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Already, Our Airbnb Comedy Bureau Ride Along Has Gotten Guests from Around the World

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Since launching our experience on Airbnb, the “Comedy Bureau Ride Along”, we’ve had guests from here in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and the Middle East.

Their thoughts on the experience:

“Jake was an amazing host, it was great hanging out with a local comedian and having a glimpse at the standup comedy community in LA. I would definitely book this experience again!”

“Expert guidance from a local celebrity. Jake will be able to answer any question you throw at him, and pretty much guarantees you a good time. Highly recommended.”

Both gave five out of five stars.

Honestly, it’s been quite the privilege to share the LA comedy scene with folks from around the globe that might have not gotten to see it otherwise.

Oh, by the way, we’ve got dates available if you want to book an evening with us.

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The popular podcast, The Gilmore Guys, has been working their new off-shoot, Bunhead Bros, where they focus on the short lived TV series, Bunheads.

They’ll actually be taping a live episode next week at The Regent Theater, 448 S. Main St in DTLA.

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.

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Comedy and the spiritual will overlap for an evening as part of Feral Audio and Be Here Now Network’s Mindful Ruckus. It’s a live podcast taping that will be starting the new performance venue known as Starburns Castle (1101 W. Isabel St., Burbank, CA) off.

Mindful Ruckus will happen this Friday, April 28th at 7:30PM.

Tickets are $25 and you can (and should) get them here.

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

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Recently, Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle’s live show New Negroes got a series order at Comedy Central.

If you wanna catch the live show before it launches on TV, you can catch New Negroes this Sunday, April 23rd at 7:30PM at UCB Franklin.

Joining Baron and Mike will be Phoebe Robinson, Tashi Condalee, Bianca Da Silva Cristovao, Madison Shepard, Opeyemi Olagbaju and Lil’ Rel Howery.

Tickets are $7 and you can (and should) get them here.

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

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This Friday, Tony Sam and Christina Catherine Martinez will gather a great line-up of performers that really know how to take tomfoolery to the next level and put on a show deep in DTLA that “explains the universe” (?).

The show is free to attend and you can get more details here.

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

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Mouth Time, the podcast hosted by Reductress editors, is going live next week at The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake with a very special guest, Paul F. Tompkins.

If that’s right up your alley, you can still get tickets for $10 here.

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

Comedy Crawl & Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week

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Comedy Crawl & Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week

For 4/10/17 and beyond, we got all your LA comedy needs covered.

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One of our favorite indie comedy theaters in LA, The Pack Theater, is doing a pretty sizable comedy/music festival at the end of this month.

Called Packchella, see what they have in store for Friday, April 28th-Sunday, April 30th.

Friday April 28th
9p – Bill and Ted’s Excellent History Report
10p – Late Nightmare with Emily Candini
11p – Go Sketch Yourself

Saturday April 29th
7p – Packstage Passes – Featuring Ari Stidham
8p – Allie Goertz, Pat Regan and Jeremiah Watkins, Kindred Throats
9p – The Lady Scoutington Musical Comedy Hour Featuring Graham the Dancing Lawyer – With Jackie Tohn, Amy Albert, Alli Miller
10p – Rick Overton’s Improvised Musical
11p – Sketch That Tune
12a – After Hours House Party with Drac & The Swamp Rats and Pat Regan

Sunday April 30th
12p – The Scramble – With JETZO　（ジェットゾー）, The Brothers Brothers’ Band, Lewburger, The Chroma Keys, Gregory Lawrence Smith Esq.
8p – Opening Night: The Improvised Musical and The Sound of Musical
9p – Rachel Bloom and Friends – With Zach Sherwin, The Apple Sisters, Drennon Davis, Matthew Patrick Davis
10p – Ladies of TPT Sketch Night
11p – The 88 Show with Avery Pearson – with Eliza Skinner, Michael Glazer

Get more details here.

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

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Over a decade ago, Dave Hill initiated one of the funniest exchanges ever in trying to start a Norwegian Black Metal band with a kid from Indiana. The conversations became known as The Black Metal Dialogues.

All these years later, Dave and actual bandmate Phil Costello are going to do The Black Metal Dialogues Live! next month at The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip.

Even if you’re not a metal head, we’re pretty sure you’ll enjoy “the vagina monologues of black metal”.

Please get your tickets here.

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

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Todd Glass will be headlining the Hollywood Improv Lab this Saturday, which is probably one of the most intimate spaces in which you can see Todd headline. In other words, please don’t miss out on this.

Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.

Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week

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Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week

For all the comedy you need in LA, check out listings for this week and beyond.

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This week, you can get a double dose of Dr. Bassem Youssef, often referred to as the Jon Stewart of Egypt, here in LA.

On Wednesday, April 5th 7:30PM at The Vista, Cinefamily will be presenting an off-site screening of the documentary Tickling Giants by Sara Taksler that follows Youssef’s time as a popular satirist in a turbulent Egypt. Taksler, Youssef, and Larry Wilmore will be in person doing a Q&A following the screening.

On Thursday, April 6th at 8PM at the Freud Playhouse will be having an Evening with Bassem Youssef, brought to you by Book Soup, that will discuss his book Revolution For Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring.

Tickets for the screening of Tickling Giants are $14 and $15-$38 for the ‘Evening with’ and you can (and really should) get them here and here respectively.

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

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Broke LA provides a great platform for new artists in music, art, film, and comedy as well as a big one day festival that doesn’t break the bank and is here in the Arts District in DTLA.

For the “Comedy Sandbox”, the line-up includes:

Alex Hanna
Allison Mick
Anna Valenzuela
Ashley Hamilton
Atsuko Okatsuka
Brendan Cooney
Christine Medrano
Connor McSpadden
Dan Nolan
David Gborie
Ed Greer
Harrison Greenbaum
Heather Marulli
Jessica Sele
Johan Miranda
Katrina Davis
Kyle Kinane
Marcella Arguello
Mateen Stweart
Mike Schmidt
Nat Baimel
Nick Petrillo
Omid Singh
Paige Weldon
Papp Johnson
Rachel Mac
Ramy Youssef
Simon Gibson
Valerie Tosi
Zach Noe Towers

In case you didn’t know, there a lot of talented folks that you should be catching in that line-up.

Get your tickets for Broke LA here.

You Can Now Win Tickets to Some of Our Favorite Shows in Town Including Hot Tub, The Rabbit Hole, and Fresh Out LA

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After all, we are a bureaucratic agency for comedy and naturally have some connections to get you into some of the best LA comedy shows in town for FREE.

Right now, we’re running ticket giveaways for:
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal
The Rabbit Hole with Jay Larson and Rory Scovel
Fresh Out LA with Adam Conover and Emily Heller

These shows often sell out or at capacity. If you want to go and not have to worry about buying a ticket in time or at all, you can enter our free ticket giveaway via our friends DoLA and possibly win admission for you and a friend to any one of these stellar nights of comedy here in LA.

For a chance to win tickets to Hot Tub, enter here.

For a chance to win tickets to Rabbit Hole, enter here.

For a chance to win tickets to Fresh Out LA, enter here.

Keep a close eye on us on Twitter @thecomedybureau and Facebook for future giveaways!

Tickets for Ron Funches’ Funch-A-Mania North American Tour Now on Sale

At this point, we hope we don’t have to tell you that you should go to whichever stop is closest to you on this North American Funch-A-Mania tour happening this Summer.

You should know that Ron Funches is an American sweetheart and seeing him live is a transformative experience and should already buying up your tickets, on sale today, here.

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Few explore the frontiers of silliness quite like Josh Fadem and Dicker Troy (Johnny Pemberton) and we think you would really regret any time the duo got together and reveled in their next level tomfoolery.

So, with that in mind, get tickets to their next show, this Sunday at The Satellite with guests Eddie Pepitone, Nick Vatterott, Mike Lawrence, and Kate Berlant. They are $8 and you can (and really should) get them here.

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

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As part of working on an upcoming book, BoJack Horseman, creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg will be putting up an exclusive live reading of excerpts of the book (well before it’s release) performed by some of his favorite folks.

“Raphael Bob-Waksberg Works Through Some Sh*t (With Friends!)” is happening next weekend and we’re guessing tickets are going to go fast. So, buy them up as soon as you can here.

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

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Unlike most other things, comedy gets pretty serious on April Fool’s Day.

So, naturally, several great shows will be happening, one of which will be this No Joke presented by 2525 in DTLA as you can see in the flyer above.

Tickets range from $7 for earlybirds to $15 for all night entry to make sure you get in and get a good spot for the show. Also, part of the proceeds go to Planned Parenthood.

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

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Trailblazing comedy dance team, Cocoon Central Dance Team, is stopping by LA once again this Monday at UCB Sunset. On top of their imaginative routines (and everything that goes down between them dancing), they’ll be joined by another great team of John Early and Kate Berlant.

Tickets are still available at $7 a pop and you can (and should) get them here.

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

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The story between actually married-Canadian-Palestinian-Jewish-comedian couple Jess Salomon and Eman El Husseini is fascinating and uplifting. You can hear that story as they’re playing a special show, since they’re in town right now, this Sunday at the Pico Union Project right near DTLA.

Tickets are $15 and you can (and should) get them here.

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

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Over a year, the comedy night at Crane’s Bar in Downtown LA have established themselves as one of the best recurring comedy shows downtown.

This Monday will actually mark an official year anniversary of the show presented by Corbin Recke, Harry Moroz, Trevor Smith, and Trish Hadley. They have quite the line-up with Kyle Kinane, Tone Bell, Ben Roy, Caitlin Gill, and a few more as yet TBA guests.

Admission is free and you can get more details here.

If you’re going early and want a good seat, definitely show up well before 8 FYI.

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

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Moshe Kasher is doing two test runs of his upcoming Comedy Central series, Problematic, at UCB Franklin.

It’ll be Moshe’s own twist on a daytime talk show format, which should be both insanely fun and informative.

You can go see these test runs this Thursday, March 9th at 6:30PM for $5 or next Thursday, March 16th at 8PM for $7

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

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The legendary Dick Gregory is playing the Hollywood Improv this Saturday. That should be all you need to know.

Tickets are $30 with a two item minimum. Get them here.

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

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The folks responsible for writing some of the funniest things in late night are doing a show this Monday night at Flappers. That includes Conan staff writers Laurie Kilmartin, Brian Kiley, Dan Cronin, Todd Levin, Andrés du Bouchet, Levi MacDougall, and Jose Arroyo.

Tickets are $10 (with a two item minimum) and you can (and should) get them here.

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

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One of our all time favorite sketch groups, The Midnight Show, returns this Saturday at midnight for their long standing monthly residency at UCB Franklin.

Their very dark and very fast style just always hits the right nerve with us.

Tickets are $5 and still available, so get them right now, right here.

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