One of the UK’s brightest stars right now, Russell Howard, returns to LA to play The Roxy next week.
More specifically, Saturday, May 20th at 8PM, Howard will take the stage and you shouldn’t miss out.
Tickets are $25 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This is a great line-up of LA’s best and brightest. Also, some of the best views in LA are to be had on hills in Echo Park and should have your interest peaked.
Get more details here.
One of our favorite shows, Underbelly, is returning as it has found yet another new home in The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe. It’s one of our favorite shows to see because it pushes stand-up comedians to perform everything but stand-up.
This latest edition will include:
Scott Thompson
Marlena Rodriguez
Josh Fadem
Drennon Davis
Emily Maya Mills
& more!
With hosts Ryan Singer and Chris Garcia
Pretty swell, huh?
The show is free to attend and you can get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
“Wait Wait…Don’t Kill Me!” combines a quiz show, the talents of Lily Tomlin, June Diane-Raphael, Casey Wilson, Whitney Cummings and Craig Ferguson, the hosting skills of Paul Scheer, animal trivia as curated by Scheer, and a benefit for Voice For The Animals Foundation.
If any of that’s up your alley, you might want to catch this event this Saturday night at UCLA’s Royce Hall at 8PM. Tickets range from $25-$100 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Since launching our experience on Airbnb, the “Comedy Bureau Ride Along”, we’ve had guests from here in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and the Middle East.
Their thoughts on the experience:
“Jake was an amazing host, it was great hanging out with a local comedian and having a glimpse at the standup comedy community in LA. I would definitely book this experience again!”
“Expert guidance from a local celebrity. Jake will be able to answer any question you throw at him, and pretty much guarantees you a good time. Highly recommended.”
Both gave five out of five stars.
Honestly, it’s been quite the privilege to share the LA comedy scene with folks from around the globe that might have not gotten to see it otherwise.
Oh, by the way, we’ve got dates available if you want to book an evening with us.
As we stand at the precipice of POTUS potentially signing an executive order on the currently misguided idea of “religious liberty”, a benefit for something like the Los Angeles LGBT Center might be important.
Thankfully, UCB is throwing such a benefit show called Something Gay! this coming Monday, May 8th at UCB Sunset with a fantastic line-up.
Go get your tickets as soon as you can here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
NYC’s own wonderful indie late night show Running Late with Scott Rogowsky is back in LA this week and next. As you can see above, he’s got plenty of great guests including Paul F. Tompkins, Ben Schwartz, Eddie Pepitone, Lauren Lapkus, and more.
So far, Rogowsky has got three dates at The Virgil and you can tickets are now on sale for Friday, May 5th, Saturday, May 6th, and Sunday, May 7th. If you get the tickets in advance, it’ll cost $7. At the door, it’ll be $10. He also has a date locked down at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe on May 10th that you’ll want to keep a close eye on for tickets.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run all updated for next week (5/1/17).
Check our listings at www.thecomedybureau.com
Public School Stories is always a storytelling show worth catching, but this latest edition for May is particularly stacked with your favorite folks from You’re the Worst, Boy Meets World, MST3K, Review, Legion, and more.
It’s free to attend, but you can RSVP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Tomorrow is time for the Skirball Cultural Center’s annual Puppet Festival. All throughout the center, puppeteers for all sorts of audiences will be performing from 10AM-4PM
General admission is $12 and you can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
Jill Soloway’s new Amazon series I Love Dick will be screening in its entirety at Cinefamily this Sunday. Also, Jill, star Kathryn Hahn, and novelist Chris Kraus will be on hand at the event.
The screening is free, but first come, first served with priority entry to Cinefamily Black Card members.
If you don’t have Amazon Prime, this would be a pretty great opportunity to not even use any sort of free trial of Amazon Prime and watch the show. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
It’s yet another case of “if you build it, they will come” as Carport Comedy (it’s literally a comedy show done from a carport in a driveway) returns this weekend.
It’s a great line-up plus there’s free food while you can get it. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Dana Gould is doing an hour in one of the most intimate venues in Los Angeles next week. No further sales pitch is needed.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week (4/24/17)
All around the LA Area, we’ve got you covered for all your comedy needs for this coming week and beyond.
PBS SoCal’s ANGELENO Profiles Lisa Curry Putting in the Work to Make It in Comedy
ANGELENO has PBS SoCal find certain individuals throughout the dense sprawl of LA that highlight the intricate tapestry that makes up this city.
For comedy, they followed and interviewed Lisa Curry and showed the amount dedication, work, focus, and self-determination she has, on top of being funny, in order to make her own path in comedy here in Los Angeles.
You can watch it on PBS at Sun, Apr 23 at 6PM and Mon, Apr 24 at 7:30PM or stream it right now right here.
Between her own innovative live performances and her roles in Trainwreck, Love, and more, Claudia O’Doherty is definitely one of the more fascinating comedians working today and one that we would love to know what makes her tick comedically.
The latest so, you do comdedy? at UCB Sunset on April 24th might just get to the bottom of that.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Recently, Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle’s live show New Negroes got a series order at Comedy Central.
If you wanna catch the live show before it launches on TV, you can catch New Negroes this Sunday, April 23rd at 7:30PM at UCB Franklin.
Joining Baron and Mike will be Phoebe Robinson, Tashi Condalee, Bianca Da Silva Cristovao, Madison Shepard, Opeyemi Olagbaju and Lil’ Rel Howery.
Tickets are $7 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Before the end of the Steve Allen Theater this Summer, you need to catch Tomorrow! with Ron Lynch, the long running, beloved midnight comedy variety show.
This week’s edition is of particular interest and Fred Armisen will be co-hosting. Also, a weird and wonderful line-up of:
KARL HERLINGER (ventriloquist)
SCOT NERY (juggler)
BRYAN & JAY (couple guys)
NANA THE CATLADY (gonzo musician)
APRIL HAVA SHENKMAN (performance artist)
PONY DEATH RIDE (sassy band)
& MORE!!
and Tomorrow Show players BRIAN BARLOW, KATIE CROWN, DAVEY JOHNSON & CHRIS WALSH
Please get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
UCB’s Cool Sh*t/Weird Sh*t taking the show into a convenience store, Hollywood
Airbnb has officially launched an exciting new “experiences” program where local experts can show visitors places and happenings that usually only denizens of that city could know and love.
Our founder, Jake Kroeger, is indeed hosting one of those experiences, a “Comedy Bureau Ride Along”.
Basically, we here at The Comedy Bureau see the best comedy in LA seven nights a week to keep tabs on what’s going on and what’s worth telling our readers about.
Good Heroin at Stories in Echo Park, Photo by Kelly Dwyer
So, if you want to see what we see and hang with us as we make the rounds around the LA comedy scene, you can book us for a night here.
Moses Storm literally connecting to his audience with a specially made sweater at UCB Franklin
For your money, we’ll cover all admission to shows we go to, let you grab a ride with us from spot to spot, and hang with us after with comedians wherever that may be. Think of it like a police ride-along, but it’s for comedy and it’s with one of the most highly regarded authorities in LA comedy.
As you can see above and below, we really go wherever we have to for a hearty laugh. There are limited spots for our ‘ride along’, two per night in fact, and we’ve already got people reserving their spots. So, you might want to act on this fast.
Again, get more details and reserve your spot for the experience right now right here.
Alex {Hanpeter] and Jude [Tedmori] having a bit of innocent, “harmless” fun at their “What A Time to Be Alive” show, Photo by Joel Mandelkorn
The heartbreak storytelling show, Breaker/Broken, returns to its perfect venue, The Museum of Broken Relationships, tomorrow night.
Comedy folks Erin Foley, Aron Kader, Matt Price, Diana Dinerman, Hayley Terris, and host/creator Michelle Miracle will share their tales amidst the collection of objects that symbolize the end of relationships of all shapes and sizes.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and really should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run for Next Week and Beyond Updated (4/17/17)
Following this Easter weekend, there’s plenty of comedy all around LA, especially because 4/20 is happening this week.
Check our listings here.
This week, The Big Sleep Over will combine an old fashioned sleepover with the magic of a comedy show. Some of our favorite performers including Jetzo, Dr. Brown, Anna Seregina, and Natalie Palamides will dazzle with a show, then have pizza, pillow fights, ouija boards and more.
You can tickets for just the show for $5 or both the show and the sleepover for $8 (those are limited). Get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Not only is one of our favorites Chris Fleming going on a nice tour up and down the West Coast, but he’ll be playing the prestigious Largo here in LA this summer.
Tickets are $30 and you can (and really should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Basically, Follow That! pits comedians into having to follow the screening of heart wrenching, highly emotional videos. The emotional roller coaster that you go on combined with the inevitable curiosity that you’ll have to see what a comic will do after seeing a tearjerker is indeed pretty great.
The next edition of Follow That! is set for the end of this month and you can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
