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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 255: Laser Webber & Defying with Queer Joy
April 23, 2025
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These days, the notion of representation mattering is more crucial than it has been in a long time, especially when it comes to trans/gender non-conforming/non-binary folks. Thank goodness for the likes of people such as Laser Webber, a do-it-all performer/producer in all worlds in and around comedy, music, and theater to co-found The Joy Who Lived, a festival celebrating trans and gnc comedy/performance/art (that’s specifically counter-programming a Harry Potter play at the Pantages). We talk about the importance of communing and having joy whilst in survival mode in 2025.

Follow Laser @lasertheboy & The Joy Who Lived: trans/gnc comedy & performance festival @joywholived (that still has a handful of shows left, FYI)

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and Jake Kroeger

Pick of the Day: Buster Keaton Festival (near LA) 1/6
December 28, 2023
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buster keaton, festival, old town music hall, silent film

The Marx Brothers always get plenty of play during the turn of the year, but, if you’re in the mode for black and white film comedy that still stands the test of time, you best not forget about comedy/filmmaking legend and pioneer Buster Keaton. His daring stunts made for some of the most enduring images of comedy at the outset of moving pictures and are still astounding by today’s standards.

Fortunately, for Angelenos, an entire Buster Keaton Festival has been created that will celebrate Keaton’s memory at El Segundo’s Old Town Music Hall. Not only will you get to joyfully run through Buster’s filmography, but it will be live accompanies by Old Town Music Hall’s beautiful Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ, played by Mark Herman.

This very special silent film festival is slated for Sat. Jan. 6th at 2:30PM will only run you $20. Please go get tix here.

 
June 7, 2019
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What is BugCon? For starters, it’s definitely not an Entomology convention. 

It is, however, named in honor of Bug Mane who first appeared to us all on the Doughboys podcast (though it is to be noted that BugCon is not a Doughboys event despite both Doughboys hosts Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell being slated to appear for multiple events).

As far as we can tell, this weekend will actually be part podcast/streaming festival, part performance art exhibition, part art installation, and part fun, screen-filled journey through post-modernity. 

Such events/panels/happenings at BugCon will include: 
-Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born Takes Places in an Alternate Reality Where 9/11 Never Happened
-Nick Wiger Drives a Train
-The BugTV panel with Bugmane
-Jack AM
-HOW TO WRITE A BOOK A MAKE AT LEAST $600
-American Arts and Culture Review Podcast
-a whole lot more

Also, you’ll get an exclusive “BugCon 2019 Fan Safety Vest” and “BugVision” glasses if you attend. Perhaps, you’ll need both items to handle the whole experience?

So, you can (and should) get an all access pass for BugCon 2019 here. Full schedule and line-up is available on mobile devices at http://bugcon.net.

The Vulture Festival Is Returnsing to LA for Nov. 17th & 18th
October 24, 2018
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Better find a good way to park (or Lyft to) Hollywood Roosevelt for Sat. & Sun. Nov. 17th & Nov. 18th.

The Vulture Festival will be taking over the Roosevelt that weekend and bringing: Bitch Sesh Live, a live table read of Big Mouth, a Schitt’s Creek Holiday Spectacular, Adam Pally and Casey Wilson: An Excuse to Hang Out: An Evening of Music, Comedy, and Friendship, Busy Philipps: In Conversation, and much more!

If that peaks your interest (and we’re betting that it does), you can buy individual tickets here.

The Chicago Podcast Festival Returns for 2018 with The Dollop, Off Book, Yo Is This Racist?, and High & Mighty
October 13, 2018
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The Chicago Podcast Festival Returns for 2018 with The Dollop, Off Book, Yo Is This Racist?, and High & Mighty

Post Thanksgiving this year might a nice time to get away from whatever you had to put up with on Thanksgiving and attend live tapings of your favorite podcasts.

Luckily, if you’re in, around, or headed to Chicago from Nov. 26th-Dec 2nd, The Chicago Podcast Festival, now in its 3rd year, will be the perfect thing to fill that niche. Many of the best podcasts from LA as mentioned above will play alongside local favorites and more.

By the way, we don’t know when the next podcast festival is going to happen in LA, so, if podcast festivals are your thing, you might want to hop on over to this.  

Get tickets, schedule, info, and more here.
October 4, 2018
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Starting tomorrow and going through the whole weekend, the maiden voyage of the Adult Swim Festival will kick off just East of DTLA. 

As you can see above, the line-up is pretty damn stacked. RTJ and the Rick and Morty Musical Ricksperience is great enough reason alone to go to this even though the rest of the line-up makes one hell of a festival. You can still get festival passes here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
August 13, 2018
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The Pack Theater in Hollywood is throwing their third annual one-day festival known as PackCon this Saturday!

It’s a premium offering of what The Pack has to offer, which is often as wild, devil-may-care, fun, and irreverent as can be.

TO BE FEATURED AT THIS PACKCON 3: 
Ian Roberts
Esther Povitsky
Matt Jones
Kurt Braunohler
Kevin Dorff
Matt Jones
Christina Gausas
Julian McCullough
Johnny Pemberton
Liquid Feet
Subhah Agarwal
Drew Droege
Suzi Barrett
Jetzo
Dark Matters
Brian Moses
Heather Anne Campbell
Brent Weinbach
Speedface
Pack Theater House Sketch & Improv Teams
and much more!

The majority of the festival is pay what you can, as that’s the normal Pack Theater policy, however admission for 9PM & 10PM shows are $15 a pop. Get more details and the full schedule here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

First Ever Adult Swim Festival in DTLA Announces Line-up
May 18, 2018
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It has been awhile since a big festival in LA has had some comedy, but, thankfully, the Adult Swim Festival is coming to the Row DTLA this October 6th & 7th to change all of that.

In addition to the bounce, fun, and attitude of Run The Jewels, Dan Deacon, and Big Freedia, you’ll get to see the comedy stylings of:

Ahmed Bharoocha
Jena Friedman
Jo Firestone
Joe Pera
Hannibal Buress
Nick Rutherford
On Cinema Live!

Here’s a video announcement (that just happens to be in stop motion animation).

Weekend passes are going for $230, but you can get an early bird price for a single day pass at $75.

Buy a pass and get more info here.

We’re Giving Away 10 Weekend Passes to the Broke LA Fest
April 17, 2018
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Whether you want to continue riding the high of Coachella or you want to go to a festival where you don’t have to leave town and doesn’t break the bank OR you want to see a bunch of great comedy from local favorites lined-up back-to-back-to-back-to-back, you really ought to check out the Broke LA Music & Arts Festival happening this weekend in DTLA.

Lucky for you, we’ve got 10 weekend passes to giveaway!

All you have to do to enter to win is e-mail thecomedybureau@gmail.com and ask to sign-up for our mailing list!
April 7, 2018
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The Broke LA Music + Arts Festival is just a few weeks away and their line-up just got announced. As you’ll see if you go, Prufrock Pizza will be chock full of LA comedians whose names you should get acquainted with.

By the way, tickets are $15 for one night and $25 for the whole weekend to see everything (including the multitudes of bands on the bill). Pretty nice, huh? Get your advanced tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

2018 Bonnaroo’s Comedy Line-Up Announced
April 4, 2018
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Per usual, a comedy tent in Manchester, Tennessee this June will be host to some damn good fun with comedians that you might have seen on TV, but really ought to go see live (i.e. Reggie Watts, Aparna Nancherla, Melissa Villaseñor, Drennon Davis, Martin Urbano, and more)

Get more details and passes about this year’s Bonnaroo here.

Broke LA Festival Now Taking Submissions for Comedians, Filmmakers, Visual Artists, Inventors, Etc.
February 7, 2018
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Actually, Broke LA, the annual music and arts festival that is friendly on your wallet, is taking submissions of all sorts of artists and performers (seems that’ll include many disciplines in comedy) to be featured live on April 21st and/or 22nd at The Regent in DTLA. 

You have until Thurs. Feb. 15th to get in for the early submission deadline for $10 fee and then, $15 for the final deadline on Fri. Mar. 2nd.

Get more details and submit here.
October 31, 2017
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Cultural maven Vulture is throwing a really swell looking weekend of events this November for Vulture Festival LA. As far as comedy goes, they have a pretty spectacular line-up as follows: 

State of the Union with Sarah Silverman and Frank Rich
Bored to Death Reunion
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: 100th Song Celebration Sing-a-Long
Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner
Clone High Reunion
The Disaster Artist’s James Franco
It’s Always Sunny
American Vandal
Owen Wilson and Ed Helms in Conversation
Schitt’s Creek
Search Party Scavenger Hunt
Funny or Die and IFC’s Thanksgiving House
I, Tonya screening
Comedians You Should & Will Know Hosted by Pete Holmes and the cast of Crashing
Wine Down with Issa Rae
Damon Lindelof and Mike Schur Discuss TV (and the Meaning of Life)
TBS Presents The Detour

Sounds pretty great, right?

Individual tickets are available, but you can get a festival pass to attend as much of this festival as you can handle. ALSO, you can use promo code “COMEDY20″ for 20% ticket prices.

Get more info, schedules, etc. here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more at www.thecomedybureau.com.
September 18, 2017
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The 2017 LA Podcast Festival is only a few weeks away and they’re already sold out of early bird three day passes. However, you can still snag regularly priced 3 Day Passes for $190.56 here or try chance trying to get a limited amount of single day passes closer to the weekend of the festival.

In case you didn’t know, the line-up includes:

WTF with Marc Maron, My Favorite Murder, Jackie & Laurie Show, Lovett or Leave It, TOFOP, Dork Forest, The Dollop, Comedy Film Nerds, Bertcast, We Hate Movies, Mental Illness Happy Hour w/ Paul Gilmartin, Cashing In w/ TJ Miller and host Cash Levy, Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend, Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast (live debut), Chapo Trap House, Dumb People Town, The Todd Glass Show, Tigerbelly, The Boogie Monster, Mixed Feelings Podcast, My Brother’s Sneaker, The Jimmy Dore Show, and many more!

Podcast Pros confirmed speakers:
Norm Pattiz – Founder & Executive Chairman, Podcast One
Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark, My Favorite Murder
Hernan Lopez – CEO, Wondery
Tom Webster – Vice President, Strategy and Marketing, Edison Research
Julian Petty – Partner, Nixon Peabody
Taylor Moore – Head of Comedy, Kickstarter
Jordan Cope – Creator Relations Lead, Patreon
Rob Walch – CEO, Libsyn
Jason Smith – CEO, Feral Audio
Sim Sarna – Producer & Co-host, Anna Faris is Unqualified
David Raphael – President, Public Media Marketing
Jackie Kashian – The Dork Forest
Josh Lindgren – Agent, The Billions Corporation
Cash Levy – Cashing In
Allyson Marino – Podcast Monetization Specialist
Ben Adair – CEO & Executive Producer, BA Creative 

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

2017 Outside Lands Barbary Comedy Tent to Have Nick Kroll, Roy Wood Jr., Last Podcast on the Left, Wild Horses, Talk Show the Game Show
July 16, 2017
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One of SF’s big festivals, Outside Lands, returns for its 2017 edition on Friday, August 11th-Sunday, August 13th.

As you can see above, they have a pretty swell line-up for their Barbary Comedy Tent.

On top of that, music acts will include, but certainly not limited to, headliners such as The Who, Gorillaz, Lorde, Tribe Called Quest, and Queens of the Stone Age.

You can get tickets/passes here.

Here are the prices going for Outside Lands right now:
3-DAY GA: $375.00
3-DAY VIP: $795.00
FRIDAY GA: $149.50
FRIDAY VIP: $345.00
SATURDAY GA: $149.50
SATURDAY VIP: $345.00
SUNDAY GA: $149.50
SUNDAY VIP: $345.00
July 16, 2017
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Sunday July 30th will bring a one day comedy and music festival to Lincoln Heights (just north of DTLA) to an ultra cool Victorian style house known as HM 157. 

Danger Collective Records’ Concerto Con will feature comedy from Baron Vaughn, Brent Weinbach, Matt Braunger, Jay Weingarten, Rachel Scanlon, Max Baumgarten, Ellory Smith, Sydney Feyder, and in house host comedian, Pierre Concerto  to name a few and music from Jerry Paper, Boyo, C Roy, Momma, Brutus VIII, Wild Wing, Astral Mary, DJ Temple Judea, and DJ Marshall.

Tickets are $20 at the door and $15 online in advance. You can (and should) get your advance tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
April 29, 2017
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Tomorrow is time for the Skirball Cultural Center’s annual Puppet Festival. All throughout the center, puppeteers for all sorts of audiences will be performing from 10AM-4PM

General admission is $12 and you can (and should) get your tickets here. 

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
April 8, 2017
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One of our favorite indie comedy theaters in LA, The Pack Theater, is doing a pretty sizable comedy/music festival at the end of this month.

Called Packchella, see what they have in store for Friday, April 28th-Sunday, April 30th.

Friday April 28th
9p – Bill and Ted’s Excellent History Report
10p – Late Nightmare with Emily Candini
11p – Go Sketch Yourself

Saturday April 29th
7p – Packstage Passes – Featuring Ari Stidham
8p – Allie Goertz, Pat Regan and Jeremiah Watkins, Kindred Throats
9p – The Lady Scoutington Musical Comedy Hour Featuring Graham the Dancing Lawyer – With Jackie Tohn, Amy Albert, Alli Miller
10p – Rick Overton’s Improvised Musical
11p – Sketch That Tune
12a – After Hours House Party with Drac & The Swamp Rats and Pat Regan

Sunday April 30th
12p – The Scramble – With JETZO　（ジェットゾー）, The Brothers Brothers’ Band, Lewburger, The Chroma Keys, Gregory Lawrence Smith Esq.
8p – Opening Night: The Improvised Musical and The Sound of Musical
9p – Rachel Bloom and Friends – With Zach Sherwin, The Apple Sisters, Drennon Davis, Matthew Patrick Davis
10p – Ladies of TPT Sketch Night
11p – The 88 Show with Avery Pearson – with Eliza Skinner, Michael Glazer

Get more details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

5th Annual NYC Podfest Is Next Month
March 13, 2017
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How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Kevin McDonald’s Kevin McDonald Show, Hold On with Eugene Mirman, Risk! Trues Tales Boldly Told, Another Round with Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu, Mike Myers, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, and much much more are coming to The Bell House in Brooklyn next month for the 5th Annual NYC Podfest.

Pretty swell, huh?

Given how well podcasts tour these days, we’d urge you to buy tickets sooner rather than later. Already, a few shows for this NYC Podfest are sold out. 

Get more details and tickets here.

Bonnaroo 2017 Announces the Line-Up for Its 2017 Comedy Theatre
February 8, 2017
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From Burress to 2 Dope Queens to The Improvised Shakespeare Company to Chris Garcia to Jo Firestone Hari Kondabolu to Natasha and Moshe, you’re not going to want to miss comedy at all at this year’s Bonnaroo.

The festival is set to take place from Thursday, June 8th-Sunday, June 11th right at its home in Manchester, Tennessee. Passes start at $324.50.

Seriously, we know that there’s plenty of great music there (Chance The Rapper, Future Islands, Lorde, etc.), but you’d probably regret it if you didn’t catch the comedy too.

The 2017 Riot LA Comedy Festival Is Less Than a Week Away
January 14, 2017
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Lindsay Ames’ My Diary, The Best Friends Show with Kim and Aliya, Literary Death Match with Adrian Todd Zuniga, Crabapples with Bobcat Goldthwait and Caitlin Gill, and Crane’s Bar (as shown above) are just a few of the lovely things to be at this year’s Riot LA Comedy Festival. 

There will also be a round of Todd Barry’s Crowd Work Tour, an international comedy showcase, a best of the best short film showcase, and plenty more even beyond that (as you can see in the flyer below).

In short, it’s something that you’ll want to go to in you’re in town, whether you see comedy a lot like we do or not.

As we already pointed out, January 19th-22nd, the dates for Riot LA, are less than a week away and so get your passes, tickets ASAP (My Favorite Murder, Ali Wong, and more have already sold out) here.

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San Diego/Del Mar’s Kaaboo To Have Silicon Valley, Jeff Ross, Janeane Garofalo, Garfunkel and Oates, Puddles Pity Party
July 29, 2016
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It’s becoming an ever more popular trend for big music festivals to have a comedy portion.

The Kaaboo in Del Mar, CA (just north of San Diego) is just doing that with a pretty fantastic, star studded comedy line-up. They’ve even recruited the delightful Taylor Williamson to put together a local comedy showcase.

If you’re in, around, or near Del Mar, you shouldn’t miss this. Get more details and tickets here.

2016 Broke LA Festival Taking Submissions for Comedy
January 22, 2016
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(via Tumblangeles)

SUBMISSIONS open January 14th until February 26th, 2016.
EARLY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 14th, NO FEE Submission.
LATE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: $10 fee, February 26th

The Broke LA Festival used to be cleverly called Brokechella, but is still aiming to giving a festival experience to those not willing to drop the coin on venturing out to the desert for an entire weekend to mostly trip on drugs and kind of listen to live music.

The festival is set for Apr. 23rd and they are taking submissions for comedy, which should be convenient to all of you that live in LA. 

Get details and submit here.

The Pemberton Music Festival in British Columbia To Be Latest Big Music Festival That Has Comedy
April 15, 2015
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It’s a trend now that big music and arts festival have a solid comedy line-up and we’re definitely on board for that.

The Pemberton Music Festival that’s set to take place in Pemberton, British Columbia from Jul. 16th-19th is taking cues from SXSW, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Sasquatch, and more to have comedy alongside their massive music line-up.

So, next to the likes of Kendrick Lamar and The Black Keys, The Pemberton Music Festival line-up also has:

Reggie Watts
Tig Notaro
Ben Gleib
TJ Miller
Gorburger
Ali Wong
Harland Williams
Eric Andre
Cheech & Chong
Doug Benson
Chris Trew 
Air Sex Championships

That’s right your favorite blue demon talk show host Gorburger is on the bill.

Now that we’ve peaked your interest, you can get your tickets right here.

Reggie Watts, Jeff Ross, Cameron Esposito, and More Coming to Bonnaroo
April 1, 2015
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The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has made a good tradition of their comedy line-ups and this year is no exception.

Ron Funches, Jeff Ross, Reggie Watts, Chris Hardwick, Nick Thune, Moshe Kasher, Ian Edwards, Cameron Esposito, Kurt Braunohler, Mark Normand, Dan Soder, Matt McCarthy, Big Jay Oakerson, Jamie Lee, Natasha Leggero, and Ralphie May are all set for Manchester, TN from Jun. 11th-14th for Bonnaroo.

So, you’ll want to catch all the great music including Kendrick Lamar, Florence + The Machine, and D’Angelo that will be playing, but definitely make sure to not miss the comedy whatsoever.

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