Jimmy Pardo

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Spanish Comedy Hit El Tenorio Comico

5. Kathleen Madigan Classic sample Madigan: "My parents never noticed anything, ever. I could have been paralyzed from the waist down, and my father would have said, 'That's our lazy kid.'" Comedy & Magic Club; Thurs.-Fri., Jan. 17-18, 8 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 19, 6:45 & 9:30 p.m.

Put Your Hands Together Debuts Tomorrow, Filling the Spot of Beloved UCB Stand-up Show Comedy Bang! Bang!

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Even as Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! continues to build momentum as an IFC talk/sketch series and Earwolf podcast, the earliest incarnation of the brand, a long-running live show originally named Comedy ... More >>

Dick Jokes for Jesus: Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant Taught Us the True Meaning of Christmas

See also: *Our Slideshow on Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles Some folks will tell you that the War on Christmas begins every Black Friday -- a day when faithless, mouth-breathing hordes descend upon shopping malls in an orgy of consumerism that ope ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week

Our list of the best ways to laugh in L.A. this week, including two great storytelling series and two funny Gregs. 5. The Happy Hour Story Experiment It's free; it's early; and it's the wonderful Melinda Hill and writer Eve Sturges' "experimental hour of storytelling with their fancy, famous frien ... More >>

10 Comedy Events We're Looking Forward to This Fall

The leaves are turning, the pumpkin lattes are over-caffeinating and the comedy calendar is packing in shows and releases like snot-nosed children onto the back of a hayride wagon. Here are a few of the upcoming highlights.

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Flappers Comedy Club: How Did a New Standup Venue Take Off Despite Down Economy?

Barbara Holliday​"In a city that is mostly 'showcase' clubs, it's a nice change of pace to be able to do a full hour-long headline set in front of good, appreciative crowds." So says comedian and podcaster Jimmy Pardo. He was talking to us about Flappers, a nightclub that opened in September ... More >>

Are You Ready for Some Circus?

Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

Conan O'Brien ('s Writing Staff) Kicks Off Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily

The kids you made fun of in high school: All grown up, and richer than you.​ When you hear the name Conan O'Brien, you probably picture the man who single-handedly rallied America's youth against Jay Leno, revenge after Leno took back the Tonight Show gig that, only nine months earlier, he'd l ... More >>

THE FUNNIEST WHOREHOUSE IN TOWN

THE POD COUPLE

SCOTT AUKERMAN: MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

What Would Patton Oswalt Need Most If He Traveled Through Time? And What's the Weirdest YouTube Video That Seth MacFarlane Has Seen Recently?

Questioning the comedians at Yuk-Fest and the premiere of Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoons

Fall-Time Yuk-Fest: Time Travel With Patton Oswalt and Comedy's Finest

Deep in the heart of Echo Park, surrounded by taco trucks and fruit vendors, cash-only dive bars and my ex-boyfriends, there exists a Time Travel Mart off Sunset Boulevard that supplies an array of collectibles one might need (or want) from the past or future; collectibles like human emotion chips f ... More >>

Get Off Your Rocker and Slam!!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Bombs, Bush & Baseball

Theater and Comedy Listings

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