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The John Malkovich Squarespace Ad Is Our Favorite Super Bowl Commercial So Far
February 5, 2017
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A good amount of Super Bowl commercials have already been released online before the actual Super Bowl broadcast. 

Amongst those, there are plenty of subtle and (not so subtle) socio-political messages, broadly comedic, technologically impressive, and heartwarming ads.

For our money, the funniest one in that bunch before the telecast is this pair of John Malkovich-Squarespace ads that takes advantage of having the one and only John Malkovich in an ad. 

Hopefully, we’ll get to find more laugh-worthy ads later today.

Watch the rest of those Super Bowl commercials here.

John Oliver’s Thoughts on The Super Bowl and the New Season of “Last Week Tonight”
February 10, 2016
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Last Week Tonight finally returns this Sunday on HBO, so host John Oliver stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers.

On top of previewing what the gang at Last Week Tonight will be up to now that the 2016 Presidential Race is well underway, Oliver gives a great outsider perspective of how transcendent the Super Bowl is as well as questioning why Coldplay was there.

Thank goodness Sunday is only a few days away.

Conan Does Pitch Perfect Parody of Cam Newton’s Abrupt Press Conference Exit
February 9, 2016
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Honestly, we’re surprised that Carolina Panthers QB Cam Netwon walking out of the post Super Bowl press conference after his defeat isn’t more of a meme that the Internet has reveled in.

Either way, Conan does a pretty great job of sending up Newton and walk out that will probably haunt him forever.

Reggie Watts Interrupts James Corden’s Post Super Bowl Interview with Peyton Manning for a “Halftime Show”
February 9, 2016
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This is one of the best running gags that The Late Late Show has going right now. 

May Reggie live long and keep interrupting James whenever he can.

Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele Are Doing Live Game Commentary Tomorrow, in Character, for Squarespace
February 6, 2016
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Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele got some ridiculous get-ups, ridiculous hair-dos, and plenty of top notch riffing coming during Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow. 

This whole “Real Talk” event is in promotion of website building platform Squarespace (they made a whole website for this whole promotional stunt), which might be better than dropping several million for 30 seconds of commercial air time. 

So, maybe mute the TV except for the commercials and have this running over the game instead?

Stephen Colbert Announces His Guest Line-up for ‘The Late Show’ Post Super Bowl Special
January 29, 2016
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Got my Super Bowl squad ready. Hey Tina Fey, @MargotRobbie, Will Ferrell, @KeeganMKey, and @JordanPeele: Aim for the knees! #LSSC

Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, and Margot Robbie should make for a pretty special episode of The Late Show after this year’s Super Bowl. We mean, that’s in addition to whatever ultra clever stuff Colbert has up his sleeve on his own.

Oh yeah, you should check out what Stephen is up to at The Late Show these days. It’s pretty great and showcases how many gears, both comedic and emphatic, Colbert can shift in and out of even though he’s not in character.

Watch Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel Host a “Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show Show”
January 28, 2016
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Many are geared up for a The Super Bowl while others are geared up for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. 

Us personally, we’re pretty psyched for Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel doing a ‘half time show show’ web series that’s way before the actual half time show. The Pepsi Halftime Show Show not only has Scheer and Huebel letting their trademark chaos reign, but also has, in these first two episodes, Andy Juett and Tim Kalpakis joining in on the fun.

Anyone taking odds on whether these will be funnier than any of the Super Bowl ads? We might bet that they indeed are.

The Late Show and The Late Late Show Will Have Special Post-Super Bowl Episodes Next Year
November 13, 2015
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(via Variety)

Unlike the half time show, Stephen Colbert and James Corden won’t have to pay for their airtime. 

Everyone knows that the commercials for The Super Bowl, the most regularly watched TV event in human history. Similarly, the slot that follows the awarding of the Vince Lombardi is also highly coveted as its guaranteed high ratings.

Often networks use that slot to introduce new shows, but CBS, in their tenure of having the Super Bowl on their network, will opt to go with special episodes of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden on Feb. 7th.

This will be the first time that late night has brought up the rear for The Super Bowl on a major network, so don’t be surprised if Colbert and Corden pull out all the stops for it. 

As you saw this morning, Colbert just went all out for the Happy Birthday song and Corden has done entire episodes from strangers houses. So, just imagine what they’ll do with this episode.

John Oliver on Not Having “The Leftovers” As His Lead-In and Advice For Seahawks Fans
February 3, 2015
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The return of Last Week Tonight is just around the corner, this Sun. Feb. 8th at 11PM after Girls.

In fact, host John Oliver used to be lead-in by The Leftovers, for those of you that watch the show on HBO Go or clips on YouTube. 

Oliver sat down with Seth Meyers discussed having to follow a comedy now as opposed to one of the weightiest of dramas as well as some choice words to “console” Seattle Seahawks fans in their devastating Super Bowl loss this past Sunday.

Conan O’Brien, Marshawn Lynch, and Rob Gronkowski Are All Clueless Gamers Playing Mortal Kombat X
January 31, 2015
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The Super Bowl edition of Conan’s Clueless Gamer has Marshawn Lynch and Rob Gronkowski playing the upcoming Mortal Kombat X in a hotel conference room.

How they react to fatalities and Marshawn talking more than ever are pretty priceless. Watch it all here.

John Oliver’s Takes on Tasering Himself and The Super Bowl
January 30, 2015
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Sometimes, as a comedian, you never really know what extremes you yourself will go to get a laugh until you’re presented with those extremes in real life. John Oliver found out that he would indeed follow through pretty far in that regard at a recent show and told the story on Letterman. 

Oliver also gave his take on our most American of days here in America, The Super Bowl.

Enjoy these clips for now until next Sun., Feb 8th when Last Week Tonight returns to HBO at 11PM.

Key & Peele Do Pro Edition of “East West Bowl” Player Names
January 28, 2015
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One of Key & Peele’s most popular sketches involves the more ridiculous names that fill the rosters of NFL teams around the country. So, it’s only natural that they would have a special edition of their “East/West Bowl” for their Super Bowl Special premiering this Friday at 10PM on Comedy Central.

Also, there’s a pretty great art-imitating-life-imitating-art twist to this latest edition. Watch it here.

Newcastle Has Aubrey Plaza Call For The Small Brands To Band Together For Super Bowl Ad
January 13, 2015
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The Super Bowl ads are just as much a tradition as the actual Super Bowl these days. Giant corporations are now spending around $4 million on 30 seconds of airtime to put on a commercial, even though it’s a thing that has arguably become harder and harder to gauge the effectiveness of.

Beer company Newcastle has opted to some exposure through a novel experiment for the not-so-giant companies in an initiative they’re calling the Band of Brands.

They’ve even recruited Aubrey Plaza in a fun meta Super Bowl ad to explain The Band of Brands further. Watch it here.

While we hope this will make for one of the more memorable, talked about ads, but we do know that there will be a lot of pausing to see exactly how many brands they fit into one commercial.

Key & Peele To Host Super Bowl Themed Sketch Special Before The Super Bowl
January 10, 2015
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(via Splitsider)

If you were worried that you’re not getting enough Key & Peele in your life like we all are, rejoice in the news that you’ll be getting a whole special’s worth right before this year’s Super Bowl. 

Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele will be hosting an entire sketch special on Comedy Central on Jan. 30th at 10PM. Since you’ll be prepping for Super Bowl party probably at that point, just go ahead and expand your plans to include watching this special too.

The Tonight Show to Tape in Phoenix After Super Bowl and Then in LA for a Week
September 30, 2014
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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

The Tonight Show is going to take a week and come back to the West Coast next February. Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and company will first tape an episode in Phoenix right after the Super Bowl on Feb. 1st and will then head to Universal Studios Hollywood from Feb. 2nd-5th for a week of shows here in LA.

Fun fact: While The Tonight Show hasn’t been in LA since Jimmy Fallon took over as the host earlier this year, The Tonight Show hasn’t been on the Universal Studios backlot since The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.

Perhaps, there will be some fun crossover, rivalry bits between Conan and Fallon and Kimmel?

There Is a Petition to Have Weird Al Yankovic Perform at The Super Bowl Half Time Show
August 7, 2014
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(via Splitsider)

The Super Bowl Half Time Show is up there in terms of the biggest stage to perform on. Thus, only the biggest acts get to play it like Beyonce, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, etc. 

With a new album debuting at #1 on Billboard, Weird Al Yankovic might just be a great candidate to play that very same half time show, which is the purpose of a petition that has started by Weird Al’s fans.

We sincerely hope this happens to not only have Yankovic’s name mentioned in the same sentence with Super Bowl Half Time alums, but we’re sure it will be one hell of a show.

Seinfeld Super Bowl Reunion is For Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
February 3, 2014
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Seinfeld Super Bowl Reunion is For Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

An AMC Pacer and George Costanza are the center of Jerry Seinfeld’s latest and possibly greatest episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee as it’s pretty much a crossover between Seinfeld and CCGC, even Newman makes an appearance.

Give it a watch at the link.

Stephen Colbert Is The MVP of Trying to Be a Quarterback
January 30, 2014
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Though perhaps lacking in the physical attributes of a NFL quarterback destined for The Super Bowl, one Stephen Colbert is certainly legendary at making a remote segment out of trying to become one.

Watch Colbert mess with a three time Super Bowl winning coach and a lauded trainer on The Colbert Report here.

EVEN MORE GROUPON ADS on Conan
February 10, 2011
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First off, if you haven’t seen the original Super Bowl Ad with Timothy Hutton that exploit the horrid situation that Tibet is in for the benefit of great deals via Groupon.com, here it is…

Now that you have perhaps lost faith in a certain segment in humanity…

Here’s another Groupon.com ad…

…and two more…

…and even a few more.

thanks to Conan.

Oh yeah, and what we should do to advertisers…

Morning Debriefing 2/7/11
February 7, 2011
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1) As the Comedy Bureau promised, we were on the beat of comedians tweeting during and about the horrible extravagance that the Super Bowl is and here, for your enjoyment, in case you’re a better human being than all of us and have not succumbed to Twitter, are the 5 MOST HILARIOUS TWEETS from yesterday’s Super Bowl tweeting blitz:

“@pattonoswalt Baby trauma, robot thumbs, abusive women – if these ads reflect the U.S.’s mood, we’re in an "asshole spiral.”-Patton Oswalt
“@eddiepepitone This football game pales in comparison to crying in the woods with other men about our dads.Go Steelers!”-Eddie Pepitone
“@TonySam76 Wait until you all realize that you have just been watching an extended Michael Bay trailer for Transformers 3 #superbowl”-Tony Sam
“@thesulk That Coke ad with the dragon could’ve fed Africa.”-Alex Sulkin
“@joshcomers These commercials are effective. I just joined al-Qaeda. #Superbowl”-Josh Comers

2) Greg Proops is taking his podcast Smartest Man in the World LIVE, but he’s taking it to the Comedy Central Stages in Hollywood on Feb. 16th where you can be a fortunate audience member for FREE!!! Details are right here, but as the flyer warns, THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF VOCABULARY.

3) Big Trouble in Little Tokyo @ Señor Fish is tomorrow where you can catch Hasan Minhaj and Sean Conroy AND there is the 3 #$#$@!! Year Anniversary of BLAMBLAMBLAM!!! @ R-bar in K-town (only a firm stone’s throw from downtown LA), so now that your Tues. is planned, ehem, you’re welcome.

4) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL-a “case of the mondays” is now a good thing
What’s Up Tiger Lily? @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Comedy Night @ Cherry Pit 9PM FREE 
Keep It Clean Comedy @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
Crash Test @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 

5) OPEN MIC RUN 2/7/11
CLUB 705 705 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/7ishPM/10 min. stage time at least 
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (echo park)/8PM 
GROUND ZERO CAFE 615 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA (USC on campus nestled in between dorms near intersection of Figueroa and Exposition)/USC student Sign-up 9PM/Non Student Sign-up 9:15PM/Starts 9:30PM 
HARLEM PLACE CAFE 124 W. 4th St. (in alley between Main and Spring St.)/Starts 9PM
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 Cover/Free coffee & water.

6) Recently: The Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl sending tons of Pittsburgh Steelers T-shirts to Africa, which still won’t solve the big problems in Africa according to Sam Kinison.

7) I wonder if anyone who had their New Year Resolution as starting to perform stand up comedy is still around on the open mic circuit or if they rejoined normal society. Any sightings can be reported to thecomedybureau@gmail.com.

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