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Pick of the Day: Uh Huh (in LA) 4/23

April 19, 2024

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What goes into the magic that makes the live experience of a Comedy Bang! Bang!, Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen, The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail that brought hundreds upon hundreds of comedy lovers together every week? Well, honestly, there isn’t enough time or inches in this post to get into the finer points of that, but rest assured that the magic sauce behind each sauce is different and is part and parcel of the times they happened in.

With that in mind, a trio of Paul Danke, Christina Catherine Martinez, and Jake Kroeger are looking to capture that verve with Uh Huh. A tight, but free in spirit (mostly) stand-up show that gives you the unequivocal best of the LA comedy scene (and TCB’s Jake Kroeger and the beloved Danke and Martinez are the three best folks to give it to you).

This very first Uh Huh (hopefully with more to come) is set for Tues. Apr. 23rd at 7:30PM with a grand line-up of Todd Glass, Curtis Cook, Milan Patel, and Veronica Osorio. Tickets are $15 right now if you want to get in on the ground floor of something special. Go get tix here.

Pick of the Day: Christina Catherine Martinez (in NYC) 9/24

August 14, 2023

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Unflinching in her quest to distill the most nuanced of ideologies into abject tomfoolery, Christina Catherine Martinez is taking her preposterously sublime comedy across the country again, all the way to NYC. We here in Southern California are blessed to see the critically acclaimed comedian in all sorts places high and low, from the esteemed REDCAT all the way to an out-of-the-way dive bar.

Martinez will be taking over one of Brooklyn’s beloved comedy establishments, Littlefield, next month to do, well, whatever she wants (which might include some intellectual dissection of Taco Bell and/or unbridled satirization of the gender binary). The brilliant River Ramirez will be joining Christina for this special evening of the highest and lowest brow comedy together.

Christina is set to play Littlefield on Sun. Sept. 24th at 8PM. Tickets are only $15.54 and we highly suggest you get them here.

Pick of the Day: Christina Catherine Martinez Presents: Stephanie Presents: Tala Madani (in LA) 2/18

February 13, 2023

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For a very big stretch of our tenure as The Comedy Bureau, we’ve always dreamt (and thusly attempt to manifest) comedians giving a tour of an art museum or an art exhibition. There have been hints of such things over the years (B.J. Novak snuck his own version of an audio tour into an art museum way before The Office), but we feel that there is such a great intersection of the art and comedy worlds that could create something really magical with a bit more traffic (i.e. comedy could take itself a little more seriously and art could be sillier and more self-effacing)

Leave it to art critic and comedian Christina Catherine Martinez to do something brilliant yet again and set herself to do a tour of an actual art exhibition at MOCA as a character. Hence, this weekend, there will be Christina Catherine Martinez presents: Stephanie presents: Tala Madini. Christina will be donning an alter-ego of mononym art publicist Stephanie diving into the very real and profound work of Tala Madani in its closing week at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in DTLA.

There’s no Super Bowl, awards shows, or whatever else this weekend, so make plans to go to this on Sat. Feb. 18th at 4PM, especially since admission is free.

Pick of the Day: Stamptown (in LA) 11/30

November 3, 2022

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Returning victoriously from Europe, Zach Zucker and Stamptown his traveling, rotating circus of clowns, stand-ups, characters, out there musical acts, and more is coming around to LA once more. The last time Stamptown was in town was six months ago back when Netflix Is a Joke Fest finally happened, which, honestly feels like two years ago at this point.

Per usual, Zucker has gone above and beyond to stack the line-up with the most daring and illuminating acts in town, which will include (so far for this 11/30 edition):

Mae Martin
Catherine Cohen
Natalie Palamides
Dylan Adler
Bonavega
Chad Damiani
Christina Catherine Martinez

It’s at the nice and big and raucous Bourbon Room in the heart of Hollywood on Hollywood Blvd. (perhaps one of the only reasons to go there?) and tickets are only $20 right now. Go get ’em while you still can here.

Pick of the Day: Aesthetical Relations with Christina Catherine Martinez (in LA) 11/11

September 21, 2022

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It’s not often that you get to live comedy at one of LA’s premier theaters for live performance, REDCAT. Then again, dynamic and innovative comedians of the likes of Christina Catherine Martinez are similarly a rare breed.

That’s why Christina’s postmodernist shake-up of the tried and true variety talk show, Aesthetical Relations, is coming to REDCAT this November, giving her the stage she deserves after wowing audiences with her joyfully riotous blend of stand-up, clowning, and art criticism in and around and beyond LA to great acclaim for years now.

Fri. Nov. 11th ought to be a very special night, especially around 8:30PM when this edition of Aesthetical Relations comes to pass. So, with that in mind, go get your tickets, on sale now for $25, right here ASAP.

Pick of the Day: The Green Room with Paul Provenza (Nowhere Comedy Live-stream) 7/23

July 11, 2022

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It has been far too long since The Green Room with Paul Provenza has been on the air. A groundbreaking series on Showtime that showed comedy panel shows can work in America so long as it’s more of an open, unstructured conversation not unlike that between comedians in a typical comedy club green room.

Thankfully, Paul Provenza (director of The Aristocrats, author of ¡SATIRISTAS!, producer of Set List: Standup Without A Net) has transformed his backyard into the perfect place to have a live version of The Green Room (and has brought us at The Comedy Bureau on board) to bring back those one-of-a-kind conversations between all sorts of great comedians from all backgrounds, generations, and ideologies, etc. You’ll be able to watch this particular version of The Green Room with Paul Provenza virtually via Nowhere Comedy, as it will eb done in front of a live audience in Paul’s own charming compound.

Going live on Sat. Jul. 23rd at 7:30PM PT/10:30PM ET with Christina Catherine Martinez, Kira Soltanovich, Jamie Kilstein, and Ben Gleib, as well as, of course, Paul Provenza, there will be stand-up and then the signature panel conversation between all the comics. Tickets are $10 right now, but you can snag VIP tickets where you can ask the panel a question for $30. Go get them here and revel in and enjoy the return of the one and only Green Room.

Pick of the Day: Christina Catherine Martinez-How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age (in LA) 3/28

March 25, 2022

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The artifice of a stage, mic stand, microphone and a bunch of negative space as to exude the solitary nature of a stand-up will always be core to the idea of a stand-up special. That said, there’s still room to push and redefine and reimagine what a person telling jokes for an hour or so can be or could look like, despite many folks insistence on going with the tried and true method that has seen stand-up comedy through several decades.

Christina Catherine Martinez‘s very first half-hour special How To Bake a Cake in the Digital Age is such a big swing of experimentation in form and content that is also so damn, absurdly funny that it really needs to be recognized as one of the specials of 2022, hopefully to be talked about in years to come. Against the odds of already making an original comedy special and the odds of doing any sort of creative work for public consumption during the pandemic, Christina was granted the space of Human Resources LA to make a pandemic era comedy special and cleverly devised a way to make it something that, we believe, is funny beyond the context of the onslaught of COVID.

There will be a very special screening of How To Bake a Cake in the Digital Age at the very place it was created, Human Resources LA, on Mon. Mar. 28th at 9PM PT. Admission is free and you really ought to take Christina and HRLA up on that if you’re in or around LA, even if you have to cancel Monday night plans you already had.

Pick of the Day: Stand up and Clown (in LA) 2/7

January 28, 2022

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It is our firm belief that when the different disciplines of comedy get cross-pollinated that some of the best, most boundary pushing comedy gets made. We also believe that Chad Damiani “live directing” (or ruthlessly roasting) people attempting clown is some of the funniest things we’ve ever seen.

Stand Up and Clown will combine all of that comedy goodness into a crucible of glorious failure and celebratory stupidity. Basically, Damiani, a veteran of the clowning and improv world will do his “live directing” of great stand-up comedians trying their hand at clown.

This first edition has a bunch of wondrous LA comedians that we can’t wait to see under Chad’s gun including:

Babs Gray
Morgan Jay
Christina Catherine Martinez
Kyle Mizono
Jessy Morner-Ritt
Ify Nwadiwe
Anna Seregina
Ahamed Weinberg

This inaugural Stand Up and Clown will happen at The Elysian on Mon. Feb. 7th at 9:30PM PT. Tickets are $12 right now and you really ought to get your tickets ASAP here.

Pick of the Day: Clown Zoo (in LA) 1/12 (@ Old LA Zoo) 1/29 (@ Elysian)

January 6, 2022

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This first week of 2022 has been greeted with daily cancellations and postponements of all things of all shapes and sizes. So, we’re doing our darnedest to find what to look forward to in the coming weeks (that hopefully doesn’t get canceled or postponed either).

Clown Zoo, the outdoor comedy juggernaut (made our 100 best list again), faithfully served the LA area on Wednesday afternoons to provide one of the most fun, ridiculous live shows of this whole pandemic. The abandon and chaos with which they do an outdoor, traditional mask show is one of the surefire comedy bets we can always count on. They (and by they, we mean Natalie Palamides, Courtney Pauroso, Corey Podell, Chad Damiani, Christina Catherine Martinez, Max Baumgarten, Ian Bratschie, Juzo Yoshida, Bill O’Neill, and musical accompaniment by Jim Venable) are making a triumphant return for 2022 this month!

On Wed. Jan. 12th at their coveted time of 12:30PM PT, Clown Zoo will reconvene for their standing weekly show at the Old LA Zoo in Griffith Park (still outdoors and still socially distanced) and, as a new and thrilling entry in 2022, the Clown Zoo bunch will be going indoors at The Elysian for a monthly show starting Sat. Jan. 29th at 8PM PT (proof of vaccination and masks required).

The Wednesday show is still FREE, but you can (and very, very much should) snag your tickets for Clown Zoo Presents for $20 right here right now before they very likely sell out.

Pick of the Day: What’s Your Problem, Sir? Fund Texas Choice Benefit (in LA) 12/12

December 3, 2021

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The real, live, in-person debut of What’s Your Problem, Sir? with Ever Mainard was supposed to happen this Summer, but chaos during this pandemic prevailed and it was forced to postpone.

Now, comedy is back enough for Ever to grace us for a non-virtual edition of What’s Your Problem, Sir? next Sunday with her special brand of genuine, ephemeral, enthralling riffing and crowd work just in time for the holiday season. It ought to be extra special being at the new jewel of the LA comedy scene, The Elysian and being joined by the comedy stylings and honesty of Christina Catherine Martinez and Lindsay Adams.

ALSO, with the state of the nation, particularly in Texas, Ever has opted to give 100% of profits of this show to Fund Texas Choice, an org dedicated to giving Texans fair and equitable access to abortion.

So, do not miss out on this very, very special, first in-person edition of What’s Your Problem, Sir? with Ever Mainard on Sun. Dec. 12th at 8:30PM PT. Tickets are $15 and proof of vaccination and masks are required. Go get ’em now.

Pick of the Day: Clown Zoo (Wednesdays in LA)

May 25, 2021

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As we’re carefully getting back into listing in-person shows, we’d like to one of personal favorites that’s a true gem and as distanced and outdoors as it possibly can get.

Clown Zoo, featuring many of LA’s finest clown/idiot performers, happens in one of the former exhibits of the Old LA Zoo nestled in Griffith Park. The likes of Chad Damiani, Natalie Palamides, Christina Catherine Martinez, Max Baumgarten, Courtney Pauroso, Juzo Yoshida, Corey Podell, Bill O’Neill, Ian Bratschie, and Charlie Barnett put on a “mask show” where they don masks and act out/improvise what is very likely, one of the most delightfully ridiculous things you’ll have seen in a long time. Oh, and it’s usually brilliantly live scored as well.

Join in on the rambunctious fun every Wednesday at 12:30PM PT at the Old Zoo in Griffith Park (4801 Griffith Park Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90027).

Pick of the Day: Border Aid (Humanitarian/Legal Aid Benefit) 3/20

March 19, 2021

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The issue immigration is yet another pre-pandemic problem (that never really went away) that’s creeping back into the news cycle as things rush to reopen in America. All the organizations that give humanitarian and legal aid to immigrants that are facing separation from their families and deportation due to broken immigration policies are also still alive and well and, coupled with that, are the comedy benefit shows that support said orgs.

This Sat. Mar. 20th at 6:30PM PT/9:30PM ET, Border Aid will be one such fantastic live-stream comedy show that will be raising money for Al Otro Lado and all the crucial work their do for immigrants and the undocumented. The line-up is filled with comedy’s finest to offer their comedy wares in support and solidarity.

That includes: Aparna Nancherla, Chris Estrada, Atsuko Okatsuka, Christina Catherine Martinez, and Opey Olagbaju. Maddie Connors graciously hosts.

Donations are being accepted for Al Otro Lado here, and details and access to the live-stream can be found here. Do some good and enjoy some really, really good comedy this weekend.

Pick of the Day: Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen 16th Anniversary 2/22

February 19, 2021

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Even without a pandemic, the idea of a weekly comedy show, especially a stalwartly funny one, going for 16 years is astounding. Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen has been one of the best shows hands down wherever it has been (including NYC, LA, and festivals all around).

Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal and their crew, currently CleftClips & HoldThePhone Comedy, have built a comedy institution over those several years, which was where we spent the majority of our Monday nights before lockdown. To keep going during the pandemic as one of the best, yet again, most reliable comedy live-streams deserves a standing ovation no matter where you are or what you’re doing currently.

To mark the occasion, they’ll be doing the show in their virtual Hot Tub: Home Edition format LIVE at HOLDTHEPHONE.TV with a brimming and bustling line-up of their personal favorites including Wyatt Cenac, Kyle Kinane, Jackie Kashian, Langston Kerman, Beth Stelling, and Christina Catherine Martinez.

You can stream it for free on Feb. 22nd at 8PM PT/11PM ET, as you’ve always been able to do during lockdown, or, you can support them and the comics and their home at The Virgil in LA by joining the Hot Tub Club at Patreon where you could be part of a limited live Zoom audience. We say do it if you haven’t already, especially for their 16th anniversary.

Pick of the Day: Valentine’s with Yassir 2/12

February 9, 2021

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Believe it or not, there are actually a lot of great choices for comedy live-streams for this Valentine’s Day weekend. Even though that’s the case, one of the best line-ups just also happens to be a fundraiser for a crucial LA City Council.

Truly progressive candidate Al Corado is running to unseat District 13 incumbent Mitch O’Farrell on a platform of defunding the police, housing all unhoused people in Los Angeles, and in a Green New Deal. To raise money for his campaign, the hysterical and one of the all-time-best on Twitter Yassir Lester will be leading of a stellar line-up of:

Blair Socci
Atsuko Okatsuka
Adam Pally
Paul Scheer
Jon Gabrus
Garrick Bernard
Madison Shepard
Chris Garcia
Christina Catherine Martinez
Chelsea Devantez

See how stacked that is? If you’re going in on one comedy live-stream this weekend, this should be one of your top choices if not your top choices.

Valentine’s with Yassir is set for Fri. Feb. 12th at 8PM PT/11PM ET. Tickets start at $5 and go up to $500+. Go get tickets here.

For more information on Al and his campaign, visit ALforLA.com.

Please Enjoy “Tennis & Abandonment”, a Sketch from Joshua Turek

November 16, 2020

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At this, in-person human interaction/connection is a very precious resource. Much of the country is about to impose or already has imposed stricter lockdown measures as COVID-19 cases have been spiking up again and travel and gathering for Thanksgiving is being highly discouraged.

Joshua Turek taps into this very notion with this wonderful new sketch, “Tennis & Abandoment”. It shows what happens when even an ounce of carelessness comes into the equation of physically meeting up with another person these days and how even a friendly morning round of tennis is to be cherished and absolutely not wasted.

Oh, you’ll notice that Christina Catherine Martinez delivers an inspired performance and continuing to blaze her trail in serving up marvelous comedy during the global pandemic.

Tennis & Abandonment. We’ve all been there ??. Starring the brilliant @xtina_catherine pic.twitter.com/NjwLP6JCSB

— J*shua Turek (@JoshuaTurek) November 13, 2020

#Pick of the Day: DSA-CA’s Prop-15 Phonebank Halloween Show 10/29

October 27, 2020

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Election Day creeps ever so much closer and the importance of the entire ballot, especially when it comes to state measures, becomes more and more clear. For California, Prop 15 represents a much needed redistribution of wealth and resources through specific taxing and DSA-CA is campaigning heartily for folks to vote Yes.

In fact, you can join their campaign and phone bank for them. If you do, you’ll get access to a wild live-stream show featuring the likes of all sorts of great comedy folks including Aparna Nancherla, Jo Firestone, Lorelei Ramirez, DeWayne Perkins, Christina Catherine Martinez, Kim Gordon, Weyes Blood, Kat Toledo, and much much more. It’s aptly being called DSA-CA’s Prop 15 Phonebank Halloween Show. There will be plenty of hysterical spooky bits, characters, costumes, etc. etc. that will be more than worth your time cold calling folks around California.

Sign-up for DSA CA’s Prop 15 phone bank here, then tune in for DSA-CA’s Prop 15 Phonebank Halloween Show at 8:30PM on Thurs. Oct. 29th.

Pick of the Day: Santé D’Or Presents The Comedy For Kittens Cat-Astrophe Fund Show!

August 18, 2020

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There is so much in this world that needs saving right now, especially if it was something that needed to be saved before COVID-19 took hold of the world. The Santé D’Or Foundation in Los Angeles does so much as a volunteer run animal adoption agency and often does comedy benefit shows to support their efforts.

With the presence of the pandemic, rescue animals needing to find a home is more crucial than ever as space and staff to take care of them is extremely limited. So, they are still doing a benefit show, Comedy for Kittens Cat-astrophe Fund Show, but doing so virtually with the lovely aid of Dynasty Typewriter.

Thurs. Aug. 27th at 6PM PT/9PM ET, a line-up of NIKKI GLASER (Netflix), KURT BRAUNOHLER (The Big Sick), PAIGE WELDON (Late Late Show with James Corden), CHRISTINA CATHERINE MARTINEZ(FX’s Cake) , and KEVIN TIT(Hard Times) wash over you, and revel in the musical reprieves by COLLEEN GREEN and ZACH CARPER (FIDLAR) will join host JARED LOGAN (Best Week Ever) for this special evening in support of Santé D’Or.

Tickets are $5-$20 and you can (and should) go get them here (live-stream link will be sent after purchase).

Pick of the Day: Aesthetical Relations 8/6

August 4, 2020

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We were truly taken by Christina Catherine Martinez’s first foray into the IG Live space with her comedy/art talk/experimental comedy show Aesthetical Relations. We’re still taken by the audacity of the opening, which has us still ruminating on its audacity and how she cleverly pushed the boundaries of the aesthetics of the Gram (in addition to have all sorts of weird and wonderful treats with offbeat characters, high art/literary folks, and niche, but thoroughly satisfying bits).

So, we wouldn’t dare let ourselves go without specifically telling you about the very next Aesthetical Relations that Christina would be exhibiting, which just happens to be this Thursday, Aug. 6th at 7PM PT/10PM ET over @xtina_catherine on Instagram. Very, very special guests include the hysterical Jamel Johnson (who possibly made the first legit comedy special in quarantine), Dr. Angelo Castoria, and clowning/character sensation Courtney Pauroso.

Until that time, please enjoy Christina’s personal announcement for this edition of Aesthetical Relations.

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These people are going to be on Aesthetical Relations this Thursday and I don’t trust any of them ♥️ . . 8.6.2020 7PM Pacific on my IG Live @xtina_catherine

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Please Enjoy Christina Catherine Martinez’s “Aesthetical Relations” That Really Pushes the Limits of IG Live

July 27, 2020

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Leave it to Christina Catherine Martinez, comedian, author, and professional art critic, to take the incredibly limiting medium of Instagram Live and turn into something wild, whimsical, dangerous, funny, and genuinely illuminating (like she tends to do with her comedy when done live in person).

Martinez did the first virtual edition of her normally recurring art comedy talk show Aesthetical Relations (with guests Kat Toledo, Jamie Loftus, and Angella d’Avignon) made something truly special. In fact, we may go so far as to say that it might have one of the best openings (there’s an unmistakable indie/cinematic feel to it) to an IG Live show that we’ve ever seen.

So, without any more delay, please enjoy this first virtual edition of Aesthetical Relations here (pt. 1) and here (pt. 2)

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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 15: Christina Catherine Martinez & Aesthetics

July 8, 2020

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This week, TCB’s Jake Kroeger zooms with the beloved comedy and art world hybrid Christina Catherine Martinez. Even without a pandemic, Martinez has managed to imbue her comedy with her professional art critic sensibilities to create marvelously absurdist, subversive, high brow, yet incredibly silly bits, stand-up, and characters. Her and Jake discuss what her detailed plans for translating her conceptual comedy to live-streaming platforms like Zoom on IG Live, the extension of her Aesthetical Relations brand/universe (even revealing plans for a special), and an attempt at a quick rundown of Groundlings’ controversy, MTV animated series revivals, and Comedy Central’s order of two new John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch specials.

Also, here’s John Cage’s 4:33 to get that John Cage joke at the end.

Follow Christina at @xtina_catherine on Twitter and IG and visit christinacatherine.info to delve into all things Christina Catherine Martinez. Get the e-book version of Aesthetical Relations here.

Shout outs: I May Destroy You, Search Party, and Nore Davis’ Live From The Comedy Traphouse

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).
Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

Your Lyric Hyperion Favorites Present Two Pink Doors (as Part of FX’s “Cake”)

November 21, 2019

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FXx’s experimental anthology series Cake invites plenty of the most exciting voices in animation, comedy, etc. to make some really stellar short form pieces.

Courtney Pauroso, Ian Bratschie, Christina Catherine Martinez, Chad Damiani, Natalie Palamides, Bill O’Neill, Juzo Yoshida, and Max Baumgarten all make up many of the most frequently featured and oh so talented performers at the magical Lyric Hyperion Theatre along with artistic director Phil Burgers/Dr. Brown at the helm.

This damn fine troupe got to do a portion of Cake, which centers, quite literally, around two pink doors and they’re pretty great. Start off with this morsel here.

Please Enjoy Christina Catherine Martinez’s Commercial That She Made to Sell Her Old Car on Craigslist

November 20, 2019

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Please Enjoy Christina Catherine Martinez’s Commercial That She Made to Sell Her Old Car on Craigslist

Christina Catherine Martinez and her pop-ins into frame here are magical. The ad alone should be the selling point for the car, no matter the condition of the actual car, right?

See for yourself in her DIY used car ad here.

February 20, 2018

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Just a friendly neighborhood reminder that our latest Most Wanted List is this Thursday at Comedy Central Stage at 8PM. See the comedians that you really ought to be seeing as we have handpicked each and every one of them for much they have killed us when they take the stage.

Admission is FREE just as long as you RSVP here.

February 12, 2018

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That’s right, we’ve managed to round up another bunch of comedians that you absolutely, unequivocally need to keep your eye on for another edition of The Comedy Bureau Most Wanted List.

It’s our personal picks of LA’s best stand-ups that deserve way more shine than they are currently getting and we sincerely hope that you come to see the brilliance that we see.

You can RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-comedy-bureaus-most-wanted-list-tickets-42658754483

You can also RSVP on the phone by calling (323) 960-5519.

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

December 15, 2017

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Part 2: The Sequel Show, the show that has comedians pitching a yet-to-be-made sequel of their favorite movies, is making a return of its own for this holiday season, right when one of the biggest sequels (Star Wars) of the year is just hitting theaters.

The show is free, so don’t miss Tony Sam & Christina Catherine Martinez presenting an evening of sequels that definitely should be made.

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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