John Early and Kate Berlant “Try to Do Their Tight 5″ in Their Late Night Debut
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.
Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood is one of our favorite places to see stand-up. A beautiful, intimate back room is the perfect setting for watching some of the funniest people in LA share their comedy wares.
So, Pamela Walt and TJ Chambers are bringing another stacked line-up of Laurie Kilmartin, Tommy Johnagin, Kyle Kinane, Henry Phillips, Andy Wood for this Sunday. Also, for every person in attendance, Chambers will donate $5 to the ACLU. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Joe DeRosa’s “You Let Me Down” Now Out as Album
Last weekend, Joe DeRosa’s first hour special premiered on Comedy Central. We hope you didn’t miss it as DeRosa delivered a great hour of meticulously crafted, dark stand-up.
That being said, the album version of the special is now available so you can still listen to You Let Me Down if you didn’t see it on TV or you can just have to listen whenever you feel like it (as opposed to waiting for it to air again).
Get You Let Me Down off of iTunes here. Also, it’s streaming on Spotify.
The fantastic Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri continue their residency at Largo this week as their long running show Big Terrific.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Please Enjoy Cristela Alonzo’s “Lower Classy” Now Streaming on Netflix
We admit that we’re a little late to the party here as Cristela Alonzo’s Lower Classy started streaming last week.
Still, you absolutely should give it a watch as Cristela gives an hour of stand-up that’s as truthful and funny as it is endearing in all of her observations and stories of her life of being uniquely herself between different worlds.
In fact, Lower Classy serves as a great, hilarious example of why Cristela should probably get another show of her own.
By the way, Netflix already is off to a hot start this year with comedy specials having Cristela’s right in line with specials from Neal Brennan and Bill Burr.
Follow That! pits comedians to the challenge of following a very emotional video being shown to the audience (i.e. troops coming home to the surprise of their family). Having any sort of very dramatic pause at a comedy show can prove very difficult, but the line-up with Chris Fairbanks, Nikki Glaser, Dan St. Germain, Nicole Byer, and Jon Huck for this show is pretty great. In any case, our curiosity is peaked as to see what might happen.
Tickets for Follow That! are $8 online and $10 at the door. You can (and should) tickets online here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Watch a Preview of Joe DeRosa’s New Hour Special “You Let Me Down” Before It Premieres Tomorrow Night
Joe DeRosa has a new stand-up special that premieres this Friday night at midnight on Comedy Central. Called You Let Me Down, it’s Joe first hour special and we personally can’t wait for the world to see what Joe can do with his dark, well-crafted brand of comedy when he has an hour to play with.
Also, it has one of the cooler backdrops that has ever been in a stand-up special.
Get a taste of You Let Me Down here.
The wonderful trio of Puterbaugh Sisters and Beth Stelling are replanting their long-running Chicago show, Entertaining Julia.
For the first Sunday of each month, they’ll gather at Akbar in Silverlake. This inaugural show has a great line-up with James Adomian, Solomon Georgio, and Candy Lawrence, and music from The Big Dipper.
Also, Entertaining Julia will be free to attend. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Bill Burr’s Latest Special “Walk Your Way Out” Now Streaming on Netflix
Bill Burr has a brand new hour out on Netflix. As he is one of the best stand-up comedians working today, you might want to make Walk Your Way Out the next thing you watch on Netflix.
The story about the gorilla alone is worth the hour of your time.
Seeson Orders Another Season of Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, Which Will Be Shooting in Just a Couple of Weeks
Seeso is wasting no time in getting the second season of live comedy showcase series Night Train with Wyatt Cenac going. The renewal announcement was made today along with the line-ups feature much of the best in NYC and around the country. The tapings are all set up all around Valentine’s Day.
What makes us most excited about this new batch of Night Train is plenty more opportunity for Wyatt to spit the fire that he did with his immediate-post-election album, One Angry Night in November (you can still get it for free here).
You can get tickets, from which the proceeds will go to charity, here.
The Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run are all updated for next week. Check listings at www.thecomedybureau.com
Louis C.K. will be playing LBC Convention Center in less than two weeks away.
Tickets are $50 and you should get them here before the inevitably sell out.
Watch Tig Notaro’s Latest Set on Ellen, Which Happens to Also Be a Birthday Present for Ellen DeGeneres
Birthday present or no, we all could use more Tig Notaro in our lives.
Here’s a tight five from Tig from this week’s Ellen.
Robert Buscemi and Sofiya Alexandra’s Surprise!, an uber-cool show where they only reveal the address of the “tucked away” venue and keep everything else (you guessed it) a surprise, is returning tomorrow.
They’ll be at the Brewery Artists Lofts near Lincoln Heights at 8:30PM this Saturday. You can find out a few more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Adam Newman’s New Special Fuzzies Is Now Streaming on Seeso Which Apparently Includes a Really High Mic Drop
Seeso’s latest stand-up special comes from Adam Newman. Called Fuzzies, Newman not only dishes out his very well-crafted hour, but also sets a world record with a microphone.
Very few comedy specials ever get to see a world record just so you know.
Fuzzies is now streaming in its entirety on Seeso.
Please Watch Candice Thompson Have a Wonderful Late Night Debut on The Tonight Show
If you’ve followed us throughout the years, you’d know that we don’t make any secret of how Candice Thompson is one of our favorite comedians that people need to know about.
Last night, she got her first late night stand-up set on The Tonight Show and showed why she continues to be one of our favorites. Please watch and enjoy her set here.
Watch Daniel Sloss Explain How He’s Only Kind of a Sinister Person
Daniel Sloss is hands down one of Scotland’s best comedy exports today. He’s one of Conan’s favorite comedians to have back to perform again and again.
Watch and see for yourself in his latest set where he thoroughly explains his inner darkness lying beneath his good person exterior.
Shane Mauss is bringing his nationwide touring show on psychedelics to the beautiful Largo at the Coronet Theatre next week, Wednesday, February 1st at 8:30PM.
Not only has Shane toured dozens and dozens of cities with this show and is a seasoned comedian worthy of such a lengthy tour, but he has studied thoroughly up on the subject matter probably more so than you or anyone you know (if you know what we’re saying).
Anyhow, tickets are $30 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.
Here’s a Trailer for Bill Burr’s Latest Special “Walk Your Way Out”
Bill Burr has a new stand-up special, Walk Your Way Out, coming out at the very end of this month and we don’t need to say much more than that, do we?
Well, there’s this trailer where you can get a first look at the special. Other than that, you know the drill when a new Burr special comes out.
Watch a Roast Battle Regional Round with Jamar Neighbors vs. Guy Branum
The final rounds of Roast Battle II are just around the corner.
Leading up to that is some top shelf roasting from around the country. In LA, Jamar Neighbors and Guy Branum, two comics that definitely know how to dish out verbal cruelty, faced off in a regional round, though seemed like a final round to us.
Comedy Central Presents for The Middle East Is Underway
Comedy Central Presents for The Middle East Is Underway
Comedy Central is making good on their investment for making a Comedy Central in the Middle East and North Africa.
Comedians from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Sudan, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates will be featured on their own version of the Comedy Central Presents franchise.
We’ll be curious to see who stands out from the pack in this series and if they’ll get to transition to playing on Comedy Central in the U.S. If the right comic/comics is/are found, this could be not only great for Comedy Central, but great for normalizing people from the Middle East and pushing the art form of comedy around the world.
Please Enjoy Billy Wayne Davis’ Set from Last Week’s Conan
Billy Wayne Davis is a clever, smart delight wrapped in a friendly Southern accent.
His set from Conan this past week is perfect evidence of that.
Also, you should get his Live from Third Man Records album that just came out because it’s even more proof of how great Billy is.
Neal Brennan’s 3 Mics Now Streaming on Netflix
The artifice of the 3 microphones, each dedicated to one-liners, bits, and stories give transparency to the structure within the art form of stand-up comedy that has been rarely seen. It also showing the many different facets of what makes up and drives Neal Brennan, both as a comedians and a person.
All of those elements mixed together make for a special, 3 Mics, that you should definitely watch as it’s now streaming on Netflix.