Julie Seabaugh

Every Tuesday at 10 p.m. in the Improv Lab, '80s comic whirlwind turned genre-defying director Bobcat Goldthwait joins decades-younger San Francisco transplant Caitlin Gill (the Oddball, Bridgetown and Outside Lands festivals) to co-ringlead Crabapples, a variety circus of nontraditional locals and out-of-town pals who proudly rally around a certain freak-flag......

Midwest transplant Jeremiah Watkins began performing as a kid, won national awards in broadcasting throughout high school and landed a Kansas City radio station gig at age 19. Today the Second City and Groundlings veteran maintains supporting roles on Roast Battle and Goddamn Comedy Jam, both of which are beloved......

On May 3, author Corey Stulce releases The Union of The State, an oral history of the iconic MTV sketch pioneers whose eleven members have continued reconfiguring for more than two decades in projects including Wet Hot American Summer, Reno 911! and the odd live performance. As Stulce traces the......

The fourth annual Riot L.A. comedy festival returns Friday through Sunday at a half-dozen downtown venues including the Regent, the Downtown Independent and the Theater at Ace Hotel, a new addition to the roster of spaces. Also new this year: dog-friendly show 2 Girls 1 Pup (one of L.A. Weekly's......

Author Kliph Nesteroff’s book The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy (Grove Press) was published Nov. 3 and already has been heralded by Steve Martin, Leonard Maltin and Marc Maron, who describes Nesteroff as “the preeminent historian of modern comedy.” (Nesteroff dedicates the book to Maron,......

Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing and L.A. Weekly Comedy Acts to Watch veteran Drennon Davis' transfixing, FM dial–defying Imaginary Radio Program has toured festivals across the States and the U.K. Mr. Show With Bob and David performer Karen Kilgariff served as head writer for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Rosie......

Josh Adam Meyers knows every comedian wants to be a rock star. Helping his fellow comics achieve their musical dreams, the Goddamn Comedy Jam creator and host invites stand-ups to perform a set followed by the cover song of their choosing, bolstered by house band Elemenopy (Joel Rutkowski and Nick......

"Experimental" is too clichéd a description for a multitalented performer as highly magnetic, impressively original and infinitely castable as Ian Abramson. Though the 26-year-old grew up in Moreno Valley and studied theater at Cal State Channel Islands, in early 2012 he made the bold (and laudable) move to immerse himself......

Comedians Marc Maron, Aisha Tyler, Doug Benson, Greg Proops and Paul F. Tompkins — and film critic Leonard Maltin — will be hanging out at the fourth annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival this weekend.  Amid panels, parties, surprise guests and an art show, the creators of some four dozen podcasts are......

In the summer of 2012 we compiled a list of the city’s top recurring stand-up comedy nights. The honorees included The Meltdown (Nerdist Showroom), Set List (various), Tomorrow! with Ron Lynch (Trepany House), The Josh and Josh Show (Bar Lubitsch), The Super Serious Show (formerly of Cafe-Club Fais Do-Do, currently at......