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ArcadiaAstronaut City Comedy ClubAn independent comedy club and 21-plus bar in Arcadia that pours beer, wine and soju, and books stand-up and open mics for the San Gabriel Valley.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · New Joke CitySunset StripBadger ComedyA black box on Sunset between the Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory, with tickets from about eight dollars and no drink minimum.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 8:00 PM · The SpillLong BeachBear City Comedy ShowA free Wednesday stand-up showcase at Que Sera, a dive bar on Long Beach's 7th Street, with doors at seven and no drink minimum.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:30 PM · Bear City: Stand-Up Comedy in Long BeachMelroseBest Comedy Club Near Me TheaterA 45-seat black box on Melrose that comedians built themselves, from the chairs to the sound, and now run as a stand-up venue.Next: Fri Oct 23 · 8:00 PM · Laughsmaxxing ComedyBurbankComedySportzAn interactive, all-ages improv show that has run continuously for decades and currently plays as a visiting production at LA Connection Theatre in Burbank.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · ComedySportz, LA's Favorite Returns!BurbankFlappers Comedy Club & RestaurantA Burbank club with a 200-seat main stage, a fifty-seat second stage called the Yoo Hoo Room, and smaller stages out by the bar and patio.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Celebrity Drop-In ThursdayNorth HollywoodHAHA Comedy ClubOpen since 1988 in a converted Mexican restaurant on Lankershim, built on giving stage time to comics other clubs passed over because of their ethnic background.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 7:00 PM · Ali Sher & Friends Comedy NightDowntown Long BeachHarvelle's Long BeachHarvelle's Long Beach puts live bands and burlesque on the same calendar, with comedy cabaret adding another use for its downtown stage.Next: Thu Oct 22 · 9:00 PM · UNDRGRND ComedyMelroseHollywood ImprovOpen on Melrose since 1975, and a young Jay Leno helped paint the ceiling. Weekend runs are billed by name, with food and cocktails served through the show.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Tonight at the Improv ft. Jay Leno, Brian Monarch and Very Special GuestsMelroseHollywood Improv LabThe smaller stage inside the Hollywood Improv on Melrose, where the bookings are independent shows rather than the main club's headliner runs.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Cult Comedy ft. Laurie Douglas, Sam Grody, Jesus Sepulveda, Tahir Moore, Vanessa Graddick, Faysal LawrenceCanyon CountryJ.R.'s Comedy ClubA Santa Clarita comedy club that sets up inside a restaurant on Friday and Saturday nights, mixing comics on the way up with names people recognize.Next: Sat Oct 24 · 8:00 PM · Fritz ColemanPalmsJam in the VanA solar-powered mobile recording studio and video channel that started as a backyard project in 2011 and has since filmed more than a thousand bands.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · JAM Comedy Presents: Nick Rochefort & Alex SchultzWest HollywoodJetpack Comedy ShowA producer-led stand-up series at Bar Lubitsch, bringing rotating Los Angeles comics into a West Hollywood bar rather than operating its own club.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:30 PM · Jetpack Comedy Show: Big Comics, Small VenueBeverly GroveLargo at the CoronetA La Cienega theater booking music and comedy that admits nobody late: the doors close at the start time, and phones do not come inside at all.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 6:00 PM · Benmont Tench with Taylor Goldsmith, Jenny 0, Sebastian Steinberg, and Jonathan WilsonHollywoodLaugh FactoryA Sunset Boulevard club that names its headliners and still leaves space for comics to drop in unannounced, with an online video library running alongside the live bills.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Hollywood All-StarsSilver LakeLyric Hyperion Theater & CafeAn 85-seat Silver Lake stage running comedy seven days a week, with improv, stand-up, sketch, drag and music sharing the same small theater.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · TUSHIE and FriendsDTLA: BroadwayOrpheum TheatreA 1926 Broadway theater that occasionally hosts large comedy dates between concerts, special events and touring stage productions.Next: Tue Oct 13 · 8:00 PM · The WallflowersNorth HollywoodPlayhouse West ComedyThe Magnolia Boulevard stage of a North Hollywood acting school, where students put up their own plays and original bills, some of them at two in the afternoon.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · The SubmissionHermosa BeachThe Comedy & Magic ClubA Hermosa Beach stand-up club known for polished headliner bills and a traditional table-service comedy format near the South Bay waterfront.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Ian BaggNorth HollywoodThe Comedy ChateauA North Hollywood comedy club on the Toluca Lake line that serves dinner straight through the show and asks hecklers to leave.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Friday Night LiveWest HollywoodThe Comedy StoreFounded on Sunset by Sammy Shore, Rudy DeLuca and Mitzi Shore in April 1972, with phones locked in pouches at the door and a two-item minimum per person.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Fahim Works On Stuff and His Friends Drop BySanta MonicaThe CrowA Santa Monica comedy theater at Bergamot Station with two stages, classes and programming that ranges from adult stand-up to family and baby-friendly shows.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 8:00 PM · Gay Interrupted: Comedy ShowFrogtownThe Elysian TheaterAn independent nonprofit comedy theater in Elysian Valley that says outright it cares more about an artist's process than about a finished show.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · The Crème BrûléeMar VistaThe FanaticSalon Theater | Culver City Comedy ClubA fifty-seat theater on Sawtelle just south of Venice Boulevard, running improv, stand-up and one-person shows, with a large outdoor patio attached.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Thursday Open Mic with Maria BruggereGlendaleThe Glendale RoomGlendale's first venue built specifically for live comedy, with a stage backed by bookshelves that doubles as a podcast and livestream studio.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Speed Trap ComedyMelroseThe Groundlings Theatre & SchoolFounded by Gary Austin in 1974 on Melrose, where the forty company members write and perform the shows and also teach the classes.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Cookin' With GASHollywoodThe Hollywood ComedyA Melrose Avenue stand-up venue focused on frequent showcase bills and working comics rather than theater-scale touring productions.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:30 PM · Saturday Night Standup Comedy Performance at The Hollywood ComedyPasadenaThe Ice HouseA Pasadena stand-up institution with separate stages and a long calendar of headliners, showcases and developing comics.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:30 PM · Dustin AndersonLos FelizThe Pack TheaterA Los Feliz comedy theater running improv, sketch and stand-up six nights a week, with a class list that reaches as far as clowning and voiceover.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 9:00 PM · Bruce & Cal & FriendsDTLA: Historic CoreThe Regent TheaterA restored 1914 Downtown theater where comedy joins concerts, dance nights, films and festivals on the same sloped-floor stage.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 9:00 PM · Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: "My Life in Movement"West HollywoodThe Roxy TheatreNeil Young opened the Roxy in 1973 and returned for its fiftieth anniversary. The Sunset Strip club still holds only about 500 people.Next: Sat Oct 31 · 8:00 PM · Sexy Black Genius - a nerd comedy show starring Tiffany NorwoodSoutheastThe Stand Up Comedy ClubA Bellflower stand-up club serving Southeast Los Angeles County with rotating comics and conventional club-format bills.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Felipe Esparza Presents: Live Taping of Saul Trujillo with special guests Martin Rizo and Felipe Esparza (Show 1)East HollywoodThe Stray TheaterA fifty-seat black box on Melrose in East Hollywood, standing where the Yard Theater, Fake Gallery and the hardcore space Macondo were before it.Next: Wed Oct 14 · 7:00 PM · Slamber's Comedy BashDTLA: Fashion DistrictThe Upstairs Comedy Club Los AngelesA downtown comedy club running one show most days, named for whoever is headlining it, with Spanish-language bills in the mix.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Mark Hayes & FriendsHollywoodUCB AnnexA UCB training and performance address associated with the company's Los Angeles improv ecosystem rather than a separate independent comedy club.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Lloyd Night ft. Freak Trap & PTOHollywoodUpright Citizens Brigade TheatreUCB's Los Angeles theater and training center, built around improv, sketch and experimental comedy rather than conventional stand-up bills.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:00 PM · Mock the TrialHollywoodWE ImprovAn improv school and theater in Hollywood that caps classes at nine students and gives its resident teams standing slots on the weekly shows.Next: Fri Oct 9 · 7:00 PM · WE Improv Friday Night (2nd)Santa MonicaWestside Comedy TheaterA Santa Monica comedy club whose entrance is in the alley between Third and Fourth, with cabaret tables instead of rows and shows seven nights a week.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 8:00 PM · Westside Witches Presents: "The Funniest People We Know...This Month"Los FelizWGIS - World's Greatest Improv SchoolA long-form improv school in Los Feliz with close to three hundred shows on the books, billed by house team rather than by comic.Next: Thu Oct 8 · 7:30 PM · Life is a HaroldHollywoodYeah Mon Comedy LoungeJeff Hodge's Melrose comedy showcase, a Saturday bill that stacks a number of comics rather than building around one, with unannounced celebrity pop-ins.Next: Sat Oct 10 · 8:00 PM · Jeff Hodge & Friends Comedy Explosion - Los AngelesEast HollywoodZebra Room ComedyA small Hollywood-area stand-up venue centered on mixed bills, open mics and developing comics rather than large touring acts.Next: Fri Oct 16 · 8:00 PM · LongWolf ImprovFrogtownZebulonZebulon separates a Frogtown cafe and patio from a concert stage, leaving space to talk before stepping into the music.Next: Fri Jan 8 · 7:00 PM · 100 Flowers, Shark Toys, The Comedians