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Pick of the Day: Comedians Writing Letters on Zoom for #BreonnaTaylor 7/18
July 17, 2020
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Of all the actions to take part in this historical moment that we’re currently living in, one of the more difficult ones to get through for lots of folks might just be physical letter writing to reps, local officials, attorneys general, etc.

To help with that, the Pack Theater is doing a special letter writing party with comedians to not only make writing those crucial letters easier to accomplish, but way, way more fun (especially because the midnight oil will be burning for this one). This particular edition of Comedians Writing Letters on Zoom, on July 18th 11PM PT/1AM ET, will be for Breonna Taylor who hasn’t gotten anywhere near the justice she deserves months after her murder (the officers responsible have not been charged and dozens of protesters were arrested yesterday).

Per Pack Theater’s Artistic Director Elyssa Phillips about this event/action:

I have all the info ready to go.
All the emails and all the snail mail addresses.
All the Twitter handles to send tweets out to.
All the stuff if you want to physically WRITE a letter.
Ready to copy and paste.
I will even come to your place and pick up the letter and mail it myself so you don’t have to.

You’ll be able to tune in/take part on Zoom (the link we’ll be posted on the night of here) or simply stream it on The Pack Theater’s Twitch. Get more details here.

Pick of the Day: Your Late Night Show Tonight with Drew Droege 7/10
July 7, 2020
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drew droege, fortune feimster, late night, pack theater

Your Late Night Show Tonight, the monthly late night show that gets cleverly reshaped by each one of their great guest hosts, is back again with beloved comedian/writer/actor Drew Droege set as host. Droege has honed his comedy through almost every discipline and dazzled us with his solo show/play Happy Birthday Doug where he played so many troublesome guests at a birthday party all by himself.

Droege, along with the Your Late Night Show Tonight team, will dream up a wondrous new late night show, exactly how Drew would like it to be, that will be live-streamed at The Pack Theater’s Twitch Channel, and will feature a very special guest in comedian Fortune Feimster.

Your Late Night Show Tonight with Drew Droege is set for July 10th at 10:30PM PT/1:30AM ET, again, at The Pack Theater’s Twitch Channel. You can watch for FREE and donations will be accepted.

Pick of the Day: The Pack Theater’s Juneteenth Block Party
June 18, 2020
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There is plenty of actions, events, and more that will be happening on the most momentous Juneteenth that America has had in awhile. You can definitely find out more about direct actions to take part in tomorrow/this weekend at sixnineteen.com.

For comedy, you can enjoy Juneteenth Block Party live-streaming marathon from LA’s delightful DIY, punk rock comedy venue, The Pack Theater. They’ll be featuring “black to black shows all night” showcasing their best black improv, sketch, stand-up, characters, and so much more for 5 hours, going from 8PM PT/11PM ET all the way to 1AM PT/4AM ET on Fri. Jun. 19th.

We’re sure you might want some comedy at the end of what should be a very spirited day, so tune in on The Pack’s Twitch this Friday night.
October 31, 2019
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comedy show, experimental comedy, final show, hollywood, pack theater, speedface, variety show
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It truly has been an honor to get to be a part of Speedface (we’ve been helping produce it for a couple of years along with the show’s creator, the great Eric Moneypenny), one of the most insane shows in and around LA and while it is sad to know that its swan song is this Sunday, we’re thrilled by the idea that it’s going to be one truly hysterical, out-of-this-world, headbangin’ swan song comprised of bonkers 100 second comedy bits presided over by timelord Dr. Timef**k (Nick Gligor) and his time slave, the titular Speedface (John Paliferro). 

For this show, our line-up thus far is:
Leroy Patterson (America’s Got Talent)
Dave Ross (Comedy Central)
Ed Larson (Murderfist, Last Podcast Network)
Sarah Squirm (Adult Swim)
James Austin Johnson (Hail, Caesar!, Better Call Saul)
Isaac Kessler (Canadian Comedy Award winner)
Erin Nicole Bounds (Detention)
Dominique Johnson (Haymaker)
Samantha Jane, Kaeli Quick & Jason Kaye
Leeann St. John & Christopher Corbin
Evan Watkins (Rabble Rabble, College Humor, Hell Kross)
Elizabeth Hayhurst (Haymaker)
J. Elijah Cho (AMC’s Halt & Catch Fire, Some Sort of Show)
Michael Skarsten (Dreamboat) & Nick Pupo (Gutter)
Nicky Urban (Femmebot PHD)
Catherine Durickas (Rabble Rabble)
Grady James Welch (Hell Kross)
Elyssa Phillips & Angela McLafferty (Tantrum)
Katie Molinaro (Haymaker, Nickelodeon)
a special appearance by Royce Shockley (The Color Collective)
AND MORE! AND SUPER SURPRISE CELEBRITY GUESTS!

Really, we’ve got a lot up our sleeve (even more so than Home-Improvement-ized version of Doom in the flyer suggests). 

It’s a little earlier than normal at 9:30PM, so all of you who thought our normal start time on Sunday was too late are now obligated to come! It’s still pay what you can FYI. Get more details, RSVP, etc. here.
October 8, 2019
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The Pack Theater’s awesome biographical sketch show Biodome has a very, very special guest this month: Casey Wilson (Happy Endings, Hotwives). As always, the Biodome team (Sam Brown, Jed Alcantara, Niv Brook, Elizabeth Hayhurst, Jesse Arlen Klein, Angela McLafferty, Elyssa Phillips, Cameron Rice, and Jasper Sams) does a bang up job making sketches of various stories of the lives of their guests and this should be a pretty swell one (just listen to Casey’s ep. of Need to Fail).

Biodome with Casey Wilson will happen this Fri., Oct. 11th at 9PM at the Pack Theater and (as always is the case with the Pack), admission is pay what you can.

Get more details here.
July 17, 2019
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comedy festival, comedy shows, improv comedy, pack theater, sketch comedy, stand up comedy

If you’re not familiar with or been to or, more importantly, come to really dig what’s going at The Pack Theater over the last 4 years, you really ought to fix that.

A great way to do so is by going to PackCon, the annual celebration of the best of the best at The Pack Theater. Their favorite improv, sketch, stand-up, experimental comedy, and more will be on display for one giant day/night of comedy. That line-up will include Adam McKay, Kevin Dorff, Christina Gausas, Sean Conroy, Ryan Ridley, Stephnie Weir, Bob Dassie, James Adomian, Jackie Zebrowski, Henry Zebrowski, Tommy Blacha, Rob Haze, Annie Mebane, Nick Turner, Andres du Bouchet, Murderfist, Chopping Block, BioDome, Miles Stroth Celebrity All-Star Improv Set, Speedface, and more!

PackCon 4 will be taking place on Sat. Jul. 27th at The Pack Theater from 12PM-12AM???

There’s a good part of this PackCon4 that’s the nice price of Pay What You can, but there are specific shows that are $10. Get all the details for everything PackCon4 here.
June 6, 2019
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burlesque, comedy show, free show, funny dance show, hell kross, hollywood, musical comedy, pack theater, packchilla

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.
June 4, 2019
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comedy show, day clown cried, gritty reboot, hollywood, los angeles, pack theater, sketch comedy

One of the most infamous works in comedy is Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried, a film about a, if you didn’t know already, a clown-Holocaust-dramedy that Lewis tried to keep hidden for decades.

Gritty Reboot, the amazing monthly Pack Theater show that does gritty takes on IPs that are usually family friendly (Yogi Bear, Full House, etc.) will take this month to do a special live table read of an abridged version The Day the Clown Cried’s screenplay. Since the full film has yet to be released, this is your next best shot at seeing what unholy mess the movie really is.

So, make this your Friday night (especially as, like all Pack shows, admission is Pay What You Can). Get more details here.
September 5, 2018
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comedy show, dana gould, los angeles, pack theater, sketch comedy, west hollywood

For two years, Chopping Block Comedy has been bringing you the best in rejected sketches from some of the funniest comedy writers around. For their two year anniversary, they are really outdoing themselves as they will be presenting the never before seen or performed works of renowned stand-up, creator of Stan Against Evil, and former Simpsons writer Dana Gould.

As the show is at The Pack Theater, admission is pay-what-you-can, but you can guarantee a seat via RSVP for tickets. 

All sounds pretty great, right? Well, mark your calendars and reserve your seats ASAP. Get all the details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
August 13, 2018
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comedy festival, festival, free comedy, free show, hollywood, los angeles, pack theater, packcon

The Pack Theater in Hollywood is throwing their third annual one-day festival known as PackCon this Saturday!

It’s a premium offering of what The Pack has to offer, which is often as wild, devil-may-care, fun, and irreverent as can be.

TO BE FEATURED AT THIS PACKCON 3: 
Ian Roberts
Esther Povitsky
Matt Jones
Kurt Braunohler
Kevin Dorff
Matt Jones
Christina Gausas
Julian McCullough
Johnny Pemberton
Liquid Feet
Subhah Agarwal
Drew Droege
Suzi Barrett
Jetzo
Dark Matters
Brian Moses
Heather Anne Campbell
Brent Weinbach
Speedface
Pack Theater House Sketch & Improv Teams
and much more!

The majority of the festival is pay what you can, as that’s the normal Pack Theater policy, however admission for 9PM & 10PM shows are $15 a pop. Get more details and the full schedule here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
May 17, 2018
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comedy show, darren trumeter, elyssa phillips, hollywood, los angeles, pack theater, sam brown, sketch comedy, timmy williams, trevor moore, whitest kids u know, zach cregger

This Saturday, May 19th, the audience at The Pack Theater will get to not only see The Whitest Kids U’ Know! (Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Trevor Moore, Darren Trumeter, Timmy Williams), but will also get to sketches that they wrote that were rejected. 

Sound like a great Saturday night? Of course, it does.

FYI, this is a one-time live event as far as we know.

As it’s at The Pack Theater, admission is “pay what you can”. The show starts at 9PM, but we urge you to get there and line-up early if you want in.

Get 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.
April 19, 2018
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ayn rand, character comedy, free comedy, heather anne campbell, hollywood, james adomian, pack theater, parody, satire

The unequivocally hysterical Heather Anne Campbell will be doing an entire show as the controversial author Ayn Rand this weekend.

That alone should be enough to make sure that you go, but she’ll be joined Pack Theater stalwarts Elizabeth Hayhurst, Jesse Arlen Klein, and Haley Mancini as well as the amazing James Adomian.

As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is Pay What You can.

Get 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.
April 18, 2018
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cheap comedy, comedy festival, dark matters, eliza skinner, hollywood, live podcast, los angeles, musical comedy, pack theater, packchella, zach sherwin

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.
February 28, 2018
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comedy show, eric moneypenny, experimental comedy, free comedy, john paliferro, los angeles, nick gligor, pack theater, variety show

Speedface, the post-apocalyptic character/bit showcase hosted by Dr. Time**** and his “time prisoner”, and show namesake, Speedface are making a triumphant return this Sunday, March 4th at 10:30PM at The Pack Theater.

It should be the perfect palate cleanser for whatever happens at The Oscars this year. 

As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is pay what you can!

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
December 24, 2017
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Honestly, all things considered, there probably has never been a better time to watch the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special than this 2017 holiday season.

So, catch it in an actual theater, The Pack Theater, with other folks the day after Christmas (kind of neat, belated Christmas present, right?).

Get more details here.
December 22, 2017
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comedy show, debate, franky guttman, free comedy, holiday shows, hollywood, los angeles, michael bilow, pack theater, war on christmas

If you hate the holiday season as much as we do (everything stops and we’re not fans of that), this “War on Christmas” edition of Dark Matters this Saturday night might just be for you. They’re going to have “Three hardcore Christians compete against three hardcore Satanists to answer the question [of whether their is a War on Christmas] once and for all!” plus other holiday surprises like doppelgänger piñatas and “Chanukah Chorror Stories”

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.
October 25, 2017
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comedy show, dark matters, franky guttman, halloween, los angeles, michael bilow, pack theater, variety show, what to do

A seance, a “real” werewolf, psychics, mummies, scary stories, horror movie actors’ panel, treats, and another edition of live spooky comedy podcast Dark Matters should make for a pretty great evening on Saturday at 11PM at The Pack Theater this Halloween weekend.

Admission is pay what you can. Undoubtedly, this will be one of the best comedy Halloween events, so do not miss this. Get more info here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
October 19, 2017
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anime, comedy shows, free comedy, free show, heather anne campbell, hollywood, improv, long form improv, los angeles, pack theater

Heather Anne Campbell, one of the funniest people around, carefully assembled team of great improvisers who also happen to enjoy anime for The Anime Show. 

They will improvise an episode of anime that they have never seen. Sometimes, they are dead on and act out the episode as it actually plays out in the anime series. 

In any case, it’s pretty damn fun and, because it’s at The Pack Theater, admission is pay what you can.

This latest edition of The Anime Show will happen on Saturday, October 21st at 10PM.

Please get more details here.
September 19, 2017
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dark matters, franky guttman, free comedy, hollywood, michael bilow, pack theater, podcast recording, polygraph test

This latest edition of Franky Guttman and Michael Bilow’s Dark Matters, a Coast-to-Coast-AM-ish comedy podcast that’s always recorded live, is going where they’ve never gone before. For the 30th birthday of Bilow will be taking a polygraph test with his parents, sister, and a crystal expert in attendance as special guests.

Not so many folks would be into publicly examining their life and what has led them to this point, but we’re sure this will end up being a birthday that Michael and everyone else in the crowd will never forget.

As with all shows at The Pack Theater, it’s pay what you can. Get more details here.

The rest of our listings for shows, events, mics, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
August 31, 2017
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character comedy, experimental comedy, free comedy, hollywood, john paliferro, los angeles, nick gligor, pack theater, speedface

For 2 years, The Pack Theater has been home to our favorite inter-dimensional character/bit show, SPEEDFACE.

To mark this anniversary this Sunday, they’re starting earlier than normal at 9PM so they can put on an extra special, big Speedface chock full of the best bits of comedy that only last 100 seconds. 

As with all shows at The Pack Theater, admission is ‘pay what you can’. Get more details here.

Please Enjoy “WHAT IS THIS SH*T?”
August 18, 2017
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aok, eric moneypenny, josh fadem, pack theater, sam brown, sketch comedy, web video, whitest kids u know

Presented gleefully without context, here’s WHAT IS THIS SH*T?

(we will say that props should be given to writer Eric Moneypenny, directors The Grimes Bros. and the cast: Josh Fadem (Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, 30 Rock), Sam Brown (Whitest Kids U Know), Alex Walters, Luke Baldridge, Michael Gabriel, Jesse Arlen Klein, Alex Vaughan)
July 15, 2017
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anniversary, coast to coast, dark matters, franky guttman, hollywood, live podcast, los angeles, michael bilow, pack theater, parody

Having talked to serial killer profilers, alien documentary directors, people who have been kidnapped, etc. and making into a great comedy talk show/podcast, Dark Matters with hosts Franky Guttman and Michael Bilow is marking its 1st year anniversary with bringing back some of their favorite guests and, of course, plenty of live calls.

The Dark Matters 1st Anniversary Spectacular is set for Saturday, July 22nd 11PM at The Pack Theater and admission is still ‘pay what you can’.

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

Our friends at DoLA asked us what indie comedy shows in LA you can’t miss and we happily obliged with this list.
July 15, 2017
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experimental comedy, free comedy, howard kremer, jury duty, los angeles, lyric hyperion theatre, pack theater, ripped bodice, stand up, summahfest, virgil

Our friends at DoLA asked us what indie comedy shows in LA you can’t miss and we happily obliged with this list.
July 12, 2017
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comedy festival, free comedy, hollywood, imporv, live comedy, los angeles, pack theater, packcon 2, sketch, stand up, variety

The Pack Theater, one of our favorite venues in town, is putting another stacked day/night, PackCon 2, celebrating everything they do this weekend. From 12PM to past midnight this Saturday, July 15th, they’ll have: David Koechner, Adam McKay, Maria Bamford, Ian Roberts, Whitest Kids U Know, Kevin Dorff, Everything Is Terrible!, Howard Kremer, Johnny Pemberton, Sara Paxton, and many, many, more!

That’s on top of showcasing their best shows, one right after the other.

If you’d like to go, know that you can attend shows from 12PM-6PM and at 11PM for pay what you can. All shows in between those time are $10 each or $20 for all four with a PackCon 2 Prime Pass. 

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.
July 6, 2017
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gritty reboot, hollywood, live reading, los angeles, pack theater, parody, yogi bear

Esteemed members of The Pack Theater pondered what it would be like if the beloved cartoon franchise Yogi Bear got the grim live action treatment.

They pondered so much that they came up with an actual screenplay called Jellystone and staged a live reading of their Yogi Bear movie that got so dark it became silly again.

They’re doing another live reading this Friday, July 7th at 9PM at The Pack Theater and you really ought to catch it before, perhaps, it actually gets made into a movie (or a faux trailer for a movie).

Admission is pay what you can and you can 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.

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