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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 10: Gareth Reynolds Right Before LA Curfew

June 3, 2020

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Gareth Reynolds, co-host of The Dollop, is the esteemed guest for this week’s Comedy Bureau Field Report. Getting ready to observe curfew here in LA on the date of of this recording, Mon. Jun. 1st, Gareth and TCB’s Jake Kroeger get into the state of things and the state of comedy, even questioning what’s the point of comedy right at this historical moment (and how to even go about doing it). It’s a “very special episode” in a universe of “very special episodes”.

Follow Gareth Reynolds @reynoldsgareth across platforms, listen to The Dollop, watch Ga’riffs on IG Live @reynoldsgareth at 6PM PT, and also listen to Point vs. Point.

Shout outs: Wyatt Cenac’s One Angry Night in November, Hannah Gadsby’s Douglas, and What We Do in The Shadows.

For the times we live in consider donating money to a worthy cause like the Peoples City Council Freedom Fund.

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Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

While the Anti Beyoncé Protest Was a Bust, Maybe Even a Hoax, Conner O’Malley Pranked the Whole Thing Anyway

February 17, 2016

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Conner O’Malley is a master of putting up a mirror to the ugliest parts of the zeitgeist.

For example, watch Conner showing up to a planned Anti-Beyoncé protest in NYC and doing an over-the-top man on the street bit. Even though almost no protesters actually showed up, O’Malley went ahead with his plan and probably gave us all a good estimation of what some of the protesters might have actually sounded and looked like.

Watch it here.

Cinefamily and Secret Cinema Hosting “A Secret Protest Screening” In Support of “The Interview”

December 20, 2014

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Though Sony has currently stopped the release of The Interview and Paramount has claimed Team America: World Police is “out of service”, independent theaters, many of which would be ready and willing to screen The Interview, are still trying to make a stand in any way they can.

The beloved indie/art house/retrospective Cinefamily based out of The Silent Movie Theatre here in LA has partnered with UK’s Secret Cinema and is putting on a “Secret Protest Screening”. They won’t be showing The Interview, but they also have not revealed what they will be showing.

The screening description reads:

We think what’s happened with The Interview is plain wrong. It sets a terrible precedent, and we feel, as an independent movie theater, we should do whatever we can to support any filmmaker or film studio’s right to free speech.

All proceeds will go to global free speech charity Article 19.

So, let’s not succumb to threats against making and watching whatever movies we want. Make a stand, though literally sit and use standing room if you have to, and go to this if this Sun. Dec. 21st at 7:30PM.

March 4, 2011

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Recently: The Supreme Court backed the protests of the Westboro Baptist Church against homosexuals in the military as they reasoned “hurtful speech” is still protected by the Constitution. Apparently, “confusing speech” is also protected as Jimmy Dore found out while getting heckled.

(Source: http://www.jimmydorecomedy.com/)