improv

December 12, 2018

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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.

2018 Outside Lands Announces Barbary Comedy & Improv Line-Up with Michelle Wolf, Chelsea Peretti, Hanging with Paul Scheer, and More!

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As you probably well know by now, San Francisco gets some really dazzling line-ups for their comedy festivals. If you think about who’s playing SF Sketchfest, Clusterfest, and The Barbary Comedy Tent at Outside Lands, it’s a real treasure trove of comedy on a pretty regular basis.

This year’s Barbary line-up for Outside Lands is no exception as you can see above.

If you live or will be in the SF area on August 10th-12th, you’ll probably want to go to this. Passes are on sale now starting at $149.50 for a single day and $375 for a 3-day pass.

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There are still tickets for the beloved Thrilling Adventure Hour’s WorkJuice Players’ next show.

It’s at Largo and just happens to benefit the Detroit Creativity Project, an organization that aims to service underprivileged Detroit youth in achieving success in all aspects of life,

Go get your tickets ASAP 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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By himself, Joey Greer, one of our favorite improvisers around, puts on one hell of a show by improvising bits for an hour with the aid/disruption of a DJ.

It’s as crazy of a “conversation” you can have (with music playing intermittently).

The next edition of In Conversation with Music will be on Wednesday, July 18th at 10PM at Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth Theater. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Please do get them 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

Del Close Marathon Will Be Moving to LA in 2019

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Del Close Marathon Will Be Moving to LA in 2019

For two decades, a literally non-stop weekend of improv comedy madness known as the Del Close Marathon has brought joy to the NYC comedy scene.

After marking a milestone by having the UCB 4 play at Carnegie Hall this year, UCB Sunset and UCB Franklin here in LA will be the home bases for DCM in 2019 and onward.

Personally, we can’t wait as that means many of the world’s best improv teams that rarely get to perform in LA will be making an annual trek here. Keep a close eye for tickets/passes going on sale.

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The renowned WorkJuice Players (the folks of the Thrilling Adventure Hour) are set to reunite once more, this time under the roof of the lovely Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater.

Of course, that includes the illustrious cast of:
Craig Cackowski
Mark Gagliardi
Marc Evan Jackson
Hal Lublin
Annie Savage
Paul F. Tompkins
Janet Varney

We suggest getting your tickets ASAP. They’re going for $15 in advance and will be available (if not sold out) for $20 at the door. Get them ahead of time here.

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

Reggie Watts, Kate Berlant, and Rory Scovel Will Be Improvising Their Sitcom Crowe’s Nest via Livestream This Thursday

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If you remember from Reggie Watts last special Spatial, there was a portion of it that included an abstract parody of a sitcom.

If you haven’t seen Spatial, stop reading and go watch it as it is an hour of pure Reggie in the best way possible.

So, this Thursday, thanks to Butcher Bird Studios, Reggie, Rory Scovel, and Kate Berlant will get to an extended version of them going around in the form of a traditional sitcom.

We have no idea what’s going to happen (as it will be fully improvised), but we’re sure that it will be tomfoolery of the highest degree and shouldn’t be missed.

You can catch it at https://www.youtube.com/reggiewatts at 9PM (with a “pre-show” at 8PM)

Get more details here.

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Simply, this will be a pretty stellar night of long form improv in a wonderfully intimate space. We’ll let the line-up of some of the best improvisers around speak for itself:

DREAM LOVER-Paul F. Tompkins and Carl Tart
PUZZLES-Deborah Tarica and Alex Fernie
BONESAW-Jeff Taylor, Amelia Alvarez, Katherine Winslow, Shug Cvitanic, Lindsey Robertson, Lani Engstrom, and Caro Brooks
BOSS JR-Jake Dunnington, Matt Rath, and Naomi Villa

It’ll be upstairs in the Treehouse at The Clubhouse in Los Feliz. Get more details here. Admission is FREE, but donations will be accepted.

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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Just so you know, the latest chance you’ll have to see the one and only Norm MacDonald live in the Greater LA Area, will be on Thursday, May 31st through Saturday, June 2nd at the Brea Improv.

Tickets are $25 (+ 2 item min.). Get them here now.

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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These days, you might be missing the show known as Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.

Well, if you’re in the LA area later this month, you might get a chance to get your Bajillion fix as the stars which could include Dan Ahdoot, Ryan Gaul, Mandell Maughan, Tawny Newsome, Drew Tarver and Paul F. Tompkins will be improvising together once more at UCB Franklin.

Also, tickets are only $5 and we have a sneaking feeling that it will sell out. So get them here quick.

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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Next week, the opening night of LA’s newest comedy venue The Ruby LA will be a 12 hour feminist and inclusive comedy and arts festival featuring wondrous stand-up, sketch, improv, and music from some of LA’s best.

Admission is free until 7PM, after which tickets are $10. You can buy said tickets and 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.

February 19, 2018

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The hosts of improv4humans, Off Book: The Improvised Musical, and Comedy Bang! Bang! plus Horatio Sanz are all coming together to have one wondrous night of sing-a-longs and improv.

Matt Besser’s Hootenany Sing-A-Long Improv Comedy Experiment is FREE and all you have to do is show up at UCB Sunset this Friday.

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

February 6, 2018

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This is just a friendly reminder that Ben Schwartz’s latest show still has tickets available. That won’t be the case for long.

Go get them while you still can here.

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

January 14, 2018

colton dunn, hollywood, improv, law and order, long form improv, parody, phil jackson, some kinda monster

Improv inspired by specifically, out-of-context clips of dramatic films and TV on top of an improvised episode of Law & Order from Some Kinda Monster is one of our favorite improv shows.

Come catch their first show of 2018 at UCB Sunset this week where Colton Dunn (NBC’s Superstore), Phil Jackson (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Key and Peele) will be joining them.

Get tickets here.

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

January 9, 2018

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Not only is the great live animated stand-up show, Picture This! back for their first show of 2018, but they are, for the first time, having improv that will be also animated live from some of the best in town (Wild Horses-Lauren Lapkus, Mary Holland, Stephanie Allynne & Erin Whitehead).

You’re not going to want to miss this. In fact, you might want to show up before the door time if you want to get a seat.

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.

November 21, 2017

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Whether you’re obsessed with Ozeri’s Snapchat and a big fan of Broad City or not, you ought to know that Gil Ozeri and John Gemberling together doing improv will be something special.

Get tickets here.

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

October 19, 2017

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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.

September 26, 2017

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Second City will be doing two nights of Always Legal to Laugh, featuring all weed based sketches and improv, both from their archives and modern day originals, making for a nice way to remember that recreationally legal cannabis in California is only a few months away from being available.

They’re bringing their best and brightest to Hollywood’s Montalban Theater for the occasion including Frank Caeti, Edgar Blackmon, Jaime Moyer, Holly Laurent, Tawny Newsome, Eddie Mujica, Naomi Snieckus.

Tickets start at $25 and you can and should get them here.

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

Brooklyn’s Got Two Weeks of Festivals with 2017 Cinder Block and Final Eugene Mirman Comedy Fests

This weekend and next, Brooklyn will have two big comedy festivals that you might want to check out (there are some great LA comics paying a visit as well!).

The 2017 Cinder Block Comedy Festival will run this week Thursday 9/7-Sunday 9/10 in several venues throughout Brooklyn.

On the line-up:
Janeane Garofalo
Jeffrey Joseph
Judy Gold
Nikki Carr
Aida Rodriguez
Amy Miller
Carole Montgomery
Jo Firestone
Shalewa Sharpe
Aaron Chasteen
Alex Fleming
Alison Klemp
Alvin Irby
Amanda McQueen
American Express (improv)
Amy Shanker
Arish Singh
Astronomy Club (sketch & improv)
Barbara Bush (sketch)
Bill Larkin
Brian Mitchell
Brian Parise
Caitlin Durante
Caitlin Peluffo
Cameran Hebb
Camille Theobald
Cara Connors
Carolyn Castiglia
Carter Deems
Cassandra Dee
Catherine Zini
Cathy Humes
Chloe McGovern
Christina Catherine Martinez
Christina Galston
Christopher Crespo
Coree Spencer
Danielle Thralow
Derrick Lemos
Drew Anderson
Ed Galvez
Elsa Waithe
Emily Winter
Emmett Montgomery
Erin Lynn O’Connor
Erin Spencer
Fantasy Grandma
Gastor Almonte
Gianmarco Soresi
Hana Michels
Harris Alterman
Irene Merrow
J Smitty
Ja-Ron Young
Jacky Beren
James Huessy
Jenn Wehrung
Jenn Welch
Jes Tom
Joanna Briley
Kara Buller
Kat Herskovic
Kate Willett
Katherine Jessup
Katie Barbaro
Katie Boyle
Kelli Dunham
Khalid Rahmaan
Kristee Ono
L Michelle
Laura Merli
Lauren Faber
Lauren Hope Krass
Lynn Bixenspan
Maddy Smith
Mamoudou N’Diaye
Marie Faustin
Marisa Douenias
Mark James Heath
Mark Pagán
Marlon Jean-Baptiste
Maurice Licorish
Molly Kornfeld
Mostly Sara(h) (improv)
My Dark Little Corner
Nanie Mendez
Nasser Khan
Nick Chambers
Nicki Wright
Nina Manni
Patrick Holbert
Pedro Gonzalez
Rae Sanni
Raghav Mehta
Raj Sivaraman
Rhonda Hansome
Riley Silverman
Rosa Escandón
Sam & Bill
Sammie James
Sarah Kennedy
Sarah Sherman
Sharron Paul
Shelly Colman
Sonya Vai
Steven DeSiena
Steven Castillo
Stine An
Subhah Agarwal
Sydnee Washington
The Gay Trauma Archives (sketch)
The Unconventional Lesbians
Took Edalow
Tyler Snodgrass
Whitney Chitwood
Will Winner
Yogi Paliwal
Zack Hammond

More specifically, there will be an “Educated Guess Science Fair” and another round of “What a Joke!”, a comedy showcase that raises funds for the ACLU.

Get more details, schedule, etc. here.

The 10th and final Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival will run from Friday 9/15-Tuesday 9/19 at The Bell House, Union Hall, and King’s Theater.

On the line-up:
Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ian Black, Reggie Watts, Todd Barry, TJ Miller, Ira Glass, Michelle Wolf, Scott Adsit, Michael Showalter, Bobcat Goldthwait, Caroline Rhea, Jon Glaser, Mike Birbiglia, Janeane Garofalo, Robyn Hitchcock, Wyatt Cenac, Sarah Vowell, Ophira Eisenberg, Aparna Nancherla, Maeve Higgins, Derrick Brown, Joel Kim Booster, Kyle Ayers plus StarTalk Live with Neil deGrasse Tyson, career advice from a unicyclist, a Mike Pence look-a-like afterparty, and more.

Also, part of Eugene’s signature hijinks, he’ll be doing a “A Day of Cardboard” where companies can choose to sponsor a box for hundreds or thousands of dollars where Eugene will write about that company on said box.

Get more details and tickets here.

August 14, 2017

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Wild Horses (that’s Erin Whitehead, Mary Holland, Stephanie Allynne, and Lauren Lapkus) are absolutely one of the best improv teams around. So, any chance you get see them “prance” is one you should take.

Their show on Thursday at UCB Sunset has been sold out for sometime and just happens to feature Matt Besser, one of the UCB 4, as the special guest.

If you still want to go, you might just be in luck as we’ve got tickets that you can win.

Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

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If you want to see Zach Woods and Neil Casey do improv/see them again because you were so dazzled by watching them the first time, they’ve got a night coming up at Largo this Tuesday.

Get tickets here.

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

We’ve Got a Doozy of a Batch of New Ticket Giveaways

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We’ve Got a Doozy of a Batch of New Ticket Giveaways

We’re talking Harmontown live, Wild Horses presents The Perspective (which is sold out by the way), The Adventures of Danny & Mike Presents (attention to Pete & Pete fans), Comedy Sucks 1 Year Anniversary, and more.

If you like any or all of that, we’ve got tickets that you could win right here.

All of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and more in the Greater LA Area for next week (7/24) and beyond are updated!

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Check them at the embedded calendars at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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The cast of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ is going to do an improv show, which could be a show on its own probably, to kick off the premiere of their third seaosn.

Advance tickets are currently sold out, but UCB sometimes releases tickets leading up to the show and there’s always a stand by line.

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

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Both the Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run are all updated for next week (i.e. other things than Twin Peaks returning are happening).

Check the listings on the calendars at www.thecomedybureau.com