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Pick of the Day: Never Not Funny Live Podcast with Jimmy Pardo

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Every week that passes in lockdown, comedy-at-large figures out live-streaming more and more. As such, more of the creme de la creme are coming around to shows on Zoom, Twitch, YouTube, Instagram Live, and more.

One of the most venerable comedy podcasts around, Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo, is one such show that is joining in the comedy live-streaming boom with a show set for Sat. May 2nd at 7:30PM hosted by Flappers Comedy Club. If anything, podcasts that have already normalized being on camera while recording are more than geared up for how we have to do comedy right now. Jimmy Pardo, Matt Belknap, and very special guests ought to be a hell of a good time on Zoom with their beloved podcast, chemistry, and serious hijinks.

Tickets for the live-stream are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.

Pardcast-a-Thon ‘19 Is Happening This Saturday

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Over the course a decade, Jimmy Pardo has raised over a million dollars for the amazing organization known as Smile Train helping kids around the world that are in desperate need of cleft repair surgery.

Pardo has been able to do so by annually putting on a 12 hour marathon of comedy that has become one of the biggest LA comedy events to look forward to every year.

We’ll let Jimmy tell you about it himself.

So, mark your calendar for this Sat. May 4th from noon to midnight PST to enjoy streaming it right here (tickets to see it live at Flappers Burbank sold out a long time ago unfortunately).

If you’d like to go ahead and support Smile Train right now, you can do so here.

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This latest edition of Guilty Treasure (Andy Wood and Bryan Cook’s show forcing folks to explain the songs they love to hate and then perform with a live band) has a killer line-up.

Namely…

– Jimmy Pardo (“Never Not Funny,” “Conan”)
– Kyle Kinane (“The Standups,” “Drunk History”)
– Erin Whitehead (“Bajillion Dollar Propertie$,” Wild Horses)
– Maxim Ludwig (Stagecoach Festival)
– Mike O’Connell (“Another Period,” “Idiotsitter”)

Even the idea of just finding out what their guilty pleasure songs are might be worth the price of admission ($10).

So don’t miss this Guilty Treasure this Monday, May 21st with doors at 7:30PM. Tickets are $10 and you can (and really should) 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.

2018 Pardcast-a-Thon Is Tomorrow

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Jimmy Pardo’s annual star-studded telethon-style event, Pardcast-a-Thon will be happening with co-host Matt Belknap this Saturday from 12PM to 12AM this Saturday, March 3rd. Pardo raises thousands upon thousands dollars for the wonderful charity known as SmileTrain.

In a line-up announcement at The AV Club, Pardo says he will have the likes of Matt Walsh, Tig Notaro, Scott Aukerman, Laurie Kilmartin, and many, many more joining him through the well established 12 hours of Pardcast-a-thon tomfoolery.

You can watch the Pardcast-a-Thon live this Saturday here. Also, you can donate to SmileTrain here.

December 6, 2017

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Just a friendly reminder that some of your favorite podcasts are going downtown for what should one damn fun day of peecasting.

Tickets are $50-$125 and are still available here.

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

October 10, 2017

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If you had a hell of a great time at this past weekend’s LA Podcast Festival or missed out and regret doing so, you can look forward to this all day podcasting event, the Pee Cast Blast.

Some of the most beloved comedy podcasts from Earwolf will be doing a sort of one-day podcast festival at The Theater at the Ace Hotel in DTLA.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, Oct. 13th at 8AM, but you can check Scott Aukerman’s Tumblr for pre-sale throughout the week.

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

August 19, 2017

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OK, if you wanted to see Kyle Kinane, Jimmy Pardo, Byron Bowers, and Marcella Arguello AND a supposed very, very special guest (hint: they were on Kimmel this past week) for free, we might be able to make that happen for you.

Enter to win tickets to this coming Monday’s Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

Salt Lake City Has a Pretty Swell Looking Golden Spike Comedy & Podcast Festival Kicking Off Tomorrow

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From March 8th (i.e. tomorrow)-Mar. 11th in Downtown Salt Lake City, The Golden Spike Comedy Festival will serve up a pretty a great offering of stand-up, podcasts, and more.

Just look at the flyer above.

There are individual tickets available as well as a pass for 20 shows for the nice price of $20.

Get more details on The Golden Spike Comedy Festival here.

February 22, 2017

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This is just a friendly reminder that Never Not Funny’s Pardcast-a-thon is just around the corner. Jimmy Pardo, Matt Belknap, Pat Francis and a cavalcade of special guests will do 12 hours of great “pieces of business” to raise money for Smile Train.

Over the years, the Pardcast-a-thon has raised well beyond a half a million dollars for the charity that aids children in developing countries with cleft palates.

Tickets have been sold out for awhile now, but you can stream the whole thing and donate at nevernotfunny.com on March 4th starting at 12PM PST.

December 15, 2016

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Jimmy Pardo, Garfunkel and Oates, ½ of Superego are on the bill and that’s not even half of what next Monday’s Feliz Navipod’s Feliz Navidad Variety Show at The Nerdmelt Showroom has to offer on top of benefitting Planned Parenthood.

Get your tickets for $15 here.

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

September 28, 2016

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The live animated comedy show, Picture This!, is back. Get more details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy crawl and open mic run as well as maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Jimmy Pardo and Never Not Funny Are Going 24 Hours Straight for Next Pardcast-a-Thon

September 27, 2016

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For years, Jimmy Pardo, Matt Belknap, and so many guests have done a 12 hour marathon of their legendary podcast, Never Not Funny, in order to raise money for Smile Train.

In 2016, they’ve decided that they will now double the marathon.

Of the annual traditions that exist in podcasting, the Pardcast-a-Thon might be most noted one and it’s going to get more noted by going for a full 24 hours as opposed to the usual 12 hours. That means double the guests, double the “good pieces of business”, and, hopefully, double the money for Smile Train.

This full day Pardcast-a-Thon is set to go down on Saturday, March 4th, 2017 at Never Not Funny Studios. Mark your calendars/set reminders now.

Comedy Crawl Is All Updated For Next Week.

We’re talking Crash Test, Crabapples, Sandbox, Reggie Watts and Karen, Prompter, Jim Gaffigan, The UCB Show, Underbelly, Eddie Pepitone, and so much more.

Check the Comedy Crawl calendar embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com to see all the show listings we’ve curated for next week and beyond as well as what any/all of those names above mean.

Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 cash at the door.

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

Jimmy Pardo Recounts Trying at HS Basketball and Having One of the Worst Headshots You Could Possibly Have as an Actor

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If you’re not watching the Pardcast-a-Thon right now, at least watch Jimmy Pardo’s appearance on Conan from this week. It’s a conversation that’s classic Pardo coupled with some of cringeworthy memories of Pardo’s yesteryears.

Livestream Pardcast-a-Thon 2016 Right Now

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There is a YouTube livestream here and an audio only livestream here.

Jimmy Pardo and Matt Belknap are doing their annual 12 hour Never Not Funny podcast marathon affectionally called Pardcast-a-Thon right at this very moment until midnight tonight.

This time around, you have the benefit of not having to worry about sales on Black Friday, their usual date for the Pardcast-a-Thon.

As always, they’re raising money for SmileTrain and are even auctioning a plethora of prizes including a guest spot on Doug Loves Movies, a round of golf with Jimmy Pardo, Paul Gilmartin, and Mike Siegel, AST Records vinyl record collection, and much more at eBay.

Again, don’t waste any further time and get to watching here.

Jimmy Pardo Doing The Next Pardcastathon Next Year in March

November 28, 2015

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In case you were wondering what was missing today, it was Never Not Funny’s annual Pardcastathon.

For those not into indulging into unbridled consumerism on Black Friday, the amazing Jimmy Pardo usually had the perfect alternative by doing a 12 hour Never Not Funny marathon with a plethora of the funniest people around and celebrities doing various goofs and funny business to raise money for Smile Train.

Well, according to this tweet, they’re postponing it from its usually scheduled date to Sat. March 5th, 2016, perhaps with something a little bigger up their sleeve. Let your imagination run wild with Pardo and company (Matt Belknap, Pat Francis, and more) could be brewing up.

In the meantime, you can still support the great charity that is Smiletrain by donating here.

“Earbuds: The Podcasting Documentary” Got a Teaser

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It was only a matter of a time before a full fledged documentary on podcasting was made.

Co-founders of the LA Podcast Festival, Chris Mancini and Graham Elwood have been put years into making Earbuds, a documentary about the ever burgeoning world of podcasting. They’ve captured how expansive and wonderfully crazy podcasters have gotten over the years as well as interviews with Marc Maron, Chris Hardwick, Jimmy Pardo, Aisha Tyler, Wil Anderson, and way more.

You can get a first look at Earbuds in the teaser over at Nerdist.com.

Jimmy Pardo Signs Overall Deal with Conan’s Conaco

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Maybe Pardo can now make an entire game show out of that one bit where audience members attempt to get asked questions by him.

Not only is Jimmy Pardo the longtime warm-up for Conan O’Brien as well as a regular guest, but he is now part of the Conaco empire after signing an overall deal.

For years, Jimmy has tried to develop various shows like Write Now!, The Weekly Awards, etc. and perhaps now has a better shot at getting those projects past being a pilot.

Pardo’s probably got a lot of very intriguing things that will come through this pipeline. Though we don’t know what it would entail, we’d imagine Jimmy doing some sort of game show named “Go Home and Google It”.

Pardcast-a-Thon 2014 Starting in a Few Minutes

November 28, 2014

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Jimmy Pardo’s annual telethon style Pardcast-a-Thon that benefits Smile Train is happening in about 10 min. as of this post.

Don’t miss out on good times from Pardo and company as well as supporting an important cause that helps kids be able to smile.

Watch the livestream here.

Conan O’Brien Discusses The Merits of Jimmy Pardo’s Anger with Jimmy Pardo

November 20, 2014

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Whenever Jimmy Pardo is on anything, it’s worth watching, listening to, etc. However, it’s especially worth investing time when Jimmy goes from warming up the crowd at Conan to sitting down with his boss Conan O’Brien on camera and have a chat.

This time around, Conan and Pardo hash out Jimmy joining Twitter and the aftermath of all of that.

2014 LA Podcast Festival Recap: Podcasts Take Over Beverly Hills

This is both the third year of The LA Podcast Festival as well as our third time attending and, as that’s the case, we can most certainly assure you a good thing has only gotten better and better.

Here’s our recap of what went down when a bunch podcasts and their fans take over ritzy Beverly Hills.

All photos courtesy of Los Angeles Podcast Festival

-This was the first year that the LA Podcast Festival took place at Sofitel LA in Beverly Hills and it solved pretty much every drawback from their original location in Santa Monica (i.e. parking, navigating through the festival, it looks nicer).

-Many in the crowd for Talkin’ Shit with Eddie Ifft were thoroughly surprised when they got to see all of transgendered porn star Vaniity.

–Marc Maron and Aisha Tyler hashed out some personal history, specifically when they first met each other, on Girl on Guy. Aisha hilariously made sure to note to Marc that this is her show and not WTF.

-Like every year, one will note that many of the attendees aren’t from LA or even California. Many come from the other side of the country just to make sure they catch their favorite podcast live like The Crabfeast with Jay Larson and Ryan Sickler.

–Superego continued to be one of the funniest podcasts around kicking off Day 2 with a special guest in Conan player Brian Stack and a whirlwind of fun, dark absurdity. We also applaud their matching Superego blazers.

-The crowd at Jonah Raydio had a ball as Jonah Ray made sure that his entire audience had a beer in their hand, treated to a live performance from Upset, fun music news monologue style jokes, and discovered he had to do more time than he expected. This lead to some of the best awful concert stories we’ve heard in awhile.

–Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, and Wil Anderson assembled for a laugh riot of an episode of The Dollop, which we’d describe as a sort of sober version of Drunk History that replaces the reenactments with top shelf riffing from Anthony, Reynolds, and a guest. Edutainment about history’s biggest a-holes has never been as much fun as this.

-An all female guest line-up for WTF with Marc Maron was fascinating especially the likes of Pamela Adlon and Whitney Cummings admired Shelby Fero’s wisdom beyond her years when it comes to dating.

-Podcasts fans at the festival didn’t care how long they would have to wait to get commemorative posters signed to the point where we questioned how much we’re fans of podcasts compared to them.

–Wil Anderson killed it wherever he went at the festival and his own podcast TOFOP was no different. Anderson’s brand of somewhat controlled chaos made for almost non-stop laughs and an unforgettable pop quiz on Russell Crowe facts.

-As far as we’ve seen education hasn’t ever been as funny as it has been on podcasts. See Probably Science’s Matt Kirshen, Jesse Case, and Andy Wood riff on the primates known as Bonobos with Tim Minchin and Dr. Amy Parish. They found their way to tie in feminism while discussing animal behavior and on to applause breaks.

–Matt Besser, Lauren Lapkus, Ian Roberts, and Horatio Sanz ensured that impov4humans was a perennial favorite of the festival just off a scene of visiting the world’s tallest hill.

-Podcast pioneer Jimmy Pardo and his podcast Never Not Funny have been at The LA Podcast Festival most deservedly every single year. Seeing Jimmy having to deal with Pat Francis’ Bruce Springsteen puppet made for a pretty magical evening on its own.

–Go Bayside! and James Bonding are perfect examples of podcasts that celebrate the “nerding out” of a very specific topic, in these cases Saved By The Bell and Agent 007 James Bond, but also very inviting to the uninitiated. April Richardson and Matt Mira/Matt Gourley make a case for enjoying both cultural institutions even if you don’t know who Mr. Belding or the worst Bond villain henchmen are.

–Todd Glass and James Adomian were electric during The Todd Glass Show. Dueling Todd Glass impressions (yes, Todd did an impression of James doing an impression of Todd) were a highlight, but only the tip of the iceberg. We’re convinced that Glass has mastered only letting the audience kind of know what’s happening, but ultimately not caring because they’re having so much damn fun.

–The Kira Soltanovich Show made for an insightful, funny look into parenting not unlike a bunch of parents having drinks and pondering if they’re raising their kid right or not except all the parents are really funny.

If you happened to miss all this glorious podcast goodness, then there’s a livestream video archive of the festival available up until Oct. 19th.

Keep in mind we can only send one guy out to cover all of this so there are only so many things we could make it to and obviously we missed some stuff. Maybe next time, you can go to the LA Podcast Festival yourself and not miss anything.

Peeping Comics Features Interviews with Comedians During a Peep Show

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Susanna Lee’s Peeping Comics invites comedians into a peep show to watch Susanna as Lady Lucky Deluxe do a peep show for them while they also talk about deviance, secrets, or simply dealing with being in a peep show booth. There’s a preview of it here.

The likes of Jimmy Pardo, Chris Fairbanks, Baron Vaughn, Laurie Kilmartin, Paul Provenza, Selene Luna, Emily Gordon and more are put into the booth and the results are pretty fascinating, great, funny, and more.

Watch the currently released 7 episodes here.

Susanna Lee/Lucky Deluxe To Discuss Exhibition/Voyeurism with Comedians During a Peep Show

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Comedian Susanna Lee who does peepshows on the side as Lady Lucky Deluxe is now delving into the comedic perspective of exhibition, voyeurism, deviance, and more. She’s having intimate conversations with other comedians on those topics while putting on her fully-nude peep show. Called Peeping Comics, this web series will premiere Jun. 2nd.

Guests for the web series to include several great guests: Mike O’Connell, Jimmy Shubert, Paul Provenza, Emily Gordon, Baron Vaughn, Ian Harvie, Alex Hooper, Selene Luna, Jimmy Pardo, Laurie Kilmartin, Felipe Esparza, Owen Smith, Nadya Ginsburg, Chris Fairbanks, Sam Tripoli, Gene Pompa, Alonzo Bodden, and Felicia Michaels.

All of this is really happening and we’re fascinated. Just watch the trailer here, especially for how uncomfortable Pardo gets.

The Wayne Federman International Film Festival Returns For Its 3rd Year This Week

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The Wayne Federman International Film Festival Returns For Its 3rd Year This Week

Wayne Federman’s International Film Festival, an annual collection of films screened and hosted by comedians such as TJ Miller, Taylor Negron, Jimmy Pardo, Doug Benson and more is back at Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre this coming weekend.

Don’t miss out on the films that were undoubtedly big influences in their lives such as W.C. Fields’ The Bank Dick did on TJ Miller.