Stephanie Allynne’s particular brand of dark comedy is great because of a certain grounded reality that it operates in. This way, the humor seems even a bit darker, in a good way of course.
You can see for yourself in Stephanie’s latest short, The Fun Company, which you could think of as a sort of slightly more sinister version of Don’t Think Twice from the point of Mike Birbiglia’s character Miles.
The Riot LA Comedy Festival, one of the annual comedy events in LA that you shouldn’t miss, is only a few weeks away. Just look at the poster above to see the big, stacked line-up that’s in store for later this month.
Passes are on sale for $159.50 or $349.50 for VIP. Tickets for individual shows are also available.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
*comedy nominees in italics
BEST COMEDY ALBUM
…America…Great… — David Cross
American Myth — Margaret Cho
Boysih Girl Interrupted — Tig Notaro
Live At The Apollo — Amy Schumer
Talking For Clapping — Patton Oswalt
BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling):
The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo — Amy Schumer
In Such Good Company: Eleven Years Of Laughter, Mayhem, And Fun In The Sandbox — Carol Burnett
M Train — Patti Smith
Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History Of L.A.Punk (John Doe With Tom DeSavia)— (Various Artists)
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink — Elvis Costello
It’s almost expected to see Tig Notaro, Patton Oswalt, and Amy Schumer here in this year’s Grammy nominations for comedy. David Cross getting a nod for his album that specifically stands against Trump and one for Carol Burnett’s audio book are also good, big name choices.
Still, given how wide the field is in the Grammys, we wonder if there would ever be room for, let’s say, Best First Comedy Album or Best Podcast, etc. etc. to allow room for works from critically acclaimed comedians that are just on the brink of breaking out into the national spotlight.
See the full list of Grammy nominees for 2017 here, then see who wins at the ceremony set for February 12th.
Tig Notaro’s series One Mississippi that is somewhat based on her life with Tig playing a version of herself will be getting another round on Amazon Studios. The strategy to aim for dramedy at Amazon seems to be working out and thus they’ll keep anteing up.
Tig Notaro and Stephen Colbert are both as charming as could be in this interview. In fact, this could have gone for a few more segments and we bet everyone would probably be on board.
Watch the interview here.
Tig Notaro has done so many versions of her story from when she was struck down with breast cancer, C Diff, a break-up, and her mother dying including a comedy album, documentary, and a book.
Now, she can add the fictionalized version of that story in the form of her TV show One Mississippi to that list and you can stream it right now over at Amazon.
One Mississippi, the dramedy series that fictionalizes Tig Notaro’s life, will start streaming on Amazon in two days.
According to Tig in this behind-the-scenes look, you think you might know what’s going to happen, but you really don’t.
Watch it here.
Tig Notaro shared a set of baby pictures that not only rank among the best baby pictures of all time, but deserve a round of applause for how clever they are in getting on the pretty much, squeaky clean Tonight Show.
Watch to see what stunt Tig pulled off here.
If you’re into comedy at all, odds are you’ve probably heard Tig Notaro’s story of tragedies followed by tragedies and living through it by now. At the very least, we hope you’ve heard her landmark comedy album Live (pronounced as the verb).
This particular portion of Tig’s life riddled with heartbreak, disease, and death was the subject of the aforementioned album, a book, a documentary, and now this TV series coming to Amazon, One Mississippi.
The very first trailer for the show has just arrived and you can see how Tig’s singularly dry, unflinchingly honest sense of humor runs through her show.
If you’re hooked or an admirer of anything and everything that Tig does, look for episodes of One Mississippi to start streaming on Amazon Prime on Friday, September 9th.
Boyish Girl Interrupted, I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), and Neither Here Nor There are now available for the “listening-inclined”.
If you’re either the sort of person that prefers their stand-up with audio only or one that doesn’t have an HBO or Netflix account/password, you can now get to listen to three comedy specials from three of our favorite comedians making the rounds these days.
Tig Notaro’s Boyish Girl Interrupted, first premiered as an HBO special, is now on iTunes.
Jen Kirkman’s I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine), first premiered as a Netflix special, is also now available on iTunes.
Henry Phillips’ Neither Here Nor There is set to premiere as a comedy special on Vimeo On Demand on August 15th, but you can stream the audio version on Audible’s streaming service, Channels, if you’re an Audible member right now. On August 19th, the album version will be available digitally at iTunes and wherever else digital albums or sold.
So, get in on all of these, especially for the fact that you can now probably clock in three new hours of fine comedy while working.
Spend an evening with the one and only Tig Notaro at the Theatre at Ace Hotel on Saturday, July 30th at 8:30PM.
Tickets are $20-$45 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Tig Notaro has a brilliant comedic spirit with a harrowing story overcoming a whirlwind of tribulation including her mother dying, cancer, a break-up, and more all in one year.
She’s also a very accessible and visible window into how we’re all, in a manner of speaking, in it together (i.e. LBGTQ people shouldn’t be treated as ‘the other’ and discriminated against).
Anything she does is not only a work of comedy worthy of your attention, but something important beyond the realm of comedy.
With that said, you should probably get her book about that aforementioned year that changed her life, I’m Just a Person, just released this week. You can do so here.
(via Billboard)
We say “yes” to all of this.
After a number of releases off of Secretly Canadian, Tig Notaro is launching an imprint label called Bentzen Ball Records.
The name of the label comedy from “…a guy named Ole Bentzen who apparently died of a heart attack from laughter while watching A Fish Called Wanda,” says Notaro. It’s kind of a perfect story for the name of a comedy record label.
On top of that, the first release should be a doozy as it will be the first album from the fantastic Aparna Nancherla. Called Just Putting It Out There, it will come out July 8th..
See a preview of it here.
So, keep an eye on Bentzen Ball Records in the months to come.
Comedians and their favorite movies meet yet again for Wayne Federman’s 5th International Film Festival at Cinefamily.
Tig Notaro, John Mulaney, Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Keegan-Michael Key, Doug Benson, Matt Besser, and Rob Corddry all present (i.e. talk at length why this movie means so much to them) The Bad News Bears, Withnail & I, The Burbs, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and more.
The 5th Annual WFIFF goes from Thursday, March 31st to Sunday, April 3rd. Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows and open mics with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
For many years, we’ve enjoyed seeing Stephanie Allynne hone her darkly humorous, yet grounded comedic sensibilities. In an ever-growing field of dramatic comedy, she manages to stand out.
Now, she’s written and directed a short, The Fun Company, that will be coming out in April and features the likes of Mary Holland, Tig Notaro, and Lauren Lapkus.
From the looks of this gloriously rant-centric trailer, Allynne might have something special (that might also tangle with your idea of feminism is) with The Fun Company.
(via Deadline)
Just like Netflix has upped their content orders for next years, Amazon is smartly following suit.
Today, Amazon boosted up their upcoming comedy offering by not only renewing their 80s coming-of-age comedy, Red Oaks, from David Gordon Green, but ordered three of their comedy pilots to series.
One, Highston, has Chris Parnell and Marry Lynn Rajskub as parents to a kid played by Lewis Pullman who has celebrity friends that only he can see. The second one, One Mississippi is the high profile dramedy series based on the life of Tig Notaro with involvement from Louis C.K. and Diablo Cody. The third and final series ordered today was, Z: The Beginning of Everything, a comedy based on the whirlwind-turned-tornado of a romance between Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and legendary author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Christina Ricci is set to lead and the series is written by Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, both from The Killing, and directed by Tim Blake Nelson that you probably saw years ago in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
All in all, this new batch of comedy series that Amazon has will be very intriguing to see in how it stacks up to releases from Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services.
Per Amazon’s pilot process, you can and should watch it right now for free.
The comedy pilot that not only is based on Tig Notaro’s life, but also has Louis C.K. and Diablo Cody attached as producers, is now available for you to watch and supposedly rate, so it gets picked up to series at Amazon.
So, of the things you’re watching today, definitely make One Mississippi one of them right here.
(via Deadline)
We were thinking the guest star cast would be this good.
Sarah Silverman, Adam Pally, Mira Sorvino, Jenny Slate, Tig Notaro, Patton Oswalt, June Diane Raphael, Jon Cryer, and Brandon Routh will all guest star in the Maria Bamford series Lady Dynamite coming to Netflix next year.
While that’s all great to hear, we are curious to know if Maria will be playing her mom like she has done now and again.
As none of these conflict with their time slots, it looks like you should be watching a whole lot of great stand-up tonight.
8PM on Comedy Central–Natasha Leggero: Live at Bimbo’s
10PM on HBO–Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted
Midnight on Comedy Central–The Half Hour: Liza Treyger and Hampton Yount
Don’t miss out on any of this.
We could elaborate as to what Tig Notaro chatted about with Conan O’Brien last night during her appearance on Conan in order to entice you to watch their chat.
However, we know that you’re going to watch it anyway since it’s kind of Tig Notaro’s moment right now.
However, we will say that this road trip story is, as Tig will tell you, pretty hilarious.
The special Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted premieres on HBO on Aug. 22nd.
To get the word out, Tig not only has a giant billboard on the side of a tall building, she also made sure to stand near it, so she could point it to anyone walking, running, or driving by.
If you get a chance to point out your own billboard, it looks like you should absolutely do it.
JASH will be hosting the JASH Comedy Yellow Stage at this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX from Nov. 6th-8th.
As you can clearly see above, whether it be live wrestling, motivational speaking from Andrew W.K., Air Sex Champsionship, or comedy from Tig Notaro/Kurt Braunohler/Jonah Ray/Eugene Mirman/Todd Barry/Sabrina Jalees, it looks like it’ll be a good time.
Get more details and passes here.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
This means that Tig Notaro now has a documentary about her on Netflix, a tour special on Showtime, an upcoming stand-up special on HBO, and possibly a series coming to Amazon.
Today, Amazon has announced the order of a pilot that’s based on Tig’s life, right around the time where she recorded Live, that will star Tig as well. Both Louis C.K. and writer/director Diablo Cody have attached their names to the project as executive producers, which makes it hard for us to imagine this pilot not getting picked up to series.
At the very least, we’ll all probably get a chance to see the pilot since it will be on Amazon.
What a way to end a week of cancellations/endings.
One of the longer running podcasts at Earwolf, Professor Blastoff, is coming to an end after 217 episodes. This is the latest end of a comedy series in a week filled with the cancellations of HAPPYish, China, IL, and The Comedians as well as the announcement that this current season will be the final season of Key & Peele.
While it’s sad to see this podcast go, it’s great that Professor Blastoff’s crew is doing quite well in their own right. Tig Notaro has her stand-up really taking off, David Huntsberger has his own show to host on Syfy, Reactor, and Kyle Dunnigan is part of the Emmy nominated staff of Inside Amy Schumer.
If you’re looking for another podcast that wonderfully intersects science and comedy, may we suggest Probably Science.
