With the hilarious NYC based Good Cop Great Cop, there is no telling what goes on after hours in whatever offices they work at.
Well, there was no telling until they made a video “documenting” it and it turns you that you probably don’t want to stay too long after clocking out.
Many dads and their sons are estranged, sometimes for years. There’s no surefire way to make the two meet and connect, but sketch group Garlic Jackson has a good idea on how to not do that.
Watch and learn here.
Sketch group Hush Money makes an interesting hypothesis with their sketch Correspondence Fight. If people in relationships from centuries past knew the sort of sarcastic, passive aggressive language we use so frequently today, they would have opted for that over their verbose prose.
Whether or not that’s true, which would be impossible to verify without a time machine, it makes for a pretty funny sketch.
None of us know what really makes someone the one in this crazy world. The sketch group Women, however, does.
In fact, they know exactly how you find the one person that you’re supposed to spend the rest of your life with in their latest sketch.
If you can’t understand Spanish, then it might be a little difficult to understand your homework assignment in Spanish class.
UCB’s Beige take that idea to all new heights. Watch what you should have been doing in Spanish/any foreign language class here.
Awesome NYC based sketch group Murderfist presents a rehearsal dinner for a wedding that probably takes the cake for hysterical rehearsal dinners (so long as you’re not actually in attendance for this one).
We’re not even sure how to play the game having watched it, but we can tell you that amazing sketch group Dead Kevin has definitely found one of the best/worst card games that people can play.
Watch to see their hilarious, but mysterious card game in action here.
One of our favorite sketch groups, Dead Kevin, is finally back with a new episode. We don’t feel the need to give any more explanation as to why you should be watching already, so watch and enjoy it already.
NYC based sketch group Onassis have indeed, if we may say so ourselves, found the best travel show host ever. Of course, in this age of YouTube, being the best travel show host ever has little to do with actually finding the best hidden gems in any given locale.
Give it a watch here to see what exactly we’re talking about.
Europe’s Montreux Comedy Festival Holding Free Stand-up and Sketch Contest
With no entry free, you can enter to perform over in Europe at the Montreux Comedy Festival in Switzerland this December. Dailymotion is taking in submissions from stand up comedians and sketch performers up to the end of October.
Winners, which will be picked by from a group of voter picked finalists, get hotel, airfare, and meals covered. Submit/enter at the link.
Official Comedy’s latest series of sketches is coming from great LA based group Uncle Mom.
In their first one, they give you the answer you probably don’t want to hear when asking “What would you do if you could time travel?”/the weirdest night of poker ever all for a really funny sketch.
You can catch 4 episodes back-to-back for the premiere MTV’s latest sketch comedy series “Hey Girl” starting at 9PM tonight. Boasting the talents of JC Coccoli, Shelby Fero, Ali Wong, Emily Axford, Esther Povitsky, Wendy McColm, head writer Julie Klausner, and director Michael Showalter, and more, it’s something that we think you should give it a watch.
While certainly you shouldn’t lie to any sort of doctor that’s treating you, there is a point in which you can be telling them a little too much.
Here’s a sketch from Creepy Caress (Brenda Colonna and Candice Thompson) to illustrate that point exactly.
The very funny Nick Turner, Barry Rothbart, Jason Saenz, and Henry Zebrowski make up brand spanking new sketch group Dr. Patient that just released their first sketch. If you’re a bro, through and through, and in need, you definitely won’t get the help of the A-Team, but you might just get some bro-help.
This is pretty damn funny, but also NSFW. Watch now.
Women Comedy, a sketch group of four guys (Dave Ross, Jake Weisman, Allen Strickland Williams, and Pat Bishop) give us a glimpse of that rare opportunity to take the ultimate trip out of town.
Watch now here (and make sure people won’t be weirded out when you double over in your chair laughing wherever you are).
The hysterical sketch group Dead Kevin has been picked up by Comedy Central to produce more episodes to be posted at ComedyCentral.com. This starts on Wednesday, specifically this Wed. May 8th and is weekly, which we hope you don’t forget.
Here’s a little announcement video from Dead Kevin to make sure you’ll remember.
1) CBS Sketch Diversity Showcase is taking submissions until Thurs. Sept. 22nd. Must be SAG, “primarily focused on African-American, Asian-American, Middle Eastern, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, LGBT actors, senior performers and performers with disabilities”, and able to perform and rehearse in LA.
2) The Comedy Garage Documentary gets reviewed by Film Threat.
3) “Telescope” by Uncle Mom-is not a song on KCRW’s rotation, but a hilarious new sketch from Shawn Pearlman, Zach Paez, and Payman Benz.
Telescope – watch more funny videos
4) Reportedly, more open mics have opened up in the South Bay for comedy. The Comic Bug will start a comedy open mic on Thurs. Sept. 29th and Club 705 has expanded from Monday night to both Monday and Tuesday night. More details to come.
5) So you’ve got a couple of options for the Emmys tonight, following Witstream, @laughspincom, or just catching up on episodes of Louie.
6) The opposite of John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show coming to Comedy Central next month.
7) ON THE HORIZON
Neighbors @ The Warehouse Wed. Sept. 21st 8PM FREE
One-Two Punch @ Benton Manor Sat. Sept. 24th 8PM $3
Adult Contemporary Comedy @ Fake Gallery Fri. Sept. 23rd 9PM FREE
An Evening with Mike Birbiglia @ USC Bovard Auditorium Oct. 6th 7:30PM $25
8) COMEDY CRAWL
Jeff Garlin’s Combo Platter @ UCB Theatre 6PM $2 (stand by only)
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Neal Brennan & Friends w/Bill Burr @ Westside Comedy Theater 9PM $5
RTDOK Presents @ Chatterbox 9PM FREE
Powerviolence @ The Complex 9PM FREE
Set List @ Flappers Burbank 9PM $12/2 item min.
Top Story Weekly! @ iO West 9PM $5
DC Pierson’s Bad at Girls @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5
SXSW Showcase @ Comedy Store 10PM
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)
9) OPEN MIC RUN
PALMS 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/lottery
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
PARADISE PERKS 15475 Jeffrey Rd., Irvine, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/only 10 spots available
NERDIST THEATRE 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (back room of Meltdown Comics)/Sign-up 7:15PM/Starts 7:30PM/lottery/30 spots available/no purchase necessary
TSUNAMEDY @ TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/mixed mic
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed/bottled water and coffee available
10) Ha! Gayweather trended in LA on Twitter last night.
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1) Nick Kroll’s Thank You Very Cool to be released uncensored and uncut on DVD on Sept. 13th. We couldn’t get any news about his sketch show, Nick Show Kroll, from Nick as he’s busy with the League, but we’ll keep you updated.
2) The Comedy Store’s Alf Lamont details the changing environment of comedy and how comedy clubs need to change if they expect to survive/live up to their job title. Please read this, it’s important.
3) There’s still time to get in a short, or if you have a feature somehow in your back pocket, into the Sundance Film Festival, but you better get to Fed Ex pronto (deadline-to be received by Sept. 2nd & late deadline-to be received by Sept. 23rd).
4) Though Rob Delaney and Paul Danke have been killing it posting on Vice and Earwolf and Megan Amram has lifted tweeting to an art form, the role of comedy in novel form it’s vastly overlooked when it shouldn’t be. Splitsider investigates.
5) It’s another day for Jeff MacKinnon at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Lucky bastard.
6) ON THE HORIZON
La Vida Joqua w/Bamford, Stout, Liebman, and more @ Mas Malo (in the basement) Tues. Aug. 30th 8PM FREE
7) COMEDY CRAWL
What’s Up Tiger Lily? @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Cartoon Dump @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $10
Brunch @ The Park Restaurant 9:30PM
Keep It Clean @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
8) OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
CLUB 705 705 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Starts 7PM-ish/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
RED ROCK 8782 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Starts 8PM/Sign-up is lottery/no purchase necessary
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/bottled water and coffee provided
9) Again, our apologies for posting the Morning Debriefing so late yesterday. If only we were more willing to alienate family members, we would have got to it sooner.
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Comediennes Barbara Gray and Whitney Teubner show you how to not play cards and/or break startling news.
Almost a decade ago, an underground trend of “made-bad-on-purpose” cartoons started to rise. From Space Ghost: Coast to Coast all the way to Robot Chicken, Cartoon Network has almost developed a whole entire new vein of their brand based on said trend, Adult Swim. Harkening back to very poorly produced cartoons of the sixties and seventies and even earlier then juxtapose clever and/or absurdist writing questioning the whole poorly defined cartoon universe has become popular to the point that it’s pretty much its own genre.
Yet, the original cartoons that are being referenced so frequently and tangentially are very close to being completely lost. THANKFULLY, there is CARTOON DUMP, a live monthly show at the always amazing Steve Allen Theater in Los Feliz that continues this tradition of actually bad cartoons through actual screenings and live comedy sketches, stand up, and music.
If you’re curious as to how bad one of these “gems” are, consider one called “Captain Fathom”, which utilizes animation technology so lo-fi that pretty much only the mouths are “animated” as a real human mouth is superimposed over the animation. This program might sound interesting in a kitschy/nostalgic/hip sort of a way, but the writing, voice talent, etc. are to a “paint-by-numbers” degree of complexity and they even managed to paint in the numbers in the wrong order. The story supposedly pits Captain Fathom, whoseremotely piloting, maybe (it’s not really clear), a deep sea vessel against a similar looking, but different colored deep sea vessel. Some lights flash across the screen and only through some faint grunts can the audience discern that there is a battle happening after which Captain Fathom apparently won. Again, its unclear what has been accomplished by this as no motion by the characters has really taken place. Another bad cartoon simply consisted of physical fitness tips, though, due to poor/lazy drawing and conceptual development, comes off as laughable when the butt of the fitness expert is highlighted by a halo while he’s bent over.
Written and created by Mystery Science Theater 3000’s very own Frank Conniff and co-produced by cartoon historian Jerry Beck since 2007, Cartoon Dump is a genius idea of show executed to perfection as the unintentionally terrible cartoons are legitimately painful to watch, then balanced out by the awesome mix of live sketches and stand up comedy from comedy heavy hitters such as Kyle Kinane whose been on featured on Comedy Central twice within the span of a month, and the legendary Emo Phillips (who by himself, telling only 5 jokes made the show completely worth the $10 price of admission).
As a straight stand up comedy show, that’s an already fantastic line-up that would sell out hundreds of seats. Yet, Conniff dresses up as Moodsy the Clinically Depressed Owl who banters back and forth with co-host Compost Brite, comedian Erica Doering in a red leotard and a comically forced smile, do their own live version of a “bad cartoon”, of course, with the ultra clever, hysterical quips on pop culture/current events (something that Conniff is quite good at, especially @frankconniff) and their own misguided cartoon universe complete with an actual prop dumpster that foul mouthed puppets come out of and a scantily clad woman (Kristin Arrigo) a la Jessica Rabbit and make Cartoon Dump one of those shows that already have a loyal following, but should have an even bigger one. Special guests Emo Phillips and Kyle Kinane did their own take on the Cartoon Dump by respectively playing theme songs to supposedly rejected bigoted cartoons and reading cartoon series pitches that are really a metaphor for Kyle’s misery.
In a city that’s full of stand up showcases that rival most festivals on a week night, Cartoon Dump is a refreshing, wildly original comedy variety show that will delight the high falutin’ “Tim and Eric” crowd as well as though who just want go out on the town and have a laugh. Check out their Youtube Channel and Facebook page and/or merch page.
Cartoon Dump takes place on the 4th Monday of the month at the Steve Allen Theater 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Los Feliz).
Pato: Producer of Rebecca Black’s ‘Friday’ ft. Jerry Minor (by freshfishfilms)
Also featuring Brandon Johnson, Wendy McColm, Christiann Castellanos, Ashley Cardaman & Leigh Myles.
Produced by Brandon Johnson & Michael Busch
Directed by Michael Busch
Shot & Edited by Brian Lane
Hands down best parody of Rebecca Black.
Amidst almost every monday night in Los Angeles where any expectations have faded under the muted rumblings of never-ending traffic, I wondered to myself, “It’s 10:17. Should I go to Public House yet?”
For as long as I can remember since going up to Los Angeles proper for comedy, I tended to end my Monday nights late at a comfy little hipster bar known as 1739 Public House for JC Coccoli’s wonderful stand up comedy showcase Keep it Clean Comedy, affectionally abbreviated by those in-the-LA-comedy-know as just “Public House”. It’s a place where some of Los Angeles’ best, both of the established and up n’ coming variety, go up and perform to varying crowds of hipsters, struggling artists of various media, some celebrities and industry members of varying stature, and a significant and consistent showing of the LA comedy community. If there were to be a Frommer’s guide to live comedy in LA, they would have to feature Public House as the “secret” late night spot tucked away in the hippest parts of town on Monday nights where comedy really happens.
On the late night of March 7th, 2011, Public House transcended its reputation as it was more than just a night of comedy, but a night that will live on as one of those “were you there…?”, “did you hear…?”, “remember that one night at…?” types of nights. It was not only the most hilarious and tense experiences of comedy I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of, but it was a rare night where by the end, you can legitimately say, “Comedy was victorious.”
After a quick great 5 minutes from Eric Andre preparing for Lopez Tonight, a fun poking at a group of Green Peace promoters by Dave Hanson, and a lovely and always hilarious delving into the relationship exploits of Abbey Londer, one Sean Green took the stage to a relatively attentive, but packed crowd at Public House.
As it is a bar comedy show, there is some of amount of talking that happens, which JC does a great job of trying to “shush” as much as possible, but about 2 minutes into Sean’s set, a drunk typical of the Los Feliz neighborhood Public House is located in with his wrinkled plaid collared shirt and jeans, jeered randomly at one of Sean’s jokes. Rolling with wherever the moment takes him, Sean went over to high five him only to, moments later, engage in an unwanted conversation with him, then, shockingly getting dry-humped by the heckler on stage. After a good 20 seconds that felt like 10 minutes, this heckler stopped the sexually over-suggestive motions, but then resumed the conversation about a book of Russian Tattoos that the heckler just had at his disposal in his pocket. Despite Sean repeatedly asking the guy to cease talking to which the heckler resumed the dryhumping until Sean forcibly pushed him away to his where his original position.
Despite the behavior on display just a few seconds earlier by the heckler, the crowd found out that he actually had a girlfriend that equally “gave two shits” about the show taking place as she yelled out something along the lines of “You suck!” to Sean. The manager of 1739 Public House stepped in at this point and only a few seconds later, a rally of “Get Out!” was being chanted by the wholly attentive room. The heckler responded with a flurry of “fuck you” and stiffly raised middle fingers to anyone in his immediate vicinity including the manager. He was finally to the delight of everyone in this establishment kicked out. There was some muffled back-and-forth during this portion of the show, but, for whatever reason, there was a distinct shift in chants from “Get Out!” to “Change your hair!” before the tossing of the heckler.
Seeing what just happened, any sensible person could see what would happen if they took on the comedian, which is still Sean Green, on stage. Any sensible person could see that they would promptly be met with the disgust of at room full of people intoxicated enough to take drastic action if necessary.
Yet, a 50 year-old looking man wearing cargo shorts, a yellow hoodie, and a craggy face that seemed worn of any sort of compassion for humanity opted to not observe the situation as a sensible person. As Sean was still trying to set up a bit about Charlie Sheen that has been applauded at other venues, this second heckler shouted, “When are you going to start being funny?”.
The crowd, as a unit now, collectively groaned as we had chanced upon the one-in-a-million chance where a horribly drunk heckler would be followed by yet another horribly drunk even worst heckler while the same comedian was on stage. Wanting merely to just go through his material, Sean tried to take the high road by relating to the second heckler through asking, “What’s wrong, man?”
This second heckler who appeared so faded that it was honestly surprising that he was as vehement in his protest of Sean’s comedy would have none of Sean’s reaching out, responding, “I don’t hear any laughs. I’ve been listening and I don’t hear any laughs. I’m not the one trying to be a comedian over here. I just want to know when you’re going to do something funny.”
Through the boos and barbs thrown the second heckler’s way, Sean still try to probe as to why this man took a personal offense to Sean merely setting up material, “What’s the problem, man?”
The second heckler finally responding by demanding, “Why don’t you do something funny?”
In a move of chivalry, Sean obliged with a worked out joke about Obama that got a big room laugh at the punchline, but was met with a sarcastic gasp of a laugh by the second heckler in the middle of the joke.
Sean snapped, “Hey, see that? They’re laughing. They’re all laughing. You can’t say anything about that. Hey, we get it. You’ve been stuck being a grip for most of your life and things aren’t working out. Well, join the club!”
Uproarious applause and cheers flooded the whole room between every sentence that Sean yelled at the second heckler, “I don’t give a fuck about you. I’m a man. I have a podcast that gets over 8,000 downloads a month. We can take this outside. I don’t give a fuck. I was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where we made steel that killed the Nazis (Sean proudly pumped his chest at this appropriate opportunity). This is a man unraveling right before your eyes. I don’t give a fuck. You want to take this outside?"
Lauding Sean as a hero just fresh off a duel as he got off stage, Sean went straight to the second heckler still offering to "take it outside” at which point they both had to be separated by respective parties. Still within the premises, the second heckler was then given the same treatment as the first heckler by the crowd and was kicked out.
The bizarre events that just filled the last 20 minutes I just described might encourage some people to think negatively of the evening, despite everything before the two hecklers being pretty funny. March 7th at Public House still had more in store for the crowd at hand.
Taking advantage of the moment and the situation present, comedian Davey Johnson of the Doorknockers duo improvised a sketch with host JC Coccoli’s permission in which he played a drunker brother of the first heckler that fell all over the stage, incidentally breaking the mic for a few minutes. Comedian Kyle Kinane, fresh off the road and the premiere of his Comedy Central Special, hid amidst the crowd at the table where the second heckler was standing, taking the cue to stall for time while JC fixed the mix, started yelling at Davey as the brother of the second heckler, “You’re brother’s funnier. Bring him back.”
You almost couldn’t understand what either of them were saying as there was so much laughter. With Kyle egging him on, Davey took off his shirt and went off just like Sean, “You wanna take this outside?”, when JC had just fixed the mic and promptly ended the sketch as Davey, by this time, had his pants off. Taking the cue from his “brother”, the first heckler, he started dry humping JC, which made nearly the entire audience doubled over in laughter.
Comedian Davey Johnson goes a little further than off the cuff with ’Keep It Clean’ host JC Coccoli [pic taken by Scott Boxenbaum]
Davey left the stage and Kyle resumed his position as an intently listening audience member while JC took her time in settling the show down as best she could claiming, “I don’t know how we can top this,” before she brought up the next comic, in town from Canada, Simon King. Simon did his best to stick to his guns and got some good laughs throughout his set, especially when a cleaning lady walked right behind him during his set to clean a corner, but everyone at Public House got caught up in verbally processing the events that just occurred.
With the post-fight excitement still very much palpable in the loud whispers throughout the room, JC actually restarted the show with the same routine she always does at the top of Keep It Clean Comedy with greeting the audience then taking the wireless microphone to see who else is talking while she breaks the crowd in for a show. From this point on, the night resumed relatively according to plan with Lauren Ashley Bishop, Shawn Pearlman, Julia Lillis, and Josh Adam Meyers, pretty much doing their act (save for Chris Gordon who opened up some party poppers) and faring well. We were well into 3 hour territory when JC finally ended the show, but, for me, it was glaring exception in regards to duration of live comedy shows.
In short, the night was won and the answer to the question posed at the beginning, “Should I go to Public House yet?” should always be a resounding yes.
Something that can never be and will never be replicated had taken place at Public House. Even as I’ve taken on the task on trying to provide a reliable picture as to what happened, there is so many tiny quips and nuances that I’m surely missed, but would ultimately be out of context like how amazing it was that a single audience member, Michael Stuart, sat front and center for the entire show, hecklers, poppers, random improv sketches, and all.
No matter how fantastical and incredible I made any of this sound, I guarantee you it was exponentially better in person. This is why you go see live comedy instead of seeing someone vastly edited and filtered set on TV even if gas is $4 a gallon because you just might get to be a part of a night like the Battle of 1739 (Public House).
