UCB Digital’s latest and greatest web series Mother Mary comes from Casey Feigh and Dan Gregor and puts a very 21st century, more feminist twist on the story of the birth of Christ.
Betsy Sodaro, as you’ll notice, is pretty fantastic as a “give-no-f*cks” type of Mary.
Watch all four episodes now, right here.
If you’ve had a fictional diner conversation imagined between Jay Larson, Rory Scovel, and Al Madrigal on the subject of a significant other’s ex-boyfriend, we’re guessing it might be something like the latest short of Larson’s Diner series.
You are spending your free time imagining such things, right?
At The Comedy Bureau, we always strive to highlight great comedy that might not get seen by a good number of people otherwise.
Thus, we’re always open to having stuff sent to us whether it be a sketch, web series, podcast, short film, live show, book, movie, album, TV show, essay, art installation, festival, etc. etc. for consideration to be featured at the site like we did for Derek Sheen’s fantastic album Tiny Idiot.
NOTE: we are still solely based in LA as of this time. So, live show listings/coverage tends to skew towards the Greater Los Angeles Area. However, we’re still game for big, one-off, and/or annual events like festivals, tours, and the like around the country such as Bridgetown or even the world (Eddie Izzard’s Force Majeure, Comedy Central International Festival, Edinburgh Fringe)
Please send all submissions to thecomedybureau@gmail.com. Apologies in advance if it takes us awhile to get back to you as our staff is on the small-but-mighty side.
Mutli-hyphenate comedian Kristen Studard has made this great, trippy, and very personal web series Kristen Does Her Best. It shows her making the very well known struggle of making it in LA, but Kristen’s imagination takes it to a whole other great and weird place.
Watch all five episodes in full, together as a pilot of sorts (we’d recommend that) or watch them separately: one, two, three, four, and five.
The rest of our listings for comedy events/shows and open mics along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
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Jen Tullock and Hannah Utt’s wonderful web series Disengaged at Super Deluxe has finally returned.
The next item on their rushed wedding checklist is a venue and it turns out that the one they have to visit might be too perfect for their own good.
As the boy band formula continues to be successful throughout the decades, there has been parodies of boy bands right there following along. You might remember Conan’s Dudez-a-Plenti or MTV’s 2Ge+her as some of notable examples.
In 2016, Brett Davis of the subversive, meta, absurdist talk show, The Special Without Brett Davis, writes and stars in a new, similarly toned boy band parody in the IFC web series simply called Boy Band.
NYC comedy folks including Anna Drezen, Jo Firestone, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres (who also co-wrote a good deal of the series), John Early, and more round out a great cast.
There are six episodes in total and you might not look at boy bands, or any reality show endeavor for that matter, the same way afterwards.
Or, if you have a pretty dark view on the music industry, maybe this would just redouble your feelings about the whole boy band model.
Either way, you should watch the whole series here.
Dan Soder and Michelle Wolf playing broken people to just happen to sell used cars (maybe the two go hand-in-hand?) make for Comedy Central’s latest web series you should be watching, Used People.
The first three episodes are now up for you to watch on YouTube and also feature great supporting and featuring roles from Nick DiPaolo, Anthony Atamanuik, Bridget Everett, and Chris DiStefano.
After watching, perhaps you’ll feel a little more sympathy when going to a used car dealership (or maybe just feel even more wary?).
We know it’s only March, but Hannah Utt and Jen Tullock’s web series Disengaged, streaming at Super Deluxe, is already on our short list for one of our favorite things that we’ve come across this year.
Disengaged follows Utt and Tullock as a lesbian couple who rush getting married after DOMA is struck down. The whirlwind of events that follow are simultaneously so organic, grounded, timely, and damn hysterical.
The pilot was released late last year, but the next four episodes of season 1 are all streaming right now.
Want to have your comedy web series, video, short film, podcast, album, special, book, audio book, essay, stand-up, improv, sketch, play, variety show etc. featured and/or listed at The Comedy Bureau?
Well, just send us your stuff at thecomedybureau@gmail.com for consideration! If we dig it, we’ll post about it or list it. We love discovering new folks, troupes, and more, so don’t feel intimidated in ever sending anything in.
Three things:
1) For now, we’re based in LA, so if you’re submitting a show for listing, please have it been within the Greater LA area. Otherwise, we’ll take in anything else to be potentially featured from anywhere else in the world.
2) Do keep in mind that we’re short staffed, so keep your submissions brief (i.e. don’t send EPK or extensive bios/descriptions) so we can get through submissions as quickly as possible.
3) Please submit recent work only i.e. anything that’s been posted or released from beyond two weeks of your submission. We like keep things fresh at the Bureau.
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The series is created by John Montgomery and is apparently not just using “attention deficit theater” as a cool name.
The CW has been on a hot streak with comedy with Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. We’re glad to see that they’re bringing that streak to their digital platform, CW Seed with a new comedy web series actually focusing on the ins and outs of attention deficit disorder with the likes of Jaime King at the forefront.
We’re excited to know that Dan Van Kirk, who we’d hope you would know from so many great Earwolf podcasts, his stellar Mark Wahlberg impression, etc., will be writing the 10 episodes of the sketch series that have been ordered.
When this drops early next year, this will definitely be worth checking out.
The latest episode of Thomas R. Wood’s fascinating docu series on what comedians do Outside Comedy explores Kyle Kinane’s passion for mountain biking.
Believe it or not, it’s given Kyle a certain sense of balance in his life.
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If you haven’t familiarized yourself with great comedians and human beings Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher yet, please do so.
The latest series to come from Amy Poehler’s digital brand Smart Girls comes from Cameron and Rhea having a conversation where they offer their eye-opening, but inviting female perspective on life.
It’s called She Said, which we can only hope will offer a different, more progressive angle on that decades old “that’s what she said” joke.
By the way, it premieres tomorrow Smart Girls just in case you’re getting to excited over this.
Filmmaker Thomas R. Wood has gotten together the likes of Kyle Kinane, Beth Stelling, Brent Weinbach, Brooks Wheelan, and more for a new web series.
Is it one where all of these hysterical comedians are doing comedy? Nope.
Outside Comedy will delve into what they do outside of their job as a comedian, arguably the thing that keeps them sane.
Intrigued? Of course you are. Watch a trailer for the series here.
After watching this, you’ll wish that Michelle conducted all your interviews.
Michelle Wolf is one of the best parts of Late Night with Seth Meyers and you can see her live up to that in her new web series over at Comedy Central, Now Hiring with Michelle Wolf.
Basically, Michelle tries to interview people for a tech company in an unorthodox, perhaps unprecedented way.
Watch these five episodes of Now Hiring released this week at Comedy Central now.
Yes, they’re accepting submissions for web series and “alternative digital content”.
Los Angeles’ own highly touted LA Film Festival is coming up in June 2016 and they’re now taking submissions. While they have traditional categories of feature films, short films, and documentaries, they’re also be accepting, with some caveats, various web videos/series/digital content that we’re sure you all have.
The early deadline is Nov. 20th, the official deadline is Dec. 14th, and the late deadline is Jan. 15th.
Get details and submit here.
The latest episode of Roommates, where Greg Barris and Bridey Elliott are roommates from completely different eras in time, yet are still both still trying to figure their life out, has them simply trying to pull having a nice, cozy house party.
See how that played out here.
Casey Jane Ellison has managed to cleverly work in a fashion ad campaign into a fun web series where she deals with the inner dialogue between competing sides of her brain.
Called The Right & Left Brains of Casey Jane’s, she deals with her crazed life that she often brings on herself all while looking as fly as can be in BB Dakota clothing.
Looks like those Old Navy ads with Amy Poehler and Julia Louis-Dreyfus have some competition.
When having roommates, having ground rules for each other’s personal boundaries goes without saying. Well, the actual ground rules are said, but the idea of having them is pretty much common law.
With that being said, people like Greg Barris and Bridey Elliott in their web series Roommates have some rules that most folks probably don’t have to go through because they’re probably relatively normal/well-adjusted/same age/gender.
If there was a dire time that would drive dissimilar roommates into the same living situation, it would probably be now.
Greg Barris and Bridey Elliott end up in such a situation where they’re different genders and vastly different in age in their new web series, aptly named Roommates.
Watch the first episode here and see how you can see how they’d be the more true-to-life, modern update of The Odd Couple.
The conclusion to the great web series from UCB’s Brinkman, Life Support, was just posted today.
If you’ve ever felt lost by following a self-help book, you might enjoy how this support group handled the destructive, problematic self-help book they follow.
Watch and take cues here.
You can and should watch the rest of the series here.
Even though this is a monthly screening series that just took a month off, it’s been far too long.
Channel 101 took July off and left us with wondering what’s going to happen with bitches, a baby that might be killed, a kid named Markees, a probot, and a King of YouTube.
Rather than try to give any of that context, we urge you to get into the latest installment of Channel 101′s top finishers right here.
Of the words to describe modern relationships, “trying” is a pretty apt one for anyone making an effort to find a significant other.
Laura Willcox and Don Fanelli really highlight that notion in their aptly named web series Trying.
Watch this episode where having an anniversary isn’t so simple as just having an anniversary.
Comedy Central’s latest web series, Nothin’s Easy, comes from the mind of one David Angelo.
In this series, you get to watch David show how no matter where you’re at in life, there are always going to be obstacles of some kind like trying to buy commercialized weed…
…or avoiding funding causes you don’t believe in…
…or the quality of your therapy off of Obamacare or trying to buy commercialized weed.
Whether you think those are obstacles that would really be considered taxing on a person or not, it’s still really fun to watch David Angelo go through them.
Taylor Orci and Jared Nigro took their Broken People channel and got Comedy Central to get on board to produce an eponymous web series.
Per the title, they’re both broken people that showcase how broken they are in a way that’s stark and darkly comedic.
So, check out their first episode here.