Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week 12/10/16
All across the Greater LA Area, we’ve got listings that cover anything and everything that’s worth seeing in comedy for next week and beyond. Stand-up, sketch, improv, screenings, experimental comedy, podcast tapings, holiday shows, and more.
2017 Gilda’s LaughFest Is Now Taking Submissions for Stand-Up, Sketch, and Improv
Gilda’s LaughFest has taken place annually in Grand Rapids, MI since 2011 bringing headliners and up and comers around the country to Michigan.
This year, the festival will run for a week and a half from March 9th-19th.
You have a shot to perform as they’re taking submissions until December 18th this year. Get details and submit at the link above.
The winners will get to perform at next year’s DCM.
Across the entire country, one of the founding members of The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and creator of the improv4humans podcast, Matt Besser, is looking for the best improv team around.
If you’ve got a team that can execute in the improv4humans form, then you might have a shot to be flown out to NYC for the world’s most highly regarded improv comedy festival, Del Close Marathon.
Get all the details, deadlines and more for contest4improv4humans here.
In the Greater LA area, we’ve got listings for anything from comedy benefits for ACLU, Planned Parenthood, etc. to screenings for some holiday classics such as Home Alone (accompanied by a live orchestra) to the replacement for The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Rabbit Hole with Jay and Rory.
All of this and way more listed at TheComedyBureau.com
Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week 11/13/16
It looks like live comedy shows will continue to exist next week and beyond.
We got them all listed for the greater LA area for you to enjoy/cope with/etc.
Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week 11/6/16
No matter who wins the election on Tuesday, you’ll probably need to laugh and there are more than plenty of shows to see, especially on Tuesday.
Tickets are still available for $30 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.
Raising funds for The LA Indie Improv Festival, some of the best improvisors in town will be going head-to-head in a 2016 Drug Cagematch (i.e. team booze vs. team weed vs. team molly vs. team shrooms).
$5 donation will get you into the show this Saturday, November 5th at 8PM at The Clubhouse.
Get more details here.
Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next 10/30/16
If you want to laugh more than be scared, we’ve got you covered for the Greater LA Area.
Funny Women Fest LA Is Taking Submissions Until October 14th
The festival is set to take place in Highland Park on Thursday, November 30th through Saturday, December 3rd and will help benefit the Downtown Women’s Center.
They’re looking for female performers in stand-up, sketch, improv, storytelling, musical comedy, sketch, short film, and pilot scripts. Fees range from $20-$50 depending on whether you’re submitting as an individual or a group.
That’s not a pretty good deal especially considering you’re helping an LA foundation that deals with women overcoming homelessness.
Again, the submission deadline is Friday, October 14th, 2016 at midnight.
Lauren Lapkus, Mary Holland, Stephanie Allynne, and Erin Whitehead take their hit show Wild Horses from UCB to Largo for a night. They’ll be having a “candid, daytime-talk-show” style conversation, then improv off of that with special guest Amanda Peet.
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.
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.
Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week 8/22
I Seem Fun: The Diary of Jen Kirkman, Reggie Watts & Karen, The Cooties, Rory Scovel, and much much more.
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.
Brand New Ball’s run starts this Saturday, August 13th. As with almost all of shows at The Clubhouse, admission is free, but donations are encouraged to support the venue.
There’s nothing quite like a random day like National Book Lovers Day that’s set up to celebrates books that allows us to recommend to you some great comedy book titles that have been either recently released or will be hitting bookshelves (both physical and digital) very soon.
So, without further delay, get your observance of this holiday in with buying or pre-ordering the following:
–Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm MacDonald (out September 20th)
–How To Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All-And Then Some! by Reductress (out Oct. 25th)
–You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
–How To Be The Greatest Improviser on Earth by Will Hines
–Dave Hill Doesn’t Liver Here Anymore by Dave Hill
–Drinky Crow Drinks Again by Tony Millionaire
–Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir by Amber Tozer
Open Mic Run Updated for Next Week
From 8/8/16 through 8/13/16, we got all the listings for open mics for stand-up, sketch, improv, and more all around LA.
One of our favorite improv teams Pretty, Pretty Pony (Cole Stratton, Vanessa Ragland, Joey Greer, Chris Alvarado, Atul Singh, Ed Roe) has been together for five years and are celebrating the occasion on their monthly Westside Comedy Theater show on Monday, August 8th with special guest, the one and only, Wayne Federman.
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.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Improv team Pretty, Pretty Pony was and is still one of our favorite things. More details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
We’ve got the line-up for you here and, per usual, it’s a doozy.
Next Wednesday, June 1st through Sunday, June 5th, Portland will get its wondrous annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival.
Below, we have the full line-up (subject to change, of course) of performers and shows. After taking several moments to take all of that in, you can buy your passes and tickets here.
PERFORMERS
Rachel Bloom
Aimee Mann
Ted Leo
Eddie Pepitone
Morgan Murphy
Kyle Mooney
Sara Schaefer
Steve Agee
Brendon Small
The Thermals
Jonah Ray
Baron Vaughn
Greg Behrendt
Matt Braunger
Moshe Kasher
Aparna Nancherla
Oscar Nunez
Janet Varney
John Michael Higgins
James Urbaniak
Brooks Wheelan
Cole Stratton
Jessica Makinson
John Roderick
Merlin Mann
Dwayne Perkins
Lance Bangs
Louis Katz
Chris Cubas
Alice Wetterlund
Guy Branum
Laura Kightlinger
Bil Dwyer
Wimps
Laurie Kilmartin
Rick Overton
Josh Sneed
Julian McCullough
Eliza Skinner
Jay Larson
Dulce Sloan
David Huntsberger
Dan Telfer
David Gborie
Matt Kirshen
Rhea Butcher
Tone Bell
John F. O’Donnell
Mike Burns
Ryan Sickler
Matthew Broussard
Heather Thomson
Solomon Georgio
Jesse Popp
Matt Koff
Jenny Zigrino
Nick Youssef
Zak Toscani
Dino Archie
Sam Jay
Nathan Brannon
Steven Wilber
Curtis Cook
Bryan Cook
Sean Jordan
Joe Pera
Andy Wood
Dave Ross
Mike Bridenstine
Amy Miller
Casey Ley
Ahamed Weinberg
David Tveite
Alex Falcone
Rob Haze
Yusef Roach
Anthony Lopez
Bri Pruett
Carmen Lagala
Casey James Salengo
Caitlin Weierhauser
Derek Gaines
Hutch Harris
Rylee Newton
Andrew Michaan
Emily Galati
Emma Willmann
J.P. McDade
Gilbert Lawand
Hans Kim
Janelle James
Adam Pasi
Georgea Brooks
Gabe Dinger
Jack Martin
Mia Jackson
Jacob Christopher
Katie McCarthy
Robert Buscemi
Tony Sam
James Fritz
Geoffrey Asmus
Clare O’Kane
Josh Androsky
Jason Webb
Barbara Holm
Jesus Trejo
Nato Green
Martin Urbano
JoAnn Schinderle
Jon Washington
Kate Willett
Leah Mansfield
M.K. Paulsen
Janae Burris
Maria Shehata
Lizzy Pilcher
Rebecca O’Neal
Megan Gailey
Molly Ruben-Long
Abby Rosenquist
Tafadzwa Gwaze
Nariko Ott
Richard Douglas Jones
Jason Traeger
Natalie Palamides
Preacher Lawson
Nick Dixon
Nick Sahoyah
Patrick Susmilch
Toby Muresianu
Subhah Agarwal
Quincy Jones
Devin Field
Raghav Mehta
Mike Coletta
Tawanda Gona
Steph Tolev
Ella Gale
Sabrina Jalees
Philip Schallberger
Sammy Arechar
Simon Gibson
Shane Torres
Whitney Streed
Lou Perez
LeviathanThe Liberators
Curious Comedy Players
Andrew Ti
Ryan de la Garza
Jake Browne
SHOWS
Rachel Bloom
An Evening With Aimee Mann and Ted Leo (and Friends!)
Lance Bangs Presents: Come Laugh with Us
Theme Park Improv
Baked with Brendon Small and Steve Agee
Guy Branum’s Gay Bash
Roderick on the Line
Yo, Is This Racist? LIVE PODCAST
Eddie Pepitone’s Bloodbath
The Crabfeast with Ryan Sickler and Jay Larson
Julian Loves Music
Probably Science
Joke Thieves
Nato Green Presents: Laughter Against the Machine
Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction
Persona!
Set List
Turnt Up with Eliza Skinner
Uncalled Four
Pep Talks Podcast
You Had to Be There
Unsafe Space
Reunited
Earthquake Hurricane
Stand Up For Yourself! With Amy Miller
Rants Off/ Dance Off
It’s Gonna Be Okay
The Liberators present Mood Music
Leviathan
Reading The Bible With Dan Live
The Dirty 30
New Negroes
Hound Tall with Moshe Kasher"Hidden America with Jonah Ray" Screening and Q & A
Many of you might be aware of the back and off stage drama that happens behind improv troupes. In fact, it would almost seem unbelievable that improv teams that seem so joyous and on-the-same-wavelength on stage would be bickering, jealous, etc. Yet, it happens and happens often.
However, Mike Birbiglia’s latest film Don’t Think Twice is bringing all of that light with a stellar cast of Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Chris Gethard, Tami Sagher, Kate Micucci, and Birbiglia himself.
This trailer shows that Mike Birbiglia has a knack for this writing/directing thing.
Look for this to hit theaters on July 22nd.
The Pack Theater, the newest upstart at The Complex on Santa Monica Blvd., has a nice, big ol’ variety show, comprised of several shows, on Sunday nights.
Called Big Sunday, they feature stand-up, sketch, improv, and anything else in between. This particular Big Sunday coming up should be one to catch as there line-up is as follows:
8:00PM
HEATHER & MILES
LA Weekly calls Heather & Miles, “Awesome. Intellectually nimble, character driven…beautiful chaos.” Eric Idle (Monty Python) says they’re “The next Nichols and May.” On the 4th Sunday of every month at TPT, Heather & Miles are performing their signature, multiple-character, fast and inspiring long-form improv set!
Performed by HEATHER ANNE CAMPBELL (SNL, Party Over Here, @midnight, Adult Swim) & MILES STROTH (The Family & founder of The Pack Theater).
8:45PM
LOOSEY GOOSEY is TPT’s flagship weekly variety show featuring stand-up, sketch, and whatever we want!
Hosted by SAM BROWN (Whitest Kids U Know), JOSH FADEM (30 Rock, Eagleheart, Better Caul Saul) and ERIC MONEYPENNY (FOX ADHD, The Midnight Show at UCB)
This week’s LOOSEY GOOSEY…
JESSE POPP (Conan writer, Comedy Central’s “The Half Hour”)
ERICA RHODES (A Prarie Home Companion, New Girl, @midnight)
IFY NWADIWE (@midnight, White Women)
DEBORAH ETTA ROBINSON (UCB)
HORACE (TPT Sketch)
100% STUFF (TPT Sketch)
10:00PM
BEAT THE MEAT: The Meat is a winner. Watch in amazement as The Meat battles comedians and audience members in challenges in a number of disciplines.
WITH SPECIAL GUEST COMPETITORS
JEFF SLONIKER (The Midnight Show, Parks and Rec, Silicon Valley)
SAM BROWN (Whitest Kids U Know)
KELLY VROOMAN (Tiny Muscles, Laurelly)
LYNDSAY HAILEY (iO Chicago, Second City Chicago)
KATIE MOLINARO (Haymaker, Nickelodeon)
DK REINEMER (100% Stuff)
KATHERINE COWELL (Dr. America)
CAMERON RICE (Tiny Muscles)
LILLIAN PENNYPACKER (TPT LHT)
and MORE! And YOU!!!
HOSTED BY:
JAMES PUMPHREY (Key & Peele, You’re The Worst)
& THE MEAT (Andrew Shrout)
Also, all the shows accept any donations that you can spare. So, you might want to check out Big Sunday this Sunday, May 22nd, starting at 8PM at The Pack Theater (6470 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA).
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The names on the flyer are only a fraction of the flocks upon flocks of teams and performers that will be performing in NYC for the literally non-stop Del Close Marathon from Fri. June 24th-Sun. June 26th (i.e. shows will be happening for 24 hours a day the whole weekend).
Take a gander at the whole routinely massive line-up and schedule right here.
Individual tickets are now on sale, but passes won’t be available until the actual DCM begins.