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2017 Big Pine Comedy Festival Is Now Taking Submissions

April 17, 2017

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If you’re looking to do a comedy festival that’s not too far from LA, perhaps look into performing at The Big Pine Comedy Festival in Flagstaff, AZ.

The submissions for stand-up, improv, sketch, and podcasts are now open and fees and deadlines are as follows:

Stand-up
Early Bird Submission: $25 – March 6th to April 2nd
Open Submissions: $35 – April 3rd to May 7th
Late to The Party: $45 – May 8th to June 4th

Improv/Sketch
Early Bird Submission: $35 – March 6th to April 2nd
Open Submissions: $45 – April 3rd to May 7th
Late to The Party: $55 – May 8th to June 4th

Podcast
Submission: $15 – March 22nd to May 7th
Late to The Party: $45 – May 8th to June 4th

Get more details and submit here.

Boston Calling Announces Its First Comedy Line-Up

April 10, 2017

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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.

Submissions Are Now Open for 2017 Green Gravel Comedy Festival in Iowa

March 14, 2017

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Submissions Are Now Open for 2017 Green Gravel Comedy Festival in Iowa

Iowa’s Green Gravel Comedy Festival is returning for May 12th-13th as well as donating their proceeds to both the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

Comedy in the middle of the country for great causes? Sounds pretty fantastic to us.

Deadline is appropriately scheduled on April 1st.

$15 – Iowa Stand-up Comedians (Must provide verification of Iowa residency or address).
$20 – Podcast Submissions, One-man/woman Shows, Musical Comedy Acts
$25 – Out-of-State Stand-up Comedians

Get more details and submit here.

5th Annual NYC Podfest Is Next Month

March 13, 2017

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How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Kevin McDonald’s Kevin McDonald Show, Hold On with Eugene Mirman, Risk! Trues Tales Boldly Told, Another Round with Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu, Mike Myers, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, and much much more are coming to The Bell House in Brooklyn next month for the 5th Annual NYC Podfest.

Pretty swell, huh?

Given how well podcasts tour these days, we’d urge you to buy tickets sooner rather than later. Already, a few shows for this NYC Podfest are sold out.

Get more details and tickets here.

Chris Hardwick Is Curating and Hosting His Own Music/Comedy/Gaming/Comics/Tech/Arts Festival in Silicon Valley, ID10T Fest

March 10, 2017

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Though it’s in Silicon Valley and curated and hosted by Chris Hardwick, ID10T Fest is priced reasonably with single day general admission tickets starting at $65 and weekend passes going for $110.

You’re getting Michael Che, Michael Ian Black, Nikki Glaser, Garfunkel & Oates, Brian Posehn, Yassir Lester, Hampton Yount, Demetri Martin, and Matt Braunger in addition to TV on The Radio, Weezer, Car Seat Headrest, and Crystal Castles as well as plenty of panels and interactive exhibitions.

Not too bad, huh?

ID10T Fest is set for Saturday, June 24th and Sunday, June 25th at the Shoreline Amphitheatre.

Get more details and tickets here.

Salt Lake City Has a Pretty Swell Looking Golden Spike Comedy & Podcast Festival Kicking Off Tomorrow

March 8, 2017

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From March 8th (i.e. tomorrow)-Mar. 11th in Downtown Salt Lake City, The Golden Spike Comedy Festival will serve up a pretty a great offering of stand-up, podcasts, and more.

Just look at the flyer above.

There are individual tickets available as well as a pass for 20 shows for the nice price of $20.

Get more details on The Golden Spike Comedy Festival here.

San Francisco Is Getting Another Big Comedy Festival This Year with Comedy Central’s Very First “Clusterfest”

At the beginning of the year, San Francisco always has one of the biggest comedy festivals in the world, SF Sketchfest.

Just announced today, SF will be getting another giant comedy festival in the summertime, specifically June 2nd-4th, brought to you by Comedy Central.

The first ever Clusterfest has a gigantic line-up of the sort proportions and depth that Comedy Central can summon. It’s also the flip of most big time music and arts festival in that it’s mostly comedy with a bit of music as opposed to there being a comedy tent and lots and lots and lots of music a la Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, etc. (Note: producers of both those festivals are involved here). See the line-up below or in this glitterbomb filled announcement video here.

Tickets/passes go on sale this Thursday, March 2nd here. They range from $199.50 earlybird pass-$599.50 VIP Pass.

SXSW Comedy Festival Line-up for 2017 Announced

Comedians to perform at this year’s SXSW:

Al Madrigal • Andrew Santino • Big Jay Oakerson • Bob Odenkirk • Bonnie McFarlane • Brendon Walsh • Chris Hardwick • Dan Harmon • Dave Hill • Doug Benson • Doug Stanhope • Dulce Sloan • Glenn Wool • Eddie Pepitone • Guy Branum • Horatio Sanz • Janeane Garofalo • Jason Mantzoukas • Jessica McKenna • Joe DeRosa • Joel Kim Booster • John Hodgman • Jon Gabrus • Liza Treyger • Matt Besser • Matt Walsh • Matteo Lane • Michael Ian Black • Morgan Murphy • Nate Bargatze • Nick Swardson • Nick Thune • Nicole Byer • Phoebe Robinson • Rich Vos • Robert Kelly • Sasheer Zamata • Scott Aukerman • Scott Thompson • Sean Patton • Shane Mauss • Shaun Diston • Tim Dillon • Tom Lennon • Wanda Sykes • Whitney Cummings • Wyatt Cenac • and more

A live edition of @midnight, Seeso screenings, Talk Show the Game Show, ASSSSCAT, Dave Hill’s Witch Taint, Shane Mauss’ Good Trip, Harmontown, and Doug Loves Movies are just a few of the other comedy things that you just might want to (uh, we highly recommend it) at this year’s comedy portion of SXSW in mid-March in Austin, TX.

See the comedy schedule here and get passes here.

Brooklyn’s 2017 Cinder Block Comedy Festival Has Earlybird Submissions Now Open

February 17, 2017

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If you’re a comedian and identify as a LGBTQ, person of color, a disabled person, woman or anyone who applied with the Cinder Block Comedy Festival back in 2016, you can apply as an individual, show/group, or sketch to Brooklyn’s Cinder Block Comedy Festival for this year at the nice price of $19.25.

The festival itself will run from September 7th-10th and if you happen to be in or around any of the five boroughs, it might be worth your time to get in at Cinder Block.

These earlybird submission prices are available until March 8th. After that, submissions will be open to everybody up until the final deadline of April 5th.

Get more details and submit here.

The 6th Annual L.A Podcast Has Earlybird Tickets Now on Sale and Will Be in DTLA

The LA Podcast Festival is now in its sixth year and, if you’ve ever been to it, you’d know that it’s an institution with a fiercely loyal following at this point.

WTF with Marc Maron, My Favorite Murder, The Jackie & Laurie Show, The Dork Forest, The Dollop, Comedy Film Nerds, Bertcast, We Hate Movies, Mental Illness Happy Hour w/ Paul Gilmartin, & Cashing In w/ T.J. Miller and host Cash Levy are just a handful of the podcasts that are confirmed for this year’s LA Podcast Festival.

Moving from Beverly Hills to Downtown LA at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, the festival will take place from Friday, October 6th-Sunday, October 8th.

Earlybird tickets are now on sale for $99, which you should get in on since you’ll save $50 from the regularly priced pass.

Earlybird Passes Now on Sale for 10th Annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival

February 14, 2017

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Earlybird Passes Now on Sale for 10th Annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival

The 2017 Bridgetown Comedy Festival is set for this May 4-7 and you can now get some early discounts on festival passes for Portland’s annual comedy extravaganza.

Right now, you can save $20 and get a weekend pass for $79.

So far, Janeane Garofalo, Karen Kilgariff, Baron Vaughn, Jackie Kashian, Laurie Kilmartin, Nico Santos, and Dave Hill are all confirmed for the festival and dozens and dozens more acts will be announced next month.

If you’re going to be in or around Portland and in case you didn’t know already, do not miss out on Bridgetown.

*NOTE: Early Bird Festival Pass and Standard Festival Pass do not include admission to the pre-festival special event Patton Oswalt show at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on May 2nd, ticketed separately at portland5.com, or any shows taking place at Revolution Hall, ticketed separately at revolutionhallpdx.com as they are announced.

Bonnaroo 2017 Announces the Line-Up for Its 2017 Comedy Theatre

February 8, 2017

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From Burress to 2 Dope Queens to The Improvised Shakespeare Company to Chris Garcia to Jo Firestone Hari Kondabolu to Natasha and Moshe, you’re not going to want to miss comedy at all at this year’s Bonnaroo.

The festival is set to take place from Thursday, June 8th-Sunday, June 11th right at its home in Manchester, Tennessee. Passes start at $324.50.

Seriously, we know that there’s plenty of great music there (Chance The Rapper, Future Islands, Lorde, etc.), but you’d probably regret it if you didn’t catch the comedy too.

Crapshoot Comedy Festival Returns to Downtown Vegas with Quite a Fine Line-Up

February 1, 2017

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Scheduled to perform at this year’s Crapshoot Comedy Festival in Downtown Las Vegas:

Fahim Anwar
Dave Attell
Joel Kim Booster
Byron Bowers
Matt Braunger
Kurt Braunohler
Chris Cubas
Corinne Fisher
Krystyna Hutchinson
Sabrina Jalees
Morgan Murphy
Aparna Nancherla
Mark Normand
Chris Porter
Adam Ray
Ryan Sickler
Beth Stelling
Jesus Trejo
Liza Treyger
Brad Williams
Jenny Zigrino
&
Podcasts:
Guys We F@#cked: The Experience
About Last Night

If you’re in and around or Vegas and always wanted see the spoils of comedy in LA, but were never able to make it out, this is the perfect comedy festival for you.

Passes are now on sale from $179-$999.

The 2017 Riot LA Comedy Festival Is Less Than a Week Away

January 14, 2017

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Lindsay Ames’ My Diary, The Best Friends Show with Kim and Aliya, Literary Death Match with Adrian Todd Zuniga, Crabapples with Bobcat Goldthwait and Caitlin Gill, and Crane’s Bar (as shown above) are just a few of the lovely things to be at this year’s Riot LA Comedy Festival.

There will also be a round of Todd Barry’s Crowd Work Tour, an international comedy showcase, a best of the best short film showcase, and plenty more even beyond that (as you can see in the flyer below).

In short, it’s something that you’ll want to go to in you’re in town, whether you see comedy a lot like we do or not.

As we already pointed out, January 19th-22nd, the dates for Riot LA, are less than a week away and so get your passes, tickets ASAP (My Favorite Murder, Ali Wong, and more have already sold out) here.

2017 Laughing Skull in Atlanta Is Accepting Stand-Up Submissions

January 4, 2017

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Here’s another comedy festival that you might want to get in on if doing stand-up is your thing.

The 2017 Laughing Skull Comedy Festival is now accepting submissions until February 14th. 72 comedians will be accepted for one of the South’s most popular comedy festivals.

The regular submission fee is $45, but if you’re reading this, you can use an exclusive Comedy Bureau discount for $30 until Sunday, February 5th. Just use the following promo code “Bureau2017” when submitting.

You’ll find out whether you made it in or not on or before Wednesday, March 1, 2017 and the actual festival will happen on the week of May 1st in Atlanta, GA.

Get more details and submit here.

2017’s Limestone Comedy Festival Is Now Accepting Submissions

January 2, 2017

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2017’s Limestone Comedy Festival Is Now Accepting Submissions

Bloomington, IN’s annual Limestone Comedy Festival has just opened up their submissions for this year to find new stand-up comedians to highlight.

If you’re looking to make your way into the circuit of comedy festivals as a stand-up, you might want to start with Limestone, especially if you live in or around Indiana.

The earlybird fee is $25 until Sunday, February 19th, the regular submission fee is $40 until the final deadline of Sunday, March 12th.

Get more details and submit here.

January 2, 2017

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The Riot LA Comedy Festival, one of the annual comedy events in LA that you shouldn’t miss, is only a few weeks away. Just look at the poster above to see the big, stacked line-up that’s in store for later this month.

Passes are on sale for $159.50 or $349.50 for VIP. Tickets for individual shows are also available.

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

December 9, 2016

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Per usual, Moontower Comedy & Oddity Festival in Austin, TX is stacked.

Patton Oswalt, Ali Wong, Colin Quinn, Aparna Nancherla, Barry Crimmins, Dana Gould, Goddamn Comedy Jam, Wendy Liebman, Guy Branum, and Drew Michael are just scratching the surface of this first line-up announcement.

Moontower is set for Wednesday, April 19th-Saturday, April 22nd and you get passes, ranging from ‘Front Row’ to ‘Club/Podcast’, here.

2017 Gilda’s LaughFest Is Now Taking Submissions for Stand-Up, Sketch, and Improv

December 2, 2016

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2017 Gilda’s LaughFest Is Now Taking Submissions for Stand-Up, Sketch, and Improv

Gilda’s LaughFest has taken place annually in Grand Rapids, MI since 2011 bringing headliners and up and comers around the country to Michigan.

This year, the festival will run for a week and a half from March 9th-19th.

You have a shot to perform as they’re taking submissions until December 18th this year. Get details and submit at the link above.

JFL Northwest 2017 Announces Line-Up with Sarah Silverman, Trevor Noah, Tom Segura, My Favorite Murder, Jon Dore, Barry Crimmins

December 1, 2016

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If you’re in Vancouver in February, you would be doing yourself a big favor by going to JFL Northwest.

Just look at that line-up stacked with some of the best from around the country as well as local to Vancouver.

Tickets go on sale at 10AM PST this Friday, December 2nd right here.

Here’s the Official Riot LA 2017 Comedy Festival Line-Up Announcement Video Complete with a Stacked Line-Up and Watermelons

November 29, 2016

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One of LA’s best festivals Riot LA is coming back very soon, January 19th-22nd in fact.

Some of the best comedy from around LA, the country, and the world are coming to DTLA next month including Mel Brooks, Ali Wong, Rachel Bloom, Todd Barry, Rory Scovel, Tig Notaro, John Early, Aparna Nancherla, Daniel Sloss, Brew Haha, My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Josie Long, Jo Firestone, Dr. Katz, and plenty, plenty more.

See those names scroll by as you watch watermelons get destroyed with a mallet that’s somehow not held by Gallagher in this announcement video.

After that, you can buy tickets or passes (Premium goes for $159.50 and are subject to limited availability) here.

SF Sketchfest 2017 Enlists Seth Morris to Try to Explain How Cosmically Big Sketchfest Is

November 19, 2016

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One of the universe’s biggest comedy festivals is coming very soon. That’s right The 16th Annual SF Sketchfest, presented by Audible, will be coming through San Francisco from January 12th-29th, 2017.

Exactly how big is it? Well, let Seth Morris try to explain, then watch Jessica Makinson correct that explanation in this announcement video.

Houston’s Come and Take It Comedy Festival Returns for Its Second Year

October 29, 2016

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Maria Bamford, Dana Gould, Tim Meadows, Morgan Murphy, Todd Barry, The Goddamn Comedy Jam, Billy Wayne Davis, Jenny Zigrino, Jackie Kashian, Nick Thune, Joe DeRosa, James Adomian, Baron Vaughn, Tim Dillon, and Sabrina Jalees are just a few of the names scheduled to perform at the 2nd Come and Take It Comedy Festival in Houston, TX.

The festivities are set to go down from Thursday, November 17th-Sunday, November 20th. For all of that comedy, you only have to drop $79 for a weekend pass or $35 for a single day pass. That’s a pretty good deal considering the treasure trove of comedians on the bill. A VIP pass is only $129 as well.

If you’re in Texas or have to go back to Texas for Thanksgiving, definitely consider going to Come and Take it.

Get more details and tickets here.

5th Annual Riot LA Comedy Festival to Have Mel Brooks, Ali Wong, Dr. Katz Live, and More

October 11, 2016

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Just a few weeks after new year, when hopefully the world is back on its way to some sort of normalcy, the 5th Annual Riot LA Comedy Festival will have its run and bring some much needed comedic relief to any and all in DTLA from Jan. 20th-22nd.

So far, the festival is looking to go bigger for 2017 as the venues will be bigger and they’re going to have a ferris wheel. That’s in addition to a screening of Blazing Saddles complete with Q&A with Mel Brooks, Ali Wong headlining, a brand new round of Dr. Katz Live!, and much more TBA soon.

Passes and tickets will go on sale at riotla.com this Friday, October 14th at 10AM PDT, but there’s a AMEX and Goldenvoice pre-sale on Thursday at 10AM PDT as well.

Watch Comedy in the Woods of Texas at the Very First Sound on Sound Fest

October 5, 2016

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It’ll be held in the Sherwood Forest no less at a site that’s usually meant for ren faires.

A month from now Tim Heidecker, Joe Mande, Todd Barry, Johnny Pemberton, Ever Mainard, The New Movement Theater, Air Sex Championships, and more will join in at The Globe Stage for the very first Sound on Sound Fest.

Specifically, it’ll go from Friday, November 4th-Sunday, November 6th in McDale, Texas. It’s $85 for single day pass, $169 for three day pass, $445 for VIP three day pass.

Oh, great non-comedic music acts like Phantogram, Run The Jewels, Big Boi, Death Grips, Mac Demarco, and Courtney Barnett will be performing as well.

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