Noël Wells, and Awkwafina

It was already enticing enough to hear what Comedy Central has lined-up with late night thus far between Moshe Kasher, The President Show with Atamanuik’s Trump, Jim Jefferies, and Jordan Klepper’s new show.

Now, they’ve got a whole new chunk of programming and pilots that give a lot to look forward to.

Taskmaster, from Alex Horne, has Reggie Watts hosting a competition as the “taskmaster” between comedians performing “stupefying tasks”. New Negroes will be the TV adaptation of the live showcase hosted by Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle featuring new black talent.

Comedy Central has also upped their digital series Alternatino with Arturo Castro and Delco Proper from John McKeever and Tommy Pope to full fledged TV pilots.

The other pilots include projects such as Neal Brennan interviewing celebrity guests in their home town, former Nightly Show contributor Franchesca Ramsey perhaps repackaging The Nightly Show, and a stand-up show from Jak Knight.

Scripted half-hour pilots include a South Side Chicago based comedy from Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle and Sultan Salahuddin, a Queens based comedy following rapper/actress/comedian Awkwafina, an Austin based sitcom from Noël Wells, and an existential sibling comedy from Chris Kelly & Sarah Schneider.

From this, we can only hope that Comedy Central reaffirms its place in comedy going forward as Netflix, HBO, and FX are currently riding the high tides of critical praise and awards.

The New MST3K Riffs on Stranger Things

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Whether you’re wishing for a crossover Netflix properties Stranger Things and MST3K or if you’re curious to see a bit of how the new crew of Jonah Ray, Baron Vaughn, and Hampton Yount are at the helm of heckling movies whilst in space, there’s something for both of you.

Please enjoy the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 gang riffing on Stranger Things.

The Revived Mystery Science Theater 3000 Is Finally Here

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You might have been waiting for years and years and years for brand new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Following a record breaking Kickstarter campaign last year by MST3K creator Joel Hodgson, the wait is now over.

All 14 feature length episodes of the brand spankin’ new MST3K featuring Jonah Ray, Baron Vaughn, Hampton Yount, Felicia Day, and Patton Oswalt are here now, streaming on Netflix.

We can’t speak for you, but we’re pretty sure this takes precedent over watching the new Fate of the Furious movie or pretty much anything else this weekend.

The New MST3K Teaser Has Just Arrived

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That’s right. The brand spankin’ new, revived Mystery Science Theater 3000 has just released a teaser for the upcoming season that starts streaming on April 14th on Netflix.

It’s only a brief look, but it looks like fans of the old MST3K and fans of Jonah Ray, The Meltdown, Hidden America, Baron Vaughn, Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt, Hampton Yount, etc. might all be happy with it.

Baron Vaughn Made a Documentary Special About Finding His Father, “Fatherless”

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When it comes to comedy, one of Fusion’s favorite things to do is documentary specials hosted by or focused around individual comedians.

Their latest docu-special will come from the marvelous Baron Vaughn embarking on a search for his absentee father. Called Fatherless, you can get a glimpse of the long and winding road that Baron takes in this trailer

Fatherless premieres on Fusion on Sunday, April 2nd at 9PM.

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A unifying bond of comedians is the painful, cringeworthy start that they all had. Giulia Rozzi’s show First Set gathers comedians that are very funny and revisits those beginnings as well as contrasts it with honed, well-crafted comedy that they currently do. It’s like Mortified, but specifically for stand-up.

Baron Vaughn, Ramon Rivas, Melissa McQueen, and Jade Catta-Preta will be showcasing their comedy “then vs. now” next Monday at UCB Sunset.

Tickets are $5 and you can (and should) get them here.

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

The New “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ Officially Kicks Off on April 14th

February 22, 2017

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Jonah Ray, Hampton Yount, Baron Vaughn, Patton Oswalt, and Felicia Day are well under way with the guiding hand of creator Joel Hodgson in the revival of MST3K.

Just get a look at that wondrous cast, signaling the impending return of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Episodes start streaming on Friday, April 14th on Netflix.

December 31, 2016

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We would very much like to watch a reunion panel of TV show starring Greg Proops, Jon Dore, Baron Vaughn, and Gareth Reynolds.

Josh Androsky and Bryan Cook’s Reunited offers up something possibly better with bringing that line-up together for a faux TV series that they starred in without any of them knowing ahead of time what that fake TV show was.

Pretty great, right? Well, you can (and should) get your tickets for the show’s latest edition happening this Friday, January 7th here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps at www.thecomedybureau.com.

December 26, 2016

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Do you want to hear some insightful discussion (and probably some sh*t talk) on the Electoral College? Would you like that to be done by the likes of a history professor and the hilarious Moshe Kasher, James Adomian, and Baron Vaughn?

If your answer is yes, then tomorrow at UCB Franklin is the show for you as Moshe is recording his discussion podcast Hound Tall focusing on that very topic with those very guests.

Tickets are $5 and you can (and should) get them here.

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

Rabbit Hole with Jay Larson and Rory Scovel Will Be Replacing The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail

November 16, 2016

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One of the most revered weekly stand-up shows in the country, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, ended its 6 year run last month, which included three seasons as a TV series on Comedy Central.

Naturally, the 8:30PM slot at Nerdmelt where Meltdown took place was going to be filled in by something given Meltdown’s status as a flagship show at the theater.

In two weeks, you will all have a very exciting and worthy show filling in with Rabbit Hole with Jay Larson and Rory Scovel produced by Nerdmelt’s Caitlin Durante. Larson and Scovel are two of our favorites and this show will be in good hands as you can see with our thoughts on Jay’s recent album Human Math and Scovel’s latest Conan set.

In the inaugural show, Kate Berlant, Todd Glass, Bridey Elliott, Joe Mande, Baron Vaughn, and a surprise guest will be performing. It should go without saying that it’ll be a hell of a show and something that will get us all through the next few years and beyond.

Tickets are $10 and are available now here.

You can keep up with Rabbit Hole on @therabbitholela on Twitter, @therabbitholela on Instagram, and on Facebook.

Houston’s Come and Take It Comedy Festival Returns for Its Second Year

October 29, 2016

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Maria Bamford, Dana Gould, Tim Meadows, Morgan Murphy, Todd Barry, The Goddamn Comedy Jam, Billy Wayne Davis, Jenny Zigrino, Jackie Kashian, Nick Thune, Joe DeRosa, James Adomian, Baron Vaughn, Tim Dillon, and Sabrina Jalees are just a few of the names scheduled to perform at the 2nd Come and Take It Comedy Festival in Houston, TX.

The festivities are set to go down from Thursday, November 17th-Sunday, November 20th. For all of that comedy, you only have to drop $79 for a weekend pass or $35 for a single day pass. That’s a pretty good deal considering the treasure trove of comedians on the bill. A VIP pass is only $129 as well.

If you’re in Texas or have to go back to Texas for Thanksgiving, definitely consider going to Come and Take it.

Get more details and tickets here.

Baron Vaughn Weaves Magical Realism Exquisitely into Comedy in “Blaxistential Crisis”

October 24, 2016

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If you’ve not had the pleasure of seeing Baron Vaughn live, it is indeed one of those cases where you have not really lived until you have done so. He is really one of a kind at a time in comedy where that is incredibly hard to actually do (given how many comedians there are these days).

His new album, Blaxistential Crisis off of AST Records, not only shows off his great, theatrical performance chops, but also takes us through a journey through Baron’s own personal version of space and time that’s coupled with the undeniable fact that he’s black man in America. It’s simultaneously a bouncy, colorful flight of fancy and a commentary on the unnecessary divides between mankind. It’s not often that magical realism and stand-up intersect, but Baron makes the most of it in this instance.

So, get Blaxistential Crisis right here right now.

Funny or Die Putting on a Free “Jokes for Votes” Tour at Colleges All Through California

September 28, 2016

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Basically, to encourage voter registration, Funny or Die is bringing you the likes of Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, Kumail Nanjiani, Baron Vaughn, and James Adomian to perform at free shows at college campuses up, down, and all around CA on the Jokes For Votes tour.

Tomorrow’s they’re kicking it off at LA’s very own ELAC (East Los Angeles College) and you can get free tickets here.

September 13, 2016

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Comedians interact with random strangers through the lens of a webcam while live on stage, which leaves plenty of room for hilarious chaos to ensue on You Had To Be There.

Host Ryan De La Garza has Dave Waite, Baron Vaughn, Josh Androsky, and Dave Ross lined-up so far to guide us through whatever the Internet will throw at us.

This edition of You Had To Be There is set for Monday, Sep. 19th at 9PM at Nerdmelt Showroom (7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA) and you can (and should) get your tickets here.

The Cinder Block Comedy Festival Is Bringing Another Comedy Festival to Brooklyn

August 21, 2016

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Thanks to festival director Coree Spencer, a new festival is coming to the ever-burgeoning comedy that’s just happening in Brooklyn (there’s already a few comedy festivals that regularly happen in Brooklyn alone) within the already giant NYC comedy scene.

Called the Cinder Block Comedy Festival due to a personal incident with a cinder block that Coree had, it’ll take over multiple venues throughout Williamsburg in Brooklyn from Wednesday, September 14th-Sunday, September 18th for its very first run.

As, Baron Vaughn, Laurie Kilmartin, Murderfist, Myq Kaplan, Ted Alexandro, Josh Gondelman, Mike Drucker, Kevin Avery, Frank Conniff, Mike Recine, Lynn Bixenspan, Sofiya Alexandra, Greg Edwards, Jess Lane, Baron Vaughn, Emmett Montgomery, Kevin Yee, and more (check out the full line-up here) are all slated to perform, we urge you to go to Cinder Block next month if you’re in, around, or close to NYC.

You can (and should) get your festival passes here.

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You can and should get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

The 2016 High Plains Comedy Festival Announces Its Line-Up

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You might want to get to Denver in August.

From August 25th-August 27th, The High Plains Comedy Festival will bring yet another rollicking weekend of comedy to Denver’s already thriving scene.

Scheduled to appear thus far:

Adam Cayton-Holland
Andrew Orvedahl
Ben Roy
Bobcat Goldthwait
Jonah Ray
Sean Patton
Steve Agee
Aparna Nancherla
Baron Vaughn
Brooks Wheelan
Eliza Skinner
Brent Weinbach
Andrew Santino
Dulcé Sloan
Nick Vatterott
Sean O’Connor
Ahmed Bharoocha
Ian Karmel
Jermaine Fowler
Chris Garcia
Caitlin Gill
Joel Kim Booster
Noah Gardenswartz
Troy Walker
David Gborie
Kristin Rand
Bryan Cook
Chris Charpentier
Amy Miller
Jordan Doll
Sean White
Gilbert Lawand
Nato Green
Kate Willett
Kenny DeForest
Brandie Posey
Martin Morrow
Kristin Clifford
Sam Tallent

Passes and tickets are available here.

Watch Teaser for Return of SXSW Comedy at Showtime

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Showtime had such a good time the first time with stand-up down at SXSW that they went back for a 2nd year.

So, this round of SXSW Comedy will premiere on Friday, July 15th with Natasha Leggero, Baron Vaughn, James Adomian, and Andrew Santino.

Get a taste of it with this teaser.

Alexis Wilkinson Imagines What a Politically Correct Plantation Might Be Like So You Don’t Have To

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PC Culture Comes To The Plantation

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Writer/director Alexis Wilkinson managed to juxtapose the diametrically opposed concepts of a politically correct focus group and a slave plantation into this sketch. Even with non-offensive language, slavery, as you can imagine, still looks terrible.

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With Reunited, Josh Androsky and Bryan Cook have devised a faux panel discussion series that brings together the cast of a sitcom that never existed. On top of that, the real comedians that were supposedly on said sitcom have no idea what that sitcom was called or what it was about until the show starts.

As you might imagine, the behind-the-scenes of the sitcom wasn’t a happily-ever-after story, which makes for a really “great” reunion.

The latest edition has James Urbaniak, Baron Vaughn, Hampton Yount, and a special guest.

It’s going down at 8:30PM on Friday, April 8th at The Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab and tickets are only $5.

The rest of our listings for comedy events and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.