power violence – The Comedy Bureau

February 7, 2019

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The extreme friendship comedy troupe identified as Power Violence (AKA Whitmer Thomas, Clay Tatum, and Budd Diaz) will be putting on their very last show as a group next Sunday at The Satellite (as well as celebrating their 8th anniversary).

While we’re all waiting for their silly comedy swan song to arrive, take time to reflect on Power Violence’s journey from moshing and TPing the stage over at The Complex to open every show to making some of the best, unabashedly fun videos around to becoming the power (pun intended?) comedy trio they are now.

The full line-up has yet to be announced, but we hear it’s pretty damn special.

Tickets is $8, but, as always, comedians get in free at this show. Get the tickets here.

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February 13, 2018

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Power Violence is going to celebrate 7 years of “extreme friendship” this Sunday.

Whether you’ve been party to that or you have no idea of how to even conceive of extreme friendship, it’s an occasion that you shouldn’t miss (a really nice line-up of Mitra Jouhari, Patti Harrison, Johnny Pemberton, Simon Gibson, Steve Hernandez, and more are also going to be there with Whit, Clay, Budd, and Jeramy)

Power Violence 7 Year Anniversary is this Sunday, February 18th 8:30PM at The Satellite LA. Tickets are $8 and you can (and should) get them here (BTW, comics get in FREE).

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

November 19, 2017

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Joey Izzo is absolutely a filmmaker you should be keeping an eye on as his films have made the rounds on the film festival circuit already (including being featured at Cannes). This selection of short films will also be presented with performances from Kate Berlant and Power Violence, which should round out the evening nicely between experimentation and silliness.

Tickets are $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.

Please Enjoy “Husky Budd’s Home Movers” from Power Violence

September 15, 2017

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Whitmer Thomas, Clay Tatum, and Budd Diaz, better known as Power Violence, offer up their latest fun piece of mayhem, an ad for the so-called “Husky Budd’s Home Movers”.

If you don’t care about your stuff, but want your movers to have a really good time, these guys just might be for you.

Watch and enjoy here.

February 11, 2017

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Whitmer Thomas, Clay Tatum, Budd Diaz, and Jeramy Ritchie have been dealing in “extreme friendship” as Power Violence for almost 6 years. It’s quite a feat that they’ve pulled off being friends to the extreme for all this time.

So, come celebrate their 6th anniversary on Sunday, February 19th at 8:30PM at The Satellite.

Tickets are $8 and you can (and should) get them here.

November 18, 2016

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Power Violence is dedicating all the funds to their upcoming show on this Sunday to Planned Parenthood.

Get your tickets for $8 here.

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Poster by Evan Mays.

August 26, 2016

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Tickets are $14 and you can (and should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

June 16, 2016

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Get tickets here (if you’re a comedian, you get in free).

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

May 10, 2016

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More details, tickets, etc. here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

April 16, 2016

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The pals of Power Violence celebrate their monthly show of comedy and friendship at The Satellite this Sunday. Get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Poster by Evan Mays

Power Violence Learns The True Meaning of Alarm

February 4, 2015

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The good friends and comedy group known as Power Violence always give each other a helping hand. If that means learning the real meaning of “alarm”, then they will do all in their power to learn what “alarm” “means”.

Forget everything you know about alarm and enjoy their video here.

Jonah Ray Launching His Own Record Label

September 26, 2014

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Announced today, Literally Figurative Records will be an imprint label from Jonah Ray and AST Records. There will be comedy and music and a bit of both together handpicked by Jonah himself.

So far, coming up there will be a whole bunch of 7" albums from that feature both comedians and bands like Sean O’Connor/Upset, Powerviolence, Rhea Butcher/G.S. Schray, Alex Hooper/FARTBARF as well as a debut 7" album from Paige Weldon, a vinyl rerelease of Nick Youssef’s Stop Not Owning This, and an entire LP from Matt Dwyer.

Just to be clear, this is all pretty awesome and we can’t wait to hear all of these records as soon as possible.

Hell Yes Fest Bringing Grawlix, Sean Patton, More to New Orleans In November

September 4, 2014

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The comedy stylings of The Grawlix, Sean Patton, Giulia Rozzi, Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, Sean O’Connor, Power Violence, Nick Mullen, Jake Flores, Dave Child, Julia Prescott, Tamra Brown, Ron Babcock, Janine Brito, and more that we get to enjoy, and enjoy thoroughly, on a regular basis here in LA are coming to New Orleans this Nov. 12th-16th for The Hell Yes Festival.

So, we need not say more than get your tickets right here right now.

Power Violence’s Whitmer Thomas Joins Comedy Central Pilot ‘Crazy House’

February 8, 2014

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Power Violence’s Whitmer Thomas Joins Comedy Central Pilot ‘Crazy House’

The Comedy Central pilot Crazy House by the amazing Nick Turner and Lee Rubenstein just gets better and better.

First off, it’s a comedy pilot from Turner and Rubenstein, which is already great and now, great indie comedy group Power Violence’s Whitmer Thomas will play opposite Turner.

Just to see what this would be, we want to see this picked up to series.

February 25, 2011

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By: the great Jess Lane