In case you didn’t know, one of the best parts of Conan O’Brien’s late night tenure is his remote segments, especially when it comes to take tours of places that produce some sort of alcohol. In this particular tour, you’ll get to enjoy Conan doing a beer version of a “suicide soda”. It’s magnificent.
Glad to see that this is still in tact at the new streamlined Conan.
Please enjoy this latest and greatest Conan remote here.
Joe Pera, Jo Firestone, Conner O’Malley, and Dan Licata, the folks responsible for one of the best shows this year, Joe Pera Talks With You, will be bringing their mostly innocent mischief in stand-up comedy form across the country this August.
If you’re in any of the cities above, do not miss out on what is sure to a very nice time, dabbled with some controlled chaos on the BlueBerry Tour (that makes us think that Pera will have an accompanying web series about trying blueberry pie across the U.S.).
In any case, you really ought to get tickets for those dates here.
You might have heard that David Cross is going on a massive Oh Come On Tour across North America.
Well, while you might have a bunch of chances to see him live this year (that flyer has 46 cities listed), don’t be surprised to see tickets get snatched up quick.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Last year, real life married comedians Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher went on tour as part of their honeymoon. They not only captured their journey in a web series, but offered other couples sincere, but still hilarious, advice on how they might better their relationships.
So, Natasha and Moshe are embarking again across North America on what is now called “The Endless Honeymoon Tour” this summer.
We guess if you can keep the “honeymoon phase” going, the magic doesn’t stop, right?
Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening does capture some of the crazier things that happen in a comedian’s life. Though all comedians have heckling stories, few do involve getting into an actual full on fight during the show.
Greg Fitzsimmons shares one of those rarer stories here.
For years now, Boston Calling has been a big music shindig for Boston not unlike Outside Lands for SF, Bonnaroo for Tennessee, SXSW for Austin, etc.
Like those festivals, it’s now featuring a dedicated comedy portion of the festival billed as a “A Comedy Experience Hosted by Hannibal Buress”. In fact, look at the flyer and you’ll see it’s a pretty nice weekend all around that they’ve got lined up.
Tickets range from $99 for Single Day GA to $199 for 3 Day GA and $199 for Single Day VIP to $529 for 3 VIP.
Get more details and tickets here.
At this point, we hope we don’t have to tell you that you should go to whichever stop is closest to you on this North American Funch-A-Mania tour happening this Summer.
You should know that Ron Funches is an American sweetheart and seeing him live is a transformative experience and should already buying up your tickets, on sale today, here.
One of our absolute favorite podcasts, The Dollop, has just set their official dates for their latest tour across North America, which includes one stop in Reykjavik, Iceland.
While hosts Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds have toured extensively through Australia, this will be the first time that Dave is going to a non-English speaking country really giving some international touring cred to The Dollop.
Also, a second NYC show has just been added FYI.
You can get tickets and the most up-to-date schedule of this tour right here. If you’re aiming to go, you’ll want to get the tickets quick by the way.
Jonah Ray’s mock travel show Hidden America hasn’t even premiered on Seeso yet, but you can take a full gander of the first episode, for your convenience, on YouTube.
Watch Jonah go to a version of Boston on Seeso’s YouTube page here.
Look for the series to start streaming on Seeso Thursday, June 2nd.
Colin Quinn’s has observed both of America’s biggest metropolises for decades and has seen improvement, though, at the expense of the stereotypes they kind of became for.
Luckily, as Colin mentions during this interview on Conan, Boston remains Boston through and through.
Watch his explanation here.
After being one of the most watch stand-ups on Conan, Jay Larson has his first sit down with Conan O’Brien to cooly shoot the breeze.
While chatting they cover Jay’s new exploits as a dad, crushing it right out of the gate and how Boston is, after all these years, still kind of the same.
Really, after this, we’re pretty confident that Jay might be one of the chillest dads of all time.
Really, if you can pull catching Emily Heller’s tour and her taping, you should do so.
Emily is headed across this great land from Apr. 17th-Jun. 27th starting here in California, then going through Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Washington, Portland, San Francisco, Wisconsin, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Virginia and Minnesota.
She’s going to record to her very first comedy album in the middle of the tour at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY on Jun. 3rd at 7:30PM and 9:30PM.
Don’t miss out on any of this and get your dates, times, and, most importantly, tickets here.
If you’re in or around Chicago or Boston this spring, get your calendar out and mark these down.
Apr. 17th-19th, The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival returns to Boston featuring Jon Benjamin, Wyatt Cenac, Rachel Dratch, Jon Glaser, Jessica Williams, StarTalk! Live with Bill Nye, and more, You can get your tickets here.
May 26th-30th, The Onion and A.V. Club are bringing The 2nd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival to venues throughout Chicago with the comedic stylings of John Mulaney, Kyle Kinane, Eric Andre, Joe Mande. panel discussions with writers from The Onion and The Simpsons, 7 Minutes in Purgatory with Ian Abramson, and more. You can get your tickets this Friday here.
If you don’t live near Chicago or Boston, you have plenty of time to get plane tickets and hotel reservations.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
The attempts to adapt John Kennedy Toole’s renowned Confederacy of Dunces from the page to stage and screen on a large scale has always been tenuous.
However, this latest try as a stage production with Nick Offerman starring as Ignatius J. Reilly seems to be tracking along just fine. It was only read at a workshop last year, but now is headed into full steam into Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company stage as adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher.
Look for the run, which we think might sell out quick, later this year in November and December.
Recorded live at Boston’s Wilbur Theater, Jim Jefferies brand new one hour stand-up special Bare is now on Netflix. With Jim doing Legit, it’s been awhile since we’ve seen him as a stand-up in a long form format. Fortunately, we’ll now to get to hear Jefferies, with all his previous material considered, talk about having a son.
If you’re going to stay in most of this Labor Day Weekend, might we suggest starting off with this.
For the rest of the year, the hilarious Jen Kirkman will be going on tour worldwide making stops in Lund, Dublin, Winnipeg, Palm Beach, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Tacoma, Minneapolis, Dallas, Buffalo, Boston, Halifax, Cleveland, Dallas, and Brooklyn.
If you’re anywhere in those parts of the planet, which it seems there will be plenty on this tour, please do go watch her live. Tickets for most of the shows are on sale now.
Jim Jefferies Taping New Special This Weekend in Boston
The Wilbur Theater will be host to the amazing Jim Jefferies’ latest stand-up special coming this weekend. If you’re around Boston, MA at all, which is probably most of you folks on the East Coast, and can go, we definitely say go.
NYC’s Pretty Good Friends Goes on Tour with Eugene Mirman and Daniel Kitson
Eugene Mirman’s Pretty Good Friends is taking a nice little tour to the Minnesota, Chicago, Nashville, and more. Coming along with Eugene will be UK comedian Daniel Kitson. If you’re around these cities in May, you should probably go to these shows.
5/3 – Boston, MA @ Berklee Performance Center
5/9 – Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch
5/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Women’s Club Assembly Hall
5/12 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
5/13 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
5/14 – Nashville, TN @ Belcourt Theater
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival is set for its second round in Boston, MA from Thurs. May 1st-Sun. May 4th. As always, the names of the shows are so great that you should almost attend on that alone such as “A Night of Foreigners and Immigrants Taking Your American Standup Comedy Jobs” or “Wicked Local: This is the Kind of Awful Title Someone Would Give to A Comedy show that Features Comedians Who Live or Have Lived in Boston”.
Also, Kristen Schaal, Chelsea Peretti, John Hodgman, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and more will be there, so get your tickets which go on sale this Fri.
The Walsh Brothers on Fox 25 Boston
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen the awesome Walsh Brothers of The Walsh Brothers’ Great and Secret Comedy Show on TV, but they’re back in Boston for the holidays and got to be on the news for Fox 25 Boston.
Check them out at the link.
A few very fun things…
Stripped Stories is now a podcast! Listen to episode 1: boundaries with Erin Judge, TuRae, Jessica Delfino, our sidekick producer Zach Dressler, and your hosts Margot Leitman & me! Subscribe at iTunes.
Also we’re starting up our fall tour, Monday Aug 29, we’re at Zanies Chicago and Thursday Sept 1, UCB NYC. For tickets, info and other tour dates visit strippedstories.com. And yes, we did get fancy new photos by Anya Garrett, thanks for noticing!
Lastly, I’m headlining Mottley’s Comedy Club in Boston THIS WEEKEND Fri Aug 26 & Sat Aug 27. Get tickets here and please spread the word.
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The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to THE WALSH BROTHERS.
Even though I’ve been to their monthly show at the UCB Theatre a few times, both Chris and David Walsh never cease to amaze in what they come up with, which was, this time around, having 4 bass players vs. 1 bass player, an amateur karate demonstration, and enough audience plants to almost have an Inception-esque sketch fooling even the plants themselves.
While most comedic duos take the tried and true formula of having one “straight man” and one crazy, unrelenting, uncompromising character to play against each other, the Walsh Brothers take a drastically different approach. They both, as real-life brothers, mix degrees of honesty with being completely absurd/out-of-left-field/zombies-on-a-weekday-afternoon (an actual thing that they did and taped) and, as a result, are just really their crazy selves with little compromise.
Even in while recounting stories in tandem, which comprises most of their hysterical stand-up, they will frequently interrupt each other, call each other out at certain points, go from an act out to off on a tangent where Chris will just try to sit in an “improvised air chair” and fall over, and then go back into the story. Every act of the Walsh Brothers show is something that’s thoroughly hilarious as it’s always ripe with rich detailed absurdity, amazing depth in character, and, of course, pranks, some of which they gloriously act out.
One of my favorites is called “Personal Disco” where they kill the lights and have themselves and extremely random assortment of characters dance around one person to heavy techno music. Though pranking the audience walks a fine line of alienating audience members, the Walsh Brothers handle every interaction with the audience with care in such a way that no one really feels unsafe in the way that a performance art piece does that no one can quite understand.
Throughout the course of all this seemingly unbridled fun chaos, unknown to the audience, Chris and David have an amazing, in-the-moment, sense of what’s working and what’s not and if it’s not, how to go about cutting to the next story/sketch/character. I’ve seen David dance for several minutes at the top of a show as it was getting big room laughs and then softly segue into the next bit as he sensed his marching wildly around the stage had run its course. They basically know how to show a crowd a damn fine show time and again.
Though once called the “Pride of Boston” (their hometown) at a show here in LA, the Comedy Bureau is extremely glad that they’re based here as they perform their fantastic and, as one audience member shouted to me about it later, “mind blowing” show at UCB once a month and frequently at stages throughout Los Angeles. So please check their website or Facebook page or Twitter feed or even back here at the Comedy Bureau for details on their next show or perhaps when Chris Walsh is literally “brushing my shoulders” off since I looked concerned/depressed at a bar (this really happened to me last Tuesday).