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Help Crowdfund Female, LBGTQ Focused Comedy Festival, Dangerfest

July 29, 2016

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Dangerfest will be a new a comedy festival that will be gracing the stages of Highland Park here in Los Angeles from Thursday, October 6th-Sunday, October, 9th.

As they state on their site:

DangerFest! will focus on an all female and LGBTQ talent roster, without having that be the focus of the marketing of the festival. We aim to let the work speak for itself and have nothing feel “separate” about it.

They’re looking to crowdfund $7000 to put on this festival, which you can contribute to right here.

Here’s a video explaining their mission further featuring comedians Atsuko Okatsuka, Julia Prescott, Heather Hanford, Lisa Chanoux, and Jenny Yang.

Not Safe with Nikki Glaser Takes a Moment to Get Serious About Rape on College Campuses, Then Ends with a Pretty Great Bit

July 13, 2016

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It’s a good sign for a topical comedy show when they can show a tonal flexibility to examine a very serious topic in a very sobering way, then bring it back to a great joke.

That’s what Not Safe with Nikki Glaser did when covering the topic of rape on college campuses, along with an assist from Garbage Time’s own Katie Nolan and the great Ron Funches.

Watch the whole segment here.

Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone’s “Womanhood” Covers Menopause/Witchhood(?)

July 7, 2016

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The “wisdom” of Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone will hopefully last through the centuries even though this web series looks like it got shot on VHS.

Watch the latest episode of their Womanhood series on Refinery 29′s RIOT on the subject of menopause, possibly ‘witchhood’.

For admission, there’s a suggested donation of $5 at the door. More details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Daniel Sloss Points Out the Absurdity of Tampons Not Being Covered in Healthcare

June 14, 2016

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Scotland’s own Daniel Sloss returns to Conan as one of the program’s favorite stand-ups.

On this time around, Sloss makes a sharp, well observed collection of jokes about how ridiculous it is that tampons are treated as anything else but a medical necessity.

Watch it here.

Dan Harmon Gets Infatuated with Mary Wollstonecraft Played by Aubrey Plaza on Latest “Great Minds”

March 18, 2016

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This time on Great Minds with Dan Harmon, Dan comes face to face with women’s rights pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft (as played by Aubrey Plaza) and immediately has a big time crush on her.

What follows is a pretty great example of how trailblazing Wollstonecraft really was.

Feminism Finally Gets Explained in a Concise, Non-Exclusionary, Fun Way by Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher

November 24, 2015

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The latest episode of Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher’s web series She Said over at Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls gives us all a gift in explaining exactly what feminism is in a succinct and entertaining way.

For those who keep mistaking it for something that it’s something that isn’t about equality or those looking for a good way to summarize feminism in order to demystify people’s stereotypes, watch this video right here.

Amy Schumer Deftly Satirized Late Night Talk Show Interviews of Women

May 13, 2015

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As you saw with Tina Fey and the last fancy dress she’ll ever wear on Letterman, many women that make an appearance on a late night talk show go through a bunch of hoops, specifically in regards to their looks and what they’re wearing, in order to promote their movie, tv show, etc.

Inside Amy Schumer’s latest sketch summarizes the phenomenon with a little NSFW exaggeration pretty well.

Also, seeing Bill Hader as late night talk show host caricature is pretty great too.

“Inside Amy Schumer” Does a Remake of “12 Angry Men” About Women in Entertainment in Place of Murder

May 6, 2015

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The 90s remake of 12 Angry Men should have been exactly like this.

Amy Schumer and company continue to back up their Peabody win with this sketch that breaks down Hollywood’s ridiculous expectations of leading ladies in the framework of the classic film 12 Angry Men, which originally had a jury arguing over a murder case.

Jeff Goldblum, Paul Giamatti, Chris Gethard, Kumail Nanjiani, Dennis Quaid, Nick Di Paolo, Henry Zebrowski, and more make a fantastic cast as well.

Watch Emily Heller on Late Night with Seth Meyers

April 24, 2015

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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.

Watch it here.

Nadia Kamil Pulls Off Feminist Burlesque

February 16, 2014

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Though “feminist burlesque” is a good example of an oxymoron, Nadia Kamil manages to make it a reality as well as have it be hilarious recently at Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen here in LA.

Give it a watch to see what we’re talking about.

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