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comedy show, DoLA, experimental comedy, jessica mckenna, k town, los angeles, macarthur park, musical improv, westlake

Once more, Off Book: The Improvised Musical with Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino will grace us mere mortals with their spontaneous lyrical and sonic genius on Friday May 11th at Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth Theater.

Just to be clear, McKenna and Reino will improvise a fully fleshed musical out of thin air with accompaniment by Scott Passarella, a go-to in piano accompaniment in musical improv.

Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at door. You can get tickets here OR you can enter to win a free pair of tickets that we happen to have here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways.

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

baltimore, boston, chicago, cleveland, david cross, denver, madison, north america, omaha, salt lake city, tour, vancouver, washington dc

You might have heard that David Cross is going on a massive Oh Come On Tour across North America.

Well, while you might have a bunch of chances to see him live this year (that flyer has 46 cities listed), don’t be surprised to see tickets get snatched up quick.

The LA stop of the tour will be at The Orpheum Theatre in DTLA on Saturday, August, 18th with tickets at $39. Go get them here now.

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

anna seregina, comedy show, greta titelman, hollywood, jaboukie young white, jena friedman, joel kim booster, los angeles, mike o'brien, ucb

Hailing from NYC, the wondrous Patti Harrison and Catherine Cohen are bringing up a very stacked line-up to “give them lectures on guy stuff so that they can finally fit in.”

Sounds like the “perfect time” for such a thing (not to mention that the line-up is again, so damn stacked)

Tickets are $7 and you can and really should 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.

Man oh man, we’ve got a whole lot of tickets to giveaway to some really amazing shows including:Eddie Pepitone’s solo show, Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen, and the always fun 4:20 induced Gateway Show.

If you want to win a pair of tickets to any of these, please enter here: http://thecomedybureau.dola.com/giveaways

boss jr, comedy show, free comedy, improv, long form improv, los angeles

Simply, this will be a pretty stellar night of long form improv in a wonderfully intimate space. We’ll let the line-up of some of the best improvisers around speak for itself:

DREAM LOVER-Paul F. Tompkins and Carl Tart
PUZZLES-Deborah Tarica and Alex Fernie
BONESAW-Jeff Taylor, Amelia Alvarez, Katherine Winslow, Shug Cvitanic, Lindsey Robertson, Lani Engstrom, and Caro Brooks
BOSS JR-Jake Dunnington, Matt Rath, and Naomi Villa

It’ll be upstairs in the Treehouse at The Clubhouse in Los Feliz. Get more details here. Admission is FREE, but donations will be accepted.

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

amy silverberg, aparna nancherla, brandon scott wolf, experimental comedy, ismael loutfi, johnny pemberton, los angeles, marlena rodriguez, mary lynn rajskub, silverlake, stand up

Stand Up in pitch black darkness is back!

Marlena Rodriguez’s DARK has its latest edition set for Friday, May 4th at Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake and will feature the disembodied voices and great comedy of:
Aparna Nancherla (Netflix The Stand Ups)
Johnny Pemberton (You’re The Worst)
Mary Lynn Rajskub (Brooklyn Nine Nine)
Amy Silverberg (Wolf Den, Bitchface)
Ismael Loutfi (Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Brandon Scott Wolf (NY Times)

Maybe they’ll do something special as it’s Star Wars Day (because, you know, the dark side and being in the dark)? Go and see for yourself (We’ll bet you’ll have a great time either way).

Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at door. Please 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.

brea, comedy show, improv, los angeles, norm macdonald, stand up

Just so you know, the latest chance you’ll have to see the one and only Norm MacDonald live in the Greater LA Area, will be on Thursday, May 31st through Saturday, June 2nd at the Brea Improv.

Tickets are $25 (+ 2 item min.). Get them here now.

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

allison leber, brent weinbach, brian moses, christian duguay, comedy show, echo park, free, garfunkel and oates, jak knight, josh cheney, live comedy, musical comedy, neel nanda, nick rutherford, rhea butcher, stand up

Echo Park’s bright, shiny, and new barbershop, American Barbershop, will not only feature all the trappings of a classic barbershop, but will also have its fair share of live comedy (FYI, this won’t be the first live comedy show that Echo Park has had in a barbershop).

Coming up, there’s Cut It Up this Friday at 10:30PM and Classic Comedy on Monday, Apr. 30th at 9PM. Both shows have stacked line-ups and are FREE.

Get more details here and here respectively.

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

burbank, comedy show, dan harmon, lance bangs, super tight, variety show

Super Tight has been a melting pop of comedy, film, art, and music for 3 years now all over LA and they’re going to send themselves off in their final show in style.

Just look at this line-up:
Slut Island
Sorry About Everything
Lance Bangs
Mystiki Magic
Dan Harmon
Natalie Palamides
Courtney Pauroso
Colleen Green
Hosted by: Casey Rup

Join them in their swan song this Saturday! Tickest are $12 in advance and $15 at the door and you can (and should) 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.

comedy show, dtla, dynasty typewriter, k town, los angeles, macarthur park, rory scovel, stand up, todd glass, westlake

Todd Glass and Rory Scovel are masters at dancing with chaos and spinning it into comedy gold.

This Friday, they’re going to diving into wherever their flights of fancy take them at The Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater.

You really shouldn’t miss out on whatever this ends up being because it will be magical. Tickets are $12 in advance and $18 at the door. Go get them here now.

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

comedy special, comedy tour, jeff babko, martin short, orange county, steep canyon rangers, steve martin

Well, not much to elaborate on other than comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short will be playing the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa on July 20th as part of their tour (that will culminate in a Netflix special).

Tickets are on sale now and are going for $55-$100. Get them here quick before they sell out.

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

comedy show, in conversation, karen kilgariff, page hurwitz, retrospective, stand up, wanda sykes

Karen Kilgariff will take another “lovely” stroll down memory lane with Wanda Sykes and Sue Murphy as they watch and riff off of old sets of theirs from decades ago for another round of Throwback.

Normally in the Lab, this edition will be in the Main Room at The Hollywood Improv and should be a damn good time. Tickets are $18 (w/2 item min.). 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.

beverly grove, beverly hills, coronet theatre, largo, los angeles, nick kroll, stand up, weho

This is just a friendly neighborhood reminder that they are tickets available to see an evening with Nick Kroll at Largo next month.

Get tickets here before they inevitably sell out.

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

ayn rand, character comedy, free comedy, heather anne campbell, hollywood, james adomian, pack theater, parody, satire

The unequivocally hysterical Heather Anne Campbell will be doing an entire show as the controversial author Ayn Rand this weekend.

That alone should be enough to make sure that you go, but she’ll be joined Pack Theater stalwarts Elizabeth Hayhurst, Jesse Arlen Klein, and Haley Mancini as well as the amazing James Adomian.

As with all Pack Theater shows, admission is Pay What You can.

Get more details here.

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

cheap comedy, comedy festival, dark matters, eliza skinner, hollywood, live podcast, los angeles, musical comedy, pack theater, packchella, zach sherwin

Packchella, the comedy music festival that is pretty much right at your doorstep here in LA and not in far away polo fields, returns to The Pack Theater next weekend.

For this year, they’ve got the likes of Eliza Skinner’s Skinner Alive, A Mel Brooks Burlesque Show, Zach Sherwin & Friends, a special episode of This Is Dark Matters where “Music Director Rich Devletian will be joined by an orchestra and a psychic as we attempt to complete Schubert’s Unfinished 8th Symphony with help from the maestro himself FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!”, $1.000000 Identify That Song Game Show! with Kash Abdulmalik, and much, much more.

Sounds pretty swell to us (i.e. you should mark down on your calendars to

As always, all shows at The Pack Theater are Pay What You Can!

Get more details on Packchella 2018 here.

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

baron vaughn, comedy cent, comedy central, free comedy, free tickets, hollywood, los angeles, open mike eagle, stand up, tv taping

The tapings for the New Negroes will be happening with a live studio audience that you can be a part of next week at Sunset Las Palmas in Hollywood. Tickets are FREE, so long as you RSVP, and you really shouldn’t pass up a chance to see and be a part of Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle’s showcase series that will air on Comedy Central.

Acts to be featured include Chris Redd, Candice Thompson, Tone Bell, David Gborie, Ian Edwards, Sam Jay, Yassir Lester, George Wallace, Dulce Sloan, Dwayne Kennedy, and more.

Go get tickets here.

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

australia, experimental comedy, los angeles, lyric hyperion, sam simmons, silverlake, sketch comedy, solo show

When it comes to the frontiers of comedy being boldly pushed and also still be damn funny while doing so, few accomplish that feat quite like Aussie comedian Sam Simmons.

Naturally, you should take up any chance to see him live, which will be next week as he does a full run of his solo show at the Lyric Hyperion in Silverlake.

Please get tickets here before they sell out.

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

apple sisters, comedy show, hollywood, kimmy gatewood, los angeles, musical, musical comedy, rebekka johnson, sarah lowe, ucb

Though it has always been too long between every Apple Sisters appearance, we do always cherish any time that they’re around.

With that in mind, this coming Saturday, April 21st at 7PM at UCB Sunset, Kimmy Gatewood, Rebekka Johnson, and Sarah Lowe reunite once again in their lovely green, yellow, and red dresses once more to give their dazzling classic musical revue that tends to be relevant to today.

Tickets are $7 and you can (and should) 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.

anniversary, comedy show, echo park, free comedy, free show, los angeles, monday, stand up

From a show beloved in SF, then expanding to LA and NYC, then all uniting under the show’s home in LA, The Business has gone through and survived more than most indie comedy shows around, not to mention that they’ve kept it going for nine years.

They (that’s the current, rambunctious Business crew of Anna Seregina, Sean Keane, Chris Garcia, Bucky Sinister, and Megan Koester) will be honoring their 9th Anniversary this Monday at Little Joy. Per usual, admission is free (though we suggest you get there early if you want a seat.

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

comedy show, conan, dtla, k town, laurie kilmartin, los angeles, macarthur park, matt braunger, moses storm, pete holmes, ron funches, stand up, team coco

Whenever comedian/actor/postmodern prankster Moses Storm is given the reins to anything, you should most certainly try to see what Storm has up his sleeve.

So, when Team Coco is giving him the hosting duties of a comedy and musical show at Dynasty Typewriter at Hayworth Theater that will also feature the likes of Pete Holmes, Ron Funches, Laurie Kilmartin, Matt Braunger, and more!

Up & Up is set for Wednesday, April 18th at 8PM. Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) 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.

charity benefit, comedy show, DoLA, dtla, hydrocephalus association, in stitches, la live, novo, stand up, tracy morgan

The one and only Tracy Morgan will be doing a special one night only benefit for the Hydrocephalus Association (Hydrocephalus [HI’DRO-SEF’ A -LUS]: an excess accumulation of fluid in the brain that can only be treated with brain surgery with no current cure.) at The Novo at L.A. Live in DTLA later this month.

Joining Morgan for this special charity benefit will be Ardie Fuqua, Tracey Ashley, Ruperto Vanderpool, Marc Theobald. You’ll be backing a great cause and seeing Morgan hot on the heels of his new series The Last O.G.

You can find out more about the Hydrocephalus Association and donate here.

Tickets are $79.75-$154.75 and you can (and should) get them here.

We also happen to have a pair of tickets for you to win. Just enter here: http://dola.com/events/2018/4/27/in-stitches-an-evening-of-laughs-with-tracy-morgan-and-friends

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

aaron weaver, cheap show, comedy show, crystals, full moon comedy, guided meditation, jackie kashian, lindsay adams, new age, north hollywood, stand up, will miles

It’s been a minute, but one of our favorite shows, Full Moon Comedy, that melds the comedy and spiritual worlds is finally back for another round. Stand-up, guided meditation, metaphysical guests, and more are always brought to you lovingly by Lindsay Adams and Aaron Weaver.

This latest edition of Full Moon Comedy is set for Sunday, April 15th at 7:30PM at The Green Man Store in North Hollywood and will include the great comedic stylings of Jackie Kashian, Candy Lawrence, and Will Miles. To attend, they’d like a modest $5-$10 suggested donation.

Really, you should mark this down for your Sunday night this week. Get more details here.

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

comedy show, fairfax, hollywood improv, los angeles, marcella arguello, melrose, stand up, weho, women crush wednesdays

While Nerdmelt has now been laid to rest, Women Crush Wednesdays with Marcella Arguello will live on over at the Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab on the same day (Wednesdays), at pretty much the same time (7:45PM), and at the same price ($10).

Also, it’s pretty much a 5 minute drive from Nerdmelt/Meltdown and will continue have stellar line-ups. Get your tickets for the first Improv Lab show here.

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

comedy show, dtla, experimental comedy, lane moore, los angeles, regent theater, tinder live

Tinder extraordinaire Lane Moore (Lane has indeed figured out a way to be good at Tinder) is returning to LA for another round, this time at The Regent in DTLA on Tuesday, May 1st at 7PM.

She’ll be going through Tinder swiping, messaging, and causing a bunch of fun chaos on the dating app for the show, which is pretty damn entertaining.

Tickets are $17.50-$22.50 and you can (and should) 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.

ahamed weinberg, charlyne yi, clayton english, ismael loufti, kyle mizono, kylekinane, ramy youssef, reggie watts, repentance

The line-up, the hosts, and the poster (done by Joe Karg) are all so gorgeous. It’s almost like you shouldn’t miss out on the latest edition of Repentance at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake.

Get your tickets here.

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