2) Don’t let 522 (last checked when I linked this) people down, help Garfunkel and Oates get on Conan via this Facebook page. (The Comedy Bureau doesn’t guarantee this is a way to get the girls on Conan, but it won’t hurt so just go ahead and do it)
7) OPEN MIC RUN HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 7PM THE SANDWICH SPOT 3101 Ocean Park Ave., Santa Monica, CA/Starts 7PM CAFE ON 2ND 7 S. 2nd St., Alhambra, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/10 min. guaranteed TKO SHOW @ 212 CAFE 212 Pier Ave., Santa Monica, CA/Starts 9PM
8) Shook the hand of Greg Proops after watching his brilliant podcast live, which was a lot like one of the opening scenes of Lawrence of Arabia where a man takes pride in shaking his Lawrence’s hand. Try it sometime and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Here’s @gentscum episode 14 with @roryscovel. Dunno why it’s not posted yet in audio form. I think our producer @pmelt is getting donut holes or some shit and hasn’t uploaded it yet. Tweet him and tell him to post it. Srsly.
Also, I just want to add that Rory is one of my favorite guests so far. Dude is quality. Go see him record his CD April 5 and 6 in San Francisco if you’re in the area. I promise. And I fucking know I have Tumblr readers in SF because of the Giants comments I get. So go see Rory at the Punch Line next week.
I should warn you that we do have a quite a bit of WrestleMania talk, so skip through that shit if you’re a goddamn baby about things. Other than that, enjoy.
This is a Meltdown Fan shirt for the comedy show that takes places every Wednesday in the back of Meltdown Comics. If that’s not love for a show, I don’t know what is.
First Fridays returns! And tickets are now $5! Friday, April 1st 10:30pm
An evening of comedy and chat! First Fridays is a monthly comedy variety talk show that’s part of the LA Comedy Festival’s 365 Series, and features a diverse lineup of stand-up, sketch and film hosted by Laura Mannino and produced by Johnny Ramirez.
Merrill Davis (host of Merrillwood) Sean Green (host of The Green Room Podcast) Tracy, Dean and Jesus (Andre Hyland, Mike Mayfield, Paul Oyenl) The Walsh Brothers (UCB) Screening of NorthSide Comedy’s short, “Gay Hunt”
Theatre Asylum 6322 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90038 Street parking available BYOB! $5 cash only
I will bet the price of admission this will be much more fun than KROQ’s April Foolishness, which doesn’t even take place on April Fool’s Day.
3) OK, we had a misprint yesterday. Brent Weinbach is on Lopez Tonight TONIGHT at midnight on TBS. Or you can just check back tomorrow when I post it on the Comedy Bureau Main Feed. Also, Norm Macdonald will be on Letterman on CBS 11:35PM AND Mo Mandel on Conan on TBS 11PM
5) ON THE HORIZON Set List @ Comedy Central Stages Thurs. Apr. 7th 8PM FREE Just for Laughs Showcases @ Hollywood Improv Lab all throughout April-details to follow
7) OPEN MIC RUN THE SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 7PM CAFE ON 2ND 7 S. 2nd St., Alhambra, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/$3 cover/10 min. guarantee CAFE MUSE 6547 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 8PM LIBRARY A COFFEE HOUSE 3418 Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:30PM
Montreal Just For Laughs Character Audition Showcase. WED. April 5th 9:30pm
Improv Comedy Lab – Hollywood Improv 8162 Melrose Avenue West Hollywood, CA
Come check out the Just For Laughs audition showcase at the Improv lab, I will be in the house (Jesse Miller Style),along with a bunch of other great comics TBA.
$5
Or RSVP to BlondChiliProductions@Hotmail and get in for FREE!!!
@mike_burns_ and I will be podcasting live TONIGHT at 8PM PST (www.gentlemenscumbags.com) with our producer, Patrick Melton and special guest, Rory Scovel. Rory has been on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Live at Gotham and a bunch of other shit. Because he’s funny.
Click here to subscribe. It’s not on iTunes, so click there. We’ll be discussing all kinds of grossout behavior. But we’re also having our WrestleMania preview! Be a gentleman and tune in.
1) April 1st-There will be a piece about Downtown LA Comedy in the Los Angeles Times. Please look out for this.
2) At least the Shorty Awards (Twitter Awards) got one thing right: Conan O’Brien winning the Shorty Lifetime Achievement Award. @lord_Voldemort7 for humor. Yeah, right…
3) Earwolf, a podcast platform for many big comedy podcasts has a “secret project”. Besides it being called “Project Tippy Toe”, that’s all I can really say. [via Ploplist]
4) Bobby Bottleservice Joke Contest! Finish the joke, “Why did the mosquito cross the road?” to win tickets to a show with Conan O’Brien, Sarah Silverman, and Bottleservice’s alter-ego Nick Kroll, here in LA [via The Comic’s Comic]
8) OPEN MIC RUN BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE TOKYO @ SEÑOR FISH 422 E. 1st, Los Angeles, CA (downtown)/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/$5 min. MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s Pizza)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed
9) While watching a stand up comedy show, I saw a passer-by through a window stop and look confused that someone would be just talking on stage, then quickly hurry off. I guess it’s weird that people want to laugh nowadays.
The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to JERROD CARMICHAEL.
During the first edition of First Five, a delightfully refreshing stand up comedy show where all the comedians do their very first five minutes they ever wrote, Jerrod performed off a crumpled piece a paper and performed a set that he did at a high school talent show in which he started with telling the principal to go fuck himself and then, still in the spirit of poking fun at his former self, ranted how about he doesn’t understand Siegfried and Roy and their white tiger like damn… damn.
With the likes of Greg Proops, Paul F. Tompkins, and Reggie Watts receiving Tips of the Hat, you might just be wondering exactly who is Jerrod Carmichael. If credits are a concern, he’s a legitimate regular at the big clubs here in LA, but that’s not really why he’s being given this week’s “Tip of the Hat”. Simply put, Jerrod Carmichael is hilarious all the time.
Whether at the Original Room at the Comedy Store (where he’s a paid regular) or at the back of Meltdown Comics for the indie-alt comedy show Meltdown or even at a sparse college bar full of the drunken frat/sorority crowd, Carmichael kills it. As composed and mild-mannered as he may seem by merely staying in one place on stage, often keeping the mic in the mic stand, Carmichael keeps people hanging off every word he says, especially since he’ll linger on a couple of them in any given joke. Though he can be described as a low-energy comic, he’s still incredibly engaging with his stage presence as he’s genuinely delighted to be telling jokes wherever he happens to be and a delivery comparable to a lovely, slowly kindling Christmas fireplace.
When it comes to writing jokes and their subsequent economy of words, Carmichael, hailing all the way from North Carolina, has definitely honed what he writes, or even what he riffs, into often perfectly phrased lines making the fact that he’s broke, an extremely common topic amongst comics, both original and hysterical, “I’m at a point in my life… where… … $30… can change… everything.” No matter if he talks about his life or past wars of the United States, Carmichael’s observations on anything are, like I said earlier, hilarious all the time.
If you’re in LA, you’ll catch him popping up any sort of show from any size of club, so check back at the Comedy Bureau frequently to see when and where he’s going up.
1) 150 Best Jests via NY Post/@manydstadt-LA’s well represented with Kyle Kinane, Marc Maron, Maria Bamford, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel, TJ Miller, Rob O’Reilly, Joselyn Hughes, Richard Lewis, Conan O’Brien, Morgan Murphy (whose coming back to LA), Andy Kindler, Jamie Lee (will hopefully come back to LA), Bil Dwyer, Alec Sulkin, Josh Comers, Dana Gould, Michelle Buteau, Kevin Nealon, Rob Gleeson, Jon Huck, Drew Droege, Jackie Kashian, Jen Murphy, Kyle Dunnigan, Jeff Ross, Whitney Cummings, Felipe Esparza, Doug Benson, Richard Lewis, and a few more I can’t remember off the top of my head.
2) Plop List-a brand new website dedicated to wrangling the best in comedy podcasting thanks to our friend Joel Mandelkorn.
3) The last chance to vote for the Scoomies-a comedy awards ceremony recognizing the best of people who were the best in the hometown and decided to come to LA to make it and are on their way up.
4) The beginnings/makings/refurbishings of the Nerdist Theatre, one of my favorite places to watch live comedy.
7) OPEN MIC RUN RED ROCK 8782 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/multiple sets allowed/$5 min. CLUB 705 705 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Starts 7PM-ish JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 7:30PM/Starts 8PM TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Starts 8PM/call (213) 483-4458 D’AMORE’S 8369 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up (lottery) 8PM/Purchase required GROUND ZERO USC 615 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA/USC Campus/Nestled between 3 dormitories approximately a block away from the intersection of Figueroa and Exposition/USC student sign-up 9PM/non-USC-student sign-up 9:15/Starts 9:30PM
BIG SHOW!!! THE JESSE MILLER TALK SHOW: Wed. April 6th 2011 @ 11pm Come see some great comics/guests perform and be interviewed by self described media mogul Jesse Miller (Andre Hyland). Along with some video and musical gems.
GUESTS: –TJ Miller (Comedy Central, How to Train Your Dragon, Extract) –Brent Weinbach (Comedy Central) –Aparna Nancherla (Last Comic Standing) –Taylor Williamson (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson)
More Guests TBA
Hosted by- Jesse Miller (Andre Hyland, Fuel TV) Co-Host- Daryl (Paul Oyen, HBO’s Funny or Die) Dancer- Tanya (Anna Lee Lawson, HBO’s Funny or Die)
The Next Stage Theater 1523 North La Brea Ave. Hollywood, CA $5 BYOB Facebook Invite Page
It is late and on a Wednesday, but no one should ever miss this show.
LA Weekly recommends TigerLily this week! Yay! come out TONITE! 8pm w/ DANA GOULD, CHRIS HARDWICK, MARY LYNN RAJSKUB, ARDEN MYRIN, RORY SCOVEL, JON DORE + more!
Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 6122 Sunset Blvd FREE & FREE Parking!
That’s right folks, forget about the top of the comedy world giving itself a high five at the Comedy Awards, vote for the up n’ comers trying to cut in the LA comedy scene by Mon. Mar. 28th, specifically at the long standing Westwood Brew Co. Open Mic for the Scoomies. Send votes to Vance Sanders via Facebook message after the link.
Here’s the ballot:
1. Jewiest Non-Jew
2. Best Newcomer
3. Most Prolific
4. The Facebook Award
5. Best Anger
6. Too Much Information Award
7. Gleest
8. More Open Mics in a Week Than You Do in a Month
9. The Heavy Meta Award
10. Most Distinctive Laugh
11. Most Twitter in Set
12. Best Cornell Reid-Like Outfit
13. Best Husband
14. Best Wife
15. The Hair Award – Head or Facial
16. Most Likely to Replace Charlie Sheen on “Two and a Half Men”
17. Most Gendered
18. Surprised to Find Yourself Sexually Attracted to Them
1) Comedy Legend Albert Brooks is on Twitter! (mostly to promote a new book, but still…) FOLLOW NOW @albertbrooks
2) I don’t know why this is even completely available to the public as its not even in “leak” form, but here’s the The Comedy Awards Winners:
COMEDY SERIES-Modern Family COMEDY ACTOR TV-Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock COMEDY ACTRESS TV-Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live COMEDY ACTOR FILM-Zach Galifianakis, Dinner for Schmucks COMEDY ACTRESS FILM-Tina Fey, Date Night LATE NIGHT COMEDY SERIES-The Daily Show with Jon Stewart SKETCH COMEDY/ALTERNATIVE COMEDY SERIES-Childrens Hospital STAND-UP SPECIAL-Louis C.K.: Hilarious COMEDY FILM-The Other Guys ANIMATED COMEDY FILM-Toy Story 3 ANIMATED COMEDY SERIES-South Park COMEDY WRITING TV-30 Rock COMEDY SCREENPLAY-Hot Tub Time Machine COMEDY DIRECTING TV-Modern Family COMEDY DIRECTOR FILM-Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World JOHNNY CARSON AWARD-David Letterman COMEDY ICON AWARD-Eddie Murphy
3) Again, if you want to know what happened in even more detail (i.e. Jon Stewart having his acceptance speech hijacked) Check Punchline Magazine’s Blog, HahaJK.com’s blog, and Comedy Central’s very own CCinsider or just watch it April 10th 9PM EST.
4) The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to JERROD CARMICHAEL. Article/profile to follow later today.
6) OPEN MIC RUN PALMS 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min. 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/multiple sets allowed
7) Just another day at the Comedy Bureau: Drove to Hollywood to find open mic at laundry mic was cancelled (again), drove to downtown via sidestreets, walked around for three hours looking for a coffeeshop for wi-fi, cleared for radiation by a homeless person, wrote article and read 700 or tweets at Starbucks, walked to Downtown Independent Theater for the awesome Channel 101 screening (The Parent Project and Sex Teenagers were pretty damn funny), literally ran out to my car amidst rain while being cleared for more radiation by more homeless people, drove to UCB to watch/have my mind implode on itself from laughter at the Walsh Brothers Show that started at midnight, hit traffic at 2:30 in the morning, got home, checked twitter again, and eventually just had sleep deprivation knock me out. Yeah, it’s just another day at the Bureau.
