If you’re not in LA, there is already plenty of stuff up for auction on eBay.
Little Hours is a raunchy, unfiltered comedy set in medieval times juxtaposing the sort of comedy that might star Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, and Fred Armisen, but have nun, king, and peasant costumes.
That being the case of writer/director Jeff Baena’s latest work, you can see in the trailer how this could almost be the origin story of the “perilous” Castle Anthrax in Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
Also, we loved that the Catholic League calls it, “Pure trash,” and that pull quote is featured in this trailer.
So, look for Little Hours to hit theaters on June 30th.
Letters to Santa, an organization dedicated to helping families in need, are throwing a swell LA show at the Pack Theater next Thursday, March 23rd at 8PM that will be stacked.
Just see for yourself in the flyer above.
Tickets are $35 and you can buy them in advance by calling (424) 442-9450.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
When you think of Michael Bolton doing a TV special for Valentine’s Day, there are a certain set of images that come to mind.
However, when you add Comedy Bang! Bang! and The Lonely Island into the mix, you get a sort of doubling down on the man, the myth, and the legend that is Michael Bolton.
See what CBB and The Lonely Island teaming up with Bolton actually looks like in the trailer for Michael Bolton’s Big, Sexy Valentine’s Day Special.
If that already has you going, you can go watch the whole thing on Netflix right now.
Portlandia Gets an 8th Season, Which Will Be Its Final Season
The final season will air in 2018 and we’re sure there will be plenty instances where 8 birds will be put on it, whatever “it” may be.
Also, remember that Kyle MacLachlan will go from Portlandia to Twin Peaks this year. So, don’t fret too much.
Portlandia Season 7 Is Here, Watch First Episode on IFC.com
Season 7 of Portlandia premiered last night and IFC was nice enough to make the whole first episode available for streaming.
Watch Fred and Carrie’s much needed return to television at the link above.
Maybe if there’s a RTJ4 or RTJ5, they’ll get to actually do some of these release “strategies”? The apocalypse one might seem more feasible next year maybe?
In any case, the new season has a sketch with Run The Jewels on it, so you should be looking out for the season premiere on Thursday, January 5th at 10PM.
As there is a seemingly endless canon of documentaries, there’s a similarly endless source for material for Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, Seth Meyers to lovingly parody said documentaries.
Let’s not forget that esteemed actress Helen Mirren is still hosting the whole thing.
For the second or, as the show dictates, season 51 of Documentary Now! on IFC, Hader and Armisen will be doing their take on Stop Making Sense, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and more.
Get a taste of what’s to come on Wednesday, September 10th at 10PM here.
(via @dansnierson)
Poster by Luke McGarry
Tenacious D is bringing their awesome one-day comedy and music festival extravaganza back to The Shine Expo Hall & Grounds with yet another stacked line-up as you can see above.
Tickets will go on sale Friday and we’ll be sure to remind you.
As part of San Francisco’s big annual music and arts festival to do, Outside Lands, they always have a pretty sizable line-up of comedy reserved for the Barbary portion of the festival.
This year, as you can see above, is no different as it’s co-curated by SF Sketchfest.
If you’re on board, get your tickets here.
As mentioned above, NYC’s Ana Fabrega was doing a word search, an activity primarily used by elementary school teachers to give their students something to do, and was having trouble as an independent adult in her spare time.
So, she decided to get help from Fred Armisen.
This is what followed. Enjoy.
The brand new season of Portlandia doesn’t premiere until next Thurs., Jan. 21st, but you can watch one entire episode if you’re really really anxious to see more complex, layered, absurd, self-referential misadventures of Fred and Carrie and their many characters thanks to IFC.
Get into it here or even on YouTube if you need more convenience.
Today, Broadway Video launched another network/channel (in addition to Above Average and The Kicker), Más Mejor, an online video network that has Latino focus.
If they’re going in this direction of stuff like Fred Armisen and Horatio Sanz actualizing what an unboxing video from Cuba might be like, we’re on board.
Watch Coleccionistas de Juguetes here.
Not sure what you’re doing New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? Maybe you can’t figure out what your New Year’s Resolution will be?
In either case, IFC is offering up marathons of every episode of both Portlandia and Todd Margaret that might make answering those two questions a little easier (i.e. spend the night watching or resolve to watch both series in their entirety).
The Todd Margaret marathon starts on New Year’s Eve at 6PM and the Portlandia marathon follows shortly thereafter on New Year’s Day at 6AM.
First, it was Amy Poehler. Then, it was Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Then, it was Julia Louis-Dreyfus with Kumail Nanjiani and Snoop Dog.
Now, it’s Portlandia’s own Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein that are starring in the latest round of Old Navy ads.
Like all the folks before them, it seems like they crafted the ads themselves since they kind of play like sketches from Portlandia.
In fact, if you’re having some sort of Portlandia withdrawals, these ads might soothe you for just a bit before season 6 premieres on Jan. 21st.
The will-they-won’t-they tension between Fred and Carrie comes to a head in the next season of Portlandia, in a Portlandia way of course.
Portlandia is set for its season 6 premiere on Thurs. Jan. 21st on IFC and Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein seem like they’re closer than they ever were… or are they?
Watch the new trailer and judge for yourself.
You’ve got just over a month before there’s new Portlandia to watch. Specifically, you only have to wait until Thurs. Jan. 21st at 10PM on IFC for the season 6 premiere.
In the meantime, you can whet your artisanal, cage free, gluten free, organic-with-a-bird-on-it appetite with an in-depth inside look into what they’ve got in store for the new season…
…the guest stars including Louis C.K., Mitch Hurwitz, and Steve Buscemi…
…along with various bits of season 6 scattered throughout…
…and some surprises that are a first for the show.
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have said over and over in interviews that they know too much about each other to ever seriously date.
However, five seasons of their show, Portlandia, may have broken down enough barriers to at least make a technical go at coitus.
Just watch them go at it (?), then be sure to catch the season 6 premiere of Portlandia on Thurs. Jan. 21st at 10PM on IFC.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
It seems fitting that the stars of Documentary Now! would get an award from The Smithsonian.
The Smithsonian Institution has their own eponymous magazine that annual gives out awards in several categories, many which line up with a corresponding Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C.
Both Fred Armisen and Bill Hader will be receiving the honor of the American Ingenuity Award for Documentary Now!, which is definitely one of the most innovative, high concept shows to come around in some time.
Hopefully, Armisen and Hader will attend and do some sort of Documentary Now! bit.
Mike O’Brien may have stepped away from SNL full time, but he’s still making sketches a plenty as he is putting an entire sketch comedy album.
Entitled Tasty Radio, O’Brien gets to get as weird as he wants along with the voices of Scarlett Johansson, Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Neil Casey, Bill Hader, Nasim Pedrad, Cecily Strong, Jason Sudeikis, Jorma Taccone, and way more.
It comes out from Comedy Dynamics on Oct. 30th, but you can preview this “Fun Girls” track right here right now.
(via The Wrap)
It’s interesting how this news comes just as Sabado Gigante, a 53 year variety show, has just come to an end.
Many english language networks have attempted to tap into the ever growing latino population in the U.S. with bilingual and latino/hispanic focused programming. Success has unfortunately been sparse.
Yet, the thought of something catching on could be a boon in ratings/views to anyone who finds a show that works in the regard.
Along these lines, Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels’ umbrella entertainment brand for the multitude of shows he has on late night, primetime sitcoms like 30 Rock, and more, is creating a digital space that looks to capitalize on the Latino demographic as well as create more Broadway Video content that general audiences can watch.
Original bilingual web series, videos, etc. that will include the likes of Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen will go officially launch in January of next year.
(via Uproxx/Oregon Live)
However, they’re open to other things outside of a series.
In a recent interview during the shooting of season 6, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein revealed that the 8th season of Portlandia that IFC has ordered will be its last.
A movie, musical, or some sort of one off could be possible, but don’t fret about the exit of the show yet. Season 6 is in production and seasons 7 and 8 have yet to be even conceived of.
Still, we’re sure they’ll start thinking of some great collector box set that comes with plenty of birds to put wherever you want.
10PM on IFC.
If you’ve always thought that documentaries besides Ken Burns needed their send-up, Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen, and Bill Hader have got you covered with their parody docu-series Documentary Now!
The series premiere is tonight at the aforementioned time 10PM on IFC.
You can now see more of the hijinks inspired by several actually famous documentaries that Bill Hader and Fred Armisen got themselves into.
IFC was nice enough to put this full episode of Documentary Now! for your convenient viewing pleasure/”nostalgia of this classic documentary series” online leading up to the premiere next week on Thurs. Aug. 20th at 10PM.
Watch the full episode here.
From the costumes, the voices, the film style, the type of film they were using, having Helen Mirren as a host, and more, you can tell that Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Seth Meyers really went all out for the documentary parody series, Documentary Now!
Just see for yourself in this new trailer, then look out for the premiere Thurs. Aug. 20th at 10PM on IFC.