If you haven’t been, The Left Bank is a really lovely vintage store that happens to have a very charming comedy show.
Also, this weekend will be another chance to see Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher before they tape their Netflix special.
Get more details and RSVP here.
If you are a USC student, faculty, or alumni (or have a good friend of family member of yours that is similarly identified by the University of Southern California), you could potentially go watch Jessica Williams live for FREE this coming Monday night, courtesy of USC Speakers Committee & USC Political Student Assembly.
You can RSVP for the event w/aforementioned USC affiliation and can take one non-USC guest, but that does not guarantee admission. There will be a first come, first served line organized by RSVP guests, then a stand-by line.
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.
Sundays are getting a new show and the inaugural edition, happening this Sunday, of Comedy at The Friend is pretty stacked.
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.
Two of the best shows next week will be a special, intimate evening on 11/10 that the one and only Todd Glass has put together (complete with live band and special guests) at The Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab and, of course, Hot Tub at The Virgil on 11/6.
If you wanna go (and we’re pretty sure you do), you can win free tickets courtesy of us here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways.
If you really want to go and don’t want to chance winning tickets, you can buy tickets for Todd Glass here and Hot Tub here.
Interestingly, all of these comedians have done specials. A few of them have even done entire hour comedy specials on television already and are now doing half-hour specials on Netflix.
As the streaming service giant wheels and deals in Seinfelds, Rocks, and Chappelles, it’s pretty clear that Netflix has reorganized the pecking order in who gets what when it comes to their comedy specials.
Rest assured, the talent is clearly stacked here with Aparna, Kinane, Feinstein, Morin, Yashere, and List and you ought to go to the tapings happening on Sunday, November 5th and Monday, November 6th at Globe Theater in DTLA (RSVP for free tickets here).
Heather Anne Campbell, one of the funniest people around, carefully assembled team of great improvisers who also happen to enjoy anime for The Anime Show.
They will improvise an episode of anime that they have never seen. Sometimes, they are dead on and act out the episode as it actually plays out in the anime series.
In any case, it’s pretty damn fun and, because it’s at The Pack Theater, admission is pay what you can.
This latest edition of The Anime Show will happen on Saturday, October 21st at 10PM.
Please get more details here.
Normally, a show like this would be in the walls of some hallowed indie music venue a la Neil Hamburger and Special Guests at The Satellite. However, next week, this wondrous line-up will brings some delightful mischief to the Gelson’s in Silver Lake.
Also, the show 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.
Undoubtedly, a 10 year celebration of Neil Hamburger’s residency (probably one of the longest comedy residencies, if not long artist residencies actively going in LA) will sell out.
We fortunately have a pair of tickets for you to win! Just enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Entertaining Julia, the delightful monthly stand-up show from The Puterbaugh Sisters, is leaning into October and doing a special “Which Witch Is Which?” edition.
Basically, this very nice line-up:
Alison Stevenson
Mo Welch
Lydia Popovich
Candy Lawerence
Ryan Singer
Casey Ley
Alyssa Rusak
Lindsay Adams
Ricky Carmona
-will perform stand-up as if they are some sort of a witch this Sunday at Akbar in Silverlake. Sounds pretty damn fun (albeit a little spooky perhaps), no?
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.
Per usual, Hot Tub with Kurt (Braunohler) and Kristen (Schaal) is one of the best things going on Monday night and we’ve got tickets for you to win!
Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
This latest edition of Franky Guttman and Michael Bilow’s Dark Matters, a Coast-to-Coast-AM-ish comedy podcast that’s always recorded live, is going where they’ve never gone before. For the 30th birthday of Bilow will be taking a polygraph test with his parents, sister, and a crystal expert in attendance as special guests.
Not so many folks would be into publicly examining their life and what has led them to this point, but we’re sure this will end up being a birthday that Michael and everyone else in the crowd will never forget.
As with all shows at The Pack Theater, it’s pay what you can. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for shows, events, mics, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Alex Hooper has been a fun fixture in the LA scene for quite some time now, working very hard for every single thing he’s gotten or built like his wins on Roast Battle, his secret show Crave, and way more.
Now, with so much under his belt, he’s ready to record an album a week from now. You can attend free of charge just by RSVP’ing here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
After taking a week off for Labor Day, Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen is thankfully back.
That also means that we’ve got another pair of tickets to give away (on top of tickets for A Cold Hour with Rory Scovel and Andy Kindler’s Particular Show).
Enter to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Early evening this Saturday in Los Angeles, should be quite lovely (and explicitly not at all hot), making, perhaps for wonderful conditions to see a free comedy show in a garden at someone’s home.
So, if that’s up your alley, you should definitely go to the latest edition of Garden Party, hosted by Rachele Friedland and Robyn Morrison.
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.
For 2 years, The Pack Theater has been home to our favorite inter-dimensional character/bit show, SPEEDFACE.
To mark this anniversary this Sunday, they’re starting earlier than normal at 9PM so they can put on an extra special, big Speedface chock full of the best bits of comedy that only last 100 seconds.
As with all shows at The Pack Theater, admission is ‘pay what you can’. Get more details here.
One of the best recurring shows at the marvelous Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe is Dr. Brown’s Incubator.
Internationally renowned and award winning comedian Dr. Brown actually does a whole run of shows with a big cast that starts from scratch and grows and develops night after night into a beautifully interwoven interactive live show of experimental characters, sketches, etc.
Incubator’s latest run will be happening all next week in previews that are pay what you can for admission on:
Tuesday, Sept 5
Wednesday, Sept 6
Thursday, Sept 7
Friday, Sept 8
All of this will lead up to a final showcase night on Saturday, September 9th at 9PM for $10. Get your tickets soon here as they do go pretty fast.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
On Sunday nights, there’s a good chance you might find us at Bigfoot Lodge East for our last stop of the evening, Babe Island.
Tonight, there unfortunately will be no Babe Island at said Bigfoot Lodge as ASW, Androsky, Gborie, and Fritz are moving their show one neighborhood over to Bar Angeles (AKA The Elliott Smith Bar at 4330 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA) two weeks from now on Sunday, September 10th.
Per usual, they stacked the line-up with LA favorites: Jon Daly, Alex & Jude, Richard Bain, Billy Bonnell, and Amy Silverberg.
Except for the location change, it should be business as usual with the show starting around 10PM and there being no cover or minimum.
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.
A free comedy show with the likes of Nikki Glaser, Joe DeRosa, Lizzy Cooperman, and Dino Stamatopoulos at a fancy house in a hip neighborhood with a free scotch tasting and some free psychic consultations?
Yep, that’s happening this Saturday with It’s A Party in Franklin Hills.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings with comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
For our money, we can get a pretty good kick and laugh out of DIY soap box cars made by adults, especially since this particular event has been held by Red Bull over 100 times.
Just take a look at a gallery of past races and you’ll get what we’re saying.
This Sunday, Red Bull’s Soapbox Race will take over Elysian Park and race down Angels Point Road.
Here’s the day’s specific itinerary:
9:00 AM-Shuttles Start from Dodger Stadium
9:30 AM-Pits Open. Check out the teams and vote for your favorite to win the People’s Choice Award!
10:15 AM-Show starts! Don’t miss the Red Bull Air Force and Street Freestyle Rider Aaron Colton
11:00 AM-Race Begins!
4:00 PM-Approximate Last Race
4:15 PM-Awards Ceremony
Best of all, you can watch the race all along the route for free along with free parking at Dodger Stadium.
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.
Comedy Sucks, the comedy variety show that features satirical video art work by the one and only Grimy Ghost, is celebrating one year! Other contemporaries of Grimy Ghost, Everything Is Terrible and Vic Berger will also be there giving you as much repurposed, mutated pop-culture mash-ups as you can handle in addition to the great comedy stylings of Todd Glass, Brody Stevens, Howard Kremer, Jamie Loftus, and Brodie Reed.
Tickets are on sale here, but we’ve got a pair of tickets that you could win if you enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
The 7th Annual Echo Park Rising, the big neighborhood festival that’s mostly free, starts tomorrow.
As there’s plenty of comedy in Echo Park, there will of course be comedy featured at EPR.
That includes:
Super Tight @ Echoplex Thursday, Aug. 17th 7PM (comedy/music/art)
Comedy Garage @ Rafa’s Lounge Art Gallery Thursday, Aug. 17th 9PM (stand-up)
Comedy Runway @ Spacedust Saturday, Aug. 19th 1:30PM (half stand-up show, half fashion competition)
Good Heroin @ Stories Saturday, Aug. 19th 8PM (stand-up)
BUSted! Storytelling @ Stories Sunday, Aug. 20th 5PM (stories from taking the bus)
Admission for all these shows are free and the line-ups are solid. So, make sure you get to Echo Park early if you’re going to any of these.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Another hot Hot Tub is coming your way tomorrow, with guest host Brooks Wheelan, and that means we got a pair of tickets for you to win!
Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
(P.S. we’ve got other ticket giveaways going for Wild Horses, Comedy Sucks 1 Yr., Sh*t Arcade too)
Wanna go see Harmontown live this Saturday at Starburns Castle for FREE?
Of course you do.
So, enter to win free tickets here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
This might be a gem of The Burbank Comedy Festival coming next week.
Bruce Smith, the real life manager of Maria Bamford, star of Lady Dynamite, will be somehow facing off with the fictional manager of Maria from Lady Dynamite played by Fred Melamed.
As far as we know, the real life Bruce and fictional Bruce are breaking new ground here and we think you ought to not miss out.
Tickets to this event are free.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
We don’t have DCM in LA, but we’ve got improv festivals-a-plenty.
One of the ones that you should absolutely catch is the LA Indie Improv Festival that happens with almost 200 teams between two venues (The Clubhouse and Lyric Hyperion) this weekend (8/12 & 8/13).
Slated to perform are many of LA’s best improvisers including such teams as:
Private Street, Boss Jr., The Faculty, Some Kinda Monster, Arts & Athletics, Rococo, Jacob Wysocki Makes Improvisers Do Short Form, Three Princes, Crashbar, The Colin Kaepernicks, Convoy, Outside Dog, Big Grande, and Dopetown 3000 (on a bus).
Oh, we should mention that it’s free to attend.
Get more details and a complete schedule here.