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The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 62: Kevin Allison & Pandemic Storytelling

June 2, 2021

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Kevin Allison, founder of the nationally beloved storytelling institution RISK! and member of legendary sketch group The State, joins TCB’s Jake Kroeger to give a bit of a state-of-the-nation breakdown of what the storytelling scene/art form has gone through during the pandemic. As you might imagine, folks have gone through so much and are still, largely, processing what has happened/is happening still.

RISK! thankfully evolved into a recurring virtual show and survived through 2020 and 2021 and is now set to return to in-person events (where the intimacy and vulnerability of storytelling is best featured). Also “hot” takes on Comedy Dynamics x Tribeca Film Festival’s slate of comedy specials and John Oliver’s latest ‘gonzo comedy’ pranks.

Follow Kevin @thekevinallison on Twitter and RISK @riskshow on Twitter and IG. Tickets for upcoming RISK! shows including 6/17 @ Caveat in NYC can be purchased at risk-show.com/tour. Listen to RISK! wherever you get your podcasts.

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

Produced by Jake Kroeger
Music by Brian Granillo
Artwork by Andrew Delman and KT

Please Enjoy Andrew DeYoung’s Latest Short Film “Brown”

March 20, 2017

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At the risk of spoiling anything for Tribeca Film Festival N.O.W. honoree/one of our favorite directors Andrew DeYoung’s latest amazing short film “Brown” (other works include 555 and plenty of other great short films), we’ll just tell you that it stars Kurt Braunohler with Jon Daly might be NSFW depending on where you work.

Other than that, we’ll let Brown surprise and delight you like it did for us. Watch it on Vimeo here.

Demetri Martin’s First Feature “Dean” Wins at Tribeca and Gets Picked Up by CBS Films

April 23, 2016

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(via Deadline)

Pretty good for a first try, right?

Demetri Martin’s writer/director debut, Dean, is not only getting to make a run on the film festival circuit, but it’s already picked up an award for Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival and has just sold the U.S. distribution rights to CBS Films.

We can’t wait to see what Demetri has done with a whirlwind romance between himself and Gillian Jacobs while preventing Kevin Kline, who plays his father, selling a family home right after his mother died.

Get Your First Look at “The Pistol Shrimps” Documentary in This Tribeca Trailer

April 14, 2016

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What might be one of the most famous rec league basketball teams in the country now, The Pistol Shrimps, has a documentary by Brent Hodge playing at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Yes, that’s the same basketball team that Aubrey Plaza and Stephanie Allynne play on and has a podcast of live commentary done by members of Superego.

You can get a taste of what’s to come in this trailer and just hope that it gets picked up for distribution soon so the rest of us can see it.

Here’s the Trailer For SNL Doc “Live From New York!”

April 11, 2015

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If you didn’t feel that the montages of the SNL 40th Anniversary were in-depth enough about the history of Saturday Night Live, this should probably do the trick.

Bao Nguyen’s documentary Live From New York! will go throughout the timeline of SNL looking at the show’s inception, Lorne Michaels’ course at the helm, and the effect that it has had on American and global discourse in politics, pop culture, etc.

It’s set to play at the Tribeca Film Festival, but, for those of us not in attendance, we’ll have to chew on this trailer for awhile.

Monty Python Documentary “The Meaning of Live” To Premiere at Tribeca on 40th Anniversary of “Holy Grail”

March 11, 2015

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

As it has been two score since the release of legendary comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is marking the occasion with a run of several Python films as well as the premiere of a feature length documentary following Monty Python off and backstage.

Roger Graef and James Rogan put together an entire feature length documentary entitled Monty Python – The Meaning of Live, which is set to play at Tribeca on Apr. 25th. The film offers up a close look behind the scenes of the Pythons and what went into for their recent O2 Arena run.

The sounds of clattering, hollowed coconuts will undoubtedly be heard somewhere during this anniversary.