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TCB Debriefing 10/6/23: Welcome to Flatch, Dave Ross and Ismael Loutfi’s Mostly Trains Tour, She Came to Me, Rooster Teeth

October 6, 2023

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1. Jenny Bicks and Paul Feig’s Welcome to Flatch canceled following its second season (TV Line). Is it possible that TV mockumentaries have reached their limit?

2. Dave Ross and Ismael Loutfi could just go on a stand-up tour and we’d tell you that it would be worth your hard earned money and sparing free time to go see them, but they’re upping the ante by going on tour almost entirely by train across North America with the aptly named Mostly Trains Tour. So, they’re probably lowering their carbon footprint and will undoubtedly have the best material on trains that anyone has heard in decades. Go see dates and get tickets at mostlytrains.davetotheross.com.

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3. She Came to Me, a comedy about an opera composer who gets out of a creative rut by starting an affair with a tugboat captain, is playing in limited release starting this weekend. If Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, and director Rebecca Miller aren’t enough of sell, that premise should peak your curiosity plenty.

4. One of the biggest YouTube channels out there, Rooster Teeth is opting to depart the online video giant in favor of creating their own exclusive video platform/streaming service (Deadline). If you thought the proliferation of streaming services would stop with just international media conglomerates, you better get ready for boutique streaming services like Rooster Teeth to start popping up more and more.

5. We’ll leave you with this: How much longer before all they hecklers are “destroyed” so the art of live comedy can be enjoyed as intended? Or are they REALLY being “destroyed”?

Pick of the Day: Ismael Loutfi-HEAVENLY BABA: MY DAD’S PLAN TO CONVERT FLORIDA TO ISLAM (in NYC) 1/17

January 6, 2023

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We put the brilliantly funny Ismael Loutfi on our 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness To for his great half hour special that was released via Comedy Central. 2023 should be yet another year where you should take every chance to catch Ismael comedically explore the Muslim American experience in an unforgettable and astute and, of course, damn hilarious way.

This solo show has Loutfi follow the story of his Dad’s ill-fated plan to try to convert all of Florida, one of the wildest states in the lower 48, all to Islam. Already, that sounds like a movie and Loutfi will probably deliver the tale in a way where it should be even more clear that it ought to be a movie.

Heavenly Baba: My Dad’s Plan to Convert Florida to Islam is set for Tues Jan. 17th at 9:30pm at Caveat on NYC’s LES. Tickets are $15 right now and you really ought to go get them here.

Ismael Loutfi’s “Sound It Out” Is a Hilarious, Yet Deep Half-Hour Special About Being Muslim in America

March 14, 2022

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Over the last few years, you’ve seen the rise of Hasan Minhaj and Ramy Youssef and, in their ascent, we have all been given a beautiful and humorous look into the life of being Muslim in America. That said, that doesn’t mean that “box” is checked off and there isn’t more to be expressed in comedy from the American Muslim perspective. In fact, there’s so much that hasn’t been joked about and Ismael Loutfi dissects this identity and the narratives attached to in such a precise and uproarious way in his new Comedy Central half-hour special, Sound It Out.

For our money, aside from Minhaj and Youssef and so many other practicing Muslim comedians, Loutfi might be the sharpest writer of them all. The depth and nuance that he has with which he dives into any sort of observation, even the politics of pronouncing his name correctly, is astounding and has such a great twists, tags, and punchlines. Loutfi, from this special, is hopefully taking up the torch for the notion of “representation matters” equating to more than just voice from one background, especially if they’re so damn funny.

Ismael Loutfi: Sound It Out is streaming on Comedy Central Stand-Up’s YouTube channel for free here. Please watch and enjoy ASAP.

Pick of the Day: Shut Up & Laugh: A Comedy Benefit Fundraiser for Rescue Efforts in Afghanistan (in NYC) 8/24

August 23, 2021

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The ongoing crisis in Afghanistan right now is undeniably horrifying to see, let alone to actually go through. So many Afghans are fleeing and only certain pockets of the country are resisting the takeover by the Taliban and, as such, one can feel existentially helpless in doing anything about the situation.

That said, there are a myriad of relief efforts to support, one of which can be done through just going to a comedy show.

This Tuesday, at one of NYC’s new favorite underground spots, SESH Comedy, will be hosting an exclusive live comedy fundraiser, Shut Up & Laugh, presented by Nervous Laughter, with an amazing line-up of many of NYC comedy’s finest to aid rescue/resettlement efforts.

On the bill:

Usama Siddiquee
Ismael Loutfi
Mohanad El-Sheiky
Atheer Yacoob
Sarah Suzuki-Harvard

The show starts at 7PM ET and tickets are only $10. So, go get them right here and let’s sell this thing out for a great cause (and, also, have a damn good comedy show).

Comedy Central Has Already Taped a New Round of “Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring” Set to Premiere Dec. 1st

October 27, 2020

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With stand-up comedy getting its footing with outdoor shows (wherever they can happen), it was inevitable that a network would make a run at trying to film it in order to have some brand new stand-up content.

Comedy Central went ahead and did another round of their popular stand-up digital series Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring in NYC with a socially distant, masked audience (probably done a little safer than SNL form the looks of it) taped outside. The trailer for this latest batch of exclusive stand-up showcase sets almost resemble something like normal, before-times stand-up, but, of course, the material and the cutaways to the crowd are very much of the moment of the COVID-19 pandemic we’re in right now.

Rosebud Baker, Mary Beth Barone, Brittany Carney, Christi Chiello, Andy Haynes, Josh Johnson, Ismael Loutfi, Gavin Matts, Monroe Martin, Rebecca O’Neal and Eagle Witt all got to take the stage for this very special edition of CC’s digital stand-up series and will very likely have set a precedent of what stand-up comedy will look like for awhile.

Take a look for yourself with the trailer for this round of Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring here, then look for it to start streaming on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up YouTube channel every week starting Dec. 1st.

June 3, 2018

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We’re still smiling about the new web series Please Understand Me from Steve Feinartz and Ahamed Weinberg, EP’d by Sarah Silverman that was released this week on Facebook Watch.

Seriously, it’s fantastic.

Anyhow, if you’re in LA and don’t want to wait in the coming weeks for new episodes, you can go to a live screening of the whole series (including episodes for the pilot presentation) at the Lyric Hyperion in Silverlake (2106 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA) on Saturday, June 9th at 8PM. We were lucky enough to go to the premiere screening and it’s such a damn good time watching it in a crowd.

Tickets are $10 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.

“Please Understand Me” Is The Next Thing You Should Be Watching

May 30, 2018

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The idea of showing comedians in therapy gets taken to the next level with Please Understand Me from the brilliant duo of Ahamed Weinberg and Steven Feinartz.

In this web series, fictional stories are made up for pairs of comedians who sit down with actual therapists, accented with colorful interstitial flashbacks. Of course, the stories themselves are perfectly ridiculous and played to perfection by a great cast, which includes many of our favorite comedy folks such as Rory Scovel, Natalie Palamides, Mo Collins, Fred Melamed, Steph Tolev, Ismael Loutfi, Ahamed, Juzo Yoshida, Chad Damiani, Phil Burgers, and Punkie Johnson.

Go enjoy Please Understand Me’s first two episodes right now on Facebook Watch and check back weekly for new episodes.

April 28, 2018

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Stand Up in pitch black darkness is back!

Marlena Rodriguez’s DARK has its latest edition set for Friday, May 4th at Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake and will feature the disembodied voices and great comedy of:
Aparna Nancherla (Netflix The Stand Ups)
Johnny Pemberton (You’re The Worst)
Mary Lynn Rajskub (Brooklyn Nine Nine)
Amy Silverberg (Wolf Den, Bitchface)
Ismael Loutfi (Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Brandon Scott Wolf (NY Times)

Maybe they’ll do something special as it’s Star Wars Day (because, you know, the dark side and being in the dark)? Go and see for yourself (We’ll bet you’ll have a great time either way).

Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at door. Please 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.

June 13, 2017

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Revered punk label Fat Wreck Chords is throwing a comedy show, their first one in fact, this Wednesday night. Appropriately called Fat Calm Eddie, the show will go down at The Lost Room in Echo Park (1538 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA) and really does feature some of the funniest people that LA has to offer.

It doesn’t get much more Echo Park, and we mean that in the best way possible, than this.

Get more details here.

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