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Quentin Dupieux’s “Wrong Cops” Is Out Next Week

December 22, 2013

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One of our absolute favorite movies from last year was Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist delight Wrong. In how purely silly and non-sensical it is, Dupieux, for our money, brought substance out of unfiltered fun.

His follow up to Wrong, Wrong Cops is right along the same track in it’s dedication to a brilliantly ludicrous sensibility with the likes of Arden Myrin, Eric Wareheim, Steve Little, Marilyn Manson, and one hell of a performance from Mark Burnham as an asshole cop obsessed with cutting edge European techno.

Watch the trailer here and then make sure to go see it at Cinefamily or The Downtown Independent here in LA next week or at a location near you soon.

What We Were Witness to at Everything Is Terrible & Cinefamily’s “Everything Is Festival”

August 28, 2013

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Powerviolence throwing toilet paper at crowd during Fox ADHD Pizza Party

Last week, we got to attend a bit of Everything Is Terrible and Cinefamily’s Everything Is Festival bringing you comedy from the YouTube generation, had a wonderful time, and noticed these things in particular below/after the break:

1) There is a whole new subculture/division/category of comedy that we saw at Everything Is Festival with the supercut, Vine videos (there was an entire panel on Vine that was really great and a lot of people showed up to), video mash-ups, skateboarding-comedy troupe Powerviolence (throwing TP at crowd and doing a boy hunks of Instagram competition), vintage video games, an entire musical from Comedy Bang! Bang! and a general sense of appreciating things that were, at one time, considered awful now in a brand new context as something hilarious.

2) Sitting around watching weird YouTube videos has kind of grown up as people were cheering for a lot of specific clips during video mash ups as if they were a band’s classic singles leading us to the conclusion that the 1990s were a long time ago.

3) While some of you might want to write off a lot of this is as niche comedy or some hipster BS, the fans of everyone in this festival showed up in droves, lining themselves around the block down Fairfax and were pretty thrilled the whole way through sans any irony (i.e. if glowsticks were thrown in the crowd and they were, people grabbed them and started dancing).

4) Everything Is Festival could be described as a comedy festival of tomorrow for the new territory they delve into comedy wise, but we’d say use the term tomorrow in a much more literal sense than a few years away.

Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily Will Mostly Be Livestreamed

August 13, 2013

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Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily Will Mostly Be Livestreamed

Many of you, for many reasons, won’t be able to attend what looks to be an amazing Everything Is Festival that’s already under way. You don’t have the dough to go or perhaps you don’t live anywhere near LA, etc.

Well, luckily, Cinefamily’s live streaming a lot of the festival, especially the live portions including Comic Relief Zero w/Tony Clifton, Comedy Bang! Bang! The Musical, Fox ADHD’s Pizza Party, Show and Tell with Maria Bamford, Mondo Public Access, and more.

So check the schedule for shows and times to watch because you don’t want to recreate what happened by just reading tweets about it.

Everything Is Festival IV Coming Next Month

July 19, 2013

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If you’re jonesing for a comedy festival and can’t wait for October here in LA, don’t fret. Cutting edge, supercut comedy masters, Everything Is Terrible, are putting on their fourth Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily in August complete with screenings of the most ridiculous screenings, panels, etc. etc.

As you can see from the awesome flyer, anyone and everyone from Chris Elliott, Mike Judge, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Dan Harmon, Doug Benson, Tony Clifton, , Steve Agee, Scott Adsit, DJ Douggpound, Power Violence, Fox ADHD, and much more hilarious insanity is coming our way over 7 days (Aug. 12th-19th).

Tickets are on sale now and we suggest you get in on ASAP.

Please Watch Quentin Dupieux’s ‘Wrong’ ASAP Wherever It’s Playing

March 28, 2013

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Somehow, hearing someone exclaiming how they couldn’t understand why people we’re laughing while walking out of the theater made the upcoming film ‘Wrong’ by Quentin Dupieux even funnier when we already think it’s one of the funniest movies we’ve seen this year. It’s absurdist comedy possibly at it’s best, somewhere between Charlie Kaufman, Jim Jarmusch, and a tinge of an episode of 30 Rock. Here’s the trailer to give you an idea, not to mention awesome performances all around from Jack Plotnick, William Fichtner, Steve Little, and more.

If you’re in LA, don’t miss it’s week run at Cinefamily starting tomorrow Fri. Mar. 29th-Thurs. Apr. 4th.

Cinefamily Is Doing an Entire Retrospective on Jerry Lewis This Month

March 3, 2013

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Cinefamily Is Doing an Entire Retrospective on Jerry Lewis This Month

Apparently, there was a 6 hour in 6 parts documentary that was made about Jerry Lewis and his storied career in film, television, and comedy. Now that you know that, you’ll be more than happy to know that Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre will be showing all 6 parts in addition to accompanying Jerry Lewis classics. Check Cinefamily’s calendar to see when Bonjour, Mr. Lewis is playing here.

Also, Cinefamily is killing it with comedy lately in case you haven’t noticed (Benson Movie Interruption, Greg Proops Film Club, Wayne Federman International Film Festival, Heart of Darkness, etc.)

Morning Debriefing 7/3/11

1) OK, so the Comedy Garage is coming to the UCB on July 16th; I think enough is said.

2) The Reggie Watts Show Pilot. Hopefully, it’ll stay up this time.

3) We’re leaving Portland today, but we had a great time here. Catching No Pun Intendo at Ground Kontrol, a comedy show at a video arcade, and the Suki’s open mic only scratched Portland’s lively and growing comedy scene. If anyone reading gets a chance to go (even if it’s not time for the Bridgetown Comedy Festival), please comedy in Portland. Now, we’re back on our way to LA where we’re spoiled comedy wise.

4) The Everything is Festival at Cinefamily is streaming live in case you’re broke, a cheap skate, or can’t your budget approved.

5) Watch full episodes of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 because it’s not on DVD yet [via 247comedy.com]

6) The Pardo Patrol with Tom Hanks-Point-Hanks?

7) ON THE HORIZON
Charlyne Yi & Dave Horowitz Present: We Don’t Know @ UCB Theatre Thurs. July 21st 8PM $5
Audition @ UCB Theatre Sat. July 23rd 10PM $10

8) COMEDY CRAWL
Everything is Festival: Neil Hamburger Presents a Tribute to Dora Hall @ Cinefamily 2:30PM $10
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Powerviolence @ The Complex 9PM FREE
Everything is Festival: Found Footage Battle Royale @ Cinefamily 9:15PM $10
Gravid Water @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)

9) OPEN MIC RUN
PALMS 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/lottery
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
NERDIST THEATRE 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (back room of Meltdown Comics)/Sign-up 7:15PM/Starts 7:30PM/lottery/30 spots available/no purchase necessary
TSUNAMEDY @ TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/mixed mic
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed/bottled water and coffee available

10) Yes, we will be post tomorrow on the 4th of July, though nearly everything comedy wise is shut down. We’re just that dedicated/unable to define our lives very well outside of this.

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