Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 cash at the door.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 cash at the door.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Acclaimed comedian and storyteller Jay Larson is branching out, naturally, into making his own films.
This particular short Weekend Getaway shows how intricate juggling weekend plans can get and happens to feature two more of our favorites, Rory Scovel and Al Madrigal.
If you’re into the manic, intentionally campy, alternative history comedy of Danger 5, you’ll undoubtedly dig the latest work from Dinosaur, the folks that thankfully brought Danger 5 into this world.
It’s a short film called “Computer Man” that takes place entirely in the 90s choose-your-own-adventure style computer game. However, the game is one that would undoubtedly be rated MA (or in the context of you reading this, NSFW) and definitely stays on Dinosaur’s absurdist branding.
Prepare yourself for a basic graphics acid trip and watch it here.
Tickets are $14. Get them and more details here.
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Poster by Carly Jean Andrews
Whether it be a short film, an episode in a limited series, early morning programming for Adult Swim, or a collection of reenacted stories with varying degrees of fiction, Mulchtown from director Danny Jelinek and writer Chris Sartinsky ought to make your day better no matter wherever you are that isn’t Mulchtown.
Tickets available at the door. More details here.
Poster by Kevyn Schmidt.
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A mix of “groundbreaking avant-garde films and electrifying tour-de-force performances” will be featured with the line-up in the flyer above as curated by groundbreaking filmmakers Alex Kavutskiy and Ariel Gardner.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This will be Super Tight’s “season 2 premiere”. Doors at 7PM. Starts at 8PM.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Tickets are $7 in advance and $10 at door. Get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Joey Izzo is a great director who has been repeatedly knocking it out of the park with his short films and sketches for years now.
He is setting to make his latest dark comedy short I Was There Too about a man lying about surviving a mass shooting in order to get sympathy from family members. The film will star the fantastic DeMorge Brown and Eric Dadourian.
All Joey is looking for is $5K on Kickstarter and he already has $3220 raised at the time of this post. There is a month left to go on the campaign.
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Poster by Dylan Chudzynski
While the act has been oft described as ‘doggy style’, there are psychological complexities that come with trying anal that one probably wouldn’t think of, especially from the female perspective, when calling it something rather crass.
Tight Spot from writer/star Carmen Angelica and director Matt Kazman beautifully explores those deep layers and the anxieties that those layers are riddled with when it comes to butt stuff.
Please watch, enjoy, and potentially be enlightened about your love life here.
Based on a great personal essay by Matt Dwyer, DeMorge Brown and Jennifer Ruiz made this wonderful short film adaptation of “Life.”
It lays out how Matt and likely a lot of other folks would deal with life if it were embodied in a single person that you’d run into at a bar.
Watch it and hopefully feel slightly better about life, both the person and concept.
Last year, Jory John wrote this McSweeney’s article entitled “I’m An Expert Haggler at Garage Sales” that played out a scene of either the most shrewd bargain hunter at a garage sale or someone that you would probably want to punch in the face that happens to be at a garage sale.
The article has since been adapted by Jory John into a pretty great short film directed by David Jude Harris starring Matt Ingebretson (who you probably recognize if you’ve been following us for awhile) and Diane Sellers.
Pray that you never have to be at or hold a garage sale where this expert haggler is at.
For many years, we’ve enjoyed seeing Stephanie Allynne hone her darkly humorous, yet grounded comedic sensibilities. In an ever-growing field of dramatic comedy, she manages to stand out.
Now, she’s written and directed a short, The Fun Company, that will be coming out in April and features the likes of Mary Holland, Tig Notaro, and Lauren Lapkus.
From the looks of this gloriously rant-centric trailer, Allynne might have something special (that might also tangle with your idea of feminism is) with The Fun Company.
Based on what was a blog post written by Aaron Bleyaert, then adapted into a short film directed by the great Ben Berman, How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps! takes what could be a clickbait headline and turns into something very heartfelt and funny. In fact, it got enough buzz to screen at this year’s Sundance
Also, SNL’s Beck Bennett stars and Conan O’Brien makes a pretty sweet cameo.
How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps! is now up at Jash’s YouTube page.
Looks like Pixar might have some impressive competition from another animation studio in the animated short film category during awards season.
Aardman Animations who are behind so many stop motion animation classics like the aforementioned Wallace & Gromit as well as the recent Shaun The Sheep, ventured into a whole new territory with a 360˚ short film for the holiday season through Google’s Spotlight Stories.
In Special Delivery, you can enjoy an adorable chase between a janitor and Santa and also the ability to pan throughout the video within the YouTube player. If you’re watching on a mobile device, you should be able to pan your phone and the frame within the short film will also move in the same direction.
Special Delivery is the start of this sort of interactive video on such a platform as YouTube and what a start it is. Watch and play with it here.
They’re looking for dramas, thrillers, and, most importantly, comedies.
If you’ve got a screenplay that has core characters that are millennials, you might have a shot of getting a short film made that could possibly lead to the full-length feature version getting greenlit.
Indigenous Media and The Black List are collaborating on this Film Incubator with $100K set aside for this whole endeavor and are taking submissions until Jan. 17th, 2016.
Get more details and submit here.
John Early and Kate Berlant together are a comedy duo to be reckoned with, though in a layered, nuanced way.
Having dinner with them is no different as you can see in this short film starring and written by them and directed by Andrew DeYoung.
Watch “Dinner Party” here.
Apparently, Meghan O’Neill impressively makes a character out of everyone she sees and they all really dig her.
For College Humor’s CH2, O’Neill wrote and starred in a short that perfectly captures what we’d hope people were thinking if they ran into us on the street.
Unfortunately, real life isn’t a short film, but you can still enjoy Meghan’s “What We Think People Think About Us (But We’re Wrong)” anyway like we did.
Sara Benincasa is great. Body positivity is great. That’s all you should need to know to support the making of this short film.
Called “The Focus Group”, Sara will show in a short film how a focus group would analyze her body and show how ridiculous many beauty standards are today.
The Kickstarter campaign is looking to raise $9000 currently at $7355 as of this post. There’s three weeks to go before the campaign ends on Apr. 16th.
You can donate here.
Jon Daly “voices” an incredibly eloquent, but insecure horse in this animated short film from filmmaker David O’Reilly.
Other than that, we don’t want to say anything else and let you revel the wonder that is The Horse Raised by Spheres.
Marilyn Bamford offering the crowd snacks #RiotLA (photo by @callie_biggs)
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Once a year, The Riot LA Comedy Festival turns the ever blossoming Main St. in Downtown LA into an even more colorful affair. There are long lines delineated by pastel colored chalk and a concentrated distillation of some of the LA comedy scene’s finest as well as bringing in some of the funniest folks from around the country. In its third year, Riot LA has kept this phenomenon going to the point where it should become a time honored tradition to make a trek to Downtown LA.
If you didn’t happen to be in attendance last weekend for the festival, let us fill you in with some of our favorite moments at Riot LA 2015 (spoiler alert: there were no actual riots).
-NYC was well represented at Riot with great performances from Dan Soder, Dave Hill and his killer erotic short stories, Nick Turner, Sheng Wang, and Michelle Wolf who won the always crazy fun Happy Contest Time, a “stand-up contest” judged by Japanese school girls.
–Elisha Yaffe curated a fantastic series of offbeat, hysterical, fantastical, otherworldly, wonderful short films for “Weird Stories”. Whether it be the interconnecting bizarre events of an Interesting Ball from DANIELS or a video asking a stranger out while in costume from your job at a theme park from Andrew Peyton, the showcase proved short films (not viral videos) are very still much alive and are probably funnier than ever.
-Walking and talking showbiz encyclopedia Kliph Nesteroff chatted with the legendary Fred Willard. We were more than delightfully surprised to learn that Willard turned down the starring role in Airplane! and that, for a time when Fred was doing improv, he would have cut a scene short by have someone dressed up as a fairy that come out and announce the scene was over.
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-The LA comedy institution that is The Super Serious Show made a great showing per usual with one of the best on-stage duos around Kate Berlant and John Early at the host’s helm. Jerrod Carmichael offered some of the funniest bits about Bill Cosby we’ve heard since the allegations made the news, especially since he’s gotten to meet and chat with Cosby just before all of the controversy rose to the fever pitch that it is at now. Also, Nate Craig had a highlight worthy, wire-to-wire set.
A very special drop in who is definitely not Bill Burr #RiotLA (photo by @callie_biggs)
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-The one and only Bill Burr wore a fat suit to impersonate Pantera’s Vinnie Paul at The Goddamn Comedy Jam and we don’t need to elaborate further than on how the night went for the all out comedy rock show.
-Part installation artist/part comedian/part magical human being Kurt Braunohler dazzled yet again with his Roustabout show that included a sound effect operated wishing well, dog show dogs doing tricks, a lone trombone player, and snow here in LA. We didn’t know this was a dream of ours until Kurt made it a reality.
@kurtbraunohler enjoying his snowfall #RiotLA (photo by @callie_biggs)
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-One of the big headliners of Riot LA, Norm MacDonald, sold out the recently renovated and reopened, beautiful Regent Theater. Those in attendance for his high art dad-esque humor and persona were not disappointed.
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-The marvelously absurd Sam Simmons did a whole solo show that toured through his inner psyche through a complex set of beats and pre-recorded dialogue with himself while also being completely self-aware. Despite Sam’s protestations here and there, which are also part of the charm of his act, the crowd at The Smell loved it.
-The meta-meta podcast “With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus” had the whole of The Downtown Independent Theater on board for podcast host Lauren Lapkus playing the character of a fake podcast “hosted” by guest Thomas Middleditch who is also playing a character. It was akin to the trippy visual sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but done in comedy podcast form with a bit of a Southern affect.
–Margot Leitman and Giulia Rozzi’s Stripped Stories not only featured great, ribald stories, but a round of that classic party game “Never Have I Ever” where an audience member won by having intercourse while at a mental institution with one of the orderlies on his break in a laundry room. Never one to miss the gold coin on a comedy merry-go-round, Matt Braunger came to the stage as the orderly.
Brew Ha Ha really making their last drinking game count #RiotLA (photo by @abbeylonder)
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-The house party, drinking game comedy show known as Brew Haha got so out-of-hand, in a fun-spirited, responsible way, that many on the show took their clothes off on stage. It’s a pretty great way to make a house party happen in a downtown parking lot.
Maria Bamford prepares as @troyconrads observes #RiotLA (photo by @liezlwashere)
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-American comedy treasure Maria Bamford fully realized her mother, Marilyn Bamford, as a comedic character for an entire show, The Marilyn Bamford Collective. She was armed with a handheld vacuum, throw pillows, and the perfect imitation, which was made even more beautiful when the real Marilyn took the stage at the end of the show. At one point, Maria as Marilyn had noted comedian and impressionist Melissa Villaseñor do an impression of Maria right in front of her.
It may be redundant in saying this, but we’re looking forward to a Riot LA in 2016.
Writer/director Ian Samuels and MTV Other have made a short film, Myrna The Monster, following an alien that tries to just make a go of living in LA, which, even sans alien, can be alienating (pun absolutely intended).
It’s currently selected to play at next year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably enjoyed the directorial efforts of Brent Weinbach before. If you’ve seen Gangsta Hotline or Busdriver’s brand new music video, then you most certainly have enjoyed Weinbach’s touch as a director.
So, with that in mind, please do yourself a favor and enjoy Weinbach’s latest work, in which he stars, writes, produces, and directs, “I Don’t Dance”.