Courtney Pauroso's critically-acclaimed hour of 'carnal clowning' returns.

"Hilarious and unsettling . . . flights of ridiculousness you can't believe you are seeing . . . outrageous and vulgar physicality with jarring notes of sentimentality." - NY Times

"You have to see this show. That's pretty much all you need to know." - The Scotsman

Co-devised by Corey Podell

Some of LA's best improvisational minds create and then solve a mystery before your very eyes!

Featuring: Siobhan Thompson, Alex Fernie, Dhruv Uday Singh, Vic Michaelis, Kimia Behpoornia, Grant O'Brien, John Milhiser, Jacquis Neal, Angela Giarratana, Cathryn Mudon, & Ele Woods

Horse Around is a stand-up comedy show hosted by Meaghan Strickland & Melissa Strype. This month features Chris Fleming! Saddle up and see you there!

Join For the Love of Men author and Boy Problems host Liz Plank for a very Canadian night of feelings, flirting, and emotional investigation. The evening includes an introduction from Liz, followed by a conversation with journalist and professional internet detective David Farrier, and ending with an opportunity for the audience to share their own boy problems for dissection in real time. Part comedy show, part group therapy, part collective cry for help—this is for anyone who's ever had a crush, an ex, a situationship, or a boy problem of any kind. Grab your tickets now and spend Canada Day exactly as our founding mothers intended: oversharing with strangers.

Now with special guest Marc Maron!

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

Sexy sports stars burn up the ice in this funny, filthy spoof of hockey's hottest romance. A full-scale production musical packed with songs, sex jokes, scandal and more pucking innuendos than should legally fit in one show. Lovingly parodying the show that had audiences swooning, blushing and caring about hockey for the first time. From Quick and Funny Musicals, the cult Upright Citizens Brigade LA creators known for turning pop culture obsessions into chaotic comedy musicals, this is an affectionate, outrageous musical send-up of passion, repression and the perfect foreplay to the rest of your night.

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

Monologist: Laura Silverman (The Comeback, Bob's Burgers), Cast: Tawny Newsome, Jacob Wysocki, Emily Pendergast, Jordan Myerick, Chris Grace, Alex Fernie, Payam Banifaz, Mary Holland

Chris Grace (Dropout, Superstore, The Residence) brings an all-new hour of stand-up comedy to the Elysian asking the most important questions: Can you get along with someone that you only mostly agree with? Can nuance survive in an age of extremes? Does using AI make someone evil or just wack? 88% is Chris's attempt to reconcile his heart and the real world in his unique style that the Boston Globe called 'an artful blend of the personal and the universal'.

THE KIDS MIGHT DIE (a tale told by an idiot) is an award-winning apocalyptic solo comedy. This “hilarious and poignant” solo show-within-a-show is framed within a doomed kid’s production of Macbeth. When an emergency broadcast announces the incoming end of the world, the young cast evacuates, leaving only their director behind. As Jill attempts to save the show, it devolves into an anxiety spiral on death and identity, featuring audience interaction, an epic guitar solo, and Heelys.

Hannah has melted down before. But never more mightily than the day all 5’11” of her was taken to the top of a mountain to try skiing for the first time, with zero experience, and newly lapsed medical insurance. A ridiculous fever dream of an hour that explores classism, currency, and what success really means. A critic recently described Hannah as part muppet, part Carol Burnett. And that’s correct.

An evening of comedy with Marc Maron

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“Which sitcom star dated a high school student during the 5th season of his eponymous television show?”

“Which clothing company sold child-sized thongs featuring printed phrases such as ‘eye candy’ and ‘wink wink’?”

“What is the scientific term for the consumption of peepee?”

Comedian Martin Urbano (Jimmy Kimmel Live, This Fool, Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Nominee) invites his showbusiness friends to sit in the Warm Seat™ and forces them to answer his dark, ridiculous, and often problematic trivia questions, all for a chance at winning very little money.

An evening of comedy with Marc Maron

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Lucas Tamaren of Thumpasaurus debuts his new project, Lucas? at the Elysian Theater. It will be epic.

With Thumpasaurus, Lucas Tamaren has sold out world tours and appeared on Late Night TV in multiple countries. Lucas also scores film/TV and will be providing original music for the upcoming Netflix special "Stamptown." After runs (successful by metrics of the heart) of his solo comedy/music show "Vengeance," in Edinburgh and the Hollywood Fringe, Lucas brings his strange but oddly effective comedic and musical sensibilities to the Elysian theater with his new solo project, Lucas?

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

In Dead Pilots Society, scripts that were developed by studios and networks but were never produced are given the table reads they deserve.

Presented by Andrew Reich (Friends; Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story) and Ben Blacker (Thrilling Adventure Hour; The Writers Panel).

Yeti or Not, here we come! 

Yeti is one of LA’s premier improv teams and is also a group of biological siblings. Each show features two unique halves, one of them based on stories from our audience. Get ready for an evening of unparalleled unique fun inspired by you! Are you YETI for a good time?

Featuring: 

Ally Beardsley, Devin Field, Victoria Longwell, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Talia Tabin, Lou Wilson, Jacob Wysocki

*lineup subject to change*

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Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

In 1995 San Francisco, a yuppie gay couple meet with a pregnant bohemian drifter to discuss an adoption. Things take a turn for the absurd when the young woman reveals a disturbing truth -- her baby will be the reincarnation of disgraced 37th president Richard Nixon. In the aftermath of her revelation, the foundation of the couple's relationship is destabilized over the course of one chaotic evening. Are you what you love? Or what loves you back?

A Garden Experiment will build a paradise just for you. A Garden Experiment will tell you to eat an apple. A Garden Experiment will tell you actually DON’T eat an apple or the show is over. A Garden Experiment has tripped on the caution tape on its way into the theater. A Garden Experiment will sing you a lullaby and then hurl you into the air (and try its best to catch you). A Garden Experiment can see two thousand feet away but not two feet in front of it. A Garden Experiment thinks it smells like nothing but it definitely smells like something. Everyone smells like something.

'Let’s Be Pop Stars' is an original play written by IRL roommates Skarlett Redd & Ann Valdés. It is a comedic story about two roommates in search of a new apartment, who find pop stardom instead. The women yearn to be seen as artists but, when given the opportunity, are pressured to compromise their values, their image, and ultimately their friendship.

Set in their hometown of Los Angeles, California, 'Let's Be Pop Stars' is written by two women who grew up with Hannah Montana, became adults watching Broad City, and are now going, "Why is everything gray?"

University of Udderville is a coming of age musical about two best friends, Devin and Wyatt. Their intimate friendship is put to the test as they attempt to find their place within Udderville, first as members of the football team, then as players in the theater club. They’d always seen their connection as an honest one, but that honesty begins to crack as they attempt to hold true to two incompatibilities: their authenticity and their masculinity.

We all remember our first rejection. But some people don’t just remember it, they are haunted by it. 

This play is based on the true story of a woman obsessed with the college improv team she could never get on and the rejection she could never let go of.

Best known for her hit bathroom graffiti musical The Writing on the Stall, Caitlin Cook returns with The Hero We (Sort Of) Need — a brand-new comedy hour jam-packed with new songs, hilarious stories, and projected visuals. Built around her childhood theory that everyone has a superpower, the show asks what happens when, in a world of eight billion people, your special gift turns out to be comically specific.

After years of game nights and contests, four real life siblings face off in the ultimate competition.

THE CHALLENGE: games they made up when they were children.

THE STAKES: their actual real life family inheritance.

Come watch these four corn-fed children from Indiana wager 16.66% of their future on one legendary family game night.

Stories from the many times Jen Richards has been high in a room with people who want to fuck her. Some good, some horrible, but all leading to insights, about trans bodies, who wants them and why, the sanctifying power of lesbian love, and even the ultimate meaning of the universe itself.

Inconceivable is a solo show about inviting new life into an unpredictable world. It's the (mostly) true story about a fertility journey between queer friends, falling in love during the fall of empire, and a soul observing from the ether to decide if earth's really worth it. The show grapples with contemplating motherhood while technofascists desecrate human rights and the planet, and staying embodied when you'd rather numb out.

Martha has always been told she is scary - but why? Each night, she is pulled back into a recurring dream where strange figures, shifting realities, and distorted versions of herself wait in the dark. As the dream spirals further into chaos, Martha becomes convinced that something inside of her must be removed...though she can’t quite name what it is. Martha’s Umbra is an experimental, comedy-horror clown funhouse that drifts through the uncanny corners of the subconscious. Think Twin Peaks meets The Wizard of Oz meets Beetlejuice.

Yes. You asked for it. Hot Monk Action. Stupid. Sexy. Sacred and profane. Failure and success. Good. A group of idiots have come together to make the greatest monk show you’ve ever seen.

Featuring:

Max Baumgarten (Opium)

Dee Marcucci (Absinthe)

John Norris (Mr Chonkers, Piggy Time)

Bill O'Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers)

Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000, Mr Chonkers) and John Norris

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Yes. You asked for it. Hot Monk Action. Stupid. Sexy. Sacred and profane. Failure and success. Good. A group of idiots have come together to make the greatest monk show you’ve ever seen.

Featuring:

Max Baumgarten (Opium)

Dee Marcucci (Absinthe)

John Norris (Mr Chonkers, Piggy Time)

Bill O'Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers)

Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000, Mr Chonkers) and John Norris

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Inspired by the massive popularity of American Girl Dolls, their tragic histories and diverse trauma, introducing: American Boy Dolls! From abandoned orphans to criminalized children in poverty, American Boys demonstrate this nation’s variant cultures and violent past through customizable dolls available at a premium price. On this day, four quintessential American Boys - a Christian missionary, aspiring astronaut, ghost from Puritan New England, and “Jake” - unite under one singular goal: to become American Men.

This is a work-in-progress clown show & the second new work generated by The Law Offices during their 2026 Elysian Residency!

Yes. You asked for it. Hot Monk Action. Stupid. Sexy. Sacred and profane. Failure and success. Good. A group of idiots have come together to make the greatest monk show you’ve ever seen.

Featuring:

Max Baumgarten (Opium)

Dee Marcucci (Absinthe)

John Norris (Mr Chonkers, Piggy Time)

Bill O'Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers)

Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000, Mr Chonkers) and John Norris

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Edy shares dark truths that she knows you have too...

A Silent Movie Live Onstage! A poor lonely man. An extravagant bastard high up in the hills. A beautiful star on the cusp. And a train.

Lost Angels #8 - Cool Cuts’ eighth installment of original one-act plays at The Elysian Theater July 24th and 29th at 7:30 PM.

Lineup TBA!

FUCK THIS MONTH is a monthly improv comedy show that aims to cure your misery by turning your shitty month into improv comedy. Toast this garbage month off by throwing up your middle finger and sharing what made it suck so royally. A cast of veteran comedians will take your stories of woe and spin them into comedy gold.

THIS PERFORMANCE OF THE TOMORROW SHOW IS AT 9:30 PM!!

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed!

In their groundbreaking new show, Brendan Scannell and Joel Kim Booster (two famous gay guys), along with some of the funniest friends (some famous, some gay and sometimes guys), do the impossible: perform 90 minutes of stand up comedy for you to enjoy. A show like this has never been done before and will likely never happen again, so you won’t want to miss it!

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Yes. You asked for it. Hot Monk Action. Stupid. Sexy. Sacred and profane. Failure and success. Good. A group of idiots have come together to make the greatest monk show you’ve ever seen.

Featuring:

Max Baumgarten (Opium)

Dee Marcucci (Absinthe)

John Norris (Mr Chonkers, Piggy Time)

Bill O'Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers)

Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000, Mr Chonkers) and John Norris

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"HOTTEST TICKET IN LA COMEDY" - KCRW
"THE FATHER OF MODERN CLOWN IN LA" - THE LAIST
Yes, Heated Rivalry fans -- this is THAT Chad Damiani!

Will these comics abandon their cheap tricks and bad habits -- and give the audience the dumbest and most epic performance of their lives? Or crumble under the ruthless pressure of the one-and-only Clown Boss?

Some of LA's best improvisational minds create and then solve a mystery before your very eyes!

Featuring: Siobhan Thompson, Alex Fernie, Dhruv Uday Singh, Vic Michaelis, Kimia Behpoornia, Grant O'Brien, John Milhiser, Jacquis Neal, Angela Giarratana, Cathryn Mudon, & Ele Woods

Yes. You asked for it. Hot Monk Action. Stupid. Sexy. Sacred and profane. Failure and success. Good. A group of idiots have come together to make the greatest monk show you’ve ever seen.

Featuring:

Max Baumgarten (Opium)

Dee Marcucci (Absinthe)

John Norris (Mr Chonkers, Piggy Time)

Bill O'Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers)

Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000, Mr Chonkers) and John Norris

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Lost Angels #8 - Cool Cuts’ eighth installment of original one-act plays at The Elysian Theater July 24th and 29th at 7:30 PM.

Lineup TBA!

Yes. You asked for it. Hot Monk Action. Stupid. Sexy. Sacred and profane. Failure and success. Good. A group of idiots have come together to make the greatest monk show you’ve ever seen.

Featuring:

Max Baumgarten (Opium)

Dee Marcucci (Absinthe)

John Norris (Mr Chonkers, Piggy Time)

Bill O'Neill (The Amazing Banana Brothers)

Claire Woolner (A Retrospection)

Co-created with Sam Fishman

Co-directed by Corey Podell (Vanessa 5000, Mr Chonkers) and John Norris

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FEATURING: Jackie Smook and Grace Bahler and puppets with special Musical guest Joey Nebulous

DELULOUS: a show about two Los Angeles Woman from Chicago set out on a journey to make Los Angeles residents laugh. This is a Comedy Duo Jackie Smook (Dilly’s World, American Idol, The Onion) and Grace Bahler (Reductress, Laugh Factory, Subway Takes) performing just about everything! From Sketch to live puppetry, improv to musical numbers, this show is just the right mix of the Chicago Improv scene and theatrical showmanship. You won’t want to miss the next big comedy duo in DELULOUS. 

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A night of one acts, new works, and in-development pieces from New York City's underground playwrights hits Los Angeles. Featuring work by Phil Carroll, Alex Ferris, Jessica Marie Fisher, Joie Mitchell, and Wonderful Cringe. Produced by Max Temkin and Grayce Toon.

ROBOT KARAOKE is a live comedy show with songs you know and new lyrics no one ever has sung. Our custom system, THE WEIRD ALGORITHM, rewrites karaoke classics syllable-for-syllable using fragments of the internet.

We might sing OKCUPID PROFILES to the tune of "I WILL SURVIVE", NEGATIVE REVIEWS OF CANDY LAND to the tune of "SAY IT AIN'T SO", or any combination of song and text in the catalog.

At the main stage show (7:30pm), special guests from the music, entertainment and advanced karaoke research industries will bravely test the limits of the human mind's capacity for chaos.

At the late show (9pm), we'll migrate next door to the Skunk Room and open the stage to audience requests until closing time.

Come ready to sing. Leave ready to transcend the physical plane as a being of pure karaoke information.

Ever heard of Saturday Night Live? Ever wished they’d dump those frumpy old hosts for four fabulous pornstars? Wish no further. Cause it’s fucking happening. CHERIE DEVILLE, SHAWN ALFF, LITTLE PUCK, and YHIVI are four stunning pornstars who have never done sketch comedy before. Performing alongside them, MATT BARRETT MILLER, HANNAH BERKOWITZ, and CLARE JACKSON are three ugly comedy writers who have written this sketch show to prove to the world once and for all that… PORNSTARS ARE FUNNY!

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

Yeti or Not, here we come! 

Yeti is one of LA’s premier improv teams and is also a group of biological siblings. Each show features two unique halves, one of them based on stories from our audience. Get ready for an evening of unparalleled unique fun inspired by you! Are you YETI for a good time?

Featuring: 

Ally Beardsley, Devin Field, Victoria Longwell, Vic Michaelis, Zac Oyama, Talia Tabin, Lou Wilson, Jacob Wysocki

*lineup subject to change*

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Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Welcome BACK to the 6th installment of….

KAP’S FUNNIEST FRIENDS, a variety show featuring the bestest, weirdest, sweetest, queerest, comedy, and performance hosted by your buddy Kap Taylor. It's like a house party, but with comedy, puppets, performance art, plays, music, essays and yes -- BEER! 

FUCK THIS MONTH is a monthly improv comedy show that aims to cure your misery by turning your shitty month into improv comedy. Toast this garbage month off by throwing up your middle finger and sharing what made it suck so royally. A cast of veteran comedians will take your stories of woe and spin them into comedy gold.

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

A mostly music show meant to foster a deep sense of joy and belonging. Benjamin Jaffe will perform new and old musics and feature new and old performers attempting to add one more pretty little square to the collective quilt of our shared culture.

Filmmakers showcase the first (and worst) films they ever made. We share a big cathartic laugh as we come to terms with the past and cringe our way through the night. BSFF is equal parts film festival, comedy show and group therapy. After two blocks of short films, all are welcome to join a laid-back afterparty with ridiculous awards and casual networking.

Block 1: 6:30 PM

Block 2: 8:30 PM

This event is restricted to ages 18+

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

LA's finest long-form improvisers dive into a high-octane homage to everyone's favorite improv TV show. Come witness our very own 'Drew Carey' and see if the points really DO matter!

More info TBA!

The only improv show where you are the star! Join Master Hypnotist Artoun Nazareth and his Lovely Assistant Austin Williams as the audience is welcomed onto the stage to be hypnotized and do improv with some of the biggest names in comedy today.

More info TBA!

THIS PERFORMANCE OF THE TOMORROW SHOW IS AT 9:30 PM!!

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed!

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

Bluebird is a collective of comedians performing a completely improvised experience. Bluebird uses a short series of audience conversations to inspire the spontaneous, unhinged and beautifully hilarious comedy mayhem.

ROBOT KARAOKE is a live comedy show with songs you know and new lyrics no one ever has sung. Our custom system, THE WEIRD ALGORITHM, rewrites karaoke classics syllable-for-syllable using fragments of the internet.

We might sing OKCUPID PROFILES to the tune of "I WILL SURVIVE", NEGATIVE REVIEWS OF CANDY LAND to the tune of "SAY IT AIN'T SO", or any combination of song and text in the catalog.

At the main stage show (7:30pm), special guests from the music, entertainment and advanced karaoke research industries will bravely test the limits of the human mind's capacity for chaos.

At the late show (9pm), we'll migrate next door to the Skunk Room and open the stage to audience requests until closing time.

Come ready to sing. Leave ready to transcend the physical plane as a being of pure karaoke information.

An experimental comedy show portraying the grotesque nature of female puberty told through the structure of a play. A series of sketches, musical numbers, and a singular standup performance depicting the chilling path to womanhood. Woven together by nods to classic literature, philosophy, the Gen Z zeitgeist, and personal testimonies.

More info TBA!

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

Come see some of your favorite performers in a brand new show with a classic format. THE FAMOUS PEOPLE IMPROV SHOW is a fully improvised show that features a guest monologist who tells a few short, true, off-the-cuff stories from their life. The cast of improvisers (which includes many of LA's finest improvisors, SNL, Comedy Bang Bang, Dropout, Ghosts, Righteous Gemstones, Veep folks, etc) then perform scenes inspired by their stories.

If you can’t make it out in-person to The Elysian Theater, you can also stream the show and watch it as a VOD for the low, low price of $6!

More info TBA!

"HOTTEST TICKET IN LA COMEDY" - KCRW
"THE FATHER OF MODERN CLOWN IN LA" - THE LAIST
Yes, Heated Rivalry fans -- this is THAT Chad Damiani!

Will these comics abandon their cheap tricks and bad habits -- and give the audience the dumbest and most epic performance of their lives? Or crumble under the ruthless pressure of the one-and-only Clown Boss?

Self proclaimed mogul and Hollywood insider Jesse Miller (Andre Hyland) guzzles energy drinks while hosting a late night style talk show. The JM show is mix of stand-up, and competitions, all revolving around guest interviews with comics, actors, filmmakers, artists, musicians and more. Where Jesse's well researched and ridiculous interview questions go deep into his guests lives and careers.

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed! Every Saturday @ Midnight.

Back by popular demand! Song Lab and The Elysian present Time’s Arrow 2!

Our show blends live music, set design, interactive projection mapping, real-time camera loops, and physical clowning.  Part rock concert and part surrealist art installation, Time’s Arrow invites audiences to step through the doors of "Flo’s Beach Hotel" and follow a band of BMX kids in an ambitious, mind-bending examination of human identity set in the ruins of beachy childhood memories.

THIS PERFORMANCE OF THE TOMORROW SHOW IS AT 9:30 PM!!

In its 20th year of lauded late night lunacy! Hosted by Ron Lynch (Bob's Burgers, Corporate, Portlandia) and featuring a rotating roster of top comedians, specialty acts, musicians and performance artists -- It is not to be missed!

Michelle Collins - WAIT, WHY DON'T I KNOW YOU?

Michelle Collins - WAIT, WHY DON'T I KNOW YOU?

Professional actor/comedian CONNOR RATLIFF (Dead Eyes) performs a fully-improvised one-person show that pretends to be a real acting class.

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Live-directed by Cirque Du Soleil front man John Gilkey (“Brilliant” - LA Times), the modern clown ensemble, Cruel Babes, invites the audience into a fever dream of physical comedy and extended absurdist composition for a new and once-in-a-lifetime ride each month. Featuring 12 top performers (comedians, actors and musicians), it is a direct descendent of the underground hit, Wet The Hippo – the show that kicked off LA’s modern clown scene back in 2012.

“Somewhere at the intersection of the sacred and the profane, of poetry and dire scatology, of clown and Dada, of community and exile, of fourth walls and no walls at all, lies Cruel Babes. Cruel Babes welcomes you to their family playroom for laughs, tears, and live-directed anti-theatrical chaos that is at its very least…absolutely not like anything else.” — Keith Fulton, Filmmaker (Lost In La Mancha)

Holmes is going to all the states she used to call home and doing some new standup :)

Holmes is going to all the states she used to call home and doing some new standup :)

Turning your bad date stories into musicals since 2017!

Comedian and mushy-hearted Jew, David Magidoff (Dexter: New Blood, The Morning Show) interviews one real person from the audience & one real famous celebrity guest to share one good / bad / psychotic / existential love story, and then David and his friends turn it into a full blown improvised musical!

Worlds Most Best!

Back by popular demand, it’s The Baby! Spring forward into suspense with the finest mystery program of Radio’s Golden Age, brought to life onstage with an Emmy-award winning Foley artist. Tyler Walker and Lilliana Winkworth present two butt-spanking new Baby adventures featuring the intrepid detective Gaston Novis (a baby with the faculties and deductive capabilities of a grown man) and his former Fiancée turned Nanny. Bring an extra set of diapers, cause these tales are sure to thrill, chill, and keep your bottle filled!

The Doubleclicks (Laser Webber and his sister Aubrey Turner) wrote silly songs about dinosaurs, Dungeons and Dragons, and Mr. Darcy. Silly. Light. Novelty! Their sibling harmonies and YouTube consistency led to a 10-year career of rocking Portland's smallest rooms from 2009-2019. Then... some things happened. Laser and Aubrey are back together this November with the same songs—which, in retrospect, tell in detail Laser's story of being a closeted trans, undiagnosed autistic, emotionally awesome guy, using pop culture and ukulele songwriting to cope with a challenging world. We can't wait to see you again, or for the first time! It'll be the same songs... with a few key changes.