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“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.

We Could Watch Hours of Camping With Todd Glass, Eddie Pepitone, Jon Dore, and Zach Galifianakis

October 15, 2017

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This “slice of life” comedic mini-doc is from a few weeks ago. However, it’s so damn delightful in a dreamy way that we couldn’t dare think of not posting it.

Please enjoy it and take cues for how to make camping actually fun here.

Norm MacDonald Live Returns for Season 4 Later This Month with Letterman as a Guest

July 14, 2017

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You knew that Norm Macdonald had his own show where he does whatever strikes his fancy, right?

Well, his eponymous show returns for its 4th season on Tuesday, July 25th via JASH with none other than comedy/showbiz/late night legend David Letterman as one of the guests.

See for yourself in this preview clip here.

Also, you can catch up the previous three seasons of Norm Macdonald Live here.

April 23, 2017

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One of LA’s long running comedy house shows, Comedy Living Room, is now being done in VR coming up this week through JASH and AltspaceVR.

The line-up is pretty fantastic and with someone like Paul Scheer on the show, you’ve got to wonder what shenanigans he’ll try to pull with it being a VR comedy house show.

Also, to all of those without a VR headset, you can enjoy the show on your desktop or laptop computer.

Get more details here.

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

Please Enjoy Alex & Ariel’s Latest Short Film “Sound Speeds”

April 7, 2017

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Alex Kavutskiy and Ariel Gardner, one of favorite filmmaking teams in comedy, have just released their latest short film, Sound Speeds.

It shines a light on one of Tinseltown’s unsung heroes, the sound mixer, and then shows how weird one of those guys can be all in gorgeous black and white.

Watch it here.

Jamie Loftus and JASH Will Be Livestreaming a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-1980s-Political Thriller/Ballet Performance “Swan Lake Live!” From a Locked Basement

March 31, 2017

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If you love absurdist, experimental comedy, please commit the name Jamie Loftus to memory (we’ve suggested doing this on a number of occasions as we find Jamie to be hysterical).

You can see why we love Jamie with her latest endeavor that mixes ballet, conspiracy theory, President Ronald Reagan, and choose your own adventure all into one event that will be livestreamed.

We’ll actually let Jamie further explain “Swan Lake Live! (from a Locked Basement)”:

The premise of the show goes: it is March 30, 1981, the day of Reagan’s assassination attempt, and I play a ballerina/government spy named um Jamie Loftus which is my name and my associate Gary and I come to in a locked basement that is slowly filling with gas from a stove full of ham upstairs. Suspecting that our employer, the president, may be in danger, we are tasked with escaping the basement and saving Ronald Reagan (who is a shitty president but we don’t know that yet it’s only 1981 keep up) while still performing Swan Lake in its entirety.

WHY WE NEED YOU: Because this is a livestream, I’m introducing several choose-your-own-adventure style choices in the show, including whether I should do a complicated ballet dance in a Ronald Reagan mask or whether I should buttchug a bottle of milk after punching through a pinata I made of Jodie Foster’s head.

THERE WILL BE: five dances to Swan Lake, five choices for the audience, three original cartoons from me Jamie, two miserable ballerina ingenues trapped in a basement that is slowly filling with gas, two costume changes I have to do live on camera and only one chance to see it live.

Also, my boyfriend is a young man named John Hinckley Junior, a man who you may not have heard of as of March 30, 1981 but who I think has the potential to really make something of himself.

Pretty great, right?

You can get more details about Swan Lake Live! (From a Locked Basement) here and livestream it on JASH tomorrow at 12PM PST-3PMPST.

Sarah Silverman Will Now Be Doing a Netflix Comedy Special

February 13, 2017

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Sarah Silverman Will Now Be Doing a Netflix Comedy Special

Well, Netflix now has quite the stacked deck for 2017. Following from Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Amy Schumer,

Sarah Silverman is the latest big name comedian to have done their last comedy special at HBO and is set to do their newest special at Netflix. Silverman will shoot her special soon and Liam Lynch will be directing along with JASH, which she co-founded, producing.

We’re are thoroughly intrigued, given how outspoken Sarah has been in the political spectrum and the times that we’re living in now, what exactly she will do with this new special.

The Cooties and Reggie Watts Make “Trumpy Trump”, the Only Actually OK Trump Supporter Song (Because It’s Still Against Trump)

October 12, 2016

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The Cooties are already great. Reggie Watts is also already great. They all definitely do not need to be made great again.

So, as a group of greats, they made a perfect, satirical Trump supporter song and accompanying music video, Trumpy Trump, that shows why one Donald Trump isn’t actually fit to make anything great at any time.

Please Enjoy the Grade A Silliness of The Cooties’ Pilot Dad Friends

October 4, 2016

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The rumors are true. There is stuff that you should watch on go90.

The Cooties are definitely one of favorite things that we found out about in 2016. Their absurdist songs strike a great balance of being solid pop music while being almost completely out-of-left-field with their lyrics.

Recently, they got a chance to make a TV pilot with JASH through Verizon’s go90 and got the free reign to really go to the nth degree with pure, uncut, silly brand of comedy.

The result is Dad Friends and you should watch it as soon as you can.

Watch Kelly Hudson’s Short Film “Tond” and Feel Less Alone

September 16, 2016

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The name Tond should clue you in the wry, existential humor that flows through every frame of this short film.

Kelly Hudson wrote, starred in, and edited it and plays a lonesome old man named Tond looking for someone, anyone to connect with. The result is pretty wonderful and, we’re betting, will make you feel less alone in the universe. Josh Ruben and Vincent Peone direct and it’s another great offering from JASH via go90.

So, without further adieu, watch Tond here.

September 8, 2016

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Get more details and RSVP for free here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Chris Charpentier Has One of The Weirdest “Best Days Ever”

September 1, 2016

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Really, we can’t handily describe just the weirdness of Chris Charpentier’s best day ever.

You’re just going to have to watch the whole thing to really grasp it.

Really, you need to watch the whole thing and appreciate the clever talents of The Nix Brothers.

Jon Dore Gets the Worst Undercover Backstory

August 18, 2016

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From the minds of Adam Brodie, Dave Derewlany, and Jon Dore comes this great, dark sketch at JASH that explores the worst possible backstory that one could get in trying to escape from hostile territory. Maria Bamford and Katie Crown, who are also featured, really drive the point home.

Please watch and enjoy it here.

Here’s a Taste of What Reggie Watts Performing in VR Was Like

July 7, 2016

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A couple of months ago, Reggie Watts and JASH teamed up to do a VR event where Reggie would perform in a virtual reality space for as many people as possible.

If you’re wondering how they pulled it off, here’s a look behind the VR headset.

2016 Outside Lands Announces Barbary Comedy & Improv Line-Up

As part of San Francisco’s big annual music and arts festival to do, Outside Lands, they always have a pretty sizable line-up of comedy reserved for the Barbary portion of the festival.

This year, as you can see above, is no different as it’s co-curated by SF Sketchfest.

If you’re on board, get your tickets here.

Watch Mini Doc About How Henry Phillips Came Up with His ‘Cooking’ Series Henry’s Kitchen

June 25, 2016

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Without a doubt, one of our favorite web series of all time is Henry Phillips’ Henry’s Kitchen.

The anti-cooking cooking show is one-of-a-kind and filmmaker/comedy documentarian Scott Moran got to catch the story of how the whole idea behind Henry’s Kitchen came about for JASH.

Watch it here.

Henry Phillips’ Latest “You and Your Fu*king Coffee” Has Something to Do with The Hindenburg Disaster

April 1, 2016

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It’s time that we change the term “butterfly effect” to the “you and your f’n coffee effect”.

See why as Henry Phillips’ latest episode of his web series You and Your Fu*king Coffee sets off a chain of events that will ripple through the pages of history for decades to come.

Watch Trailer for Short Film “Arikippiana” from Matt Besser, Horatio Sanz, Drew Tarver, and Hillary Matthews

March 20, 2016

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Jash has got a lot of stuff going at Verizon’s new go90 app. One of those things is a brand new short film from UCB founder Matt Besser, Horatio Sanz, Drew Tarver, and Hillary Matthews

It follows a Southern newspaper struggling to come into the modern world of journalism through the hire of a recent Harvard grad.

Get a taste of it with this trailer.

JASH Announces Line-up for First Jash Fesht

March 4, 2016

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Online network JASH is getting into the comedy festival game by throwing their own Jash Fesht on the weekend of Apr. 1st-3rd at Snapshot Studios in Palm Springs.

As you can see, the line-up is nicely stacked between comedy, music, and folks that blur the line of both disciplines.

Tickets are on sale now for $50-$100.

Watch a Mini Doc on What’s Going on with Brent Weinbach’s “Gangster Party Line” Two Years After It Went Viral

February 26, 2016

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Scott Moran, the man behind the brilliant docu-series Modern Comedian, has a new mini-documentary at JASH that delves into what came after Brent Weinbach’s viral hit video Gangster Party Line.

Two years later, the video has a sort of website spin-off GangsterPartyLine.com featuring the voicemails that people would leave when calling the real number from the video.

Every once in awhile, Brent and friends like the brilliant Moshe Kasher will actually pick up and, you know, talk some shit.

Get into the doc here and give Gangster Party Line another watch or two because it definitely still holds up.

Matt Oswalt, Eddie Pepitone, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Milana Vayntrub Present Christmas Recipes for Those Not So Into Christmas

December 24, 2015

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Those that don’t really dig this time of year with all the added pressure of having to be festive, forced interaction with family, etc. will enjoy Matt Oswalt’s attempt at his personal recipe for Snickerdoodle cookies over at Jash’s buh channel.

During said attempt, Eddie Pepitone, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Milana Vayntrub have other plans.

Watch it here.

Want Key & Peele and 2Chainz to Play Your Wedding? ABSORPTION! Might Be The Band For You

July 14, 2015

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Are you getting hitched and want a wedding band that not only plays all the “hits”, but makes it even more personal? Oh, and you want rapper 2Chainz holding a sax to be a part of it too?

Well, Jash’s Buh has the wedding band for you in ABSORPTION! that features Keegan Michael-Key, Jordan Peele, 2Chainz, a gong, and more.

Just watch their promo video here.

We should note that actually booking this band in real life probably costs a lot of money.

Scheer-RL Visits Casey Wilson and Eminem’s First Time on TRL and That Time P. Diddy Tried To Run a Marathon

May 17, 2015

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Paul Scheer’s recreation of some of the craziest episodes of MTV’s Total Request Live continues on Scheer-RL with awkward conversations between host Carson Daly and guests who had, at the time, never been on TRL before like Celine Dion and Eminem paired with Mark Wahlberg. There was also a time where P. Diddy ran on a treadmill during an interview in preparation for running a marathon.

On top of that, Casey Wilson plays Celine Dion, Terry Crews and Katie Lowes play P. Diddy and Britney Spears, and Randall Park and Joe Lo Truglio play Eminem and Mark Wahlberg, which turns out to be as ridiculous and great as you think it would be.

Paul Scheer Is Now Re-creating Episodes of TRL Called “Scheer-RL”

May 12, 2015

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This first one is a doozy with Ryan Hansen and Thomas Middleditch playing members 98 Degrees.

Remember when Paul Scheer recreated some of the craziest moments on The Arsenio Hall Show from the 90s and called it “The ArScheerio Paul Show”?

Well, Paul’s giving hit music video countdown show Total Request Live the same treatment on JASH as Scheer-RL, though, this time he’s getting a little more creative with the recreations rather than exactly reenacting what happened.

This first episode features one of the more awkward appearances on TRL with the boy band 98 Degrees, exaggerated perfectly.

The Comedy Line-Up For The LA Film Festival Includes 5 Second Films, JASH, and More

May 12, 2015

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There is definitely going to be plenty more than gripping dramas and documentaries to watch at this year’s LA Film Fest.

This year’s LA Film Festival, running Jun. 10th-18th in Downtown LA, will feature slasher comedy Dude Bro Party Massacre III from 5 Second Films, an Evening of Buh Comedy presented by JASH, The Overnight, People Places Things with Jemaine Clement, a great comedy short/live comedy showcase in Funny or Die’s Make ‘em LAFF, visits to Manson Family sites in Manson Family Vacation, a romantic comedy that deals with millennials being forced to go analog in 3rd St. Blackout, Mark Twain inspired treasure seekers that can’t seem to grow up in Band of Robbers, and more.

Details, casts (some of which include Hannibal Buress, Jay Duplass, John Hodgman, Sasheer Zamata, Adam Scott, Janeane Garofalo, and more), and, most importantly, tickets can be found here.

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