Wolf Den is one of the more picturesque house shows in the LA scene. They’re a monthly show nestled in Silverlake, making it even more of a special occasion, that has a swell line-up for May.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The “cat obsessed late night talk show” has some feline comedy royalty lined-up as the hosts of The Purrrcast and Jake Weisman, a comedian cat lover who also co-hosted a podcast about cats awhile ago will be joining host Joey Clift in really diving deep into their love of cats.
Come see the show and see how deep that love of cats really is. Tickets are $7 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.
You might have heard that we’ve started this Patreon page in order to live our best life as an actually publicly funded bureau. As with all crowdfunding campaigns, we’ve got rewards on top of providing the invaluable service.
They are as follows (and there are more to come):
TCB “Electricity” Fund-$1 or more per month
You’ll be acknowledged and thanked at official Comedy Bureau meetings for keeping our lights on. Also, you’ll get access to pre-sale tickets to exclusive Comedy Bureau events before anyone else.
TCB “Hat” Fund-$5 or more per month
Support our penchant for hats. For this, you’ll get pre-sale access to Comedy Bureau events and be included on a Comedy Bureau “Digital Wall of Trustees”
TCB “Lunch” Fund-$10 or more per month
Help us be a more legit LA office by letting us order lunch for the office. For that, you get an official sticker of our fancy new logo done by Chris Fairbanks, access to pre-sale for Comedy Bureau events, and included on our “Digital Wall of Trustees”
TCB “Fossil Fuel” Fund-$20 or more per month
We can’t cover comedy like we do by taking the train here in LA, so covering our gas expenses would be a blessing. For that, on top of pre-sale tickets, Digital Wall of Trustees, and a sticker, we’ll send you a fancy, shiny enamel pin of our official logo. Also, if you’re against fossil fuels, you can give us way more money and we can be able to go get a Tesla.
TCB “Step and Repeat” Fund-$40 or more per month
Yet another part of being a legit LA operation is having a “step and repeat”. Helping us out with “that” will get you pre-sale tickets access, sticker, enamel pin, Digital Wall of Trustees and a download of our Comedians of Interest Vol.1 done in collaboration with AST Records.
TCB “Actual Office Space” Fund-$100 or more per month
Little known fact: We are a “mobile” operation. Help us “work a little less” at whatever coffee shop or bar has wifi. For that get everything above, then go on one “ride along” and grab drinks with The Comedy Bureau (availability pending and must be within the Greater LA Area)
TCB “Spy Equipment” Fund-$1,000 or more per month
We are a bureau, but one that just doesn’t have spy equipment. Help us with “that” and you’ll get the rewards above, we’ll personally scout comedy for you with whatever you’re looking for to the best of our very highly regarded abilities.
Also, if we get $9000 pledged monthly, we’ll start a NYC Branch of The Comedy Bureau (it’s probably the #1 thing we get asked about outside of “what are the good mics?).
The cast of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ is going to do an improv show, which could be a show on its own probably, to kick off the premiere of their third seaosn.
Advance tickets are currently sold out, but UCB sometimes releases tickets leading up to the show and there’s always a stand by line.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
So far, they’ve got these podcast confirmed for this year’s LA Podcast Festival at The Millennium Biltmore Hotel in DTLA this October:
My Favorite Murder
The Dollop
WTF with Marc Maron
Chapo Trap House
Lovett or Leave It
The Todd Glass Show
Dumb People Town
The Jackie and Laurie Show
Bill Burr’s Monday Podcast
TOFOP with Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen
Bertcast
Comedy Film Nerds
Cashing In with TJ Miller and Host Cash Levy
The Dork Forest
The Jimmy Dore Show
The Boogie Monster
Mixed Feelings Podcast
The Mental Illness Happy Hour
My Brother’s Sneaker
We Hate Movies
Tigerbelly
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
As far as comedy podcasts go, that’s pretty hefty list of heavy hitters.
So get your tickets/passes here.
Mike Drucker is not only having comedians play video games, which is proven formula for a good time (see Conan’s Clueless Gamer), but he will be having them play some of the worst games of all time like Shaq-Fu, Bible Adventures, and more for Sh*t Arcade next month at Nerdmelt.
You might even get to win one of those infamous games at this show.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.
Frank Conniff AKA TV’s Frank and the ‘bottom of the barrel’ of cartoon historian Jerry Beck’s archive all return for Cartoon Dump! next month at The Steve Allen Theater.
Screening of actual bad cartoons are interspersed with a live stage parody of those types of cartoons as dreamt up by Conniff and company.
Tickets are $20 and you can (and really should) get them here.
Keep The Comedy Bureau Going Forever via Patreon
We have a Patreon page where you can pledge money to support us. As you probably know, supporting the arts will become more dire very soon and maybe, just maybe you can include us within that notion.
Also, you can exclusive stickers and enamel pins!
Next month, the hit podcast Dumb People Town is taking its first live outing here in LA and the newly formed Starburns Castle in Burbank.
Jason and Randy Sklar and Daniel Van Kirk will not only be covering the stories from the fine folks that inhabit “dumb people town”, but will be looking for stories of the dumbest people from the crowd as well.
Tickets are $20 and you can (and really should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
Comedy Central’s will be taping their latest season of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir very soon at Cheetah’s in Los Feliz. There are 14 tapings currently available to attend for free, so long as you RSVP, and, as usual, they’ve got a very, very stacked line-up.
Stories will be coming from the likes of Darrell Hammond, Scott Thompson, Anthony Atamanuik, Byron Bowers, Sandra Bernhard, Kyle Kinane, Sean Patton, Chris Garcia, Joel Kim Booster, and Tom Segura to name a few.
Get more details, the full line-up, and tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
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Come celebrate 2 years of the best show for best friends telling stories on stage together.
Kim Seltzer and Aliya Kamalova will indeed by having the The Best Friends Show 2 Year Anniversary next week and tickets are only $5. Please get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
We, and by “we”, I mean just one person, Jake Kroeger, love supporting LA comedy and, by extension, the art form of comedy through efforts put forth here by The Comedy Bureau.
We’ve been doing for almost 7 years. It might almost be 7 years. We’ve kind of lost count because we haven’t taken a day off since 2010. That’s not hyperbole. “We” just a) love comedy and b) are workaholics.
Being a publicly funded resource is hard enough through official channels a la grants or funds handed out by governments or well known benefactors.
Rather than go that route, we’re looking to all of you fine folks that have dug us throughout the years to help us out by pledging on our Patreon page to not only keep our operations going, but help us expand possibly to NYC and improve and streamline the Bureau as a whole.
Jeffrey Tambor has a brand new book that details his long, storied, and illustrious career called “Are You Anybody?”
Here’s a lovely promo video for the book featuring his kids.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
When it comes to keeping a show unpredictable, few are as good as Chris Walsh, Katie Crown, and Davey Johnson.
Trepany House is giving the trio their own night along with a stellar line-up of Karen Kilgariff, Laura Kightlinger, John Ennis, Lizzy Cooperman, and Anna Seregina.
As to what this show might be, the show description reads, “Mystery. Machination. Murder? It all points to one thing… AN INTRIGUING NIGHT OF INTRIGUE.”
That all sounds pretty swell to us, so get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Letting Jon Daly and his consciousness, subconscious, and fearlessness run free is pretty fantastic.
You can get an hour of that this Saturday. Tickets are available here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
If everyone who used The Comedy Bureau pledged a $1 a month, especially with 11K followers on Twitter and 20K+ on Tumblr, we could run forever and go nationwide.
Please support us here. You can also support us through Venmo @ jakekroeger.
Our thorough listings for comedy shows and open mics (that includes sketch mics and improv jams) that you could need/want/etc. are all updated for the Greater LA Area this week.
Take a gander at the embedded calendars at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Here are a bunch of great comedy ticket giveaways for this week from our pals at DoLA!
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kurt and Kristen @ The Virgil 5/15
Fresh Out LA @ UCB Sunset 5/18
Punchlines for Paws with Silverman/Kroll/Leggero @ Candela LA 5/20
The Big Sick seems poised to be a big comedy hit this summer and, as such, there’s an accompanying live comedy tour with cast Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, Aidy Bryant, and Kurt Braunohler.
One of those stops is here in LA at The Belasco Theatre in DTLA and tickets are on sale now for $61.50. Get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Real life comedy power couple Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy will sit down to discuss his new book next week for Live Talks LA. As it’s is both of them discussing the book, we’re guessing that this’ll much different from your average “in conversation” event/book release.
Tickets start at $20. If you want to purchase a copy of Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours, tickets go for $43-$50. You can get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Running an indie show here in LA from a non-traditional venue is hard enough to do and pulling it off for a year is definitely impressive.
So, give some love to The Frogtown Show celebrating their one year anniversary of offering live comedy under the lovely LA sky and in the back patio of a great vintage store, The Left Bank.
Also, the line-up is pretty damn solid. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
From The Comedy Bureau founder/CEO/intern/etc. himself:
“The Comedy Bureau is a vital resource to the gigantic LA comedy scene and acts the glue that helps keep comedians, comedy fans, industry members, and the city together. For almost 7 years now, The Comedy Bureau has been serving anybody and everybody that it can in this regard.
Unfortunately, it’s not actually a real government backed bureau (and the current POTUS would probably eliminate it if it were), so we greatly appreciate any and all support you can give all of us*.
It helps keep the lights on and, the more you give, the more that we can do. That includes starting a "NYC Branch” (i.e. up-to-date listings for the NYC comedy scene), Branches for other cities around the U.S., a Comedy Bureau app, original productions/content, one-of-a-kind live shows, taking part in comedy festivals around the globe, and much much more.
*all of us is just one, Jake Kroeger”
If you love, like, use, etc. us here at The Comedy Bureau at all, you can support us monthly at Patreon now. Also, if you want to make supporting us even easier, you can support us through giving us money through Venmo @jakekroeger.
Also, we’ve got enamel pins and stickers made and the only way to currently get them is through Patreon.
Master joke craftsman Matt Knudsen will be recording his third full-length comedy album this Thursday at The Josh & Josh Show at Bar Lubitsch.
It’s free to attend and Allen Strickland Williams will be opening.
Get more details here.
