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The Ice House Comedy Club, Pasadena's famed comedy club, presents some of the best stand-up comics in the business. You've seen them on "The Tonight Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and Comedy Central. Now you can see them in person, live on stage. Check the complete listing for more details. Learn more...

John Cleese comes to Glendale's Alex Theatre. The founding member of Monty Python also starred in comedy classics including Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda. In A Final Wave at the World (or The Alimony Tour, Year One), he'll discuss topics ranging from his legendary career to his most pressing medical problems, his mistrust of folk-dancing, and his latest plan for world peace. Learn more...

The world-famous Hollywood Improv presents stand-up comedy seven nights a week. See top national headliners, the nation's best up-and-coming performers, and more. The club features frequent surprise drop-ins by TV and film's biggest comedy stars. Learn more...

Embracing the spirit of one of the most heralded artists in American theater, the actors and master improvisers of Impro Theatre will create full-length, completely improvised musicals in the style of Stephen Sondheim in Sondheim UnScripted. Using just their guts, improvisational wits and audience suggestions, the cast invents a brand new, never-before-seen musical for each performance. Learn more...

Legendary comedy troupe The Groundlings present their main sketch show Hold Me Closer Tiny Groundling. This is the company's latest collection of improvisational and scripted sketches, from L.A.'s masters of Saturday Night Live-style comedy. Learn more...

Since 1992 The Groundlings Main Company, Alumni and Sunday Companies have played together every Thursday night in the all-improv explosion that has become almost as much of an institution as the Groundlings Theatre itself! Based entirely on audience suggestions, the comic daredevils invent custom-made satire and song. Each week features a new surprise guest. Learn more...

The famed Capitol Steps come to the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Regularly featured on NPR, these former Congressional staffers' brilliant song parodies and hilarious sketches are up-to-the-minute send-ups of all things political -- satirizing serious issues, events and personalities from both sides of the aisle while providing a nationwide laugh for millions. Learn more...

You never know what will happen or who'll be playing tonight when the Groundlings break all the rules! Learn more...

LA Connection presents Improv Comedy for Kids, performed by some of the area's most talented young people. The performances are family-friendly and filled with laugh-out-loud-funny sketch comedy and improv. Learn more...

Los Angeles-based improv/sketch comedy group The Gay Mafia headline a night of improvised humor at Macha Theatre. The Gay Mafia have headlined in clubs around the country since 2002, and have appeared on the Logo channel and in the movie Outlaugh!. Learn more...

The Crazy Uncle Joe Show is a side-splitting exercise in long form improv by the world-famous Groundlings. No games. No director. Just funny. Learn more...

If you like Whose Line Is It Anyway? then you'll love ComedySportz, a fun, fast-paced comedy show that's great for the whole family. See two teams battle for laughs and points as they make up scenes, games and songs on the spot with audience participation and suggestions incorporated into the act. Learn more...

In the heart of the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in beautiful, balmy Santa Monica is a great night of comedy. With comedians seen on Letterman, Leno, Comedy Central and HBO, the Promenade Playhouse delivers serious laughs from great comics. Learn more...

Comedy group Two-Headed Dog presents Clowntown City Limits. This show combines dark comedy and slapstick to tell the eerie story of three down-and-out clowns. Cast members include David "Gruber" Allen (Freaks and Geeks, The Naked Trucker) and Craig Anton (The Office, MADtv). Learn more...

The Groundlings are L.A.'s masters of Saturday Night Live-style comedy. Join them for their hilarious show, Sunday of the Dead, featuring the Sunday Company's revue of sketch and improvisational comedy, all performed by up-and-coming sketch comedians. Learn more...

Mary Lynn Rajskub performs her latest one-woman show at the Steve Allen Theater. She gained fame as a cast member on HBO's classic sketch series Mr. Show, and now stars as Chloe on Fox's 24. Other acting credits include Punch Drunk Love and The Larry Sanders Show. Learn more...

San Francisco's Off-Market Theater and Hollywood's Theatre Asylum host Tilted Frame SF\LA, the first improv show to take place in two cities at the same time. Based on Tilted Frame's long-running improv shows in both SF and LA, this unique show employs the power of live Internet video to combine both cities' casts into one amazing whole. Learn more...

L.A. Connection puts on an outrageously funny improv show in the "Who's Line Is It Anyway" style. The show is one of the LA Times picks for New Year's Eve. Learn more...

Dungeon Master is a hybrid of theater and improv performed on a stage using actors as the background...and a 6-person party of adventurous audience members, chosen from a list of voluntarily-submitted names before the play begins. The party is supplied with costumes, weapons (foam of course), the use of ten spells (which must rhyme) and given a task which must be completed in the allotted time. Learn more...

Theatre Asylum hosts C.A.F.E.'s Improv Revolution, a hilarious, unscripted evening of comedy. Every week will feature a new and revolutionary improv ensemble, followed by the L.A. favorite Asylum Improv Jam. The revolution will not be memorized. Check the listing for more details. Learn more...

It's true: They're Weird, always On and at the Top of their game! This improv comedy troupe's show at Eclectic Company Theatre fills the bill for some side-splitting, tear-inducing, undergarment-threatening laughter. Learn more...

The National Comedy Theatre presents U-Sical, a full-length improvised musical comedy, featuring audience participation. Learn more...

The Steve Allen Theater presents Hook-Up! On this eccentric comedy dating show hosted by veteran comedian Ron Lynch, three audience members will be chosen to compete for a date with a single contestant. Following a series of questions and competitions, the winning couple receives a free but modestly-priced date, which will be recorded for the next month's episode. Learn more...