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If the myth of Sisyphus were translated into a modern day form (that also happened to be one of the funniest things on the Internet), it just might be Henry Phillips and his existential laden attempts at hosting a cooking show.

That show, of course, is called Henry’s Kitchen and is indeed one of our all time favorite web series and just got a whole new lease on life via Thrillist to do a “Masterclass”. In it, Henry gets an even nicer kitchen to ponder point of it all while doing his best with/botching whatever he’s cooking.

Dive in with this first entry Green Onions and then a whole row of new eps here.

H. Jon Benjamin’s “Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir” Out Now

May 4, 2018

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Though it may not come as a surprise to you that a man that released a jazz album where he played piano without knowing how to play piano wrote a memoir about failure, H. Jon Benjamin’s love affair with failing is something to behold.

Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir really delves into the nuances and various facets of failure, specifically in Benjamin’s life, in his wry fashion and is undoubtedly a cathartic read in these times we live in.

True to form, Benjamin didn’t even praise this book that he wrote when appearing to promote it on Colbert this week, which, ironically, is a pretty clever sell for a book about screwing up being OK.

You can now get Failure Is An Option from Penguin Random House here.

These ‘Insecure Morons’ Show That Your Party Small Talk Isn’t as Great as You Think It Is

June 10, 2016

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alex mullen, fail, how to, how to not, insecure morons, james corbett, max azulay, party, sketch comedy, small talk, web video

Max Azulay, Alex Mullen, and James Corbett or, together, Insecure Morons, offer up their latest video that sums up why party small talk usually sounds way better in your head than it does when it comes out of your mouth and makes whoever your talking to very ill at ease.

Watch it here.

Lil’ Cuties (Shawn Pearlman and Dave Horowitz) Present How to Botch a Drug Deal

August 14, 2015

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If one of your life’s goals or, at the very least, a longtime New Year’s resolution is to screw up a drug deal, let Shawn Pearlman and Dave Horowitz, The Lil’ Cuties, show you how it’s done.

If you wish to not have your drug deals go south, do the opposite of this.

CC:Social Scene Shows One of The Worst Outcomes of Trying Pick-Up Lines

July 3, 2015

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Pick-up lines are pretty much a bad idea, especially these days when most people would prefer a pre-arranged social media based arrangement to meet rather than being talked to by strangers.

Comedy Central’s interactive web series CC:Social Scene sees how much of a disaster can come about with trying to say pick-up lines.

Spoiler alert: it gets pretty disastrous.

Watch it here.

Watch Aziz Ansari Read People’s First Flirty Text Messages as Part of His Book “Modern Romance” That’s Out Today

June 16, 2015

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Aziz Ansari not only is kicking off the release of his book Modern Romance that exhaustively tries to break down modern relationships and dating with a tour, but he went on The Tonight Show last night to give us all a real life sample of what you’ll get in the book.

For a whole segment, Aziz and Jimmy Fallon read the very first text message conversations that people had when trying to flirt with each other. Even though you didn’t send any of these messages, you’ll cringe and laugh.

Watch it here and get Modern Romance here.

Fast Company Gives You a Heads Up On How You Come Off When Flirting at Work

February 3, 2015

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Business know-it-all Fast Company has a good idea of what flirting at work looks like in theory and what it looks like in actual practice.

So, as part of a web series based off misconceived notions of how you well you think you’re doing at the office, they’ve put together a handy guide for what you really sound and look like when attempting to lay down the charm, thick.

It’s like that expectations vs. reality scene in 500 Days of Summer except none of us are Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Zooey Deschanel.

Watch it here.

Paul Gale Foreshadows Your Summer Romance/Hook Up

June 21, 2014

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The summertime would be a great time for a summer romance, hence the name, but in this day and age of hooking up via online dating, it’s not as dreamy as we’d like it to be, no matter how hard we dream.

Watch Paul Gale and Bridey Elliott show what that Tinder date might end up being this summer.

Andy Daly’s “Review” Reviews Eating 15 Pancakes

February 23, 2014

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There are little surprises to what delving into the experience of eating 15 pancakes is truly like, but it certainly is funny to watch it get “reviewed”.

That is what Forrest MacNeil/Andy Daly does in this latest clip of Review that you should watch before getting Sunday brunch.

Please Watch Murderfist’s Rehearsal Dinner

February 20, 2014

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Awesome NYC based sketch group Murderfist presents a rehearsal dinner for a wedding that probably takes the cake for hysterical rehearsal dinners (so long as you’re not actually in attendance for this one).

Watch it here.

Pete Holmes Manages to Have the Worst Killer

October 28, 2013

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Pete Holmes and company has been knocking it out of the park with their sketches leading up to their premiere.

So, here’s another great one for Halloween featuring “a serial killer fail”, if you will with the amazing Matt McCarthy.

Morning Debriefing 8/9/11

1) Marc Maron’s “This Has To Be Funny” is out today! Download at the link or if you can find it in a store, something, anything.

2) Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Ed Asner, and more have had enough of the environment already…

Stop The Environment from Ed Asner

3) The Onion will experiment with charging readers for online conent.

4) The LA weekly writes about the Tomorrow Show as Ron Lynch and company deserve it.

5) Fast Company explores Successful Fake Twitter Accounts.

6) Buzzine interviews Kumail Nanjiani before his appearance on Showtime’s Green Room with Paul Provenza.

7) Patton Oswalt in another 5 Second Film!!!

8) An article we wrote for the Nerdist on how SEO has possibly ruined comedy is according to “Matt” is “…a boring, pointless, empty article,” further adding, “Nothing worse than a comedy critic. Get a job.” Apparently, he liked the Les Misérables parody of Jay-Z’s & Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind”. To each his own.

9) Fuck yeah Down’s Syndrome Association of the UK, you bet Doug Stanhope isn’t going to apologize for his rant against Sarah Palin and her DS baby (another piece we wrote yesterday for Laughspin).

10) Aziz Ansari on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

11) Puddin’-“Duct Tape” w/guest Megan Amram

12) COMEDY CRAWL
WTF LIVE and Marc Maron CD Release Party @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $10 (standing room only)
Performance Anxiety @ The Pleasure Chest 8PM $7
Jared’s Jokers @ The Joint 8PM $10
Comedy Bang Bang @ UCB Theatre 8:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Public School Stories @ M Bar 9PM FREE/$10 min.
Holy Fuck @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Blamblamblam! @ R-Bar 9PM FREE (password is FINALLY MUSTARD)

13) OPEN MIC RUN
LIBRARY A COFFEE HOUSE 3418 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/first come, first served.
WESTWOOD BREW CO 1097 Glendon Ave., Westwood, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/first come, first served/$4 min.
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd St. Promenade and 4th St.)/Sign-up 9:45PM/Starts 10PM/lottery/$1 cover
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 min./multiple sets allowed/bottled water and coffee provided

14) Perhaps instead of figuring out comedy that’s marketable, the emphasis should be on comedy that’s so funny people are tearing up, then figuring out how to market it.

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Morning Debriefing 6/22/11

1) Why has no one done this? Twitter Feed Theater by Paul Cibis. #BadStartToAEulogy

2) Reggie Watts on Conan.

3) There’s already a @SaveSportsShow to get Norm’s Sports Show back on Comedy Central. I don’t know what getting Twitter followers will do as far as convincing a network to change their mind, but follow it for a good cause.

4) Best Louis CK quotes in recent interviews [via FunnyOrDie]

5) Paul Provenza’s Green Room gets in Penthouse.

6) Tig Notaro Interview for the Hairpin.

7) RPOKKW-Random Picture of Kyle Kinane Wednesday

8) Patton Oswalt in preview of Futurama!

9) Ricky Gervais has joined the Onion’s fight to get a Pulitzer.

10) Puddin’-“Scream”

11) ON THE HORIZON
Jimmy Pardo Hosting Auction @ Amoeba Records July 2nd 4PM

12) COMEDY CRAWL
Small and Tall Tales @ UCB Theatre 8PM $5
Hang with Funny or Die & Paul F. Tompkins @ Funny or Die (1710 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA) 8PM FREE
Generate Showcase @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min.
Meltdown @ Nerdist Theater 8:30PM $8
The Ed Galvez Punk House @ Westside Comedy Theater 9PM $8
Beer in the Shower @ Dreams Cafe & Bar 9:30PM FREE
Facebook @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
The Improvised Stand-Up Show @ Second City Hollywood 10PM $5

13) OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
THE SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 7PM
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/first come, first served
CAFE ON 2ND 7 S. 2nd St., Alhambra, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/$3 cover/10 min. guarantee
CAFE MUSE 6547 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 8PM
LIBRARY A COFFEE HOUSE 3418 Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:30PM
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/7 min.
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 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Silverlake)/starts 11:15PM/no purchase necessary

14) Special Thanks to Asterios Kokkinos “If enjoying your website is wrong, I don’t want to be right.” Follow @asterios because it’s never wrong and really funny.

15) I did 30 min. drunk last night for 8 people and it went “not terrible” though apparently I’m a pretty loud drunk. Is there some type of comedy badge for this?

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Morning Debriefing 6/7/11

1) American: The Bill Hicks Story is out on DVD today here in the States!!!

2) You can win a copy of American if you submit your favorite Bill Hicks quote at the Sataristas FB event page here.

3) Do Modern Comedy Roasts Need More Class? (Punchline Magazine Article by the Comedy Bureau)

4) The Walsh Brothers Go “Planking”

5) One of the funniest people we know here at the Comedy Bureau (an early recipient of the Tip of the Hat) Abbey Londer is actually using her Twitter account, so we highly suggest that you follow @abbeylonder so you can catch “Stop fucking smiling at me it’s just a latte you idiot. #firemealready”.

6) Sappity Tappity, the Drunken Roller Skating English Christmas Tree (Jon Daly) Tries to Explain Himself.

7) Theatre of Life w/Nick Rutherford and Beck Bennett. Essentially, it’s “extreme people watching”, well… as extreme as “people watching” can get.

8) Connected Comedy: What I’ve Learned in My First Three Months on Tumblr. Great Article AND we’re mentioned in it. Thanks Connected Comedy.

9) Bad Hostage Negotiator with Rob Corddry. Plenty of you have seen this, but, truly, we’d regret not posting here.

10) COMEDY CRAWL
Drinking Buddies Presents @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min.
Drunk On Stage: Pride Week! @ Akbar 8PM FREE
The LA Improv Comedy Fest: The Armando Show w/Drew Carey @ iO West 8:30PM $25
Comedy Bang Bang @ UCB Theatre 8:30PM $5 (stand by only)
For a Few Geeks More @ Michael’s Bar & Grill 9PM FREE
Lower Crust Comedy @ Genghis Cohen 9PM $6

11) OPEN MIC RUN
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE TOKYO @ SEÑOR FISH 422 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/6 min./first come, first served/no purchase necessary
LIBRARY A COFFEE HOUSE 3418 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
WESTWOOD BREWCO 1097 Glendon Ave., Westwood, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/first come, first served/$4 min.
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd St. Promenade and 4th St.)/Sign-up 9:45PM/Starts 10PM/lottery/$1 cover
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 min./multiple sets allowed/bottled water and coffee provided

12) A comedian asked me last night, “Is comedy even cool?” To that I say, “YES!!!” and suggest you watch this.

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March 26, 2011

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