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Dear Dynasty Darlings,
Last week was a ✨really amazing ✨ week at Dynasty! And this coming week? It is also going to be ✨really amazing ✨week at Dynasty! The aforementioned ✨really amazing weeks ✨will be bridged this evening by the final night of our three night Adam Sandler residency, which, as expected, has been ✨really amazing ✨ so far. The show is *sold out*, but there are still a few tickets left for tonight's 7:30pm Dynasty Tonight! show! We have an incredible line-up including Chelsea Peretti, Natalie Rotter-Laitman, Langston Kerman, and musical guest Will Schwartz. With house band The Dynasties of course, and hosted by Jamie Flam and Mr. Herbert R. Beeper (Vanessa's dog), who will be holding it down for Vanessa who is currently on an island! 🏝️
FYI, an island is a piece of land surrounded by water. "But wouldn't that mean that a continent is an island??" literally all of you are asking. No. By definition an island is not a continent. "Then why didn't you just say that out the gate??" literally all of you are asking. The answer is simple: I don't know. [beat] I don't know. [beat] I don't know.
Have a ✨really amazing ✨ week!
VanJam
🚨 Livestreams still available: The Ultimate Improv Show w/ Jack Quaid, 13-Year-Old MICHAEL AUSIELLO Presents: Beverly Hills - A Pretend Soap Oprea Preformed By Real Actors, Mamma Mia! But Different!, An All Star Live Reading of Return of the Jedi, THE BRADYS – The Lost Episode: A Very Brady Funeral, Moon Goon Presents Prime! The Amazon Musical🚨
🌟 THIS WEEK AT DYNASTY 🌟
MONDAY, 8/18, 7:30PM: Dynasty Tonight! Comedy, Music, Ritual, & Variety! Nestled in the beating heart of LA’s most magical theater, Dynasty Tonight! is Dynasty Typewriter’s long running one-of-a-kind variety show extravaganza! The show is hosted by Dynasty proprietors JAMIE FLAM and VANESSA RAGLAND who welcome their favorite comedy, music, and variety acts! They also lead celestial manifestation ceremonies and host impromptu audience driven game and fashion shows, lost and found auctions, and occasional conga lines, puppet shows, fish funerals, human weddings, and whatever else the night calls for. All with the soundtrack of their backing jazz/soul band THE DYNASTIES! And if that wasn’t enough, sometimes super famous comedians pop in for surprise sets! Think of Dynasty Tonight! as your popcorn-fueled permission slip for a night of release and delight
This Week's Special Guests:
CHELSEA PERETTI (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
LANGSTON KERMAN (Abbott Elementary)
NATALIE ROTTER-LAITMAN (Exploration Live)
Music by WILL SCHWARTZ
House Band THE DYNASTIES
Hosted by JAMIE FLAM & MR. HERBERT R. BEEPER
+ More!
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10:00PM: ADAM SANDLER
⭐️ SOLD OUT! ⭐️
TUESDAY, 8/19, 7:30PM: MOHANAD ELSHIEKY
🚨 LOW TICKET WARNING 🚨
Join us for an evening of comedy with MOHANAD ELSHIEKY!
MOHANAD ELSHIEKY is a New York–based, Libyan-born comedian who made his national TV debut on Conan, has been featured on The Late Show with STEPHEN COLBERT, Don’t Tell Comedy, Comedy Central, and has toured with Pop Up Magazine. He is currently a writer/consultant for the hit podcast LOVETT OR LEAVE IT and was one of the hosts of Lemonada’s podcast I’M SORRY, where each week they unravel the latest and greatest in Twitter gaffes, petty beef, and not-so-subtle shade.
He has also been featured in KUMAIL NANJIANI’s LITTLE AMERICA book. In 2024, MOHANAD was selected to be one of the SF Sketchfest Dozen, a spotlight series for comics who are on the verge of becoming the next big thing. In 2018, he appeared in an episode of Epix’s Unprotected Sets and was listed as one of Thrillist’s 50 Best Undiscovered Comics. MOHANAD was also a digital producer on Full Frontal with SAMANTHA BEE.
MOHANAD combines a deceptively laid-back demeanor with his whip-smart perspective on politics and culture. The Portland Mercury called him “an undisputed genius of comedy,” and he's been featured on podcasts such as Lovett or Leave It, Pod Save The People, and Harmontown. He has toured across the country with the critically acclaimed storytelling show Pop Up Magazine. ELSHIEKY zeroes in on topics that seem off limits — then surprises you with how hard you’re laughing.
Follow MOHANAD on X @MOHANADELSHIEKY and IG @MOHANAD.ELSHIEKY
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WEDNESDAY, 8/20, 7:30PM: Humanitas Industry 101: Los Angeles Times presents Breaking Into New Hollywood
Join Humanitas Industry 101 for the launch of Breaking Into New Hollywood: A Career Guide to a Changing Industry, the new book from The Los Angeles Times and journalists ADA TSENG and JON HEALEY! ADA and JON will discuss the book (available everywhere August 12) and various career paths with invited industry professionals across departments.
Panelists:
NIK DODANI, actor, writer, comedian
MARILYN FU, screenwriter, producer
ANGELA C. LEE, producer, Director of Artist Development at Film Independent
MIKE GIOIA, AI filmmaker
CHRIS NORIEGA, Partner at Verve
Community Sponsors: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA), UCLA Extension, Vidiots Foundation, Women in Film, Writers Guild Foundation
About the Authors
ADA TSENG
A former editor at the Los Angeles Times, ADA TSENG is the co-author of Breaking Into New Hollywood: A Career Guide to a Changing Industry, with JON HEALEY. She co-hosts the Asian American pop culture history podcast, Saturday School, with BRIAN HU, and she's running the 2025 TCS New York City Marathon in November to raise money for the Asian American Journalism Association.
JON HEALEY
JON HEALEY worked as a journalist for four decades, retiring in December after a 24-year stint as a reporter and editor for the Los Angeles Times. He specialized in explanatory journalism, helping readers understand complex issues and tackle problems — including those faced by would-be Hollywood professionals. His side hustle is editing board game rulebooks, which is even more fun than you'd think it would be.
About Los Angeles Times Presents Breaking Into New Hollywood
For the millions seeking to pursue their Hollywood dreams, this is the definitive guide to breaking into the entertainment industry that explores and demystifies dozens of careers from acting to post-production, and also takes into account changes brought by the rise of streaming and AI.
About The Los Angeles Times
Published since 1881, The Los Angeles Times is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States, as well as the largest newspaper in the western United States.
Learn more about the book on the Simon & Schuster website:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Breaking-Into-New-Hollywood/The-Los-Angeles-Times/9781668050033
Book bundle ticket purchases include a copy of the book which will be available for pick up at the event. Skylight Books will also be on-site night-of selling copies of Breaking Into New Hollywood.
About Humanitas Industry 101
Humanitas is the LA-based nonprofit that supports film and television writers through various annual programs like The Humanitas Prizes, New Voices Fellowship, and public programs like Industry 101. Since creating Industry 101 in 2022, over 13,000 registrants have signed up to attend 30 events featuring over 140 speakers. Guests from Los Angeles County, states across the US, as well as Singapore, Chile, Bolivia, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and the Philippines have joined.
Industry 101 is sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Santa Monica Community College is our Community Sponsor.
Learn more about Humanitas at humanitasprize.org
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THURSDAY, 8/21, 7:30PM: Lovett Or Leave It: Live in LA
🚨 LOW TICKET WARNING! 🚨
Lovett or Leave It is a live variety show and podcast that breaks down the week’s politics and pop culture news with sketches, games, jokes that literally never miss, and everyone’s favorite: nuanced analysis. Join JON LOVETT and an all-star lineup of comedians, journalists, and other amazing guests in Los Angeles live on Thursdays at Dynasty Typewriter.
With TONY GILROY, PATRICIA ARQUETTE and ADAM SCOTT!
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FRIDAY, 8/22, 7:30PM: I Said No Gifts!
🎥 LIVE AND LIVESTREAMED! 🎥 🚨 LOW TICKET WARNING! 🚨
With Special Guests: LAUREN LAPKUS, TARAN KILLAM, and VINNY THOMAS
About I Said No Gifts!
Selected as Apple Podcasts' Podcast of the Month, named one of the Best Podcasts of the Year by The New York Times, and winner of the 2024 Signal Award for Best Comedy Podcast Episode, I Said No Gifts! is a podcast hosted by BRIDGER WINEGAR that has one rule: NO GIFTS. Sadly, even after more than 250 episodes, every guest continues to break the rule and show up with a gift for BRIDGER.
I Said No Gifts! is back in Los Angeles in search of guests who might have enough decency to follow the podcast's simple rule.
About BRIDGER WINEGAR
BRIDGER WINEGAR is a writer, actor, and host of the podcast I Said No Gifts!. He has written for and acted in shows including Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix, Black Monday on Showtime, The Afterparty on Apple, Corporate on Comedy Central, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC.
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SATURDAY, 8/23, 7:30PM: Take Your Shoes Off w/ Rick Glassman
🎥 LIVE AND LIVESTREAMED! 🎥 🚨 LOW TICKET WARNING! 🚨
If you’re one of the 37,000,000 people that watch TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF on YouTube — here is you chance to see how the sausage is made (yes homo). Come for a great night out.
with Special Guest TODD GLASS
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SUNDAY, 8/24,7:30PM: Fuck This Month & Holy Shit Improv
🎥 LIVE AND LIVESTREAMED! 🎥
A night of improv comedy hosted by Fuck This Month and Holy Shit Improv featuring some of LA's best comedians.
FUCK THIS MONTH is a monthly improv comedy show that aims to cure your misery by turning your shitty month into improv comedy. Toast this garbage month off by throwing up your middle finger and sharing what made it suck so royally. A cast of veteran comedians will take your stories of woe and spin them into comedy gold.
Featuring: KATIE MAROVITCH, JON MATTESON, JIAVANI, CHRIS RENFRO, ELI GONZALEZ, LAUREN KNUTTI, & JEFF WHITAKER!
HOLY SHIT IMPROV is an improv show featuring the best comedy talent in Los Angeles. Up-and-coming stars mix with improv legends to create an hour of comedy that will have you yelling, “Holy Shit!”
Featuring: SASHEER ZAMATA, CHANSE MCCRARY, CARLOS SANTOS, SUZI BARRETT, JOE WENGERT, RACHEL PEGRAM & CASEY FEIGH
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MONDAY, 8/25, 7:30PM: Dumb Dads
Dumb Dads LIVE is the debut tour featuring comedians EVAN BERGER & KEVIN LAFERRIERE as they host a Night Out for parents. A show that is away from the kids who we all love so much and they’re our world...etc etc. but C’mon. With familiar characters and sketches like the signature live Press Conference, how could you pass up a show that promises to be a hilarious celebration of parents who are in the thick of parenthood – whatever that means.
KEVIN LAFERRIERE and EVAN BERGER are the Dumb Dads but it wasn't always that way.
They met while harnessing their acting / writing ambitions doing improv in Los Angeles. The connection and friendship they found in this setting would become the foundation for the current platform they have now.
After having kids of their own with their respective families, KEVIN and EVAN decided to apply their comedy chops to challenge the lazy dad joke tropes and share their engaged take on modern parenthood on social media. Which for legal reasons we cannot say if it is or is not based on their own individual / shared experiences. Their perspective and humor on what it meant to be a "Dumb Dad" went viral almost immediately… resonating with parents all around the world.
Soon after, they found themselves on Ellen, Access Hollywood, Good Morning America, Momsplaining with Kristen Bell, America's Funniest Home Videos, & The Today Show. Their community is now over 1 million strong.
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TUESDAY, 8/26, 7:30PM: SpectreVision Radio Presents: The Liminal Mic - Paranormal Story Slam: Ghost Story Edition
Everybody loves a good ghost story! Join us for a live podcast recording featuring a mix of new and familiar voices bravely sharing their true ghost stories with SpectreVision’s DANIEL NOAH and special guests BETSY SODARO + more
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