parody

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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.

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Basically, anytime Jamie Loftus does a show, your presence and attention should be mandatory.

Thusly, as Jamie Loftus has a new show about being a hacker, you should get yourself to the Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake on Saturday June 30th and Friday, July 6th at 8PM.

Tickets for this show, The Hacker Who Codes (A Work in Progress), are $5 and you can (and should) get them 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.

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This show had a far too short run at the Improv. Thankfully, this improvised powerpoint show is coming back once more at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater next week on Wed., June 27th at 8PM.

Zed Cutsinger and Andrew Michaan’s PowerPointless will also have a line-up including Natasha Leggero, Moshe Kasher, Nick Thune, Brent Weinbach, and David Dineen-Porter that’s more than up to the task of BS-ing their way through an actual PowerPoint presentation that they’ve never seen before.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Please 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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For this month’s Entertaining Julia @ Akbar, The Puterbaugh Sisters are spoofing “a bad comedy club” and presenting “The Who Farted Factory”. That being said, they have a hell of a line-up including:

Joe Kwaczala – Jay Christopher aka “The Bearded Comedian”
Joe McAdam – Colin Keenan aka “the Kansas City kid”
Casey Ley- Jesse jesse – Laughs on fox
Nicholas Vatterott- Bobby Boots – Dr. panics
Anna Seregina – The Entertainer – Russias Got Talent
Ever Mainard- Daeanley Differs aka “the Big Diff”
Sam Wiles – Brandon Mayhow – Famous in downstate Iowa
Ryan Dalton- Eric Derick, our house Dj – Performs at Pressure Hut
Dave Ross – NY comedian aka “Jimmy catchphrase”
Sydney Adeniyi- 7 Dart – Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed
Drennon Davis- musical comedy featured at The Zoink Zone
Nikki Ashley- actress, comic, DJ , she’s been on girl code, bad girls club, good girls house, and girls gone wildly wrong.

Whether you’ve been coerced into buying two drinks/items to be yelled at for sitting up front or not, The Who Farted Factory ought to be a good time.

The show is at 9PM this Sunday and FREE. Get more info 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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With everything that’s going on in the world right now, one of your biggest concerns, as you well know, should be how to up your STARmeter on IMDBPro.

Lucky for you, there’s a show this coming Saturday that will help you with that conveniently called, STARmeter: The IMDBPro Show with hosts/IMDBProAmbassadors Joshua Turek, Megan Koester, and Alison Stevenson as well as a carefully curated selection of rising stars.

Get more details on this exciting opportunity/what ought to be a damn fun show here.

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

And Here’s the First Sketch from “The Break with Michelle Wolf”

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The premiere of The Break with Michelle Wolf is only a few days away, which is, we should again note, is less than a month after her performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Needless to say, we’re highly anticipating what Wolf and company have up their sleeves.

So, with this first sketch that just got posted, they poke fun at shoe-horning female lead characters into clearly-written-for-male leads without changing much (this parody trailer bares a satirical resemblance to the actual movie Equity). It sets a tone that has always been Wolf’s brand of comedy, equal parts biting and silly. It looks like Sundays will now have a double dose of satirical comedy from John Oliver and Wolf.

Also, in watching this, we had a good laugh thinking of Wolf as the “strong female lead” of her own show on Netflix.

The Break with Michelle Wolf begins streaming on Sundays starting May 27th on Netflix.

Mike O’Brien Idealizes What He’d Like Out of an Audiobook of the Kama Sutra

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Mike O’Brien reinforces the idea that he’s one of the funniest minds around. No further explanation needed.

Just push play here.

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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.

Music Parody Is at Its Best on the “Punch Up the Jam” Podcast

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Within the ever burgeoning art form of comedy, musical comedy is unfortunately oft-maligned, especially when it comes to parodies of popular songs.

That being said, Miel Bredouw (YouTube star, writer) and Demi Adejuyigbe (currently a writer on The Good Place) not only do a smash up job of parodying songs that they feel they can “punch up” with an extremely clever change in the lyrics (that usually takes on a much more nuanced existential perspective than the original song), but also dissecting those songs every which way they can, lyric-by-lyric. That formula plus their irresistibly charming chemistry combine to make up their great podcast Punch Up The Jam.

Miel and Demi have wonderfully tackled and punched up anything from Auld Lang Syne to Friday I’m in Love to Mambo No. 5 (done live at SXSW).

So, get in on Punch Up the Jam right here, right now.

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The magnificent Chris Fairbanks will be playing Paul Ryan and holding a town hall meeting “like he’s supposed to”. This will all be going down at our favorite new venue, Dynasty Typewriter at The Hayworth Theater on Tuesday, May 8th at 8PM.

We’re not sure exactly what Fairbanks has up his sleeve with this, but it ought to be pretty damn great. Special guests TBA.

Tickets are $20 and you really ought to get them right here right now.

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

The Late Late Show Finally Puts That Cracked-Egg-Is-Your-Brain-on-Drugs Ad In Its Place

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Long ago, in the last era of big time anti-drug campaigns, there was one particular ad that suggested that your brain on illegal controlled substances was like an egg being cracked and fried on a pan.

With all the years that have passed, such an ad seems even more ridiculous. Corden’s The Late Late Show reminds us of that and points out what probably happened during the shooting of said ad.

Watch it here.

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It isn’t out of the realm of possibility that Nicholas Cage would do live commentary of one his movies.

However, that doesn’t seem to be on the horizon quiet yet and, in the mean time, we have something pretty damn close with Kenny Stevenson as Nic Cage doing said live commentary of Nic Cage movies.

This Sunday at UCB Sunset’s Inner Sanctum, he’ll be doing just that with The Rock along with guests (that may or may not also be in character) Josh Covitt, Marshall Givens and Jessica Jean Jardine.

Admission is FREE. Get more details for Nic Cagentary here.

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

Our Cartoon President Picked Up for 7 More Episodes at Showtime

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Our Cartoon President Picked Up for 7 More Episodes at Showtime

We hope that this backend order means that they’ll pull even less punches in satirizing the Trump Administration.

Take a Listen to Atypical Guided Meditation Podcast “Headplace”

February 5, 2018

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The newest podcast at the UCB Comedy Podcast Network has so much devilish fun with the concept of guided meditation.

Matt Cutler and Eric Gersen‘s Headplace use all the tropes of a guided meditation tape (the soft voices, the imagery, the new age background music), then let their imaginations run wild in a way that we find more calming (due to the release in laughter) than actual guided meditation.

Unlike a lot of podcasts, you can enjoy more than a couple episodes a week that are short, enjoyable pieces of bizarre comedy podcast candy.

Listen and enjoy Headplace for yourself here or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Atamanuik’s Trump Gives Response to State of the Union, Then Gives Response to His State of the Union Response

January 31, 2018

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The President Show on Comedy Central is currently on hiatus, but that won’t stop from Anthony Atamanuik from making sure his Trump gets a word in after the POTUS had to read complete sentences from a teleprompter.

So, without further adieu enjoy the President Show’s response and the response’s response to the State of the Union.

Watch First Episode of “Our Cartoon President” Before Premiere

January 29, 2018

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Thanks to Showtime, you can see what the cartoon spin-off from Colbert’s cartoon Trump segment on Late Show has in store for us all as the full premiere episode is on YouTube courtesy of the premium cable network.

We watched it and know that they absolutely pull no punches, though it stings slightly less since it’s animated. See for yourself here.

The series premiere for Our Cartoon President is set for February 11th at 8PM on Showtime.

James Adomian’s Sebastian Gorka Responds to Gorka’s Hungarian Arrest Warrant

January 19, 2018

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James Adomian’s Sebastian Gorka Responds to Gorka’s Hungarian Arrest Warrant

You’ve might have heard that an arrest warrant has been issued for ex-Trump aide Sebastian Gorka in Hungary.

Without fail, Adomian’s Gorka, now a fixture of the Chapo Trap House podcast universe, has a few histrionic things to say about that.

Please watch and enjoy them on repeat here.

Whether you’ve seen Hamilton or not or even love musical theater or not, we’d wager that you’d still enjoy Shamilton (an improvised musical in the style of Hamilton, but based on a different famous person), the new project from musical improv troupe Baby Wants Candy.

After all, it was one of our favorite 100 comedy things from 2017.

The next Shamilton will be on Sun. Jan. 28th at 9PM at UCB Sunset. Tickets are $7 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.

January 14, 2018

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Improv inspired by specifically, out-of-context clips of dramatic films and TV on top of an improvised episode of Law & Order from Some Kinda Monster is one of our favorite improv shows.

Come catch their first show of 2018 at UCB Sunset this week where Colton Dunn (NBC’s Superstore), Phil Jackson (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Key and Peele) will be joining them.

Get tickets here.

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

A Lifetime Movie Made for Adult Swim “Mother, May I Dance With Mary Jane’s Fist?” Will Be Premiering This Sunday

January 3, 2018

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The trope of overly maudlin melodramas on Lifetime is getting the Adult Swim treatment by way of the waitress and Artemis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia playing a combative mother and daughter.

We love how it’s being billed as an “Lifetime movie made for Adult Swim”, which perhaps means that Lifetime is getting a better sense of humor about itself?

See for yourself in this promo and preview clip.

Mother, May I Dance With Mary Jane’s Fist? premieres Sun. Jan. 7th at midnight on Adult Swim.

Patton Oswalt Performs Even More Mike Huckabee Twitter Jokes on Kimmel

November 16, 2017

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Earlier this year, Patton Oswalt went on Jimmy Kimmel Live and breathed some “life” into “jokes” tweeted out by Mike Huckabee as Huckabee has fashioned and proliferated his own brand of humor, but has not gotten around to performing them live in a “set”.

Huckabee’s foray into comedy has continued since then and, as such, Patton has returned to attempt to tell these jokes as if they were in real stand-up setting, albeit one that’s from the 80s.

Chris Fleming Explores Planet Earth His Own Way with “Unspeakable Earth”

November 3, 2017

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Taking cues from the wildly popular nature docu-series Planet Earth (or really any sort of nature documentary), comedian/actor/writer/explorer Chris Fleming has taken it upon himself to see this world from yet “another angle”.

Take a look at “species” in their “natural habitat” that only Fleming can show us on his series Unspeakable Earth.

The President Show Has Trump See Russia Probe as a Blair Witch/Slenderman

October 29, 2017

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Cleverly, The President Show has set up a horror parody that has a blended parody of a movie monster and Trump-Russia probe investigator Robert Mueller hunting down a real life monster, Trump.

Watch and thoroughly enjoy here and hope something major happens with the upcoming charges that have been filed by Mueller.

Here’s a Gory Crafting Safety PSA from At Home with Amy Sedaris

October 26, 2017

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Amy Sedaris just want to let you know that crafting can be very unsafe in many regards including snakes.

Please watch At Home with Amy Sedaris’ old school PSA about crafting safety here (that feature some of the most innovative “deaths” ever in PSA).

The President Show Put’s Trump Through a Psychological Fitness Test

October 22, 2017

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This is just more evidence when all is said and done, much of the best Trump humor will come from The President Show with Anthony Atamanuik’s portrayal of the 45th and “final” POTUS, Donald J. Trump.