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Pick of the Day: Thrilling Adventure Hour (in LA) 6/24

May 9, 2023

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Only a few years ago, one of the classiest gatherings in LA comedy would convene at Largo for Ben Acker and Blacker‘s modern day old-timey radio show, The Thrilling Adventure Hour. If our memory serves us correctly, there used to be a TAH fan who would specifically fly into LA whenever the show was happening only to fly back the next day.

Then, 2020 came around.

We won’t beleaguer you with recent history, but suffice it to say it has felt like eons since there has been a live, in-person Thrilling Adventure Hour, but that’s all going to change next month. On Saturday, Jun. 24th at 7PM & 9PM at Hollywood’s Bourbon Room, Paul F. Tompkins, Paget Brewster and the WorkJuice Players will take their podiums again to bring these amazing retro style radio plays to life.

Tickets are only $25 and you best go get them fast before they sell out. Get 7PM tickets here and 9PM tickets here.

Get The Thrilling Adventure Hour’s Exclusive Live-stream and Support Food Banks Around the U.S.

April 16, 2020

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Ben Acker and Ben Blacker’s The Thrilling Adventure Hour was one of the most exclusive tickets in all of LA comedy when they had their monthly residency at Largo at the Coronet Theatre and whatever festival they traveled to. Thus, any new performance/edition of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a classic radio play with modern comedic sensibilities, shouldn’t be missed.

This global pandemic brought the lovely WorkJuice Players together again (that’s Paul F. Tompkins, Paget Brewster, Busy Philipps, Joshua Malina, Janet Varney, Hal Lublin, Annie Savage, Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Autumn Reeser, and Marc Evan Jackson) remotely over Zoom for a very, very special edition of Thrilling Adventure Hour (additionally co-written by Nell Scovell and Katie Wood). that benefited food banks in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Detroit, New Orleans, and other cities.

If you missed out on the performance from this past Saturday, fret not! You can still get access to their live-stream special AND still support all those food banks across the U.S. Go buy, watch and enjoy the latest Thrilling Adventure Hour here and support a very, very worthy cause.

March 30, 2016

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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.

Based Off of How Steve Agee Said Goodbye at a Party, He Ended Up Writing “Steve Agee’s Weekend Dracula”

January 7, 2016

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Though it has yet to be fleshed out into full feature length script, we’d absolutely be into reading the whole thing.

As if the idea of comedian Steve Agee being a Dracula on the weekend wasn’t ridiculous and amazing enough on its own, Agee left a party with an overly formal sounding goodbye which left some friends, notably Ben Acker and Ben Blacker of Thrilling Adventure Hour fame, and Mark McConville from Superego to suggest that Steve write a Steve Agee’s Weekend Dracula.

Read it here.

Given the positive response already, we wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a short film, sketch, web video, etc. soon that brings these words to life.