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Please Get and Enjoy Chris Fairbanks’ New Hour Special “Rescue Cactus”
June 22, 2020
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Throughout all of our years of watching live comedy (or comedy in general), few are as mastered at being purely silly as Chris Fairbanks. The dedication and care that Fairbanks puts into his wonderfully ridiculous bits are evident in how intricate his comedy can get and we’ve enjoyed the dozens and dozens of times that we’ve seen all of that up close. Whether it be acrobatic level word play or outright tomfool observations, Fairbanks has always delivered on every stage.

Capturing Chris’ joyful lightning in a bottle and releasing in some form or another hasn’t in some time, but thankfully, there’s this brand new hour special, Rescue Cactus just released today. It’s a marvelous collection of the sort of high flying absurdity that Chris couples with his animated, yet slightly grounded delivery. It’s the sort of contrast that heightens the comedy in such a superb way (even the pre-taped, staged opening embodies this notion).

Simply put, if you need a big dose of silly, get and enjoy Chris Fairbanks’ Rescue Cactus now.

Please Enjoy Electric Television’s “Freeway to Hell”
May 13, 2020
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Several years ago, some real cinema magic got blended with some incredibly clever humor in Cocktails & Dreams. It featured Chris Fairbanks squeezing his way, pretty seamlessly, into various scenes of Cocktail and it was pretty damn great.

Just today, the same folks behind Cocktail & Dreams, released their latest work Freeway to Hell, which is their longest and most ambitious piece yet and part of their Electric Television anthology series. The visit to an alternative cinematic universe is bewitching and sure do have fun messing around in said universe “telling a new story out of recycled parts”.

Please watch and enjoy the comedy pastiche of Freeway to Hell and we’re pretty sure you’ll be transported to some other reality that’s free of a pandemic and only troubled by a B-movie version of the Hell’s Angels.

Pick of the Day: In The Green Room
April 29, 2020
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Often, the green room of a live comedy show is one of the best places to be, especially if you want that fly on the wall experience of comedians that are off-stage, but still sharp whilst riffing with their contemporaries.

Being stuck in quarantine, the idea of gathering is still a bit away from happening (even with just comedians). Yet, you can still get a bit of the green room experience this weekly starting this Thursday 4/30 with the In The Green Room live-stream.

Set to hang back in that proverbial/virtual green room is many of Avail Comedy‘s very best including

Comedians Include*
Chris Fairbanks
Gareth Reynolds
Greg Barris
James Fritz
Maggie Maye
Matt McCarthy
Megan Koester
Nick Flanagan
Paul Danke
Phoebe Bottoms
Ramin Nazer
Ryan Singer
Sara June

* based on quarantine availability

Rather than having the news on all day, it’d be much, much better to just hang with comedians hanging with other comedians. Tune in at youtube.com/availcomedy at 8PM PT/11PM
September 5, 2019
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Comedy Central is doing more rounds of their digital stand-up showcase Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring, which highlights nice and tight sets of folks that you both, hopefully, already know and love as well as some newcomers that you absolutely should know (lord knows that we’ve sang the praises of almost all of these four line-ups.

It’s free so long as you RSVP. 

8PM on 9/11 is already sold out, but you can snag tickets for the other shows here:
10PM Wed. Sept. 11th
8PM Thurs. Sept. 12th
10PM Thurs. Sept. 12th

FYI, it should read Jenny Zigrino and Logan Guntzelman where the flyers cut off.
March 25, 2019
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Picture This! has been, far and away, the leader and live comedy being live animated in real time for seven years. It’s a one-of-a-kind thing that we’re so glad to see be born in LA and then tour the globe. 

Come celebrate the 7th anniversary of comedians’ jokes being illustrated on a screen behind them next month with this ridiculously good line-up. Tickets can be snagged here (do so quick because they’ll probably sell out).

My Favorite Murder’s Podcast Network Exactly Right Launches Today
November 29, 2018
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My Favorite Murder’s Podcast Network Exactly Right Launches Today

It was less than three years ago that Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark enjoyed each other’s company in recounting infamous murders and releasing it as a podcast known as My Favorite Murder.

Now, having toured the globe and created a gigantic self-sustaining community of murderinos, Karen and Georgia have launched their very own podcast network with a handful of podcasts. Comedy podcasts Do You Need a Ride? where Karen and Chris Fairbanks interview comedians while going to or coming from the airport and The Purrrcast where many comedians get to dish about their cats will be under the Exactly Right banner.

We’re sure this is only the tip of the iceberg for Exactly Right, so you might want to start following them.

Brew Haha, One of LA’s Best Underground Shows, Can Now Be Enjoyed as a Digital Series
October 10, 2018
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For years now, people have gathered a various backyards around LA to enjoy the live comedy show drinking game that has come to be known and loved as Brew Haha, dreamt up and created by Jimmy Ambrose, Aaron Black, Marissa Gallant, and Brad Silnutzer.

Both comics and audience get to engage in their own sides of a drinking game while they do/watch stand-up, making for a, put quite simply, a damn good time. Thanks to Thrillist you can enjoy the same sort of merriment that crowds that make it feel like your at a movie level house party as they’ve produced a digital series of Brew Haha.

For once, you actually won’t have to worry about getting there early to get a seat. So, please watch and enjoy the first episode (and maybe even play along with the drinking game) here.

This “Freeway to Hell” Trailer Means There’s More Rotoscoping Goodness Coming from Electric Television
September 13, 2018
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Electric Television, the good folks that used rotoscoping to make fun short films that punch up Cocktail and Dragnet into Cocktails & Dreams and Green Boy, will very soon being bring you another piece entitled Freeway to Hell. In a way, it’s like the next evolution of making fun of movies going from MST3K to actually being in the movie to satirize it.

This time, they’ll be hilariously cutting themselves into those specific types of 60s films that attempted to demonize subcultures like bike gangs, but seeming very cheesy while doing so. Get a taste of Freeway to Hell here. The full short will be coming soon!
August 3, 2018
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Rather than wait for comedy folks to make fun of a bad movie that finds its way to your local multiplex, come watch them dream up something that’s so bad that it’s funny (and, of course, subsequently reveling in how bad/stereotypical/derivative/hack it is) at the new live comedy show Setflix. 

Looking at this line-up, which includes a longtime member of Screen Junkies and a co-host of The Bechdel Cast along with a co-host of The Simpsons podcast Everything’s Coming Up Podcast, we’re pretty sure you going to hear some “best/worst” movie pitches.

Setflix will happen at Dynasty Typewriter on Wednesday, August 15th at 8PM. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at door. Get them in advance here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
June 12, 2018
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Just because Trump is a brat, doesn’t mean that he’s the only elected representative whose feet should be held to the fire by comedy.

So, the Left Coast podcast with Sara June is putting on a roast of reps at the state level here in good ol’ CA. The line-up with some of our favorites here in LA is more than up to task. 

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at door. Get them ahead of time here.

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

2018 Bumbershoot Announces Line-Up Featuring Last Podcast on the Left, Eugene Mirman, Emily Heller, Sam Jay
April 30, 2018
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Seattle’s annual big music, comedy, and arts festival Bumbershoot is almost a hop, skip, and a jump away. Per usual, they’ve jam packed the comedy portion of their festival with lovely comedians, podcasts, letters-to-celebrities readings, improvised musicals, and more.

If you’re in the Seattle area on the weekend of Aug. 31st, you might want to get in on pass (3 Day pass starts at $220).

Get more info and passes here.
March 26, 2018
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The magnificent Chris Fairbanks will be playing Paul Ryan and holding a town hall meeting “like he’s supposed to”. This will all be going down at our favorite new venue, Dynasty Typewriter at The Hayworth Theater on Tuesday, May 8th at 8PM.

We’re not sure exactly what Fairbanks has up his sleeve with this, but it ought to be pretty damn great. Special guests TBA.

Tickets are $20 and you really ought to get them right here right now.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
August 29, 2017
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It’s a great line-up, great cause, and a great name for a show. What more do you want?

Get your tickets here.

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

The Hard Times Will Present Comedy at KROQ’s High & Low Fest
August 12, 2017
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Less than a month from now, KROQ will be taking over San Bernadino’s NOS Event Center for music and arts festival that will feature several fine servings of comedy courtesy of satirical punk news outlet The Hard Times.

As you can see in the flyer above, many of LA’s finest will head about an hour outside of town to offer up the comedy stylings while Death Cab for Cutie, Tegan and Sara, Best Coast, and more play the music stages.

It’s $92.70 for GA pass and $278.10 for VIP

GA Ticket includes entrance to the festival grounds, access to all stages, food and drink areas, and vendors.

VIP Pass includes all the GA Ticket amenities + a VIP special hangout area with private bar, food and drink. VIP Passes will also enjoy an open Craft Beer Bar, a special viewing area for the main stage, private restrooms, a separate private festival entrance, and will receive a limited edition festival tee shirt. These tickets are extremely limited and available those 21 years of age or older. VIP wristband must be worn at all times.

Get more info and buy tickets here.
June 13, 2017
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Revered punk label Fat Wreck Chords is throwing a comedy show, their first one in fact, this Wednesday night. Appropriately called Fat Calm Eddie, the show will go down at The Lost Room in Echo Park (1538 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA) and really does feature some of the funniest people that LA has to offer. 

It doesn’t get much more Echo Park, and we mean that in the best way possible, than this. 

Get more details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more at www.thecomedybureau.com.
June 6, 2017
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Next week, Chris Fairbanks, a undeniable favorite of ours, is taping a new hour special next week at one of our favorite venues in town to watch stand-up, Bar Lubitsch.

If you in or around LA next Tuesday, please make sure you $5 cash on you to go see these tapings of what we’re pretty sure will be a damn good time.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
May 7, 2017
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This is a great line-up of LA’s best and brightest. Also, some of the best views in LA are to be had on hills in Echo Park and should have your interest peaked. 

Get more details here.
April 27, 2017
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It’s yet another case of “if you build it, they will come” as Carport Comedy (it’s literally a comedy show done from a carport in a driveway) returns this weekend. 

It’s a great line-up plus there’s free food while you can get it. Get more details here.

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

Henry Phillips Has a New Henry’s Kitchen and a Henry’s Kitchen Cookbook
December 18, 2016
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Henry Phillips has two gifts for us all this holiday season.

First, he made a brand new holiday themed episode of Henry’s Kitchen where he tries making a ‘holiday fish stew’. Watch it and decide if that’s a road you want to go down instead of ham or turkey.

Second, he has just released a Henry’s Kitchen Cookbook, which is perfect for anyone who is looking for an “alternative” to traditional cooking. 

This year, Henry has really outdone himself in attempting to cook for us all during these holidays. 
December 8, 2016
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The annual Santa-Thon here in LA returns with host Fred Willard complete with a stacked line-up of comedy, variety, and music including:

The Lampshades – Kate Flannery (The Office) and Scot Robinson (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
Wayne Federman (Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Curb)
Illeana Douglas (Entourage),
Jo Anne Worley (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
Chris Fairbanks – (Almost Genius, Conan)
Nikki Glaser – (Not Safe, Comedy Central)
Jimmy Brogan – (Carson, Letterman, Conan)
Todd Glass (The Todd Glass Show)
Henry Phillips (Comedy Central Presents)

The Santa-Thon is being held at ACME Comedy Hollywood on Wednesday, December 14th & Thursday, December 15th. Tickets are $20 online and $25 at door and you can (and should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
December 7, 2016
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Wonderful puppetry at The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, music, and other holiday trappings in addition to a line-up of Maria Bamford, Laraine Newman, Charlyne Yi, Eddie Pepitone, Dana Gould, Janet Varney, John Ennis, and Chris Fairbanks is what you got in store for next week’s Cavalcade of Christmas.

Sound good?

Tickets are $40 and you’ll want to get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
November 20, 2016
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Tickets are $5 and you can (and should) get them here.

All other listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
August 21, 2016
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Bryan Cook headlines at the Nerdmelt Showroom and has some special guests including Guy Branum, Chris Fairbanks, and Kara Klenk.

You can (and should) get your tickets here.

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

Poster by Garrett Ross and Dave Kloc.
August 17, 2016
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The comedians on this particular edition of Comedy Confessional will have to work in confessions, anonymously submitted by the audience, into their set. That line-up on the flyer should have loads of fun with that challenge. 

Tickets are $5 and available at the door.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
August 16, 2016
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The annual neighborhood-wide party known as Echo Park Rising will have plenty of music, but will also make sure to include plenty of comedy as well. 

This weekend, Good Heroin will be running 3 nights at Stories Books & Cafe (1716 W. Sunset Blvd.), Party in the Back will kick off Saturday night at the New California Barbershop (2203 W. Sunset Blvd.), and Sauce (typically at Hollywood’s Desano’s Pizza) will serve up an Echo Park Rising edition of their show at the 826LA Time Travel Mart (1714 W. Sunset Blvd.) on Saturday as well at 8PM with Chris Fairbanks, Kate Willett, James Austin Johnson, David Gborie, Chris Estrada, Danielle Radford, and hosts Barbara Gray, Eric Dadourian, Erin Lampart, and Jeff Wattenhofer.

Oh yeah, all these are free to attend. 

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

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