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5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Paul Scheer's Sexy Christmas Spectacular

This week's list includes two great Eddies, Izzard and Pepitone. 5. Paul Scheer Sexy Christmas Spectacular Paul Scheer promises his "famous celebrity friends will tell you the true meaning of Christmas and the other December holidays that don't really count." With Ed Helms, Casey Wilson, Rob Hueb ... More >>

Kevin Pollak on His New Autobiography and How He Convinced Steve Martin to Tweet

Revered standup and actor Kevin Pollak's new autobiography, How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs , fulfills precisely what its subtitle promises, chronicling his rise as an formidable impressionist and standout player in The Usual Suspects, A Few Go ... More >>

Seven L.A. Comics Report From the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a festival unlike any other. The 65-year-old whirlwind event lasts the entire month of August and is essentially a free-for-all: interested performers merely have to book their own venue, travel, and accommodation, then show up, self-promote like mad, and pray you ge ... More >>

Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard: Death Star Canteen [Video]

This video is a few years old, but since Eddie Izzard has been in town lately, playing a handful of late-night shows at Largo, his riff on the Death Star canteen (that's British for "cafeteria") is timely. And hilarious, especially when animated with Lego. Watch as Darth Vader complains about wet tr ... More >>

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

What makes Eddie run?

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl: 17,000-Seat Venue's First Standup Comedian Ever

Lorenzo Aguis​ This week in our print edition, Gustavo Turner interviews Eddie Izzard, the Brit comedian selected to be the first standup comic ever to perform at the 17,000-seat Hollywood Bowl alone. How will that work in this huge venue? From the article: "I think the backseats are gonna h ... More >>

Stage Raw: Somewhere, Over the Radar

COMPLETE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE : A Case for Small Theater​The Groundings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show has a one-night only tenth anniversary performance (Wed., June 22, 8 p.m.) featuring (pending cast availability) Kristen Wiig, Kevin Nealon, Maya Rudolph, Michael Sheen, Will ... More >>

Every Day

Merrill Davis: Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl!

OH TRANNY BOY

Movie Reviews: Couples Retreat, The Damned United, Good Hair

Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more

Last-Minute Eddie Izzard Shows Announced

LAist sounds the alert that Largo will be home to a trio of shows in its Coronet Theater venue by Eddie Izzard. The droll Brit wit (the thinking man's Frank Skinner? the cross-dressing man's Ricky Gervais?) is a tireless spinner of standup gold (or make that gold lame), whether tarting up his pop-cu ... More >>

Best Free Comedy, Beer Included: Comedy Meltdown

Eddie Izzard Takes off His Dress

Scheduled for five nights at the Kodak, comedian talks Bible Belt, Napoleon, spelunking and the future of The Riches

Idle's Messiah, Izzard's Stripped and Maya Rudolph on the Down Low

P.S.: I am in the Bahamas and really don't give a crap what you do for fun this week

Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses

L.A. Art Collective Struggles to Go On After Actor's Death

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: More Swords, Less Sorcery

Sequel ups the action and loses some magic

The Write Stuff

Andy Dick, Sarah Silverman and Write Aid

Lee Hazlewood: A Stranger in This Land

The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

Across the Universe: Help!

Julie Taymor’s ’60s-set musical is a bust

Best of Bale

Ten Christian Bale movies not to be missed

Among the Squares

Are the upwardly mobile grifters of The Riches TV’s most relevant newfamily icons?

Film Reviews

Reviews of Monster House, My Super Ex-Girlfriend and more

Film Reviews

For the week of April 14 - 20

Bill Bailey: Part Troll

Oh Sandy

Ms. Bernhard fluffs, folds, flaps

The American Nightmare

Will we be eclipsed by the European Union?

Space Commodity

The Churl Can’t Help It

Varla Jean Merman does her very worst

TV Guide

Eddie Izzard, action transvestite

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

You've Got Hate Mail

A critic wonders where it all went wrong

Eddie the Confessor

The king of the riffs comes to town