Andy Wood and Bryan Cook’s night of celebrating the best of the worst songs as chosen by very esteemed guests and has been one of our favorite shows to catch since its creation.
So, please join them to mark their Two Year Anniversary over at The Virgil later this month Thurs., Nov. 21st at 8PM with very special guests Janet Varney, Randy Sklar, and James Urbaniak.
Tickets are only $10 right now and you can (and should) get them here.
It has been a minute since the magic of Eliot Glazer’s Haunting Renditions has graced us all with beautiful arrangements of some of pop music’s more overplayed, overdone, bizarre earworms.
Fortunately, next week, Glazer will be back with Haunting Renditions at Dynasty Typewriter along with a pretty swell set of special podcast star guests (as you can see above), Georgia Hardstark and Danny Pellegrino.
We have a feeling that this thing might sell out, so you best get your tickets ($15 in adv., $20 day of) quick. Do so here.
Reggie Watts and his handpicked Late Late Show band Karen are sneaking out of CBS Television City once again to take you on a musical odyssey, wonderfully accented by Reggie’s flights of fancy (in various voices) and waxing comedically. It’s a one of a kind experience and should not be missed.
This latest session from Reggie Watts & Karen will be happening at the Teragram Ballroom (it’s just west of DTLA) next Thurs. Aug. 15th at 9PM. Tickets are still available at $22 a pop. Go get ‘em here.
As the title of show suggests, Rachel Bloom and co. will get to emotionally travel back in time to revive their fondest memories of doing theater in their younger days as well as take a mulligan on some not-so-fond moments.
Altogether, it should be a night of remembering that will be, in of itself, a night to remember as Bloom will be at the helm for Theater Kid Redemption Night.
Tickets for Theater Kid Redemption Night are on sale for $37 ($30 + $7 srv. charge). Go get ‘em here.
The brilliant high concept sketch/musical/theater company Lost Moon Radio is back with another run of their latest show, Lost Moon Radio Summer Block Party over at the Lyric Hyperion. If you’re one of the uninitiated from not having see them all around LA over the last several years or hosting the LA Weekly Theater Awards or on TruTV or, most recently, on NBC’s Bring The Funny, then this is a great chance for you to get in one of our favorite groups in town.
They’ve got four dates:
Aug. 15th 9PM
Aug. 16th 9PM
Aug. 17th 7PM & 9PM
Tickets are $20 and you really ought to get them here.
Last night, Catherine Cohen got to show the world what many comedy circles around the country have gotten to enjoy for a few years now. Cohen performed one of her songs from her solo show, accompanied by Henry Koperski on piano, and showed off her wonderfully sarcastic panache and, of course, her voice as well.
So, please enjoy this lovely debut of Catherine Cohen on Seth Meyers here.
The best versions of some of the most infamous/overplayed/etc. songs in all of pop culture will be shown off once again by Eliot Glazer for his Haunting Renditions at Dynasty Typewriter this Friday.
He’s got quite the smashing line-up as well with Jen Kirkman, Jackie Tohn, and Eli Braden who will be joining Eliot in giving the most elegant arrangements for songs that maybe don’t even deserve it.
Tickets are $15 right now and $20 on the day of. So, you better go and get them here now.
When the mind and, subsequently, the comedy of Rachel Bloom are such a fascinating thing, especially when they get to roam free. Things like the award winning Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or the OCDance! get to happen.
Hi, I’m Rachel Bloom and This Is My Show coming up this month at Largo is your chance to see Rachel unfettered as the show description even says, “Join Rachel Bloom for 60-90 minutes of whatever she wants to do!” We have no doubt that it’ll be something special.
Tickets are $35 and you best get them before they sell out here.
Packchilla, The Pack Theater’s big weekend celebrating the melding of comedy and music with The Pack’s favorite performers and amazing guests from the scene, is back for its 3rd year!
Whether you’re into metal, competitive funny dancing, a Bill Murray themed burlesque show, the loop pedal comedy music wizardry of Drennon Davis, or one of the best musical comedy groups around, The Cooties, we’re pretty damn sure Packchilla, thanks to the producing team of Gil Baron, Dave Ciaccio, Catherine Durickas, and Ben Kuerschner, that there will be something for you.
Oh yeah, admission to all these shows, as is Pack Theater policy, are Pay What You Can.
Get more details about Packchilla here and make a reminder for this for the last weekend of this month.
So, on one level, you have a musical adaptation of Swingers, which would be pretty fun with the right folks. Then, there’s this other level where said musical is done from memory and nothing else by Nick Thorburn and Jason Tippet. On the third level, there’s an amazing cast to do said memory-based-Swingers-musical with Steve Little, Josh Fadem, Jamie Loftus, Fat Tony, Carlen Altman, Donny Divanian, Anna Seregina, Kyle Mizono, Zora Bikangaga, Shane Carpenter, and Susan Berger.
You get all of this meta-nostalgia-musical in one package with Swingers From Memory, which is playing this Friday and Saturday at the Lyric Hyperion. You’ve probably already said it in your head about this, but, just in case you haven’t, this looks money.
Go get your tickets here.
While some folks spent way too much money to see and hear tech issues at Coachella, you can go see the best in musical comedy that UCB and Matt Apodaca has to offer (and do so for FREE).
The UCB Music Fest 2019 does have some truly great acts including:
The Sloppy Boys – Mike Hanford, Tim Kalpakis, Jeff Dutton
Doodie Mob – Carl Tart, Ronnie Adrian, Lamar Woods, Tim Neenan, Greg Smith, Joe Weber, Garrett Hanson
Will Hines’ Bad Guitar Solos – Will Hines, Mel Cowan, Joel Spence, Dana Wickens, Brett Morris, Jiavani Linayao
Age Against the Machine – Zach Olsen, Winston Carter, Alex Newman and Matt Apodaca
Hot Hot Fuss – Bryan Rainstein, Jeremy Olson, Cassi Jerkins, Tim Neumann
If anything, please don’t miss another chance to see Will Hines earnestly try to solo on the guitar while lacking the skill to do so.
Get more details here.
Will Hines is a renowned and celebrated improviser and comedic performer and has had such a reputation for several years.
However, in all of that time all the way up into the current moment, Will Hines has not been noted for his virtuosity in playing guitar, especially guitar solos.
Thus, that is why his experimental show Bad Guitar Solos wherein one Will Hines attempts his best at a guitar solo behind an actually good backing band was one of our favorite comedy things of 2018.
Hines is diving in yet again into Bad Guitar Solos this weekend on Fri., Mar. 22nd at 8PM at UCB Sunset’s Inner Sanctum. Admission is free, but, in our opinion, should be mandatory. Get more details here.
The Cooties are, in our opinion, one of the best musical comedy acts around. Their harmonies and absurdist lyrics are so unabashedly and undeniably fun and sweet to the ear.
It has been a minute since they’ve played in town, so don’t miss their latest show on Thu. Feb. 28th 8PM at The Satellite (which will just also feature another one of the best musical comedy acts around, Garfunkel & Oates, and even a member of the wondrous indie pop band Vulfpeck, Jack Stratton).
Tickets are only $10! Go get ‘em here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Once more, Eliot Glazer is gracing us with the most beautiful cover songs of what is considered to be the hot messes of the Billboard Top 100 this Friday. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, which undoubtedly will likely make for a wonderful collection of the most over-the-top love songs and, on top of that, Glazer will be joined by Este Haim from the band Haim and D’Arcy Carden.
It will be a great night whether you’re pro- or anti-Valentine’s day and whether you’re with someone or not.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 on the day of. Go get ‘em here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna have dazzled you with their musical comedy talents for years now with series, live shows, and, most recently, their celebrated improvised musical podcast Off Book.
For 2019, it looks they’re going by The Zach and The Jess and have released an entire concept album called The Calendar Album that gives you their uber-clever songwriting and beautiful harmonizing for any time of the year. They even cover holidays that don’t normally get their own dedicated song. With that said, Zach and Jess have raised the bar for any recording artists that make an album just for the holidays and no other time of year.
We also love that they recommend, “…the correct way to listen to it is 1.5 songs per month.”
So, please get and enjoy The Calendar Album here or wherever you get your music.
Jon Daly and his mighty sax are taking over The Satellite yet again for Jon Daly Kills It next week and have one damn stuffed line-up for the holidays.
Really, just look at that line-up and you might question whether you’ve been good enough this year to deserve it? Hopefully so.
Anyways, tickets are $10 and you can (and very much should) go get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Bryan Cook and Andy Wood will be celebrating the 1 year anniversary of getting comedians to talk up and even perform their guilty pleasure songs on Guilty Treasure. There’s an awesome live band that backs up everyone on the show and (possibly) makes the songs better than the original.
For this anniversary edition, Matt Braunger, Arden Myrin, Andrés du Bouchet, Kara Klenk, and TJ Chambers are on deck.
Tickets are $12.50 and it’ll all be happening this Wednesday, December 5th at 7PM at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. Get tickets in advance here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
It’s been years now since we’ve first enjoyed the sweet voices of The Cooties singing ridiculously fun lyrics at Nerdmelt in the back of Meltdown Comics.
Since then, we’ve been hoping that they’d get on bigger stages to share their gifts for melodic mischief with the world and, indeed, that happened last night.
So, please enjoy their performance of “Maybe That’s God” on Conan here.
*we’re going to guess that Conan jokingly asks for an apology because of that f-bomb that got censored.
Lost Moon Radio, an amazing and long running LA musical sketch comedy group/theater troupe hybrid, dare we say one of our favorites, is putting on their latest show Escape from the Lost Moon next week.
Go see a perfectly balanced mix of sketch, musical numbers, and more at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre from Aug. 23rd-Aug. 25th. Tickets are $20 and you can and should get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Eliot Glazer is returning to his magical show, Haunting Renditions, where he takes the trashiest pop songs, gives them the most beautiful arrangements possible, and sings them with his set of golden pipes. It’s really damn fun and so pretty sounding at the same time.
Joining him on Friday, August 24th at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater will be Max Greenfield and Jackie Tohn.
Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Go get tickets now here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The International Songwriting Contest takes in thousands of entries every year in an attempt to highlight the songs of new talent. Within that field, they’re also looking for entries in “Comedy and Novelty”, which covers musical comedy, parody songs, stand-up, and recordings of comedy groups/troupes.
There are cash and other prizes for top placing finalists throughout the ISC and all finalists are listened to by a special judge panel that includes the head of Comedy Central Records. Past winners have included two favorites of ours Rachel Bloom and Garfunkel and Oates.
You don’t have to worry about censoring content and there is no official running time/time limit for entries. All material must be original and all writers must be credited. Entries are being taken from now until Wednesday, September 19th at $30 per entry.
If that all sounds good to you, get more details and enter here.
This round of Guilty Treasure, where comedians sing the songs that are “guilty pleasures” fully backed by a live band has an especially great line-up for this Tuesday, July 17th at Three Clubs at 7:30PM.
Jimmy Pardo, Karen Kilgariff, Jackie Kashian, Matt Kirshen, and Trance Thompson will all be taking the stage to make their case for whatever song they choose and then belting it out unapologetically.
Please go get your tickets for what should be one hell of an evening. Tickets are $10 and you can (and really should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
What’s not to love about Paul Simon’s nephew, Taul Simon (the very funny Drew Spears, 1/3 of the brilliant rascals of LA’s Cool Shit/Weird Shit ), putting on a “music show” to spite his uncle for not letting him play at his farewell shows? Certainly, we don’t actually know if Taul has the “goods”, but a show born out of having a chip on your should is always a fun thing to watch. Just see this promo for 500 Ways to Leave Your Lover – A Nephew’s Lament above.
Also, the likes of Mike Hanford (The Birthday Boys, Comedy Bang! Bang!), Teresa Lee (Take My Wife, Cracked), Marlena Rodriguez (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Brad Evans and Nick Ciarelli (Atlantic City, Tween Fest) will be joining Taul/Drew for what’s sure to be an evening that you won’t forget even if Paul Simon himself ends up not caring.
500 Ways to Leave Your Love will be taking place next week at 10PM on Wednesday, July 18th at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe. Tickets are $5 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Jon Daly is one of those envelope pushing people who we’re always to see what new trail they’re trying to blaze.
This time, Daly has a new album with him on a saxophone (just take a moment to enjoy a Elvis-inspired Daly with a sax in the flyer above) and his band featuring Cyrus Ghahremani & Joe Wong. He’ll be marking the release with a live show that’s pretty stacked as you can see above at The Satellite.
Tickets are $8 and you really ought to get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Echo Park’s bright, shiny, and new barbershop, American Barbershop, will not only feature all the trappings of a classic barbershop, but will also have its fair share of live comedy (FYI, this won’t be the first live comedy show that Echo Park has had in a barbershop).
Coming up, there’s Cut It Up this Friday at 10:30PM and Classic Comedy on Monday, Apr. 30th at 9PM. Both shows have stacked line-ups and are FREE.
Get more details here and here respectively.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.