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A Web Series from John Early and Kate Berlant and a Special from South Africa’s Loyiso Gola in Production at Vimeo

Vimeo continues to be on brand with their high-minded picks in comedy.

John Early and Kate Berlant are working on their own short form series that will be released exclusively on Vimeo, which doesn’t need any more details to get you intrigued. You’ve probably seen them do work solo on Netflix’s Characters and together in such works as Dinner Party.

While Trevor Noah is making waves as the host of The Daily Show, South Africa has another comedy export coming our way in the form of a stand up special from another one of their biggest comedians, Loyiso Gola. Set to tape next week on Wednesday, September 28th at House of Yes in Brooklyn. Tickets available here.

We’re going to keep our fingers crossed that Vimeo’s only going to keep goind down this road of making their own comedy.

August 26, 2016

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Tickets are $14 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.

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 IFC’s “Boy Band”, the Darkest Satirical Boy Band Reality Show Parody in Recent Memory

March 28, 2016

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As the boy band formula continues to be successful throughout the decades, there has been parodies of boy bands right there following along. You might remember Conan’s Dudez-a-Plenti or MTV’s 2Ge+her as some of notable examples.

In 2016, Brett Davis of the subversive, meta, absurdist talk show, The Special Without Brett Davis, writes and stars in a new, similarly toned boy band parody in the IFC web series simply called Boy Band.

NYC comedy folks including Anna Drezen, Jo Firestone, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres (who also co-wrote a good deal of the series), John Early, and more round out a great cast.

There are six episodes in total and you might not look at boy bands, or any reality show endeavor for that matter, the same way afterwards.

Or, if you have a pretty dark view on the music industry, maybe this would just redouble your feelings about the whole boy band model.

Either way, you should watch the whole series here.

Netflix’s Character Comedy Series “The Characters” Is Now Streaming

March 11, 2016

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Get into Lauren Lapkus, Henry Zebrowski, John Early, Kate Berlant, Paul W. Downs, Natasha Rothwell, Tim Robinson, and Dr. Brown getting into the most delightfully weird personas and running with it.

Each of them has their own special individual episode as part of Netflix’s new series The Characters, which is now streaming. Effectively, it’s like Comedy Central’s The Half Hour, but for comedians that love playing characters as opposed to doing traditional stand-up.

Watch it here.

Watch Trailer for Netflix’s “The Characters” Featuring Kate Berlant, Dr. Brown, Paul Downs, John Early, Lauren Lapkus, Tim Robinson, Natasha Rothwell, and Henry Zebrowski

February 1, 2016

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Like they’ve been doing all along, Netflix is upping their comedy game by having an entire series of character based comedy and featuring some of the best in the game right now to boot.

Basically, Kate Berlant, Dr. Brown, Paul Downs, John Early, Lauren Lapkus, Tim Robinson, Natasha Rothwell, and Henry Zebrowski all get their own episode of The Characters, which is not unlike how Comedy Central does The Half Hour.

Watch the trailer for The Characters here, then look for all the episodes to start streaming on Netflix on Fri. Mar. 11th.

TBS Shows Off Their New Look with New Dark Comedy Series “Search Party” Starring Alia Shawkat

November 3, 2015

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Starting next year, TBS will have their “very funny” branding fading off into the distance in their rear view mirror. They’ve got a new snappy logo as well a Jason Jones sitcom and a Samantha Bee hosted late night talk show on deck.

Today, they unveiled their new series, Search Party from Charles Rogers and Sarah Violet Bliss, the folks behind the brilliant Fort Tilden, starring Alia Shawkat.

Charles and Sarah have a really great sense of how to examine millennials in an honest, raw sense without making it seem that they’re just doing a two-dimensional caricature of young people, so we’re excited to see what they’ve concocted in this show with their latest batch of self-obssessives, one of which is the great John Early, looking for a friend that’s gone missing.

Get a taste of Search Party as well as a glimpse of the new TBS logo (and a sense of the new and improved TBS) in this trailer.

SF’s Treasure Island Music Festival to Have Comedy Tent Presented by Funny or Die

September 24, 2015

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The Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco will be the latest big time music and arts festival to add a comedy tent to its line-up. On Oct. 17th and 18th, Funny or Die will host a comedy tent called The Blah Blah Blah featuring performances by:

Tim Heidecker
Jerrod Carmichael
Jonah Ray
Chris Gethard
Jon Dore
With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus
Throwing Shade with Erin Gibson & Bryan Safi
Hey™: An Afternoon with Kate Berlant and John Early
Guy Braunum Presents: Talk Show: The Game Show
Michelle Wolf
Max Silvestri
Barry Rothbart
Jermaine Fowler

That’s a real good line-up and you shouldn’t miss it if you can get to San Francisco that weekend. Oh, Chvrches, Run the Jewels, and Father John Misty will be there as well just in case you needed the extra encouragement. What’s really amazing is that Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy Festival will be finishing its run at the same time in Austin, TX.

Get your tickets/passes here.

Watch Uncensored, Extended ‘Meltdown’ Set from John Early

July 29, 2015

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Please get acquainted, or reacquainted, with the comedic force that is John Early with his entire set from this week’s Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.

Watch it here.

John Early and Kate Berlant Have a “Dinner Party”, Kind Of

May 15, 2015

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John Early and Kate Berlant together are a comedy duo to be reckoned with, though in a layered, nuanced way.

Having dinner with them is no different as you can see in this short film starring and written by them and directed by Andrew DeYoung.

Watch “Dinner Party” here.

John Early Hits The Red Carpet For “Girls” Season 4 Premiere

January 7, 2015

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Wherever there’s a red carpet looking for poses of Charlie’s Angels rather than interview, the great John Early will most definitely be there.

That was his go-to move in covering the red carpet at the recent premiere of season 4 of Girls on HBO.

Watch Early do the press line like you’re supposed to right here.

Turns Out That Egg Nog, Like Most of Your Food, Has a Sinister Dynasty Behind It

December 27, 2014

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Julio Torres, Lena Einbinder, and CH2 have “uncovered” the dastardly truth behind the seasonal, tolerated concoction known as “egg nog”.

Along with Brett Davis, John Early, Courtney Maginnis, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu, they show the world the “Nog Dynasty” (because, apparently, that many people buy egg nog to make for an empire?)

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