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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.

January 20, 2020

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Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, Amber A’Lee Frost, and Virgil Texas together have created one of the most beloved series of political comedy in recent memory with their podcast Chapo Trap House. Their fiery, satirical commentary has earned them one hell of a following as well (they are probably the top earners on Patreon).

As such, you shouldn’t miss when Chapo Trap House stops into LA at Highland Park’s Lodge Room on Tues. Feb. 25th at 7PM & 10PM. Tickets are $25-$28. You can (and very much should) get tickets here and here respectively before they sell out.

December 16, 2019

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Of the things to look forward to in 2020, we’re adding a monthly slot at Dynasty Typewriter for The Dollop Podcast to the list (in fact, we’d probably put it near the top). The crucial and hysterical comedy history podcast hosted by Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds has become such a podcast that it regularly tours around the country and the world sharing perhaps the most entertaining versions of some of the weirdest and darkest stories in history.

The live episodes are really something special and you ought to know, in LA, they’ll be getting some damn fine guests TBA.

Anyhow, this monthly Dollop at Dynasty Typewriter will be raising money for various charities FYI, making this residency even more wonderful than already is.

Their first date is Tues. Feb. 11th at 8PM and tickets are $20 right now (and $25 on the day of-though we suspect they might be sold out before then). Go get them here quick.

November 15, 2019

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This is one of the more insane things you’ll see all year long as Jon Gabrus and guests do an actual power hour on stage as an annual special edition of his High and Mighty podcast done live on stage. The 60 shots of beer taken every minute on the minute provide for truly unforgettable moments that will you get through Thanksgiving (if that’s a thing you’re dreading).

Go get tickets for the High and Mighty LIVE Power Hour at UCB Sunset on Nov. 27th before they sell out here.

October 30, 2019

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The Last Podcast Network is taking over The Regent Theater in DTLA on Wed. Dec. 11th at 8PM with live eps. of both their foundational podcasts Page 7 and Wizard and the Bruiser.

So, if you’re looking for the hottest goss (that’s actually funny) on celebrity dish or deep dive origin stories from every corner of the nerd universe from Jackie Zebrowski & Molly Knefel and Holden McNeely and Jake Young respectively, these are podcasts you should get into and a live taping that you should absolutely go to.

Tickets are $19.50 and you can (and very much should) get them here.

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The Jordan, Jesse, Go! podcast, one of the most enduring comedy podcasts around, will be finishing off their Summer Boys of Summer Tour with a jam packed evening. The hosts of the Doughboys podcast, Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger and Allie Goertz from Everything Is Coming Up Simpsons will be guests and there will be a mini version of the Story Break podcast right at the top of the show.

You’ll get to enjoy this very stacked evening all at the Arts District’s hip Angel City Brewery too.

You can get all of this for the nice price of $20. Do so before it sells out here.

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Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall) and his delightfully meta podcast Kevin McDonald’s Kevin McDonald Show is doing another live taping at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe on July 8th at 8PM.

The show always features sketches, sketches within sketches, music, Kevin interviewing guests, and other treats for those in attendance.

We’re pretty sure this will sell out, so go your tickets for $10 right quick.

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For our money, getting to catch, one of our all-time favorites, Jen Kirkman share her beautiful, unapologetic, hysterical truth in her stories/experiences live for an hour is a must see.

In LA, you’ll have two chances to do so with a recording Having Funlessness with Jen Kirkman on June 25th and then Jen performing an hour of stand-up on July 26th all at the Hollywood Improv.

Go get your tickets/RSVP for all of this right now right here.

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Don Fanelli’s acclaimed podcast, The Need to Fail, is coming up on its 100th episode and, to mark the occasion, will be taping a humdinger of a live ep. at Lyric Hyperion this Friday with two, count ‘em, two stellar guests, Casey Wilson and Bobby Moynihan.

Of course, the podcast follows closely to the title as Fanelli’s guests share the the low points in the career, their failures that preceded the plethora of success they currently have. Without a doubt, you’ll want to hear what Wilson and Moynihan went through to get where they are now.

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

All Fantasy Everything’s Going on Tour

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It would seem that more and more folks are coming to hear the beauty in the comedy fantasy-draft-of-anything podcast All Fantasy Everything like we have.

As such, Ian Karmel along with David Gborie and Sean Jordan AKA The Good Vibes Gang are embarking a nationwide Summer Breeze ‘19 Tour that will take them all across country.

That’ll include:
June 26 – Seattle – The Showbox

June 27 – San Francisco – The Great American Music Hall

July 11 – Boston – Sinclair

July 12 – Brooklyn – The Bell House

July 13 – DC – The Black Cat
July 14 – Philly – Underground Arts

July 18 – MPLS – Turf

July 19 – Chicago – The Hideout

July 20 – Columbus – Woodland Tavern

July 21 – Detroit – The Magic Bag

Tickets are on sale now and you best get them quick because we’re pretty sure that they’ll sell out quick.

January 10, 2019

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Whether you’ve jump on board for the podcast John Levenstein’s Retirement Party over at Earwolf already or not (and perhaps you should if you want to hear great, insider stories from the Arrested Development/Kroll Show/Silicon Valley/Portlandia writer/actor/producer along with co-host Mary Kobayashi), they’ll be doing what seems to be a pretty grand live ep. at UCB Franklin near the end of the month featuring the likes of Jon Daly, Tim Heidecker, Sara Watkins, Lauren Lapkus, Jon Gabrus and former HBO President Sue Naegle as guests.

In fact, Gabrus and Lapkus will also be reading a scene from the 90s made-for-TV movie Bunk Bed Brothers.

This live edition of John Leveinstein’s Retirement Party is set for Thurs., Jan. 24th at 8PM. Get your tickets for $7 here.

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

November 20, 2018

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It has been a minute or two since The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds has done a live LA show, but they finally have one lined up for 7PM Saturday, January 19th next year at DTLA’s Palace Theater.

As always, along with Gareth, we’ll be intensely curious to see what Dave brings up this time that uncovers some dark thing about LA (or even specifically downtown) that we might have not known about and then Gareth and Dave riff the humor out of said darkness.

Tickets are ranging from $10 (that’s for “May Be 100% Blocked Views) to $55.50. Go get your tickets here quick

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

November 14, 2018

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On December 5th in years past, we’re sure something important that’s tangentially adjacent to a podcast about chain restaurants/late capitalism’s effects on two friends happened somewhere near Brea, CA.

This December 5th, 2018 at approximately 8PM, which is a Wednesday, Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell will reconvene for what should be another rollicking, wild live episode of the Doughboys podcast, this time at the big Brea Improv. It’s an occasion that no one in the greater LA/OC area should miss.

Tickets are $20 (plus a 2-item minimum) and you can (and very much should) snag them here.

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

November 12, 2018

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It’s been a minute since the last time this happened and thus, this meeting of Dumb Pepole Town podcast live at Largo on Monday, Dec. 10th at 8:30PM might be the comedy event of the holiday season.

The Sklar Brothers, Daniel Van Kirk, and special guest Will Forte (pretty nice get, right?) will not only go over the crème de la crème of dumb stories from around the world, but will also get the stories shared live in person from townies in the crowd.

Tickets are still available at $35 a pop and you can (and very much should) treat yourself for the holidays by getting them here.

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

November 11, 2018

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Few are as equipped as Wayne Federman to discuss the history of comedy, especially stand-up, as Wayne is not only meticulously studied on the topic and a current professor of stand-up at the University of Southern California, but he has been a very funny, ever-evolving comedian for many decades.

His and Andrew Steven’s podcast mini-series The History of Standup on Podglomerate thus is a handy guide through how stand-up has developed rapidly as an art form even though it’s much younger than most other art forms, especially of the live variety.

Wayne and Andrew will be doing a special live ep. of The History of Standup with a TBA special guest at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater next Sunday, Nov. 18th at 2PM.

Fans, nerds, and even those just merely curious of stand-up comedy might want to get into this. Tickets are $15 and you can go 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.

Win Tickets to All Killa No Filla Live at The Regent This Saturday

September 27, 2018

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If you love My Favorite Murder (and given its meteoric rise, you probably do), we’d bet that you’d love a British true crime comedy podcast All Killa No Filla from the witty and charming UK comedian duo of Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean.

In fact, you’d also likely enjoy watching Rachel and Kiri live, which they will be doing this Saturday by performing All Killa No Filla at The Regent in DTLA. Tickets are still available, but you could also win a pair of tickets by just signing-up for our mailing list.

Just e-mail us at thecomedybureau@gmail.com to enter to win!

August 29, 2018

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Caitlin Durante and Jamie Loftus’ acclaimed intersectional feminist podcast, The Bechdel Cast, will be doing a live episode next month, Sat. Sept. 15th at 9PM at The Ruby LA.

For this episode, they’ll be tackling Edward Scissorhands with special guest Maggie Mae Fish and it might be the perfect thing to catch and see if you weren’t ready to see certain male comedians taken down by #MeToo return to the stage quite yet.

Get tickets for $10 here. Note, space is limited, so get your tickets fast.

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

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Hit comedy/fast food podcast Doughboys will be doing a special live episode over at the main at The Hollywood Improv at the end of this month.

In case you’re not familiar, hosts Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell make arguing over fast food/chain restaurants into an art form and you shouldn’t miss it if you can see it live.

The show is set for Sunday, July 29th at 10PM. Tickets are $25-$50 (plus 2-item minimum). Go get your tickets in advance here.

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

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Packchella, the comedy music festival that is pretty much right at your doorstep here in LA and not in far away polo fields, returns to The Pack Theater next weekend.

For this year, they’ve got the likes of Eliza Skinner’s Skinner Alive, A Mel Brooks Burlesque Show, Zach Sherwin & Friends, a special episode of This Is Dark Matters where “Music Director Rich Devletian will be joined by an orchestra and a psychic as we attempt to complete Schubert’s Unfinished 8th Symphony with help from the maestro himself FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!”, $1.000000 Identify That Song Game Show! with Kash Abdulmalik, and much, much more.

Sounds pretty swell to us (i.e. you should mark down on your calendars to

As always, all shows at The Pack Theater are Pay What You Can!

Get more details on Packchella 2018 here.

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

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The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project is going live next month at Largo!

For this edition, Daly will be a “German pretzel salt inspector” named August Lindt who does a travel themed podcast with some of Earwolf’s most popular go-to guests/players.

Tickets are $30. This will most likely sell out, so you ought to get them here ASAP.

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

January 31, 2018

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If the State of the Union continued the “bad taste in your mouth” that has been there since Trump announced he was running for President, perhaps you could use the palate cleanser that is the popular political comedy podcast Chapo Trap House.

The Chapo Trap House boys are indeed coming to LA for a live show on Fri., March 23rd at The Regent in DTLA.

Get tickets before they sell out here.

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

November 17, 2017

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Aussie comedians Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery have now put themselves through a year of watching Grown-Ups 2 every week, a year of watching Sex and the City 2 every week, and are finishing their demented self-inflicted experiment known as The Worst Idea of All Time podcast with a year of watching We Are Your Friends (you know, that movie about dubstep with Zac Efron) every week.

They’ll be doing a live podcast at Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics next month and you can see for yourself what they have done to their own psyches.

Get tickets 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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This comedy nerd’s dream of a show is somehow not sold out yet.

You’ve got Kevin McDonald doing his exciting sketch/interview podcast Kevin McDonald’s Kevin McDonald Show with one hell of a line-up that includes Andy Richter, Aimee Mann, Dana Gould, and Dave Foley.

If you’re as excited about this as we are, please get your tickets ASAP. They’re $30 and you can get them right 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 Bat has some of the best improvisers around doing an entire show for you shrouded in darkness. It’s a live taping for Audible, but you can be a part of the show and have your suggestions not only dictate the scene, but sound effects as well.

This episode of the show will happen Wednesday, August 2nd at the Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica will feature special guests Stephanie Courtney, Gary Anthony Williams, Tawny Newsome, and Phil Lamarr.

Tickets are $5 and you can (and 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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Having talked to serial killer profilers, alien documentary directors, people who have been kidnapped, etc. and making into a great comedy talk show/podcast, Dark Matters with hosts Franky Guttman and Michael Bilow is marking its 1st year anniversary with bringing back some of their favorite guests and, of course, plenty of live calls.

The Dark Matters 1st Anniversary Spectacular is set for Saturday, July 22nd 11PM at The Pack Theater and admission is still ‘pay what you can’.

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