Our thorough listings for comedy shows and open mics (that includes sketch mics and improv jams) that you could need/want/etc. are all updated for the Greater LA Area this week.
Take a gander at the embedded calendars at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Here are a bunch of great comedy ticket giveaways for this week from our pals at DoLA!
Hot Tub with Kurt and Kurt and Kristen @ The Virgil 5/15
Fresh Out LA @ UCB Sunset 5/18
Punchlines for Paws with Silverman/Kroll/Leggero @ Candela LA 5/20
The Big Sick seems poised to be a big comedy hit this summer and, as such, there’s an accompanying live comedy tour with cast Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, Aidy Bryant, and Kurt Braunohler.
One of those stops is here in LA at The Belasco Theatre in DTLA and tickets are on sale now for $61.50. Get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Wanna watch a few episodes of Difficult People on the big screen in a fancy movie theater and stick around for a Q&A with Julie Klausner, Billy Eichner, and Difficult People EP Scott King moderated by Deadline’s Anita Busch?
Well, if you’ve got Monday night on May 15th cleared up, specifically at 7:30PM, you can RSVP for that exact event at The Landmark in West LA here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Real life comedy power couple Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy will sit down to discuss his new book next week for Live Talks LA. As it’s is both of them discussing the book, we’re guessing that this’ll much different from your average “in conversation” event/book release.
Tickets start at $20. If you want to purchase a copy of Being a Dad Is Weird: Lessons in Fatherhood from My Family to Yours, tickets go for $43-$50. You can get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Running an indie show here in LA from a non-traditional venue is hard enough to do and pulling it off for a year is definitely impressive.
So, give some love to The Frogtown Show celebrating their one year anniversary of offering live comedy under the lovely LA sky and in the back patio of a great vintage store, The Left Bank.
Also, the line-up is pretty damn solid. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Master joke craftsman Matt Knudsen will be recording his third full-length comedy album this Thursday at The Josh & Josh Show at Bar Lubitsch.
It’s free to attend and Allen Strickland Williams will be opening.
Get more details here.
One of the UK’s brightest stars right now, Russell Howard, returns to LA to play The Roxy next week.
More specifically, Saturday, May 20th at 8PM, Howard will take the stage and you shouldn’t miss out.
Tickets are $25 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Cuck returns for its second go around this Friday having the host watch their jokes performed by other comedians in front of them. That’s on top of an already very solid stand-up show.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This is a great line-up of LA’s best and brightest. Also, some of the best views in LA are to be had on hills in Echo Park and should have your interest peaked.
Get more details here.
One of our favorite shows, Underbelly, is returning as it has found yet another new home in The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe. It’s one of our favorite shows to see because it pushes stand-up comedians to perform everything but stand-up.
This latest edition will include:
Scott Thompson
Marlena Rodriguez
Josh Fadem
Drennon Davis
Emily Maya Mills
& more!
With hosts Ryan Singer and Chris Garcia
Pretty swell, huh?
The show is free to attend and you can get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
“Wait Wait…Don’t Kill Me!” combines a quiz show, the talents of Lily Tomlin, June Diane-Raphael, Casey Wilson, Whitney Cummings and Craig Ferguson, the hosting skills of Paul Scheer, animal trivia as curated by Scheer, and a benefit for Voice For The Animals Foundation.
If any of that’s up your alley, you might want to catch this event this Saturday night at UCLA’s Royce Hall at 8PM. Tickets range from $25-$100 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Women in Vaudeville will be a great evening, lead off by the very talented Lindsay Benner, offering up a female variety showcase of puppets, acrobatics, juggling, marionettes and more at the historic Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
Tickets are $20 and you can (and should) get them and more details here.
As we stand at the precipice of POTUS potentially signing an executive order on the currently misguided idea of “religious liberty”, a benefit for something like the Los Angeles LGBT Center might be important.
Thankfully, UCB is throwing such a benefit show called Something Gay! this coming Monday, May 8th at UCB Sunset with a fantastic line-up.
Go get your tickets as soon as you can here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
NYC’s own wonderful indie late night show Running Late with Scott Rogowsky is back in LA this week and next. As you can see above, he’s got plenty of great guests including Paul F. Tompkins, Ben Schwartz, Eddie Pepitone, Lauren Lapkus, and more.
So far, Rogowsky has got three dates at The Virgil and you can tickets are now on sale for Friday, May 5th, Saturday, May 6th, and Sunday, May 7th. If you get the tickets in advance, it’ll cost $7. At the door, it’ll be $10. He also has a date locked down at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe on May 10th that you’ll want to keep a close eye on for tickets.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The popular podcast, The Gilmore Guys, has been working their new off-shoot, Bunhead Bros, where they focus on the short lived TV series, Bunheads.
They’ll actually be taping a live episode next week at The Regent Theater, 448 S. Main St in DTLA.
You can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Comedy Crawl and Open Mic Run all updated for next week (5/1/17).
Check our listings at www.thecomedybureau.com
Public School Stories is always a storytelling show worth catching, but this latest edition for May is particularly stacked with your favorite folks from You’re the Worst, Boy Meets World, MST3K, Review, Legion, and more.
It’s free to attend, but you can RSVP here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
This is just a friendly reminder that you might want to (if you’re not already doing so) binge watch the new Netflix series, Dear White People, that everyone else is binge watching.
All the episodes started streaming yesterday.
Tomorrow is time for the Skirball Cultural Center’s annual Puppet Festival. All throughout the center, puppeteers for all sorts of audiences will be performing from 10AM-4PM
General admission is $12 and you can (and should) get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
Jill Soloway’s new Amazon series I Love Dick will be screening in its entirety at Cinefamily this Sunday. Also, Jill, star Kathryn Hahn, and novelist Chris Kraus will be on hand at the event.
The screening is free, but first come, first served with priority entry to Cinefamily Black Card members.
If you don’t have Amazon Prime, this would be a pretty great opportunity to not even use any sort of free trial of Amazon Prime and watch the show. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
It’s yet another case of “if you build it, they will come” as Carport Comedy (it’s literally a comedy show done from a carport in a driveway) returns this weekend.
It’s a great line-up plus there’s free food while you can get it. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Dana Gould is doing an hour in one of the most intimate venues in Los Angeles next week. No further sales pitch is needed.
Get tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
By now, thanks to some viral posts and memes, you’ve probably heard of the general concept of a doppelgänger.
Yet, have you seen, or even heard a case of real life doppelgänger? We’re going to bet probably not (or if you have, it’s probably a stretch).
In any case, you should catch the doppelgänger voices of comedians Jackie Kashian and Ophira Eisenberg this week co-doing this “Vocal Doppelgänger” show at Nerdmelt.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.