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TCB Debriefing 1/5/24: White Lotus S3, Minx, Taylor Tomlinson, In the Know, Katherine Blanford

January 5, 2024

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1. The cast of the acclaimed dramedy White Lotus season 3 has just been announced and it will star Leslie Bibb, Tayme Thapthimthong, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, and Jason Isaacs. Anyone have a death pool or running yet odds on what sort of sex escapades will happen this time around?

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2. Minx just got canceled (again) and it opting to not go for another season (Variety). Pour one out for a wild, yet nuanced look at gender and sexuality with fantastic 70s fashion and hope it ends up on some streaming service that you already have.

3. In addition to taking the reins to the late late slot at CBS, Taylor Tomlinson is premiering her latest special, Have It All, on Feb. 13th on Netflix. 2024 might be a year ruled by two Taylors.

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4. Peacock is really cementing itself in the high concept niche when it comes to original comedies. Following up Poker Face and Mrs. Davis will be the animation/live action hybrid that seems to be lovingly skewer NPR called In The Know. Take your first gander at the show here, then look for it on Peacock on Jan. 25th.

5. Call us crazy, but we think Katherine Blanford is probably going to have a pretty damn good 2024. Go see for yourself on her Prison Barbie Goes on Tour with dates going through the Summer. Get tickets here.

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6. We’ll leave you with this: May you all be successful enough in comedy that you talking mad shit on a podcast is the leading news of the day.

TCB Debriefing 11/2/23: Jon Glaser, Futurama, Joe Pera, Taylor Tomlinson, Dad Jokes?

November 2, 2023

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1. Truly, Jon Glaser never ceases to amaze. Being able to make absurdist comedy bloom out of the minutia of “gear” or, inversely, finding the comedic minutia in being in witness protection, Glaser’s comedy stylings comes in the friction between finding emotional truths/vulnerability and sheer ridiculousness. His guided meditation album for “solitary dogs” is a perfect display of his work. Glaser inhabits and creates a very real world of making a “serious” 30 minute track to soothe a dog that, of course, comes apart at the seams (on top of it being a product “made for dogs” that will only be enjoyed by humans. It’s a more than welcome, hilarious departure from the actual, terrifying world that is soothing for, well, anyone or anything listening. Jon Glaser’s Soothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog is available now wherever you get your comedy albums, courtesy of Pretty Good Friends.

2. Hulu did the correct thing and shut up and gave Futurama their money for two more seasons.

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3. Joe Pera talks with America from now to the end of whatever fruit is in season at the end of Spring 2024. Kindly go get tickets when you have a moment at joepera.com/shows.

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4. Behold the late night coronation of Taylor Tomlinson, the host of After Midnight, and the late night tag team partner of Stephen Colbert and The Late Show.

5. We’ll leave you with this: Not to jump the gun here, but can we make a New Year’s Resolution for 2024 to make better dad jokes? Enough with cringeworthy wordplay.

TCB Debriefing 11/1/23: After Midnight, John Wilson, Jenny Zigrino, Mike Birbiglia, HBO Fake Twitter Accounts,

November 1, 2023

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1. The newly minted version of @midnight, which will be called After Midnight, will be hosted by Taylor Tomlinson and have Jo Firestone as the head writer and Jack Martin from the actual @midnight as showrunner (THR). Aside from the Jimmys, Stephen, Seth, and John, After Midnight will be the representation for diversity in late night whenever SNL is not on the air (or if/when The Daily Show picks a replacement, presuming they don’t go with an old white guy).

2. Like his HBO series How To with John Wilson, John Wilson is pure human magic on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

3. Jenny Zigrino is a stand-up comedy force to be reckoned with. Go reckon with her on her winter tour all over the U.S. Get tix now at jennyzigrino.com/live.

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4. If you didn’t have the coin to catch Mike Birbiglia on Broadway (because you probably never had the coin to catch anything on Broadway), fret not. His latest Broadway show, The Old Man & The Pool, is coming out in Netflix special form on Nov. 21st and you can take your first look at it here.

5. Oh, HBO. How the mighty have fallen and resorted to spam Twitter accounts to troll reviewers (THR). The question now is whether Showtime, Hulu, Roku, or someone else will do a slapdash drama about this revelation.

6. We’ll leave you with this: Anyone looking to open up a bar, please do it right next door to any and all comedy venues, for the love of whatever you believe in.

Netflix Is A Joke Fest Is Back (and Even Bigger?) for 2022

One of the first major comedy festivals to get postponed indefinitely because of COVID-19 was Netflix’s gigantic celebration of comedy that brought out all their biggest stars and their accompanying constellations, Netflix Is a Joke Fest. It was also going to be the first big comedy festival in LA in years (since Riot LA in DTLA ended its run).

For 2020, Netflix seemingly spared no expense to make the biggest comedy festival they could in Los Angeles and it was heartbreaking to see none of that happen in 2020 and have no idea if and when it would happen again.

Well, on this side of the pandemic, Netflix Is a Joke Fest was just announced to be back on, running from Thurs. Apr. 28th-Sun. May 8th, and Netflix is making sure to make it even bigger it would appear. Their stable of venues includes LA’s biggest (which wasn’t planned for 2020) including Dodger Stadium, Staples Center (now known as Crypto.com Arena), The Forum, and The Hollywood Bowl on top of beloved LA comedy haunts, old and new, The Comedy Store, The Hollywood Improv, Dynasty Typewriter, and The Elysian.

The top billing for the line-up is also more robust than we remember. On the schedule, the streamer has David Letterman, Tina Fey/Amy Poehler, Ali Wong, Eddie Izzard, Larry David, Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, Seth Rogen’s Table Reads, Marc Maron, Jane Fonda/Lily Tomlin, John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Colin Quinn, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Ilana Glazer, Jimmy Carr, Taylor Tomlinson, Margaret Cho, Ben Schwartz, and Kevin Smith.

Oh yeah, there’s Dave Chappelle too as well as Aziz Ansari who are two of Netflix’s biggest gets within their talent pool, but have had the “cancellation” treatment. We have no doubt that their shows will sell out.

As they are billing it as the “biggest comedy event in history*, *probably” (SF Sketchfest does have way more programming and the Edinburgh Fringe is bigger than most festivals, period.), they’ve also filled out their line-up with plenty of folks (including many of our absolute favorites) that you shouldn’t miss if you’re putting the money down for Netflix Is a Joke Fest. That includes Todd Glass, Melissa Villaseñor, Guy Branum, Natalie Palamides doing Laid, Beth Stelling, James Adomian, Robin Tran, Mae Martin, and Sam Jay.

You can take a gander at the schedule here, then go get tickets starting this Fri. Dec. 10th at NetflixIsAJokeFest.com.

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 25: Lisa Curry & Coming Oh So Close

September 16, 2020

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It takes a special sort of comedian to release their very first hour of comedy during a global pandemic after going through recording it far from home in the UK. Lisa Curry is that special sort of comedian on top of having a really great penchant for dark humor. Curry zooms with TCB’s Jake Kroeger about taking such a leap as well as Curry coming very, very close to so many big breaks, but coming up short or being left in the dark as to what happened until she reads her fate in the trades. That even includes coming close to plenty of this week’s news items covering Last Week Tonight‘s renewal, Nicole Byer and John Cena hosting the newest Wipeout, Borat 2, and Guy Branum getting to develop his very own scripted series at NBC.

Follow Lisa Curry at LisaCurry.net and please get her brand new debut album Alive for a While.

Shout Outs: Adam Sandler’s 100% Fresh, Taylor Tomlinson’s Quarter Life Crisis, Ryan Hamilton’s Happy Face, Beth Stelling’s Girl Daddy, Katie Hughes’ Queen of the Castle

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).
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October 2, 2019

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If you follow us, you ought to know that The Super Serious Show is something that you should always be in attendance for as they always have a magnificent line-up featuring all sorts of comedy, both of stage and screen.

This edition for Oct. 2019 is no different as you can see above. In fact, this month, you’ll get to see, in addition to the fantastic comedic stylings of Byron Bowers, Lizzy Cooperman, James Fritz, Eddie Pepitone, Taylor Tomlinson, and host/headliner Asif Ali, My Favorite Murder’s Karen Kilgariff return to the stage and short films from the TBS-made-a-huge-mistake-by-shelving-their-brilliant-series sketch group The Dress Up Gang.

That should be more incentive than usual, which is a lot, to show up for this Super Serious Show.

You can tickets now for $7 (they’ll be $10 cash at door). Please do so here.

Taylor Tomlinson to Co-Host Fox’s Aftershow Parody “What Just Happened??!” with Fred Savage and Best Coast as a House Band

May 31, 2019

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Taylor Tomlinson to Co-Host Fox’s Aftershow Parody “What Just Happened??!” with Fred Savage and Best Coast as a House Band

To take the aftershow craze down a few notches, Fox is ordering a series that is a parody of said aftershows (i.e. Talking Dead, Thronecast) by doing an aftershow of a fictional sci-fi show that’ll be hosted by Fred Savage and comedian Taylor Tomlinson.

They’ll even get a house band in the form of chill rock band Best Coast, which is a surprising upgrade from a real aftershow.

We like the boldness of this project and are so curious to see how it’ll fare as well as how Savage and Tomlinson will play off of each other. No matter how it goes, round of applause to Fox for taking a chance on something so meta.

Hot Tub Ticket Giveaway for 6/25/18 Is Here!

June 22, 2018

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Summer is officially here, which should mark an increase in everyone going out, especially at night.

That being the case, why don’t you try your hand at winning a pair of free tickets that we have to next week’s Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen!

Enter to win here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

Win Tickets to the First Hot Tub of 2018

January 4, 2018

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OK, Jan. 1st didn’t really kick off the year because Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen hadn’t yet started back up.

However, on Jan. 8th, the year 2018 will really get underway with the 1st Hot Tub at The Virgil.

Even better than that, we have tickets for you to win!

Enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

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August 20, 2017

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Really, if you haven’t seen Follow That! where comedians do indeed try to attempt comedy after watching the saddest videos that hosts Matt Lieb and Jason Webb can find, please treat yourself to this roller coaster of an emotional evening coming up at the end of this month.

The line-up for this edition is stacked with the more than capable comedic talents of Mike Lawrence, Andre Hyland, Matt Kirshen, Sofiya Alexandra, Brodie Reed, and Taylor Tomlinson.

You can (and should) get tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.