The amazing Sean Patton is bringing his one-man show to Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics later this month. Called Number One, Sean will share stories that focus in on his former life as a chronic bedwetter.
Tickets are $8 online and $10 at the door. Please get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Poster by Caitlin Cook.
In Comedy Knockout, which will likely be TruTV’s more rough and tumble, roast-y version of @midnight, three comedians will come up with best burns for both various challenges and each other. Host Damien Lemon manages the chaos that ensues.
The competitive comedy series premieres tomorrow night at 10PM on TruTV, but you can see it in action with Sean Patton, Chris DiStefano, and Arden Myrin in the hot seats in these previews.
Sean Patton is always a highlight of the whole This Is Not Happening series.
This story on how he took intentionally mispronouncing the name of spice too far is further proof of that claim.
The amazing Sean Patton headlines with Solomon Georgio and Jeffrey Baldinger opening.
Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at door.
The rest of our listings are embedded over at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Central’s storytelling series, This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir, is returning soon and promises more tales of the absolutely ridiculous from great comedians and raconteurs.
This season, you’ll be getting true stories from Henry Rollins, Artie Lange, Sean Patton, Randall Park, Kate Willett, Nicole Byer, Mike Lawrence, Mark Normand, Solomon Georgio, Ron White, Joe DeRosa, Ben Roy, Nick Swardson, Joey Coco Diaz, Andrew Santino, Steve Simeone, Moshe Kasher, Kyle Kinane, Al Madrigal, Felipe Esparza, Jim Breuer, Kurt Metzger, Annie Lederman, Christina Pazsitzky, Dan Cummins, and Bret Ernst.
Get a taste of what sort of nonsense they got into in this trailer.
Look for the second season premiere of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir on Tues. Feb. 23rd at Comedy Central.
Since time immemorial, comedians have often lived together in what many would considered cramped, messy, and raucous living situations. Comedians, for the most part, think it’s just fine.
In this latest golden era of comedy, there’s a whole new excitement brewing in the underground and, with the aid of the Internet, it’s not quite as underground (i.e. no one has ever heard of it) as it used to be.
Lance Bangs explores this subculture that’s bridging its way to the big time, though, on its own terms, in his Viceland series Flophouse. Specifically, he goes through these comedian ‘flophouses’ and then sees them all put on a live show on a rooftop, in a back yard, in a garage, etc.
Here’s a trailer for Flophouse in case you’re curious as to what this all looks like and haven’t gotten the luck to go to a house comedy show.
By the way, featured in the trailer are:
Kate Willett, Clare O’Kane, Solomon Georgio, Amy Miller, Brent Weinbach, Brandon Wardell, Eric Dadourian, Dave Stone, Maria Bamford, James Adomian, Sean Patton, James Austin Johnson, David Gborie, Steve Agee, and much more.
Look for Flophouse to come to Vice’s new Viceland on Feb. 29th.
From what we saw, Denver has a good thing going in its comedy scene.
As you might imagine, we don’t get out of LA often or, really at all since there is so much to cover around the scene.
However, last month, we found our way to Denver, Colorado for the 3rd Annual High Plains Comedy Festival and we sure didn’t regret taking a week to explore the ins and outs of comedy in Denver. The Grawlix, which created the upcoming truTV series Those Who Can’t, rose to their current station from Denver and following in their stead is a great bunch of comics operating in what seems to be a well-balanced eco-system of comedy.
With the bureau’s budget, we could only send one person to Denver, so here’s the highlights of what they were physically able to catch at High Plains as well as bit of the local scene on the eve of the festival:
-Everything we’ve heard about Comedy Works in Downtown Denver being one of the best comedy clubs in the entire country, which comes from so many respected people that we and everyone know, is absolutely true. The set up of low ceilings and no tables and stadium seating eliminated any possible distraction from the person on stage. We got to see Ron Funches warm up for his album taping and it was electric.
–The Fine Gentlemen’s Club has established as another solid, rising grouping of stand-ups in Denver. Chris Charpentier, Sam Tallent, Bobby Crane, and Nathan Lund made quite the showing at their own weekly show at The Deer Pile as well as their High Plains show at Three Kings Tavern.
-The storytelling showcase The Narrators, created by The Grawlix’s own Andrew Orvedahl, ran the gamut of emotions from hysterical to sobering to hysterical again. They just branched out to San Diego FYI.
-The three primary venues for High Plains were The Hi-Dive, 3 Kings Tavern, and Mutiny Information Cafe, which were all about two blocks from each other. That’s always a big plus at any comedy festival.
Sean Patton, photo by Carlos Madrid
–Sean Patton got to headline several shows throughout the festival, which is a real treat to see his rich and deeply colorful comedy for both fans and first timers alike.
Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, and Ben Roy, photos by Emily Coates
-Hometown heroes The Grawlix (Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, and Ben Roy) got a rousing, rollicking homecoming when they headlined at 3 Kings. At one point, Roy lead almost half the crowd, pied piper like, up on stage and through the green room just for the hell of it.
-Recent LA transplants via Denver, Kristin Rand and Haley Driscoll put on a display of how spirited and charming they are several times at High Plains as well as at a few shows we caught before the festival.
Kristin Rand, photo by Carlos Madrid
–Mara Wiles and The Funky Brunch was one of our favorite shows at High Plains. It pitted stand-ups to do sets that had to finish with a funk/soul-inspired obstacle/restriction like literally being tied up with rope as a silky smooth love song is playing.
-One of the after parties featured German rock “group” Total Ghost where The Nix Brothers, highly regarded directing duo from Denver, pretending to play their instruments during a crazy multimedia light extravaganza. It was a pretty solid way to kick off an after party of a comedy festival.
–Ian Abramson’s 7 Minutes in Purgatory made yet another great festival appearance that took its concept of isolating performers from the audience with sound proof headphones and made them perform on the street with a whole other random crowd watching. The sheer number of levels of which of which you could enjoy the show on were pretty great.
Ian Abramson, photo by Carlos Madrid
-High Plains’ marquee show The Paramount Theater was a real sight to see with a near 2000 people in attendance to see Anthony Jeselnik headline. As Anthony himself noted, it was nice to see that he didn’t get too high like some folks have gotten at past years of High Plains.
-Denver’s own Aaron Urist was also on that big show at The Paramount and killed with his dark observational humor.
Aaron Urist, photo by Emily Coates
-On a live recording of Kevin O’Brien and Taylor Gonda’s These Things Matter podcast, we really enjoyed Jay Larson not having seen a good majority of the favorite movies and TV of the hosts and guests Ron Funches, Jonah Ray, and Karen Kilgariff, which each guest has to defend why it’s their favorite.
-Hailing from Portland, Wisconsin, and NYC respectively, Sean Jordan, Sammy Arechar, and Noah Gardenswartz gave Denver a great taste of their comedy brand with Sean and Sammy on the more silly side of the comedy spectrum and Noah on the sharper, precise side.
–Guy Branum proved why he’s an exquisite comedy force over the course of several shows on the festival as well as why he deserves to be on way more stages doing comedy than the many he is doing currently.
-The edgy competitive Madlibs adjacent game of Uncalled Four, birthed and grown in Denver, showed why it could become a game show for those looking for something a little darker/more blue/more fun than Steve Harvey’s reactions to answers on Family Feud.
Kurt Braunohler, Matt Braunger, Beth Stelling, Byron Graham, and Guy Branum at Uncalled Four, photo by Emily Coates
-The absurdists Ron Lynch and Andrés du Bouchet had a ball at High Plains, making people double over while probably redefining their entire perception of the art form of comedy.
Ron Lynch, photo by Carlos Madrid
-Recently formed comedy music duo Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff have been making a case to rethink you possible prejudices against musical comedy so you can enjoy some of the funniest and best crafted songs, often made up almost entirely from Drennon’s loop pedal, to come along in the last several years. Their performances at the festival furthered that notion.
Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff, photo by Emily Coates
-We have to give a big hand to Andy Juett for being at the helm of High Plains as well as Sexpot Comedy, which he co-founded, being a big driving force behind the festival and making something that should become an institution in Denver comedy if it already isn’t one.
Andy Juett, photo by Carlos Madrid
Any chance you get to watch Sean Patton, you should absolutely take it.
So, from the latest episode of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, here’s an extended uncut Sean Patton set that really captures our advice above.
Hari Kondabolu, Sean Patton, Lizz Winstead, Bridget Everett, Neil Hamburger, The Lampshades featuring Kate Flannery, Mike Lawrence, Solomon Georgio, Annie Lederman, Puddles Pity Party, Ophira Eisenberg, Naomi Ekperigin, Dana Snyder, Alison Rosen, Alex Edelman, Brett Hamil, Emmett Montgomery, Whitney Streed, Christian Ricketts, The A.V. Club Live, Writers of Brooklyn Nine-Nine featuring Gabe Liedman, Tricia McAlpin, David Phillips, Laura McCreary, Matt O’Brien, Lakshmi Sundaram, and more are set to perform at the festival.
If you’re in or around Seattle, WA on Labor Day Weekend, specifically Sept. 5th-7th, we’re guessing that a good portion of you are already going to Bumbershoot. If so, be sure to catch the comedy portion of the festival that has always had a solid line-up of both great talent from across the country as well as in the Pacific Northwest.
Just check the line-up above or watch Puddles Pity Party announce it here.
If you’re not going to the festival while around Seattle around that weekend, we suggest getting your tickets and going.
The return of The Riot LA Comedy Festival is just around the corner on Jan. 16th-18th, 2015 and with a good portion of the line-up announced, it’s something to definitely look forward to after this whole holiday season.
Norm MacDonald, Hari Kondabolu, Nick Turner, Michelle Wolf, Sean Patton, Karen Kilgariff, Roast Battle, Matt Braunger, Brendon Walsh, Billy Wayne Davis, Dave Hill, Dan Soder, Sam Simmons, Kurt Braunohler, God Damn Comedy Jam, Chris Fairbanks, Baron Vaughn, Brew Haha, Al Madrigal, With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus, Jamie Lee, Beth Stelling, Andy Kindler, Sean O’Connor, This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir, Nate Bargatze, Drennon Davis, Comedy Living Room, Dave Anthony, Happy Contest TIme, The Indoor Kids, Randy Liedtke, Jim Hamilton, Ashley Barnhill, Marilyn Bamford Collective, Ahmed Bharoocha, Barry Rothbart, and more are coming to a few blocks on Main St., in Downtown LA.
So, get your festival passes now for $90 while you can.
While there are plenty of great series that follow the lives of stand-up comedians, you would hard pressed to find great show that follows the lives of an improv group.
Sean Patton and his writing partner Rory Windhorst might have come up with that very series in “Yes, and..” It centers on a dysfunctional improv group based in New Orleans and has Sean Patton and Brooks Wheelan in the cast.
Watch the teaser to see what we’re talking about (password: yesand1).
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.
The annual music/arts/more neighborhood weekend festival known as Echo Park Rising is back this week, Aug. 15th-17th and will feature a much more robust comedy line-up.
In fact, between the Time Travel Mart and Echoes Under Sunset, they’re going to have four shows featuring the likes of Maria Bamford, Steve Agee, Dana Gould, Sean Patton, Karen Kilgariff, Ian Karmel, Hampton Yount, Seaton Smith, Emily Heller, Chris Garcia, Matt Braunger, Sean O’Connor, and way more. Midnight Run, the show where all the comics are probably way too high when on stage, will be going down.
You might also like to know that it will all be free to attend, so while you wander hearing too many bands to count and eating from too many food trucks, make sure to catch some, if not all these shows.
The Best Bars in America with Sean Patton and Jay Larson Returns This Month
The Best Bars in America special hosted by Sean Patton and Jay Larson that aired on Esquire TV months ago went so well that it’s coming back.
On June 25th, Patton and Larson will resume their search for the best watering holes around the country. We’re just glad we get to see two of our favorite comedians back on TV again.
Denver’s Sexpot Comedy and The Nix Brothers teamed up to give you “a warning” of what’s “really” going on with their complete legalization of recreational marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia in Colorado.
So, with that in mind, especially on 4/20, watch this PSA of sorts for a good laugh… we mean, learn about what reefer does to you… right?
Night Cap @ Goorin Bros. Is Tomorrow Night 3/21! Lizzy Cooperman Added!
In addition to the fantastic comedic stylings of James Adomian, Sean Patton, and Aparna Nacherla, the amazing Lizzy Cooperman (The Soup TV, Eric Andre Show) will now be joining us our wondrous evening intersection of comedy and hats Night Cap.
Also, know that there’s still a nice, little hat giveaway from Goorin Bros. Hats if you attend the show.
Space is limited and pre-sale tickets are still available at the link above, so don’t miss out on the best night of comedy and hats around (even if you’re not a hat person).
Fri. 3/21 9PM (Doors at 8:30PM)
Goorin Bros. Melrose (7627 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA)
$5 online, $7 at door ($6 if wearing hat)
Come to The Very 2nd Night Cap @ Goorin Bros. Melrose
OUR very first Night Cap presented by The Comedy Bureau and Goorin Bros. Hatmakers went spectacular with a stellar line-up, a great, fancy looking crowd, and even got a preview write-up in LA Weekly. So, with that in mind, you wouldn’t dare want to miss the second one.
YOU’LL get to catch the fantastic comedic stylings of James Adomian, Sean Patton, Jesse Case, and more along with, just like last time, a nice hat giveaway.
MARK down:
Fri. Mar. 21st. Doors 8:30PM. Starts 9PM. $5 in adv., $7 at door ($6 if wearing a hat)
Goorin Bros. Melrose-7627 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA
After a long deliberation/our good friends at the fantastic Goorin Bros. Hats wanting to do a comedy show, we along with Goorin present the very first Night Cap at Goorin Bros. Hat Shop on Melrose Ave. (7627 Melrose Ave. to be exact) here in LA.
Remember this: Fri. Feb. 21st, doors at 8:30PM, starts 9PM (Tip: repeating 25 times helps).
There’ll be comedy, hats, comedy plus hats, and even a hat giveaway! Oh yeah, the wonderful comedic talents of Sean Patton, Baron Vaughn, Margot Leitman, Andy Peters, and more as well as some guy who works here at The Comedy Bureau, Jake Kroeger.
The show costs only $5 to attend, which is, we’d bet, cheaper and better than any other night cap you’ve had, so get your tickets now..
Flyer by Deborah Etta Robinson
The Most Intentionally Funny Videos of 2013 Part 2
This is part 2 of me going through my favorites of my favorites in 2013 as far as videos that made me fall into stuff laughing during our column at Nerdist, The Most Intentionally Funny Videos.
Included are Maron in Space, Sean Patton’s story about being gaybashed as a straight guy, Matt Damon vs. Jimmy Kimmel, and more.
In case you haven’t noticed, late night stand up sets are evolving into self-contained stories that don’t transition to anything. We personally think it’s great and are excited to see more than just the traditional set of “joke-joke-joke” (don’t get us wrong, that’s still great).
Still, Sean Patton’s story about his little brother’s “neuralizer” (yes, that device from Men In Black) is pretty amazing. Watch him tell it on Conan now.
Esquire Network Having Jay Larson and Sean Patton Host “Best Bars in America” Special
Honestly, we’re just happy to hear that Jay Larson and Sean Patton will be on TV and will also be on TV together.
It’s just the frosting on this cake that two of the funniest stand up comedians working right now that we should all know will be hanging out at America’s best bars.
John Roy’s Podcast “Don’t Ever Change” Launches at Feral Audio
There are many sources where comedians get their material. None are as rich as the time when they went to high school. That’s why John Roy (you might recognize him from his newly released album Alexander Hamilton, which you should pick up) specifically digs into that with his brand new podcast just launched at Feral Audio, Don’t Ever Change.
Give it a listen, especially as the first guest is the hysterical Sean Patton who has plenty that he has dug from his years in HS.
Reggie Watts, Kurt Braunohler, Kyle Kinane, Beth Stelling, Nikki Glaser, Sean Patton, and the comedic stylings of Denver’s own Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy, Andrew Orvedahl, and many more are coming together for Denver’s first High Plains Comedy Festival.
On Aug. 23rd & 24th, if you’re in or around Denver or can get there, you’re not going to want to miss this, so, if that’s the case, get your tickets right now.
We’re unsure if you’ve been keeping up with Comedy Central’s latest round of comedy specials on The Half Hour, but definitely tune in tonight for two, in our opinion, of the funniest stand-ups working today in Sean Patton and Baron Vaughn.
Make sure you’re home, set your DVR, or beg your bartender to change the channel to Comedy Central at 12AM tonight.
The latest episode of CC:Studios storytelling web series This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir has the hysterical Sean Patton recount the story of how he got assaulted by a gay basher even though he’s straight.
Trust us. You’re going to want to set aside a solid 12 minutes for the entire astounding story.