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Pick of the Day: An Evening at the Haha Hole with Sara Schaefer (on Zoom) 9/23

September 21, 2021

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At this side of the pandemic with a good deal of live, in-person comedy happening every night, the prospect of tuning into virtual comedy has to be something really special. Fortunately, Sara Schaefer’s night of stand-up done completely in miniatures at her beautifully crafted miniature comedy club “The Haha Hole” is very much that very, very special thing that’s worth going back on Zoom for.

Sara has another Evening at the Haha Hole lined up for this Thursday, Sept. 23rd via Nowhere Comedy on Zoom, with another dive into our conception of what a comedy club is or might be as well as some really great stand-up, performed in miniature of course, from the likes of Naomi Ekperigin, Danielle Perez, and Debra DiGiovanni.

Do not miss out on this one-of-a-kind virtual comedy show no matter where you are in the world. This edition of Evening at the Haha Hole is set for 9/23 at 6PM PT/9PM ET and tickets are $15. All the early bird tickets already sold out, so you best snag your tickets pretty soon.

Pick of the Day: Space Babes (in LA) 9/24

September 16, 2021

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Live comedy on the Eastside in LA grows stronger day by day. More venues and shows are either coming back or popping up (and this was the case pre-lockdown as well). The latest addition to the comedy boom on the eastside of town is a brand spanking new, outdoor stand-up show called Space Babes.

Taking the outdoor space at Highland Park’s long standing neighborhood bar, The Offbeat, the ever cleverly rambunctious Randy Liedtke will host this new stand-up endeavor and kick it off with a real barnburner of an inaugural line-up. That’ll include Rory Scovel, Lizzy Cooperman, Sara Schaefer, and Jared Goldstein (and there’s more to come!).

Best of all, it’s free to attend (so long as you have proof of vaccination).

Don’t miss the very first Space Babes on Fri. Sept. 24th at 8PM PT.

Pick of the Day: An Evening at the Haha Hole (Virtual) 7/22

July 1, 2021

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Sara Schaefer has many, many talents and skills. Lots of them are in and throughout the comedic arts, but Sara also expresses herself quite beautifully through miniatures. Her knack for crafts has led her to build several miniatures dioramas and houses that are quite detailed, especially during the pandemic.

Naturally, this was going to intersect with comedy at some point and, as such, Sara has built a to-scale replica miniature of an old school comedy club, complete with a ridiculous name “The Haha Hole” and she’s now going to host a virtual comedy show from this miniature comedy club via livestream at Nowhere Comedy Club. Joining her will be the comedy stylings of Patton Oswalt and Kristal Adams, definitely making this an event that you shouldn’t miss no matter where it’s actually happening.

An Evening at the Haha Hole is set to go live on Thurs. Jul. 22nd at 6PM PT/9PM ET. Tickets are going for $10 and you ought to go snag ’em here.

Sara Schaefer Nails the Current State of Comedy via a Satirical Infomercial

May 17, 2021

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You don’t have to look hard these days (just like you didn’t have to look hard throughout several years past) to see the toxic shortcomings within the art form of comedy.

Yet, for all the panels and roundtable discussions that have been had about free speech vs. pc/cancel/accountability culture, have things changed? Have things in comedy gotten any better than, let’s say, 2006 when Seinfeld star Michael Richards had his infamous set at The Laugh Factory that ruined his career?

Well, some of it has, but plenty of comedy is still stuck in the problematic ways of yesteryear.

Leave it to the ingenious Sara Schaefer to come up with something on her newly minted podcast The Schaefer Shakedown that perfectly capture this moment. Through this very clever infomercial-esque ad read for a thing called “comedy”, Sara paints a clear, pretty damning, and pretty hysterical picture of the state of comedy is these days.

Please enjoy it over and over here.

When comedians start rambling on about how "comedy is a family" and "comedians always have each other's backs!" this is what it sounds like to me. pic.twitter.com/bM4vc233gL

— Sara Schaefer (@saraschaefer1) May 16, 2021

Pick of the Day: Looking Forward to It with Josh Gondelman (in Support of Fair Fight) 5/10

May 6, 2021

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So, state by state, it seems as though new restrictive voting laws are being put in place and enacting how little the voting body of this country is and who gets to be part of it (Florida is the latest perpetrator, FYI). Don’t be mistaken; it’s turning back the clock of history and moving forward as a society.

With that in mind, one should always be in attendance and support the marvelous comedy show Looking Forward to It with Josh Gondelman as it is a show dedicated to both continuing the fight for voter engagement and representation in the very crucial years to come and give you a top shelf night of comedy. This month, one of the most effervescent comedians around, Josh Gondelman, will assemble the brilliance of David Wain, Sara Schaefer, Khalid Rahmaan, Alison Leiby, and Dan Fox and raising money for the amazing efforts of Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight.

Get in on the fun and the fight with your tickets (starting at a $20 suggested donation) here. This edition of Looking Forward to It with Josh Gondelman goes live on Mon. May 10th at 5PM PT/8PM ET, presented by Nowhere Comedy Club on Zoom.

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 40: 2020 Wrap-Up/Best of/Looking Forward (w/Joel Mandelkorn)

December 30, 2020

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2020. Was it the year that comedy took a “little nap”? Was it a year where the effects of the pandemic will forever change the business dynamics and artistic direction of the art form of comedy? Were the latest seasons of Corporate and What We Do In The Shadows some of the year’s best TV?

As it’s the last week of 2020, TCB’s Jake Kroeger gets to the bottom of all these questions in a very special, year-end wrap-up episode of the TCB Field Report. He’s joined by one of the sharpest minds in comedy, veteran indie comedy producer Joel Mandelkorn to shout out their favorite/most sturdy/noticeable things in comedy in 2020 as well as what lies ahead for comedy in 2021 if the world hasn’t sunk into total mayhem at that point.

Shout outs to: What We Do In The Shadows, Corporate, How To With John Wilson, Baited with Ziwe, Eddie Pepitone: For the Masses, @aparnapkin, @danadonly, @saraschaefer1, Comedy Crossing, and Laurie Kilmartin.

Follow Joel @cleftclips & Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen @hottub_show and please get Super Serious: An Oral History of Los Angeles Independent Stand-Up Comedy

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).
Produced by Jake Kroeger
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Pick of the Day: Mandee Johnson In Conversation with Christina Catherine Martinez About ‘Super Serious’ 8/20

August 14, 2020

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While one of our actual favorite monthly shows has to be in hiatus for now because of, well, you know why at this point, that isn’t stopping The Super Serious Show from keeping the ball in the air with something inventive, substantive, enlightening, and fun.

We’ve already gave you the low down on Super Serious: An Oral History of Los Angeles Independent Stand-Up Comedy and why it’s very likely our favorite coffee table book in recent memory. It’s currently up for pre-order and shipping out next week, Tue. Aug. 18th.

Once again, you really ought to get it if you like comedy at all.

As part of the book’s release, Mandee Johnson will be doing an exclusive event via Book Soup on Thu. Aug. 20th at 6PM PT/9PM ET that will be a conversation about the breadth of LA comedy history within the book, but also feature a damn fine line-up of guests including Dave Anthony, Sara Schaefer, Chris Garcia, and Christina Catherine Martinez as the pro art critic/comedian moderator.

RSVP for the event (and order the book from Book Soup) here.

Photos by Mandee Johnson

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 20: Kyle Kinane & Tranquility (Sort Of)

August 12, 2020

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The brilliant Kyle Kinane hops on Zoom with TCB’s Jake Kroeger for this week’s Field Report with just having released his latest album, a comedic work of grandeur called Trampoline in a Ditch. Jake and Kyle talk the thought behind releasing a 100 minute comedy album and the phenomenon of the podcast fan via Kinane’s shows that he co-hosts, The Boogie Monster and Hey Girl. They get into some quick takes (and some hot tangents) on AMC doing true crime comedy, Judd Apatow doing a George Carlin doc, and Peacock’s latest comedy programming line-up. Also, there’s quite a bit of reminiscing of Kinane’s comedy throughout his career that you really ought to look up when you get the chance.

Follow Kyle @kylekinane and get into the Boogie Monster co-hosted by Dave Stone and Hey Girl co-hosted by Matt Braunger. Support NIVA at saveourstages.com.

Shout outs: Mike Carrozza’s upcoming album Cherubic, Sara Schaefer’s Grand: A Memoir, and Sam Tallent’s Running the Light.

Go Get Sara Schaefer’s Grand: A Memoir

August 11, 2020

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We love Sara Schaefer and her comedy for so many reasons over so many years. The attention to detail and the overall artisanship she puts into all of her comedy has been an absolute to delight to revel in whenever we have gotten to see or hear it. As such, she’s Emmy nominated for her writing. Also, her Hobby Lobby story on her last album Live Laugh Love is one of the best, most thoughtful stories we’ve heard in stand-up in recent memory.

Schaefer’s latest work is a cleverly wrought memoir, Grand: A Memoir. It follows Schaefer’s journey going rafting on a vacation with her sister through the Grand Canyon as someone who is both afraid of whitewater rafting and reflects on a life-altering family scandal throughout holding on for dear life on a turbulent raft. The way that Sara weaves own internal dilemmas and psyche through narrative is quite beautiful and makes Grand really stand out from most comedian memoirs.

Grand: A Memoir is out today, fresh off the presses from Simon & Schuster and you can (and should) go get it here.

Sara Schaefer Imagines a New Sort of Barbie Dream House for Quarantine

June 24, 2020

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You’re well aware that the COVID-19 pandemic persists and that it will for a good number of months ahead as the curve has not flattened and that life seems unsure like it was March/April.

With that in mind, it’s fair to say that a Barbie Dream House wouldn’t be the same for these times either. Sara Schaefer went ahead and actualized what that might look and created a great, timely, and hilarious sketch for the quarantine life and societal uprising that we’re all a part of now.

Enjoy Sara Schaefer’s Quarantine Dream House here.

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Pick of the Day: Boast Rattle 5/9

May 6, 2020

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Saying things that are nice to other people is one of the most valuable things you can do in times like these. In fact, even a competition of how nice one comedian can boast about someone better than another comedian that they’re going to head-to-head with, boast for boast, can still help in spreading positive vibes during these dire times.

Thus, it’s the perfect time for Kyle Ayers‘ terrific compliment contest Boast Rattle that has run for years and will now get to run once again on Twitch. Attempting to out-compliment to each other will be an amazing line-up that really ought to make a barnburner of niceness including: Josh Gondelman, Sara Schaefer, Dave Ross, Giulia Rozzi, and Will Miles.

This latest edition of Boast Rattle will take place this Saturday, May 9th at 6PM PT/9PM ET on Kyle’s Twitch here.

Boast Rattle, a Compliment Contest, is back! @BoastRattle!

This Saturday, May 9, at 9p EST / 6p PST! Comedians competitively compliment. Niceroasting.

Streaming live at https://t.co/Y9FaFkflME

with @joshgondelman @saraschaefer1 @GiuliaRozzi @davetotheross @MrWillMiles +more! pic.twitter.com/AAUyeK6OB5

— Kyle Ayers (@kyleayers) May 5, 2020

September 26, 2019

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The ultra epicurean comedy night from CleftClips and Yelling About Pâté, Amuse Bouche, is back once more for another round of delectable food and libations and comedy.

As you can see above, there will be delicious offerings from Steve Samson, Kronnerburger, Melody, Kyle Kinane, Yassir Lester, Sara Schaefer, and Karl Hess making for fine, fine evening.

This night always sells out and you best get your tickets, on sale now for $35, real quick.

Please Get Sara Schaefer’s New Album “Live Laugh Love”

February 26, 2019

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It has been a few years since Sara Schaefer’s great debut album Chrysalis and the care and attention to detail and structuring in this new hour Live Laugh Love that has been put in within that time is evident.

Altering between a running joke of a song and personal observations and grand stories of how everyday minutia is fraught with the divisiveness of our times, Schaefer offers up another album that really gets deep into the humor of the human experience.

It’s a real, satisfying journey of self-discovery that she takes on (especially that Hobby Lobby story) and few other comedy albums right now are going this deep.

So, please get Live Laugh Love right now right here.

January 8, 2019

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We’ve got a good feeling that this show, The Professionals*, will be kind of like Tough Crowd with a modern twist (a thing we’ve been wishing would happen for awhile). Whether the comedians on the panel end up pulling off sounding like professionals outside of their areas of expertise or not, it’s an amazing line-up worthy of going to see do pretty much anything (we mean, just look at it).

Tickets are $5 in advance and $8 at the door. Go get them quick here.

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

October 8, 2018

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Well, do you want to hear something, anything at all positive? Sure sounds like a compliment contest might be the thing you need.

It just so happens that the monthly, always fantastic Boast Rattle is happening this Wednesday at Dynasty Typewriter and is sure to be an escape to funny life affirmations, (maybe slightly awkward) expressions of affection, and more.

Get your tickets in advance here for $10. It’s $15 at the door.

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

Sara Schaefer Imagines a Dystopian-ish Future and Reminisces About Real Life Present Day with “Loner at Coyowolf Creek”

March 5, 2018

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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.

November 13, 2017

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THIS THURSDAY, WE WILL BE MAKING HUNTINGTON BEACH/THE OC AT THE REC ROOM HAVE MANDATORY GOOD TIMES GUARANTEED BY SOME OF OUR PERSONAL FAVORITE COMICS.

At this point in time, it’d be nice to be forced to have a good time, no?

Tickets are $15 (plus a 2 item min.).

BUY TICKETS HERE.

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

Hey OC, We’re Coming to You Live with Some “Mandatory Good Times”

November 6, 2017

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The OC’s newest comedy club, The Rec Room in Huntington Beach (7227 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach, CA) is having us here at The Comedy Bureau take over for a night!

So, we’re bringing some of our favorite comedians up from LA for a night where it’s bureau-mandated that you have fun.

Officially joining us will be:
Sara Schaefer (she’s won Emmys)
Chris Fleming (you might have gone and binged watched the web series Gayle)
Catherine Christina Martinez (is successfully bridging the worlds of art and comedy with Aesthetical Relations)

Also, TCB staffer/creator/director Jake Kroeger will be hosting for the evening.

Tickets are $15 with a two-item minimum. Please get them here.

Whether you’re in the Orange County or just somewhat close to the OC or maybe just up here in LA looking for a comedy show from us, you need to go to this and are required to have a good time (we all need a “good time” right now anyway).

May 31, 2017

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Weekly show, Sauce Comedy, is using June to put on an entire all-female comedy festival that does indeed feature some of the best comedians (see for yourself in the flyer above) that LA has to offer.

Perfectly called Pizza Coven, there are five Fridays in June that will make up this festival held at Desano’s Pizza in Hollywood.

Get more details about Pizza Coven here.

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

Sara Schaefer’s Doing a North American Summer Tour Plus The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

May 24, 2017

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Sara Schaefer, whose comedy we hope you enjoyed on her excellent album Chrysalis, has lined up an impressive span of dates which have her hopping around North America all summer long and finishing the off tour with a month long run at the famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

So, it’s a global tour that you ought to catch at one stop or another.

Get tickets for a show near you here.

January 20, 2017

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We hope that you’ve been to one of the many amazing benefit shows that has taken place since the election (and we’re glad to see that there have been a lot).

Plenty more benefit shows will be coming through while under the Trump Administration, like Pussy Control next Sunday at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. Phoebe Robinson, Guy Branum, Wendy Ho, and hosts Kyle June Williams and Brooke Van Poppelen are on a very stacked bill.

Tickets are $20 with a $4 service charge and you should get them here.

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

“Not Safe with Nikki Glaser” Makes Best Parody with Sara Schaefer of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” Using Vibrators

March 3, 2016

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Not Safe with Nikki Glaser continues their run of great, kinky stunts by riffing on Jerry Seinfeld’s award winning Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but opting for sitting on vibrators instead of sitting in a car.

Nikki’s former Nikki and Sara Live and podcast You Had To Be There co-host Sara Schaefer joins in on the endeavor.

Watch what happens here.

Sara Schaefer and Little Esther Talk Parental Sex Talks

December 18, 2015

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This latest episode of Cocktales with Little Esther features the wonderful Sara Schaefer and an exploration, amongst other fun sex topics, the ill-fated parental sex talk.

Watch it here.

IFC Orders Pilots From Dan Harmon, Sara Schaefer, and Jim Norton

August 5, 2015

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IFC has faux talk shows covered with Comedy Bang! Bang!. Now they’re looking to get into the real thing.

From Dan Harmon, IFC is ordering a pilot of a panel talk show where Harmon chats up famous historical figures played by comedians called Great Minds. From Sara Schaefer, they’re ordering a week-in-review show with predominantly female correspondents called 1320 Seconds. To round it off with a third, IFC is ordering a more traditional talk show pilot with Jim Norton as the host.

All three are different enough that we wouldn’t be surprised to see all of them get a short first season order.

Watch The Premiere of Comedy Dynamics’ Stand-Up Series “Coming To The Stage”

May 6, 2015

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It’s on Hulu right now.

The both hilarious Sara Schaefer and Ian Abramson kick off the premiere episode of Comedy Dynamics’ new stand-up showcase series Coming To The Stage hosted by Dan Levy.

As we said before, you can watch it on Hulu right now and you can do so free of any password.

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