Louis C.K.

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine Feels Like It Takes Place on Another Planet

Tig Notaro Is Cancer-Free and Wants To Tell Jokes In Your Living Room

The last year and a half has literally been the best of times and the worst of times for comedienne Tig Notaro. Last summer, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, lost her mother and broke up with her girlfriend all within the span of four months. Fortunately, the combination of these tragic occurre ... More >>

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Chelsea Peretti: The Comedy of Awkwardness

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Comedian Chelsea Peretti thrives on awkwardness, making her audience feel uncomfortable by obsessing on her shortcomings. Though her good looks are enough to inspire Internet st ... More >>

Funny People

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

BiteSize Studio Hits Hollywood

A Truman Show–like view into the world of online video creators

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Review: Roman Coppola Gives Charlie Sheen the 8 1/2 Treatment

Plastic Wives of Beverly Hills on TLC: Like Real Housewives, But, You Know, With Labiaplasty

If you haven't done your kegel exercise lately, don't bother. "They don't work," says Veronica Matlock, one of the stars of TLC's Plastic Wives, a special (not yet a series) airing Sunday January 27 at 10 p.m. As you may have already guessed, Plastic Wives is not a new Tupperware club. Veronica alo ... More >>

Carl Reiner on His New Memoir, Holding Steve Martin's Baby and His Love of Zooey Deschanel

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in L.A. *12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week He tweets. He Tivos. He's excited about the video components included with the eBook version of his new, self-published memoir, I Remember Me. Carl Reiner may be 90, but the ... More >>

Can Holy Fuck Become a Stand-Up Comedy Empire? It's Starting With a Punk-Inspired Album

On any given night in Los Angeles, you can find free comedy shows taking place in bookstores, restaurants, bars and art galleries around the city. In the case of comedian Dave Ross's show Holy Fuck, the venue happens to be a movie theater, specifically the Downtown Independent, which he's managed to ... More >>

Which White Entertainers Have a "Hood Pass" to Say the N-Word?

The late aughts saw a debate in the hip-hop community about the use of the n-word, sparked in part by Nas' plan to name his 2008 album Nigger (he ended up calling it Untitled), as well as Russell Simmons' call for industry self-censorship of the word. In 2007 the city of Detroit even hosted a "symbo ... More >>

LDM: The Pilot

Literary Death Match Storytelling Series Is Getting Pitched as a TV Show, and You Can Watch It Happen

See also: *10 Best Standup Comedy Shows in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Literary Death Match is ready for its close-up. The acclaimed reading series presents LDM TV: The Pilot at Largo on Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. with a slew of special guests, including Michael C. Hall, Diablo C ... More >>

L.A. Will Now Treat Scalpers Like Gang Members

That guy with the cardboard sign yelling "Tickets!" is on par with a gangbanger. At least that's the message City Attorney Carmen Trutanich sent with an announcement yesterday that Los Angeles will institute the nation's first-ever scalper injunction. What that means is that "known scalpers" -- 17 o ... More >>

Cooper Black: The Story Behind Louie's Typeface

An overweight balding man exits a subway station and, as he walks, up pops his name in bold, cartoonish, drop-shadowed white letters: Louie. He stands alone in the doorway of a pizza parlor inhaling a slice, his eyes searching and expressionless, watching people pass by as people watch him, an urban ... More >>

Comedy Bang! Bang! LIVE!

Woody Allen on His New Film To Rome With Love and Some Very Old Themes

Louis C.K..

Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani: Nerds of a Feather

Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When Kumail Nanjiani was 18, he came halfway around the world from Karachi, Pakistan, to one of the whitest places on Earth, Grinnell College in Iowa. Appropriately, at 34, he' ... More >>

How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became One of the Hottest Comedy Clubs in L.A.

It's just after 10 p.m. and already five comedians have done their thing when comic Eddie Pepitone strides up to start his set. Short, bald and decidedly unhinged, Pepitone gives the air of a blue-collar Buddha: a wizened, workaday sage who happens to be slightly crazy-eyed. Getting right to the po ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY

TODD GLASS

The Funniest Man in Highland Park

Schtick or Treat

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL

Barbara Gray

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 >>

Doug Stanhope: Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

​ Instead our usual insipid questions with the brilliant comic, Mr. Stanhope enlisted his fans to submit their own insipid questions. Do you think social media is a positive or detrimental thing? It's like a dildo on a power-drill. It depends on how you use it.

Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

Doug Stanhope

Music Picks: Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Prince, Ricky Martin, Carrie Rodriguez, The Low Anthem, Mogwai

Also, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, Pegi Young, Mike Stinson and others

IF THESE WALLS COULD LAUGH

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL! CHELSEA PERETTI

Sundance's Rebel Yell

The festival goes back to its roots — or does it?

THE FUTURE OF COMEDY?

GO LA: Louis C.K., Cupcakes for AIDS Research and Jokes for Old Jews

Plus various other events to help you forget this cruel world, March 27-April 2

Louis CK and Ye Shall FInd

Joe Wilson

Standup guy

LAFF 2008: I Can't Drive 66

Los Angeles Film Festival Guide 2008

Dancing On the Moon

Looking for the meaning of “alternative” with a pair of L.A.’s newest comedy impresarios

Film Reviews: Premonition, I Think I Love My Wife and Others

Also Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon and Tortilla Heaven

Rock & Pop Listings

For Feb 17 - 23

Theater and Comedy Listings

For February 10 - 16 cvc

Rock and Pop Listings

Clubs Other Rock & Pop Events

Laugh Your Week Off!

Sketchers, Hair Wars and Courting Venus

HE-E-E-E-RE’S FUNNY!

Going to a comedy club is risky business — but fear not, we’re there for you