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December 18, 2012Who says that 13 should be an unlucky number? Help ensure the coming year starts off on the right foot with these celebration suggestions, from comedy clubs to Prohibition-style speakeasys.
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December 18, 2012This past weekend marked 2012's last run of Old Soul, a pop-up by Jeremy Fox held at Square One Dining in Hollywood. If you missed it, it's probably forgivable -- Old Soul has only served eight nights of dinner so far, with plans to continue well into next year.
It would be a good move, though, to ... More >>
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December 13, 2012See also:
*5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week
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It's around 11 a.m. on a Wednesday as Cash Levy enters a banquet room within the pleasant, faux-sylvan Etiwanda Gardens event center near Rancho Cucamonga. Sixty employees of a major Southern California u ... More >>
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"Ladies, please prepare your vaginas," announced actor/comedian Aziz Ansari Monday night at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, introducing masters of ... More >>
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December 5, 2012See also:
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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 >>
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August 24, 2012Comic Jeff Ross' balls are as big as his mouth, which is on fire every week on his new Comedy Central show, The Burn with Jeff Ross, where he rips "the world a new asshole, one crack at a time." You probably know Ross as the Roastmaster General, the network's go-to-guy for its annual celeb roasts wh ... More >>
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December 7, 2011Garfunkel and OatesSee also: Garfunkel & Oates Write Song about Greatest "Lost" Mystery: "Why Isn't There More Fucking On This Island?"
Comedy-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates -- aka Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci -- have blossing TV and film careers. But for the past three years they've been pe ... More >>
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November 9, 2011Barbara 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 >>
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October 20, 2011Countering the right wing's fury with humor
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August 3, 2011Pauly Shore, respectable businessmanPauly Shore sits behind a desk in his office at The Comedy Store waiting to take a call. At 4 o'clock, he'll get on the phone with a buyer at Netflix and attempt to convince them to make his new Showtime special Vegas Is My Oyster, along with most of his ot ... More >>
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July 14, 2011Lorenzo 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 >>
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October 6, 2009It's been 43 years since "sick," "dirty" standup comedian Lenny Bruce
died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles, but his legacy lives on --
not only in the candid ways in which Americans from academia to the
pulpit now feel free to discuss human behavior, or the liberating (and
sometimes not so lib ... More >>
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Video: MTVIt has all the signposts of a career-defining battle royale. Rarely funny
comedian Dane Cook ribbed Vanessa Hudgens from the stage of the Teen
Choice Awards, held in L.A. Sunday. Hudgens, the young star of High School Musical, recently became the latest female celebrity to have nude phot ... More >>
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July 11, 2008
A heavenly George Carlin, which he might have found amusing.
One of my favorite lines of Carlin's:
"You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up."
(Most likely said before September, 2001.)
Photo by Mark Mauer
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