Even though he won’t be on a jet ski going down the Mississippi River or leading an impromptu second line through the streets of DTLA, we still urge you to watch Kurt Braunohler’s first hour special Trust Me on Comedy Central tonight at midnight.
It’s just Kurt doing stand-up, but it’s still pretty damn great. See for yourself in this clip.
Judge Aaron Persky is the judge who infamously handled the Brock Turner rape case.
This show, happening tomorrow at El Cid in Silverlake, is an awesome comedy benefit to raise funds to get him on the ballot in order to get him recalled (as opposed to him just getting running opposed for several more years).
Along with a great show featuring the comedy stylings of Ever Mainard, Maggie Maye, Janine Brito, Mara Wilson, and more, there will be a raffle prizes and F*ck Rape Culture merch.
You can get (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Indeed, this is not Myq Kaplan’s first “rodeo” doing stand-up on The Late late Show.
As Myq himself has said, the molecules have moved and the host is different this time around. Myq also does another bang-up job like he did in previous appearances on a set that had much more wood accents and a host from a different part of the Commonwealth.
Watch and enjoy it here. Also, you should get his album No Kidding too.
Remember, Dave Chappelle hasn’t released a stand-up special since 2004.
Sure, there’s plenty of stuff that he has done since then, but that gap in time contrasts sharply with many of comedy’s current biggest names cranking specials every year or so.
So, maybe, to make up for lost time, the two specials that Netflix ordered from Dave Chappelle will start streaming at the same time, Tuesday, March 21st and they’ll be coming from “his personal comedy vault”.
See for yourself in the teaser that not one, but two Chappelle specials are just a few weeks away.
In the grand tradition of doing a stand up comedy special in a leather outfit, Amy Schumer decided to check off that box with her upcoming Netflix special. In fact, she went as far as calling it The Leather Special and does indeed went awesomely old with her outfit. See for yourself in the trailer above.
The latest Mike Birbiglia special is now streaming on Netflix.
By now, you know the drill. Go watch, enjoy, and have a sense of calm come from an hour Mike’s finely crafted stories.
For those of you that don’t have access to Netflix, you can enjoy Mike’s tale of having dinner at Jimmy Kimmel’s house from last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
For years, Carmen Lynch has carefully honed her brand of comedy that’s both a bit bubbly and a tad dark, but charming all the way through.
Her very first release, Dance Like You Don’t Need The Money captures that spirit that many have only gotten to see in small chunks for her various late night sets that she has racked up over the years. Throughout the hour, Carmen balances all her bits dealing with being personal, open, and honest about things including vaginas and giraffes with a jaunty wit.
Get Dance Like You Don’t Need the Money here.
Hosts Ahamed Weinberg and Ramy Youssef always gather a great handful of comedians like Rory Scovel, Anna Seregina, and Curtis Cook for their monthly stand-up showcase that focuses on the theme of “repentance”.
Also, this is one of the handful of places where you can see John Mulaney live around LA this week.
Right now, the show is sold out of advance tickets, but there will be a stand by line that might have a few tickets available for $7.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
Like with so many things that they deconstruct with goofy abandon, John Mulaney and Nick Kroll dove into their opening monologue for last night’s Spirit Awards with the same freewheeling, devil-may-care spirit.
You’ll notice that they pick apart the idea of an awards show monologue, trope by trope, while effortlessly going through actual jokes and then closing with a particularly spectacular finish.
Very few comedians get to perform on The Late Show.
Even fewer have gotten the exclusive privilege of performing on The Late Show under both Letterman and Colbert.
With her set from last night, Carmen Lynch is now, and deservingly so, part of that small, esteemed group.
Watch her set here.
Picture This!, the comedy show that includes live, real time animation is getting a special taping next week.
Not only will you get to see The Sklar Brothers and Dana Gould do their brilliant comedy, but you’ll also get to watch amazing animators like Mike Holliingsworth, Luke McGarry, and Natasha Kline drawing along with their jokes and stories as they’re being told.
The taping is free to attend and will be at The Actors Company. More details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Netflix has nabbed several golden geese with lining-up comedy specials from Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Louis CK, Amy Schumer, and Jerry Seinfeld.
That doesn’t mean they want to do comedy specials with some of comedy’s best rising stars.
So, with that in mind, they’ve gathered Nikki Glaser, Deon Cole, Beth Stelling, Fortune Feimster, and Dan Soder for half hour comedy specials, which is the next logical step for Netflix’s ever expanding stand-up and comedy empire.
If you’re in LA on Tuesday, February 28th and/or Wednesday, March 1st you can go the tapings at Cicada Restaurant in DTLA. RSVP for tickets here.
Netflix Lines Up Two Louis C.K. Comedy Specials, One of Which is Debuting in April
Netflix has got specials on deck from Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Amy Schumer, Jerry Seinfeld, and now, Louis C.K. It’s almost like they’re trying do a stand-up comedy equivalent of a planetary alignment.
The first of the two specials that C.K. will be doing is simply called 2017 and was taped in, of all places that you could tape a special right now, Washington D.C. Given Louis being vocal on the POTUS having plenty of parallels to Hitler, there’s an extra layer of intrigue on top of a new C.K. special coming out. “2017″ will start streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, April 4th.
With all these gigantic comedy stars, one has to wonder where Netflix goes from here in regards to comedy specials.
If you’re a fan of any cooking show where chefs all have to use a weird ingredient, you’ll dig IFC web series The Filling Is Mutual.
Hosts Jenny Zigrino and Jen Saunderson pick out a single joke from their comedian guests’ acts and then dream up a dish based on said joke. Sometimes, it’s delicious and sometimes, it really embodies the joke as much as a recipe can.
In any case, you should watch The Filling Is Mutual and maybe get hungry for ‘dicks in a komono’ or ‘white devil eggs’.
Over the years, we hope you might have been as lucky as we have been in seeing Myq Kaplan evolve as a comedian. His latest album, No Kidding, is, thus far, the pinnacle of that evolution.
Starting from his early years with impressive feats of verbal and linguistic acrobatics, Myq has now worked his way to presenting a very colorful, dazzling tapestry of who he really is a person, comedian, and artist. He has got a big following in the autistic community, defends not having kids, and explores the virtues of certain drugs. That’s just the tip of the ice berg that you get off of No Kidding. Of course, there are still plenty of threads of top shelf wordplay and clever callbacks that tie that tapestry together.
This might just be, as we mentioned up top, his best hour yet.
No Kidding was just released today off of AST Records (recent Grammy Award winners by the way) and you can get it on iTunes or on CD.
If you’re a comedian and identify as a LGBTQ, person of color, a disabled person, woman or anyone who applied with the Cinder Block Comedy Festival back in 2016, you can apply as an individual, show/group, or sketch to Brooklyn’s Cinder Block Comedy Festival for this year at the nice price of $19.25.
The festival itself will run from September 7th-10th and if you happen to be in or around any of the five boroughs, it might be worth your time to get in at Cinder Block.
These earlybird submission prices are available until March 8th. After that, submissions will be open to everybody up until the final deadline of April 5th.
Get more details and submit here.
Más Mejor, the online comedy channel “powered by Latino voices”, is marking their 1st anniversary with a big shin dig.
Specifically, their will be a great comedy show with the likes of Chris Garcia, Frankie Quinones, Marcella Arguello, Francisco Ramos, and Jesus Trejo performing and an open bar.
It’s free to attend so long as you RSVP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The regularly scheduled Comedians You Should Know is bringing a very special edition of their show next week on Thursday, February 23rd at 10PM at The Hollywood Improv Lab. As the name suggests, these are all gay comedians from around LA that you absolutely should know and go see perform on a regular basis.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
More and more, live comedy is becoming a fixture at big time music and arts festivals.
At SXSW, Showtime has been taping a special showcase to capture some of that festival comedy magic. Host Natasha Leggero, Sean Patton, Emo Philips, Eliza Skinner, Ian Edwards, and Kurt Braunohler make for one hell of a bill for the latest batch of Showtime Comedy Club at SXSW.
Look for it to premiere on Friday, March 17th on Showtime.
Sarah Silverman Will Now Be Doing a Netflix Comedy Special
Well, Netflix now has quite the stacked deck for 2017. Following from Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Amy Schumer,
Sarah Silverman is the latest big name comedian to have done their last comedy special at HBO and is set to do their newest special at Netflix. Silverman will shoot her special soon and Liam Lynch will be directing along with JASH, which she co-founded, producing.
We’re are thoroughly intrigued, given how outspoken Sarah has been in the political spectrum and the times that we’re living in now, what exactly she will do with this new special.
Mike Birbiglia is making a stop at the Irvine Improv for his Working It Out tour at the end of this month. He’s playing five shows from Thursday, February 23rd-25th. Mike’s trips to LA don’t happen that frequently, so make sure you snatch up your tickets quick here. They’re $25 with a 2 item minimum.
Actually, you could enter to win free tickets to the Friday late show here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl All Updated for Next Week
Whether you’re into Valentine’s Day or not, we’re guessing you’ll need a laugh. If you’re in the Greater LA area, we got you covered.
Together, John Early and Kate Berlant are a force to be reckoned with.
Their late night debut from last night’s Fallon is a perfect showcase of just that.
One of the longest running indie comedy shows in LA, Blam!Blam!Blam! is celebrating a whole decade run. Most comedy shows, no matter if they’re in a club, theater, house, or the back room of some business don’t make it to anywhere near double digits. Blam pushes on where few comedy shows ever get to go.
The Blam!Blam!Blam! 10 Year Anniversary will be held on Valentine’s Day at its home at R-Bar in K-Town making for a great alternative to doing anything that a corporate mandated holiday would have you do. Also, admission is free. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.