One of our favorite all time podcasts, The Dollop, is coming out with a book, The United States of Absurdity (pre-order it here).
To mark the occassion, they’re doing a live Dollop at Nerdmelt next month with guest Sarah Tiana.
Tickets are still available at $15 a pop 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.
Mouth Time, the podcast hosted by Reductress editors, is going live next week at The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake with a very special guest, Paul F. Tompkins.
If that’s right up your alley, you can still get tickets for $10 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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For 4/10/17 and beyond, we got all your LA comedy needs covered.
One of our favorite indie comedy theaters in LA, The Pack Theater, is doing a pretty sizable comedy/music festival at the end of this month.
Called Packchella, see what they have in store for Friday, April 28th-Sunday, April 30th.
Friday April 28th
9p – Bill and Ted’s Excellent History Report
10p – Late Nightmare with Emily Candini
11p – Go Sketch Yourself
Saturday April 29th
7p – Packstage Passes – Featuring Ari Stidham
8p – Allie Goertz, Pat Regan and Jeremiah Watkins, Kindred Throats
9p – The Lady Scoutington Musical Comedy Hour Featuring Graham the Dancing Lawyer – With Jackie Tohn, Amy Albert, Alli Miller
10p – Rick Overton’s Improvised Musical
11p – Sketch That Tune
12a – After Hours House Party with Drac & The Swamp Rats and Pat Regan
Sunday April 30th
12p – The Scramble – With JETZO （ジェットゾー）, The Brothers Brothers’ Band, Lewburger, The Chroma Keys, Gregory Lawrence Smith Esq.
8p – Opening Night: The Improvised Musical and The Sound of Musical
9p – Rachel Bloom and Friends – With Zach Sherwin, The Apple Sisters, Drennon Davis, Matthew Patrick Davis
10p – Ladies of TPT Sketch Night
11p – The 88 Show with Avery Pearson – with Eliza Skinner, Michael Glazer
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Next Saturday, Eric Andre will assemble the likes of Reggie Watts, Dan Curry, and Derrick Beckles all to watch the worst movie that Eric could find at The Downtown Independent.
As of right now, the tickets are sold out for Eric Andre’s Sh*tty Movie Night, but you should check back frequently leading up the night of to see if extra tickets are released.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
If you wanna go to:
The Junk Show with David Huntsberger @ Copper Still Bar 4/9
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen @ The Virgil 4/10
Fresh Out with Adam Conover and Emily Heller @ UCB Sunset 4/13
…for free, enter our ticket giveaways via DoLA here, here, or here respectively.
Eliza Skinner’s unbelievably fun comedy rap battle show, Turnt Up! (it has its own great episode on Seeso’s Comedy Show Show), is back at UCB Franklin this Sunday, April 9th at 7:30PM.
Wherever their rap skills are, all the performers freestyle one-on-one with the aid of expert beatboxer Joshua Silverstein.
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.
Over a decade ago, Dave Hill initiated one of the funniest exchanges ever in trying to start a Norwegian Black Metal band with a kid from Indiana. The conversations became known as The Black Metal Dialogues.
All these years later, Dave and actual bandmate Phil Costello are going to do The Black Metal Dialogues Live! next month at The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip.
Even if you’re not a metal head, we’re pretty sure you’ll enjoy “the vagina monologues of black metal”.
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.
Todd Glass will be headlining the Hollywood Improv Lab this Saturday, which is probably one of the most intimate spaces in which you can see Todd headline. In other words, please don’t miss out on this.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.
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For all the comedy you need in LA, check out listings for this week and beyond.
This week, you can get a double dose of Dr. Bassem Youssef, often referred to as the Jon Stewart of Egypt, here in LA.
On Wednesday, April 5th 7:30PM at The Vista, Cinefamily will be presenting an off-site screening of the documentary Tickling Giants by Sara Taksler that follows Youssef’s time as a popular satirist in a turbulent Egypt. Taksler, Youssef, and Larry Wilmore will be in person doing a Q&A following the screening.
On Thursday, April 6th at 8PM at the Freud Playhouse will be having an Evening with Bassem Youssef, brought to you by Book Soup, that will discuss his book Revolution For Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring.
Tickets for the screening of Tickling Giants are $14 and $15-$38 for the ‘Evening with’ and you can (and really should) get them here and here respectively.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Broke LA provides a great platform for new artists in music, art, film, and comedy as well as a big one day festival that doesn’t break the bank and is here in the Arts District in DTLA.
For the “Comedy Sandbox”, the line-up includes:
Alex Hanna
Allison Mick
Anna Valenzuela
Ashley Hamilton
Atsuko Okatsuka
Brendan Cooney
Christine Medrano
Connor McSpadden
Dan Nolan
David Gborie
Ed Greer
Harrison Greenbaum
Heather Marulli
Jessica Sele
Johan Miranda
Katrina Davis
Kyle Kinane
Marcella Arguello
Mateen Stweart
Mike Schmidt
Nat Baimel
Nick Petrillo
Omid Singh
Paige Weldon
Papp Johnson
Rachel Mac
Ramy Youssef
Simon Gibson
Valerie Tosi
Zach Noe Towers
In case you didn’t know, there a lot of talented folks that you should be catching in that line-up.
Get your tickets for Broke LA here.
After all, we are a bureaucratic agency for comedy and naturally have some connections to get you into some of the best LA comedy shows in town for FREE.
Right now, we’re running ticket giveaways for:
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal
The Rabbit Hole with Jay Larson and Rory Scovel
Fresh Out LA with Adam Conover and Emily Heller
These shows often sell out or at capacity. If you want to go and not have to worry about buying a ticket in time or at all, you can enter our free ticket giveaway via our friends DoLA and possibly win admission for you and a friend to any one of these stellar nights of comedy here in LA.
For a chance to win tickets to Hot Tub, enter here.
For a chance to win tickets to Rabbit Hole, enter here.
For a chance to win tickets to Fresh Out LA, enter here.
Keep a close eye on us on Twitter @thecomedybureau and Facebook for future giveaways!
Few explore the frontiers of silliness quite like Josh Fadem and Dicker Troy (Johnny Pemberton) and we think you would really regret any time the duo got together and reveled in their next level tomfoolery.
So, with that in mind, get tickets to their next show, this Sunday at The Satellite with guests Eddie Pepitone, Nick Vatterott, Mike Lawrence, and Kate Berlant. They are $8 and you can (and really 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.
As part of working on an upcoming book, BoJack Horseman, creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg will be putting up an exclusive live reading of excerpts of the book (well before it’s release) performed by some of his favorite folks.
“Raphael Bob-Waksberg Works Through Some Sh*t (With Friends!)” is happening next weekend and we’re guessing tickets are going to go fast. So, buy them up 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.
Blending a show and semi-fictional parties together, CleftClips’ Toasty allows comedians to give the toasts that they have always dreamed of. It’s one of our all time favorite shows and the line-up for the latest edition, as you can see above, is stellar.
Tickets are $20 (the venue is small, so they will be limited and you should get them sooner rather than later), and cocktail attire is required.
Unlike most other things, comedy gets pretty serious on April Fool’s Day.
So, naturally, several great shows will be happening, one of which will be this No Joke presented by 2525 in DTLA as you can see in the flyer above.
Tickets range from $7 for earlybirds to $15 for all night entry to make sure you get in and get a good spot for the show. Also, part of the proceeds go to Planned Parenthood.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
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We’ve got all your LA comedy needs for next week and beyond covered.
Trailblazing comedy dance team, Cocoon Central Dance Team, is stopping by LA once again this Monday at UCB Sunset. On top of their imaginative routines (and everything that goes down between them dancing), they’ll be joined by another great team of John Early and Kate Berlant.
Tickets are still available at $7 a pop 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.
The Bitch Seat, hosted by Lyssa Mandel, is a very entertaining version of show and tell that features comedians who probably never thought that they would have to do show and tell again, much less with things that possibly make them cringe about their childhood.
This LA edition of Bitch Seat (it’s based in NYC), is happening this Friday and tickets are only $5. 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.
Currently, one of the most best and most unique voices in comedy belongs to Joe Pera.
He’ll be doing an extended set at UCB Sunset next Wednesday, March 29th at 10:30PM that you shouldn’t miss.
In fact, knowing Joe, there might even be some truth to him allowing “anyone to drive his mid-size rental car wherever they would like to go” after the show.
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.
Well, the day is finally here. Over a decade has passed since Chappelle put out a stand-up special, but today you have two new ones.
They were recorded over the last couple of years in LA and Austin and now, if you have a little over two hours, you can binge watch both back-to-back.
The Best Friends Show is always pretty great.
This line-up though is pretty special, even by their standards as best friends and real life married couples Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani and Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher are on the line-up for this Saturday.
Tickets are $5 online and $6 at door. You can (and should) get tickets in advance here.
Comedy Crawl & Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week
The Ides of March are over. So, why not watch and/or do some comedy?
If you’re in LA, we’ve got you covered.
As the pull quote on the flyer above suggests, Natalie Palamides’ solo show LAID is one of our favorite things of 2016.
Thankfully, she’s bringing it back once more, this Monday, in LA at UCB Franklin and you really ought to not miss the groundbreaking show.
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.