long form improv

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The renowned WorkJuice Players (the folks of the Thrilling Adventure Hour) are set to reunite once more, this time under the roof of the lovely Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater.

Of course, that includes the illustrious cast of:
Craig Cackowski
Mark Gagliardi
Marc Evan Jackson
Hal Lublin
Annie Savage
Paul F. Tompkins
Janet Varney

We suggest getting your tickets ASAP. They’re going for $15 in advance and will be available (if not sold out) for $20 at the door. Get them ahead of time 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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Simply, this will be a pretty stellar night of long form improv in a wonderfully intimate space. We’ll let the line-up of some of the best improvisers around speak for itself:

DREAM LOVER-Paul F. Tompkins and Carl Tart
PUZZLES-Deborah Tarica and Alex Fernie
BONESAW-Jeff Taylor, Amelia Alvarez, Katherine Winslow, Shug Cvitanic, Lindsey Robertson, Lani Engstrom, and Caro Brooks
BOSS JR-Jake Dunnington, Matt Rath, and Naomi Villa

It’ll be upstairs in the Treehouse at The Clubhouse in Los Feliz. Get more details here. Admission is FREE, but donations will be accepted.

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

The 2018 Pittsburgh Comedy Festival Is Taking Submissions for Stand Up and Improv

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If you’re scouring for a new comedy festival to submit to around the country, The Pittsburgh Comedy Festival is only asking for a $20 submission fee for stand-ups or improv teams along when applying. If you’re looking to perform outside of LA (or closer to the East Coast/Pittsburgh depending on where you are when reading this), this might be a good chance for you to get an experience in that regard.

You have until Sun. May 27th to submit and the festival itself is set for Aug. 22nd-26th.

Get more details here.

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These days, you might be missing the show known as Bajillion Dollar Propertie$.

Well, if you’re in the LA area later this month, you might get a chance to get your Bajillion fix as the stars which could include Dan Ahdoot, Ryan Gaul, Mandell Maughan, Tawny Newsome, Drew Tarver and Paul F. Tompkins will be improvising together once more at UCB Franklin.

Also, tickets are only $5 and we have a sneaking feeling that it will sell out. So get them here quick.

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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Some of LA’s best improv troupes are headed down south this week to the OC for The Orange County Improv Fest. That includes the likes of Jetzo, Cobranauts, Dr. God, King Ten.

So, if you were down in the OC and weren’t able to make it out to see some of the stellar, innovative long form improv offered up all in and around LA, don’t miss your chance to catch it at Fullerton’s STAGEStheatre from Apr. 4th-Apr. 7th.

Tickets are $25 for one night, and $40 for a festival pass. Get them and more details here.

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

February 19, 2018

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The hosts of improv4humans, Off Book: The Improvised Musical, and Comedy Bang! Bang! plus Horatio Sanz are all coming together to have one wondrous night of sing-a-longs and improv.

Matt Besser’s Hootenany Sing-A-Long Improv Comedy Experiment is FREE and all you have to do is show up at UCB Sunset this Friday.

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

February 6, 2018

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This is just a friendly reminder that Ben Schwartz’s latest show still has tickets available. That won’t be the case for long.

Go get them while you still can here.

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

January 14, 2018

colton dunn, hollywood, improv, law and order, long form improv, parody, phil jackson, some kinda monster

Improv inspired by specifically, out-of-context clips of dramatic films and TV on top of an improvised episode of Law & Order from Some Kinda Monster is one of our favorite improv shows.

Come catch their first show of 2018 at UCB Sunset this week where Colton Dunn (NBC’s Superstore), Phil Jackson (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Key and Peele) will be joining them.

Get tickets here.

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

November 21, 2017

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Whether you’re obsessed with Ozeri’s Snapchat and a big fan of Broad City or not, you ought to know that Gil Ozeri and John Gemberling together doing improv will be something special.

Get tickets here.

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

October 19, 2017

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Heather Anne Campbell, one of the funniest people around, carefully assembled team of great improvisers who also happen to enjoy anime for The Anime Show.

They will improvise an episode of anime that they have never seen. Sometimes, they are dead on and act out the episode as it actually plays out in the anime series.

In any case, it’s pretty damn fun and, because it’s at The Pack Theater, admission is pay what you can.

This latest edition of The Anime Show will happen on Saturday, October 21st at 10PM.

Please get more details here.

August 24, 2017

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The latest set of guests for Wild Horses (that’s the fantastic improv team of Stephanie Allynne, Mary Holland, Lauren Lapkus, and Erin Whitehead) are pretty damn great.

You should be going to the show whether it’s at UCB or Largo anyway, but they do have Throwing Shade’s Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi on Wednesday, September 13th and the living comedy legend himself, Conan O’Brien on Thursday, October 5th.

Tickets are $30 and you can (and should) get them here and/or here respectively.

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

The 2017 LA Indie Improv Festival Is Happening This Weekend (Don’t Miss It)

August 10, 2017

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We don’t have DCM in LA, but we’ve got improv festivals-a-plenty.

One of the ones that you should absolutely catch is the LA Indie Improv Festival that happens with almost 200 teams between two venues (The Clubhouse and Lyric Hyperion) this weekend (8/12 & 8/13).

Slated to perform are many of LA’s best improvisers including such teams as:

Private Street, Boss Jr., The Faculty, Some Kinda Monster, Arts & Athletics, Rococo, Jacob Wysocki Makes Improvisers Do Short Form, Three Princes, Crashbar, The Colin Kaepernicks, Convoy, Outside Dog, Big Grande, and Dopetown 3000 (on a bus).

Oh, we should mention that it’s free to attend.

Get more details and a complete schedule here.

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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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Both the Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run are all updated for next week (i.e. other things than Twin Peaks returning are happening).

Check the listings on the calendars at www.thecomedybureau.com

19th Annual DCM Line-Up, Schedule, Tickets, and Passes Now Available

One of the most renowned, if not the most renowned, improv events in the world is just around the corner.

The 19th Annual Del Close Marathon is coming next month and it, per usual, has an extremely stacked line-up as you can see above.

If you’re planning on going (and we hope that you would be) get your tickets and passes ASAP.

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One Jason Van Glass will be attempting to do 10+ hours of improv at The Clubhouse this coming Wednesday.

That might be breaking some kind of record. Even if it’s not, it’s an impressive feat to take on and he’s doing it for a great cause (collecting donations for the Southern Poverty Law Center) AND will have a great line-up of fellow improvisers joining him throughout throughout the whole run.

Get more details here.

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

Matt Besser Holding Nationwide improv4humans Improv Contest

December 1, 2016

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The winners will get to perform at next year’s DCM.

Across the entire country, one of the founding members of The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and creator of the improv4humans podcast, Matt Besser, is looking for the best improv team around.

If you’ve got a team that can execute in the improv4humans form, then you might have a shot to be flown out to NYC for the world’s most highly regarded improv comedy festival, Del Close Marathon.

Get all the details, deadlines and more for contest4improv4humans here.

October 31, 2016

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Raising funds for The LA Indie Improv Festival, some of the best improvisors in town will be going head-to-head in a 2016 Drug Cagematch (i.e. team booze vs. team weed vs. team molly vs. team shrooms).

$5 donation will get you into the show this Saturday, November 5th at 8PM at The Clubhouse.

Get more details here.

August 20, 2016

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More details here.

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

August 10, 2016

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Brand New Ball’s run starts this Saturday, August 13th. As with almost all of shows at The Clubhouse, admission is free, but donations are encouraged to support the venue.

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One of our favorite improv teams Pretty, Pretty Pony (Cole Stratton, Vanessa Ragland, Joey Greer, Chris Alvarado, Atul Singh, Ed Roe) has been together for five years and are celebrating the occasion on their monthly Westside Comedy Theater show on Monday, August 8th with special guest, the one and only, Wayne Federman.

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

The 5th Annual LA Indie Improv Festival Is Happening This Weekend

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At this point, the indie improv scene here in Los Angeles is beyond bursting at the seams and growing assuredly like the population sprung from mating rabbits.

You’ll get to see this indie improv in action at The LA Indie Improv Festival this Saturday, August 6th at 6 different stages around the city, as listed above, featuring such great improv teams we’ve seen around town as Crashbar, Elephants Gerald, Cat Bath, Nomi Malone, The Murge, Cat Ladies, Outside Dog, Big Grande, Boss Jr., Rococo, and many many more.

The one day LA Indie Improv Festival runs from 11AM to past midnight and accepts donations for admission.

Get more details here.

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Improv team Pretty, Pretty Pony was and is still one of our favorite things. More details here.

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