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Between Lady Bird, The Big Sick, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and The Disaster Artist, Comedy Is Being Taken Seriously This Awards Season

November 30, 2017

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Yes, Lady Bird just set a new record for Rotten Tomatoes for being the best reviewed movie in the site’s history, which comes as no surprise to us for how much it really does live up to its own hype.

Yet, Lady Bird is not the only comedy movie receiving heaps of praise as well as multiple award nominations and award wins (Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, National Board of Review).

Comedy, just like horror, is having a banner year in movie theaters.

The Disaster Artist has won at The Gotham Awards and the Hollywood Film Awards as well as gained nominations at the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Toronto International Film Festival.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has won at the Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Hollywood Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards and been nominated in multiple categories for both British Independent Film Awards and the Spirit Awards.

The Big Sick has won at The Gotham Awards, Hollywood Film Awards, and SXSW and is also nominated at The Spirit Awards.

Nominations have been handed out to the likes of Ingrid Goes West and Beatriz at Dinner as well. You should also not forget that Ruben Östlund’s The Square, a hilariously scathing satire of the high art world, landed the Palme d’Or at Cannes, a rare honor for something so funny.

Normally, drama dominates film awards across the table and maybe, just maybe, one comedy like In The Loop or Grand Budapest Hotel will satisfy some genre diversity at such prestigious institutions like the ones named above or The Oscars.

In fact, we can’t even remember a year where such a plethora of comedy that is unequivocally identifiable as comedy (as opposed to The Martian or Nebraska) getting so much distinction in the film world.

However, we’re certainly not the first to tell you that this year is anything but normal.

“The Big Sick” Opens Today in NYC and LA

June 23, 2017

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If you are in NYC or LA, please go see The Big Sick, the movie based on the true love story of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon.

It rolls out into a wider release next month, but you should go see it the movie if you can before then. Not only did Kumail and Emily write it and Michael Showalter direct it and it has this great trailer and this great clip, but it also isn’t the latest installment of an overblown franchise with robots.

Get tickets for a screening here.

May 14, 2017

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The Big Sick seems poised to be a big comedy hit this summer and, as such, there’s an accompanying live comedy tour with cast Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, Aidy Bryant, and Kurt Braunohler.

One of those stops is here in LA at The Belasco Theatre in DTLA and tickets are on sale now for $61.50. Get them here.

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

Watch Trailer for “The Big Sick”, The Rom Com Based on the Real Life Love Story of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon

May 2, 2017

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Two protagonists from disparate worlds coming together, against all odds, to fall in love is an oft used formula in the world of romantic comedies.

However, a lot of the time, many of those stories are purely fiction and the verisimilitude takes you out of it.

The Big Sick, written by comedy power couple Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon about how they really did come from very different walks of life, under unusual circumstances, and fell in love, living happily ever after.

Watch the trailer and you’ll see the truth ring in their story as presented in what might be this Summer’s comedy hit.

Look for The Big Sick to come out in limited release on June 23rd and in wide release on July 14th.

Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s “Big Sick” Goes Into Production with Judd Apatow Producing and Michael Showalter Directing

December 5, 2015

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(via Variety)

It’s like we’re playing ‘Christmas Present Madlibs for Comedy Nerds’.

All the names above, Kumail, Emily, Apatow, and Michael Showalter, are essentially buzzwords for those in-the-comedy-know, especially when it comes to The Meltdown, Stella, and Undeclared. Now they’re all teaming up with a script from Nanjiani and Gordon with Apatow as well as the very accomplished producer Barry Mendel attached to produce and Showalter directing.

FilmNation is set to release and finance the production of what is called Big Sick and that’s all that we know about the project at this time. Still, just knowing all the people involved here is good enough for you to go along with whatever movie they’re cooking up.