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#LosAngeles Listen to Comedy Cake, we have an “impressive lineup of comics and animators” this month! Come “be dazzled by this meeting of skilled artists” next Saturday!

#LosAngeles: Picture This!, the only “Live Animated Comedy Show” is BACK at The Virgil with #FREE admission, full bar & TACO TRUCK!! COMEDY BY: Brooks Wheelan (SNL, MTV) Justine Marino (Comedy Central) Maggie Maye (Conan) Allen Strickland Williams (Conan) Amber Nelson (TruTV) & Michael Albanese (Red Clay Comedy)

ANIMATION BY: Mike L. Mayfield (Big Mouth, Mr. Pickles) Mike Hollingsworth (Tuca & Bertie, BoJack Horseman) Liz Climo (The Simpsons) Jenny Fine Sean Keeton Aaron Long & Kt Isabelle! HOSTED BY: Brandie Posey (Lady to Lady) SATURDAY 4/14 Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm at The Virgil 4519 Santa Monica Blvd LA, CA 90029 ______________________________________________ “What is Picture This!?” PICTURE THIS! is a new show from Brandie Posey & Sam Varela: two girls who want to push the boundaries of what a comedy show can be. Picture This! is a live comedy show with stand-ups performing while they are drawn live by some of the best animators, cartoonists, and other artists in Hollywood, CA, SF, NYC and around the world in Toronto, New Zealand and Australia! The show has also debuted at The Kennedy Center, NYCF, SF Sketchfest, The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, High Plains Comedy Festival, All Jane No Dick Comedy Festival, Bridgetown, RIOT LA & more! The comedians don’t know what the animators are drawing and the animators don’t know how the comedians will react. It may be weird. It may different. But it will be FUNNY!

“This is a super cool show, I’m proud to be a part of it!“ - Jay Larson ”Brandie Posey & Sam Varela have something very cool going on here…the results are organic, highly entertaining and often times hilarious.” - The Interrobang

“It’s a deceptively simple idea…a good exercise for the performers to keep their improv instincts sharp and it’s good entertainment watching funny people goof off.” - Portland Mercury

“If you like animated comedies, how about animated stand-up comedy?… It’s just like having your portrait drawn at a fair, only instead of mildly insulting caricatures, you get to see one-of-a-kind depictions of what’s going on inside funny people’s heads.” - Vulture

“The amicable marriage of sight, sound and more sight…each [artist and comedian] performing their due diligence to visualize this crazy thing called funny.” - Spinning Platters

“The dynamic between comedian and illustrator can be push and pull, but when it works, they’re ultimately moving in the same direction.” - The Comic’s Comic

“Often, the drawings are just as funny as the standup, enhancing and occasionally stealing the show.. A comedian might have a prepared set that gets thrown totally into a tangent when the illustrator adds their own input or sketches a crude figure that takes the joke to the next level. There’s also a high potential for verbal vs. visual banter.” - LAist

“Our animators are joke-tellers, too, they just process the same bits visually versus verbally, it’s always so cool to see your bit from a different angle you hadn’t thought to explore! I always feel like I’m dealing with the most talented heckler in the room on the show – once you surrender yourself to the idea that you’ll never be as dynamic.” - Brandie Posey “An inherent irony existed in the disparity between two disciplines identified by the term “comic” - Spinning Platters

“The show is growing fast.  Comedians perform while comedy’s best illustrators create masterpieces based on what they’re hearing on stage, live. You get to watch the process and it’s a really fun time.” - The Interrobang, Top Five Shows Out of Towners Need to See

Writer who accused Amy Schumer’s humor of being racist never actually saw her show or familiar with her stand-up

Last week, The Washington Post ran an opinion story about comedian Amy Schumer claiming her jokes were racist and that she had, “a blind spot around race,” after citing a Guardian article. This set the internet scrambling with reactionary pieces and Schumer ended up defending her jokes.

Well, it turns out, The Washington Postwriter who penned the story has actually never seen Schumer’s stand-up…