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Pick of the Day: Edinburgh Fringe Preview Day (in LA) 7/23

July 14, 2022

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One of the world’s biggest and most preeminent performance festivals, especially when it comes to comedy, is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Thousands of shows that happens over the course of a month and every square inch of Edinburgh, Scotland becomes a show or part of a show.

While that’s all brilliant and it’s a blur of dazzling, mind bending show after show after show after show after show, there is the issue of actually getting to Scotland and where to stay during the festival. That usually runs up a tab of several thousands of dollars and not a lot of folks just have that in a back pocket they forgot about.

So, The Elysian is doing LA a solid by putting on a whole entire day of preview shows for The Edinburgh Fringe on Sat. Jul. 23rd featuring many of LA’s most daring performers putting on their solo shows one last time before they head abroad with it.

So that’ll feature

11 AM – Amber Glancy: Wine Show
12:20 PM – Brianna Ahlmark: Gertrude
1:40 PM – Kylie Brakeman: Linda Hollywood’s Big Hollywood Night
3 PM – Amrita Dhaliwal: Driving Around
4:20 PM – Brian McElhaney: A Completely Untested Hour of Stand Up
5:40 PM – Hannah Pilkes: Woman On the Verge
7 PM – Kate Berlant: Like You’ve Never Seen Her Before
8:40 PM – Business Casual: FERAL
10 PM – John Norris: Mr. Chonkers

You can either buy tickets for the first five shows for $18 or second four shows for $26 or get access to all of them plus admission to Tomorrow! with Ron Lynch for $60. That’s still thousands of dollars cheaper than actually going to the Fringe if you weren’t tabulating the math. Go get your tickets here.

Pick of the Day: Yosterbation (in NYC) 10/28-12/16

October 26, 2021

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Seeing someone develop an hour or a solo show can be one of the more rewarding things in the live comedy going experience. The ephemeral nature of newly forged jokes, bits, pieces, etc. for an hour of comedy solo on stage gives a certain urgency that can often be electric (and it’s often what we hope to see when we’re watching comedy these days).

Also, on the other hand, it’s pretty great seeing really funny people do shows live and in-person. Whichever school of thought you want to fall in line with, you definitely should catch Caroline Yost of the amazing NYC comedy group Ladies Who Ranch develop a solo show in the very hip, very hidden Life World in Gowanus in Brooklyn. Yost is such an absurdly fun force to watch on stage and it’s definitely worth you going to any one of the six shows she has lined-up starting this week.

Schedule and special guests are as follows:

10/28-Kate Willett, Joe Castle-Baker, Rachel Kaly
11/4-Karolena Theresa, Ikechukhu Ufomadu, Dylan Adler
11/18-Hannah Pilkes, Sabrina Wu, Edy Modica
12/2-a special split bill show with Sarah Wilson
12/9-TBA
12/16-TBA

All shows are at 8PM ET (doors 7:30PM ET) and tickets are only $11 (proof of vaccination required). Go RSVP and snag your tickets here.

Pick of the Day: NY Comedy Festival 11/8-11/14

October 11, 2021

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It’s that time of year and we’re on this side of the pandemic, so get ready for the annual New York Comedy Festival to roar through the NY comedy scene once more with a a cornucopia of comedy throughout all five boroughs, through clubs, theaters, indie venues, and more with comedians from even corner of the art form.

Whether it be Colin Quinn or Please Don’t Destroy or Sydnee Washington or Stamptown or Jenny Zigrino taping her special or David Cross or Esther Povitsky or Butterboy or Mekki Leeper or Dynasty Typewriter @ The Bell House or Hannah Pilkes or Sabrina Jalees or Murder Book: A True Crime Comedy Night, the New York Comedy Festival is aiming to be back at full strength in taking over the city from Mon. Nov. 8th-Sun. Nov. 14th.

Take a full gander at the massive schedule and line-up and go get tickets here.

Here’s Our Line-Up for Our 10th & 11th Double Anniversary Show at Union Hall 10/15

October 4, 2021

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Even though we’ve only officially covered NYC comedy for a couple of months, there is so much about comedy in New York that we truly, deeply champion.

So, with that in mind, we wanted to do a portrait of NYC comedy for this very special Double Anniversary Show of The Comedy Bureau, marking both the 10th and 11th years of TCB (since we didn’t do any celebrating in 2020). Note, there will be a LA anniversary show on 10/25 at the shiny and new comedy venue, The Elysian.

With the help of the marvelous Carly Hoogendyk, we have such a colorful, lovely portrait indeed of NYC comedy (that has NYC stalwarts and brand new transplants) including:

Astronomy Club
Josh Gondelman
Dylan Adler
Hannah Pilkes
Ladies Who Ranch
TCB’s very own Jake Kroeger presiding as host

That’s right, we’re not just doing a stand-up show, we’re trying to highlight all of NYC (just like we’ve done in LA for years). We would love if you came just to see your amazing faces (or part of them, anyway) and marvel how long we’ve been keeping the lights on TCB on.

We absolutely can’t wait to bring all these hysterical folks on to the Union Hall stage on Fri. Oct. 15th at 7:30PM ET. Tickets are $10 right now and $15 at the door (proof of vaccination required, of course). Snag ’em here.

Pick of the Day: The Unbirthday Show (in LA) 5/29

May 27, 2021

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The Unbirthday Show is the latest show taking up the mantle in the grand LA comedy tradition of backyard comedy. Yes, the LA comedy scene has been doing outdoor comedy way before we had to (you best bet that we take advantage of the weather out here).

Curated, produced, and hosted by Brooke Finegold, she dresses up a Silverlake backyard for a fun, fantastical comedy show full of LA favorites and up and coming stars. This latest edition of The Unbirthday Show is set for Sat. May 29th at 7:30PM PT (Doors 6:30PM) and has quite the fine line-up of:

Brodie Reed
Danielle Perez
Hannah Pilkes
Harper Rose
Lara Beitz
Matt LeGrande
Rebecca Rush

Tickets are only $10 and you can (and should) go get ’em here.