Renowned (just look at those credits above) animation house Titmouse is having their annual let-the-animators-do-whatever-they-want night next month at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. It’s truly beyond your wildest imagination especially because of the short-form nature of all the ideas.
Tickets are $12 and you can (and very much should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Looks like the Inner Sanctum at UCB Sunset (which we’d like to note can feel more intimate than the main stage next door at times) is having more stacked shows these days.
Presented by UCB co-founder Matt Walsh, Dodo’s Retirement Party will be a variety show as well as a tribute to “Dolores (Dodo) Portencasso” as she retires from “Corn Products”. Oh yeah, the line-up just happens to be, as we mentioned before, pretty damn stacked (see flyer above).
Tickets for this show next week are $12 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Hebecky Drysbell, the all time champions of UCB’s Cagematch here in LA (78-0), are performing once more in a special one-night-only at the Pack Theater.
Truly, Heather Anne Campbell and Rebecca Drysdale together are one of the funniest comedy duos you’ll ever see, end of discussion.
This special engagement is happening this Saturday, January 19th at 10:30PM at The Pack Theater and, you’re in luck yet again, as admission is pay what you can. Get more details here.
Whether you’ve jump on board for the podcast John Levenstein’s Retirement Party over at Earwolf already or not (and perhaps you should if you want to hear great, insider stories from the Arrested Development/Kroll Show/Silicon Valley/Portlandia writer/actor/producer along with co-host Mary Kobayashi), they’ll be doing what seems to be a pretty grand live ep. at UCB Franklin near the end of the month featuring the likes of Jon Daly, Tim Heidecker, Sara Watkins, Lauren Lapkus, Jon Gabrus and former HBO President Sue Naegle as guests.
In fact, Gabrus and Lapkus will also be reading a scene from the 90s made-for-TV movie Bunk Bed Brothers.
This live edition of John Leveinstein’s Retirement Party is set for Thurs., Jan. 24th at 8PM. Get your tickets for $7 here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Well, Heather Anne Campbell, probably one of the best improvisers you’ll ever see, is back at the Pack this Saturday!
This time around, she’s doing an entirely improvised film, presumably by herself as it’s called “The One Person Movie”. Whatever it is, we’re sure it’ll be brilliant, dark, and transcendentally funny.
One Person Movie will be happening at The Pack Theater in Hollywood this Saturday, December 15th at 10:30PM. As always with The Pack, 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.
Well, Heather Anne Campbell, probably one of the best improvisers you’ll ever see, is back at the Pack this Saturday!
This time around, she’s doing an entirely improvised film, presumably by herself as it’s called “The One Person Movie”. Whatever it is, we’re sure it’ll be brilliant, dark, and transcendentally funny.
One Person Movie will be happening at The Pack Theater in Hollywood this Saturday, December 15th at 10:30PM. As always with The Pack, 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.
All star musical improv group Baby Wants Candy is doing their special Hamilton-esque show again where they improvise an entirely Hamilton-style musical of a different famous person than Alexander Hamilton.
It’s pretty damn amazing and, just like the actual Hamilton musical, a must-see experience. The next Shamilton will happen right in between Christmas and New Year’s Eve on Thurs., Dec. 27th at 8:30PM at UCB Sunset.
Tickets are still available for only $7 and you really ought to go get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Sometimes, being lost in translation can be a pretty damn great comedic device. Thus, Japanese improv group Nihongo Dake takes that notion to a whole other level by doing an entire improv show pretty much devoid of a single word of English aptly named No Subtitles.
This Saturday, December 15th at 7PM at UCB Sunset Inner Sanctum, you can get lost, in a fun way, in improv in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and more! We’ve seen and heard it for ourselves without knowing how to speak most of those languages and it’s pretty swell.
Go 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.
It has been quite some time since we’ve got a chance to see Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher AKA renowned comedy duo BriTANick (if you’re not familiar, enjoy going down a YouTube rabbit hole here) together on stage to enjoy their absurdist antics, and now, maybe some stand-up comedy (Nick has become quite the stand-up over the last few years).
Thankfully, that latest chance is just around the corner, specifically next Saturday, December 15th at 10PM at UCB Franklin.
Tickets are $12 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Bryan Cook and Andy Wood will be celebrating the 1 year anniversary of getting comedians to talk up and even perform their guilty pleasure songs on Guilty Treasure. There’s an awesome live band that backs up everyone on the show and (possibly) makes the songs better than the original.
For this anniversary edition, Matt Braunger, Arden Myrin, Andrés du Bouchet, Kara Klenk, and TJ Chambers are on deck.
Tickets are $12.50 and it’ll all be happening this Wednesday, December 5th at 7PM at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. Get tickets in advance here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
OK, you never know when Toasty with Jay Larson, the immersive cocktail party/faux toast comedy show is going to come around, but it’s a thing that you should absolutely not miss when it’s happening.
So, mark down December 11th to be at Outfit Home and get your best outfit ready for a comedy experience kind of unlike any other.
Tickets are $17, which includes free booze and snacks, so go get them here already.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Well, we shouldn’t have to say much more than the brilliant Naomi Ekperigin and Aparna Nancherla will be co-headlining in as intimate of a space that you’re likely to ever see them, The Ruby LA. We have no doubt this’ll sell out.
Get your tickets here quick.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
There are so many holidays to get hyped for in the next several weeks. May we submit that the Hindu celebration of Diwali is one of those holidays that you should look out for and, as part of that, look forward to the wondrous themed variety show called Indian Wedding that will be doing a Diwali edition of their monthly show at Three Clubs presented by Amritha Kaur & Neal Dandade.
This Diwali celebration of Indian Wedding will be on Friday, Nov. 9th at 7PM and tickets are $10. Go the them quick here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Better find a good way to park (or Lyft to) Hollywood Roosevelt for Sat. & Sun. Nov. 17th & Nov. 18th.
The Vulture Festival will be taking over the Roosevelt that weekend and bringing: Bitch Sesh Live, a live table read of Big Mouth, a Schitt’s Creek Holiday Spectacular, Adam Pally and Casey Wilson: An Excuse to Hang Out: An Evening of Music, Comedy, and Friendship, Busy Philipps: In Conversation, and much more!
If that peaks your interest (and we’re betting that it does), you can buy individual tickets here.
After knocking out two shows in August, the pretty-much-anything-goes-100-second-variety-show-hosted-by-time-travelers, Speedface, is finally back!
Stay up and out this Sunday night, October 7th at 10:30PM, to see the likes of the following folks doing 100 seconds of whatever they want:
Megan Koester (VICE)
Simon Gibson (Riot LA)
Hannah Einbinder (UCB, Golf Media’s Golf News)
Isaac Kessler (Canadian Comedy Awards) & Ken Hall (Second City Toronto)
Erin Nicole Bounds (Gunslinger, Detention)
Dominique Johnson (Rude Mondays Spotlight Performer)
Katie Dahlson, Mike Abbate & Vincent Lacey (New Pack Sketch Team)
Matt Harbert (Royale)
Jessica Greer (Criminal Minds)
David Ayala (New Pack Sketch Team)
Shalimar Malimban (Second City Hollywood, New Pack Sketch Team)
Miles Roberts (SQUiSH, Bananas)
Kaeli Quick (Second City Hollywood)
Gerard Dean Peters (SQUiSH, Bananas)
Ethan Stanislawski (Nightchurch)
and more!
and hosts Dr. Time**** (Nick Gligor) & SPEEDFACE (John Paliferro)
As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is pay what you can! Get more details here.
This Friday, new films from the very, very talented, boundary pushing group (from all different scenes and even parts of the country-Lorelei Ramirez in town from NYC) above will be presented at Junior High LA thanks to Bobby McCoy and Ember Knight.
Come enjoy a night of weird/wonderful films, especially for the fact that it’s cheaper than almost every matinee ticket in LA. 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.
A live reading of the film classic Goonies with that very, very stacked cast and it all being done as a benefit for RAICES? Get. outta. town.
Well, actually, stay in town and go get tickets that are going from $35-$75 here. The Montalban is a pretty sizable venue, but you might want to get in on this before it sells out.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
A favorite podcast of ours, Punch Up The Jam, is doing another live edition, this time at UCB Sunset.
Hosts Demi and Miel will be taking pop songs and “making them better” in person on Sunday, September 30th at 9PM and, unsurprisingly, advance tickets are sold out. However, watch as the date gets closer to see if tickets are released and, as always with UCB, there will be a stand-by line on the night of the show.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Trish Nelson’s stupendous storytelling show The Secret Society of the Sisterhood is back at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery!
New members of the sisterhood sharing their truth will be:
Legendary drummer of HOLE and author of Hits So Hard PATTY SCHEMEL
Beloved comedian and former SNL cast member SASHEER ZAMATA
Renaissance woman and punk rock historian PLEASANT GEHMAN
Award-winning author of Real Artists Have Day Jobs SARA BENINCASA
With music from our first male ally inductee, music director of The Late Late Show with James Corden REGGIE WATTS
This next gathering will be on Monday, September 24th at 8PM. Tickets are going for $20-$25. Go get them here ASAP.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Indian Wedding, your favorite Sangeet themed comedy variety show is back! After a bit of a hiatus, Amritha Kaur and Neal Dandade are back to host an evening of comedy, dance, stories, music as you’ve probably never experienced before (unless you’ve been dazzled by Indian Wedding already).
In any case, you ought to get your tickets ASAP here as they tend to get bought up fast.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus’ acclaimed intersectional feminist podcast, The Bechdel Cast, will be doing a live episode next month, Sat. Sept. 15th at 9PM at The Ruby LA.
For this episode, they’ll be tackling Edward Scissorhands with special guest Maggie Mae Fish and it might be the perfect thing to catch and see if you weren’t ready to see certain male comedians taken down by #MeToo return to the stage quite yet.
Get tickets for $10 here. Note, space is limited, so get your tickets fast.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Pretty much as soon as the first show was announced, An Evening with 4/5 of the Whitest Kids U Know at The Pack Theater sold out. A second show was added and also sold out shortly thereafter.
Fret not, as both performances from the cult sketch group next week will be selling standing room tickets at the door for both shows for $10.
So, make sure you get to The Pack Theater this coming Thurs., Aug. 30th well before 9PM to make sure you get in on what ought to be a damn fun night of (somewhat) controlled chaos.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Our favorite mystical comedy show, Full Moon Comedy, is back in a new location!
This Friday night at 8:30PM (doors at 8PM), hosts/spiritual guides/mischief starters Lindsay Adams and Aaron Weaver will be at Liberate Hollywood (6365 Selma Ave., Los Angeles, CA) guiding the gentle souls in attendance along with:
Ron Lynch (Bob’s Burgers)
Laurie Kilmartin (Conan)
Aparna Nancherla (Netflix)
Langston Kerman (HBO)
+ Christy Rodriguez Cote, sharing her practice with us and giving live readings!
All there is to attend is a $5 suggested donation! So, come enjoy yourself, get some inner peace, and help Full Moon kick off their journey right in their new venue!
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.
Well, if you’ve want to see Eric Andre do an hour of stand-up in LA, you could have a chance next month at UCB Franklin. Advance tickets are sold out, but there will be a stand-by line, so, we suggest, plan accordingly to show up early.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Weird Al Yankovic to be honored with star on the Walk of Fame on Aug. 27 | via @wofstargirl”
This is probably an appropriate icing on the cake for Weird Al Yankovic, who is probably the most successful song parodist of all time, probably by several miles.
To our knowledge, there hasn’t been another record of parody songs by someone who isn’t Weird AL that went to #1 overall on the album charts, kicking off a massive, massive international tour. That’ll probably be the case for several years to come.
Also, It probably won’t happen, but it’d be great if Weird Al’s star took over a certain current POTUS’ star on the Walk of Fame.