Next week, the opening night of LA’s newest comedy venue The Ruby LA will be a 12 hour feminist and inclusive comedy and arts festival featuring wondrous stand-up, sketch, improv, and music from some of LA’s best.
Admission is free until 7PM, after which tickets are $10. You can buy said tickets and get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Dan Gill, David Venhuizen, and Colin McCormick have been putting together real slick line-ups for 3 years now at The Clubhouse for their show Idiots. It may be a theater housed in a storefront next to a Jons, but making it three years as a monthly show as a rambunctious comedy trio deserves respect.
So, come Wednesday, April 4th at 8PM, head to The Clubhouse (1607 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA) for FREE (they do accept donations) for the 3 Year Anniversary of Idiots and also catch the likes of Nicole Byer, Howard Kremer, Nick Rutherford, Jenny Yang, and more!
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
One just dropped an album on Comedy Central Records and did Corden, another is the co-creator of Corporate, another is a writer for the award winning Marvelous Ms. Maisel, and yet another still is a lovely visitor for Canada!
Those are only a handful of reasons that you should try to win some tickets to next week’s Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen. Enter via DoLA here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Late Late Breakfast is one of the best ways to spend a Saturday afternoon or, really any afternoon. Stand-up crashes into a bizarre game show where there are really no winners and losers, but just a bunch of fun, controlled chaos.
The line-up for the April 7th edition at Silverlake Lounge is stacked with:
Ad Spot by Whitmer Thomas
Blair Socci
David Gborie
Joe Kwaczala
Anna Seregina
The Puterbaugh Sisters
Lindsay Adams
James Fritz
Steve Ageyi
AND MORE TBA SOON
Hosted by comedians Danny Maupin & Tyler Jackson
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted for the show.
Get more info here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
For two years, Corbin Recke, Harry Moroz, Trevor Smith, and Trish Hadley have been running a lovely monthly show at Crane’s Bar in DTLA.
Come celebrate their two year mark with a brilliant line-up. Also, per usual, the show is FREE to attend.
Get more details here.
Once again, Hot Tub has another great line-up that you shouldn’t miss and, once again, we have the hook-up for two lucky folks to see it for FREE. Win tickets by entering via DoLA here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
For over half a decade, comedians and animators have met in a comedy venue to tango and create some of the most spectacular, haunting, and hysterical images to be described in real time for Picture This!.
Let’s all celebrate that by going to their 6 Year Anniversary show next weekend! Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This upcoming Hot Tub’s line-up includes the mind behind a brilliant Adult Swim special, a scene stealing cast member of Search Party, a fast rising star that has made it onto several who-to-watch lists, one of our personal local favorites, and a recent transplant that we’re more than glad to have in LA.
If you don’t want to miss any of that AND perhaps go for free, we’ve got tickets for you to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Speedface, the post-apocalyptic character/bit showcase hosted by Dr. Time**** and his “time prisoner”, and show namesake, Speedface are making a triumphant return this Sunday, March 4th at 10:30PM at The Pack Theater.
It should be the perfect palate cleanser for whatever happens at The Oscars this year.
As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is pay what you can!
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
A new weekly Thursday show is just around the corner at Club Fais Do-Do thanks to Matt Monroe, Sofiya Alexandra, Julia Prescott, and Dave Rankin.
They’ve got a killer inaugural line-up including themselves and:
– Rory Scovel (Netflix)
– Cameron Esposito (Take My Wife)
– Joel Kim Booster (Comedy Central)
– Jackie Kashian (Jackie & Laurie Show)
It’s a FREE show, so mark your calendars for the first YES! YES! YES! on March 8th at 8PM.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Oh, a lot of wondrous out-of-towners (Hari, Emmy, and Liz) are on this week’s Hot Tub!
If you want go for free, we’ve got a pair of tickets for you to win!
Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Just a friendly neighborhood reminder that our latest Most Wanted List is this Thursday at Comedy Central Stage at 8PM. See the comedians that you really ought to be seeing as we have handpicked each and every one of them for much they have killed us when they take the stage.
Admission is FREE just as long as you RSVP here.
The hosts of improv4humans, Off Book: The Improvised Musical, and Comedy Bang! Bang! plus Horatio Sanz are all coming together to have one wondrous night of sing-a-longs and improv.
Matt Besser’s Hootenany Sing-A-Long Improv Comedy Experiment is FREE and all you have to do is show up at UCB Sunset this Friday.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Whether you like seeing your comedy performed by people who are or are not high, we’re giving you a chance to win tickets to see some of LA’s finest sling jokes at you.
To win a pair of tickets to The Gateway Show this Friday or Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen this coming Monday, enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
That’s right, we’ve managed to round up another bunch of comedians that you absolutely, unequivocally need to keep your eye on for another edition of The Comedy Bureau Most Wanted List.
It’s our personal picks of LA’s best stand-ups that deserve way more shine than they are currently getting and we sincerely hope that you come to see the brilliance that we see.
You can RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-comedy-bureaus-most-wanted-list-tickets-42658754483
You can also RSVP on the phone by calling (323) 960-5519.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Scotland’s Daniel Sloss has quickly become one of Conan’s favorite comedians over the years and been making quite the impression, as far as we can see, here in the States with his stand-up.
So, Sloss will be now taping an hour long comedy special in DTLA at The Belasco Theater this Tuesday, February 13th and you can catch it for free (as long as you RSVP).
There is a 7PM and a 9PM show and you can (and should) get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Ramin Nazer’s occasional magical comedy and animation extravaganza all housed within the humble walls of Alternate Universe comics will be returning once again this Saturday night.
The show is at 9:30PM sharp and FREE to attend, so please, please don’t miss out. Oh yeah, we should mention that the line-up is pretty damn good as well.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
If you have bad memories of prom or Valentine’s Day*, let the Puterbaugh Sisters and Beth Stelling fix that right up for you with a Valentine’s Day Prom edition of Entertaining Julia at Akbar.
There will be a great comedy show and a Valentine’s Day Prom dance party right after. Best of all, the whole shindig is free to attend.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
As comedy at The Hammer Museum worked so well with Aparna Nancherla last year, the renowned museum will be having yet another night of comedy within their walls featuring another round of some of our favorites including Sara Schaefer, Kyle Mizono, Janine Brito, and Naomi Ekperigin.
No matter what you’re situation is on the day before Valentine’s Day, this ought to be a night that you won’t want to miss.
The event is free so long as you RSVP, which you can and should do here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Natalie Palamides, winner of 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Best Newcomer Award, has a new show in the works at The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe. In fact, the show that won her the award was first crafted at the Lyric Hyperion.
You’ve got four chances to see her workshop a new solo show with her character NATE Palimido and you absolutely shouldn’t miss out (especially if you want to see something truly daring in comedy).
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
LA’s newest, shiniest comedy venue Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater isn’t even officially open yet, but you can start seeing what they’re all about in their soft opening “Dawn of the Dynasty” weekend shows.
Even better, we’ve got tickets for you to win for this weekends show which include the wondrous likes of Ron Funches, Hampton Yount, Fahim Anwar, Scout Durwood, Emily Heller, Derek Hughes, Pam Severns, Brian Finkelstein, Kimberly Clark, and more.
Enter to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Five years ago, the times weren’t so dark. If you’d like to associate that with the beginning of Big Money at The Virgil, we wholeheartedly encourage you to do so.
While doing that, come and enjoy the 5th Anniversary (not many comedy shows ever make it this far FYI) of this weekly comedy show lead by Bryan Cook on Thursday, Jan. 25th at 8PM. Admission is FREE. Cook and Andy Wood’s band The Guilty Treasures will also be playing to celebrate the occasion.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The venerable Greg Proops returns to Bar Lubitsch (7702 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA) to record his award winning, critically acclaimed podcast, Smartest Man in the World this Sunday at 8PM.
It’s free for you to attend leaving no excuses for you to not go.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Kyle Ayers has some of the more dynamic and original ideas for comedy shows that we have ever seen. As such, we’re always excited to see what he has up his sleeve.
Ayers’ Never Seen It has comedians rewrite parts of a famous movie that they have never seen and then takes that script and has it acted out in a full stage production.
This latest edition of Never Seen It is set for Thursday, Jan. 25th at 8PM at The Comedy Central Stage. Tickets are free with RSVP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Not only is the great live animated stand-up show, Picture This! back for their first show of 2018, but they are, for the first time, having improv that will be also animated live from some of the best in town (Wild Horses-Lauren Lapkus, Mary Holland, Stephanie Allynne & Erin Whitehead).
You’re not going to want to miss this. In fact, you might want to show up before the door time if you want to get a seat.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.