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Sydnee Washington is gracing us with another special edition of her IG Live cooking/panel show, Syd Can Cook this Sunday. They haven’t been weekly in awhile, so you best savor them whenever you can.

Not only will there be a whole bunch of special guests giving Sydnee the business while she cooks so much food up at once, but it will be her birthday where she will be “…turning 35 again.” Karolena Theresa will be by Sydnee’s side to serve up the full Syd Can Cook experience. It’s absolutely what you should be looking forward to this Sunday as another week in quarantine passes.

Syd Can Cook: The Birthday Show will be popping off on IG Live @justsydbw at 4PM PT/7PM ET, Sun. Jan. 31st.

Pick of the Day: Matt O’Brien’s Sketch Show

April 21, 2020

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There are few folks that we know that can whip up a green screen quite like Matt O’Brien, especially when time is of the essence. Hell, he did an entire show where he was able to use his editing skills to make up an entire visual gag with motion graphics off an audience suggestion during the length of a comedian’s showcase set. In quarantine, he has even been doing miniature remakes of individual episodes of Frasier.

Essentially, he was doing Zoom background bits before the majority of the world did video conferencing more than a few times a year, if that. Thus, we’re pretty sure O’Brien is perfectly suited for this weird time in comedy where all of it has to live and be broadcast online and the limitations of your computer or mobile devices.

Matt doing a live-stream sketch comedy show only makes us think of what he has up his sleeve and what he’ll dare to pull off during a Twitch live-stream. Thus, you can and should check out The Matt O’Brien Sketch Show going live on Twitch here this Wed. Apr. 22nd at 5PM PT/8PM ET.

Pick of the Day: Late Late Breakfast Tries the Internet 4/18

April 15, 2020

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One of the most bonkers comedy shows around, Late Late Breakfast, is going live on a live-stream! For the uninitiated, Late Late Breakfast issued random challenges and games for comedians to do while trying to do their act including having to make as many burgers as possible, fighting with paper airplanes, having to do a plethora of impressions, and more. Personally, we’re excited to see how they will pull off their crazy format via Zoom/Twitch.

As always, Tyler Jackson and Danny Maupin will preside as hosts of the controlled chaos and they’ve wrangled quite the line-up from around the country including:

Shane Torres
Maggie Maye
Casey James Salengo
Chloe Radcliffe
Ian Aber
Dante Powell
Sean Smith
AND MORE!!

Tune in and witness the madcap delights of Late Late Breakfast on Sat. Apr. 18th at 1PM PT/4PM ET at Holdthephone.tv

Pick of the Day: Todd Glass 4/18

April 14, 2020

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We’ve seen a lot of comedians try a lot of different things over the last month of lockdown/quarantine/”quar” (if you’re needing to make it sound cuter to cope). For the most part, it has been short sets, extended stories, and sight gags. Still, it’s a great time for experimentation as so many of comedy’s already very loose rules for how it used to be done live, for the time being, have been frustratingly thrown out the window.

If there was someone who was up for trying a bit, a bit within in a bit, an explanation of both the bit and notes on how it’s going to be mindful of when we take the bit from the top, and perhaps try something to really take advantages of the limitations provided by live-streamed comedy done in lockdown because of a global pandemic, it might be the one and only Todd Glass.

Luckily, he’s legitimately headlining and you can see Glass put all of that on display this very weekend, Sat. Apr. 18th thanks to Helium Presents. It’ll be a live to tape show that broadcasts 5:30PM PT/8:30PM ET and tickets are $10. Go get them here and look forward to Saturday for another reason besides being one week closer to being “safer-at-home” ending (hopefully).

Pick of the Day: Jackie and Laurie Present

March 10, 2020

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Hands down, one of our all time favorite podcasts is The Jackie and Laurie Show with the amazing, brilliant, hysterical pairing of Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin. Their weekly perspective as some of the funniest comedians working today (that happen to be older women) is a true joy and illuminating on how far we’ve come with representation in comedy and how much further we need to go.

This evening is a special showcase that not only feature Kashian and Kilmartin, but a collection of their “Comics of the Week”, a handpicked line-up of their favorite female comics that you need to see, which will include Marcella Arguello, Hannah Einbinder, Robin Tran, Kimberly Clark, Bernie Pauley, Amy Anderson.

So, you’ll get a bit of Jackie and Laurie and an amazing stand-up show all in one night. Tickets for Jackie and Laurie Present are $20 (+2 item min.). Please go get them here.

Pick of the Day: Syd Can Cook: The Birthday Show 1/31

Pick of the Day: Matt O’Brien’s Sketch Show

Pick of the Day: Late Late Breakfast Tries the Internet 4/18

Pick of the Day: Todd Glass 4/18

Pick of the Day: Jackie and Laurie Present