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Marc Maron’s Latest Special “Too Real” Is Now Streaming

September 6, 2017

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Marc Maron’s latest hour, Too Real, gives a nice sampling of the various versions of Marc that have done stand-up over the years, done with all the calm of the current centered and focused Marc Maron.

What’s fascinating is the bold opening few minutes on Trump that beautifully segue into the rest of Marc’s trademark introspective self-examination pondering on a stool (we like to call it “Maron-ating”). Take note that fiery political comedy is something that Marc has shifted away from after his Air America years, but, as you’ve probably heard plenty of times over, every comedian is political now because of who is in the White House.

So, in the same strokes, you can see hints of the old fiery Marc, but through the lense of the empathetic, self-aware-of-the-human-condition Marc.

Marc Maron: Too Real is now streaming on Netflix.

September 5, 2017

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Season 4 of BoJack Horseman is premiering this week and, to honor the occasion, pop culture art treasure trove Gallery 1988 will be holding a special “Hollywoo Art Event” this Friday, September 8th with BoJack Horseman inspired art that will be on display through 9/26.

Admission is free, but if you go on opening reception night, know that it might be a bit crowded. Get more details here.

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

Please Enjoy Ryan Hamilton’s First Hour Special “Happy Face”, Now Streaming on Netflix

September 1, 2017

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Ryan Hamilton expertly uses his bright shining, natural smile as a great foil for which his comedy can play off of.

In fact, the juxtaposition of his self-deprecating persona and that smile are the jumping off point and underlying thread for the meticulously crafted hour, Happy Face, which just started streaming on Netflix this week.

In many ways, this special is a great example of classical stand-up, if you can conjure up such a thing in your mind, with structure, rhythm, stage presence, execution all working together seamlessly.

As mentioned above, Ryan Hamilton: Happy Face is now streaming on Netflix.

Get a taste of it with this trailer.

Jerry Before Seinfeld Trailer Reveals That Jerry Seinfeld’s Latest Special Will Be All About His Life Leading Into Becoming a Big Time Comedian

August 29, 2017

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Jerry Seinfeld is a master of observational comedy. He honed it into such a form that it influenced generations of comedians for decades after his appearances on The Tonight Show.

In this vein, you might have noticed that Jerry very rarely gets autobiographical in his stand-up. That’s all about to change with his upcoming Netflix special that’s aptly titled Jerry Before Seinfeld, hinting at life before the landmark sitcom he starred in.

See for yourself how personal Jerry is going to get in the trailer here.

Look for Jerry Before Seinfeld to start streaming Tuesday, September 19th on Netflix.

Patton Oswalt’s Next Special “Annihilation” to Premiere on Netflix on October 17th and Might Be His Most Personal Hour Yet

August 28, 2017

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Patton Oswalt’s latest stand-up special will indeed delve into Patton dealing with the untimely passing of his wife on top of everything else that’s going on the world.

Oswalt has never shied away from dissecting his own life in his stand-up, but, by virtue of the subject matter, this hour will very likely present an even more open and vulnerable Patton that we’ve ever seen before.

With that in mind, you should mark Tuesday, October 17th on your calendar when this special, Annihilation, starts streaming on Netflix.

Watch Trailer for Marc Maron’s Latest Special “Too Real” Coming Next Week to Netflix

August 27, 2017

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After all these years and the success that has come from doing WTF, Marc Maron seems almost at peace with the way things are; the key word being “almost”.

Luckily, that degree of almost being at peace keeps fueling his particular brand of self-deprecating comedy, specifically into this latest hour, Too Real, that will stream on Netflix starting next Tuesday, September 5th.

See for yourself in this trailer released this week.

BoJack Horseman Season 4 Trailer Has All the Madness of 2016-17, But Seems to Be Searching for Its Titular Character

August 24, 2017

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Well, you can rest assure that the last several months will be very rarely regarded as a “good time”.

That being said, it’s kind of a perfect time for BoJack Horseman, an animated comedy that tangles with the human condition in an imaginary universe where the entire animal kingdom is “fully evolved”.

The trailer for season 4, which is coming soon on Friday, September 8th to Netflix, promises a Mr. Peanutbutter storyline that appears to be paralleling 2016 election, even more outlandish chaos with Todd, and, to top it off, a BoJack Horseman who seems more lost than usual.

See for yourself in the trailer here.

Fantastical Animated Adolescence Comedy “Big Mouth” Gets Beautifully Nightmarish Teasers

August 23, 2017

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It would seem that Bill Burr’s F Is For Family paved the way for animated comedies dealing with childhood, but aren’t necessarily “family friendly”.

From Nick Kroll:

It’s about the beautiful nightmare that is puberty and adolescence. The show is based on me and my childhood best friend Andrew Goldberg’s real lives in middle school. It premieres on @netflix September 29th. I cannot wait for people to see it! Cast includes: me, @johnmulaney @jennyslate #jessiklein #jasonmantzoukas @sordociego (Fred Armisen) #mayarudolph @jordanpeele and many more amazingly talented folks.

Watch these teasers and you’ll see exactly what Kroll is saying.

Big Mouth starts streaming on Netflix on Friday, September 29th.

Honest Trailers Enlist Michael Bolton & Friends To Give Emmy Nominees a Retro TV Theme

August 22, 2017

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Honest Trailers themselves are actually nominated for an Emmy and in celebration of that (as well as seizing an opportunity to show off why they are some of the best parodists on the Internet), they made satirical retro TV themes for Emmy nominated shows Stranger Things, This Is Us, and The Handmaid’s Tale.

They even got the one and only (and very game for comedy these days) Michael Bolton to join in on the fun in addition to bringing on the talents of Natasha Bedingfield, Brian McKnight, and Paula Cole to do said TV themes. For Bolton, he wanted to do a Bolton style song for Game of Thrones as a bonus to this “very special episode” of Honest Trailers.

Please enjoy it here.

Friends From College Gets a Second Season at Netflix

August 22, 2017

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Renewals don’t come so easily at Netflix these days, so Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco’s Friends From College did pretty well for itself.

The series had plenty of different nuanced and complex relationships woven between “friend from college” that one has to wonder where exactly they’ll go with a second season. Maybe if this’ll end up being a more grounded Wet Hot American Summer where the cast actually plays roles that are more age appropriate and return a few years older.

We’ll just have to wait and see.

“Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father” Docu-Series Gets a Trailer

August 21, 2017

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One of the UK’s biggest comedians, Jack Whitehall, will be coming out with a whole Netflix series capturing various excursions he took with his father, Michael Whitehall.

Given how wonderfully prickly Jack’s father appears in this trailer, Michael seems like he might just be the star of the show.

Look for episodes to start streaming on Friday, September 22nd on Netflix.

The Cooties Present “Narcos: The Musical”

August 21, 2017

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Much in the tradition of The Wire: The Musical, Netflix has tapped the unstoppably fun musical comedy group known as The Cooties to do a condensed musical version of their highly popular drug cartel drama, Narcos.

Needless to say, they delivered.

Watch The Cooties’ Narcs: The Musical in parts one, two, and three here.

Ali Wong and Randall Park Will Star in a Rom Com Feature That They Co-Wrote for Netflix

August 16, 2017

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Ali Wong and Randall Park Will Star in a Rom Com Feature That They Co-Wrote for Netflix

This romantic comedy will follow a bit of a star crossed lovers archetype as both protagonists, though in love with each other, grow up in very different circumstances.

What has us excited is the possibility of Ali bringing her comedic sensibilities that you saw on her Netflix special, Baby Cobra, and Randall bringing his from Channel 101 to a modern romantic comedy. This project will be co-written by Grimm staff writer and playwright Michael Golamco as well, which could add yet another unique flavor here.

With the creative latitude one might get at Netflix, such a unique rom com, whatever that may be, could be very possible.

Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Gets First Teaser

August 15, 2017

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This is a very small teaser that mostly uses very high praise of the cast (which includes Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson) of Noah Baumbach’s latest film, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).

Still, this is worth paying attention to as Baumbach is one of the handful of film auteurs left (and does so in his particular brand of dramedy) and this does like that shooting star of movie where Adam Sandler takes everyone by surprise (Punch Drunk Love, Reign Over Me, Men Women & Children).

Look for The Meyerowitz Stories to start streaming on Netflix on Friday, October 13th.

David Letterman Joins Netflix with a 6 Episode Series of In-Depth Interviews and Remote Segments

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While it raises a few eyebrows to see that Netflix keeps themselves in deep in the red (around $20 billion right now), they’re spending their cash on the biggest names, especially when it comes to comedy.

With a whole row of specials from hall-of-famers this year including Louis CK, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, and Bill Burr, they just piled on a new animated series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening to that mountain of riches.

Now, they’ve just nabbed 6 episodes of a show with David Letterman who many of us thought was content with just making beard-laden guest appearances on a few shows every once in awhile. Letterman will be going to his Late Show bread and butter with interviews and then doing remote segments “in the field” sometime next year.

As it’s six episodes, you can imagine that Letterman will only get the guests that he absolutely wants to talk to rather than dealing with anything like Crispin Glover almost kicking him in the face again.

Netflix Will Be Poking Fun at Themselves with Mockumentary “American Vandal”

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Much of Netflix’s success can be attributed to series like true crime docu-series Making a Murderer and The Keepers.

That being the case, Netflix want to take parodies of their hit series into their own hands. Thus, Tony Yacenda (Pillow Talking), Dan Perrault (Honest Trailers, one of the Internet’s best parody series), and Dan Lagana (from the highly underrated Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous) made this new mockumentary series, American Vandal.

Think of it as a bit of a cross between Making a Murderer and Superbad.

See for yourself in the trailer.

American Vandal streams on Netflix starting on Friday, September 15th.

Russell Howard to Shoot Netflix Special During Final Leg of His International Tour

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Russell Howard to Shoot Netflix Special During Final Leg of His International Tour

It’s about time that Russell Howard got a U.S. distributed comedy special.

This latest tour he went on was truly international and one of the biggest we’ve heard of in recent memory (maybe only Weird Al’s last tour was as big or bigger?) as Howard went all around and sold out shows in the UK, the U.S., U.A.E., Sweden, Norway, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Australia, and Canada.

In any case, Howard and his comedy are a charming whirlwind and will hopefully get a bit more notoriety in the States soon.

Matt Groening, Creator of The Simpsons, Is Bringing His Next Series, Disenchantment, to Netflix

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Netflix scores another huge get and, yet again, ups their comedy brand even higher than it already is.

Disenchantment not only comes in with a big, out-of-the-gate 20 episode order and Matt Groening at the helm, but also will include the voice talents of Abbi Jacobson, Nat Faxon, Eric Andre, John DiMaggio, Billy West, Maurice LaMarche (that’s looking at you, Futurama diehards), Tress MacNeille, David Herman, Matt Berry, Jeny Batten, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding, and Lucy Montgomery.

The show will “follow the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci. Along the way, the oddball trio will encounter ogres, sprites, harpies, imps, trolls, walruses, and lots of human fools.”

Sounds like it’ll fit quite perfectly next to Netflix’s other animated series, BoJack Horseman and F Is For Family.

Look for Disenchantment (the series and not just in general) to start streaming next year.

Joe Mande’s 1st Hour Special “Joe Mande’s Award-Winning Comedy Special” Is Now Streaming

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Just for the fact that Joe Mande called his first hour special “Joe Mande’s Award-Winning Comedy Special” should be enough to at least tug at your curiosity to give it a watch.

A la The Secret, Mande not only named this special with the hopes of it winning awards, but also weaved a silly, meta narrative thread through the hour that makes you wonder if Joe can really “moneyball” a comedy special. That includes surprise cameos from Bo Burnham, Blake Griffin, and George Wallace.

Also, the entrepreneurial pitches and Mande’s own personal crisis over free speech are bits that stand alone separate from the “award-winning” framework.

With all of that said, you can now go stream Joe Mande’s Award Winning Comedy Special at Netflix.

Watch Ari Shaffir’s Double Negative, Now Streaming on Netflix

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All those years of hosting This Is Not Happening have rubbed off on Ari Shaffir in the best way possible.

You can see the effect on his latest special, Double Negative, which just started streaming on Netflix. The way in which he weaves personal observations and stories in, through, and around a single Tinder-related incident that befell a friend is subtle, but very impressive. You almost don’t even realize he has been circling and off-shooting from the same point for the whole hour until the end of it. Therein lies Ari’s detailed, seamless craftsmanship.

So, with that said, give Ari’s Double Negative a watch when you can.

Joe Mande Already Has Plenty of “Acclaim” in Trailer for “Joe Mande’s Award-Winning Comedy Special”

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If you buy into The Secret, maybe it would be a good idea to call your yet-to-be-released-or-even-submitted-for-awards-consideration special an “award winning special” and project what you might think critics will say about it.

Whether that’s the reason behind it or not, that is what Joe Mande is doing with his special and the accompanying trailer.

See for yourself here, then look for Joe Mande’s Award-Winning Comedy Special to start streaming on Tuesday, July 25th.

“The Incredible Jessica James” Gets Its First Trailer

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With this full length trailer of The Incredible Jessica James, it’s revealed that there’s a definite romantic comedy thread here with Chris O’Dowd.

On top of that, you’ll see that this film, more and more, looks to be the perfect vehicle for Jessica Williams to go forth post-Daily Show.

See the trailer for yourself here, then look for The Incredible Jessica James to start streaming on Netflix on Friday, July 28th.

BoJack Horseman Will Return for Season 4 on September 8th (in the Desert?)

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BoJack Horseman always leaves on such great cliffhangers and, with the way TV series are run these days, there’s no telling when the new season will answer the questions left by the last season’s finale.

So, today, those concerns were alleviated somewhat as the image above was tweeted out. It definitely gives us a date to look forward to for one of the best animated dramedies that has ever been and, perhaps, a clue where season 4 might start (without spoiling too much for those who haven’t caught up).

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In addition to the fireworks, hot dogs, and general stars, stripes, red, white and blue themes today, Netflix has a whole batch of half hour stand-up specials now streaming for you to enjoy under the series banner The Standups.

Nikki Glaser, Nate Bargatze, Beth Stelling, Deon Cole, Fortune Feimster, and Dan Soder all recorded a half hour stand-up special a few months ago in DTLA and they’re definitely worth your time.

Again, as there is no cutting away for a commercial break, there ought to be a much better arc and flow in these than what you’re probably used to seeing on TV over the years.

Dear White People Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix

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There have been a lot of cancellations at Netflix lately, but you can rest a little easier knowing that Justin Simien’s Dear White People will make it through to next year.