Hollywood Improv Presents Oakland Fire Benefit Show 12/23

In the wake of the tragic Ghostship fire in Oakland, the Hollywood Improv hosts a night of comedy and music to raise funds for the impacted community. This fund (https://www.youcaring.com/ourcommunityaffectedbytheoaklandghostshipfire-715087) is for friends and chosen family that don't qualify for Red Cross funds but have immediate grieving-related work and housing issues.

The evening will feature comedians from the Bay Area including Brent Weinbach, CHRIS GARCIA, CAITLIN GILL, EMILY MAYA MILLS, CASEY LEY, ANYI MALIK, GEORGE CHEN & A Very Special Comedy Guest.

With live music by YACHT.

Date: Dec 23, 2016

Time: 10 pm (9:30 doors)

The Hollywood Improv is located at 8162 Melrose Ave, Hollywood, CA

Ticket price: $15 advance

Ticket link: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=7075875

Restrictions: 18+

Additional information: hollywood.improv.com

A portion of the proceeds from this show will benefit victims of the Oakland Fire. Two item minimum purchase required in the showroom. Want preferred seating? Make a dinner reservation and dine in our restaurant. Must arrive no later than 1 hour prior to show start time. Dinner satifies the 2 item minimum. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. General Admission - first come, first seated. More than half of your party must be present to be seated.

Guests are asked to wear casual evening attire. Attire shall be deemed appropriate at the sole discretion of management. For security reasons, management reserves the right to search personal items and may request that personal belongings not be permitted into the venue.

Photography, videography, filming or any recording during the show is strictly prohibited.

Artists Bios:

Full show listing available at: hollywood.improv.com

Brent Weinbach's stand-up comedy is weird. He is a winner and recipient of the Andy Kaufman Award which is given out once a year to recognize innovation in stand-up comedy. He is also responsible for various internet video sensations such as Gangster Party Line and Ultimate Drumming Technique as well as the cult web series Pound House. Brent has appeared on Conan Lopez Tonight Comedy Central HBO IFC ABC and Adult Swim and also toured with the Comedians of Comedy.

ANYI MALIK - While riding in the back of a cab Anyi Malik once made the driver laugh so hard that he crashed his car into another vehicle. This calamity ignited Anyi to begin his career as a standup comedian. For a decade Anyi has been regularly performing his clever conversational comedy up and down the west coast on such notable stages as The Punchilne San Francisco The Hollywood Improv and the Comedy Store. Originally from the Bay Area Anyi now lives in Los Angeles CA. where he is a regular performer in the club and underground comedy scene. Once described by Comedy Recap as "the most animated performer" Anyi has quickly grown recognition on the circuit for his lively performances and his distinct hypnotic voice that simultaneously soothes amuses and abuses his audiences. In addition to various pilots web series and sketches Anyi Malik has appeared on Hulu network's "Quicklaffs" and Ralphie May & Lahna Turner's infamously hilarious "Perfect 10 Podcast". His comedy album Lamb Choppin' is available on Amazon and iTunes.

YACHT are artists based in Los Angeles - YACHT's figureheads, Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans, are opposing forces. It'd be generous to call Jona a high school dropout: he never attended a single day, choosing instead to literally "bang on the drum all day" as an outpatient in the teenage art ward. Claire was born in England, raised in France, and moved to Oregon to be watched after by the Intel corporation in the mid-1990s, during the height of the microprocessor boom. But the unlikely pairing is the source of their power.

YACHT's new album, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler, is a sweeping and visionary critique of the 21st century. It reveals the band at its most self-assured: critical, funny, tough, and musically diverse, crafting an infectious and hyperactive conceptual pop that seems to seep through the walls of an alternate universe. YACHT's knowing references to technology, feminism, and media are layered in complex arrangements in songs about holograms and phones, police violence and identity, sex and the future.

This is the first YACHT album that Bechtolt and Evans didn't create in a vacuum. Starting from the ground up, the pair wrote the album with their longtime collaborator and bandmate Rob Kieswetter, who also produced the album with Bechtolt (a first: Bechtolt has been YACHT's sole producer since 2002). The result is a surprising and heterogeneous collection of songs that only YACHT could make. Grammy-winning Irish producer Jacknife Lee (REM, Bloc Party, Robbie Williams, Taylor Swift) stepped in as a hypercolor shaman of sorts, creating his own album-wide credit of "objective overseer and structural mechanic."

The album's title track was co-produced with Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, M83, Tegan and Sara) and its string arrangement was put together by pop polymath Jherek Bischoff (David Byrne, Caetano Veloso, Parenthetical Girls). The album was recorded over two years in Los Angeles at a handful of studios (Jacknife's technicolor compound in Topanga Canyon, Meldal-Johnsen's studio in Atwater Village, Red Bull's studio in Santa Monica, and YACHT's home studio) as well as in a former cavalry bunker in Marfa, Texas, at the Marfa Recording Company.