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Pick of the Day: Megan Stalter (in LA) 3/14

February 28, 2022

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Ever since we saw Megan Stalter take the stage at Genghis Cohen all those years ago, we knew that there were plenty of dates destined for her on bigger, brighter, and more renowned stages ahead. Thanks a lot COVID for making that wait a lot longer.

Now, Meg is going to have a night all to herself and however she wants it to go (beautifully controlled mischief most likely) at one of LA’s most revered theatres, Largo (@ The Coronet). This night, on Mon. Mar. 14th at 8:30PM PT, will be the very first of what we hope will be several performances there for Meg and you really best get tickets before they sell out (Meg has really hardcore stans, FYI).

Get tickets here now.

After This Kimmel Appearance, Please Put Megan Stalter on Late Night More Often (or Just Give Her a Show)

August 17, 2021

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There is a small cadre of folks that get how to do a late night panel appearance. Often, they usually involve doing a bit from out of left field separate from the perfunctory interview that is aimed at promoting something that they’re doing. Eric Andre, Adam Pally, and Will Ferrell are particularly aces at this.

Now, it would seem we have a brand new entrant into the club with Megan Stalter’s joyous debut late night appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as she dazzled the Kimmel audience and guest host Maren Morris by entering as the “Prettiest Girl in the World”. The chaotic good that Stalter exudes in her comedy is pretty perfect for the late night couch (or would even be pretty great behind the desk) as you can see in the interview here.

Between her stand-up, Hacks, and appearances like these, it seems pretty clear to us that Stalter should get her own show in the very not so distant future (or at least make the rounds on all of late night).

The New York Comedy Festival Announces Its 2021 Headliners

August 16, 2021

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Michelle Wolf, Nick Kroll, Colin Quinn, Marc Maron, Megan Stalter, Michelle Buteau, Norm MacDonald, Gary Gulman, Ronny Chieng, Brian Regan, Alok, Smart Funny & Black Live!, Bill Maher, Andrew Santino, Vir Das, and Tim Dillon are all set to be the top billing of this year’s New York Comedy Festival, which is, indeed happening in person from Nov. 8th-14th.

Though the Delta variant continues to surge COVID-19 throughout America, it would seem that the comedy festival slated for the fall are still in pushing forward, setting the stage for, perhaps, the normal annual schedule of SF Sketchfest, SXSW, Edinburgh Fringe, etc. all coming back to their festivities in person. While that is already quite the mix of headlining acts, that is only the tip of the iceberg as there is a cornucopia of other shows and performers that will take part in NYC’s annual big time comedy shin dig.

You can just take a gander of what’s to come with the headliner schedule below:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8th
COLIN QUINN: THE LAST BEST HOPE – 7:00PM – LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9th
COLIN QUINN: THE LAST BEST HOPE – 7:00PM – LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th
COLIN QUINN: THE LAST BEST HOPE – 7:00PM – LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
VIR DAS: MANIC MAN WORLD TOUR – 7:00PM – TOWN HALL

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11th
TIM DILLON – 7:00PM – BEACON THEATRE
COLIN QUINN: THE LAST BEST HOPE – 7:00PM – LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
MICHELLE WOLF – 7:00PM – TOWN HALL
NORM MACDONALD – 7:30PM & 10:00PM – CAROLINES ON BROADWAY

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12th
MEGAN STALTER – 7:00PM – BMCC TRIBECA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
RONNY CHIENG: THE HOPE YOU GET RICH TOUR – 7:00PM – TOWN HALL
NORM MACDONALD – 7:00PM & 9:45PM – CAROLINES ON BROADWAY
JON LOVETT’S LOVETT OR LEAVE IT – 7:00PM – BEACON THEATRE
SMART FUNNY & BLACK LIVE! – 7:00PM – APOLLO THEATRE
COLIN QUINN: THE LAST BEST HOPE – 7:00PM & 9:00PM – LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
NICK KROLL – MIDDLE-AGED BOY TOUR – 8:00PM – CARNEGIE HALL

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13th
ALOK – 7:00PM – BMCC TRIBECA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
NORM MACDONALD – 7:00PM & 9:45PM – CAROLINES ON BROADWAY
MARC MARON – 7:00PM – TOWN HALL
BRIAN REGAN – 7:00PM – BEACON THEATRE
COLIN QUINN: THE LAST BEST HOPE – 7:00PM & 9:00PM – LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
GARY GULMAN: BORN ON THIRD BASE – 8:00PM – CARNEGIE HALL
AN EVENING WITH BILL MAHER – 8:30PM – HULU THEATER AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
MICHELLE BUTEAU: BITCH GOTTA BABYSITTER – 9:45PM – TOWN HALL

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14th
NORM MACDONALD – 7:00PM – CAROLINES ON BROADWAY
TITO CHEETO TOUR: ANDREW SANTINO LIVE – 7:00PM – TOWN HALL

If you’re curiosity has already been peaked from just this first announcement, note that you can get tickets starting next week on Aug. 23rd at nycomedyfestival.com (there is a Citi Cardmemeber pre-sale running from Aug. 18th-22nd, FYI).

Upcoming Book “Notes from the Bathroom Line” Has One of Hell of a Line-up of Contributors

If you’re looking for something way in the future to look forward as a way to potentially have something to get you through the end of the year all the way into 2021 when maybe, possibly, hopefully there will be a vaccine that we all can get for COVID-19, there will be a magnificent collection of essays, poetry, toons, short stories, art, and so much more for well over 100 of the best women in comedy (from all corners including stand-up, writing, sketch, acting, podcasting, musical comedy, and more) in Notes from the Bathroom Line: Humor, Art, and Low-grade Panic from 150 of the Funniest Women in Comedy.

Amy Solomon (producer on Silicon Valley, Barry) curated the incredibly impressive literary gathering for this book and we really can’t wait for Mar. 16th, 2021 when Notes from the Bathroom Line is set for release.

Thus far, slated to contribute are:

Lolly Adefope, Maria Bamford, Aisling Bea, Lake Bell, Rachel Bloom, Rhea Butcher, Nicole Byer, D’Arcy Carden, Aya Cash, Karen Chee, Margaret Cho, Mary H.K. Choi, Amanda Crew, Rachel Dratch, Beanie Feldstein, Jo Firestone, Briga Heelan, Samantha Irby, Emily V. Gordon, Patti Harrison, Mary Holland, Jen Kirkman, Lauren Lapkus, Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci, Natalie Morales, Aparna Nancherla, Yvonne Orji, Lennon Parham, Chelsea Peretti, Alexandra Petri, Natasha Rothwell, Amber Ruffin, Andrea Savage, Kristen Schaal, Megan Stalter, Beth Stelling, Cecily Strong, Sunita Mani, Geraldine Viswanathan, Michaela Watkins, Mo Welch, and Sasheer Zamata.

More contributors will be added down the line for a book that’s so much more promising than a lot of what 2020 has given us.

By the way, you can pre-order Notes from the Bathroom Line here.

Yep, We Started a Podcast: The Comedy Bureau Field Report (a Podcast About Comedy News and Nothing Else)

April 1, 2020

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Yes, we know that almost everyone went out and started a podcast while stuck in self-isolation and we’d like to state, for the record, that we were going to do that back in the “before times” when only kind of a lot of people were doing that.

Anyhow, This is The Comedy Bureau Field Report, (brought to you by Bleav Podcasts) a neatly packaged rundown of comedy news that’ll be less than a half hour (ok, this first one is over half an hour-give us a break) and definitely be about comedy only with TCB’s very own founder and director Jake Kroeger.

This first episode features guest co-host (we’re going to have a lot of those) Ian Abramson who has pulled off doing a version of SNL all by himself, two weeks in a row, called Saturday Night Quarantine on Twitch. We talk about the weird times comedy is living in as well as what’s new and wonderful that you should add to your daily binge list while hunkered down and even what might lie ahead for the future of comedy when things start coming back (whatever that ends up meaning).

Listen, subscribe, 5 stars, etc. here.Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT
Opening theme by Brian Granillo

Please Enjoy the New, Decidedly Non-COVID-19 Focused Podcast “Confronting Demons with Megan Stalter”

April 1, 2020

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While a good deal of new podcasts right now are first hand accounts of millennials being stuck inside, there are still plenty of other podcasts that would rather offer you a brief mental vacation to other places with other people that really have nothing to do with what’s going on right now with the global COVID-19 pandemic.

One of those new podcasts, oddly enough, is called Confronting Demons with Megan Stalter. Though the title suggests some sort of aggro-self help show with a plethora of very special guests or live callers. Stalter turns that format on its head by playing to her strengths of being playfully confrontational. Whether to guests that “never agreed” to come on (including Chris Gethard and Chelsea Peretti) to her brother Nick, Stalter has quite the knack for toeing the line of lashing out in the most hysterical way possible.

In general, Stalter is such a wild, fun burst of energy on stage and you can feel it in how rambunctious this podcast is. No matter where she goes, she keeps guests (no matter how “in on it” they are) on their toes and Confronting Demons ends ups being anything but that (which we’re thankful for as that’s all of what we’ve been all doing being stuck wherever you are in isolation).

Give a listen and have a grand ol’ time with Confronting Demons with Megan Stalter from Forever Dog, available wherever you listen to podcasts.