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Pick of the Day: Ali Wong (near LA) 11/16 & 11/17

October 29, 2021

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There used to be a time, before Netflix performed original comedy specials, that you were able to catch one Ali Wong performing at all sorts of spots, big and small, all over the place. However, that time has long since passed as Ali Wong has stupendously successful specials, books, tours, movies, TV shows, cartoons that have been part of her ascent into one of the most sought out acts in stand-up comedy today.

Thus, you shouldn’t miss a chance to get a ticket to go see her and you have such a chance right at this very moment if you’re around LA. Ali is headlining The Irvine Improv on Tues. 11/16 & Wed. Nov. 17th at 8PM PT. She is one of the rare folks that sells out theaters in LA by headlining, but does it sparingly (except for that one time where she played every weekend at the Wiltern for over a month). There are still tickets on sale for $40 (+ 2 item min.) and you might want to go snag yours right now before they sell out.

November 20, 2019

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Anytime Sean Patton rolls into town, really anywhere in the Greater LA area, we feel obligated to notify you of his presence as his mastery of stand-up and storytelling should never ever be missed.

So, such is the case now with Sean having a date at the Irvine Improv just before Christmas rolls around (and we bet he’ll be playing shows in town around that town too).

For now, if you want to guarantee that you’ll get to see him do an hour, nab a $15 ticket (plus 2 item min.) for this Irvine Improv date on Dec. 19th here.

February 5, 2019

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OK, it’s Kyle Kinane headlining. Seeing Kinane actually get to headline around here is rare, so don’t miss out on the two shows he’s doing at Huntington Beach’s Rec Room this Friday.

There’s an 8PM show and 10PM show. Tickets for either are $20 in adv., $30 at the door + 2 item min. Get tickets 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.

November 14, 2018

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On December 5th in years past, we’re sure something important that’s tangentially adjacent to a podcast about chain restaurants/late capitalism’s effects on two friends happened somewhere near Brea, CA.

This December 5th, 2018 at approximately 8PM, which is a Wednesday, Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell will reconvene for what should be another rollicking, wild live episode of the Doughboys podcast, this time at the big Brea Improv. It’s an occasion that no one in the greater LA/OC area should miss.

Tickets are $20 (plus a 2-item minimum) and you can (and very much should) snag them here.

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

September 12, 2018

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Did you happen to read John Roy’s thorough exegesis of one Roy Wood Jr. joke yesterday and be reminded of how funny Roy is?

Even if you just read it now, you’ll be happy to know that Roy is stopping into the Irvine Improv later this month for four shows. Tickets are going for $22 with a 2 item minimum. Go get them quick here.

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

August 15, 2018

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Kyle Kinane is headlining The Rec Room in Huntington Beach. Need we say more to get you to go? The answer definitely should be no.

Tickets are $20 + 2 item min. You can snag them 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.

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The Last Podcast on the Left boys are headed down to the OC this month, specifically The Observatory in Santa Ana for their latest live show in Southern California.

As with all their dates, it will sell out, so you best get your tickets ASAP here.

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

Big Adventure Festival Looks to Pack as Much as It Can (Including Comedy) to One Weekend

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From the looks of it, Alt 98.7′s Big Adventure Fest, coming to Costa Mesa this November, will have shades of Clusterfest, Coachella, Comic-Con, and E3 all in one weekend.

It sounds ambitious, but their line-up seems pretty solid (as you can see above). For comedy, having the likes of Patton Oswalt, Jim Jefferies, Maria Bamford, Hari Kondabolu, Kristen Schaal, and Emo Philips down in Orange County sounds pretty fantastic.

They have yet to announce podcasts and other treats. So, with early bird passes being $39.50 + fees (single day) $69.50 + fees (weekend), it sounds like a pretty good deal to us.

Get more details and passes here.

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Original Mystery Science Theater 3000 members Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu are stopping by Santa Ana’s Frida Cinema as The Mads to do what they do best: riff on bad movies.

They’re doing three shows with three entirely different bad movies, which means, maybe, you want to catch all of them.

The Mads are playing Frida Cinema, this Friday June 29th at 8PM and Saturday, June 30th at both 2:30PM and 8PM. Tickets are $25 a pop and you need to go get them ASAP.

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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Corrine Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson from the wondrous anti-slut shaming podcast Guys We F*cked are coming back to the West Coast and stopping by our neck of the woods for their Bridget Bishop Tour.

Do not miss out on the six shows that they’ll be doing at The Irvine Improv from Thursday, July 19th-Sunday, July 22nd. Tickets start at $20 with/2 item minimum 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.

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One of 2014′s best movies, hands down, was Taika Waititi’s What We Do In The Shadows. In fact, it was so good that FX is now making it into a TV show.

This week, you can catch the modern day vampire mockumentary set in New Zealand at The Frida Cinema.

Screenings are as follows:
Tuesday, May 29 – 6PM, 8PM, 9:45PM
Wednesday, May 30 – 6PM, 8PM, 9:45PM

Tickets are $10 and you can purchase them and get more info here.

Poster is a limited edition design by Graham Humphreys.

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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Well, not much to elaborate on other than comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short will be playing the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa on July 20th as part of their tour (that will culminate in a Netflix special).

Tickets are on sale now and are going for $55-$100. Get them here quick before they sell out.

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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Some of LA’s best improv troupes are headed down south this week to the OC for The Orange County Improv Fest. That includes the likes of Jetzo, Cobranauts, Dr. God, King Ten.

So, if you were down in the OC and weren’t able to make it out to see some of the stellar, innovative long form improv offered up all in and around LA, don’t miss your chance to catch it at Fullerton’s STAGEStheatre from Apr. 4th-Apr. 7th.

Tickets are $25 for one night, and $40 for a festival pass. Get them and more details 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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Well, Book of Mormon will be having a run down in Costa Mesa at The Segerstrom Center for the Arts for two weeks. If you’re in LA, it might just be worth the drive.

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 11, 2018

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Watching Harold and Maude in a theater seems like the perfect compromise between couples celebrating the corporate invented Valentine’s Day and bitter single people that spend most of the holiday angrily muttering under their breath.

Whatever camp you fall in, you can catch the Hal Ashby classic dark rom com from 1971 at Santa Ana’s Frida Cinema on Valentine’s Day in one of four screenings (1:30PM, 3:30PM, 6PM, 8PM).

Tickets are ($10 except for 1:30PM screening, which is $7) Get them here.

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

January 30, 2018

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The one and only Eddie Izzard is embarking on his latest global tour, which happens to include stops near LA.

More specifically, he’ll be at:
Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Thurs. Feb 22nd
Fred Kavil Theatre at Thousands Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks on Fri. Mar. 2nd

You best get your tickets now here.

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

November 13, 2017

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THIS THURSDAY, WE WILL BE MAKING HUNTINGTON BEACH/THE OC AT THE REC ROOM HAVE MANDATORY GOOD TIMES GUARANTEED BY SOME OF OUR PERSONAL FAVORITE COMICS.

At this point in time, it’d be nice to be forced to have a good time, no?

Tickets are $15 (plus a 2 item min.).

BUY TICKETS HERE.

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

Hey OC, We’re Coming to You Live with Some “Mandatory Good Times”

November 6, 2017

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The OC’s newest comedy club, The Rec Room in Huntington Beach (7227 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach, CA) is having us here at The Comedy Bureau take over for a night!

So, we’re bringing some of our favorite comedians up from LA for a night where it’s bureau-mandated that you have fun.

Officially joining us will be:
Sara Schaefer (she’s won Emmys)
Chris Fleming (you might have gone and binged watched the web series Gayle)
Catherine Christina Martinez (is successfully bridging the worlds of art and comedy with Aesthetical Relations)

Also, TCB staffer/creator/director Jake Kroeger will be hosting for the evening.

Tickets are $15 with a two-item minimum. Please get them here.

Whether you’re in the Orange County or just somewhat close to the OC or maybe just up here in LA looking for a comedy show from us, you need to go to this and are required to have a good time (we all need a “good time” right now anyway).

October 20, 2017

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Dave Attell is coming to town, specifically Irvine. There are four shows over two nights as follows:
11/3: 7:30PM & 9:45PM
11/4: 7PM & 9:30PM

Get your tickets here as soon as you can as they will sell out.

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

September 3, 2017

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In case you didn’t know, Orange County does have its own cool, arthouse/revival theater: The Frida Cinema.

As you can see above, all September long, they’ll be doing a Wes Anderson Month that you ought to not miss. There’s no doubt in our minds that stepping back into the worlds of Wes Anderson sounds pretty nice right now.

Admission to screenings at Frida are $10 and $7 for members. Get more details and tickets 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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Monthly a house in Silverlake gets turned into a ridiculous “drinking game” comedy show/house party with Brew Haha. Hundreds of folks come out and it seriously looks and feels like you’re in one of those great parties that you’d only see in movies.

Brew Haha will now be trying their hand down in the OC at the Rec Room in Huntington Beach this Saturday, July 29th with a fine line-up of Allen Strickland Williams, Steph Tolev, Morgan Jay, Steve Hernandez, and Brad Silnutzer.

Tickets are $5-$10 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.

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Not only will this be a screening of the classic film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but there will be a light show, quote-along captions, a costume contest, and a very apropos helping of garlic bread. If you’ve ever been to one of those fan obsessed screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Big Lebowski, you know what you might be in for.

You can (and really should) get tickets here.

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So, this week, Harland Williams will be doing a taping as his character, Caramel Corn the Pug. That means he will be wearing a giant pug head while on stage and be doing stand-up as an anthropomorphized dog.

Yes, this seems to be really happening.

Get your tickets for $20 (with 2 item minimum) for either 7:30PM or 9:45PM shows here.

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

Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week (4/24/17)

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Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week (4/24/17)

All around the LA Area, we’ve got you covered for all your comedy needs for this coming week and beyond.

John Mulaney Announces His Gigantic North American “Kid Gorgeous” Tour

Coast to coast, top to bottom, John Mulaney is going on a, as of right now, 27 city tour from May 10th-July 29th.

Tickets are on sale now for this Kid Gorgeous tour and more cities/dates are to come. You can get more details and tickets here.

It shouldn’t be a surprise to you, but if you want to see Mulaney on this tour, you ought to get these tickets sooner rather than later, maybe even as soon as you can.