T.J. Miller

Improv Olympic Creates a Comedy Festival That's...Scripted?

Over the weekend, Improv Olympic became a Scripted Olympic. From Thursday through Sunday, Hollywood's iO West Theater hosted its first annual L.A. Scripted Comedy Festival, featuring a collection of talent from across the country showcasing sketch, variety, storytelling, stand up and short films. ... More >>

For Anthony Jeselnik, Writing for Kimmel and Fallon Didn't Work. So He Created a Show for Himself

Onstage, Anthony Jeselnik is unlikeable, dirty and downright disturbing. And that's just the way he prefers it. Known for teaching the old-timers a trick or two on the Comedy Central Roasts of Donald Trump, Charlie Sheen and Roseanne Barr, his new TV show with the cable channel, The Jeselnik Offensi ... More >>

12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became a (Twice a Month) Comedy Club Audiences may be more fractured than ever before, but they're also more loyal to performers who cut though the din to foster personal connections under the guise of humor. He ... More >>

Comedian Cash Levy Explains His Odd Path to Stand-up Success

See also: *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles 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 >>

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 >>

Do You Deeply Regret Your Rod Stewart Obsession? Comedy Show For Shame! Will Heal You

Back in November, Jazz Ponce, longtime booker of Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill's Monday-night comedy staple What's Up, Tiger Lily?, began branching out beyond mere stand-up for an interactive, bonding, Mystery Science Theater 3000-style endeavor called For Shame!. Thus far the likes of T.J. Miller, C ... More >>

Jason Nash Is Married : Larry David Meets Lucy Ricardo in One of the Best Web Sitcoms You're Not Watching

"It's a funny thing with me. Things seem to go poorly when I am around them." A little bit clueless egoist (think Larry David) with a little Lucy Ricardo thrown in, Jason Nash plays more or less himself in his web series Jason Nash Is Married , soon on the Comedy Central website, in which he's a st ... More >>

Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

Jason Nash

Fresh Faces & Friends Groundhog's Day Spectacular

Laugh Factory's Dot Comedy: Can the Stodgy Venue Draw an Alt-Comedy Crowd?

It's an unusual but exciting time for the L.A. comedy scene. For the most part the Big Three Hollywood clubs (The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory and The Improv) continue chugging along with more traditional shows and mainstream audiences, while younger, subjectively hipper, and more "alternative" t ... More >>

The Funniest Third Thursday of the Month

Doug Benson Was Raised in a Barn!

Movie Reviews: Children of Invention, Mother, The Art of the Steal

Also, Green Zone, Remember Me, She’s Out of My League and more

Cloverfield Is a Horror

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