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Comedy Meltdown with Paul F. Tompkins

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Date/Time:Fri., December 11, 8:00pm

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Price: $8

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Warm Up To Meltdown

By Nicole Campos

For the better part of two years now, Comedy Meltdown has offered one of the most consistently fantastic laugh lineups in town, overtaking the gallery space in the rear of the mighty Meltdown Comics on Sunset once a month with a reliably killer slate of standups, which has featured Dana Gould, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Aziz Ansari, Maria Bamford and a ton more. It’s with a sad typeface, then, that we have to impart the news that this month’s Comedy Meltdown Grand Finale is likely to be the last for a while: Booker extraordinaire Linda Pine is putting the show on hiatus, and though you shouldn’t count ComMelt out yet, you should definitely be there on Friday to send it off with a bang. Paul F. Tompkins headlines, which is reason enough to get your yucks in, as well as the free frosty beer included with the cover charge. Plus, you can get your Christmas shopping done for the beloved comic-book geeks in your life at the same time.

Comedy Meltdown with Paul F. Tompkins – Meltdown Comics – Los Angeles – Events.

COMEDY MELTDOWN 23

THE END?

Featuring: Paul F. Tompkins – Howard Kremer

Andrew Donnelley – Heather Thomson – Ron Lynch

Hosted by Jonah Ray

Friday, December 11, 2009 8:00 p.m.

7522 Sunset Blvd, L.A., CA 90046

$8.00 cover charge, sponsored by Asahi beer

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By Libby Molyneaux

Comedy Meltdown This Friday!

Comedy Meltdown 19

Date: Friday, June 26th

Time: 8:00 p.m.

Place: The swanktastic Meltdown Gallery at the rear of the store which is located here:

7522 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90046-3408, US

http://meltcomics.com/

Whom: MARIA BAMFORD

ANDREW DONNELLY

MATT PETERS

LARRY VAZEOS

JARROD HARRIS

Hosted by: BORIS HAMILTON

Sponsored by: ASAHI and Tibetan Tea

L.A. Weekly’s BEST OF L.A.!

www.comedymeltdown.com

In addition to this stellar line-up we offer an OPEN BAR with your $8 cover charge!
Proceeds from the cover charge are donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Please drink responsibly or designate a driver.

Something to be aware of: parking in this neighborhood is dodgy, so please plan accordingly.

Show ends promptly at 10:00 p.m.

Date: Friday, June 26th

Time: 8:00 p.m.

Place: The swanktastic Meltdown Gallery at the rear of the store which is located here:

Directions: 7522 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90046-3408, US

Whom: MARIA BAMFORD

ANDREW DONNELLY

MATT PETERS

LARRY VAZEOS

JARROD HARRIS

Hosted by: BORIS HAMILTON

Sponsored by: ASAHI

L.A. Weekly’s BEST OF L.A.!

In addition to this stellar line-up we offer an OPEN BAR with your $8 cover charge!

Proceeds from the cover charge are donated to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Please drink responsibly or designate a driver

Something to be aware of: parking in this neighborhood is dodgy, so please plan accordingly

Show ends promptly at 10:00 p.m.

MARIA BAMFORD, JONAH RAY, HOWARD KREMER, RAJ DESAI, VANCE SANDERS, TONY SAM, & ED SALAZAR!

Photos by TOM BECKER

Poster by CHRIS STANGL

The monthly poster for Comedy Meltdown is deliciously absurd, parading two worlds clashing; the sexy and clever world of stand-up comedy and the demure geeky world of comic books.  These two worlds are delightfully in-sync on the fourth Friday of every month when Meltdown Comics, Hollywood’s beating heart of everything comics, pumps eclectic stand-up comedy into the veins of those who like comedy, love comics, and enjoy a beer or two!

Founded eleven months ago by Linda Pine, a 13-year patron of Meltdown, the monthly comedy night was created with the spirit of community in mind; “The plan is basically get the audience drunk and happy!”  She told me after ensuring I had an ice-cold Asahi in hand.

When asked how she obtains big names like Maria Bamford and Dana Gould to perform lengthy sets at a free event, she smiles and replies “I ask nicely!”

Comic art lines the walls of the vaulted-ceiling gallery that holds 100 people.  Though the lineup is different each month just like the poster, this month’s comics talked politics, wheelchairs and misogyny.  Well, the anti-woman banter came creatively from Stephanie Escajeda, dressed in drag, who even had me fooled (I was in the fifth row!) and walked the line of downright offensive but took a sharp left at irony.  The night was hosted by Fred Belford, who has been making Comedy Meltdowners laugh since the beginning.  It has only been a year since the Comedy Meltdown’s conception but it already made the LA Weekly’s famous “Best Of” list, nabbing the “best free comedy, beer included.”

The show’s highlights included Ron Lynch with his distinct theatrical comedy-a symphony of classical music, car horns and vacuums aligning with his simple gestures like dropping a baby and his perfectly droll facial expressions, and the always wonderful Dana Gould.  Mr. Gould was on and spoke to the crowd in his usual informal and hilarious way.  Opening with “What’s with Sarah Palin running?  I thought there wasn’t going to be a Bush on the ticket.”

He had me at bush.  Gould delivered a healthy set to a warmed-up gleeful crowd very receptive to current events and the night ended with monstrous applause for Linda and Meltdown Comics for bringing people out of the usual “Where should we blow our money tonight?” and into pure laughs where everyone is friendly and the Asahi flows like kryptonite.

I would recommend this monthly event to literally anyone who needs some spirited entertainment-ranging from a first date, to a post-wake party!”

Visit www.MeltComics.com for more info.

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