Every year, LA Weekly comes out with it’s “Best Of” issue that lists the best niche, amazing things to do in this wonderful city of Los Angeles. For their 2014 edition, Echoes Under Sunset, Comedy Is Dead, The Champs podcast, The Improv, and The Virgil all get pretty great and deserved shout outs.
Check out the whole list here.
LA Weekly Says Go To Night Cap @ Goorin Bros. Tonight & Joe DeRosa Added
Our first Night Cap comedy show is tonight at Goorin Bros. Melrose (7627 Melrose to be exact) and it just got a nice write-up in the LA Weekly in case you needed more encouragement.
Also, the great Joe DeRosa will be joining us too in addition to the already fantastic line-up of Maria Bamford, Baron Vaughn, Margot Leitman, and Andy Peters (as well as some dude who works here at The Comedy Bureau)
Doors 8:30PM, Starts 9PM, $5, and there’s still going to be a hat giveaway, so do get your tickets now or at the door.
Do As LA Weekly Suggests in Their 10 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2014
The LA Weekly LA Comedy Acts to Watch for 2014 just came out a few minutes ago and we’re more than to happy to see that Women Comedy, Cristela Alonzo, Betsy Sodaro, Ian Karmel, Andrés du Bouchet, and more made this list.
Really, this whole list is pretty spot on and you should make note everyone on it if you haven’t already.
We’re thrilled that LA Weekly, for it’s annual Best of Awards, picked:
Nerdmelt Showroom for Best Comedy Club
Crave: The Comedy Rave for Best Underground Westside Comedy Club
Put Your Hands Together w/Cameron Esposito @ UCB Theatre for Best Live Stand Up Comedy Podcast
What’s even greater is that both Nerdmelt and Crave aren’t even comedy clubs in the traditional sense and yet, both prevailed. It must be a sign of the times…
LA Weekly Web Awards Nominees Announced/Open for Voting
The funniest blogs, Twitter feeds, web series, podcasts and more are all up for grabs at LA Weekly including Paul F. Tompkins, @elibraden, The Thrilling Adventure Hour, etc.
Cast your votes to make sure your favorites win.
Nominate Some Comedy for The 2013 LA Weekly Web Awards
The LA Weekly is doing another round of their annual web awards that could be very well decided by you. Ranging from blogs to Twitter accounts to podcasts and web series, there are plenty of comedy related categories that you could nominate and highlight amongst the vast comedy scene her in Los Angeles.
Click the link to nominate and we’d hope that you’d also vote for us as far as blogs are concerned.
1) I can think of at least 5 places off the bat where you could do this… [via IHateComedy]
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2) Kelly Oxford on Last Call with Carson Daly.
3) Weird Al Yankovic made music videos for his whole new album and they’re all right here like Party in the CIA.
4) RT @MarcMaron For those asking: My New CD, ‘This Has to be Funny’, will be out in August.
5) Megan Amram at the Cheesecake Factory
6) Jackie Kashian in LA Weekly.
7) Last night, we went to the vintage video game arcade Ground Kontrol for the first edition of Ron Funches’ No Pun Intendo and to show you how packed it was, the picture below was literally the best picture we could take of Mike Drucker killing it and dispatching a heckler wearing an Effin Vodka shirt (at a vintage video game arcade no less).
Most amazing part to us was that hipsters wanted to see the show, believed in comedy so much that they stopped playing X-Men to watch comedy.
8) Puddin’-“Question” (This is their 100th episode!)
9) ON THE HORIZON
Laugh Revival @ Venice Sound Stage Thurs. July 14th 8:30PM FREE
10) COMEDY CRAWL
Dead Authors @ UCB Theatre 6:30PM $5
LETTUCE Entertain You (With Stand-Up) @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10
Re-Animator the Musical @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $30
The Tulsa Skull Swingers @ Redwood Bar & Grill (316 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA [Downtown[) 9:30PM
First Friday Funnies @ Serenity Hall (7212 Chapman Ave., Garden Grove, CA w/Jesse Case, Eli Olsberg, Johnny Gold, and Kerry Arnold Stevens) 10PM FREE
Kate Micucci @ Steve Allen Theater (opening for Re-Animator Benefit) 11PM
Re-Animator Cast Benefit @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $15
11) OPEN MIC RUN
SET LIST @ FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia, Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/given “set list” of topics to do jokes off of/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
iCANDY 1708 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/first come, first served/$3 min./mixed mic/booked show in middle around 8PM
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Silverlake)/Sign-up (lottery) 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/4 min./no purchase necessary
MAX BLOOM’S 200 N. Malden Ave., Fullerton, CA/Starts 7PM/booked show after/no purchase necessary
GLENDALE DAYS INN 450 N. Pioneer Dr., Glendale, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 8PM/No foul language/No purchase necessary/first come, first served
TRINITY CHURCH 1015 California Ave., Santa Monica, CA/Starts 8PM/must work clean/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel, past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available
12) Anyone who says that they’re legitimately enjoying Transformers 3 needs to read Orwell’s Animal Farm again and specifically the parts about how the animals on the farm were fooled into thinking that they tyranny they lived under was somehow better than before.
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1) Kate Micucci on CNN. So far, in the last two weeks, CNN Comedy is two for two.
2) Good Neighbor Interview for the Partners Project. Hear how they got props from Steven Spielberg.
3) “Cartoon Dump” is in the LA Weekly.
4) Why you should go to the Everything is Festival…
5) Trailer for Re-Animator the Musical, which you can still can catch at the Steve Allen Theater through August!
6) Conan’s take on Final Cut Pro X (I’m still on FCP 6 and it seems to work better).
7) ON THE HORIZON
Heart of Darkness @ Meltdown Comics Sat. July 30th 8PM
8) COMEDY CRAWL
Handshucked @ Moving Arts Theater 8PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10
Maria Bamford @ Flappers Burbank 8PM $17/2 item min.
Re-Animator @ The Steve Allen Theater 8PM $30
The Anytime Show with Dominic Dierkes @ Underground Annex Theater (1312 Wilton Pl., Hollywood, CA) 8PM $5
Two Thumbs Way Down @ Nerdist Theater 8PM $10
Magic Bag @ Underground Annex Theater (1312 Wilton Pl., Hollywood, CA) 10PM $5
Maria Bamford @ Flappers Burbank 10pm $17/2 item min.
The Walsh Brothers Show @ UCB Theatre MIDNIGHT $5
The Tomorrow Show @ The Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
9) OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/feedback given at end
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/coffee & water provided
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd and 4th St.)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/no purchase necessary/4 min.
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA 6PM/$4 minimum/first come, first served
10) As mentioned before, but as probably no one noticed, we’re going to Portland today for a week on a “vacation” of sorts. Is there any comprehensive info on the comedy scene up in Portland?
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