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August 13, 2018

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The Pack Theater in Hollywood is throwing their third annual one-day festival known as PackCon this Saturday!

It’s a premium offering of what The Pack has to offer, which is often as wild, devil-may-care, fun, and irreverent as can be.

TO BE FEATURED AT THIS PACKCON 3:
Ian Roberts
Esther Povitsky
Matt Jones
Kurt Braunohler
Kevin Dorff
Matt Jones
Christina Gausas
Julian McCullough
Johnny Pemberton
Liquid Feet
Subhah Agarwal
Drew Droege
Suzi Barrett
Jetzo
Dark Matters
Brian Moses
Heather Anne Campbell
Brent Weinbach
Speedface
Pack Theater House Sketch & Improv Teams
and much more!

The majority of the festival is pay what you can, as that’s the normal Pack Theater policy, however admission for 9PM & 10PM shows are $15 a pop. Get more details and the full schedule here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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You Dirty Snitch, Blake Wexler’s anti-trust experiment, is probably not such a good thing to do in real life, but could provide comedy gold during a live comedy show. Guests and their friends will trade sharing secrets with the audience and dealing with the aftermath.

Also, the guests include the wondrous comedy stylings of Joe DeRosa, Hampton Yount, Kurt Braunohler, and Georgea Brooks.

Tickets to You Dirty Snitch are FREE so long as you RSVP here. Go get them ASAP.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Every so often…

…there comes a time…

…when UCB here in LA wants to do a very ambitious immersive comedy show…

…and use all the rooms at their disposal (specifically at UCB Sunset)…

…to give you one hell of a comedy experience!

That time is… this Saturday, July 21st when Cheap Ass Comic-Con presented by the Unfinished Target at Sunset and Western.

UCB has done a few of these over the years and they’ve always been otherworldly and so damn funny. So, don’t miss this latest one where they do a send-up of Comic-Con (also, it might be a great way to get an approximation of the Comic-Con experience without spending a whole lot of money and going to San Diego).

They’ve got three times that you can go this Saturday, 7PM, 8:30PM, and 10PM all at $12 a pop.

We highly recommend to get your tickets to catch this (probably) one time only Cheap Ass Comic-Con.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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When it comes to pushing the envelope in comedy (and doing so successfully), the name Conner O’Malley is one of the names that should immediately come to mind (just check his YouTube channel if you need proof).

UCB’s interview series about comedians and their craft, So, you do comedy? with Chris Witaske, has Conner as its next guest and you just might learn what’s cooking up in that head of his.

The show will be at UCB Sunset on Thurs., July 26th at 8:30PM. Tickets are $7 and you should go grab them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, screenings, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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This round of Guilty Treasure, where comedians sing the songs that are “guilty pleasures” fully backed by a live band has an especially great line-up for this Tuesday, July 17th at Three Clubs at 7:30PM.

Jimmy Pardo, Karen Kilgariff, Jackie Kashian, Matt Kirshen, and Trance Thompson will all be taking the stage to make their case for whatever song they choose and then belting it out unapologetically.

Please go get your tickets for what should be one hell of an evening. Tickets are $10 and you can (and really 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.

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Undoubtedly, Kathryn Burns is often the intersection of dance and comedy as she has won an Emmy for her work as the choreographer on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (in addition to creating dance numbers for the likes of Key & Peele, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, and more).

So, to mark her reaching working on a 100 episodes of TV, Kat is putting on a comedy dance extravaganza at UCB Sunset that you need to attend.

Oh yeah, we should mention that Rachel Bloom, Garfunkel & Oates, and Matthew Patrick Davis will be there.

Tickets are $5 and are going fast. Buy 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.

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In and around LA, there will be fireworks aplenty. If you just get to a high point of elevation, you’ll be able to glimpse as bursts of lights as far as you can see.

If you also want to see comedy in addition to that, there are actually a few options for you including:

An afternoon of stand-up at Comedyland Presents iO Family Reunion (in Frogtown) 3:30PM, $5 Suggested Donation

One of LA’s best variety shows Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap w/special guest host Justin Willman @ King King 8PM, $17 in adv./$25 at door

Drunk comedians reenacting Jaws for Comedians Cinema Club @ Black Rabbit Rose 8PM, $15

For more comedy than that, you’ll have to just wait until July 5th, when you’ll have your usual festival’s worth amount of live comedy.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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You’ve got a love a stand-up show hosted by a robot built from cardboard scraps in a punk venue that you can only enter through an alley.

Also, we think the line-up for this latest edition of Humans! this week is pretty grand as well.

Get more details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Simply put, Joe McAdam and Chris Stephens AKA Butt are some of the funniest sketch comedy folks around these days.

They’re doing a half hour at UCB Franklin this Thursday, June 21st at 8PM and you really ought to not miss it. Tickets are $7 and you really ought to 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.

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Well, UCB LA is assembling some of their absolute best sketch folks and mashing them together for SQUADRON. The team is pretty damn solid the whole way through with David Brown, Christine Bullen, Sheila Carrasco, Travis Coles, Inessa Frantowski, Frank Garcia-Hejl, Mike Lane, Haley Hepworth, Alana Johnston, Ego Nwodim, Marques Ray, and Greg Roman and Will Hines directing. We’ve dug much of their work on the several other teams and shows that they have all performed on over the years.

The first outing for SQUADRON will be Saturday Sketch Night at UCB on Saturday, June 23rd at 9PM at UCB Sunset. Tickets are $12 and we highly recommend that you get them sooner rather than later.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Dave Mizzoni and Matt Rogers’ beloved NYC gay-trivia-game-show-for-straight-guys Gayme Show (check this highlight in Vulture) will be doing a special round here in LA this coming Monday, June 11th at 10:30PM at UCB Sunset.

FYI, it’s a pretty great way to keep Pride Weekend going.

Tickets are $7 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

The Ruby LA Is Throwing a Queer Comedy Festival on LA Pride Weekend

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The newly minted Ruby LA that opened with a mission of diversity and inclusivity is throwing a Queer Comedy Festival for LA Pride Weekend next week. They’ve assembled a big line-up featuring the great comedy stylings of Erin Foley, Riley Silverman, Ever Mainaird, Lauri Roggenkamp, and many more queer comedians for six hours of shows on June 9th.

FYI, the LA Pride Parade is on June 10th, so you can enjoy comedy on Saturday and floats on Sunday.

Also, take note that it’s only $15 for a pass and $5 for tickets to individual shows. Get your tickets here.

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The fantastic weekly comedy show Sauce at Desano Pizza is taking every Friday during the whole month of June to present Pizza Coven: All Female Comedy Festival and highlighting LA’s best female comedians that you should know about.

Get more details and specific line-ups here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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This week, you can catch the one and only Cameron Esposito tape her latest hour of stand-up as well as see an hour of stand-up currently entitled “Cameron Esposito Presents: Rape Jokes”.

The twist here is, as you might have already read above, that this will be an hour of stand-up done from the perspective of a survivor of sexual assault.

Sincerely, if you’re in the LA area, you should make it out to this.

There are two tapings, 7PM & 9PM, on Thurs., May 24th at UCB Franklin. Get tickets here and here respectively.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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This latest edition of Guilty Treasure (Andy Wood and Bryan Cook’s show forcing folks to explain the songs they love to hate and then perform with a live band) has a killer line-up.

Namely…

– Jimmy Pardo (“Never Not Funny,” “Conan”)
– Kyle Kinane (“The Standups,” “Drunk History”)
– Erin Whitehead (“Bajillion Dollar Propertie$,” Wild Horses)
– Maxim Ludwig (Stagecoach Festival)
– Mike O’Connell (“Another Period,” “Idiotsitter”)

Even the idea of just finding out what their guilty pleasure songs are might be worth the price of admission ($10).

So don’t miss this Guilty Treasure this Monday, May 21st with doors at 7:30PM. Tickets are $10 and you can (and really 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.

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On Friday, June 29th, you can watch the Christopher Guest classic Best In Show under the stars at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery AND support LA LGBT Center. There’s even a VIP package that includes a picnic basket.

Tickets range from $25-$150. 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.

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This Saturday, May 19th, the audience at The Pack Theater will get to not only see The Whitest Kids U’ Know! (Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Trevor Moore, Darren Trumeter, Timmy Williams), but will also get to sketches that they wrote that were rejected.

Sound like a great Saturday night? Of course, it does.

FYI, this is a one-time live event as far as we know.

As it’s at The Pack Theater, admission is “pay what you can”. The show starts at 9PM, but we urge you to get there and line-up early if you want in.

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.

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This will be the last Indian Wedding (a great comedy/variety show done up like a Sangeet night) for awhile, so don’t miss it next Thursday, May 17th at Three Clubs.

For this edition, the line-up includes:
Amritha Kaur & Neal Dandade – Groom’s Siblings
Sunanda Sachatrakul – Groom’s Sister (Exclusive “Deported!!” segment!)
The Get Brown #Sketch #Comedy feat. Sai Lang Kausar Mohammed Kunal Dudheker Shaan Baig Saagar Shaikh Skander Halim
Saurabh Shah – Magician!!
Richa Shukla – Dance
Rama Vallury – Shankar Narayan Uncle
Sundeep Morrison – Storyteller

Go get tickets before they sell out here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Hailing from NYC, the wondrous Patti Harrison and Catherine Cohen are bringing up a very stacked line-up to “give them lectures on guy stuff so that they can finally fit in.”

Sounds like the “perfect time” for such a thing (not to mention that the line-up is again, so damn stacked)

Tickets are $7 and you can and really 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.

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The unequivocally hysterical Heather Anne Campbell will be doing an entire show as the controversial author Ayn Rand this weekend.

That alone should be enough to make sure that you go, but she’ll be joined Pack Theater stalwarts Elizabeth Hayhurst, Jesse Arlen Klein, and Haley Mancini as well as the amazing James Adomian.

As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is Pay What You can.

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.

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Packchella, the comedy music festival that is pretty much right at your doorstep here in LA and not in far away polo fields, returns to The Pack Theater next weekend.

For this year, they’ve got the likes of Eliza Skinner’s Skinner Alive, A Mel Brooks Burlesque Show, Zach Sherwin & Friends, a special episode of This Is Dark Matters where “Music Director Rich Devletian will be joined by an orchestra and a psychic as we attempt to complete Schubert’s Unfinished 8th Symphony with help from the maestro himself FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!”, $1.000000 Identify That Song Game Show! with Kash Abdulmalik, and much, much more.

Sounds pretty swell to us (i.e. you should mark down on your calendars to

As always, all shows at The Pack Theater are Pay What You Can!

Get more details on Packchella 2018 here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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The tapings for the New Negroes will be happening with a live studio audience that you can be a part of next week at Sunset Las Palmas in Hollywood. Tickets are FREE, so long as you RSVP, and you really shouldn’t pass up a chance to see and be a part of Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle’s showcase series that will air on Comedy Central.

Acts to be featured include Chris Redd, Candice Thompson, Tone Bell, David Gborie, Ian Edwards, Sam Jay, Yassir Lester, George Wallace, Dulce Sloan, Dwayne Kennedy, and more.

Go get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Though it has always been too long between every Apple Sisters appearance, we do always cherish any time that they’re around.

With that in mind, this coming Saturday, April 21st at 7PM at UCB Sunset, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, and Sarah Lowe reunite once again in their lovely green, yellow, and red dresses once more to give their dazzling classic musical revue that tends to be relevant to today.

Tickets are $7 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.

Win Tickets to See Jonah Ray, Kate Berlant, Nina Conti at Next Week’s Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen

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From the heights of being the host of the new MST3K to expert puppetry from across the pond to the several dimensions that Kate Berlant occupies, next week’s Hot Tub, per usual, ought to be a doozy.

As you also should know by now, we’ve got a pair of tickets for you to win to catch this magic. Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

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Bassem Youssef, Egypt’s Jon Stewart, will be doing his solo show over at the Comedy Central Stage on Thursday, April 12th and Monday, April 16th. It’s something you shouldn’t miss as one of the Middle East’s top satirists gives their perspective on the insanity of these times.

Best of all, tickets are FREE w/RSVP here and here, respectively.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.