Here, comedians are challenged to try doing jokes while one of many challenges including anything from singing their jokes to not being allowed to say “the” or “uh”. Odds are that’ll get their adrenaline pumping, hence the name.
Get your tickets here.
Without a question, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail are going out on top.
It was widely agreed as one of the best live comedy shows in the country and got to do three seasons as a TV series on Comedy Central. Certainly, we feel privileged seeing the show from the very start grow into this beautiful, undeniable institution in the LA comedy scene.
We know there’s still more than a few weeks to go, but we still salute you Meltdown.
Their last show is on October 19th and you can find out more details here.
Yep, you can watch an exclusive premiere screening of Stan Against Evil in a cemetery.
Get your free tickets here.
Screen Junkies Is Having an Open Casting Call for Their New News Channel
Any of you have an unfiltered take on film and television and feel pretty confident about it on camera?
Well, the film and TV culture giant known as Screen Junkies, the folks responsibly for the Emmy nominated, satirical Honest Trailers series, are launching a whole brand new channel that’s dedicated to entertainment news and are looking for members of this Screen Junkies news team.
They’re holding an open casting call and all you need to do is make a video on how you would cover a breaking entertainment news story. Get submission details at the link above.
We’re guessing a lot of our readers might fit the bill for this.
You can (and should) get your free tickets for 9/22 here and 9/23 here.
The rest of our listing for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
One of our favorite talk shows of all time is back, The Jesse Miller Talk Show. It’s hosted by Cincy’s own Jesse Miller (Andre Hyland) who simultaneously is a midwestern bad boy who also seems to have uncanny depth of pop culture knowledge.
Catch it on Friday, September 30th at the Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab at 10PM with guests Paul Scheer, April Richardson, and Noël Wells.
You can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Best friends (a comedian and their best friend) get on stage together and tell a story together only like best friends can.
Real life best friends Kim Seltzer and Aliya Kamalova host The Best Friends Show that’ll have Lou Sanders and Aisling Bea, David Gborie and Johan Miranda, and The Cooties gracing us with their histories of being, you guessed it, best friends.
This edition of The Best Friends Show is set for this Saturday, September 17th at 9PM at Nerdmelt. Tickets are $8 online and $10 at door.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
More details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedians interact with random strangers through the lens of a webcam while live on stage, which leaves plenty of room for hilarious chaos to ensue on You Had To Be There.
Host Ryan De La Garza has Dave Waite, Baron Vaughn, Josh Androsky, and Dave Ross lined-up so far to guide us through whatever the Internet will throw at us.
This edition of You Had To Be There is set for Monday, Sep. 19th at 9PM at Nerdmelt Showroom (7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA) and you can (and should) get your tickets here.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Get more details and tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Poster by Mike Furth
Bruce McCulloch: Tales of Bravery and Stupidity is on Thursday, September 15th at 7PM and tickets are $5.
You can (and should) get them here.
Also, there’s VIP entry for $25 that includes a Broad City Survival Kit.
More details and tickets available here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics/maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Ian Abramson’s 7 Minutes in Purgatory, the live comedy show where the comedian performs alone in an empty room and the audience watches in another room via a live camera feed, is taping for Comedy Central this month at the rooftop of The Ricardo Montalban Theatre on Tuesday, September 13th at 8PM.
You can (and should) get your free tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics/maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
One of The Midnight Show’s more enduring and weirder characters (and that’s saying a lot since it’s The Midnight Show) is Hal Rudnick’s Eric Jennifer. He’s an “awkward man child with a heart of gold” to put it lightly.
This Labor Day Weekend, The Midnight Show is handing over the keys to Eric Jennifer and he’s having a party with plenty of guests including:
Jason Kaye
Jeanne Taylor
Marshall Givens
Nick Gligor
Joey Clift
Stephen Perlstein
Cassi Jerkins
Michael Gabriel
and MORE!!
Eric Jennifer’s Labor Day BBQ is happening this Saturday at midnight at UCB Franklin and you can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Get more details and your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Yes, the one and only Josh Fadem is slated to do an hour solo at the end of the month. Get ready for an hour of silliness in its purest form.
Tickets are only $5 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Eliza Skinner, with only one guest and musical accompaniment, make up an entire musical before your very eyes. If you’ve ever seen Eliza do musical improv, you’d know that she can not only pull that off, but do so in such a dazzling fashion.
Get tickets for the next show, this Saturday, with special guest Eugene Cordero.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Awful curated VHS footage plus stand-up comedians attempt to prove the shows title wrong. With that line-up, the odds are in their favor we think.
You can and should get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Poster by Scott Huntsman
The experimental variety show known as Cool Sh*t/Weird Sh*t is doing a ‘Sadie Hawkins’ show where they “women to ask men/women to do bits together”. It could be like the Sadie Hawkins dance that you hopefully went to in high school, provided that it was an unpredictable, but grand old night.
In any case, you can (and should) get your tickets for $5 here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The episodic series that followed comedians in Austin, TX is having a whole showcase of many Austin-to-LA transplants tomorrow
Stand Up Empire will be taking over the Comedy Central Stages featuring Megan Simon, Ramin Nazer, Daniel Rugg Webb, Brently Heilbron, and Chip Pope on Wednesday, August 3rd at 8PM.
Admission is free with RSVP at 323 960 5519. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows and listings as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Connor Ratliff embodies a version of renowned director George Lucas that would want to host a talk show, hence The George Lucas Talk Show. NYC has gotten to enjoy this for quite some time, but Ratliff is having a special engagement of The George Lucas Talk Show at UCB Franklin on Thursday, August 4th at 9:30PM.
As pictured above, his guests will be:
Neil Casey (Ghostbusters, Other Space)
D’arcy Carden (The Good Place, Other People, Broad City)
Curtis Gwinn (The Leftovers, The Walking Dead, Narcos)
Tickets are $5 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Hosts of the Throwing Shade podcast, Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi, present a special preview of the Throwing Shade 2016 Tour Live Show at UCB Franklin on Thursday, July 28th at 7PM.
You can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Like all good art scenes, the LA comedy scene is always growing, changing, and evolving whether it be comedians moving up the ranks, new bookers shaking things up at some of the city’s most established clubs, or groups of like minded folks striking out on their own to do their thing.
The Pack Theater, which just opened up as full time comedy theater, looks to continue that pioneering spirit.
Founded by renowned improviser Miles Stroth, The Pack will have shows 7 nights a week that run the gamut of improv, sketch, stand-up, everything in between, and everything outside of that. There will even be opportunities for classes (taught by the likes of Stroth, Heather Anne Campbell, Eric Moneypenny, and Sam Brown just to a name a few of their faculty that are among the funniest in their comedic discipline) and open mics (that includes sketch open mics and improv jams as well as stand-up) to be inclusive for all levels of performers, an important aspect of existing as new comedy theater in Los Angeles.
For a few months, The Pack has already been putting on pretty swell shows with their aforementioned faculty, solid sketch and improv house teams, and some of the best all around comedians you get to know in LA. It really seems to echo the early, DIY, more rebellious days of UCB and, as you can probably guess, we’re excited to what else they’ve got cooking.
This Saturday, they’ve got a gigantic show to really kick off their opening called PackCon featuring the likes of Bob Odenkirk, Adam McKay, The Whitest Kids U Know, Ian Roberts, Matt Jones (Breaking Bad), Nick Thune, Ron Lynch, Maribeth Monroe (Workaholics), John Gemberling (Broad City), EpicLloyd (Epic Rap Battles of History), John Ennis (Mr. Show), Alison Rich (Party Over Here), Shelly Gossman (SNL), Josh Fadem, Brent Weinbach and way more. From 5PM to midnight or maybe even later, we have no doubt it’ll be a hell of a ride.
The Pack Theater is located in Hollywood at 6470 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA and you can get more info here, follow them on Twitter and Instagram @packtheater or on Facebook.
Best of all, all the shows will be pay-what-you-can for admission.