Please Enjoy John Early, Kate Berlant, and Andrew DeYoung’s Latest Short “Rachel”

June 15, 2019

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Some of the best short films these days seem to come from the collaboration of John Early, Kate Berlant, and Andrew DeYoung (555, Dinner Party). There is striking balance of feeling grounded, organic, and real as well as threading a line of ridiculousness throughout that we really enjoy.

Such is the case with their latest offering, Rachel, which we won’t spoil with any sort of description. Just let it sink in over 12 min. or so here.

Please Enjoy Martin Starr and Milana Vayntrub Being Attacked by Hot Chip’s Latest Single “Hungry Child”

April 17, 2019

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Short film-music video hybrids that lean heavily towards comedy seem to be trending right now and that makes up pretty happy.

This latest offering for Hot Chip’s Hungry Child not only has Martin Starr (Silicon Valley) and Milana Vayntrub (New Warriors) in a truly bizarre situation, but is the brain child of filmmaker Saman Kesh.

We’re starting to think that we might be entering a whole new golden era of music videos.

Please enjoy it on repeat here.

April 9, 2019

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Please Enjoy This Sweet and Absurdist Short “The Do It Up Date”

Based off a modern fairy tale of sorts that Josh Fadem wrote, The Do It Up Date is, as we see it, pretty close to how many folks feel on a first date. By the way, it got a nod from SXSW this year and picked by Vimeo Staff.

Also, it’s Emily Ting & Andrew Barchilon and stars Bridey Elliott and Josh Fadem.

Give it a watch here.

Please Enjoy Tim Wilkime’s Award Winning Short Film “Milton”

March 26, 2019

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Well, when it comes to meeting your girlfriend’s family for the first time, it rarely goes a poorly as it does in this SXSW selection/Vimeo Staff Pick Award short film from Tim Wilkime, “Milton”.

Please enjoy this darkly comic short that happens to boast quite the case with some of our favorites including Allan McLeod (You’re the Worst), John Ennis (Mr. Show), Elaine Carroll, and Anna Seregina.

Please it enjoy it here.

Please Enjoy John Early as Ultra-Entitled Director ‘John Brearly’ in Alex Cameron’s Short Film/Music Video “Marlon Brando”

March 21, 2019

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It might be possible that John Early was destined for this role of playing an enfant terrible music video director.

Indeed, Early is brilliant as ‘John Brearly’ in this meta music video/short film for Alex Cameron’s single “Marlon Brando” directed by Jemima Kirke. John lets an ego run rampant during “the shoot” much to the dismay of Amy Zimmer, Scott Adsit, and members of Cocoon Central Dance Team, but is so damn fun to watch.

So, please give “Marlon Brando” a watch here.

Please Enjoy Zane Rubin’s Short Film “A Good Dinner Party”

March 14, 2019

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You might be now asking yourself, “What makes a good dinner party?” Before you dive too deep into thought about that, let Zane Rubin, the mind behind the wonderful Comedy Central digital series That’s How I Lost the Last One, show you what might make for a “good” dinner party with her latest short film.

Please watch and enjoy (and then think about what makes a good dinner party after) here.

Please Enjoy the Absurdist, Silent-ish Short Film “The Passage” from Phil Burgers (AKA Dr. Brown)

November 2, 2018

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Phil Burgers never ceases to surprise, even if you think you know what his game is. A perennial favorite at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a star in clowning/idiot, the owner and AD at beloved LA venue Lyric Hyperion, and one of those sorts talents that can and very often take moments from 0-60 comedically in an instant.

Thus is the case with this short film The Passage, created by Burgers and directed by Kitao Sakurai. It could be thought of a postmodern execution of the silent comedy very much keeps the silly, absurd spirit of the classical silent, physical comedy from almost a century ago.

Also, this is one of the last things produced by the revived Super Deluxe and thankfully lives on courtesy of TBS.

Oh, if you don’t know about Jetzo, we think this might be a nice little intro to one of our current favorite comedy duos working today.

So, without further adieu, please enjoy The Passage here.

If you’re in LA, you can come to a special release party/Q&A at the Lyric Hyperion at 10PM. Admission is free!

October 23, 2018

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An inflatable screen, a DIY picnic area outside of an animation studio, and a bunch of wondrous, as stated, “messed up cartoons” is what makes Let’s What Messed Up Cartoons a pretty damn memorable evening (perhaps, one of those only in LA sort of happenings?).

In any case, it should be one of the stops on whatever you’re doing this Halloween weekend. Get more details here.

October 2, 2018

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This Friday, new films from the very, very talented, boundary pushing group (from all different scenes and even parts of the country-Lorelei Ramirez in town from NYC) above will be presented at Junior High LA thanks to Bobby McCoy and Ember Knight.

Come enjoy a night of weird/wonderful films, especially for the fact that it’s cheaper than almost every matinee ticket in LA. Get more details here.

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

Please Enjoy These Absurdist Vignettes of “Branchburg” in New Jersey from Brendan O’Hare and Cory Snearowski

August 28, 2018

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Brendan O’Hare and Cory Snearowski present a quilt of vignettes, if you will, of their hometown Branchburg, New Jersey.

It’s very silly and, at the same time, oddly beautiful and that’s all the explanation that you’re going to get.

Please just watch and enjoy Branchburg here.

July 5, 2018

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The Super Serious Show will be marking their 8 year milestone this month and that alone could be a reason to go. However, you won’t to get to a line-up quite specifically like this one very often (even though LA is veritable spoil of comedy riches on a nightly basis).

So, we highly urge you to get your tickets ($7 in advance and $10 dollars cash at door) as soon as you can for this momentous occasion.

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

Lyric Hyperion Is Holding Its Very First Lyric Hyperion Short Film Festival

July 2, 2018

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One of favorites venues in town is doing yet another cool thing by throwing their very first short film festival.

The Lyric Hyperion Short Film Festival, produced by Philip “Dr. Brown” Burgers & Joshua Turek, will be an all day-and-night affair that’ll showcase the best shorts they can find, which ought to be pretty good considering the sorts of shows and screenings that they’ve been doing at The Lyric Hyperion over the years (just go through our listings here at TCB if you’re not familiar and you’ll notice plenty of Lyric Hyperion events).

The submission deadline is Wednesday, August 1st with a more than reasonable fee of $10 and films are to be no longer in running time than 30 minutes. The festival itself will take place on Saturday, September 1st.

Get more details and submit here.

June 27, 2018

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If you love Search Party, Joe Pera Talks to You, Too Many Cooks, Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough, TV Carnage, etc., odds are you’d like to see more rare and unseen videos from the very minds behind all of those wonderful things, right?

Lucky for you, such a thing is happening this weekend with Canary Underground at Coaxial in DTLA and we highly recommend not missing out on it.

Get your tickets for this ASAP here.

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

Please Enjoy Dark Comedy Short About Finding Representation “Unmarketable” from Megan Koester and Steven Feinartz

May 25, 2018

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One of the perpetual mysteries of the entertainment business from the creatives/entertainers/talents’ side is how to get decent representation.

So many factors involve an agency or management company taking you on as a client and two of them are how marketable you are and, unfortunately, how lucky you are.

From the minds of Megan Koester and Steven Feinartz, comes a darkly comedic tale of how attempting to get an agent goes horribly awry with NYTVF selection, Unmarketable.

Watch and enjoy it here.

Also, props to LA born-and-bred Eric Dadourian giving Ari from Entourage a run for his money.

Broke LA Festival Now Taking Submissions for Comedians, Filmmakers, Visual Artists, Inventors, Etc.

February 7, 2018

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Actually, Broke LA, the annual music and arts festival that is friendly on your wallet, is taking submissions of all sorts of artists and performers (seems that’ll include many disciplines in comedy) to be featured live on April 21st and/or 22nd at The Regent in DTLA.

You have until Thurs. Feb. 15th to get in for the early submission deadline for $10 fee and then, $15 for the final deadline on Fri. Mar. 2nd.

Get more details and submit here.

Submissions for 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival Now Open

January 6, 2018

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Submissions for 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival Now Open

If you want to submit any sort of comedy film, short film, web series, music videos, etc. to a big film festival and not have to leave town if it gets picked (or come to LA if it does and you’re from out of town), then get to work on submitting to the LA Film Festival.

Here are a few specifics:

Submission Deadlines
Early Deadline: February 12, 2018
Regular Deadline: April 9, 2018
Late Deadline: May 21, 2018
Exclusive Late Deadline: June 1, 2018 — Film Independent Members only

Categories:
Feature-length Fiction and Documentary Films (more than 51 minutes)
Short films (less than 26 minutes)
Mid-length short films (between 26 and 50 minutes)
High school shorts (less than 20 minutes)
Web Series (less than 12 minutes)

Get more details and submit here.

November 19, 2017

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Joey Izzo is absolutely a filmmaker you should be keeping an eye on as his films have made the rounds on the film festival circuit already (including being featured at Cannes). This selection of short films will also be presented with performances from Kate Berlant and Power Violence, which should round out the evening nicely between experimentation and silliness.

Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.

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

November 18, 2017

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This night features some of the best sandwiches in town, a sweet collection of short films, stand-up, and, on top of all of that, a screening of Wayne’s World all for free.

There’s no helping wanting to say “Party Time! Excellent!”

Get more details here.

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

Jon Daly and Gil Ozeri’s Short Film “Men” Shows Toxic Masculinity Getting Its Well Deserved Comeuppance

October 26, 2017

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Over the last few weeks, toxic masculinity has had several of its many, many heads lopped off with the unstoppable wave of sexual assault, harassment, and rape charges that have come to light.

One would hope that it’s a sign that “different time back then” is over and will not be tolerated anymore kind of like what happens in this darkly comedic, short film “men” from Jon Daly and Gil Ozeri.

Watch as they play two d-bags who embody toxic masculinity to its core and suffer accordingly here

(note: this is technically NSFW even though the social commentary here is important).

Please Enjoy “Mommy to Brayden”, a Short Film from Megan Koester and Joshua Turek

August 14, 2017

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Fresh from Megan Koester and Joshua Turek comes Mommy to Brayden, a sharply satirical short film that’s as “tapped into the Zeitgeist” as can be while also unapologetically poking at such a notion at the same time.

Please watch and enjoy it here.

Please Enjoy Matt Ingebretson and Pat Bishop’s Award Winning Short Film “Oh Damn”

August 1, 2017

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As Tribeca Film Festival Selection and a Nonplussed Fest Audience Award Winner and a nod from us here at TCB, we think you ought to enjoy this short film “Oh Damn” (which includes a great cameo by Fred Willard) from two personal favorite writer/director/comedians of ours, Pat Bishop and Matt Ingebretson.

Please Watch Nicole Dorsey’s “Harold: A Documentary” a Short Film Following the Life of a Homeless Tree

July 24, 2017

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Sometimes, you just don’t know how much you’d enjoy seeing a tree wistfully walking the streets of LA until you see it in a short film by the wonderful writer/director Nicole Dorsey where the tree is voiced by the great Henry Phillips.

That’s what happened with us watching Dorsey’s Harold: A Documentary that’s a finalist in AT&T’s Create-A-Thon short film competition.

Please watch and, again, enjoy here.

Please Enjoy Curt Neill’s Robbery-Gone-Wrong Short “The Getaway”

July 12, 2017

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If you’re like us and enjoyed the super stylish fun piece of popcorn that is Baby Driver, heist getaways are probably fresh on your mind.

Knowing that, you’ll probably enjoy this short The Getaway from Curt Neill, co-starring Anna Seregina and Clay Tatum, showing a much different sort of heist and subsequent result of said heist.

Actually, even if you’re not think about how bank robbers escape, we’d wager that you’ll really enjoy this short.

David Lewandowski Releases “time for sushi”, the Follow Up to Joyfully Non-Sensical “going to the store”

June 24, 2017

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In 2011, we saw this gem “going to the store” from David Lewandowski on Channel 101. Trying to explain it without weirding people for how abstract is, we just try to let people enjoy how silly it is sans context much like we did when we first saw it.

Now, Lewandowski has a follow-up that expands on “going to the store” and even ascends to something that’s a little sublime.

So, without further adieu, enjoy ‘time for sushi”.

JFL Montreal “Eat My Shorts” Short Film Competition Taking Submissions

April 19, 2017

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Just For Laughs and Kevin Hart are holding a short film contest called “Eat My Shorts” that will not only have 5 films screen at the one and only JFL Montreal Comedy Festival in July, but have one filmmaker/team get a development deal through the LOL website/app.

Submission rules/guidelines:
-They’re looking for films that speak to diverse, multicultural, millennial audience
-Total running time must be no less than 3 nor more than 22 minutes in length (including credits)
-All languages will be accepted but subtitles must be in English
-Submission deadline is May 13th.

Best of all, there’s no purchase necessary to enter or win.

Get more details and submit here.

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