Our weekly ticket giveaway for Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen is here! Sure, the line-up is, per usual, hot, making for a hot show, but only in a metaphorical way as opposed to this weekend’s very real heat wave.
Enter to win at DoLA here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
The Super Serious Show will be marking their 8 year milestone this month and that alone could be a reason to go. However, you won’t to get to a line-up quite specifically like this one very often (even though LA is veritable spoil of comedy riches on a nightly basis).
So, we highly urge you to get your tickets ($7 in advance and $10 dollars cash at door) as soon as you can for this momentous occasion.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
There are still tickets for the beloved Thrilling Adventure Hour’s WorkJuice Players’ next show.
It’s at Largo and just happens to benefit the Detroit Creativity Project, an organization that aims to service underprivileged Detroit youth in achieving success in all aspects of life,
Go get your tickets ASAP before they sell out here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
One of favorites venues in town is doing yet another cool thing by throwing their very first short film festival.
The Lyric Hyperion Short Film Festival, produced by Philip “Dr. Brown” Burgers & Joshua Turek, will be an all day-and-night affair that’ll showcase the best shorts they can find, which ought to be pretty good considering the sorts of shows and screenings that they’ve been doing at The Lyric Hyperion over the years (just go through our listings here at TCB if you’re not familiar and you’ll notice plenty of Lyric Hyperion events).
The submission deadline is Wednesday, August 1st with a more than reasonable fee of $10 and films are to be no longer in running time than 30 minutes. The festival itself will take place on Saturday, September 1st.
Get more details and submit here.
Very quickly, the two shows at The Lyric Hyperion where the one and only Rory Scovel will be riffing his whole set sold out of advance tickets (7/14 will have a limited number of tickets available at door).
Lucky for you, we got a pair of tickets for someone with a bit of luck on their side!
Enter here for you chance to see what ought to be a night you’ll never forget with Rory on 7/14: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
In and around LA, there will be fireworks aplenty. If you just get to a high point of elevation, you’ll be able to glimpse as bursts of lights as far as you can see.
If you also want to see comedy in addition to that, there are actually a few options for you including:
An afternoon of stand-up at Comedyland Presents iO Family Reunion (in Frogtown) 3:30PM, $5 Suggested Donation
One of LA’s best variety shows Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap w/special guest host Justin Willman @ King King 8PM, $17 in adv./$25 at door
Drunk comedians reenacting Jaws for Comedians Cinema Club @ Black Rabbit Rose 8PM, $15
For more comedy than that, you’ll have to just wait until July 5th, when you’ll have your usual festival’s worth amount of live comedy.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Sure, the Fourth of July is this week, but you’ve got tip your caps to Canada, which seems like they’re doing much better than us Americans right now.
So, for Canada Day, why not go see some of the funniest Canadians that thankfully are residing in LA (that includes Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson).
Tickets are $5 and you can (and should) go get them right now right her
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
A perfect way to ramp up to a midweek 4th of July, as far as we’re concerned, is another visit to Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal!
Per our weekly tradition, we have a way for you to do just that for FREE!
Enter to win our pair of FREE tickets: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Yes, it’s happening (it being What’s the Story with Todd and Rory? @ Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth) again!
Todd Glass and Rory Scovel will be doing a completely unprepared hour of wherever their minds take them.
We went to the first one and can assuredly say that Todd and Rory are among the best at “totally winging it”
Tickets are $10 a pop in advance and $15 at the door. 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.
If you love Search Party, Joe Pera Talks to You, Too Many Cooks, Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough, TV Carnage, etc., odds are you’d like to see more rare and unseen videos from the very minds behind all of those wonderful things, right?
Lucky for you, such a thing is happening this weekend with Canary Underground at Coaxial in DTLA and we highly recommend not missing out on it.
Get your tickets for this ASAP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Here’s another opportunity to see a line-up of LA’s best (Rory Scovel just got added by the way) while helping aiding immigrant families at the border.
Cage Free (this Tuesday, Jun. 26th at 8PM at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater) will benefit RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services).
Tickets are going for $25 to $50 and you really ought to get them here ASAP.
RAICES is a 501©(3) nonprofit agency that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees in Texas.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
By himself, Joey Greer, one of our favorite improvisers around, puts on one hell of a show by improvising bits for an hour with the aid/disruption of a DJ.
It’s as crazy of a “conversation” you can have (with music playing intermittently).
The next edition of In Conversation with Music will be on Wednesday, July 18th at 10PM at Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth Theater. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Please do get them 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
Awhile ago, a fun, late night Sunday comedy show and hang used to be Babe Island @ Bigfoot Lodge, RIP.
As reviving things seems to be the order of these days, Sunday late night stand-up at Bigfoot Lodge in Los Feilz is indeed being revived, albeit on a monthly schedule rather than weekly.
Starting on Sunday, July 8th, Allen Strickland Williams and James Fritz will be the hosts of Night Coffee and present Henry Phillips, Solomon Georgio, Debra DiGiovanni, and Christine Medrano.
It’s FREE to attend by the way. Get 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.
Summer is officially here, which should mark an increase in everyone going out, especially at night.
That being the case, why don’t you try your hand at winning a pair of free tickets that we have to next week’s Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen!
Enter to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
This show had a far too short run at the Improv. Thankfully, this improvised powerpoint show is coming back once more at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater next week on Wed., June 27th at 8PM.
Zed Cutsinger and Andrew Michaan’s PowerPointless will also have a line-up including Natasha Leggero, Moshe Kasher, Nick Thune, Brent Weinbach, and David Dineen-Porter that’s more than up to the task of BS-ing their way through an actual PowerPoint presentation that they’ve never seen before.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Please 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.
In response to this controversial THR article by Seth Abramovitch that indeed claims, “…a newer comic just breaking into the L.A. circuit can earn anywhere from $1,250 to $2,500 per week,” many of LA’s stalwart comedians gave Vulture the true figures as to what they’ve actually made while trying to come up in LA (spoiler alert: it’s a lot of drink tickets, if anything at all).
What’s essential to understand is that being in comedy involves being in it for the sheer love of it, then trying to figure out how you can patch enough gigs, comedy-related or no, to make any sort of living. From there, a select few actually do get to make the so-called “big bucks”, but it’s pretty much feast or famine (that’s the case for most creative endeavors by the way).
You’ve got a love a stand-up show hosted by a robot built from cardboard scraps in a punk venue that you can only enter through an alley.
Also, we think the line-up for this latest edition of Humans! this week is pretty grand as well.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Simply put, Joe McAdam and Chris Stephens AKA Butt are some of the funniest sketch comedy folks around these days.
They’re doing a half hour at UCB Franklin this Thursday, June 21st at 8PM and you really ought to not miss it. Tickets are $7 and you really ought to 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.
Well, UCB LA is assembling some of their absolute best sketch folks and mashing them together for SQUADRON. The team is pretty damn solid the whole way through with David Brown, Christine Bullen, Sheila Carrasco, Travis Coles, Inessa Frantowski, Frank Garcia-Hejl, Mike Lane, Haley Hepworth, Alana Johnston, Ego Nwodim, Marques Ray, and Greg Roman and Will Hines directing. We’ve dug much of their work on the several other teams and shows that they have all performed on over the years.
The first outing for SQUADRON will be Saturday Sketch Night at UCB on Saturday, June 23rd at 9PM at UCB Sunset. Tickets are $12 and we highly recommend that you get them sooner rather than later.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Summer’s coming and the weather continues to be pretty pleasant here in LA, which, to us, means you ought to catch yet another hot Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen!
We’ve got yet another pair of tickets for you to win! Enter for your chance to snag ‘em here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
For 15 years, Channel 101 has been a uniquely independent ecosystem that has sprouted some of the most original, hilarious, and best content we’ve ever seen. Remember that the roots of Rick and Morty are in Channel 101.
So, come celebrate the 15th Channiversary on June 30th at Channel 101′s longtime home The Downtown Independent that will include “all-star screening of classic 101 shows, a Q&A with special guests hosted by Abed Gheith, a big rooftop afterparty and more!”
Admission will be free, but seating is limited and RSVP is required. E-mail Channel101RSVP@gmail.com to reserve a seat.
Get 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.
Flyer by Rosie Brand
If you’re reading this, odds are you know that we strive to keep you up-to-date about everything-you-need-to-know in and around comedy in Los Angeles. We curate our listings from hundreds and hundreds comedy events to tell you what we truly think is worth going out and catching live.
TCB readers have enjoyed that have kept them aware of the coolest house shows all the way to the big one-offs at the Ace.
Now, we’ll get to do this on a bigger scale/more all-inclusive way.
So, with the ever growing demand of LA folks wanting to know what’s really going on in this vast metropolis of ours, consumate man-on-the-LA-scene Shane Carpenter has assembled the like minds in different fields (music, dance, art, etc.) of Restless Nites, Buzzbands.LA, High Voltage Magazine, We Found New Music, Curate LA, and us here at The Comedy Bureau to create In The Know.
ITK will offer a straight up, user-friendly calendar to really know the best events in LA in all fields. Shane and web designer Royce Hsu have just launched it and already we could be the start of something special.
See for yourself at: https://intheknow.la/ (and feel free to Add to Home Screen on your mobile device’s Internet browser to make it more like an App).
Because of the reliable sunshine and pristine Summer nights, LA affords plenty of movie going experiences outside of the typical multiplex-going routine.
Melrose Rooftop Theatre not only offers up to watch movies under the stars and on a roof, but offers some gourmet cuisine right before as well.
For our readers, there line-up for this month includes Anchorman, Lady Bird, and Mean Girls. July has Zoolander and Bridesmaids.
Looks and sounds pretty snazzy to us. Get more details and tickets, which seem to sell out pretty quickly, here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The adorably hilarious Tessa Coates is in town from across the pond (and across the country, if you think about geographically) to put on her wonderful solo show PRIMATES. Tessa blends her college major of anthropology and blends it quite nicely into her real life experiences for a heart warming hour of comedy that you should go see.
Her next show is this week on Tuesday, June 12th at 7:30PM at The Hollywood Improv Lab. Tickets are $10 and you can (and really should) 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.
The Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater is moving on from their soft opening phase to “The Prototype”, an entire season of programming, which, as you can see above, is very, very, very stacked with some of the best and most original comedy LA has to offer.
If this all seems like your jam, you can even join to become a member of their exclusive QWERTY Club, which offers:
We highly urge you to get tickets, membership to the QWERTY Club, and find out more about this theater run by a former typewriter company here.