Public School Stories is always a storytelling show worth catching, but this latest edition for May is particularly stacked with your favorite folks from You’re the Worst, Boy Meets World, MST3K, Review, Legion, and more.
It’s free to attend, but you can RSVP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The heartbreak storytelling show, Breaker/Broken, returns to its perfect venue, The Museum of Broken Relationships, tomorrow night.
Comedy folks Erin Foley, Aron Kader, Matt Price, Diana Dinerman, Hayley Terris, and host/creator Michelle Miracle will share their tales amidst the collection of objects that symbolize the end of relationships of all shapes and sizes.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and really 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.
Over a decade ago, Dave Hill initiated one of the funniest exchanges ever in trying to start a Norwegian Black Metal band with a kid from Indiana. The conversations became known as The Black Metal Dialogues.
All these years later, Dave and actual bandmate Phil Costello are going to do The Black Metal Dialogues Live! next month at The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip.
Even if you’re not a metal head, we’re pretty sure you’ll enjoy “the vagina monologues of black metal”.
Please get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Joe Zimmerman is, and has been for years, a delight to watch and proves that with his latest late night set from last week’s Tonight Show.
In addition to this notch on what is sure to be one of many more instances of his stand-up making its way to TV, Joe Zimmerman shared a Dante’s-Inferno-esque hell gig story that has so many layers of absurdity that you almost can’t believe that he stuck it through to find his way to where he is now.
It’s a great example of the ridiculous amount of dedication that comedy demands.
The Best Friends Show is always pretty great.
This line-up though is pretty special, even by their standards as best friends and real life married couples Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani and Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher are on the line-up for this Saturday.
Tickets are $5 online and $6 at door. You can (and should) get tickets in advance here.
One of the best and most unique storytelling shows around is coming around again.
We Still Like You features stories from funny people where they are definitely not the hero. There’s live illustration and, at the end, the audience gets to cathartically exclaim “WE STILL LIKE YOU!” Also, it’s in the intimate setting of someone’s house.
It’s happening this Saturday with a fun line-up of recent LA transplant comedians. Doors are at 9:30PM and you can get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
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!
Mike Birbiglia is set to serve up another hour of his masterful stand-up/storytelling on Netflix with his latest special, Thank God for Jokes.
Here’s a tiny morsel of the special that starts streaming next Tuesday, February 28th.
Pixar Is Offering a Free Online Course on the Art of Storytelling with “Pixar in a Box”
From the likes of Pixar heavyweights that were the key creative forces behind Inside Out, Up, Monsters, Inc., Brave, Sanay’s Super Team, and more, you can now learn some winning formulas on storytelling.
The lessons are offered up, in collaboration with Khan Academy, as part of the “Pixar in a Box” program and are only a handful of the knowledge, how to, wisdom, and experience that Pixar is willing to share.
Get into Pixar’s storytelling course here.
Tomorrow night, Lindsay Ames’ My Diary will gather some of the best people from every corner of comedy and has them share a part of a diary that they kept at some point in their life. This usually includes accompanying pictures that show just how “expressive” they were in writing in their most private correspondence.
John Early, who you probably just saw on The Tonight Show, the voice of one of the new Powerpuff Girls Natalie Palamides, and Baron Vaughn (both on late night and in Grace & Frankie) is just half of this fine line-up.
Tickets are $7 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.
For our money, we can’t think of a better way to close shop on Valentine’s Day this year than Julian McCullough’s story about one jaw-dropping tattoo that he got because of a girl that was kind of into him.
Here’s the story on the latest This Is Not Happening.
The Best Friends Show, the show where best friends tell stories together, is going to make its first splash at The Virgil this Saturday, February 18th at 8PM.
Real life best friends Kim Seltzer and Aliya Kamalova will welcome other best friends:
Yassir Lester & Isaiah Lester
Shauna McGarry & Celia Finkelstein
Joe Kwaczala & Anthony Gioe
Erin & MeLissa
It’s one of our favorite shows around town and something that always gives us a bit of hope in humanity.
Tickets are $5 and you should get them here ASAP.
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.
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.
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.
Rather than just doing an hour at a single mic, Neal Brennan’s latest comedy special, 3 Mics, opts for literal three microphones on stage at the same time. Brennan will do either one-liners, stories, or bits depending on which mic he is at.
Get a taste of how Brennan will go about that that with this trailer.
Then, look for it to start streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, January 17th.
2016 has been beleaguered with loss of beloved figures. Within the LA comedy scene, there has been another recent loss: beloved improviser/comedian/actor Gian Molina.
The Pack Theater is holding two shows in remembrance of Gian featuring many of the teams he coached, stories from people close to him, and more. Donations will be collected for his family.
The show will be held in this Friday, December 30th and you can find out more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The latest gathering of Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, and Max Silvestri, otherwise known as Big Terrific, will be on January 13th, 2017 at Largo at the Coronet Theatre. I
It’s never quite clear when the next Big Terrific is, so you might want to snatch up your tickets now. Get them here.
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The best of the best comedian slash fiction writers in LA, including Eliza Skinner, Zach Sherwin, Alison Leiby, Phoebe Bottoms, and Keith Carey, will assemble to see who will be the Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction champ.
Join in with host/CEFF ringleader Bryan Cook and see who emerges as the best lurid pop culture parodist this Sunday, December 18th at The Virgil with doors opening at 7:30PM. The show itself is free leaving little excuse to not catch it if you’re in town.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Radio Picture Show, one of the best storytelling shows in LA, is back for its final round of the 2016 and they’ll be doing it to benefit Planned Parenthood.
Max Silvestri, Laura House, Kristen Studard, and Kurt Braunohler will be joining hosts Lauren Cook and Shauna McGarry this Wednesday at The Virgil.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The tales of Dan St. Germain are kind of perfect for Comedy Central’s storytelling series This Is Not Happening.
This particular story comes from a darker time in Dan’s life when he was a janitor and managed to go overboard on getting wasted at a jam band festival.
If you’ve heard a podcast or two, you’ve probably heard of Audible, the service where you can listen to audio versions of books.
Well, as that worked out for them, they’re now getting into the original programming game via the new Audible Channels subscription service.
They’ve got plenty of great stuff including The Comedy Show Show presented by Will Arnett featuring high concept comedy shows (i.e. Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction) around the country, Hold On with Eugene Mirman that’s an in-depth storytelling show, Sounds Like America featuring stand-up performed from around the country, straightforward stand-up comedy on Limelight, and Bedtime Stories for Cynics with Nick Offerman.
Featured guests on all of these shows include Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Maria Bamford, Kurt Braunohler, Jackie Kashian, Roy Wood Jr., Rob Delaney, Michelle Buteau, TJ Miller, Todd Barry, Beth Stelling, Ron Funches, Gilbert Gottfried, and way more.
If you have either a subscription to Audible or Amazon Prime, you get all of this for free.
If you want to get into any or all of this (and it sounds like a good idea), get more details here.
Dave Ross is hilarious and this is a hilarious acid tripping story that just found it’s way to Comedy Central’s storytelling series This Is Not Happening.
We don’t need to explain any further (i.e. comedians on acid usually make for a great story later and that’s that). So, just watch and enjoy.
It’s quite a tale and master comedian Brian Regan spun it quite perfectly into the story presented on a recent This Is Not Happening on Comedy Central.
When you see Louis CK on TV these days, expect a deeply human story born out of very simple, relatable embarrassment, an original angle on the zeitgeist, and comparisons that come out of a left field for comedic effect. Those are some of the big elements that have made him this balance between a grounded, organic comedian/storyteller/filmmaker while maintaining a bit of his absurdist flights of fancy.
He delivered on all three in his appearance on Conan last night starting of with a great case for Hillary Clinton being President sans very many digs at Trump and his supporters.
Then, he followed it up with a story about how he learned the value of honesty and openness through walking around the city with his fly down and open and then breaking down the idea of dancing, both as something that can empower and also promise someone a heartbreaking path in life.
If you use a bit of imagination, you can make this up as an episode of Louie to play out in your head.