There are plenty of our favorite stand-ups working right now that are spread throughout this whole thing. If you have Seeso (or Amazon Prime), go binge away on season 2 of The Guest List.
By now, thanks to some viral posts and memes, you’ve probably heard of the general concept of a doppelgänger.
Yet, have you seen, or even heard a case of real life doppelgänger? We’re going to bet probably not (or if you have, it’s probably a stretch).
In any case, you should catch the doppelgänger voices of comedians Jackie Kashian and Ophira Eisenberg this week co-doing this “Vocal Doppelgänger” show at Nerdmelt.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Basically, Follow That! pits comedians into having to follow the screening of heart wrenching, highly emotional videos. The emotional roller coaster that you go on combined with the inevitable curiosity that you’ll have to see what a comic will do after seeing a tearjerker is indeed pretty great.
The next edition of Follow That! is set for the end of this month and you can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Jackie Kashian’s latest hour of stand-up, I Am Not the Hero of This Story, is wire-to-wire fantastic. It’s a culmination of Jackie being mastered at all the skills of stand-up comedy including writing, personal voice, delivery, presence, timing, etc. and then focusing in on the zeitgeist from an incredibly personal and human perspective.
As much as it had us slapping our knees laughing through some really dark passages (including a chunk about the Armenian Genocide), this latest album has a very sincere air of hope, making it something really special.
I Am Not the Hero of This Story is out now from Stand Up! Records and you can get it off of iTunes.
Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin catching up and talking shop on The Jackie and Laurie Show is absolutely one of our favorite podcasts.
So, naturally, when they’re recording a live episode, we think you should go and watch.
Next Monday, they indeed will be taping a live episode at Flappers in Burbank that costs $10 w/a 2 item minimum. Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The LA Podcast Festival is now in its sixth year and, if you’ve ever been to it, you’d know that it’s an institution with a fiercely loyal following at this point.
WTF with Marc Maron, My Favorite Murder, The Jackie & Laurie Show, The Dork Forest, The Dollop, Comedy Film Nerds, Bertcast, We Hate Movies, Mental Illness Happy Hour w/ Paul Gilmartin, & Cashing In w/ T.J. Miller and host Cash Levy are just a handful of the podcasts that are confirmed for this year’s LA Podcast Festival.
Moving from Beverly Hills to Downtown LA at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, the festival will take place from Friday, October 6th-Sunday, October 8th.
Earlybird tickets are now on sale for $99, which you should get in on since you’ll save $50 from the regularly priced pass.
On their own, Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin are fantastic comedians that you should absolutely keep an eye on with whatever they do (The Dork Forest, Conan, 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad, This Will Make an Excellent Horcrux).
Together, they make our new favorite podcast, The Jackie and Laurie Show on the Nerdist Podcast Network.
There are no guests and it’s as impromptu a conversation as they can make it, but the pairing of Kashian and Kilmartin brings a wonderfully, brash, open, unfiltered dynamic to the show. They give a great, unique window into talking shop in comedy and the lives of two successful, working, veteran comedians that hasn’t really gelled in the world of podcasting the way it has on The Jackie and Laurie Show.
There’s a bit of an ‘inside baseball’ vibe to the way they break down their own comedy, where they’re performing, what’s going on in their lives, but their chemistry, the razor sharp riffing and roasting, and the perspective of two older female comedians can make it engaging for plenty of those not in the world of comedy.
So, if you haven’t done so already, please subscribe and listen to The Jackie and Laurie Show.
Tickets are $15 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.
There’s so much to love about this project called Burn This Election.
It’s a comedy album that will be recorded in a house featuring some of LA’s best comedians including Jackie Kashian, Dave Ross, Sean Keane, Kate Willett, and way more spitting fire, comedically, about this year’s election with all of the proceeds going to support the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the country, RAINN.
Yes, they did pick that group in response to the words and actions of Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump.
We’re guessing that you’ll rarely get to see comedy delivered with such urgency in the intimacy of a house. Also, the album is set to drop on Election Day, which should be a nice palate cleanser to this nightmare of an election cycle.
The taping of the album will be hosted by Brandie Posey and is set for next week in a house in Hollywood on Wednesday, November 2nd at 8:30PM. Admission is free, but they’ll also be taking donations for RAINN as well.
Ben Gleib, Jackie Kashian, Paul Provenza, and more make fun of the first 2016 presidential debate while it’s happening. The debate will be historic, whether you like that or not, but the show will make it one fun night no matter what Hillary and Trump say.
Comedy Juice Squeezes The Presidential Debate will be happening concurrently with the debate at The Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab on Monday, Sept. 26th 8PM.
Tickets are only $7 and you can (and should) get them here.
The amazing Jackie Kashian is prepping for her next album and will thusly be running said album everyday from Tuesday, August 30th to Friday, September 2nd at The Clubhouse, 1607 N. Vermont, Los Angeles, CA (Next to Jons) at 4PM.
The Clubhouse asks for a $5 suggested donation to support the theater.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
As you can see from the flyer, if you’re up in Canada in Winnipeg, going to The Oddblock Block Party Comedy Festival is what you should be doing this weekend.
Here’s the full schedule, line-up, and, of course, where you can get tickets.
You can and should get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This edition of Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction will be a taping for Seeso’s upcoming Comedy Show Show. It also happens to feature some of the best comedians to ever write pop-culture based sex tales.
So, don’t miss it this on Sunday at The Virgil (4519 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, Blvd) at 7:30PM.
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com
In a black box theater, comedians “try and impress” the “one and only” Mama Trudy to “get passed” in her new “comedy club”.
Otherwise, they’ll get “banned” forever.
The rest of our listings for comedy events and open mics are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
It’s about time this happened.
One of the many new, exciting things that are happening at NBC’s comedy streaming service, Seeso, is a thing called The Comedy Show Show, which will feature plenty of different formats of comedy shows that have grown over the last few years.
Bryan Cook’s Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction is a prime example of such a format with comedians writing erotic fiction of a pop culture subject of their choice or by random. Having toured the country and becoming a hit podcast, it’s only logical that it would get to be featured in a series at some point.
So, a taping for Seeso’s Comedy Show Show will take place at the Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction’s current home, The Virgil, on Sunday, April 17th at 8PM (doors are at 7:30PM).
The stellar line-up features past winners including such notable comedians as:
Moshe Kasher (Netflix special “Live in Oakland”)
Eliza Skinner (@Midnight, writer ‘The Late Late Show’)
Ben Roy (Star/Co-creator ‘Those Who Can’t’ on TruTv)
Dave Hill (Author, ‘Tasteful Nudes,’ Host ‘The God Damn Dave Hill Show’ on WFMU)
Ian Karmel (Conan, writer ‘The Late Late Show’)
Guy Branum (writer, ‘Another Period,’ ‘The Mindy Project’)
Andrés du Bouchet (Writer/performer on Conan)
Jackie Kashian (Conan, album ‘This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux’)
Solomon Georgio (Conan, Viceland)
The taping is free to attend, which should give you more incentive than you already have to go to this.
One of our absolute favorites here at The Comedy Bureau, Jackie Kashian, got to return to Conan O’Brien’s stage to do stand-up once more.
Line-up/Tickets for The Very First Green Gravel Comedy Festival
The heart of Iowa is going to get a pretty great comedy festival come Mar. 28th-30th with The Green Gravel Comedy Festival featuring Jackie Kashian, Ryan Singer, Kevin McDonald, Junior Stopka, and more.
Tickets are on sale now and we suggest that you get them ASAP if you’re planning on going (and you should be if you can).
Jackie Kashian’s Special “This Will Make an Excellent Horcrux” Out Today
Jackie Kashian’s brand new stand up special This Will Make an Excellent Horcrux is finally here from All Things Comedy for only $5.
On top of you wanting to see a Jackie Kashian special, it being for the low price of $5, Jackie gets 100% of the profits. So buy and enjoy her wonderful comedy (it is pretty great in case you haven’t checked it out) and you will be, as suggested above, 100% supporting her.
All Things Comedy is presenting one of their first comedy specials with Jackie Kashian’s This Will Make An Excellent Horcrux.
Coming Mar. 4th for only $5 from All Things Comedy, this is something that you need to make sure you add to your shelf/digital folder of stand up specials this year because Jackie is simply fantastic.
Jackie Kashian Taping First Hour Comedy Special at Acme in Minneapolis
Though we get spoiled with her comedic awesomeness here in LA, Jackie Kashian is going closer to her roots in Minneapolis, MN at The Acme Comedy Company to record her first hour comedy special.
It’s right after Christmas on Dec. 26th and 27th, so it’s the perfect balance from doing all that obligatory family stuff on the Christmas and Christmas Eve.
If you’re in or around or can get to the Acme Comedy Company on those dates, we ask that you don’t miss this taping.
On Jan. 11th-12th 2014, the NYC PodFest is returning for another round just like the LA Podcast Festival did this past month and having good podcast line-up with shows from both coasts including The Dork Forest w/Jackie Kashian, Keith and The Girl, Risk! w/Kevin Allison, Pep Talks with Eddie Pepitone, Road Stories, and more.
Weekend passes are on sale for $100 and would probably be the perfect Christmas gift for the comedy/podcast fan in your life if you want to get that out of the way in Oct.
Watch Tapings of Comedy Central’s @midnight with Chris Hardwick
In case you were wondering, tapings of the highly anticipated @midnight at Comedy Central will be taking place in LA at Hollywood Center Studios starting tonight, then taping 4 nights a week.
You can get free tickets to a taping at the link, which is a thing we highly recommend that you do to see the likes of Mike Lawrence, Jackie Kashian, James Adomian, Andy Daly, Kyle Kinane, Tom Lennon, Kurt Braunohler, Ron Funches, Eugene Mirman, Natasha Leggero, Megan Neuringer, and more see who has the funniest take on the Internet that day/night.
Much of the time on Set List: The Improvised Stand Up Show, comedians are just rolling with whatever topic they’re thrown and often going to such heights of absurdity with none of their improvised material having much to do with them personally. Yet, there are still a handful of great comedians that can still bring their own experiences into the obtuse topics on Set List.
One such comedian is the wonderful Jackie Kashian, which you can watch how she ties in being from Wisconsin into her never before seen set list here from Set List at Nerdist’s YouTube Channel.
Over the last couple of weeks, three articles have specifically stuck out to us in that they address very important issues in comedy that rarely get talked about. It has nothing to really do with joke thievery or rape jokes or the normal stuff you see politically correct inspired blogs get outraged over, but how to not have your corporate gig go awry or how to not let the bitterness get the best of you as a comedian are definitely topics in comedy that need discussing.
That’s why we’re telling you to read this three wonderfully written articles that center loosely around a theme of “how not to…” by three wonderful comedians:
Grandma Kashian’s Guide to Hiring a Comedian for your Function by Jackie Kashian
What Jealousy and Bitterness Can Do For Your Comedy Career by Andy Sandford
To That Threesome Heckler by Cameron Esposito