Episodes
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Ep. 305: Steve Hernandez & First Special About Being Fat! Mexican! Queer?
Of this era, Steve Hernandez is one of a very select handful names synonymous with LA comedy. As such, he's well overdue for a debut special, which is coming next week in the form of Fat! Mexican! Queer? We get into the nitty gritty of how Steve not only built this hour, but capturing his entire...
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Ep. 304: Brandie Posey | #SiriusSebastian & Preserving the Livelihood of Comedy
It has been no secret that, for decades, the art form of comedy has been a feast or famine proposition when it comes to making a living. Yet, the recent transition of SiriusXM's Raw Dog Comedy Channel to one curated by Sebastian Maniscalco has made that dynamic even more dire. We break down the...
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Ep. 303: Joey Clift & Getting Your Humorous Book on Native American Culture and History on College Reading Lists
While it's something to note when good comedy folks publish books, it's a whole other, even more amazing thing to note when their book is such good "edutainment" that it gets on college reading lists before it's actually released. That's what happened with the amazing writer/performer Joey Clift...
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Ep. 302: Beth Lapides & The Going Through-ness of It's-A-Lot-Ness
Seminal comedy pioneer Beth Lapides is still blazing a trail after being at the helm of the legendary comedy/music/variety showcase Uncabaret for decades and now going forth with her own show, It's A Lot with the aim to both entertain and also show a better path forward in a universe that is...
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Ep. 301: Brady Smith & The Virtues of Comedy Intern-in'
In Tinseltown, internships often come with the prospect of your fate being tied to how your answer a phone and your acumen for running errands at very same time. When it comes to interning at a comedy at a theater, the responsibilities run different, but it doesn't mean that you're hustling any...
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Ep. 300: Derek Sheen & Self Producing Your 5th Hour of Comedy/1st Special
Even if you have done stand-up comedy for a long time, successfully, and released multiple hours of comedy that have been critically acclaimed, diving into producing your own special for the first time can be daunting as well as rewarding in ways you couldn't even imagine. That's the story we...
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Ep. 299: Emily Menez & Ian Goldstein & Fixing American Healthcare as a Bit/Comedy Festival
The labyrinthian and dystopian nature of the American Healthcare System as is feels like a cruel joke, which is why NYC comedians Emily Menez and Ian Goldstein have decided to do an entire comedy festival dedicated to joking about the mess that is the aforementioned healthcare system this weekend...
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Ep. 298: Alaina Bamfield & Doing a Trauma Special (That's Packed with Jokes)
While the idea of comedy as a salve for trauma is nothing new, Alaina Bamfield makes her own mark on today's ever growing, crowded field of comedy by doing an entire half hour stand-up comedy special about life as a survivor of infamous serial child molester Larry Nassar. Called Untouchable…
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Ep. 297: Comedy Gives Back & The Legacy of Brody Stevens
The memory and comedy of one Brody Stevens and the importance he highlighted for mental health both in comedy and beyond strongly continue to this day. The Annual Brody Stevens Festival of Friendship is a celebration of Brody's legendary, singular comedic stylings and support for the amazing work...
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Ep. 296: Mary Houlihan & The Common Ground That Is Comedians Yelling at Each Other
The idea that these are divisive times is so old hat, which is partially why the very funny Mary Houlihan is dead set on truly bringing back having comedians from opposite ends of the political spectrum to engage in fierce, hilarious debate. Thusly, Houlihan is reviving one of the debate shows...
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Ep. 295: Edib Farhan & Winning Fringe as a Poignant (Very Funny) Clown
Fresh off their win of Top of the Fringe at this most recent Hollywood Fringe Festival, the amazing Edib Farhan is already busy with a sequel to their award winning show, Syrian Soap, eager to create a trilogy of profound clown/solo shows. This week's TCB Field Report follows Edib's long sojourn...
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Ep. 294: Spaghetti Fest 2026 & Gettin' Spaghetti Everywhere
Hot off the tail from Hollywood Fringe, Elysian's annual cavalcade of daring new work in Spaghetti Festival is just around the corner and we get a preview of a delicious bit of what's on the menu come July 15th when the fest starts. Elysian AD Jacquelyn Landgraf as well as Spaghetti Festers…
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Ep. 293: Amelia Cameron & Doing Late Night at the Kennedy Center
With all the things that The John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts has had to endure this year under the 2nd Trump Administration, one might be surprised to find that there's a satirical, topical late night variety show that was built and blossomed from within. This week's TCB Field Report...
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Ep. 292: John Gilkey & The Power of The Fools
While there is a spotlight on clown, especially in LA, these days, one ought to know that this daring comedic work isn't a new phenomenon. With that in mind, we wax all things clown and beyond, from the past to the future, in front or behind it, with legend John Gilkey, founder of The Idiot...
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Ep. 291: Greg Barris & The Ever-Underestimated Power of Comedy
While the many functions and purposes of comedy will be up for debate, its ability and capacity for healing is pretty undisputed. Squarely in that healing corner is multi-disciplinary comedian and artist Greg Barris who has gone so far as to make a very enjoyable and…
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Ep. 290: Geri Courtney-Austein & Clowning Around and Ending Up at Cannes
Geri Courtney-Austein has done so many things in so many different lanes in LA comedy between sketch, improv, and clown (oh, and podcasting and filmmaking) and even combining those all into a live variety show for charity that being at the Cannes Film Festival for a short she made seems to be...
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Ep. 289: Dewayne Perkins & Flipping Fear Into Comedy
Coming fresh off of a sold out Netflix Is a Joke. Fest performance of How Being Black & Gay Made Me Better Than You!, the amazing (the name of the show is on point, FYI) Dewayne Perkins gives us the ins and outs of developing his show as well as the greater hopes and dreams for it (including it...
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Ep. 288: Sydney Kane & Tragedy Plus Time as a Musical
When doing the alchemy of taking heartbreak and turning it into comedy, it often manifests as stand-up or a short film. Doing an entire solo musical is a whole other incredibly ambitious endeavor and one Sydney Kane has found her way to doing just that with Wife Material, set to take stage at The...
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Ep. 287: Maggie Winters & Embracing All Sides of Live, Laugh, Love
As the volume of comedy specials released increases at an exponential rate, one really must go against the grain to stand out. Chicago's own Maggie Winters took that to heart with her very comedy special, which is a recorded edition of her solo show, Marguerite, handpicked by UCB and Abso Lutely....
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Ep. 286: Chris Colthurst & Better Living Through Improv
Taking a cue from San Diego's biggest annual happening, Comic-Con, Chris Colthurst is paving a way in similar fashion for all things celebrating and enlightening in the art form of theatrical improvisation by founding ImprovCon. We talk to Chris all about how much and how in-depth the improv will...
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Ep. 285: Jeremy Pinsly & Opening a Brand Spankin' New NYC Comedy Club in 2026
Believe it or not, NYC is about to add to its leading comedy club per capita stats with its newest spot, The Greenpoint Comedy Club. We get into the nitty gritty and the joy and everything in between with opening a new comedy club in one comedy's undisputed cultural centers with founder and…
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Ep. 284: Nikolai Phalen & Dreaming Big Comedy Dreams (and Often in English) in Barcelona
Many of you are constantly pondering what's mutating in the Austin comedy scene, but not only are there plenty of other ever evolving comedy scenes around the country including an English language one in Barcelona, Spain. We chat with Nikolai Phalen who transplanted himself to Barcelona to thrive...
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Ep. 283: Jackie Kashian & Finding Joy in Rage
Jackie Kashian has long been and continues to be one of our absolute favorite comedians working today. Even in such dire, seemingly hopeless times, her brand new hour special, Alter-Kashian, much of which has to do with a very timely rage, is a much needed and very effective salve. We catch up…
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Ep. 282: Chandler Dean & Sparking Joy Through Abolishing Everything
Oft these days, the question, "How do you do comedy in times like these?", gets asked into the wind only to go nowhere. Yet, comedy persists and we'd highlight Chandler Dean and his beautifully subversive comedy game show, Abolish Everything!, arrives as the perfect satirical humor for this…
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Ep. 281: Rachel Olson & Being of Service with a Seat at the Table
Taking even part of the reins to a long-standing comedy institution such as The Upright Citizens Brigade can be a tall order and then some. Thankfully, comedy industry veteran, one Rachel Olson has stepped in as Executive Director of UCB LA and is a crucial part of UCB expanding its reach and...
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Ep. 280: Natasha Mercado & Building Your Own Corner of Clown
Natasha Mercado started off 2026 with a bang by putting on very first festival, Soft Clown Fest, a one-day, full throttle celebration of "soft clown", Mercado's own particular movement within the clowning discipline of comedy. Natasha takes us on a wondrous long walk through the winding roads of...
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Ep. 279: Mark Vigeant & The Unspoken Inspiration of Getting Your Ass Kicked
When you're someone like the brilliant Mark Vigeant, the road in comedy can be very winding and circuitous, especially for the fact that he's setting to break new ground and push boundaries in the art form of comedy. This week's TCB Field Report has an in-depth conversation with Mark in the…
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Ep. 278: TCB's Jake & What Goes Into Making a Year End List
We kick off 2026 at The Comedy Bureau Field Report by giving a big ol' peel back of the curtain to show you what goes into making our 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness To in No Particular Order list (and year end comedy lists in general). Our very own Jake Kroeger breaks down the methods…
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Ep. 277: Ethan Stanislawski & Being Timely in Comedy (Whether You Like It or Not)
When divisiveness is the order of the day, some of the best bridges are the most personal stories that highlight the things all humanity has in common (which is almost always more than we think) no matter who is telling said story or what its original intentions were for. With that in mind, we…
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Ep. 276: Andy Sandford & Keeping Jokes as Tight Possible
Andy Sandford's philosophy of trimming all the fat from all his comedy has served him well in all his years in the art form and did him especially proud with his latest special, &y S&ford, freshly released. We chat with him all about the craft as well as relocating and building his latest special...
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Ep. 275: Jamie Linn Watson & Getting Back to The Old Internet
There was so much innocence and purity to those 2005 days of YouTube, but, then again, none of it was monetized. With that in mind, this week's TCB Field Report has the star of the brand span new indie comedy Skit, Jamie Linn Watson, join in on a chat about how the DNA of making Internet comedy…
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Ep. 274: Spaghetti Festival & Sticking on the Wall (Together)
The Spaghetti Festival @ The Elysian represents a wholly rejuvenating spark of imagination and creativity as it puts up never-before-seen, never-before-produced works from some of the most original voices in and around comedy in LA. For this week's TCB Field Report, we get into the all the many...
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Ep. 273: R.M. Aranda & Bringing Clown to All
The popularity of the corner of comedy that is clown continues to burgeon, especially in LA. In that growth, there is a push for bringing clown to more than just niche audiences, namely children. One, R.M. Aranda is one such clown that aims to making a clown show that bucks the trend of the very...
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Ep. 272: American High Digital & Being Part of a Burgeoning Comedy Empire
The coming-of-age of comedy will forever be a staple of comedy film and television as it both continues to resonate with audiences across the generations and also, well, time only goes one direction as far as we experience it. With that in mind, American High has carefully built an empire around...
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Ep. 271: Joey Greer & Defying Convention Starting from the Get Go
With so many specials and hours of comedy already in existence and dozens of them getting put out every month, how could you possibly turn the form on its head? Well, we found out exactly how when we talked to the amazing, description-defying Joey Greer and he's wholly unique and unprecedented...
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Ep. 270: Fabrizio Copano & Getting Your Citizenship So You Can Release Your Comedy Special
Such are the times that being a a brown-skinned comedian, much less one from a country South of the U.S. border, is, shall we say, dicey. That's only one of a myriad of reasons why Chilean comedian, now U.S. citizen Fabrizio Copano made sure to secure his status as an American citizen before...
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Ep. 269: Beth Stelling & Doing a Whole Comedy Special About Your Landlord
The comedy of Beth Stelling offers up a warmth and a joy that feels rarer and rarer in this world. Even when she does a whole special about a toxic landlord, Stelling's voice is such a great relief. We chit chat in-depth with Beth about the journey to such a unique special (and how you'd even go...
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Ep. 268: Isaac Landfert & Keeping an Alt Comedy Theater Alive IN THIS ECONOMY
4319 Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles has long been a home for alt comedy and despite the insanely chaotic times we live in, it will continue to be that way, in large part due to the efforts of Isaac Landfert. Formerly the YARD Theater, that venue will live on as The Stray Theater and continue on to…
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Ep. 267: Lisa Curry & Possibly Doing Comedy at the End of It All?
Much of the pervasive strangeness of these times is that there is palpable feeling of everything coming to an end, all while many, small everyday things in many people's lives weirdly continuing for the time being. We get into the thick of doing/talking about/philosophizing about comedy in such…
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Ep. 266: Bri Pruett & Building the Hr. in 2025
Building an hour of stand-up, especially the first time you do it, is already hard enough with having no experience doing so. In 2025, with the ways of the world, both actual and of comedy, the consideration and craft that has to be put into an bonafide great first hour of stand-up comedy can…
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Ep. 265: Ali Hart & Producing Comedy as Agent of Change(?)
In such dire times, the roles of comedy being both offering a salve to reality and speaking truth to power can seem to be at odds with each other. However, there are ways to walk such a tight line and we talk with celebrated veteran indie comedy producer Ali Hart (Peacock, The Frogtown Show…
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Ep. 264: Walker Ward & Pedicab Powered Blind Dating
Romance and the quest for it will forever remain fertile ground for comedy no matter how the art form changes and evolves. IG/Tik Tok sensation Walker Ward marches, or, more accurately, pedals, forward in this regard with Pedicab Connections by picking up strangers looking for love in a pedicab…
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Ep. 263: Shannon O'Neill & Molding Comedy Into a Potholder
While many of you have to come, know, and love the fantastic Shannon O'Neill through improv and wherever you watch TV, she has discovered another marvelous facet of herself through her work in ceramics. In fact, she's just about to close out her very first exhibition Beat One at The Empty Circle…
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Ep. 262: David Drake & The Power of Bowling Alleys
From just the look of Big Break, David Drake's third and latest hour, you might be surprised that Drake has helped build an entire corner of NYC comedy through the hallowed ground of The Gutter in Brooklyn (that also happens to be a lovely bowling alley). Between CYSKNYC and his multiple hour...
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Ep. 261: Linzy Beltran & Comedia Por Todo
At the same time, comedy can indeed speak truth to power and also express joy from one's unique perspective, but it can be quite the balancing act to do both at the same time. One wondrous Linzy Beltran manages the feat with a bold stroke of unabashed silliness with her solo show El Mago Loco,...
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Ep. 260: Erica Bitton & 10 Years of a Solo Show
Almost always, the work that goes into a deeply personal solo show is almost entirely invisible. There are years of work and reworking and giving up and getting re-obsessed that drive a person to create something possibly so unique and inspiring and hilarious and then perform over and over and…
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Ep. 259: Julie Seabaugh & Documenting Marc Maron
Julie Seabaugh has been and still very much is one of our absolute favorite people in comedy because, like us, she has dedicated blood, sweat, and tears to the telling of stories of, about, in, and around comedy. Following her endeavors as an esteemed journalist, author, and documentarian…
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Ep. 258: Victoria Male & Revisiting the 90s the Good Way
A lot of what has been dug up from the 90s, mostly by Gen Z, has kind of been a rude look into the mirror for Millennials, but acclaimed, veteran screenwriter Victoria Male has cooked up a comedy feature, Whatever Happened to Baby J?, that is taking a much more favorable look into the 90s, so…
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Ep. 257: Sam Walt Jones & Manifesting the Theatrical in Live Comedy
The undertaking of putting on a live comedy show can be a lot, but putting on a full scale, multi-week, improvised parody of a celebrated TV franchise is a whole other sport. Yet, that seems to be Sam Walt Jones' favorite thing to do as he is just about to cap off his third season of Survivor:...
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Ep. 256: Business Casual & Focused Chaos for Comedic Gold
Cory Peter Lane, Jeremy Elder, and Hunter Sailing, better known collectively as the wondrously rambunctious Business Casual, are leveling up to having their very own ranch of controlled chaos with their new show on All Things Comedy, the aptly named The Business Casual Show. We catch up with the...
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