Comedy Crawl All Updated for Christmas Week
While you’re trying to scramble through the last bit of Christmas shopping, ignoring the holiday altogether, enjoying LA emptying out, or are just looking for a damn fine comedy show to enjoy, we’ve got you covered.
Patton Oswalt is headlining at The Irvine Improv this coming Monday and Tuesday for $25 a pop (plus 2 item minimum).
If you’re in LA and don’t have tickets to Patton’s Largo shows over the next couple of months (FYI, they’re sold out), you might want to make your way to Irvine.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Jack White’s Third Man Records is incredibly picky when it comes to comedians that bring into the fold. So far, the likes of only Reggie Watts, Neil Hamburger, and Rory Scovel have gotten to make a record on the highly regarded label.
The latest pick is Billy Wayne Davis and Davis’ sharp-wit wrapped in his warm, inviting persona and comforting Southern accent makes it a pretty great choice.
Billy Wayne Davis: Live at Third Man Records showcases Davis’ full comedic range of having insightful, yet mischievous material that has been carefully honed all the way to delightfully messing around with as much irreverence as he can muster. Here’s a taste of what we’re talking about.
The album comes as 12″ vinyl that includes a download code for video of Davis doing the same hour, effectively giving you both an album and a special in one purchase.
Please get the album for yourself or a loved one at Third Man Records here.
Jimmy Pardo, Garfunkel and Oates, ½ of Superego are on the bill and that’s not even half of what next Monday’s Feliz Navipod’s Feliz Navidad Variety Show at The Nerdmelt Showroom has to offer on top of benefitting Planned Parenthood.
Get your tickets for $15 here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Take a listen or a look at all of his stand-up and you’ll see why Kondabolu could rise to stand alongside John Oliver and Samantha Bee poking fun at those in power that will be unjustly abusing it very soon.
In fact, you can start with his latest album Mainstream American Comic, which Kill Rock Stars has conveniently made available for streaming on YouTube, free of charge. As you might guess at this point, we really dug it.
See stand-up comedy created before your very eyes with the world renowned improvised stand-up show Set List. It’s having its latest round at the Hollywood Improv this Sunday, December 18th with a great line-up of Wil Anderson, Kira Soltanovich, Jay Mohr, and music from Henry Phillips.
You can (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.
This second season of Ian Abramson’s stand-up-comedy-equivalent-of-a-Skinner-Box, 7 Minutes in Purgatory, really showcases the stark contrast of what performing comedy without an audience while another audience enjoys it in a separate, remote location.
Just see how Maria Bamford beautifully handles performing in front of a 1000 empty seats while there’s a smaller, but mightier number of warm bodies three stories above her thoroughly delighting in her performance.
You can also see how host Ian Abramson, Jon Dore, Michelle Buteau, Colton Dunn, Caitlin Gill and Bobcat Goldthwait all handled the existential quandary of 7 Minutes in Purgatory in all different sorts of ways as well some inside commentary from their fellow performers/purgatory dwellers.
#OnTheHorizon
Art Sandwich Confidential is a comedy show at The Loft at Liz’s, an art gallery, where comedians will do their act then transition into stories inspired by the art on display. This time around, the art exhibition is entitled BLUE, so blue humor is the order for the evening.
With Ramon Rivas, Megan Gailey, Calise Hawkins, The Puterbaugh Sisters, Ryan Dalton, and Curtis Cook getting blue in the name of art, we think you shouldn’t miss out on this. In fact, admission is free (though there’s a $10 suggested donation to support the comics.
Art Sandwich Confidential Vol. 2-an evening of BLUE Humor is happening this Friday, Dec. 16th at 7PM at The Loft at Liz’s, 453 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA.
More details 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 12/10/16
All across the Greater LA Area, we’ve got listings that cover anything and everything that’s worth seeing in comedy for next week and beyond. Stand-up, sketch, improv, screenings, experimental comedy, podcast tapings, holiday shows, and more.
Sam Morril utilizes his cleverness to weave in and out of dark subject matter with such ease that it almost doesn’t seem like dark comedy.
He put that skill on display in his third stand-up set on Conan from this week.
Joe Mande (The Good Place, Master of None, Parks and Recreation, Kroll Show, Delocated, Conan, his own comedy mixtape) is doing a full hour at Meltdown this upcoming Thursday with special guest Gabe Liedman.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.
Wonderful puppetry at The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, music, and other holiday trappings in addition to a line-up of Maria Bamford, Laraine Newman, Charlyne Yi, Eddie Pepitone, Dana Gould, Janet Varney, John Ennis, and Chris Fairbanks is what you got in store for next week’s Cavalcade of Christmas.
Sound good?
Tickets are $40 and you’ll want to get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Chris Rock Announces Worldwide ‘Total Blackout’ Tour
So far, here are the dates announced.
14-Feb-DURHAM, NC
16-Feb-CINCINNATI, OH
18-Feb-COLUMBUS, OH
21-Feb-NIAGARA FALLS, ON
22-Feb-NIAGARA FALLS, ON
23-Feb-NIAGARA FALLS, ON
24-Feb-RENO, NV
25-Feb-PHOENIX, AZ
3-Mar-DENVER, CO
5-Mar-RICHMOND, VA
10-Mar-MINNEAPOLIS, MN
24-Mar-BIRMINGHAM, LA
25-Mar-NEW ORLEANS, LA
29-Mar-HOLLYWOOD, FL
6-Apr-TULSA, OK
7-Apr-THACKERVILLE, OK
8-Apr-ST. LOUIS, MO
14-Apr-TAMPA, FL
19-Apr-CLEVELAND, OH
22-Apr-UNCASVILLE, CT
28-Apr-DETROIT, MI
3-May-INDIANAPOLIS, IN
13-May-SUGAR LAND, TX
14-May-Austin, TX
17-May-PITTSBURGH, PA
25-May-CHEROKEE, NC
26-May-ATLANTA, GA
3-Jun-ATLANTIC CITY, NJ
We’re sure there will be more dates, but you should snatch up tickets while you can because, as Rock said, this is his first tour in 9 years and these shows will undoubtedly sell out quick.
Get tickets here.
Highland Park’s fancy new bowling alley, Highland Park Bowl, gets a fancy new weekly comedy show from the folks that had a great, far too short run at The York.
Join Megan Gailey, JF Harris, and Goodrich Gevaart as well as their inaugural guests Emily Heller, Marcella Arguello, Zach Peterson, and Ahamed Weinberg for the first Comedy Bowl tomorrow night.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run All Updated for Next Week 12/5/16
Whether you want to watch stand-up, sketch, or improv or do stand-up open mic, sketch mic, or improv jam, we’ve got you covered.
Seeso’s Stand Up Streaming Fest continues with a new hour from Lachlan Patterson who came in as runner on the last season of Last Comic Standing.
Without all the hullabaloo of a televised stand-up competition, you can see (and hear on Audible Channels) Lachlan go through his well-crafted observational comedy on his brand new special Live from Venice Beach.
That includes the best and longest bit on a George Foreman grill that you’ll probably ever see/hear.
Stream it now on Seeso.com.
The one and only James Adomian (Trump vs. Bernie, Comedy Bang! Bang!, @midnight) gets a night all to himself at Nerdmelt this week.
Do yourself a favor and get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Watch Dave Chappelle in probably the most intimate venue that you’ll ever see him in.
He’s playing The Blind Barber in Culver City on Monday and Tuesday next week. Tickets are $75 and you can get them here and here, respectively. Limit two tickets per person.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
2017 Gilda’s LaughFest Is Now Taking Submissions for Stand-Up, Sketch, and Improv
Gilda’s LaughFest has taken place annually in Grand Rapids, MI since 2011 bringing headliners and up and comers around the country to Michigan.
This year, the festival will run for a week and a half from March 9th-19th.
You have a shot to perform as they’re taking submissions until December 18th this year. Get details and submit at the link above.
Yes, this means you can go watch a great comedy show with the likes of Margaret Cho, Ian Edwards, Johnny Pemberton, Aparna Nancherla, Yvonne Orji, James Austin Johnson, and Eli Olsberg in an adult entertainment store AND support The Trevor Project.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
While the label of a “trophy girlfriend” has its negative connotations, Amy Miller has figured out to kind of take the label back for herself and work her own agency into it. In case you didn’t know, Miller has gotten to establish herself all along on the West Coast on top of being on Last Comic Standing,
This comes from Kill Rock Stars latest comedy release from Amy, Solid Gold.
Oh, if you dig that, get Solid Gold here.
Alice Wetterlund, whom we hope you’ve seen in People of Earth and Silicon Valley, made her first appearance on last night’s Conan doing stand-up.
In her set, Alice dispelled myths about feminism and managed to do so with such a chill, laid back vibe making quite the first impression.
One of LA’s best festivals Riot LA is coming back very soon, January 19th-22nd in fact.
Some of the best comedy from around LA, the country, and the world are coming to DTLA next month including Mel Brooks, Ali Wong, Rachel Bloom, Todd Barry, Rory Scovel, Tig Notaro, John Early, Aparna Nancherla, Daniel Sloss, Brew Haha, My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Josie Long, Jo Firestone, Dr. Katz, and plenty, plenty more.
See those names scroll by as you watch watermelons get destroyed with a mallet that’s somehow not held by Gallagher in this announcement video.
After that, you can buy tickets or passes (Premium goes for $159.50 and are subject to limited availability) here.
Bill Burr is returning to the Trepany House at Steve Allen Theater this week to do another hour and it’s something we’re guessing you won’t want to miss. Already, there’s only standing room available.
Tickets are $19 and you can (and should) get them here.
In the Greater LA area, we’ve got listings for anything from comedy benefits for ACLU, Planned Parenthood, etc. to screenings for some holiday classics such as Home Alone (accompanied by a live orchestra) to the replacement for The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Rabbit Hole with Jay and Rory.
All of this and way more listed at TheComedyBureau.com