We take all kinds of pills
that give us all kind of thrills
but the thrill we’ll never know
Is the thrill that’ll getcha
when you get your picture
on one of the blog pages of the Westword
Our new web series launched today. Check out How To Make a Web Series - Episode One: The Noir Pitch and let us know what you think.
It’s January 1st, 2013, which means 2012 is officially over. That means that we can finally and assuredly post our 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness To In No Particular Order in 2012 without worrying if we were going to miss a really great joke at some New Year’s Eve Party (full disclosure: we worked on New Year’s Eve instead of partying in order to get this list ready). There are some repeats because some people like Louis C.K. and Kyle Kinane are probably going to make our list for something every year, but plenty of new things that you might have overlooked here at The Comedy Bureau.
So, now enjoy our favorite comedians, albums, specials, sketches, podcasts, tweets, shows, festivals, moments, etc. from the past year.
1. Jon Dore and Rory Scovel make a tradition out of doing something amazing on Conan with their latest appearance/interruption.
2. Chris Gethard not only has one of the best shows being broadcasted despite its public access format, but he also got adopted by IFC, hitchhiked to Bonnaroo, and has kept an amazing Tumblr answering almost any question asked of him whether it be about comedy or feeling better about life in general.
3. Sarah Beattie/@nachosarah was one of our favorite Twitter accounts this year with biting self-deprecating humor “I just dropped a steak on the floor and declared that it was ground beef why the fuck am I single”
4. Modern Comedian by Scott Moran is hands down one of the best looks into the process of comedy, especially since they’re looking into the comedic processes of Kurt Braunohler, Ben Kronberg, Todd Glass, Rory Scovel, and more.
5. Todd Glass had one of the most amazing episodes of WTF! w/Marc Maron by coming out as gay as well as making his podcast The Todd Glass Show one of the funnest experiences to listen to and also had one of our favorite moments of the year with handling a heckler by saying, “I believe in you. You’re better than this.”
Super cool (and manageably short) documentary about improv subculture and the UCB by Thrash Lab. Definitely worth 11 minutes of your life.
We’re giving away one THOUSAND dollars and we want you to have it! Sign up for our show, The Duel: An Improv Cagematch, click through the link to find all of the details or just email us at cagematch@voodoocomedy.com
Lately I’ve gotten a lot of questions about running rehearsals—practical questions rather than philosophical. And they’re important questions, because we can have all the theory we want in our heads, but if we don’t know how to put that theory into action in rehearsal, we’ll never be able to transform and refine our play.
A need to read for all Denver improvisers. A super helpful and very straight forward explanation of the rehearsal process. Click through to read the whole article.
We sponsored our first workshop this weekend with the UCB’s Nick Ross. Great turn out, great classes, great teacher! We’ll definitely be doing this again. Thanks team!
A GIANT thank you to everyone that came out to our NYC fundraiser show with Kuttanen last Sunday. Here’s a photo of the boys courtesy of @NicoleConlan
