Boy oh boy, it’s been more than a few minutes since this happened, but Harmontown is coming back to doing a weekly live taping every Monday at Dynasty Typewriter at The Hayworth Theater.
The reconvening of Dan Harmon, Jeff B. Davis, Spencer Crittenden, and guests starts Monday, June 4th and tickets are going for $12.50.
Go get them here 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.
For Mothers’ Day in LA this year, you could spend a curated day with your mother or you could go to a live taping of one of our all time favorite podcasts The Jackie and Laurie Show at Flappers (or, if your mom is cool enough, you can do both).
In any case, you shouldn’t miss Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin on stage together no matter the occasion.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
One of the best podcasts around Last Podcast on the Left is doing two shows at The Echoplex next Tuesday. First one is already sold out even though tickets went on sale in the morning.
Snatch up your tickets for the late show that they added before they sell out here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Yes, Halloween is far off from now.
However, that just leaves you enough time to buy tickets for the latest live Los Angeles taping of My Favorite Murder to take place at The Microsoft Theater at DTLA”s L.A. Live before it inevitably sells out.
Best get your tickets here quick.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Whether it be their own podcast or guesting on dozens upon dozens of others, Scott Aukerman, Paul F. Tompkins, and Lauren Lapkus are some of the most beloved figures in podcasting and have been for quite some time.
It only makes sense, especially because they improvise so well together too, that they come together as a sort of comedy podcast supergroup. Thus, their new show Threedom, available exclusively on Stitcher Premium, has arrived.
On Threedom, they flow in and out of free flowing stories and conversations into improvised scenes, giving them an endless canvas to do as they please. The trio speak more on that and podcasting in general in this Wrap interview.
They’re only on their second episode so far, but you can get a free month of Stitcher Premium to listen to Threedom and several other premium audio comedy content with the promo code: THREEDOM.
It’s a hard feat within the realm of comedy to be both positive and being funny at the same time. The crux of so many jokes comes rely on a critical, yet pithy and/or clever angle of the world by the comedian/writer/humorist/etc.
Still, that doesn’t mean that being funny about something that’s good can’t be done. That’s where the podcast All Fantasy Everything comes in.
Wonderful comedian and writer Ian Karmel hosts a fantasy draft like you would for football, but, as the title suggests, for everything else. That includes: Taco Bell menu, moments in songs that give you chills, what you would do with a billion dollars, what fictional character you’d date, movie soundtracks and treating yourself just to name a few. The draft itself has a bit of drama kind of like an actual Fantasy Football draft, but nothing too heavy as the podcast is a round-robin of what and why one loves what they love in a certain category.
Karmel is often joined by David Gborie and Sean Jordan along with great guests who really swing for the fences with their pick. They’re 72 episodes in, and, just this past weekend, did a live episode at SXSW, which should give you plenty of reason to binge All Fantasy Everything. Do so here.
There are more than a handful of podcasts that dive into the anxieties, fears, insecurities, etc. of comedians, but they can often be, in an enlightening way, sobering.
Candice Thompson shines in her new podcast The Struggle as she strikes a balance between sympathy and empathy for all sorts of issues while also maintaining an undeniably upbeat tone with plenty of charisma to spare. Thompson is only a few episodes in, but her, her co-hosts Mal Hall and Jackie Fabulous, and her guests (Ramon Rivas and Justine Marino thus far) show off how struggles can translate directly into something that can be laughed at when gaining awareness and a bit of agency over said struggle.
So, listen, subscribe, and most importantly enjoy The Struggle with Candice Thompson.
At this point in this age of podcasts, one could reasonably wonder how someone could come up with a new podcast that’s innovative, engaging, and quietly beautiful, especially in the comedy podcast space.
Enter Sara Schaefer’s Loner at Coyowolf Creek.
Schaefer podcasts “from the future” where she imagines that the America we know now is referred to as “America 1″ and the dystopian (but not quite an Orwellian dystopia) America she lives in is known as “America 2″ divided by actual, federally mandated “bubble zones” mostly because no one could reasonably talk to each other (kind of like it actually is in real life 2018).
Not only does Schaefer build an entire quasi-futuristic, yet grounded world in her podcast that’s kind of marvelous in its solitude (she records her podcast as a “government approved designated loner”), but she “looks back” at the time that we’re currently in and gives her thoughts that she had at that time in America 1, then offers up what consequently happened in America 2.
If you were to think of it as an episode of Black Mirror, it’s one that’s not as hopeful as “San Junipero”, but yet not quite as terrifying as “Metalhead”.
So, please listen, subscribe, and enjoy Loner at Coyowolf Creek.
Nicole Byer is 13 episodes into her dating/relationships/sex podcast and it’s amazing how she has courageously taken an unfiltered, in-depth into her own perpetual “single-dom” as well as dating in general and the dating history of her guests.
As is with much of Byer’s comedy, her candor on the podcast is both compelling and funny. On top of that, Nicole goes an extra mile to ask all of her guests whether or not they would date her (which is made even more frank as she has hooked up with some of her guests in the past) as well as their thoughts on her online dating profiles.
So, please take and listen (and if you’re into it like we are) and subscribe to Why Won’t You Date Me? with Nicole Byer.
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.
If the State of the Union continued the “bad taste in your mouth” that has been there since Trump announced he was running for President, perhaps you could use the palate cleanser that is the popular political comedy podcast Chapo Trap House.
Get tickets before they sell out here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The Four “2 Dope Queens” Specials Start Airing on Feb. 2nd at 11:30PM
Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson, or better known to podcast fans as the 2 Dope Queens, have not one, not two, not three, but four comedy specials coming to HBO in February 2018 (specifically Friday, Feb. 2nd at 11:30PM). Both Williams and Robinson along with some of their favorite comedians will be featured throughout the four specials in what should make for a better February next year than last year.
Here’s a teaser complete with some dope thrones.
Just a friendly reminder that some of your favorite podcasts are going downtown for what should one damn fun day of peecasting.
Tickets are $50-$125 and are still available here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
As you can see, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark and the phenomenon that is their true crime comedy podcast are set to take on the world next year.
Get tickets here.
If you had a hell of a great time at this past weekend’s LA Podcast Festival or missed out and regret doing so, you can look forward to this all day podcasting event, the Pee Cast Blast.
Some of the most beloved comedy podcasts from Earwolf will be doing a sort of one-day podcast festival at The Theater at the Ace Hotel in DTLA.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, Oct. 13th at 8AM, but you can check Scott Aukerman’s Tumblr for pre-sale throughout the week.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Some of these have already existed, but just didn’t have the official umbrella of a Comedy Central podcast network to cover it. An analytical breakdown of roasts as well as featuring up and coming stand-up talent should be worth checking out.
We wouldn’t be surprised to see a podcast extension for This Is Not Happening, Broad City, and whatever Comedy Central’s next hit sketch series is.
The podcast that revisits Daria, Sicker Sadder World, is going live at The Ace Hotel in DTLA. Hosts Brittany Ashley and Laura Zack along with guests Gaby Dunn, Navid Sinaki, and Ira Madison III will actually watch an episode of Daria and then chat about it afterwards.
It’ll be a pretty great evening to revel in 90s nostalgia, specifically what might be one of your favorite things from the 90s, Daria.
Best of all, it’s free to attend with RSVP, which you can take care of here.
The rest of the listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Wanna win tickets to some great comedy shows (i.e. Put Your Hands Together with Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher, Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen, Pop Up Kitchen (that’s dinner and a comedy show), and/or Harmontown)?
Well, we have those exact ticket giveaways running right now and more and you can enter right here.
Since we started things at TCB, we’ve always dug whatever Asterios Kokkinos is doing, which happens to be an unbelievable myriad of innovative ways to do comedy in his specific niche.
His latest endeavor, Science Friction, happens to be a game show podcast that’s a sci-fi sort version of @midnight with a tad bit of Billy on the Street thrown in. Asterios has contestants from the worlds comedy and sci-fi compete in trivia that’s entirely biased to his very, very strong opinions on Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Matrix, having robots for pets etc. etc. The extremely arbitrary nature of his points awarding system is also fun element of the show.
Even if you’re not that into sci-fi, which one of the regular contestants is not, it’s still pretty damn entertaining to see how heated Asterios gets.
Give it a listen (and maybe subscribe) to Science Friction on iTunes or Google Play.
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...Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen, Andy Kindler’s Particular Show, Harmontown, The Best Friends Show, and The Super Serious Show 7 Anniversary.
It’s a round-up of some of the best shows in town and you can enter to win a pair of free tickets here.
Abbi Jacobson To Host a New Podcast, “A Piece of Work”, That Has Jacobson Break Down Art with Guests
In addition to being the Abbi from Broad City that you know and love, Abbi Jacobson has made plenty of her own milestones in the art world with a degree in art school and getting her own illustrated books published.
Now, Abbi will act as a bridge from the art world to the general public with a new podcast series in collaboration from WNYC and MoMA. Called A Piece of Work, Abbi will focus on specific art movements and have on big time guests that come from both the art world and Tinseltown.
It’s only going for 10 episodes, but we would imagine it could much longer if Abbi’s up for it. Look for the episodes to start dropping on Monday, July 10th.
Though a bit of a skeptic of psychics, NYC’s Farah Brook is curious what the future holds just like the rest of us. Unfortunately, this curiosity comes at a time where it’s more unclear than ever what might just happen and how far reaching the events to come will be.
So, why not have comedians call a real psychic hotline to find out and record it for a podcast?
That’s exactly what the podcast Psychic Hotline $1/minute is and it, as such, has a pretty inescapable charm. Farah and guests do talk to real psychics that you can call with a genuine desire to have some questions about their future answered. However, they still keep a healthy dose of skepticism to it and, because they’re comedians, make fun of the more ridiculous things that they hear are or told to write down. Also, Farah’s voice might be one of the most soothing we’ve heard on a podcast.
Kimmie Lucas and Kelsey Laine have a real good time recounting the entire 30 Rock series, episode by episode on their podcast, Talk 30 Rock to Me.
They were nice enough to have us on to talk about the “Gavin Volure” episode guest starring Steve Martin.
In prepping for it, we almost found a conspiracy theory. Listen and you can find out what sort of weird rabbit hole we descended into.
Though the words ‘fire’ and ‘festival’ might conjure up the recent SNAFU that was the Fyre Festival.
That being said, The Big Fire Festival is nothing like that as it’s returning for its 3rd year, has nothing to do with Instagram celebrities trying to dupe you, and features plenty of comedy worth checking out in the desert under the stars as shown in the flyer above.
You can get more details here and tickets here.
It might seem eons ago that The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore was yanked off the air, but it was only less than a year ago, in the election year of all election years no less, that Wilmore’s run in replacing The Colbert Report came to an end.
Yet, Wilmore impression on the media landscape was too good to fade away for good. Bill Simmons’ Ringer podcast network has thus given Larry Wilmore a podcast where he’ll get to talk politics, entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond as well interview folks like Norman Lear, Bernie Sanders, and Neil deGrasse Tyson (i.e. kind of what he was doing at The Nightly Show).
Called “Black on the Air”, it gets released this Thursday, May 11th. Here’s Bill and Larry giving the official announcement.