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Pick of the Day: PGF Records Launch Show and Party! (in NYC) 11/16

October 21, 2022

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In case you missed it yesterday, Pretty Good Friends Records is going to be the newest cool comedy record label to come around in quite some time. Eugene Mirman, Julie Smith Clem, Areti Papazoglou, and Sub Pop Records are all teaming up to venture out on what is still an exciting “wild west” of sorts in comedy, comedy albums.

To christen their operation, they’re throwing a launch party/show at the Bell House in Brooklyn on Wed. Nov. 16th at 7:30PM that will also debut their very first release, Maeve Higgins’ A Very Special Woman. PGF Records’ Eugene Mirman and their pretty good friends Bobcat Goldthwait, Marie Faustin, and, of course Maeve Higgins, will all be performing to make it one damn fine inaugural night for a comedy record label.

Tickets are $30.57 including fees. Go snag them right here right now.

Pretty Good Friends Is Going to Become Comedy’s Newest Record Label

October 20, 2022

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The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival is already a pretty great calling card for a comedy collective and if you’re going from that to starting a record label, you’re probably going to be off to a pretty great start.

Such is the case with Pretty Good Friends who are shifting their efforts from live and film production to also becoming a comedy record label, seemingly along the lines of AST Records or Blonde Medicine. Already, they’ve got releases in the pipeline from Bobcat Goldthwait, Maeve Higgins, and Jon Glaser. We’re biased, but we’re thrilled to see that there will be a new label just dedicated a comedy, especially when it’ll be distributed by the crème de la crème of cool kids record labels, Sub Pop Records.

Mirman, in the most Mirman-esque way, on launching PGF, “One of the most exciting things about starting a comedy record label for fun with your friends is the array of confusing lawsuits happening around audio rights right now. But we are committed to endeavors that make little sense business-wise, but give us opportunities to hang out with friends and make stuff that makes us laugh.”

Just off the tail of New York Comedy Festival wrapping up, there will be a Pretty Good Friends Records launch party at the hallowed stage at The Bell House on 11/16. Get tickets here before they likely sell out quick.

Pick of the Day: Butterboy (in NYC) Returning 9/5

August 19, 2022

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If you’re a New Yorker, you might have noticed that Mondays might have been a little different in regards to the comedy scene. Butterboy @ Littlefield, one of the pillars of NYC comedy, took a quiet look break this Summer.

Don’t worry however as hosts Jo, Aparna, and Maeve will be returning to their regularly scheduled programming starting very soon, specifically Sept. 5th (only a few weeks away). Make sure you’re in Gowanus, Brooklyn on that Monday and pretty much every Monday going forward if you want to see one of the best weekly shows throughout all five boroughs.

As always, you can get line-ups and $10 tickets for Butterboy at butterboycomedy.com.

Oh, if you’re in Las Vegas next month, you can catch a very special edition of Butterboy at Life Is Beautiful fest, running from Sept. 16th-18th.

Pick of the Day: (The Return of Both) Butterboy 2/7 (in NYC) & Good Heroin (in LA) 2/

February 4, 2022

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The Omicron edition of COVID-19 really threw a wrench at 100 mph into everything all of us had going in 2021 to really ruin the start of 2022. Nearly every live comedy show that was already back or had planned to be back in that time took another break out of an abundance of caution.

Thankfully, case numbers and hospitalizations have trended down enough that, fingers crossed, things are coming back and that includes some of the best weekly comedy shows that we rely on for our weekly evening shot of community oriented dopamine. Namely, Butterboy with Aparna Nancherla, Maeve Higgins, and Jo Firestone @ Littlefield in Brooklyn, NYC and Good Heroin @ Stories in Echo Park, LA are returning next week and we can only hope that this return sticks.

Specifically Butterboy is posting up back at Littlefield for your favorite Monday night of comedy in NYC at 8PM ET on Feb. 7th and Good Heroin is taking over the back patio at Stories on Feb. 14th at 8PM PT.

You can get your $10 advance tickets for Butterboy here and have some spare bucks to donate for Good Heroin (or enjoy the show for FREE if inflation is getting the best of you).

Pick of the Day: Butterboy 4 Year Anniversary (in NYC) 11/15

November 4, 2021

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The Monday night 8PM slot at Littlefield in Brooklyn has been a historic one and stewarding it is to be an beloved anchor for the NYC comedy scene. Eons ago, seemingly, it was Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen on Mondays at Littlefield, then it was Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, and, for the last four years, it has been Aparna Nancherla, Jo Firestone, and Maeve Higgins as the smashing trio behind Butterboy.

The NY Comedy Festival is indeed next week and that edition of Butterboy will be part of the festival, but the week after, on Mon. Nov. 15th, Aparna, Jo, Maeve, and their DJ Donwill are going to mark the fourth year of doing Butterboy and making sure NYC comedy has the perfect panacea for any sort case of the Mondays.

Already, they’ve got Joe Pera, fresh off the season premiere of Joe Pera Talks With You, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, fresh from her on The Tonight Show, and Lili Michelle, who just finished her run of one of the best and longest running outdoor shows throughout the pandemic, Peaches & Cream. Undoubtedly, there will be some great surprises TBA.

So, you ought to snag your tickets quick for this one. Yes, they are still $10 right now.

Pick of the Day: Butterboy Halloween 10/26

October 22, 2020

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Beloved NYC stand-up show/live-stream Butterboy took the summer and a bit more off from the live-stream comedy arena. The likes of Aparna Nancherla, Jo Firestone, and Maeve Higgins along with their DJ Donwill virtually gathering every week that Monday nights (along with Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen) quite nice in quarantine.

Fortunately, they’ll be back this week for Halloween week on Mon. Oct. 26th 4PM PT/7PM ET and have yet another, as you’d expect, fantastic line-up including Eugene Mirman, Sydnee Washington, Marcella Arguello, and Jim Tews. Part of the proceeds always go to a charity and this return week is no different as Butterboy will be donating to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

Go get your tickets here quick before they sell out.

Please Enjoy Trailer for Supernatural Comedy “Extra Ordinary” Where Will Forte Gets to Be a Rock Star Who Sold His Soul to the Devil

August 9, 2019

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Please Enjoy Trailer for Supernatural Comedy “Extra Ordinary” Where Will Forte Gets to Be a Rock Star Who Sold His Soul to the Devil

Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman’s Extra Ordinary looks like a whole lot of fun as a comedy about the paranormal in a small Irish town that’s just trying to get on with their lives, specifically the leads Maeve Higgins and Barry Ward. The tone, look, and feel almost make it as though it could inhabit the same cinematic universe as What We Do In the Shadows.

On top of that, Will Forte gets to don a mustache and play a villainous rock star who sells his soul to regain his former glory (and seemingly accompanied by the hysterical Claudia O’Doherty). Just seeing that from the trailer alone has us pretty on board.

See for yourself in the trailer here, then look for Extra Ordinary to start rolling into theaters Sept. 27th.