Guy Branum Presents Talk Show: The Game Show @ Nerdmelt Showroom Fri. Feb. 12th 7PM $8 in adv., $10 at door
Guy Branum’s beloved hybrid of America’s two least respected forms of television returns! Three guests face off to prove who’s the best talk show guest by plugging, name-dropping, and anecdoteing their way to victory.
With Kyle Kinane, Debra Di Giovanni, Dave Ross, and Judges Emily Heller and Danielle Koenig!
All of you sure have got your comedy album binge listening cut out for you today.
What a day today is with Ian Karmel’s 9.2 on Pitchfork, Emily Heller’s Good For Her, Sean Donnelly’s Manual Labor Face, and Ron Funches’ The Funches of Us all being released.
All of them are definitely worth your time and money as we’ve stated before here, here, here, and here, respectively.
OK, you should probably get to buying and listening already. There’s a lot of comedy for your ears to feast on.
Emily Heller’s album Good For Her is another reason why this Friday is going to be a great day for comedy releases. Off of the same label, Kill Rock Stars, Ian Karmel and her are both releasing albums on that day just so you know.
Good For Her tours the mind of Emily Heller with all of its eccentricities structured very neatly into several bits that are both personal, yet also playful. A whole chunk on the multiple layers in which Frasier figures Emily’s life, both literally and metaphorically, is a pretty great example of that.
You can now pre-order Good For Her along with a T-shirt that has “Horny For Heller” printed on it for a Nov. 13th release. Also, if you’re one of the first 50 people to put an order for a CD, actual “googly eyes” will be glued on.
Hopefully, you’ll agree with us that Emily Heller needs to be in more things more often.
Making the rounds doing stand-up on late night, Emily Heller notched in her latest set at Late Night with Seth Meyers last night. From feminism to how obsessive a brain can get, she put together a real nice tight 5 minutes.
This album recording was supposed to happen almost a year ago, but due to some unforeseen circumstances, the recordings had to be pushed to this month on Monday Apr. 20th and Apr. 27th.
Still, we’re happy that an album capturing one of the best and longest running weekly comedy shows in the country, Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen, is happening all the same.
Two tapings, presented by our good friends at CleftClips, will feature, of course, the amazing duo of Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal as well as Kyle Kinane, Karen Kilgariff, Eugene Mirman, Heather Lawless, Aparna Nancherla, Eddie Pepitone, Emily Heller, Beth Stelling, Andrés du Bouchet, and John Roberts all at Hot Tub’s LA home, The Virgil.
Pretty swell, huh?
Kill Rock Stars just keeps adding to their already great comedy discography, which includes comedy albums from Hari Kondabolu, Cameron Esposito, and Kurt Braunohler.
Tickets will go on sale later this week. We’ll be sure to tell you exactly when that happens so you have a chance to not miss out on being part of Hot Tub history.
James Austin Johnson reaching his hand out to a wonderful crowd at Echoes Under Sunset for our 4 and 5/12th Anniversary, full of mirth, wonder, comedy, silliness, and dancing.
All photos courtesy of Sarah Wood.
It truly was a spectacular night a week ago and we here at The Comedy Bureau thank all who attended as well as though who have kept us going throughout all these years and change. All of you make our efforts here worth it, despite not being any sort of “official” government agency with any government funding.
We also want to graciously thank Maria Bamford, Baron Vaughn, Candice Thompson, James Austin Johnson, Joe Wagner, Emily Heller, Drennon Davis, Karen Kilgariff, Brad Silnutzer, Avery Pearson, Christian Chavez, Echoes Under Sunset, Sarah Wood, and Mandee Johnson for all being part of or helping with the show.
The following is photographic evidence that this all happened.
Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff
Yes, dancing happened.
Oh yeah, this guy, Jake Kroeger. He works here and likes hats.
To another 4 and 5/12th years and beyond where we relaunch the website (happening soon), expanding beyond LA (hopefully happening soon), etc. (perhaps happening at a point TBD). Any donations (there’s a donation button right above the embedded Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run calendars) would definitely expedite any of these things happening.
Once more, thank you all for making this, whatever it is exactly we do, worth it.
Really, if you can pull catching Emily Heller’s tour and her taping, you should do so.
Emily is headed across this great land from Apr. 17th-Jun. 27th starting here in California, then going through Texas, Colorado, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Washington, Portland, San Francisco, Wisconsin, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Virginia and Minnesota.
She’s going to record to her very first comedy album in the middle of the tour at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY on Jun. 3rd at 7:30PM and 9:30PM.
Don’t miss out on any of this and get your dates, times, and, most importantly, tickets here.
So, you’re not going to miss this right?
A stacked line-up of our favorites including Maria Bamford, Baron Vaughn, Joe Wagner, James Austin Johnson, Candice Thompson, and Drennon Davis has just officially got even more stacked for The Comedy Bureau 4 and 5/12th Anniversary.
The fantastic Emily Heller and Karen Kilgariff have been added. Heller will bring her sharp, smart stand-up and Kilgariff will be joining Drennon Davis for some of the best musical comedy around right now.
Again, it’s this Fri. Apr. 3rd at Echoes Under Sunset, doors at 10PM, start at 10:30PM. Don’t miss out like we did on celebrating four years on the actual day we turned four years old!
Matt Ingebretson, who we feature a lot here, has put together an entire collection of short form pieces from some of the funniest people currently in and around Los Angeles for The Impolite: A Collection of Comedic Lit From LA.
Those people include such comedy folks as:
Megan Amram, Nathan Buckley, Eric Dadourian, Raj Desai, Emily Heller, Karen Kilgariff, Megan Koester, Yassir Lester, Aparna Nancherla, Eddie Pepitone, Sean Tejaratchi, Amber Tozer, David Venhuizen, Patrick Walsh, Jay Weingarten, Jake Weisman, Nick Wiger, and Allen Strickland Williams.
The book has everything from “…high-concept humor to idiotic poetry to a detailed factual account of how Cash Money Records caused a rift between a step-father and his son,” says Ingebretson.
So, with all of that being said, we suggest taking $10 and spending on it buying and enjoying “The Impolite”.
Dan Telfer has two albums under his belt, though one of them is more of an EP, and is on his way to his third on AST Records’ label.
Join him as well as the comedic stylings of Maria Bamford, Emily Heller, and Ricky Carmona for this second full-length journey to the far reaches of Dan’s comedic universe to be recorded live at Nerdmelt Sat. Nov. 15th at 9PM.
Admission is free in case you needed more convincing, though you shouldn’t need any such thing.
(via TV Line)
With the addition of Emily Heller to the cast, TBS’ Ground Floor will know have two absolutely hilarious comedians on the show as regulars. Heller joins Rory Scovel for Ground Floor’s second season as a socially awkward business wunderkind. Joining the cast also marks a move up for Emily who used to write for another Bill Lawrence show, Surviving Jack.
We’re glad to see that Ground Floor EP Bill Lawrence has pretty great taste when it comes to stand-ups.
The finale of season 2 of The Future with Emily Heller over at Above Average brings something that celebrity psychic/comedian Emily Heller did not forsee, which was someone who knew tarot cards way better than her.
The great Moshe Kasher apparently knows what he’s looking for in the cards no matter how Heller interprets them. Watch it here.
Emily Heller might be in a little over her head for her latest episode of The Future at Above Average. Arrested Development‘s Alia Shawkat is her latest guest and isn’t so much looking for a reading of her future as a way out of some nasty business that she got herself into.
On the latest episode of Emily Heller’s The Future at Above Average, Haley Joel Osment is seeking out answers to what the future holds. However, his most famous line from that one movie seems to be the only thing that “are in the cards” for Osment.
In the latest episode of Emily Heller’s tarot card “reading” web series The Future at Above Average, Emily takes a little bit of hallucinogenic courage via mushrooms before taking on her latest client, the very funny Eliza Coupe. Unfortunately, one of the last things you want to see on shrooms is tarot cards.
All of our time is valuable. However, psychics’ time are even more valuable according to Emily Heller’s web series at Above Average, The Future
That’s what Olivia Wilde learned the hard way, which also happens to be the funny way. Watch it here.
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen To Make a Double Album for Kill Rock Stars
You did read that right. Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal, which was one of the best comedy shows in NYC and is now one of the best comedy shows here in LA, is recording a live comedy double album for Kill Rock Stars. Joining Kurt and Kristen will be an amazing line-up featuring: Nate Bargatze, Emily Heller, Andres du Bouchet, Karen Kilgariff, Kyle Kinane, Heather Lawless, Eddie Pepitone, Eugene Mirman, and Aparna Nancherla.
Both tapings are happening at Hot Tub’s current home, The Virgil here in LA, on Mon. Jun. 23rd and Mon. Jun. 30th at 8PM. We highly suggest getting tickets for this ASAP.
One of our favorite web series from Above Average is back for a second season. That’s right Emily Heller has returned with her “tarot card expertise” to tell The Future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxvYRvCXOI
The incredibly funny Emily Heller returned to Conan this week to perform another delightful stand-up set.
The Most Intentionally Funny Videos of 2013 Part 4
Our final edition of The Most Intentionally Funny Videos for 2013 at The Nerdist was posted yesterday featuring Bill Murray as Liberace on Letterman, Eddie Pepitone rapping on Arsenio Hall, Jon Stewart’s Deep Dish Pizza Rant, and more.
Watching all of those as well as MIFV part one, two, and three should make any day that you have in 2014.
Give them all a watch again like we’re probably going to.
You might think that because of their far reaching powers that the NSA is immune from the stereotypical red tape attributed to the slowness of government agencies. Rest assured (or actually don’t, because they shouldn’t be slow) that the NSA has their own version of bureaucratic obstacles that often goes beyond paperwork and security clearance as shown in the latest episode of Wired’s great web series, Codefellas with Emiliy Heller and John Hodgman.
Watch it and learn what the NSA is really up to here.
Emily Heller’s wonderful tarot card reading web series at Above Average, “The Future” returns with both guest Janeane Garofolo and sponsor from a local sandwich chain that we’ve never heard of, which may or may not affect “the future”.
Wired Magazine has put up a great new web series starring both incredibly funny comedians John Hodgman and Emily Heller called Codefellas showing what the NSA is “really doing” with their surveillance program PRISM such as answering incredibly old e-mails.
Emily Heller puts up another great episode of her Above Average web series, The Future. This time Kal Penn joins in to find out anything about where his days are headed besides moving to Brooklyn and getting a roommate.
Watch here now and don’t forget to catch Emily Heller on Conan tonight TBS 11PM.
The very funny Emily Heller has started a new web series at the great web series hub, Above Average, called “The Future”. Heller will try to read the future of her guests with supposed psychic skills.
See what is (or isn’t) in store for her first guest, Reggie Watts.