Another great week of Hot Tub coming this June 11th means we’ve got you (potentially) for another pair of FREE tickets.
Enter for your chance to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways.
Dave Mizzoni and Matt Rogers’ beloved NYC gay-trivia-game-show-for-straight-guys Gayme Show (check this highlight in Vulture) will be doing a special round here in LA this coming Monday, June 11th at 10:30PM at UCB Sunset.
FYI, it’s a pretty great way to keep Pride Weekend going.
Tickets are $7 and you can (and 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
It’s rare these days that you get to see someone like the amazing James Adomian (Our Cartoon President, Trump vs. Bernie, Low Hangin’ Fruit, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Future-Worm) headline in town. Yet, your chance will be coming very soon this month as Adomian will be taking over The Satellite LA in Silverlake with help from Kate Berlant, Rojo Perez, and Zach Noe Towers.
So, we highly recommend that you go get your tickets ASAP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
We’re still smiling about the new web series Please Understand Me from Steve Feinartz and Ahamed Weinberg, EP’d by Sarah Silverman that was released this week on Facebook Watch.
Seriously, it’s fantastic.
Anyhow, if you’re in LA and don’t want to wait in the coming weeks for new episodes, you can go to a live screening of the whole series (including episodes for the pilot presentation) at the Lyric Hyperion in Silverlake (2106 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles, CA) on Saturday, June 9th at 8PM. We were lucky enough to go to the premiere screening and it’s such a damn good time watching it in a crowd.
Tickets are $10 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.
For this month’s Entertaining Julia @ Akbar, The Puterbaugh Sisters are spoofing “a bad comedy club” and presenting “The Who Farted Factory”. That being said, they have a hell of a line-up including:
Joe Kwaczala – Jay Christopher aka “The Bearded Comedian”
Joe McAdam – Colin Keenan aka “the Kansas City kid”
Casey Ley- Jesse jesse – Laughs on fox
Nicholas Vatterott- Bobby Boots – Dr. panics
Anna Seregina – The Entertainer – Russias Got Talent
Ever Mainard- Daeanley Differs aka “the Big Diff”
Sam Wiles – Brandon Mayhow – Famous in downstate Iowa
Ryan Dalton- Eric Derick, our house Dj – Performs at Pressure Hut
Dave Ross – NY comedian aka “Jimmy catchphrase”
Sydney Adeniyi- 7 Dart – Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed
Drennon Davis- musical comedy featured at The Zoink Zone
Nikki Ashley- actress, comic, DJ , she’s been on girl code, bad girls club, good girls house, and girls gone wildly wrong.
Whether you’ve been coerced into buying two drinks/items to be yelled at for sitting up front or not, The Who Farted Factory ought to be a good time.
The show is at 9PM this Sunday and FREE. Get more info here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The newly minted Ruby LA that opened with a mission of diversity and inclusivity is throwing a Queer Comedy Festival for LA Pride Weekend next week. They’ve assembled a big line-up featuring the great comedy stylings of Erin Foley, Riley Silverman, Ever Mainaird, Lauri Roggenkamp, and many more queer comedians for six hours of shows on June 9th.
FYI, the LA Pride Parade is on June 10th, so you can enjoy comedy on Saturday and floats on Sunday.
Also, take note that it’s only $15 for a pass and $5 for tickets to individual shows. Get your tickets here.
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen took Memorial Day off, which has given us a bit of Hot Tub withdrawals.
Luckily, the next show is this coming Monday and, per usual, we got tickets for you to win!
Enter for your chance to snag ‘em here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
The fantastic weekly comedy show Sauce at Desano Pizza is taking every Friday during the whole month of June to present Pizza Coven: All Female Comedy Festival and highlighting LA’s best female comedians that you should know about.
Get more details and specific line-ups here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The Daily Show’s own Ronny Chieng will be performing for one night only at Largo next week (not to mention that he will be joined by the one and only Bo Burnham).
This will probably sell out, so you ought to get your tickets much sooner rather than later. Do so here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
With everything that’s going on in the world right now, one of your biggest concerns, as you well know, should be how to up your STARmeter on IMDBPro.
Lucky for you, there’s a show this coming Saturday that will help you with that conveniently called, STARmeter: The IMDBPro Show with hosts/IMDBProAmbassadors Joshua Turek, Megan Koester, and Alison Stevenson as well as a carefully curated selection of rising stars.
Get more details on this exciting opportunity/what ought to be a damn fun show here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Help refugees resettle via supporting Miry’s List and get a chance to see Rachel Bloom and Milana Vayntrub lead off a stacked comedy show at the lovely Largo at the Coronet Theatre.
Tickets are going for $35 ($80 for artist meet and greet) and you should 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.
One of 2014′s best movies, hands down, was Taika Waititi’s What We Do In The Shadows. In fact, it was so good that FX is now making it into a TV show.
This week, you can catch the modern day vampire mockumentary set in New Zealand at The Frida Cinema.
Screenings are as follows:
Tuesday, May 29 – 6PM, 8PM, 9:45PM
Wednesday, May 30 – 6PM, 8PM, 9:45PM
Tickets are $10 and you can purchase them and get more info here.
Poster is a limited edition design by Graham Humphreys.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
SNL Weekend Update’s Michael Che will be stopping into LA for one big show at the big and gorgeous Theatre at Ace Hotel in DTLA.
Specifically, this evening with Che will be on Sunday, June 24th at 8PM. Tickets are going for $35-$45 and you can (and 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.
In case you’re not aware, the process of not only coming to America to live and work is not only insanely difficult, but awfully expensive. As that’s the case, a great comedy benefit show is happening for Odenkirk/Provissiero Entertainment’s Kora Christensen as she needs help paying for her green card.
Just look at that line-up. It’s pretty swell if you ask us.
You can get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Mary Sasson and Marissa Strickland’s fantastic game show about fathers of comedy folks who don’t really come close to the mark only comes around every so often. However, just when Father’s Day is coming (June 17th), Bad Dads will definitely have a round to precede that.
So, the latest Bad Dads will be on Thursday, May 31st at 9:30PM at UCB Franklin. Tickets are $7 and you can (and 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 Best Friends Show, a quirky celebration of friendship, storytelling, and cake, is going to mark their third anniversary this Saturday at The Virgil.
Hosts and best friends Kim Seltzer and Aliya Kamalova will lead off an evening featuring stories from:
Blair Socci & Megan Gailey
Nick Mandernach & Anthony Gioe
Mary Sasson & Mano Agapion
and music from:
Open Mike Eagle
Tickets are $5 online and $6 at the door. Get advanced tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This week, you can catch the one and only Cameron Esposito tape her latest hour of stand-up as well as see an hour of stand-up currently entitled “Cameron Esposito Presents: Rape Jokes”.
The twist here is, as you might have already read above, that this will be an hour of stand-up done from the perspective of a survivor of sexual assault.
Sincerely, if you’re in the LA area, you should make it out to this.
There are two tapings, 7PM & 9PM, on Thurs., May 24th at UCB Franklin. Get tickets here and here respectively.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
You probably love ice cream. You probably love some alcohol too. If you’re reading this, we definitely know that you love comedy, especially served up live.
So, we thought as this is the case that you might want to know about a new stand-up show called Tasteful at the hip ice cream parlor in K-Town, Milk Tavern.
It’s hosted by the fun duo of Langston Kerman and Jak Knight and for their inaugural evening, they’ve got a tasty, pun intended, line-up of Quinta Brunson, David Gborie, Steph Tolev, Teddy Ray, Joel Kim Booster.
The first Tasteful is happening this Wednesday, May 23rd at 8:30PM. Oh yeah, we should mention that admission is FREE.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This latest edition of Guilty Treasure (Andy Wood and Bryan Cook’s show forcing folks to explain the songs they love to hate and then perform with a live band) has a killer line-up.
Namely…
– Jimmy Pardo (“Never Not Funny,” “Conan”)
– Kyle Kinane (“The Standups,” “Drunk History”)
– Erin Whitehead (“Bajillion Dollar Propertie$,” Wild Horses)
– Maxim Ludwig (Stagecoach Festival)
– Mike O’Connell (“Another Period,” “Idiotsitter”)
Even the idea of just finding out what their guilty pleasure songs are might be worth the price of admission ($10).
So don’t miss this Guilty Treasure this Monday, May 21st with doors at 7:30PM. 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.
On Friday, June 29th, you can watch the Christopher Guest classic Best In Show under the stars at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery AND support LA LGBT Center. There’s even a VIP package that includes a picnic basket.
Tickets range from $25-$150. 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.
It has been awhile since a big festival in LA has had some comedy, but, thankfully, the Adult Swim Festival is coming to the Row DTLA this October 6th & 7th to change all of that.
In addition to the bounce, fun, and attitude of Run The Jewels, Dan Deacon, and Big Freedia, you’ll get to see the comedy stylings of:
Ahmed Bharoocha
Jena Friedman
Jo Firestone
Joe Pera
Hannibal Buress
Nick Rutherford
On Cinema Live!
Here’s a video announcement (that just happens to be in stop motion animation).
Weekend passes are going for $230, but you can get an early bird price for a single day pass at $75.
Buy a pass and get more info here.
This Saturday, May 19th, the audience at The Pack Theater will get to not only see The Whitest Kids U’ Know! (Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Trevor Moore, Darren Trumeter, Timmy Williams), but will also get to sketches that they wrote that were rejected.
Sound like a great Saturday night? Of course, it does.
FYI, this is a one-time live event as far as we know.
As it’s at The Pack Theater, admission is “pay what you can”. The show starts at 9PM, but we urge you to get there and line-up early if you want in.
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.
Another Monday is coming and that means another hot serving of Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen is coming too.
Oh, that also means we got a pair of tickets for you to win! Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways
Boy oh boy, it’s been more than a few minutes since this happened, but Harmontown is coming back to doing a weekly live taping every Monday at Dynasty Typewriter at The Hayworth Theater.
The reconvening of Dan Harmon, Jeff B. Davis, Spencer Crittenden, and guests starts Monday, June 4th and tickets are going for $12.50.
Go get them here before they sell out.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
If you’re hunting for one of those great LA comedy shows that happens in a backyard this weekend, look no further than Brunch this Sunday, May 20th at 1PM.
Zach Noe Towers and Peggy Sinnott will host a beautiful line-up of:
Debra DiGiovanni (Showtime, Netflix)
Ahmed Bharoocha (Comedy Central)
Lizzy Cooperman (Comedy Central)
Jared Goldstein (Modern Family)
Katrina Davis (Broke LA)
This Brunch (like so many in LA) will be in Silverlake and take a $5 donation for the comedians.
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.