What? ¹

What???? ²

WOOT!!!! ³

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¹ Bill Murray beat his kids?
² An entire movie based around a Ouija board????
³ LAKERS WIN, BABY!!!!

We here at The Coming have rent and a car payment coming due, so we’ve been doing some overtime to make that cheddar. Unfortunately, that means we missed some important things, including (in no particular order):

The opening of the Santa Monica ferris wheel (included at no additional cost: teenagers making out).
A one-night-only performance of Chicago’s famous Don’t Spit the Water (included at no additional cost: spit, and water).
The Sex and the City movie premiere (included at no additional cost: pretty dresses).
The real interview with Carlos Mencia (included at no additional cost: the sarcastic take on Carlos Mencia).
The best scene from Hook, for grown-ups (included at no additional cost: imagination).

Happy Wednesday; keep us informed and we’ll try not to miss your show next time.

We fixed the technical errors. We recruited some fresh talent. We saw some shows. We decided it was more important for you, the reader, that we, the writer, go to a show tonight to further report on iO’s Harold improv teams in their ULTIMATE BATTLE OMG TONIGHT AT 10 AT iO!!!!1!

But really, we’ve got some great show reviews, a comedy album review, the scoop on the LA Improv Comedy Festival, all your favorite spots getting featured on the calendar, and a teddy bear who is snuggle soft. But the teddy bear is for us.

But for you, we’ve got the incomparable TJ Miller mocking, and performing, stand-up.

And only because we care, our friends at the LAist present: The Best Taquitos in Town.

This beast of a comedy festival storms into iO West next week, June 1st and runs through June 7th. To give you an idea of the scope of this festival, here’s a short list of the comedians you’ll be able to see perform:

Carlos Alazraqui - Reno 911
Tim Meadows - Saturday Night Live
Bob Odenkirk - Mr Show
Peter Bonerz - The Bob Newhart Show
Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske - Broken Lizard
Maria Bamford - Comedians of Comedy
Creed Bratton, Angela Kinsey - The Office

You read that right; some of the funniest people you’ve ever heard of and a guy named Bonerz. For more information, schedule of events, complete performance list, and to buy tickets, check out the official website.

If you can’t wait till June 1st, you can still go check out comedy at iO. If you want to see the pinnacle of iO improv, you’ll want to check out the Harold shows. And if you want to see a particularly good Harold show, you’re actually just in time for the Harold Competition Championship, tomorrow, Tuesday at 10pm at the iO theater for only $5. The finale is down to super-group Powerhouse and super-super-group Sweetness. Not to show favoritism, but dude, sweetness.

Harold V. Sweetness - 5/27/08, 10pm, $5 - 6366 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028
Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival - June 1st-June 7th - Same place, homies

PS - We hope you memorialized like crazy today. Like mad crazy, yo. For reals. Now get back to work.

It never hurts to be prepared, and it’s always good to exercise. So you may be prepared for the end of the world, but are you prepared for exercising at the end of the world? Apocalypse How is!

Sure, the signings are in New York, but we haven’t been this excited for the apocalypse since we read World War Z.

Also, if you’re not the reading type, you’re probably more the dark sci-fi space Nazi comedy type. You’re welcome.

Don’t drink and drive.

Don’t play in traffic.

Don’t fart on national TV.

And on that note, we here at The Coming hope you’re planning on drinking heavily and appreciating your freedoms.

Celebrate this weekend with people (or animals) you care about. [Image courtesy of SuperDeluxe]

And remember, if you want to get involved in the LA Comedy scene, want to promote your slice of the scene, or want to let us know you’re glad we’re back, shoot us an email at thecomingla [at] gmail.com .

A special treat in advance of her upcoming one-woman show “Overcome By Salvation: Stories of a Girl Who Was In a Creed Video,” The Coming is proud to present an interview with the delightful Melinda Hill.

Thanks for giving us the pleasure, Melinda. To get some basic stuff out of the way, you run the Tiger Lily, correct?
Yes, Maria Bamford and I are technically in charge, but we have a lot of great helpers. Jesse Morrison books it, Joe Pergola does line ups, lights comics, and sets up the sound system.

Quite an impressive staff. So is this your first time doing something on your own?
No, I had other shows before: “Hyena” at Echo, “Chat Room”, “Girls Gone Weird”, and of course the forgettable “Tangent” @ Tangier. I also did a one person show parody for 6 wks. at Fake Gallery and Comedy Central Stage.

Girls Gone Weird was LA Weekly comedy pick of the week and Chat Room was comedy pick twice but Tiger Lily is the best show I’ve ever done in terms of just being a weekly show that’s consistently awesome. Weekly shows don’t have a long life span in LA and we’ve been doing this show for almost 2 years now. That’s a good run. I think what makes it work is that so many great people help out and lend their talents so the tasks are all delegated and no one feels overwhelmed. It’s a real sense of community.

How long have you been performing?
Long enough to know better!

What are your thoughts on an American competitor performing better than all others in the latest episode of Japan’s Sasuke (known in America as Ninja Warrior)?
I’m not sure what language you’re speaking right now.

Do you prefer being the only performer or do you like the camraderie of a Tiger Lily/Cuba Libre type show?
Tiger Lily is a great show and a cool scene but nothing beats the comaraderie of working with myself.

The Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson

Melinda Hill, working with herself.

Any big events after the one woman show? A long weekend of celebrating or what?
I’ll tell you this much: It’s going to be a long weekend of sex tapes and littering!

Thanks, Melinda. Can’t wait for your spectacular, mind-blowing, adjective-filled show this Thursday at 8pm at the UCB Theater.
Thank you, that’s very sweet of you.

(Editor’s Note: I realize it is no longer Wednseday, but The Coming is currently experiencing some technical errors. We’re just glad to be back, baby!)

A werewolf with raw talent takes on Project Runway.

A man with a cat takes on baths.

A man with a woman take on an elevator.

Nazis with puppies take on Jews.

A man with his dick in the popcorn takes on a date.

And here’s David Lynch putting panties in his mouth. The remix.