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The 2017 LA Indie Improv Festival Is Happening This Weekend (Don’t Miss It)

We don’t have DCM in LA, but we’ve got improv festivals-a-plenty. 

One of the ones that you should absolutely catch is the LA Indie Improv Festival that happens with almost 200 teams between two venues (The Clubhouse and Lyric Hyperion) this weekend (8/12 & 8/13).

Slated to perform are many of LA’s best improvisers including such teams as:

Private Street, Boss Jr., The Faculty, Some Kinda Monster, Arts & Athletics, Rococo, Jacob Wysocki Makes Improvisers Do Short Form, Three Princes, Crashbar, The Colin Kaepernicks, Convoy, Outside Dog, Big Grande, and Dopetown 3000 (on a bus).

Oh, we should mention that it’s free to attend.

Get more details and a complete schedule here.

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Revered punk label Fat Wreck Chords is throwing a comedy show, their first one in fact, this Wednesday night. Appropriately called Fat Calm Eddie, the show will go down at The Lost Room in Echo Park (1538 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA) and really does feature some of the funniest people that LA has to offer. 

It doesn’t get much more Echo Park, and we mean that in the best way possible, than this. 

Get more details here.

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

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Currently, one of the most best and most unique voices in comedy belongs to Joe Pera.

He’ll be doing an extended set at UCB Sunset next Wednesday, March 29th at 10:30PM that you shouldn’t miss. 

In fact, knowing Joe, there might even be some truth to him allowing “anyone to drive his mid-size rental car wherever they would like to go” after the show.

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.

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The Best Friends Show is always pretty great. 

This line-up though is pretty special, even by their standards as best friends and real life married couples Emily Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani and Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher are on the line-up for this Saturday.

Tickets are $5 online and $6 at door. You can (and should) get tickets in advance here.

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Moshe Kasher is doing two test runs of his upcoming Comedy Central series, Problematic, at UCB Franklin.

It’ll be Moshe’s own twist on a daytime talk show format, which should be both insanely fun and informative.

You can go see these test runs this Thursday, March 9th at 6:30PM for $5 or next Thursday, March 16th at 8PM for $7

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

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You’ve very likely enjoyed Josh Gondelman’s comedy via his writing on Last Week Tonight. Beyond that, you ought to know that Gondelman is a wonderful comedian that shows that you can be a positive, upbeat personality in comedy and still be really damn funny. 

He’ll be headlining The Virgil in Silverlake/Los Feliz next week and we highly suggest that you go.

Tickets are $5 in advance here and $7 at the door.

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

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It looks like the time for the Trepany House at Steve Allen Theater is actually coming to an end, and, with it, The Tomorrow Show with Ron Lynch (an LA comedy institution as far as we’re concerned) seems to be ending as well. 

Though it has been running for over a decade every Saturday at midnight, there’s only a month’s worth of ‘Tomorrow’ left and, as such, this week’s show is a special “MASH-UP!” that gives a sampling of Crapshoot!, Five Minutes or Die!, and Hook-Up! (i.e. the various fan favorite formats of Tomorrow).

So, please make sure you see this or one of the three other Tomorrows. You can (and should) get tickets for this week’s MASH-UP! here.

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

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There are plenty takes that turn the talk show format on its head. 

One of the best (and most out of left field) is The Jesse Miller Talk Show with Andre Hyland as Jesse Miller, reppin’ Cincinnati like nobody’s business, along with badass co-hosts Daryl and Tanya (Paul Oyen and Anna Lee Lawson).

The latest edition is coming back to the Hollywood Improv Comedy Lab next week and tickets are only $5. 

In addition the line-up above, ANGELA TRIMBUR (Final Girls, @Midnight, LA City Municipal Dance Squad) will be on the show. 

Get tickets ASAP here.