Pick of the Day: Whatever Show with Rory Scovel & (Return) of Loose (in LA) Mondays
To say everything has changed from what it was in 2019, or even 2021, is a massive, massive understatement. While many things that we used to have pre-COVID are back or new things sprouted from after lockdown have taken root while going into 2023, nothing is really like it quite used to be.
For the purposes of this post, Monday night stand-up in LA is definitely no longer the same. Long standing Monday night comedy institution Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen moved to Wednesdays (and to a different part of a town-Cypress Park to be exact).
Don’t worry however as there is a great Monday night comedy run to be had in LA.
The always thrilling Rory Scovel has taken over Mondays at the Elysian with The Whatever Show, which strives to be true to his name with it being a night that could just be Rory doing top flight improvised stand-up to him riffing with Conan O’Brien and everything in between. That’s been going at 7:30PM since January and you really ought to be on the ball about getting tickets because the Elysian is getting packed on Mondays now. Do so here.
We also thought beloved Monday night LA staple Loose was over (for a bit) since their long standing home Little Joy is renovating and then no longer having comedy, but they are actually going over to the newly new Lyric Hyperion and going late night for Mondays at 9:30PM with one of the most venerable hosting duos in LA, Megan Koester and Alison Stevenson, and the beautifully hilarious clowning/stand-up antics of Anna Seregina. Their first night at Lyric Hyperion is set for this coming Mon, Feb. 13th with tickets only costing you $5. Go get ’em here.
Both are close enough to each other that you can very much make both shows and have Monday be, potentially, one of the best nights of the week.