All of those dates were all around the country, but didn’t quite have an LA date.
Well, that is until now.
Rory, Nick, and Freddy will be doing an exclusive preview show at the Virgil on Mon. Jan. 6th at 10PM (following Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen). Tickets are $5 in adv., $8 at door (cash only) and you really ought to go and see what sort of tomfoolery these three got planned for the rest of the country’s Tool fans.
Get tickets here.
Basically, some of the best improvisers in town will not only be in town, but will be doing one of the daftest forms of improv ever conceived and we’re down for it.
Will Hines, who we love for intentionally doing bad guitar solos with a great backing band, indeed will be doing improv with boxing gloves and perhaps questionable British accents (and one legit one) as play off of the UK’s Boxing Day the day after Christmas and we’re sure this will be a wonderful offering of top shelf silliness.
For our money, Boxing Day Improv at UCB Franklin is the perfect follow-up for that post-Christmas haze. Get tickets here.
It has been a minute since the duo behind Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast, Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino, have gone out just as The Zach and the Jess to do whatever musical comedy they damn well please (improvised, scripted, or otherwise).
Thankfully, they’ll be kicking off 2020 with a night at Silverlake’s The Satellite with a fantastic collection of musical comedy from the likes of Demi Adejuyigbe, Erin and Melissa, The Sloppy Boys, and even Zach and Jess’ “emo group” Every Place I Cry.
It’s absolutely one of the first must-see shows for next year.
The Zach and The Jess at The Satellite is set for Tues. Jan. 21st at 8:30PM. Snag your tickets now for $8 here.
A monthly Jen Kirkman live talk show at the Hollywood Improv Lab where Jen gets to talk as candidly and unfiltered as she so pleases?
Yes, that’s what’s happening and we can’t wait for it to start. The first Real Talk with Jen Kirkman is set for Thurs. Jan. 9th at 8PM with special guest Ione Skye (from Say Anything of course).
Tickets for Real Talk with Jen Kirkman are $10 and you can (and should) go get them here.
Demi Adejuyigbe never ceases to amaze in the ambition of and conception of his bits and the scope at which he expands them to.
Case in point, his latest show wherein he will do an amazing multimedia variety show with great guests (Lizzy Cooperman and Sarah Squirm are fantastic), as he normally would with any show he’s involved in and a single backflip with no prior experience or training. The spectacle alone, whatever it may be, has to be worth the price of admission.
Tickets for Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip are $15 now and $20 on the day of and you can (and very, very, very much should) get them here. It very well may be the first great thing you see in 2020.
Not only is Pop-Up Magazine a super neat concept that combines so many creative disciplines into one amazing live show, this will be a chance for you to see both the absolutely hysterical Catherine Cohen and Jo Firestone in LA.
So, you get both of them, which could be a great bill on its own, plus a live score and so much more. If this sounds pretty swell to you, tickets are $39-$49 (but you can knock off $5 w/code LIVESTORIES). Go get those tickets here.
Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian’s Trump vs. Bernie remains as one of the best works of political comedy in the past decade.
Whether or not Trump gets actually impeached and thrown out of office to the curb and making this more fictional, you should never miss a chance for some of comedy’s best iterations of Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders verbally spar to things that are both unbelievably hilarious, but incredibly prescient.
Trump vs. Bernie’s latest LA date will be Tues. Jan. 14th at 7:30PM at The Lodge Room in Highland Park. Tickets are $25-$30. Please go get them here.
Of the things to look forward to in 2020, we’re adding a monthly slot at Dynasty Typewriter for The Dollop Podcast to the list (in fact, we’d probably put it near the top). The crucial and hysterical comedy history podcast hosted by Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds has become such a podcast that it regularly tours around the country and the world sharing perhaps the most entertaining versions of some of the weirdest and darkest stories in history.
The live episodes are really something special and you ought to know, in LA, they’ll be getting some damn fine guests TBA.
Anyhow, this monthly Dollop at Dynasty Typewriter will be raising money for various charities FYI, making this residency even more wonderful than already is.
Their first date is Tues. Feb. 11th at 8PM and tickets are $20 right now (and $25 on the day of-though we suspect they might be sold out before then). Go get them here quick.
This Monday at Dynasty Typewriter will feature two entirely different, but completely worth going to holiday themed comedy/storytelling shows back-to-back! Also, it could be viewed as a double feature of sorts for the brilliant Drew Droege!
First, Drew will host in character with Mitch Silpa obsessing over gossip, celebrity dish and in their own characters’ lives in Two Old Queens Celebrating the Holidays. The likes of James Adomian, Michaela Watkins, and Jillian Bell will be joining them in improvising the whole show.
Immediately after, Drew will be one of a handful of storytellers including the wonderful Laura House sharing their stories about their dead parents for Happy Holidays! Our Parent/s Are Dead. (we have no doubt it’ll be funny and endearing).
If you’re looking for holidays themed comedy, Dynasty Typewriter might be the place to go on Mon. Dec. 16th. Tickets for both shows are $10 right now and $15 on the day of. Get them here and here respectively.
In the aftermath of Christmas, when you might have just had enough of the mandatory holiday cheer, a great alternative to that yuletide haze might be a dark Christmas musical from LA comedy scene staples Jeffrey Baldinger and Jessica Michelle Singleton.
I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas is just such a new musical from Baldinger and Singleton that will be sure to send off the holidays properly with a whole lot comically sinister takes on those classic songs that play non-stop around this time of year.
I’ll Be Broken Home for Christmas is going up at the Hollywood Improv on Thurs. Dec. 26th at 9:30PM. Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.
The United States Constitution, while providing the basis of our government, is one hell of a complex, at times, infuriating document that will be debated to the end of time.
As such, it’s a perfect gold mine for comedians to dissect, which is exactly what’s happening at What The Constitution Means to You next week! A great panel of comedians (including stand-ups, improvisers, writers, actors, etc.) will attempt to make sense of constitutional precedents and decisions in order to become a “Chief Justice of Comedy”, as presided by host Max Sosna-Spear, “SCOTUS Justice” Carrie Poppy, and actual UCLA law professor Adam Winkler.
Sound pretty neat? Sure does. So, go get your tickets right now right here.
Set List is and has been in rarefied air playing almost every big time international comedy festival and airing as an original TV series on opposite sides of the planet.
It’s such a special show as you get to some of the best comedic minds actually at work conjuring up material from thin air (well, thin air and a never before seen topic).
So, don’t miss the return of Set List to LA at the Hollywood Improv this Friday with some of their personal favorites. Tickets are $10 (plus 2 item min.) Go get your tickets here.
Beloved clowns Chad Damiani and Jet Eveleth have been doing this thing where they “attempt” to put up a version of some well-known play or production with a bit of live direction, then have to deal with things not going according to plan (which is ultimately part of the plan).
So, they’re gathering up a bunch of their favorite clown/idiot compatriots to take on the Nativity Show, which is the sort of holiday chaos we’re down for.
We’re excited to see what they all do with what they’re calling The Best Version of the Nativity Show. It’s set for Fri. Dec. 13th at the brand spanking new venue Silver Park Arts. Tickets are $7.89 and you can (and very much should) get them here.
We’re not exactly sure what’s going to happen here, but, then again, that is the magic and wonder that is the absurdist experimental comedy offered up humbly by Kyle Mizono and Anna Seregina.
There will be some holiday surprises, guests, but, apparently, you’ve got to stand at the door? Again, it’s a little vague as to what that will be, but we trust in Kyle and Anna to make the best immersive holiday comedy experience with whatever secret plans they have in store for us all.
The mystery of Come Home for the Holidays with Kyle and Anna but Please Stand at the Door at Lyric Hyperion next weekend will probably rival the mystery of opening up any holiday gift.
So, go get your tickets already.
Frankie Quinones iconic character Creeper from the hysterical CholoFit™ workout video series is putting on a very special holiday themed stand-up comedy night at the wonderful Dynasty Typewriter at the Hayworth Theater. We have no doubt that you’ll get a workout from both laughing and whatever holiday “exercises” that Creeper is going to share.
Also, “proceeds will benefit The Andy Vargas Foundation helping scholarship funding for underprivileged youth in California.”
Tickets are $20 in adv., $25 day of and you can (and very much should) get those tickets here.
An entire decade has passed since the gathering of Lost Moon Radio has dazzled audiences in LA and abroad.
Part theater company, part sketch comedy troupe, part musical comedy extravaganza, the players, writers, and good folks behind the scenes delivered a theatrical musical comedy unlike nearly anything we’ve seen and have been doing so for this whole ten year run.
So, we really think you ought to join them for the Lost Moon Radio 10 Year Anniversary Spectacular at Club Fais Do-Do next weekend. Tickets are $20 for what we’re sure will be a barnburner of a show. Go get them here.
P.S. Our loyal followers can snag $15 tickets for Sat. Dec. 14th with promo code “COMEDYBUREAU”.
Sean Tejaratchi, the man behind LiarTownUSA and Crap Hound, is the creator of some of the best outlandish, yet subtle satire of culture, both niche and pop. His art that wonderfully and absurdly riffs on the ads all around us and assembles the weirder, fun corners of the collective unconscious is something to be cherished.
So, take a chance to do so by purchasing his new Crap Hound Big Book of Unhappiness as well as meet him in person at the marvelously bizarre world that is Soap Plant/WACKO in Los Feliz.
Get more details here.
Gallery 1988 is at it again with another wondrous art tribute to iconic figure in comedy. This Friday, they’ll be unveiling an entire exhibition of Weird Al Yankovic inspired art from dozens of artists.
By the way, the song parody master Weird Al Yankovic will be there hosting the whole opening night.
Admission is free, but we have no doubt that it’ll get packed pretty quickly, so arrive early at Gallery 1988 for “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Art Tribute if you can.
Though we staunchly do not enjoy the holidays, even our cold bureaucratic hearts truly enjoy the annual Jen Kirkman’s Dysfunctional Christmas Show that happens in the middle of every December at the Hollywood Improv.
Stories, songs, stand-up, gifts, surprises, and so much more all abound in the more Jen’s celebration of the holiday season in spite of how the family or the world makes you feel around this time of year. Here’s a small taste of the sort of thing that happens at the Dysfunctional Christmas Show.
Jen Kirkman’s 7th Annual Dysfunctional Christmas Show is set for Fri. Dec. 13th at 8PM at the Hollywood Improv. Tickets are $20 and you best go get them here before they sell out.
The driver/DJ/Hollywood insider/paranormal conduit Dicker Troy (Johnny Pemberton) is getting a shot to impart his blue collar mysticism via a live talk show. He’s got a great panel with Will Miles, David Gborie, Laci Mosley, and Chris Charpentier and, without a doubt, a bunch of surprises underneath those multiple rolled up sleeves.
Pretty great first holiday gift for the first of December, no?
So, you best go get your tickets for Dicker’s Talk Show at the Satellite this Sun. here.
Again, some of the coolest things at UCB these days often happen past your bedtime and this Black Metal themed improv show is just one of those things.
Taking a pun on the massive American shopping day known as “Black Friday”, some of UCB’s best improvisers will be let the darkness of black metal fuel what should be hysterical chaos wrought there on the UCB Franklin stage.
Also, we’re confident this will be much more fun than standing in line for deals on electronics at big box stores.
Black Metal Friday is set for this Friday Nov. 29th at 11:59PM at UCB Franklin and tickets are only $7. Go get ‘em here and get ready to delve into the black metal void (in a long form improv sense) this weekend.
Basically, you’ll get to watch JoJo Rabbit, Charlie Chaplin’s The Dictator, and Mel Brooks’ The Producers, three satirical comedy classics for FREE (so long as you RSVP*) this Saturday at Santa Monica’s Aero Theatre.
This is a no-brainer to go to (especially if you haven’t seen all of these), right? Get more details, RSVP, etc. here.
*Please arrive early; RSVP is not a guarantee of seating. American Cinematheque Members will have priority seating when the doors open one hour prior to showtime. For more information on Membership, email andrew@americancinematheque.com.
It’s truly a special treat when Rebekka Johnson, Kimmy Gatewood, and Sarah Lowe assemble as The Apple Sisters (when they’re not busy with GLOW and big time musicals) to do a 21st century version of a lively, buzzworthy 1930s radio variety program.
Cora, Candy, and Seedy Apple will indeed be taking the stage again at the Dynasty Typewriter next month and it’s such cool, cherry delight without, somehow, feeling dated at all.
Tickets are $15 in adv., $20 on the day of and you can (and very very much) should get them here.
Hannah Gadsby is returning to the Ace Hotel in DTLA for an exclusive engagement and bringing her latest hour Douglas along with her on Sat. Feb 22nd for two shows 6:30PM & 9:30PM.
Normally, tickets for Gadsby sell out almost instantly here in LA, but, lucky for you, these dates don’t go on sale until tomorrow morning 11/22 at 10AM PST with pre-sale code “COMEDY”. Tickets will run you $39.75-$59.75.
Set a reminder/alarm/etc. for tomorrow and go get those Hannah Gadsby at the Theater at the Ace Hotel here.
Anytime Sean Patton rolls into town, really anywhere in the Greater LA area, we feel obligated to notify you of his presence as his mastery of stand-up and storytelling should never ever be missed.
So, such is the case now with Sean having a date at the Irvine Improv just before Christmas rolls around (and we bet he’ll be playing shows in town around that town too).
For now, if you want to guarantee that you’ll get to see him do an hour, nab a $15 ticket (plus 2 item min.) for this Irvine Improv date on Dec. 19th here.