The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to KATIE CROWN.

Not to be presumptuous, but it’s almost near impossible to not laugh, smile, and end up adoring Katie Crown if you catch her performing.  Instantly likeable from her first laugh at herself when she takes the stage, Crown is an original and endearing type of hilarious that’s so rare and refreshing to see, especially amongst a predominating trend of comedy that’s dark, personal, and/or visceral.

Katie owns up to her “prankster” label, though she makes sure her performances are absolutely all in good spirits.  She doesn’t go out into the audience, pick on people in the front row, but does take everyone on a wonderfully absurd ride through her observations of a world that she’s made up.  Her bits touch upon such things like Scooby Doo in OB/GYN check ups and imagining that people are singing in conversation like a real life musical.  Yes, there is plenty of goofy singing in Katie’s act, but it’s all mixed together in such a way that’s hysterical with no regard to age.

Having earned some comedy stripes from appearing at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and opening for the likes of Zach Galifianakis, Paul F. Tompkins, and Neil Hamburger, Crown has made her way to Los Angeles, delighting people one room at a time.  I caught her at the always superb Josh & Josh Show wandering through her delightfully bizarre material.  Throughout her set, as mentioned before, Katie has such an immediate affinity with the crowd that she could be silly as she wanted and the crowd literally loved it.  

I remember one guy (and though everything written her might suggest otherwise, it’s not me) wandering around after the show looking for Crown so he could say that he had fell in love with her.

If you’ve never seen Katie Crown before on account of her only recently transplanting to Los Angeles from Canada, please check her calendar frequently at KatieCrown.com.  In fact, you can start to tomorrow night at Powerviolence at the Complex in Hollywood 8:30PM for completely free.

Comedienne JC Coccoli.  Thanks to her suggestion on a late Monday night, the Comedy Bureau exists.

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Comedienne Morgan Murphy killing time in the most postmodern way imaginable.

shannonhatch:

In this episode of The Worst, @thedanistew, @nickrutherford, and I discuss why an overpriced Beefy Crunchy Burrito lead to a SWAT standoff in Texas and the woman who stored a pharmacy’s worth of drugs and money in her snatch.

Comedienne Shannon Hatch.  And Cheez-Its.

Sure there’s talk of LARP-ing rules on Jeremy’s Dragon Table, but there’s also comedians Brendon Walsh and Susan Burke as a doctor and goth girl respectively.  If only this was real…

comedytimetv:

Jan Davidson sounds a bit frazzled by her kids and should probably take a vacation.

The Comedy Bureau “Tips Its Hat” this week to MEGAN AMRAM:

”@meganamram I’m giving up spell check for Lant.”

As far as escalating the art of being funny on the still new canvas of Twitter, there are few people that have mastered it quite like Megan Amram.  

I’ve heard many people, especially avid Twitter users express hesitation at following comedians on Twitter as they only want to read gold instead of what’s about to be possibly tried out at an open mic.  With Amram, there is no such worry as she has refined her wit to where most everything she tweets “from the hip” usually gets a solid 3 minutes of me busting up in laughter while slapping my knees profusely.  

Being featured quite often in “who to follow” lists of who’s the funniest on Twitter, Amram is of a rare breed that has actually found a comedic voice through the microblogging site, often times well under 140 characters, which is a feat that some of the most established and revered comedians have not even developed yet.  Perfectly absurd in her precise choice of words, references, and execution of the comedic twist within a joke, it’s no wonder that she has over 25,000 deserved followers without a network sitcom and a deranged personality to back her.

Megan also writes and contributes for other online publications in much longer form, which is equally as farcical and hysterical, as she’ll make a hilarious list of various topics including recently discovered unpublished Shakespeare plays, her own personal “bucket list” (included on that list: die), and stains.

Basically, you should follow anything she does online via Twitter, Tumblr, or anything else, which will most likely find its way somehow to the Comedy Bureau.  If you’re wondering what this elusive tweeter/blogger is like live, you can check her out on Dave Holmes and Rob Delaney’s UCB LA show “Mapping the Heavens” Thursday Mar. 17th 9:30PM $5.

jackiekashian:

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Comedienne April Richardson.