musical comedy

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Packchella, the comedy music festival that is pretty much right at your doorstep here in LA and not in far away polo fields, returns to The Pack Theater next weekend.

For this year, they’ve got the likes of Eliza Skinner’s Skinner Alive, A Mel Brooks Burlesque Show, Zach Sherwin & Friends, a special episode of This Is Dark Matters where “Music Director Rich Devletian will be joined by an orchestra and a psychic as we attempt to complete Schubert’s Unfinished 8th Symphony with help from the maestro himself FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!”, $1.000000 Identify That Song Game Show! with Kash Abdulmalik, and much, much more.

Sounds pretty swell to us (i.e. you should mark down on your calendars to

As always, all shows at The Pack Theater are Pay What You Can!

Get more details on Packchella 2018 here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Though it has always been too long between every Apple Sisters appearance, we do always cherish any time that they’re around.

With that in mind, this coming Saturday, April 21st at 7PM at UCB Sunset, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, and Sarah Lowe reunite once again in their lovely green, yellow, and red dresses once more to give their dazzling classic musical revue that tends to be relevant to today.

Tickets are $7 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.

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The melodious harmonies and absurdist humor of The Cooties (Ethan Edenburg, Jacob Jeffries, Eric Jackowitz) .will be making its way back to The Resident’s stage in DTLA next week along with special guest Anna Seregina.

Don’t miss their catchy tunes that are also so damned funny. Get your tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

February 5, 2018

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The magical musical Australian comedy troupe Aunty Donna is finally returning to LA with their brand new show “Big Boys”. They’re a high-energy absurdist romp that will make you wonder what they’re putting in the water down under.

They’ll be playing the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, Feb. 27th at 8PM. Tickets are $25 and you can (and 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.

October 5, 2017

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Eliot Glazer returns with more of his Haunting Renditions (i.e. beautiful arrangements of the most overplayed, overhyped pop songs of yesteryear) later this month at The Virgil.

He’ll be having a very special guest in Abbi Jacobson (you know, from that one Broad City show) too.

Get your tickets as soon as you can here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Lauded comedian poet Derrick C. Brown (he’s made our year end list) is exploring new territory by doing a musical about a man who just gained the world record for being struck by lightning the most times and dealing with the bizarre celebrity that comes with such a title.

Called 300 Bones, it’s having a night at Steve Allen Theater thanks to Trepany House next month. The musical is written by Brown with music by Amanda Rafkin.

Tickets are $10 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.

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It’s been far too long, but The Apple Sisters are finally back!

This show is set for Monday, July 31st at 8:30PM at UCB Sunset.

Tickets are $7 and you can (and really should) here.

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Reggie Watts and his handpicked Late Late Show band, Karen finally have a few nights lined up to show you what they can really do with their comedy and music powers combined.

Tuesday, July 25th and August 8th, they’ll be playing Zebulon in Frogtown at 9PM. Tickets are $10 and you can (and really should) get your tickets here and/or here respectively.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Skinner Box has Eliza Skinner and a guest improvise an entire musical together. You really can’t fathom really how amazing that feat is until you see it in person.

Also, this latest edition of the show on Saturday, July 22nd at 9PM will have the one and only Wayne Brady as Skinner’s special guest.

Tickets are going fast and are $12. You can (and 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.

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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.

Weird Al Yankovic to Release a Whole Album of Rare, Unreleased Tracks, “Medium Rarities” with ‘Complete Works’

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For comedy nerds/completists/collectors, a massive new collector’s box set featuring the entire Weird Al Yankovic catalog. This will include a brand new album, exclusive to the set, that has unreleased tracks and rarities from Yankovic’s own vault.

Called Medium Rarities, it includes songs from the beginning of Weird Al’s career to present day. Here’s a great promo complete with a Super Mario Bros. style game with Weird Al in it showing what’s on the album.

The Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic costs $475 and is only available in limited quantities. We’re guessing the limited run has something to do with the box set being in the shape of an accordion.

Pre-order it here and get it on November 24th this year.

Submissions Are Now Open for 2017 Green Gravel Comedy Festival in Iowa

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Submissions Are Now Open for 2017 Green Gravel Comedy Festival in Iowa

Iowa’s Green Gravel Comedy Festival is returning for May 12th-13th as well as donating their proceeds to both the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

Comedy in the middle of the country for great causes? Sounds pretty fantastic to us.

Deadline is appropriately scheduled on April 1st.

$15 – Iowa Stand-up Comedians (Must provide verification of Iowa residency or address).
$20 – Podcast Submissions, One-man/woman Shows, Musical Comedy Acts
$25 – Out-of-State Stand-up Comedians

Get more details and submit here.

January 12, 2017

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One of our favorite musical comedy acts (they made our best 100 list), The Cooties, have their first show of 2017 lined-up for this Saturday, January 14th at UCB Sunset at 10:30PM. Their satirical power pop is to not be missed and they’ll have the great absurdist stylings of Ian Abramson joining them too.

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.

January 5, 2017

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Coming from The Goddamn Comedy Jam created by Josh Adam Meyers, the upcoming Comedy Central series The Comedy Jam has comedians and actors rock out to their favorite songs after sharing a story of what that song means to them.

Tapings are happening this weekend and next week at the beautiful Fonda Theatre featuring the likes of Hasan Minhaj, Chris Hardwick, Fortune Feimster, Mark Duplass, Idina Menzel, Busy Philipps, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Roy Wood Jr., and more.

There are tapings on 1/7, 1/8, 1/11, and 1/12 and tickets are free. Get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Tickets are $8 and you can (and should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

November 7, 2016

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You can (and should) get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com

October 29, 2016

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Tickets for the Nov. 19th show (the 18th is sold out) start at $29.50 and you can (and should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

DJ Real Has Just Released His 6th Album “They’ll Say Yes”

October 4, 2016

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As there is plenty of music that’s made in a bedroom, it only stands to reason that there would be musical comedy that would be also made in a bedroom. That being said, an album of funny songs that don’t have the benefit of being recorded live are near impossible feat to pull off.

SF’s Nick Stargu AKA DJ Real, however, has been able to do that with his latest album They’ll Say Yes. With a mastery of synths, loops, and lyrical cleverness, DJ Real has compiled over a dozen songs over 8 years that get-in and get-out of the melody and the joke quickly. As this is his sixth release, he’s really honed his craft.

You can listen to the whole album and buy it off Bandcamp here.

To up the ante on his own farce, Stargu has even made a MIDI version of this very album.

August 23, 2016

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Get more details and your tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Henry Phillips’ Neither Here Nor There Is Now Streaming as a Special on Vimeo on Demand

August 15, 2016

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Finally, the world now has a Henry Phillips special at its finger tips. For years, we’ve enjoyed Henry’s sly hijinks-laden humor and in Neither Here Nor There, directed by Steve Feinartz, that wonderfully mischievous spirit has been crafted into a very solid hour of stand-up and musical comedy.

Do yourself a favor and spend either $7.99 to stream and download Neither Here Nor There or $4.99 to stream over a 48 hour period right over at Vimeo on Demand.

Connor Ratliff & Mikey Erg Have Some Anti-Summer Anthems with “Summer Is Not XMAS”

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While we’ve been reinforced to enjoy summer due to the scheduling of most schools in this country, there are a good deal of people who don’t enjoy June, July, and August because of the intense heat and the fact that it’s not the holiday season.

If you’ve ever felt alone because you’re an “anti-summer” person, fret no more (except for the part where you hate summer) as Connor Ratliff and Mikey Erg, the guys behind the non-religious holiday album Spirit of Ratliff, have a nice collection of songs that speak to your anathema of summer.

Watch the lyric video for 4th of July: RESURGENCE if you think we’re making all of this up for some reason.

It’s entilted Summer Is Not XMAS, has 7 songs, and can (and should) be downloaded off of Bandcamp right here.

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The Cooties are a great band/musical comedy act that, we’d say, paint with all the colors of comedy. This Friday will be their latest engagement and you shouldn’t miss out.

Get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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Doors are at 8PM and the show starts at 9PM. Tickets are available at the door.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

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This is happening at Largo at the Coronet Theatre and you can get your tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.