Quick Dish: IMPRO(vs)TANDUP, An Epic Battle 3.12 at UCB Franklin

Oooooh, Thursday’s IMPRO(vs)TANDUP is going to be a legendary match-up. These folks are seriously the best improvisers and stand-up comedians and they will be battling in one incredible face-off. These entertainers will show off the skills they were born with and then switch places to try out their counterpart’s discipline. March 12 at UCB Franklin […]
Quick Dish: IMPRO(vs)TANDUP is Where You Need to Be 10.9.14 at UCB LA

It’s like mixing chocolate and peanut butter. Get pumped for the melding of two beautiful arts, improv and stand up comedy, next Thursday, OCTOBER 9th. IMPRO(vs)TANDUP allows improvisers and stand ups to be themselves until they are forced to switch places and try their hand at the other’s discipline. It’s like trying to write with […]
Quick Dish: Tomorrow Night 5/8 It’s IMPRO(vs)TANDUP at UCBTLA

When improvisers meet stand ups for an all out comedy battle it is laughter war. This month the sketch team WHITE WOMEN (Carl Tart, Ronnie Adrian, Ifechukwude Nwadiwe, Majeed Nami, Lamar Woods, Ishmel Sahid, Zeke Nicholson) faces off against … well … two white women known as JC COCCOLI (Best Week Ever, MTV, Hellogiggles) and […]
Quick Dish: TONIGHT Ease Into The Weekend with IMPRO(vs)TANDUP

This very evening, April 10, at UCBTLA you will see the best improvisers and stand-up comedians face off for a slightly competitive cross-discipline matchup. Yes, improvisers and stand-ups switch places and try out what the other does best. The audience votes (kinda) and at night’s end a winner is awarded the Comedy Cup of Gold […]
Quick Dish: ‘What’s New’ Happens Tonight at NerdMelt Showroom

Chelsea Lately regular Ben Glieb headlines tonight’s What’s New over at the NerdMelt Showroom. What is What’s New? Well, it is a live stand-up show featuring comedians showing off new material and plain just getting into it. Oh, What’s New is also a Nerdist Industries podcast you should be listening to pronto. It’s just 4 […]
Layers: We LOVED UCB Comedy Collide 2013!

Happy Columbus Day, Amerigo Vespuccians! Now that that’s out of the way I’d like to confess that I experienced a gamut of emotions this weekend; luckily, laughter was part of that mix. I only wish I would have experienced The Walking Dead, Gravity and Comedy Collide in reverse (time machine, please). Anyhoo, let’s get back […]
Quick Dish: Rock out at UCB’s Comedy Collide this SATURDAY

This weekend Echo Park will be overtaken with international music and local comedy at Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide 2013 event. LA’s UCB theatre will be putting on an epic comedy show for festival goers Saturday evening, Oct 12 at the 826LA space. Check out this awesome lineup: Maria Bamford Nick Thune Rory Scovel Dominic Dierkes […]
Quick Dish: Comedy Palace with Pete Holmes TONIGHT

Yeah, you saw it clearly. You Made It Weird’s Pete Holmes will be headlining this week’s Comedy Palace show at the lovely Palace restaurant in Los Feliz. You can grab a fab Chinese meal, get a drink from the full bar and head on over to this very FREE show atop a restaurant. Check out […]