Big Ol’ Bag of Candy: February 22-28

BY POP-ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN

Here’s what going down the week of February 22-28

Chris Hardwick will be at the San Francisco Punch Line from February 24-27. Get tickets here
Also, be sure and check out Chris’s new podcast The Nerdist on iTunes.
Chris Hardwick on Twitter

Check out Hannibal Buress’ weekly show every Sunday at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.

Winter Warm Up with Eugene Mirman
WINTER WARM-UP
To kick-off the 2010 Friends of Celebrate Brooklyn membership campaign, Brooklyn resident, Eugene Mirman, will be hosting an evening of comedy and music with fellow comedians Kristen Schaal, Michael Showalter, Marc Maron, and Kumail Nanjiani. Become a Friend of Celebrate Brooklyn! at the show and enter a chance to win some great prizes! For more info visit www.bricartsmedia.org/celebrate.
Saturday, February 27

From Greg Berhendt:
Greg Behrendt’s Litttle Room Disaster at Largo On Tuesday Feb 23rd On Tuesday FEB 23rd comes a show even more disasteous than the last one! It features Al Madrigal, Chris Fairbanks, Andrew Donnelly and music by Paul Doucette! And no I’m not “Shitting you.” All of these people have agreed to participate in what is becoming Los Angeles’ most upsetting night of underutilized talent and dreams gone awry! EXPECT MORE THAN STANDUP! It’s an evening that includes sketch, music, pictures from magazines, pathos and ennui all of it hosted by ME (Greg Behrendt)! So if you have your act together come down and judge the crap out of us! So go here 366 N La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90048 For reservations (310) 855-0350

Laugh Night: A Benefit for Art Share Los Angeles, a night of standup comedy in downtown LA. Feb 25t Five headlining comics will be taping standup sets for The Sound of Young America, and all ticket proceeds benefit ArtShare LA, which provides free arts instruction to Los Angeles students. Art Share was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times at Art Share’s historic warehouse theater in downtown Los Angeles.
Comics performing include: Greg Behrendt Donald Glover Karen Kilgariff James Admonian Holly Mills Nick Adams

Witstream.com Show
Thursday, February 25
Hosted by Michael Ian Black
Line Up:
Doug Benson
Josh Fadem
Rob Delaney
Chelsea Peretti
Steve Agee
Get tickets here

Maria Bamford comes to the Dirrty
Maria Bamford at the Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta
February 25—28
Get tickets here

WTF Podcast
Join Marc Maron and this week’s guests:
Monday - Comic Kumail Nanjiani talks about growing up in Pakistan.
Thursday- Live WTF from UCB LA w/ Laurie Killmartin, Jackie Kashian, Eddie Pepitone and Jim Earl

WTF Home Page

Rebecca Corry will opening for the acclaimed Puppetry of The Penis at the Coast Playhouse in LA Thursday, February 25 at 8:00 and Sunday, February 2 7:00 and 9:30.
Get tickets here

Chris Hardwick’s 6th Sketchfest and OMG Terry Jones

1. Have you played Sketchfest before?
This is my sixth year!

2. What was your experience/ are you excited to play for the first time?
Unreal. I got to do a show with Bruce McCulloch, whom I became pals with afterward. As a huge KITH fan, this was quite a big deal to my feeble nerd brain. Also, the SF audiences are PHENOMENAL. Smart, warm…and laughers. I enjoy that in an audience.

3. Who are some of the comics you are most looking forward to seeing?
I don’t think there’s one show I don’t want to see. I’m freaking out a bit over Dick Cavett & Terry Jones, though.

Find Chris at Nerdist.com!

SF Sketfest

Andy Kindler: “I Wish I Was Bitter” w/audio clip from SF Sketchfest

BY AMANDA BRUMFIELD
Pop- Rock Candy Mountain

Photo by Susan Maljan

Andy Kindler is by far one of Pop-Rock Candy Mountain’s and my personal favorite comedians. He has this sarcastic, self-deprecating style that makes him truly endearing. He will alternately nail any comic he doesn’t like to the wall faster that you can say hudspah.

Andy can be seen regularly as a correspondent on The Late Show With David Letterman and in the next few weeks will be releasing a new DVD entitled, “I Wish I Was Bitter”. He will also be appearing at SXSW 2009- the details of which we will reveal at a later date.

I recently spoke with Andy about his appearance at SF Sketchfest and his upcoming DVD release.
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Comedy Death-Ray- Live From SF Sketchfest: Chris Hardwick

BY CHANTEL WILLIAMS
Pop - Rock Candy Mountain

Chris Hardwick is a stand-up comedian and is also one half of the musical comedy duo Hard ‘N Phirm- who recently finished the soundtrack for the new Rob Zombie animated comedy, El Superbeasto. He was host of PBS’s series “Wired Science”, he writes for Wired magazine, he is a regular on G4’s “Attack of the Show”, he is the voice of Otis on Nickelodeon’s “Back at the Barnyard”, and now he has started one of our new favorite websites, The Nerdist, where he writes about various tech related funnies, wacky stories he finds on the internet and conducts hardcore tech related product reviews. (from which no one, even the mighty iGiant, is safe.)
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What’s Up Your Kilt, Mr. Lennon?

On Tuesday, January 13th at 8:30pm, Thomas Lennon will be performing at Largo at the Coronet in LA.

Guest performers are Robert Ben Garant, Chris Hardwick, Convoy, Nick Kroll, Jordan Rubin and Rob Huebel.

For tickets and more information go to Largo- LA.com or call 310- 855- 0350.

How Do We Love Him…

How could you NOT? Chris Hardwick has done a lot of things that we appreciate but the following is at the top of our list.

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