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After doing the marathon of live-streaming 5 days of living and performing in a theater, the daring Blake Rosier is both upping the ante with his next feat/performance and one-upping The Bachelor franchise at the same time with 5 Dates on Stage.

Blake will indeed be going on 5 different dates over the course of this week and having different costumers, make-up artists, therapists, comedians, and etc. take him through one of the most risky versions of speed dating we’ve ever heard of. On top of that, Blake will do his old marathon performance practice of only being fed what is brought to him. Unlike any sort of dating competition show, this will ACTUALLY be unscripted and full of the sort of chaos that things like Love Island try to manufacture. Already, Blake has taken over Nessa Barrett’s billboard in order to promote the show, so you ought to know that truly anything can happen.

Rosier will be once again taking over Oh My Ribs at 6468 Santa Monica Blvd. for 5 Dates on Stage with Blake Rosier starting Tues. Oct. 19th through Sat. Oct. 23rd with the actual dates happening at 7PM PT-12AM PT each night. You can stroll in to see one hell of a comedy/live performance experiment in person or stream it (as well as anything off hours) at youtube.com/blakerosier.

Pick of the Day: LOOSE (on Mondays) (in LA) Starting 10/11

September 30, 2021

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As live, in-person, indoors comedy has slowly come back in LA, one might notice that the amount of shows on Mondays is a little on the lighter side. The rest of the week has filled up pretty nicely with more and more options between not only stand-up, but all sorts of comedy. That dynamic is going to change in the coming weeks, thank goodness.

The weekly Monday comedy show at Little Joy in Echo Park is coming back! Once, it was called The Business and it was at 9PM, but now, it’ll be called LOOSE (and stay true to the title for having performers get really, really, truly, deeply loose with what they want to do) and start an hour earlier at 8PM PT. The stewards of LOOSE will be a crew of LA favorites including Chris Garcia, Megan Koester, Anna Seregina, and Alison Stevenson.

Their first “reboot” show on Mon. Oct. 11th will have even more LA favorites including Lizzy Cooperman and Chris Estrada as well as the newly transplanted POSTMEN (Anthony Oberbeck + Matt Barats + Carmen Christopher). Like in the old times, the show will be FREE (donations encouraged though to pay comedians).

Proof of vaccination will be required and it will be 21+. Get more info on the inaugural LOOSE here.

Pick of the Day: Space Babes (in LA) 9/24

September 16, 2021

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Live comedy on the Eastside in LA grows stronger day by day. More venues and shows are either coming back or popping up (and this was the case pre-lockdown as well). The latest addition to the comedy boom on the eastside of town is a brand spanking new, outdoor stand-up show called Space Babes.

Taking the outdoor space at Highland Park’s long standing neighborhood bar, The Offbeat, the ever cleverly rambunctious Randy Liedtke will host this new stand-up endeavor and kick it off with a real barnburner of an inaugural line-up. That’ll include Rory Scovel, Lizzy Cooperman, Sara Schaefer, and Jared Goldstein (and there’s more to come!).

Best of all, it’s free to attend (so long as you have proof of vaccination).

Don’t miss the very first Space Babes on Fri. Sept. 24th at 8PM PT.

Pick of the Day: Conservation Comedy (near LA) 9/21

September 15, 2021

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If you are deathly concerned for the environment and the human effect on it or, recently, became deathly concerned for it due to so many scientific reports pointing towards even more climate related disasters than we’ve already had to endure in the last few years, you might want to go to this particular comedy show, Conservation Comedy next week.

Brought to you by Sara Newton (Big Litter Ocean), it’s both a comedy show and edutainment about plastic pollution in association with Plastic Oceans LA. Not only will you very likely be with other folks that want the wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, and more to stop on such a disastrous scale, but you’ll get to enjoy the really, really great comedy stylings of Sheng Wang, Brooklyn Jones, Kristen Studard, and MK Paulsen.

This latest edition of Conservation Comedy is set for Tues. Sept. 21st at 6PM PT at the Warehouse Restaurant right on the marina in Marina Del Rey. You can come and enjoy the show for free (you can donate to Conservation Comedy as well)!

Pick of the Day: Holy Sh*t Improv (in LA) 9/13

September 10, 2021

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While stand-up is very firmly up and running on this side of the pandemic here in Los Angeles, the LA comedy scene is still beset with the question of what to do about improv. The fate of so many venues that regularly hosted some of the best long form improv that one could see have yet to be determined (especially when it comes to UCB).

So, there are improv shows that are popping up here and there where they have never been before and, honestly, we’re thrilled to see some of the best improv teams venture into territory that they’ve literally never been to before.

Case in point: Holy Sh*t Improv will bring some of LA’s best make-em-ups on the 2nd & 4th Mondays to Silverlake Lounge starting Mon. Sept. 13th at 8PM PT.

Oh, the teams, more specifically, for this inaugural edition of Holy Sh*t Improv are:

Queen George – Peter Banifaz, Greg Gallant, Hillary Matthews, Julia Meltzer, Ed Roe, Dhruv Singh, Carl Tart & Gregory Wallace

Yeti – Ally Beardsley, Devin Field, Victoria Longwell, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Talia Tabin, Lou Wilson & Jacob Wysocki

Wild – Amanda Bonar, Allyson Phillips, Cara Meyers, Jessica Svendsgaard & Meg Joh

You’re not going to want to miss this (even if you’re a comedy purist that only is mostly into stand-up comedy). Tickets are $11.30 and you can (and should) go get them here.