Comedy and the spiritual will overlap for an evening as part of Feral Audio and Be Here Now Network’s Mindful Ruckus. It’s a live podcast taping that will be starting the new performance venue known as Starburns Castle (1101 W. Isabel St., Burbank, CA) off.
Mindful Ruckus will happen this Friday, April 28th at 7:30PM.
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.
One of LA’s long running comedy house shows, Comedy Living Room, is now being done in VR coming up this week through JASH and AltspaceVR.
The line-up is pretty fantastic and with someone like Paul Scheer on the show, you’ve got to wonder what shenanigans he’ll try to pull with it being a VR comedy house show.
Also, to all of those without a VR headset, you can enjoy the show on your desktop or laptop computer.
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Between her own innovative live performances and her roles in Trainwreck, Love, and more, Claudia O’Doherty is definitely one of the more fascinating comedians working today and one that we would love to know what makes her tick comedically.
The latest so, you do comdedy? at UCB Sunset on April 24th might just get to the bottom of that.
Get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Recently, Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle’s live show New Negroes got a series order at Comedy Central.
If you wanna catch the live show before it launches on TV, you can catch New Negroes this Sunday, April 23rd at 7:30PM at UCB Franklin.
Joining Baron and Mike will be Phoebe Robinson, Tashi Condalee, Bianca Da Silva Cristovao, Madison Shepard, Opeyemi Olagbaju and Lil’ Rel Howery.
Tickets are $7 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.
Before the end of the Steve Allen Theater this Summer, you need to catch Tomorrow! with Ron Lynch, the long running, beloved midnight comedy variety show.
This week’s edition is of particular interest and Fred Armisen will be co-hosting. Also, a weird and wonderful line-up of:
KARL HERLINGER (ventriloquist)
SCOT NERY (juggler)
BRYAN & JAY (couple guys)
NANA THE CATLADY (gonzo musician)
APRIL HAVA SHENKMAN (performance artist)
PONY DEATH RIDE (sassy band)
& MORE!!
and Tomorrow Show players BRIAN BARLOW, KATIE CROWN, DAVEY JOHNSON & CHRIS WALSH
Please 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 Friday, Tony Sam and Christina Catherine Martinez will gather a great line-up of performers that really know how to take tomfoolery to the next level and put on a show deep in DTLA that “explains the universe” (?).
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.
Cinefamily and USC School of Cinematic Arts will be honoring National Canadian Film Day (yes, that’s real) with a great line-up of back-to-back-to-back screenings, which mostly included off-beat comedy gems from up North.
Included in the day’s line-up will be Guy Maddin’s Saddest Music in the World, Ivan Reitman’s Meatballs, and the classic Strange Brew. Additionally, Denis Villeneuve will be in person doing a Q&A after a screening of his drama Incendies.
Admission is free, but rolling, and Cinefamily Black Card members get priority entry. Also, know that, “Poutine and other Canadian foods and libations will be served for our all day marathon.”
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
The heartbreak storytelling show, Breaker/Broken, returns to its perfect venue, The Museum of Broken Relationships, tomorrow night.
Comedy folks Erin Foley, Aron Kader, Matt Price, Diana Dinerman, Hayley Terris, and host/creator Michelle Miracle will share their tales amidst the collection of objects that symbolize the end of relationships of all shapes and sizes.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and really 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.
This week, The Big Sleep Over will combine an old fashioned sleepover with the magic of a comedy show. Some of our favorite performers including Jetzo, Dr. Brown, Anna Seregina, and Natalie Palamides will dazzle with a show, then have pizza, pillow fights, ouija boards and more.
You can tickets for just the show for $5 or both the show and the sleepover for $8 (those are limited). Get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Not only is one of our favorites Chris Fleming going on a nice tour up and down the West Coast, but he’ll be playing the prestigious Largo here in LA this summer.
Tickets are $30 and you can (and really should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Basically, Follow That! pits comedians into having to follow the screening of heart wrenching, highly emotional videos. The emotional roller coaster that you go on combined with the inevitable curiosity that you’ll have to see what a comic will do after seeing a tearjerker is indeed pretty great.
The next edition of Follow That! is set for the end of this month 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.
One of our favorite all time podcasts, The Dollop, is coming out with a book, The United States of Absurdity (pre-order it here).
To mark the occassion, they’re doing a live Dollop at Nerdmelt next month with guest Sarah Tiana.
Tickets are still available at $15 a pop 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.
Mouth Time, the podcast hosted by Reductress editors, is going live next week at The Lyric Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silverlake with a very special guest, Paul F. Tompkins.
If that’s right up your alley, you can still get tickets for $10 here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
A swell stand-up show, a pop-up shop for items from people’s past relationships, and proceeds going to Planned Parenthood? Sounds pretty swell to us.
This show Ex-Collection, hosted by Kayla Rosenberg, will take place this Thursday at Junior High. Admission is at $5 at the door. Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com
Desus & The Kid Mero of Viceland’s late night show Desus & Mero will indeed be spending an evening with Deadline for their AwardsLine live events series next Monday at 7:30PM the Landmark Theatres in West LA (10840 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA).
You can RSVP for tickets for the event here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
HBO and Gallery 1988 are partnering up to put on an art exhibition in tribute to the comedic brilliance that is Veep.
Works from the following artists will be featured:
100% Soft
Alexander Wells
Anthony Petrie
Barry Blankenship
Bruce White
Chet Phillips
Chris McGuire
Clark Orr
Clinton Reno
Cuyler Smith
Dan Mumford
Doug LaRocca
Fred Harper
Heather Perry
Kiersten Essenpreis
Lou Pimentel
Luke McGarry
Maggie Chiang
Malisa Suchayana
Maria Bjornbom-Oberg
Nan Lawson
Oh Sew Nerdy
Phil Noto
Rockets are Red
Steve Dressler
There will be an opening on Friday, April 14th with a reception from 7PM-9PM at Gallery 1988, 7308 Melrose Ave. It’s free to attend, but we highly recommend getting there early as the gallery space is small and there will be a line out of the door.
Also, the exhibition will remain at the space until April 22nd and you’ll have the chance to buy the works starting on opening night and at gallery1988.com.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
One of our favorite indie comedy theaters in LA, The Pack Theater, is doing a pretty sizable comedy/music festival at the end of this month.
Called Packchella, see what they have in store for Friday, April 28th-Sunday, April 30th.
Friday April 28th
9p – Bill and Ted’s Excellent History Report
10p – Late Nightmare with Emily Candini
11p – Go Sketch Yourself
Saturday April 29th
7p – Packstage Passes – Featuring Ari Stidham
8p – Allie Goertz, Pat Regan and Jeremiah Watkins, Kindred Throats
9p – The Lady Scoutington Musical Comedy Hour Featuring Graham the Dancing Lawyer – With Jackie Tohn, Amy Albert, Alli Miller
10p – Rick Overton’s Improvised Musical
11p – Sketch That Tune
12a – After Hours House Party with Drac & The Swamp Rats and Pat Regan
Sunday April 30th
12p – The Scramble – With JETZO （ジェットゾー）, The Brothers Brothers’ Band, Lewburger, The Chroma Keys, Gregory Lawrence Smith Esq.
8p – Opening Night: The Improvised Musical and The Sound of Musical
9p – Rachel Bloom and Friends – With Zach Sherwin, The Apple Sisters, Drennon Davis, Matthew Patrick Davis
10p – Ladies of TPT Sketch Night
11p – The 88 Show with Avery Pearson – with Eliza Skinner, Michael Glazer
Get more details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Next Saturday, Eric Andre will assemble the likes of Reggie Watts, Dan Curry, and Derrick Beckles all to watch the worst movie that Eric could find at The Downtown Independent.
As of right now, the tickets are sold out for Eric Andre’s Sh*tty Movie Night, but you should check back frequently leading up the night of to see if extra tickets are released.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Eliza Skinner’s unbelievably fun comedy rap battle show, Turnt Up! (it has its own great episode on Seeso’s Comedy Show Show), is back at UCB Franklin this Sunday, April 9th at 7:30PM.
Wherever their rap skills are, all the performers freestyle one-on-one with the aid of expert beatboxer Joshua Silverstein.
Tickets are $7 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.
The occasional Bob’s Burger’s Live event is coming this summer to DTLA’s Orpheum Theatre. One date has already sold out and they have added a second date on June 18th that you’ll hopefully be able to snag tickets to. As the flyer says above, it’s got music, comedy, and a musical comedy revue (i.e. pretty much everything you’d want out of a live Bob’s Burgers event)
So, the tickets for the second date go on sale on this Friday, April 7th at 10AM PST. Mark the time, make a reminder, and make sure you got some coin to spend.
The rest of our listings or comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Over a decade ago, Dave Hill initiated one of the funniest exchanges ever in trying to start a Norwegian Black Metal band with a kid from Indiana. The conversations became known as The Black Metal Dialogues.
All these years later, Dave and actual bandmate Phil Costello are going to do The Black Metal Dialogues Live! next month at The Viper Room on the Sunset Strip.
Even if you’re not a metal head, we’re pretty sure you’ll enjoy “the vagina monologues of black metal”.
Please get your tickets here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Todd Glass will be headlining the Hollywood Improv Lab this Saturday, which is probably one of the most intimate spaces in which you can see Todd headline. In other words, please don’t miss out on this.
Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.
This week, you can get a double dose of Dr. Bassem Youssef, often referred to as the Jon Stewart of Egypt, here in LA.
On Wednesday, April 5th 7:30PM at The Vista, Cinefamily will be presenting an off-site screening of the documentary Tickling Giants by Sara Taksler that follows Youssef’s time as a popular satirist in a turbulent Egypt. Taksler, Youssef, and Larry Wilmore will be in person doing a Q&A following the screening.
On Thursday, April 6th at 8PM at the Freud Playhouse will be having an Evening with Bassem Youssef, brought to you by Book Soup, that will discuss his book Revolution For Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring.
Tickets for the screening of Tickling Giants are $14 and $15-$38 for the ‘Evening with’ and you can (and really should) get them here and here respectively.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Broke LA provides a great platform for new artists in music, art, film, and comedy as well as a big one day festival that doesn’t break the bank and is here in the Arts District in DTLA.
For the “Comedy Sandbox”, the line-up includes:
Alex Hanna
Allison Mick
Anna Valenzuela
Ashley Hamilton
Atsuko Okatsuka
Brendan Cooney
Christine Medrano
Connor McSpadden
Dan Nolan
David Gborie
Ed Greer
Harrison Greenbaum
Heather Marulli
Jessica Sele
Johan Miranda
Katrina Davis
Kyle Kinane
Marcella Arguello
Mateen Stweart
Mike Schmidt
Nat Baimel
Nick Petrillo
Omid Singh
Paige Weldon
Papp Johnson
Rachel Mac
Ramy Youssef
Simon Gibson
Valerie Tosi
Zach Noe Towers
In case you didn’t know, there a lot of talented folks that you should be catching in that line-up.
Get your tickets for Broke LA here.
Few explore the frontiers of silliness quite like Josh Fadem and Dicker Troy (Johnny Pemberton) and we think you would really regret any time the duo got together and reveled in their next level tomfoolery.
So, with that in mind, get tickets to their next show, this Sunday at The Satellite with guests Eddie Pepitone, Nick Vatterott, Mike Lawrence, and Kate Berlant. They are $8 and you can (and really should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.