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Showtime Orders Pilot About 1970s LA Comedy Scene From Jim Carrey and Dave Flebotte

August 12, 2015

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While comedy is certainly thriving in LA as you read this, there was another time in the 70s when LA was also really cooking when it came to comedy. So, now is probably as good a time as any to tell those stories.

Former comedian Dave Flebotte wrote the dark comedy pilot, “I’m Dying Up Here” (based on a book I’m Dying Up Here by William Knoedelseder) which focused on the hey day of comedy clubs in Los Angeles back in the 1970s. With Carrey on board as an EP, Showtime has just ordered a pilot.

With how many podcasts talk about the history of comedy or what comedy was like back in the day, we’d bet lots of folks will want to watch this.

Yeah, We’re Throwing a “4 and 5/12th” Anniversary Celebration Because We Just Got Around To Doing It Now

March 29, 2015

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The short of the long of it is that not that “we’re” vastly understaffed.

On Oct. 25th, 2014, The Comedy Bureau turned 4 years old. Most of you don’t know that because “we” really didn’t say anything. So, almost half a year later, “we’re” making up for that by throwing a belated anniversary show.

So, on Fri. Apr. 3rd, The Comedy Bureau we’ll be approximately 4 and 5/12th years old and we’ll be celebrating that exact time in our history at one of our favorite venues, Echoes Under Sunset.

With special guests:
Maria Bamford
Baron Vaughn
Joe Wagner
James Austin Johnson
Candice Thompson
Drennon Davis
Presented by Jake Kroeger and Brad Silnutzer

Doors 10PM
Starts 10:30PM
Echoes Under Sunset
1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Donations graciously accepted

Watch a Documentary About How to Build a Comedy Scene Outside of LA and NYC in “Make Fun”

January 27, 2015

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It’s kind of an amazing time in this millennium where comedy can live outside of cities with less than 10 million people. Still, outside of comedy meccas like LA and NYC as well as Chicago, a whole separate set of challenges present themselves when trying to make a go at being a comedian in smaller cities.

Jim Tews and Ramon Rivas II’ Make Fun: Building a Comedy Scene is a documentary that chronicles doing comedy in Cleveland, OH and how the scene there and elsewhere is built from the ground up.

The feature length doc is available to watch now for $5.

We’re 3 Years Old Now/Thanks For Making Us Feel Like We’re Doing Something Worthwhile

October 26, 2013

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It’s official as we started this website on Oct. 25th, 2010 that we are 3 years old now.

As cliché as it sounds, we had no idea that we’d be here where we are in the LA Comedy Scene/the art form of comedy or that we’d be throwing an amazing anniversary show with a packed house that all donated to us or that so many comedians, comedy fans, managers, agents, industry execs, bookers, people, etc. would come to know, love, and rely on what we do here at The Comedy Bureau.

It makes us feel pretty great, you guys, like we’re doing something that isn’t just a fleeting fever dream.

So, thank you to all who came out last night at Echoes Under Sunset (thanks to Chrsitian Chavez for running a great venue) and donated (or just enjoyed the show), the amazing comedians that are absolute favorites of ours (Sean O’Connor, Andres du Bouchet, Jeremy Paul, Kyle Kinane, Katie Crown, Davey Johnson, John Roy, Hasan Minhaj, and James Adomian), everyone who is a reader/user/supporter of the site in any capacity, and especially anyone who came out last night and wore a nice hat like our Bureau Director Jake Kroeger.

All in all, it seems like you like what we have going on here, so we going to keep doing it for years to come, hopefully bigger and better soon (“branches” of the bureau, etc.?).

Also, if you’re wondering (and we hope that you are), there is and has been a Paypal donation button right above the Google calendars we have embedded on the right (or at the bottom of the page if you’re on your phone) if you’re feeling the holiday spirit even before Halloween.

Hamclown: The One Type of Clown I Like

May 26, 2011

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What exactly is a “Hamclown”? I was one of those silent many that had an aversion to clown, but Hamclown is something different altogether and certainly not to be feared by anybody.

If you type “hamclown” into Google, you’ll actually get redirected to results for “ham clown” and never see any of the results for the amazing comedy and music variety show taking place in downtown LA on 5th and Spring.

Instead, you’ll first be directed to hamsexy.com, which, as far as I can gather, is a blog about amateur radio. Even though hamsexy.com has been around for much longer than Hamclown, the results for googling “hamclown” need to change.

On the last Thursday of every month, producers and talented stand-up comedians themselves Josh Androsky and Grant Pardee take over the 2nd Floor of the Alexandria Hotel, more commonly known as the Mezz. Their comedy extravaganza features several of LA’s best stand-ups, Kyle Kinane, Rory Scovel, Brody Stevens, Maria Bamford, and more, sketch comedy that borders on a full scale stage production, and amazing local bands to close out the show.

Really, Hamclown goes above and beyond for laughter from their constantly growing audience. At the last edition of Hamclown, Androsky and Pardee went for a prom theme, temporarily renaming their show “Hamprom”, dressing up as if it was actually prom; Androsky wore a dress and heels. They even had a prom photographer with a prom backdrop. As if that wasn’t enough, Androsky went into a spectacular musical number while still in a dress and heels featuring back-up dancers and lots of goo in which he let out his inner woman and then wooed the “hot high school quarterback” (played by Aaron Alberstein).

I would almost say that you get your bang for your buck at Hamclown, but that would be a false statement as you don’t spend anything to see this youthful comedic romp in a cool bohemian space that has to have been used in several rock music videos of either Lenny Kravitz or Perry Farrell. It’s free of charge just like many independently produced comedys shows around LA are, but, already, Hamclown has been mentioned in the LA Times as part of a story about the exciting group of comedy shows taking place in Downtown.

If you’re convinced or curious, the next Hamclown is taking place tomorrow 9PM, as mentioned, at the Mezz on the 2nd Floor of the Alexandria Hotel, 501 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA featuring two of the Comedy Bureau’s favorite comedians: Ron Lynch and Jackie Kashian. In other words, be there (you won’t be square if you don’t, but you’ll regret your absence). Follow them on Twitter and Facebook or check back at the Comedy Bureau for more updates and possibly what exactly a “hamclown” is other than a hip, hilarous comedy circus minus the animals and clowns (not a big fan of either anyway).

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