ATTN: LA Weekly Interviews The Comedy Bureau
ATTN: LA Weekly Interviews The Comedy Bureau
Thanks to Jenn Swann for this wonderful article and chat.
In case you weren’t aware, we’re trying to fully fund our operations here at TCB through Patreon.
In case you weren’t aware, we’re trying to fully fund our operations here at TCB through Patreon.
Please pledge $ if you can here, especially if things like sustainability are important to you.
After recently transplanting to LA, we’ve very much enjoyed Megan Gailey’s presence on the scene. Megan is a fantastic stand-up, but she also brings the worlds of comedy, feminism, and sports together quite nicely as well.
In fact, she’s putting on an entire show, Good Sport with Megan Gailey, this Saturday, July 22nd at UCB Franklin at 10PM where she takes on the world of sports from her very unfiltered, yet charming perspective. Her guests for this inaugural show will be Anthony Jeselnik, Mike Lawrence and Kara Klenk.
Tickets are $12 and you can (and really should) get them here.
For a few $ pledged a month, you can help make TCB’s budget go beyond the scope of covering just food and gas.
A new stapler or an actual office space would be nice.
Today, it’d be great to get over $500 pledged (but we’re definitely not going to stop anyone from getting us $5K pledged) on TCB’s Patreon
FYI, we’re at $483 pledged monthly right now to keep us going.
Our ad money is a far cry from making TCB sustainable. Only your $ pledges through Patreon can keep us and running.
Already, our current amount pledged on Patreon is already more than we make, most of the time, in three months from ads.
If you dig us and what we do here at The Comedy Bureau, help us be bigger, better, and actually sustainable through pledging money on Patreon.
With your $ pledged on Patreon, you can assure that we can keep the lights on here at The Comedy Bureau, build an app, expand to other cities, etc. etc.
Also, you can get some pretty bitchin’ enamel pins.
Please consider becoming an esteemed patron of ours here.
Thanks to our “trustees” for their generosity via Patreon. (yes, we do have a “wall of trustees”)
Thanks to our “trustees” for their generosity via Patreon. (yes, we do have a “wall of trustees”)
That includes:
Eric Moneypenny
Matt Ingebretson
Joey Clift
Michael Allen Wakcher
Dominic Del Bene
Kevin Tienken
Michael Magid
Joel Samataro
Bob Jackson
Andrew Rider
John Parr
Sharon Skare
Kelly Hodgson
Andy Peters
Duncan Carey
Nick Stargu
Moses Storm
Riley Silverman
Laurie Kilmartin
Fielding Edlow
Piers Moreton
Grant Lyon
Biniam Bizuneh
Aristotle Athiras
Andrés du Bouchet
Josh Fadem
Spencer Richards
Pisha Warden
Matt Lewis
Rachel Bloom
Jim Colgan
Joe Kardon
Ryan Doolittle
Michael Monsour
Eddie Furth
Kiran Deol
Jay Light
Barbara Gray
Jonathan Rincon
Joe Quint
Oscar Sagastume
Mark McConville
Stephen James
Ify Nwadiwe
Rick Savage
James Bresden
If you’d like to make it to our “Digital Wall of Trustees”, you can pledge $5 or more to our Patreon campaign.
If you dig what we do, please support us on Patreon.
If you dig what we do, please support us on Patreon.
You can also give some love via Venmo as well @ jakekroeger.
If you want an app for The Comedy Bureau or a NYC branch of The Comedy Bureau or just a snazzy enamel pin of our logo, consider supporting us and pledging money for us on Patreon.
We’ve got five ticket giveaways going right now via our friends at DoLA!
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen @ The Virgil 6/5
Fresh Out LA @ UCB Sunset 6/8
A pop up kitchen comedy show (in Echo Park) 6/10
Sh*t Arcade: Comedians Play Bad Video Games @ Nerdmelt Showroom 6/15
Harmontown @ Starburns Castle 6/18
Click the links to get more details and enter to win free tickets!
You Can Keep The Comedy Bureau Going Forever and, By Proxy, Keep Live Comedy Going Forever
You Can Keep The Comedy Bureau Going Forever and, By Proxy, Keep Live Comedy Going Forever
Through Patreon, you can pledge money monthly to keep us (and by us, we mean just one guy) a float, but you could potentially make us bigger, better, and more efficient and user-friendly than ever.
If you are considering pledging, could you do so today as we’d get our first batch of funds from our Patreon subscribers starting tomorrow.
If You Were Thinking About Supporting Us on Patreon, Could You Do So Before June 1st
If You Were Thinking About Supporting Us on Patreon, Could You Do So Before June 1st
Like rent, Patreon collects payments on the first, so we’d get our first batch of money pledged on June 1st. If you pledge anywhere from a $1 to almost whatever amount you want now, we’d get it very soon rather than having to wait over a month.
Also, we added a new goal: if $4K gets pledged, we’ll have a Comedy Bureau app made. Sound cool? Cool.
What You’ll Get If You Support The Comedy Bureau Patreon
You might have heard that we’ve started this Patreon page in order to live our best life as an actually publicly funded bureau. As with all crowdfunding campaigns, we’ve got rewards on top of providing the invaluable service.
They are as follows (and there are more to come):
TCB “Electricity” Fund-$1 or more per month
You’ll be acknowledged and thanked at official Comedy Bureau meetings for keeping our lights on. Also, you’ll get access to pre-sale tickets to exclusive Comedy Bureau events before anyone else.
TCB “Hat” Fund-$5 or more per month
Support our penchant for hats. For this, you’ll get pre-sale access to Comedy Bureau events and be included on a Comedy Bureau “Digital Wall of Trustees”
TCB “Lunch” Fund-$10 or more per month
Help us be a more legit LA office by letting us order lunch for the office. For that, you get an official sticker of our fancy new logo done by Chris Fairbanks, access to pre-sale for Comedy Bureau events, and included on our “Digital Wall of Trustees”
TCB “Fossil Fuel” Fund-$20 or more per month
We can’t cover comedy like we do by taking the train here in LA, so covering our gas expenses would be a blessing. For that, on top of pre-sale tickets, Digital Wall of Trustees, and a sticker, we’ll send you a fancy, shiny enamel pin of our official logo. Also, if you’re against fossil fuels, you can give us way more money and we can be able to go get a Tesla.
TCB “Step and Repeat” Fund-$40 or more per month
Yet another part of being a legit LA operation is having a “step and repeat”. Helping us out with “that” will get you pre-sale tickets access, sticker, enamel pin, Digital Wall of Trustees and a download of our Comedians of Interest Vol.1 done in collaboration with AST Records.
TCB “Actual Office Space” Fund-$100 or more per month
Little known fact: We are a “mobile” operation. Help us “work a little less” at whatever coffee shop or bar has wifi. For that get everything above, then go on one “ride along” and grab drinks with The Comedy Bureau (availability pending and must be within the Greater LA Area)
TCB “Spy Equipment” Fund-$1,000 or more per month
We are a bureau, but one that just doesn’t have spy equipment. Help us with “that” and you’ll get the rewards above, we’ll personally scout comedy for you with whatever you’re looking for to the best of our very highly regarded abilities.
Also, if we get $9000 pledged monthly, we’ll start a NYC Branch of The Comedy Bureau (it’s probably the #1 thing we get asked about outside of “what are the good mics?).
So, please support The Comedy Bureau on Patreon and you could get a slick looking enamel pin and look slightly more official in the world of comedy.
Keep The Comedy Bureau Going Forever via Patreon
Keep The Comedy Bureau Going Forever via Patreon
We have a Patreon page where you can pledge money to support us. As you probably know, supporting the arts will become more dire very soon and maybe, just maybe you can include us within that notion.
Also, you can exclusive stickers and enamel pins!
Both the Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run are all updated for next week (i.e. other things than Twin Peaks returning are happening).
Check the listings on the calendars at www.thecomedybureau.com
We, and by “we”, I mean just one person, Jake Kroeger, love supporting LA comedy and, by extension, the art form of comedy through efforts put forth here by The Comedy Bureau.
We’ve been doing for almost 7 years. It might almost be 7 years. We’ve kind of lost count because we haven’t taken a day off since 2010. That’s not hyperbole. “We” just a) love comedy and b) are workaholics.
Being a publicly funded resource is hard enough through official channels a la grants or funds handed out by governments or well known benefactors.
Rather than go that route, we’re looking to all of you fine folks that have dug us throughout the years to help us out by pledging on our Patreon page to not only keep our operations going, but help us expand possibly to NYC and improve and streamline the Bureau as a whole.