We can’t help but feel that this project falls right in the middle between the spectrum of Mike Judge’s King of the Hill and Silicon Valley, right?
Eight episodes are due out later this year at Cinemax.
Where Chris Fleming’s mind goes off of just seeing a top 30 Under 30 list on Forbes is magical.
Watch his version of what an ‘urban farmer’ is here.
We’re on the precipice of 2017 and leaving 2016.
For several people, that change is met with an angrily muttering of “good riddance!”
For Steve Harvey in this latest mash-up/remix done by Vic Berger for Super Deluxe, the changing of the years doesn’t seem to matter as hosting Family Feud has taken on a more Sisyphean task.
UCB’s got something up their sleeve with Gene Wilder & Fidel Castro’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve (in Limbo). According to the description, you’ll be able to wander halls of limbo that includes:
A Facebook Echo Chamber
Westworld World
The Physical Manifestation of Reddit
A Limbo Karaoke Room featuring the music of the approx. 1,000 musical artists who died in 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Woods
The Set of a Multi-Cam Sitcom
Fake News Ground Zero
Taking place all night long at UCB Sunset tomorrow, Friday, December 30th, this probably means you’ll get to actually wander the halls of the building (instead of just sitting in the theater), perhaps Sleep No More style, and see UCB’s go to performers recreate what they think 2016′s version of limbo is.
Interested? Good. You can (and should) get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Conan’s great recurring segment of “leaked calls” between President Obama and Trump got in its last round for this year.
As that’s the case, Team Coco made sure to make the ending for this edition a little extra special.
Earlier this month, renowned singer-songwriter Fiona Apple did her own version of the classic holiday tune, The Christmas Song, with a bit of a zeitgeist-y twist.
The satirical, Trump inspired version of the song that give a ‘darkest timeline’ vibe to the normally heartwarming song went viral, almost a forgone conclusion of a Fiona Apple anti-Trump holiday parody.
Apple has been performing the song live and in this recent performance gives a bit of extra bite to the changed lyrics.
We really have a feeling this song might get more play even beyond Christmas over the next few years.
Conan O’Brien and his staff walk such a great, fine line with these recurring leaked phone calls between Obama and Trump.
The bit, born after the election out of the fact that Obama and Trump do have real life conversations, are very silly and clever, a cornerstone of Conan, but it still sticks it to Trump.
Plenty of roaring fire is being held to feet of Trump and his cronies by John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers and they’ll continue to do so exquisitely over the next four years.
With that angle covered, Conan takes the approach he has always taken where he aims for the comedy, specifically the silly and absurd, before getting too political or partisan.
These recurring leaked phone calls accomplishes that and also steers clear of normalizing the situation of President Elect Trump as all of these faux conversations are about how irregular all of this is.
Also, take note how spot on the Obama impersonator is.
It’s a little bit of the best of both worlds in late night satirizing Trump.
Fiona Apple Made a Darkly Humorous, Trump-Inspired Version of The Christmas Song
In case you needed another reason to love Fiona Apple, here you go.
While, Fiona Apple isn’t a comedian and doesn’t really engage in musical comedy, she still made what could be the subversive hit of this holiday season.
Her freshly recorded, satirical twist on the holiday classic “The Christmas Song” that floats underneath the impending pall of the Trump Administration is worth a good laugh in these twilight weeks before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20th. Listen to it here.
Here are the lyrics by the way, which are NSFW is you sing them aloud, but we have a feeling that won’t stop you at this point.
Trump’s nuts roasting on an open fire
as he keeps nipping at his foes.
you’ll cry creepy uncle
every time he arrives
for he keeps clawing at your clothes
everybody knows some money and entitlement
can help to make the season white
mothers of color with their kids out of sight
will find it hard to sleep at night.
They know that truuump is on his way.
he’s got black boys in hoodies locked up on his sleigh
and every working man is going to cry
when they learn that Letch don’t care how you live or if you die
Sooo I’m offering this simple phrase
to kids from 1 to 92
although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas
Donald Trump, f*ck you
Indie humor publishing arm Devastator has their latest releases that really take a world of children’s wonder to the dark, grown-up side.
Toys 4 Cheap by Asterios Kokkinos and Jimmy Hasse reads like those Sunday pull out ads, but features a multitude of children’s toys that more belong in a more clever version of Spencer’s Gifts than at Toys “R” Us. See plenty of examples of above.
Geoffrey Golden’s Dream It! Screw It!: 30 Years of Rejected Disney Park Ideas from Dipp Disney takes on the failed ideas of a fictitious career of a forgotten Disney relative. The attractions include a “child feeding zoo” and other dystopian Disney rides that never made it past “imagineering” stage.
Both will make great gifts for you or the comedy fan in your life this holiday season.
Max Greenfield and Stephen Colbert get very clever in this bit on last week’s Late Show that is inspired by Trump’s presidential election win and trying to understand how it happened on the level of children’s recreational sports leagues.
It’s important that comedy keep holding certain people (Trump) and their feet to the fire.
Matthew Patrick Davis’ amazing musicianship and clever wordplay (he made an entire unauthorized musical about the King of Kong documentary) get put to great satirical use at a time where satire is probably more important than it’s been in awhile.
Watch the music video for Come Together (We Elected a Bigot).
Aasif Mandvi’s Satirical Muslim Family Sitcom “Halal in the Family” Seems More Important Than Ever
This web series was released awhile ago and won a Peabody Award, but given how fighting Islamophobia is, for some reason (potential Muslim registry, anyone?), now more important than ever, Aasif Mandvi’s Halal in the Family is a nice satirical reminder that we have more in common with each other than we don’t.
Oh, also, it’s so darkly funny on top of all of its social commentary. Watch, enjoy, and share.
Billy Eichner cleverly proves yet an important point through his on-the-street, pop culture trivia game show about who are some of the best people in our country.
See if you catch what it is here (Note: it should be pretty obvious).
Whomever you voted for or whether you voted or not, many Americans are heated at each other, to say the least.
Some time to cool off is definitely needed (even though we all have to come together at some point) and perhaps a Selfsgiving might be a better option for Thanksgiving this year.
Watch Above Average explain what Selfsgiving is here.
Every once in awhile a brand taps into a parody of their product just right. They send up the very thing it’s selling, but also does so in a way that makes them way cooler all the same.
Adidas has been doing a lot over the last couple years to boost their reputation in the ever burgeoning world of streetwear. Their latest collaboration with UK streetwear star Palace has an absurd, satirical campaign poking fun at how ridiculous the level of masculinity is within an men’s shoe ad.
In fact, this ad is way more clever, fun, and ridiculous than it need be. Watch it here.
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.
The dry, sarcastic bent of The Onion is making an entire election special that will air on Fusion. From the looks of this preview, it’ll have the look of a normal sort of traditional news deep dive on this election, but with appropriate cursing and satire.
The Onion Presents The Iconic Images of Election 2016 is set to premiere on Friday, October 21st at 9PM on Fusion right after the Chris Cubas-1 percenter docu-special Chris Gets Money and right before a Bassem Youssef special called Muslim Invasion.
While it’s certainly unbelievable that there would be undecided voters in this election, they do exist.
Above Average wanted to get “their story” and see what has them so internally conflicted on choosing between Hillary and Trump.
Well, they “found” some undecided voters and made this video profile of them that really shows why they can’t decide.
The Cooties are already great. Reggie Watts is also already great. They all definitely do not need to be made great again.
So, as a group of greats, they made a perfect, satirical Trump supporter song and accompanying music video, Trumpy Trump, that shows why one Donald Trump isn’t actually fit to make anything great at any time.
Noted fashion house Kenzo has been making plenty of right moves lately and making their brand seem even cooler than it already is. They had a really great Spike Jonze music video and now, they have a short film by Carrie Brownstein.
Called The Realest Real, it skewers social media in a Portlandia-esque way if you set Portlandia in the dystopian future of a nameless city. Also, Natasha Lyonne plays a pretty great role in it.
Has the thrill of Fantasy Football or simple gambling on a football game gone?
Fret not as Katie Nolan and Garbage Time has got you covered with a NFL Bingo card that ditches normal in game statistics in the squares for eventualities that come with the NFL season (some amazing and some inconvenient truths).
It’s sure to get you back into pro football on a whole new level.
Katie explains further here.
A brand new web series at Refinery 29′s RIOT channel attempts to tackle the very pressing issue of getting a job in the real world (i.e. one where a lot of things just don’t work out the way you want them to).
Aptly called “how to get a job.”, Mitra Jouhari (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Three Busy Debras) hosts and shows what really happens when people are joining the work force.
Watch this episode that shows how ill-prepared so many college graduates are as soon as they leave school and how they manage coping with that.
Matt Braunger Offers a Great Follow-Up to Horrific “How to Talk to Women Wearing Headphones” Article
Basically, this sentient-grease-fire of an article called How To Talk to a Woman Who Is Wearing Headphones by Dan Bacon was just posted that not only encourages unwanted advances by men to pick up women, but reinforces patriarchal gender roles and stereotypes to the point that you might question whether you’re living in 2016 yet.
Comedian/sane human being who does live in 2016, Matt Braunger, felt that that Dan Bacon left out a few steps and offered his own satirical corollary, How To Talk to a Woman Wearing Headphones Pt. 2 that almost washes out the bad taste of the source material out of your mouth.
Aasif Mandvi Developing Dark Comedy ‘Fatwa’ at Showtime with Writer/Producer Dave Holstein
It’s about time someone made an entire dark comedy series about cartoonists who get death threats for certain cartoons that cross certain religious lines.
Aasif Mandvi and Dave Holstein, who Mandvi worked with on The Brink, are developing the dark comedy Fatwa over at Showtime that will focus entirely on that and have Mandvi star.
It should be a nice follow-up to the last series that Mandvi got top-billing in, Halal in the Family.
As part of the promotion of a movie, the talent is often now required to do some sort of online content that needs to go viral.
Such a dilemma befell Don’t Think Twice’s Mike Birbiglia, Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Chris Gethard, Kate Micucci, and Tami Sagher.
So, they did this.
Is it a viral video? Is it a short film? Is it a sketch? Is it all three as a commentary of the debilitating allure of having content go viral? Is that in of itself a viral video?
We’ll let you decide for yourself (though we’re betting on the last two FYI).