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Morning Debriefing 7/16/11

Morning Debriefing 7/10/11

Morning Debriefing 3/27/11

Paul F. Tompkins-Tip of the Hat 3/20/11

The 2010 Post Brunch Update

The 2010 Post Brunch Update

Morning Debriefing 11/27/10

WitStream to Tweet About Emmys via TV Guide

Morning Debriefing 7/16/11

Morning Debriefing 7/10/11

Morning Debriefing 3/27/11

Paul F. Tompkins-Tip of the Hat 3/20/11

The 2010 Post Brunch Update

The 2010 Post Brunch Update

Morning Debriefing 11/27/10

If you’re stuck watching the Emmys/are excited for your Emmys party coming up, you might be able to cope/enhance your experience by following many of the funniest people on Twitter tweeting about the awards ceremony.

This is especially helpful if you want to read a lot of jokes tonight, since Twitter stops loading tweets after about 700 or so in your timeline. Yes, we found that out the hard way.

Check it at the link if you’re into this at 4PM PST tonight.

1) Comedy Legends Jerry Seinfeld (@seintime) and Don Rickles (@donrickles) joined Twitter recently and none of them have tweeted about Carmeggedon. WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH THAT?

2) Marc Maron on Real Time with Bill Maher (sitting directly across from Marc Cuban). Watch the snark fly!

Ep. 220: July 15, 2011 – Overtime

3) Jesse Miller of the Jesse Miller Talk Show visits the ESPYs!!!

4) The Ultimate Free & Cheap LA Comedy List 7/17-7/23 from Wisepix.com.

5) Witstream and BBC’s Ministry of Laughs join forces today at 6PM PST for some of Twitter’s funniest to live tweet whatever they’re doing (like they normally do) with the hashtag #ministryoflaughs.

6) ~~Drew Droege~~ Chloe Sevigny celebrates FR33DOM!!

7) Congratulations to Paul Scheer’s How Did This Get Made? for surpassing one million downloads!

8) ON THE HORIZON
Tomorrow Show Anniversary @ Steve Allen Theater Sat. Aug. 6th MIDNIGHT $15

9) COMEDY CRAWL
Enjoy a SUMMAH @ Nerdist Theater 6PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10
It’s A Long Way Down 8PM FREE
Re-Animator: The Musical @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $30
The Anytime Show w/Dominic Dierkes @ Underground Annex Theatre 8PM $5
Handshucked @ Moving Arts Theater 8PM $5
Tea Time w/Heather Thomson @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $5
The Paul F. Tompkins Show @ Largo at the Coronet Theater 8:30PM $25
Magic Bag @ Underground Annex Theatre 10PM $5
The Willie Hunter Show @ Comedy Store Belly Room 10:30PM $5
The Saturday Saturday Show w/guest Shannon Hatch @ Sidewalk Studio Theatre 11PM $5
Comedy Garage @ UCB Theatre MIDNIGHT $5
Tomorrow!!! Summer Fling w/ the Doorknockers @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8

10) OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/feedback given at end
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/coffee & water provided
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd and 4th St.)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/no purchase necessary/4 min.
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.

11) Waitresses of LA diners that stay open late, if a guy is eating alone don’t make him feel like he’s wasting your time and you might get a really good tip because as much as it might look like ~~I’m~~ they’re waiting for someone, they’re not; no one wants to hang with them on Fridays. Just sayin’.

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1) Paul Provenza & the Art of Stand-Up Comedy on NPR.

2) Steve Martin & Ed Helms with banjos for Rolling Stone [via Comedy Nerds United]

3) Curb Your Enthusiasm returns for it’s last season (maybe) tonight. HBO. 10PM.

4) Many wonder what, “Carmeggedon”, the shutting down of the 405 Freeway on July 16th will look like. Tony Sam and Aparna Nancherla help give us an idea.

5) Craig Vanswers whether he likes dogs (sort of…)

7) ON THE HORIZON

6) COMEDY CRAWL
Set List @ Flappers YooHoo Room 7PM $10/2 item min.
8 Ball Stand-Up @ Westwood Brew Co 7:30PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Re-Animator: The Musical @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $30
French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Powerviolence @ The Complex 8:30PM FREE
Top Story Weekly! w/Greg Proops @ iO West 9PM $5
BIFF’s Flappers Funny Film Fest @ Flappers Burbank 9PM $10/2 item min.
Hot Sauce @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Love Machine Comedy Show @ M Bar 10PM FREE/$10 min.
Skinny Sundays @ Hollywood Improv 9:30PM $14/2 item min.
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)

7) OPEN MIC RUN
PALMS 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/lottery
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
NERDIST THEATRE 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (back room of Meltdown Comics)/Sign-up 7:15PM/Starts 7:30PM/lottery/30 spots available/no purchase necessary
TSUNAMEDY @ TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/mixed mic
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed/bottled water and coffee available

8) Oh yeah, go see Beginners as soon as possible. Maybe not alone while nothing but happy couples sit around you and you’re clearly on the verge of crying, but you guys should go see it the first chance you get.

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March 27, 2011

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1) Comedy Legend Albert Brooks is on Twitter! (mostly to promote a new book, but still…) FOLLOW NOW @albertbrooks

2) I don’t know why this is even completely available to the public as its not even in “leak” form, but here’s the The Comedy Awards Winners:

COMEDY SERIES-Modern Family
COMEDY ACTOR TV-Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
COMEDY ACTRESS TV-Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
COMEDY ACTOR FILM-Zach Galifianakis, Dinner for Schmucks
COMEDY ACTRESS FILM-Tina Fey, Date Night
LATE NIGHT COMEDY SERIES-The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
SKETCH COMEDY/ALTERNATIVE COMEDY SERIES-Childrens Hospital
STAND-UP SPECIAL-Louis C.K.: Hilarious
COMEDY FILM-The Other Guys
ANIMATED COMEDY FILM-Toy Story 3
ANIMATED COMEDY SERIES-South Park
COMEDY WRITING TV-30 Rock
COMEDY SCREENPLAY-Hot Tub Time Machine
COMEDY DIRECTING TV-Modern Family
COMEDY DIRECTOR FILM-Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
JOHNNY CARSON AWARD-David Letterman
COMEDY ICON AWARD-Eddie Murphy

3) Again, if you want to know what happened in even more detail (i.e. Jon Stewart having his acceptance speech hijacked) Check Punchline Magazine’s Blog, HahaJK.com’s blog, and Comedy Central’s very own CCinsider or just watch it April 10th 9PM EST.

4) The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to JERROD CARMICHAEL. Article/profile to follow later today.

5) Tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Skinny Sundays @ Bar Lubitsch 8PM FREE
Neil Hamburger @ The Satellite LA 8PM $8
Powerviolence @ The Complex 8:30PM FREE
TheLateNightFix.com Presents @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $5
French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Top Story Weekly @ iO West 9PM $5
The Sunday Sunday Sunday Show @ The Improv Space 9:30PM FREE
Deskpiece Nation @ iO West 10PM $5

6) OPEN MIC RUN
PALMS 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed

7) Just another day at the Comedy Bureau: Drove to Hollywood to find open mic at laundry mic was cancelled (again), drove to downtown via sidestreets, walked around for three hours looking for a coffeeshop for wi-fi, cleared for radiation by a homeless person, wrote article and read 700 or tweets at Starbucks, walked to Downtown Independent Theater for the awesome Channel 101 screening (The Parent Project and Sex Teenagers were pretty damn funny), literally ran out to my car amidst rain while being cleared for more radiation by more homeless people, drove to UCB to watch/have my mind implode on itself from laughter at the Walsh Brothers Show that started at midnight, hit traffic at 2:30 in the morning, got home, checked twitter again, and eventually just had sleep deprivation knock me out. Yeah, it’s just another day at the Bureau.

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March 21, 2011

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826la, ast records, christmas, classy, comedian, comedy central, dead authors, h.g. wells, hbo, impersonal, largo, led zeppelin, live tweeting, midnight mass, p diddy, paul f tompkins, podcast

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The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to PAUL F. TOMPKINS for marking the 9th Anniversary of his own show currently taking place once a month at Largo at the Coronet Theatre, The Paul F. Tompkins Show.

Many comedians try to bring a certain air of class back to the stage, but few come as close as comedian Paul F. Tompkins. Always dapper, charming, and possibly one of the most affable performers on the stage today, Tompkins never ceases to amaze in how he eases an audience into his act like they’re old friends sharing a very special aged bottle of whiskey merely reminiscing. Whether he’s talking about “ghost stromboli” or the crazy costumed characters that set up shop near Hollywood and Highland or even pretending he’s author H.G. Wells, Tompkins, though dressed in a suit classy enough for one of the parties in The Great Gatsby, is a master of levity every time I’ve seen or hear him speak into a microphone.

The first time I listened to his album “Impersonal”, I listened to it on repeat for at least a week and a half because it kept me laughing, no matter how many times I heard it. At the risk of sounding overly plebian, it was simply just fun to hear Paul’s act out of why the Irish were possibly the most picky people in the world during their horrid potato famine. His uncanny, undeniable playfulness is why he’s just so wonderful to listen to and why, I think, he got himself trending on Twitter in LA by live tweeting the midnight mass before Christmas.

Comedian James Adomian told me after being on one of Paul’s shows, “If Mark Twain were still alive and to have a show, The Paul F. Tompkins’ Show is what it would be, though he wouldn’t be as well dressed.” Given that there was a hilarious sketch self-reflexisively poking fun at itself, personal stories from Paul, a mash-up of both Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” and P. Diddy’s “Come With Me”, which sampled from “Kashmir”, and a song sung in solidarity of the unions still protesting in Wisconsin, all done while wearing his trademark suit that’s nearly classier than “class” itself, I completely agree with Adomian. Perhaps, one day, he’ll win the presitgious Mark Twain Prize for Humor bringing the comparison full circle.

Currently, Paul, as mentioned, has his own delightful monthly comedy variety show at Largo as well as another monthly show at the UCB Theatre here in LA, Dead Authors, for the 826LA charity. Paul shares much of these experiences on the Pod F. Tompkast, his own podcast available for download here. Also, you can get his newest special, “You Should Have Told Me” from AST Records, then check all things Paul F. Tompkins at his website, get updates frequently from his Twitter @pftompkins, or check back at the Comedy Bureau for anything else he’s doing because it will surely be here.

1) Many who report on comedy in some fashion like to make “best of” lists at the end of every year. As with every list, there’s always debate, so, in the comedic spirit, I’ll stir the pot even further with The Comedy Bureau’s very own “The Very Best of ‘Best of Comedy in 2010” List featuring the top year end comedy lists as decided by Bureau Director Jake Kroeger himself. It doesn’t get any more “postmodern” than this folks…

1. 10 Moments Comedians Made Us Think This Year-Splitsider
2. 10 Best Comedy Albums of 2010-Amazon.com
3. The 10 Must Have Stand Up Comedy DVDs from 2010-Punchline Magazine
4. 15 Funny People We Lost in 2010-Splitsider
5. Top 5 Funniest TV Comedies-Huffington Post-Matt Wilstein
6. 2010 Wasn’t So Shitty After All-Mike Bridenstine

2) WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF another Saturday. Still, that doesn’t change the fact that there’s some great laughs to be found on tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL. Start with The Not Inappropriate Show @ UCB Theatre 4PM $12, then go to Michael Rayner @ Flappers Burbank YooHoo Room 7:30PM/9:30PM $20, then Christopher Titus @ Flappers Burbank 8PM/10PM $60, or just go to San Francisco and do the 15th Annual Comedy Countdown @ Palace of Fine Arts 9:30PM $60-$114.

3) OPEN MIC RUN: FLAPPERS BURBANK BAR 102 E. Magnolia, Burbank, CA/Starts 5PM, MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/Starts 5PM/$5/multiple sets allowed

4) The Ultimate Free & Cheap LA Comedy List ½-1/8. Thanks Wisepix.

5) With the popularity of Paul F Tompkins Live Tweeting during a major holiday with his #midnightmass2010, Paul has decided to do it yet again with New Year’s Day and The Twilight Zone Marathon on SyFy. Follow @pftompkins after Midnight PST to join in the after hours/New Year’s fun while you wait for the Rose Parade (because you were waiting to watch the Rose Parade, right?)

6) The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” today to the entire LOS ANGELES COMEDY COMMUNITY that give the entire Comedy Bureau Staff/me something to write about everyday and the inspiration/will to write/perform every night.

7) From the “You Should Have Been There” Lagoon: George Carlin-Modern Man

8) Donate to The Comedy Bureau. Leave 2010 on a good note.

9) Last night, a comic asked to be heckled, just like 2010 did.

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4) The Ultimate Free & Cheap LA Comedy List ½-1/8. Thanks Wisepix.

7) From the “You Should Have Been There” Lagoon: George Carlin-Modern Man

8) Donate to The Comedy Bureau. Leave 2010 on a good note.

9) Last night, a comic asked to be heckled, just like 2010 did.

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1) I have to give credit once more to Shayne Michael and the energy he has put back into the iCandy open mic/K.A.S. Comedy Etc. Show. With being one of the longest running open mics in the LA area, iCandy/Coffee Haven has seen its share of highs and lows and with a new sound system and a revitalized format that keeps a good energy about the room (i.e. booked show, raffles, etc.), comics who go to iCandy can expect to actually work on their material, which is the purpose of an open mic.

2) What better way to get into the holiday spirit than going to a run of shows that include the words: milk, asssscat, boners, back room, and family. THUS, don’t miss tonight’s COMEDY CRAWL with Two Milk Minimum @ Flappers Burbank 12:30PM $10/2 item min., then Space Boners Gives Thanks! @ Silverlake Lounge 7PM FREE, then ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only), then The Back Room @ UCB Theatre 10PM $10, and finish with Ron Lynch and Craig Anton host a Tomorrow! Family Thanksgiving @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8.

3) OPEN MIC RUN: LAUNDROMIC 1054 Vine St. Los Angeles, CA/Starts 4PM, WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATRE 1323-A 3rd St (in alley between 3rd and 4th)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/3-5 min., SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM, MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5 cover/multiple sets allowed.

4) As it was brought to my attention, even though I knew I needed to get around to it, the “Bureau Approved” page is updated again with a section for shows and open mics. Also, the “Calendars” page got updated with Comedy Store Line-ups and link directly to the Largo Calendar. I might be running out of ways to make this easier for you guys… I’m just sayin’.

5) The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” today to PAUL DANKE “@pauldanke every black friday, I get up early, go to best buy, and when the doors open. I rob the shit out of people’s cars. #IPODSFOREVERYONE” When not chilling back in his jean jacket, Paul Danke absolutely rips it on stage. According to several sources, Danke closed out the Holy Fuck! One Year Anniversary like a hero, which is certainly no surprise to the Comedy Bureau. Going up all around town as well as his own fantastic show The Comedy Garage (run with Cornell Reid and Sean Green), Paul has definitely earned his praise for his stand-up as well as doing featured blogging for FunnyorDie.com. You can witness Paul Danke tomorrow at French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE or on his blog The Art of Coming Off Casual or his amazing Twitter.

6) From the “You Should Have Been There” Lagoon: Michael Keaton does Stand-up

7) Donate here. Live Tweeting here. Donate here. Live Tweeting here. (insert catchy jingle that’s so catchy you would actually do either or both of the two)

8) On the subject of handling hecklers: Why is there the type of heckler who interrupts your set and then applauds and congratulates you after you yell at him for 4 minutes ripping him to shreds as a person? There should be a new subcategory of psychological disorders in DSM IV that addresses this.

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