1. 17 Jan


    BeerSharkMice is BACK!
    Saturday 1/19 & 1/26
    9PM on the iO West Main Stage!

    “This veteran team works so well together it is as if a master playwright wrote a script they spent months perfecting it in rehearsal. They were like a great volleyball team. Somebody would volley, another would volley, always keeping the ball alive, and then somebody would spike it. The most jaded, critical audience wouldn’t stand a chance against this well-oiled comedy machine. I’ve sat in many, various theaters and clubs and watched many, various comedy acts, but the electricity coursing through the air that night is unparalleled. Beer. Shark. Mice. rose to the occasion. They were funny. They were smart. They were perfect.” —The Huffington Post on BeerSharkMice during iO West’s 10th Annual LA improv festival.

    Starring: Paul Vaillancourt, Pete Hulne, Dave Koechner, Pat Finn, Mike Coleman, Neil Flynn

     

  2. 29 Oct


    Winner of LA Weekly’s “Best Unscripted Stand-Up Show 2012.” From the minds of Paul Provenza and Troy Conrad – SET LIST is back from sold-out shows at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Sydney Comedy Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and The Chicago and Montreal Just For Laughs Festivals, and SXSW. Top comics are given a never-before-seen “set list” of strange, challenging, and outrageous topics, and perform seamlessly as if its the act they normally do, while the audience follows their list on the projection screen. Complete comedy in the moment. The 14-episode Set List TV series airs on Sky Atlantic in the UK starting this November. Go to setlistshow.com or follow @SETLISTSHOW on Twitter for updates! Lineup: Rob Delaney, Eddie Ifft, Jackie Kashian, Rick Overton, Jon Dore Hosted by Troy Conrad

    Winner of LA Weekly’s “Best Unscripted Stand-Up Show 2012.” From the minds of Paul Provenza and Troy Conrad – SET LIST is back from sold-out shows at The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Sydney Comedy Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and The Chicago and Montreal Just For Laughs Festivals, and SXSW. Top comics are given a never-before-seen “set list” of strange, challenging, and outrageous topics, and perform seamlessly as if its the act they normally do, while the audience follows their list on the projection screen. Complete comedy in the moment. The 14-episode Set List TV series airs on Sky Atlantic in the UK starting this November. Go to setlistshow.com or follow @SETLISTSHOW on Twitter for updates!

    Lineup: Rob Delaney, Eddie Ifft, Jackie Kashian, Rick Overton, Jon Dore

    Hosted by Troy Conrad

     

  3. 13 Aug


    It’s Comedy Tapioooooca, not Tapioca! But hufflepuff on pronunciations; whatever you want to call it, it’s TONIGHT! And the line-up, is looking FINE!!!

    Presenting! At 8:30pm on the iO West Theater Main Stage COMEDY TAPIOCA:

    Jeff Dye (Money From Strangers, Comedy Central Presents, Last Comic Standing)
    Dave Anthony (Jimmy Kimmel, Comedy Central, Walking The Room)
    Jamie Kaler (My Boys, Robot Chicken, Kaler on Sirius/XM)
    Candace Brown (Shameless, Torchwood, Head Case)
    Mary Lynn Rajskub (24, Mr. Show, The Larry Sanders Show)
    Jon Daly (The Life & Times of Tim, Happy Endings, Nick Show Kroll)
    Lauri Rogg (Just For Laughs, iO West, The Improv)

    Shake your Monday back to work blues, with a solid, hysterical hour an half of these standup comics, throwing jokes everywhere except the floor. Want your laugh muscles warmed up for the show? Great! Come on by for our first equally hilarious and entertaining show with Paul Goebel at 7:30. And once you’re warm keep burning off those giggle calories by checking out our After School Cherry Special, directly after Comedy Tapioca at 10pm.  Don’t quit yet, we have one more adrenaline pumping show, CAGE MATCH at 11:30.

    I know you are probably thinking, “Wow, an evening of superb comedy, how can it get any better?”—Allow me to open your eyes.  Buy a ticket for any show, and it gets you into the rest of the shows that evening, and if you hold on to your stub, join us another night, ANY NIGHT, and use it for a buy 1-get-1 ticket for the show line up that eve!

    Also, we have a bar…with great drinks and a $3 beer special!!!

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    So suck on that Gryffindor!

     

  4. 6 Aug


    What are you doing tonight??? Performing your role as the perfect audience member for tonight’s Awesome, or shall I say SICK Stand Up line up?  Great!   You forgot the information? Please allow me to refresh your mind.  The Where: iO West Comedy Theater’s Main Stage. The When: 8:30pm, TONIGHT. The Who: A helluva fun line up of some of LA’s freshest, funniest comics!  SICK Stand-Up Comedy! The Sick Stand-Up Show is a stand up show that consists of headliners from Comedy Central, HBO, BET, VH1, NBC and SNL. Each week an iO West student is also given a chance to perform. It is hosted by Jeremiah Watkins and Justin Alexio. And since you’ve already made it out of your couch imprint, and into the wonderful world of comedy, stick around and use your tickets to enjoy the rest of the night’s line up for FREE. At 10pm we begin our infamous Cherry After School Special with Cherry, Cherry Crush, and The Cherry Pick. Finally, at 11:30 bells we have our Cage Match, where you are the judge as to who is funny, and who is not…as funny.

    What are you doing tonight??? Performing your role as the perfect audience member for tonight’s Awesome, or shall I say SICK Stand Up line up?  Great!   You forgot the information? Please allow me to refresh your mind.  The Where: iO West Comedy Theater’s Main Stage. The When: 8:30pm, TONIGHT. The Who: A helluva fun line up of some of LA’s freshest, funniest comics!  SICK Stand-Up Comedy!

    The Sick Stand-Up Show is a stand up show that consists of headliners from Comedy Central, HBO, BET, VH1, NBC and SNL. Each week an iO West student is also given a chance to perform. It is hosted by Jeremiah Watkins and Justin Alexio.

    And since you’ve already made it out of your couch imprint, and into the wonderful world of comedy, stick around and use your tickets to enjoy the rest of the night’s line up for FREE. At 10pm we begin our infamous Cherry After School Special with Cherry, Cherry Crush, and The Cherry Pick. Finally, at 11:30 bells we have our Cage Match, where you are the judge as to who is funny, and who is not…as funny.

     

  5. 30 Jul


    Monday night blues creeping in on you again?  Well grab that comedy crayon box and make your evening a little more colorful, at iO West Theater!!! Tonight our Main Stage has a line up guaranteed to get a giggle from even the glummest of goers.  And the best part?  Buy a ticket at any point in the night, and it will get you into the shows for the rest of the night (and if you are a planner, bring that stub back another night for an awesome 2-for-1 price on your next iO West venture!) Starting at 7:30 pm, get the gut a busting with Capital T, and the classic Razowsky and Clifford. Then stick around for the terrific triple line up Interrobang?, Mahogany, and The End.  Between these amazing shows and our friendly bartenders pouring drinks worthy only of dreams, you will be nothing short of warmed up and rearing to go with our infamous after school special: Cherry Crush, Cherry, and The Cherry Pick. With adrenaline pumping and your night feeling as though it has barely started, stick around for one final hurrah with our head to head Cage Match…there will be blood…or at the very least drinks and silly humans!!! BUT WAIT!  The fun doesn’t stop here!  We have amazing shows EVERYDAY!!! Check out our Main Stage calendar! And while you’re at it check out the shows going on in our back theaters: Loft, and DCT.

    Monday night blues creeping in on you again?  Well grab that comedy crayon box and make your evening a little more colorful, at iO West Theater!!! Tonight our Main Stage has a line up guaranteed to get a giggle from even the glummest of goers.  And the best part?  Buy a ticket at any point in the night, and it will get you into the shows for the rest of the night (and if you are a planner, bring that stub back another night for an awesome 2-for-1 price on your next iO West venture!)

    Starting at 7:30 pm, get the gut a busting with Capital T, and the classic Razowsky and Clifford. Then stick around for the terrific triple line up Interrobang?, Mahogany, and The End.  Between these amazing shows and our friendly bartenders pouring drinks worthy only of dreams, you will be nothing short of warmed up and rearing to go with our infamous after school special: Cherry Crush, Cherry, and The Cherry Pick. With adrenaline pumping and your night feeling as though it has barely started, stick around for one final hurrah with our head to head Cage Match…there will be blood…or at the very least drinks and silly humans!!!

    BUT WAIT!  The fun doesn’t stop here!  We have amazing shows EVERYDAY!!! Check out our Main Stage calendar! And while you’re at it check out the shows going on in our back theaters: Loft, and DCT.

     

  6. 20 Jun


    Hold on to your butt, cuz we are about to deal with some FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS! What I mean to say is throw back a couple brewskies at the bar, and laugh your face off, with a group of quirky comedians, who are anything but their name, in fact they are two-years-in-a-row, runner-ups in our LA Improv Festival Cage Match, and they are playing here, on iOWest’s very own Main Stage, at 8pm!  And, as a special treat, an interview with one of the near original players, Mikey Likey! iOWest: What events triggered the creation of First World Problems? Mikey Likey: We started to play as many cage matches as possible. iOW: How does it feel now that you get your very own full 30-minute slot? ML: Its gonna be fun to get used to, our style has always been 20 minute sets, but it will be good, we have a large team, so the extra minutes help us all get out there. iOW: What is one thing that sets your team apart? ML: We are really physical with each other, you’ll feel bad for the smaller people on our team! Well, thank you Mikey Likey, and who could say no to a show that makes you feel bad for small people? You can bet your three-hole buttons that I’ll be there!   And you are welcome, and encouraged to hang out with the stars of First World Problems before the show for a few fun rounds of Happy Hour&Bar Bingo. Then stick around for a solid night of shows, Tatanka & Spirit Cat at 8:30, The Cartel Bandit at 9:30, King Ten at 10:30, and finish your night with the sharp new team, Less Hot Dog at 11:30. How could this night get any better? I’d love to tell you.  Buy a ticket for one show, and it will get you into every show for the rest of the night, we’re talking six great teams for the price of one. See you tonight!

    Hold on to your butt, cuz we are about to deal with some FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS! What I mean to say is throw back a couple brewskies at the bar, and laugh your face off, with a group of quirky comedians, who are anything but their name, in fact they are two-years-in-a-row, runner-ups in our LA Improv Festival Cage Match, and they are playing here, on iOWest’s very own Main Stage, at 8pm!  And, as a special treat, an interview with one of the near original players, Mikey Likey!

    iOWest: What events triggered the creation of First World Problems?

    Mikey Likey: We started to play as many cage matches as possible.

    iOW: How does it feel now that you get your very own full 30-minute slot?

    ML: Its gonna be fun to get used to, our style has always been 20 minute sets, but it will be good, we have a large team, so the extra minutes help us all get out there.

    iOW: What is one thing that sets your team apart?

    ML: We are really physical with each other, you’ll feel bad for the smaller people on our team!

    Well, thank you Mikey Likey, and who could say no to a show that makes you feel bad for small people? You can bet your three-hole buttons that I’ll be there!   And you are welcome, and encouraged to hang out with the stars of First World Problems before the show for a few fun rounds of Happy Hour&Bar Bingo.

    Then stick around for a solid night of shows, Tatanka & Spirit Cat at 8:30, The Cartel Bandit at 9:30, King Ten at 10:30, and finish your night with the sharp new team, Less Hot Dog at 11:30.

    How could this night get any better? I’d love to tell you.  Buy a ticket for one show, and it will get you into every show for the rest of the night, we’re talking six great teams for the price of one. See you tonight!