Photo Recap: All Things Comedy w/Bill Burr, Erice Griffin, + More
Photos from a stellar night of comedy entertainment brought to you by All Things Comedy. Featuring: Bill Burr (F is For Family), Erik Griffin (Workaholics), Kelsey Cook (Self-Helpless Podcast), Steve Rannazzisi (The League), and hosted Luke Schwartz
Photos by Adrian Aguilar
Atsuko Okatsuka's Favorite Japanese Game Show
Thrills! Chills! Human Tetris! In anticipation of her upcoming event at Dynasty Typewriter, we asked comedian Atsuko Okatsuka to share some of her top Japanese Game show moments with us.
Atsuko hosts Let’s Go Atsuko! A night of interactive games, videos, comedy, and discussion from a panel of notable comedians, political thinkers, and public figures. It’s like a Japanese game show, but woke! This month’s edition features: Aparna Nancherla! Eliza Skinner! Clayton Farris! Carl Tart! Kevin Yee! Jena Friedman! And hopefully weird videos from Atsuko’s grandmother!
Shirley Rosenberg is 100% Fresh
Shhhh! Can you hear that soft, yet intense, fluttering? No, it’s not a swarm of moths approaching, it’s the muted applause made by the slow and tender hands of scores of nonagenarians as a closeup lands on their stunning peer, Shirley Rosenberg.Yes, THAT Shirley Rosenberg. Fountain View Retirement Community’s darling finally got her big break! Titled “ADAM SANDLER: 100 % Fresh” Shirley created an amazing vehicle for herself, yet was generous enough to give nearly all the screen time to her comedic foil, one Mister Adam Sandler. The special (which premieres today on Netflix) was shot at venues all over the country, including five night’s worth of footage from Adam’s shows at Dynasty Typewriter. Way to go Shirley!
Also worth noting, Shirley is Jamie Flam’s grandmother. Also ALSO worth noting, DO check out Adam’s amazing special, 30% of which (estimate!) was shot at the theater. Adam’s shows and the related production were one of the first huge things that happened here, and we’ll never forget the excitement of the crews, the sold out and blissed out crowds, witnessing the transformations his team created for our stage, and Adam's truly inspiring hilarity, kindness, and work ethic.
Photo Recap: Dynasty Typewriter at Politicon
We were approached by Politicon about injecting a little (more) comedy into their two day convention by becoming their official comedy partners. Us? Political? We knew immediately what our platform would be. Something near and dear to our hearts. Something divisive, provocative, and very very now. DYNAPOP. The World’s ONLY Non-partisan Popcorn. We gathered a team of comedians, some of our staff, some NECESSARY elements for the booth (prize wheel, popcorn mascot suits, fake trees) and got the LA Convention Center poppin’. It was the first use of our DynaPop mascot, Poppy D, and he did NOT disappoint. Thanks to all of the performers who lent their talent to this event: The Lucas Brothers, The OC’s Skye and Nancy Collins (Carrie Clifford & Marc Evan Jackson), Drennon Davis, Lizzy Cooperman, Tad Rams, Chris Fairbanks, and Nate Craig. Plus, all of our amazing Dynasty Staffers and the Politicon crew.
Photography by Troy Conrad
Photo Recap: Secret 16 Horror Movie Marathon
Photographs from Secret 16, a 12-hour session of ‘80s horror franchise sequels projected from nothing but rare film prints. Presented by Secret Sixteen, Friday Night Frights, The Mall and The Voyager Institute.
Photography by Mark Berry
Photo Recap: Gold Rush Comedy
A night of pure comedy gold at Dynasty Typewriter. Featuring: Demetri Martin, The Lucas Brothers, Pearl Charles, Emma Willman, Byron Bowers, and more. Co-produced by Jessica Pilot.
Photography by: Steven Tucker
Photo Recap: High Diary feat. Eric Andre
High Diary is the show where comedians reveal their most private moments publicly - WHILE THEY ARE HIGH. This edition featured: Eric Andre (Adult Swim), Alison Becker (Parks and Recreation), Douggpound (Eric Andre Show), Abdullah Saeed (High Maintenance), and Penelope Gazin (Witchsy).
Photography by Samuel Macquire.
Congrats To The Emmy Winners
Wowee-o-boy.
The Creative Arts Emmys were this weekend, and the Dynasty Darlings are jumping for joy that some of our creative sweeties have been recognized by the world as the glittering jewels they are! We are so grateful to be part of an amazing community that looks really good in formal wear. Look at the Dynasty-adjacent loves who were recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts:
Dan Harmon’s Rick and Morty Won Outstanding Animated Program!
Chris Reddis (who was just slayin' here on Saturday) took home the Outstanding
Original Music And Lyrics Emmy for the instant classic Come Back Barack! (also, Come Back Barack FOR REAL!)Our Team Coco LOVES Ruthie Wyatt and Aaron Bleyart won the Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Within an Unscripted Program award for "Conan Without Borders" and took the stage looking sooooo good!
One of the first large events we hosted was a private viewing party for HBO's Barry and we were delighted to see their team snagged an Emmy for Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series! The hit man's a HIT, man!
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel took home 3 Creative Arts Emmys! (Mr. Kevin Pollack has the Midas touch!).
And huge congrats to our landlord, Jenji Kohan and the team behind Glow for their two creative arts Emmys, including a historic win for Shauna Duggins- the first woman to win for stunt coordination!
Fictional Roast, Raised By TV, Labour Day Party, + More!
A WEEKLY RECAP OF SOME OF OUR FAVOURITE MOMENTS FROM DYNASTY TYPEWRITER, AS CAPTURED ON INSTAGRAM @DYNASTYTYPEWRITER.
We had a great time on Saturday night hosting our new stand-up show Dynasty Tonight! and using TECHNOLOGY to take the audience and our performers on some adventures to magical places, courtesy of our fancy new projector.
📺 Raised By TV delivered enough TV nostalgia to turn anyone from couch potato to hot potato. Also huge thanks to Jon Gabrus for wearing those pajamas. 🇺🇸
🔥Harry Potter got (fictional) Roasted and we loved it! Also, Jamie got his first taste of the enthusiasm of Potterheads... and his appetite is whetted. After a quick Google, he's been diagnosed a Hufflepuff! And in other happily combative news, Langston Kerman won the Boast Rattle! Solid gold sweetie!
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We learned that sometimes magical places can quickly turn into fiery hellscapes. Example: an audience member wanted to be beside a beautiful (dormant) volcano in tropical Bali... Jamie accidentally pulled up a terrifying montage of exploding volcanos, and Helen Hong performed in front of it like she was headlining the apocalypse.
In other happily combative news, Langston Kerman won the Boast Rattle! Solid gold sweetie!
Monday we got to celebrate Labor Day with the theater's first potluck c/o The Voyager Institute & Vidiot's annual 5 Minute Game, a tradition we hope will come back year after year because it was seriously the most fun ever.
Sasheer Zamata, Ken Marino, Conan O'Brien, and more!
A WEEKLY RECAP OF SOME OF OUR FAVOURITE MOMENTS FROM DYNASTY TYPEWRITER, AS CAPTURED ON INSTAGRAM @DYNASTYTYPEWRITER.
👑Sasheer Zamata Party Time was the fire emoji (🔥.) The theater was filled with great vibes, great comedy, great music, and basically we all just left feeling 100 x cooler by association. See the full photo album here.
📓Hollywood Handbook was SOLD OUT... but our marquee didn't state it clearly, which resulted in one of our own, the infamous Francis Cronin, being pulled up on stage and lightly bullied. He handled it like a champ. The marquee was fixed. And THAT'S the Dynasty Difference.
🎹👻Haunting Renditions gave us an evening of delights, eerily beautiful takes on some truly bad songs. And the ultimate spooky moment was Ken Marino's duet performance of Baby Grand with... himself. He didn't miss a note ya'll!
💛Team Coco made us COO-COO with an insanely wonderful Up & Up featuring a really promising up and comer named CONAN O'BRIEN! He did 10 minutes of hilarious, relaxed, amazing comedy that only reinforced what a gem he is.
