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Reductress Gets a Pilot Order for Late Night Show at Comedy Central with Abby Elliott Attached as Host

June 13, 2018

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Reductress Gets a Pilot Order for Late Night Show at Comedy Central with Abby Elliott Attached as Host

For those uninitiated with Reductress, “the Onion for feminism”, please go on a deep dive ASAP and get into their great satirical articles, podcasts, etc. that probably, at this point, surpass the simple comparisons to The Onion.

Now that you’re hopefully caught up, you can get hyped that Reductress, co-created by Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo, is getting their own late night pilot over at Comedy Central that they’re calling The Reductress Hour. Abby Elliott will be hosting, but doing so in character.

Whether that’s more or less in-character than Jordan Klepper is on The Opposition isn’t clear at this point, but given Reductress’ tone, we’d guess that they’ll be going as absurd as they can go.

We can only hope that it gets picked up to series so we can see what that actually looks like.

June 5, 2017

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At the same time, you can support a great cause by raising money for Downtown Women’s Center, watch a very stacked comedy show, and also hang at Cinefamily, one of LA’s revered cultural institutions.

Get your tickets here (again, no tickets will be available at door; you must purchase them in advance).

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

April 12, 2017

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Mouth Time, the podcast hosted by Reductress editors, is going live next week at The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake with a very special guest, Paul F. Tompkins.

If that’s right up your alley, you can still get tickets for $10 here.

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

If There’s a Satire Hall of Fame, Reductress Just Earned Their Spot with “How To Win at Feminism”

October 27, 2016

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Reductress, which you could think of as The Onion with a feminist bent, has just released How To Win at Feminism, a book that revels in the fight for equality between the sexes with the sort of wondrous, unapologetic, whip smart tone that you probably know and love from Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

Within its pages are discussions of Taylor Swift feminists vs. Beyonce feminists, a guide to the rings of hell for women that don’t help other women, and more satirical gold that’s arriving on bookshelves at the perfect time.

Honestly, we think How To Win at Feminism could be potentially enjoyed by all including those stuck in the most toxic depths of masculinity. Maybe they’d even be brought around to the right side of history if they appreciated this book for the carefully crafted piece of satire that it is.

How To Win at Feminism was sharply penned by Reductress’ own Anna Drezen, Sarah Pappalardo, and Beth Newell. There’s a stop on the book tour here in LA with Pappalardo and Newell at Skylight Books on Friday, November 11th at 7:30PM.

It’s National Book Lovers Day, So Buy/Pre-Order New Books from Norm MacDonald, Reductress, Tony Millionaire, Will Hines and More

There’s nothing quite like a random day like National Book Lovers Day that’s set up to celebrates books that allows us to recommend to you some great comedy book titles that have been either recently released or will be hitting bookshelves (both physical and digital) very soon.

So, without further delay, get your observance of this holiday in with buying or pre-ordering the following:

–Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm MacDonald (out September 20th)