The History of Standup Season 2 to Cover Famous Venues/Scenes Throughout Comedy History

Watch Wayne Federman Do Stand-Up on “The Tonight Show”

“The Chronicles of Federman” Out Now From AST Records

“The Chronicles of Wayne Federman” That Span Over 30 Years of Wayne Federman as a Stand-Up Coming Out Next Month

Watch A Brief, Abbreviated Tour of The Comedy Career of Wayne Federman

The 4th Annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival Might Be The Best One Yet

Watch Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell Open Yesterday’s Spirit Awards

The Wayne Federman International Film Festival Returns For Its 3rd Year This Week

June 4, 2019

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Wayne Federman, long respected comedian and, now, professor along with Andrew Steven are back with season 2 of their wonderfully informative History of Standup podcast.

This season is getting into the niche specifics of various comedy scenes and venues that were hotbeds for stand-up at a given time. Such places that will be covered include SF’s Holy City Zoo, the Chitlin’ Circuit, Nerdmelt, and more. It’s incredibly well-researched with many of the comedians that came up in said scenes and times speaking on what those clubs, theaters, bars, etc. meant to them when getting their sea legs in stand-up.

Season 2 just premiered today with an episode focused on the Holy City Zoo and San Francisco’s amazing stand-up scene from the 80s and 90s.

Sound cool? Cool. Get into the History of Standup right now right here.

November 11, 2018

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Few are as equipped as Wayne Federman to discuss the history of comedy, especially stand-up, as Wayne is not only meticulously studied on the topic and a current professor of stand-up at the University of Southern California, but he has been a very funny, ever-evolving comedian for many decades.

His and Andrew Steven’s podcast mini-series The History of Standup on Podglomerate thus is a handy guide through how stand-up has developed rapidly as an art form even though it’s much younger than most other art forms, especially of the live variety.

Wayne and Andrew will be doing a special live ep. of The History of Standup with a TBA special guest at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater next Sunday, Nov. 18th at 2PM.

Fans, nerds, and even those just merely curious of stand-up comedy might want to get into this. Tickets are $15 and you can go get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

December 8, 2016

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The annual Santa-Thon here in LA returns with host Fred Willard complete with a stacked line-up of comedy, variety, and music including:

The Lampshades – Kate Flannery (The Office) and Scot Robinson (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)
Wayne Federman (Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Curb)
Illeana Douglas (Entourage),
Jo Anne Worley (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In)
Chris Fairbanks – (Almost Genius, Conan)
Nikki Glaser – (Not Safe, Comedy Central)
Jimmy Brogan – (Carson, Letterman, Conan)
Todd Glass (The Todd Glass Show)
Henry Phillips (Comedy Central Presents)

The Santa-Thon is being held at ACME Comedy Hollywood on Wednesday, December 14th & Thursday, December 15th. Tickets are $20 online and $25 at door and you can (and should) get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

August 7, 2016

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One of our favorite improv teams Pretty, Pretty Pony (Cole Stratton, Vanessa Ragland, Joey Greer, Chris Alvarado, Atul Singh, Ed Roe) has been together for five years and are celebrating the occasion on their monthly Westside Comedy Theater show on Monday, August 8th with special guest, the one and only, Wayne Federman.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for Skirball members, and $8 for full time students and you can get them here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.

March 27, 2016

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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.

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November 5, 2015

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Wayne Federman is still continuing to keep it fresh and stay in the thick of comedy as his stand up performance on last night’s Tonight Show proved.

The set is kind of a great way to cap off the plethora of performances featured on his Chronicles of Federman album journeying through decades of Federman’s illustrious comedy career.

Watch Wayne’s set here.

October 16, 2015

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To our knowledge, there isn’t a comedy album release that spans more time than with one comedian quite like The Chronicles of Federman.

30 years of a great comedian, Wayne Federman, who has smoothly adapted to the ever-changing landscape of humor are all captured in select performances in venues big and small, then remastered, and put onto this album along with liner notes from longtime Federman fan, Judd Apatow.

So, get a copy from AST Records or iTunes and have probably one of the best trips ever through comedy history all the way to comedy present, especially since its purely through the lens of Wayne Federman.

September 28, 2015

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When doing over a score of years in comedy, one faces the balance of maintaining the comedic voice that you’ve cultivated coming up in your career and then staying ahead or on the curve of what’s going on with comedy in the current moment.

Very few comedians have done that so well as Wayne Federman has. Through every decade that he has done comedy, Wayne manages to find a way to somehow keep shining through.

The Chronicles of Wayne Federman, which features performances all the way back from 1984 to 2015 at anywhere from Bing Theater at USC to Catch a Rising Star to the Throckmorton Theater to Nerdmelt to Largo to The Comic Strip and way more, will showcase how Federman pulled off such an impossible feat.

It comes out Oct. 16th from AST Records, but you can and should pre-order it here.

March 14, 2015

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“From MTV, New Girl, Comedy Central, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, Hello Ladies, Living Single, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The X-Files, Jack Frost, Legally Blonde, The Larry Sanders Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, ESPN, LA Law, The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno, Hertz Rent-a-Car, Florida Orange Juice, Samsung Galaxy, Charlie’s Angels, and stand-up comedy bits on Pink Floyd, Dokken, PBS, Ken Burns Jazz, Jimi Hendrix, and Purple Haze…”

Wayne Federman has not only been through so many different eras of comedy and their accompanying sensibilities, but he has done so very well and in every capacity imaginable. He’s been a stand-up, the head writer at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a go to commercial actor, doing musical comedy deftly, a successful character actor in TV and film, throwing his own film festival four years in a row, and so much more.

This reel spans so much and is the perfect reason why you should be following everything Wayne if up to these days.

February 22, 2015

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How does Klown presented by Sacha Baron Cohen or Ghostbusters presented by Paul Scheer sound? Something that’s both great and you would’ve never imagined happening you say?

Well, luckily, The 4th Annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival, the festival that brings comedians and their favorite films together at Cinefamily, has both of the aforementioned events as well as MacGruber star Will Forte presenting a screening of none other than MacGruber.

Every year Federman gets together a great handful of these screenings, but this year’s line-up seems primed to be especially great.

The 4th WFIFF runs from Thurs. Mar. 5th-Sun. Mar. 7th at Cinefamily and you can and should get tickets now.

February 22, 2015

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Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell put together a nice 6:30 of jokes and song to open up The 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards yesterday.

It was to the point, covered the best feature nominees, and had both Wayne Federman and Sean Conroy as audience plants, which made us happy.

Watch it here.

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April 27, 2014

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The Wayne Federman International Film Festival Returns For Its 3rd Year This Week

Wayne Federman’s International Film Festival, an annual collection of films screened and hosted by comedians such as TJ Miller, Taylor Negron, Jimmy Pardo, Doug Benson and more is back at Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre this coming weekend.

Don’t miss out on the films that were undoubtedly big influences in their lives such as W.C. Fields’ The Bank Dick did on TJ Miller.

December 11, 2013

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Join Funny or Die and Friends to Help #FreeShez from Will Ferrell

Shez Cassim got put in jail in the United Arab Emirates for 8 months and counting because of this video clearly intended to be just a funny video.

Join Funny Or Die and Friends to Help #FreeShez. Will Ferrell, Patton Oswalt, Adam McKay, Wayne Federman, Chris Mintz-Plasse, and many more comedy friends express their support to #FreeShez.

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