July with a Bang!

Thursday July 2
Bro Squad 5
8pm
$7
It just keeps getting better!
Improv AND
Sketch Comedy
A note from the Squad:
We have already started performing sketches at venues around LA to ROUSING laughter. And by that, we mean aROUSING laughter, which means it's accompanied by a boner.

You can see us do 15 minutes of those sketches at the Fanatic Salon, then get drunk with us, go to the bowling alley bar afterward, and possibly get hit on by a drunken divorcee who goes to the alley "just to think."
Saturday July 11th
8pm $10
the Trans4merz
with
Ruben Sandwich
and
Water Brains

We always have a great night with
the Trans4merz. This month
we've got them paired with two
great groups, the all girl one
man Ruben Sandwich and
Water Brains.

The Trans4merz will be back again
on July 28th





NEW!
Tuesday July 14th and 28th
The Jerks
with special guests who aren't jerks. Comedy with an attitude.
8pm $10

















Thursday July 16th and
Thursday July 30th
Our Newest Comedy Find!
Abstracto
with special guests

A whole new form of improvisation
with special guest improvisers from
the stage of the Second City and
the Improv Olympic West
8pm
$10

Friday July 17th
8pm $10
The All Girl Revue
Fresh from our fabulous Second Anniversary show
and fresh from the shower, the All Girl Revue promises to keep July HOT!





Wednesday starting July 29th
8pm $5
more free beer!
Ruben Sandwich hosts
Wednesday Night Awesome
the fabulously funny all girl one man improv group Ruben Sandwich hosts a night a superb improvisation, music and beer.
Ruben Dario
Amanda Tate
Jennifer Smedley
Misa Doi
Esta-Joy Peters
Elissa Rosenthal
LaKendra Tookes

Thursday July23rd-Sunday July 26th
Kimleigh Smith is













T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!
written and performed by
Kimleigh Smith
directed by Paula Killen
Produce by Kimleigh Smith and
Tony Stovall
PR by Stacy Hess
www.positiveprla.com

Kimleigh Smith is hilarious and inspiring
in her true story of Total Transformation!

Embrace your Cape! Embrace your Superhero!

8pm Thurs-Sat
7 pm Sun
$18 general admission
$15 for students and seniors
$12 for groups of ten or more
tickets available at
www.brownpapertickets.com

Bustin' Out All Over

EVERY WEDNESDAY IN JUNE!
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AWESOME
Ruben Sandwich presents the
funniest people they can find
Great improv
and beer.
8pm $5





















Saturday June 6th and 27th
The Trans4merz
with Bucket O'Snakes
and GarguilOConnell (27th)
8pm $10
Thursday
June 11th
and
June 25th
8pm $10
















Comedy with Teeth



















A Special Benefit Performance of the Write Club
June 12th 8pm $25
Laugh and Party and Help a Friend in Need
























Friday June 19th
All Girl Revue
featured solo artists
Shannon Branham
Ruth Rudnick
with
Edie McClurg
Dee Ryan
Kathleen Campbell
Liza Coyle
Mary Wachtel



Saturday June 20th
The great art of great
storytelling with master
fascinators of the
UNDERGROUND STORYTELLING
ALLIANCE
with
John Dean
Bess Fanning and
Pedraic Keohane
8pm $10

May Mayhem

We are fully loaded with our favorite night of comedy













The Trans4merz
May 9th with Bucket O' Snakes and American Standard
and May 23rd with more special guests to come.
8pm $10



The fanaticSalon
is a fantastic place
to hear some great
music.

Chinaski
Night Shift
Cinema Verite
Gas Station Robbers
Addtheatre.TV

FRIDAY
May 15th
8:30 pm
$5








Saturday May 16th
A Comedy Extravanga












Hosted by Tish "The Dish " Roberts
All Star headliners include:
Legendary Comedienne Irene "Mama Stokes"
Sarah Cruise
Keith Adams
and featuring
Jacob Ward
Shawn Corey Campbell
Amira
Rex Dickson
with music by DJ Noj
8pm $15
Free Beer and Wine!


Back by Popular Demand





















You can't keep a good folding table down
Tuesdays at 8pm
May 19th
May 26th and
June 2
All Tickets $12

May 20, 21, 27, 28th
at eight!

It's that time of the month
MAY 22nd

LA's funniest girls gather at the fanatic.
A smooth ride, this month
featuring
Jane Morris
Jennifer MacClean and
Shannon Branham
with
Ruth Rudnick
Dee Ryan
Edie McClurg
Kathleen Campbell
Liza Coyle
Mary Wachtel
8pm $10

March 2009

COMING MARCH 13th
and 14th!

Cara Yeates in
SOME RECKLESS
ABANDON

8pm

“Cara Yeates is a revelation from the beginning to the end!” – CBC.

“With the slightest movement Cara goes from impressionable to
confident to smarmy to elegant as a host of colorful characters.”
-Uptown Magazine


Cara Yeates is Madeleine Cross, barely eighteen, so determined to
ditch her puke-hole prairie town she signs up for “Teenage Jesus Camp”
in Honduras. The truth: she doesn’t know where Honduras is before they
send the plane ticket in the mail. A creepy preacher, saccharine
missionary lady and the Teenage Jesus Fanclub all try their best to
save her. But there is inevitable trouble in Paradise. Written by UVic
Alum Leah Bailly and directed by Lori Triolo, Some Reckless Abandon is
a one-woman tour de force, recalling first departures and teen-love,
taking audiences deep into the missionary culture.







Tuesdays in March!
8pm $12
An Evening with a Folding Table
(five short comedies and a folding tablewritten and directed by Steve Stajich
featuring Trevor Anthony
John Carney
Sterling Fitzgerald
Kym Lane
Paul Schnackman
Frank Noon
with original music by
Jon Kull












Thursday March 12th
8pm $10

Half Baked
New Works by Great Performers
featuring George Kessler Jeff Michalski Jane Morris Victoria Delaney Kathleen Campbell Jenny Starnes Tessler Sarah Stanley Judith Scott Steve Sheridan







fanaticSalon is proud to host a weekly Master Class with Jeff Michalski

founder of the Second City ETC in Chicago

founder of the Second City Workshop Program in Chicago and Los Angeles

founder of UpFront Comedy

Artistic Director of the fanaticSalon

Every Wednesday from 7:30-9:30pm
$25 per class
Friday March 20th
8pm $10
The All Girl Revue
featuring
Mary Wachtel
and special guests
with
Ruth Rudnick
Dee Ryan
Edie McClurg
Kathleen Campbell
Jane Morris




Another fine Tran4merz show we've gotten ourselves into.

Saturday March 21th
8pm $10

With The Tuskegee Experiment
and
GarguilOConnell

My Funny Valentine

Monday Feb. 2
Puppetropolis
8pm $10

Who knew puppets were such good improvisers?
with special guests
Lubin, Ross and Bunch
and our favorite pals
The Tuskegee Experiment



BRAND NEW SHOW!
The fanaticSalon is pleased to begin hosting
BRO SQUAD 5
The first Thursday of each month

We begin with this classy f#&!*ing improv comedy on
Thursday Feb. 5th
8pm $10




Saturday Feb. 7th
8pm $10

You might want to call ahead as our playdates with the Trans4merz often sell out!

The Trans4merz with
Water Brains and
Bucket O' Snakes





Thursday Feb. 13
8pm $10

Obliged
Megan Grano's hit
one woman show!
You better show up or
your mother will stop talking to you.



Saturday Feb. 14th
8pm $10
I Ususally Spend Valentine's Day Alone with my Cats
A Night of Spectacular Comedy
with
Tish the Dish
Chris Zapatier
Dawn Maucier-Greer
Smokin' Mary Jane Green
and featuring music with
Dirty Dix Rock and Roll Circus
Hosted by Jacob Ward
How Sweet!

Sunday Feb. 15th
6pm $15
Beth Marlin Night of Music Proceeds to to benefit "Dream with Me" a project to improv the Los Angeles Public School System Meet the film makers with special guests!

Thursday Feb. 20th
8pm $10

The All Girl Revue

is the Bomb!
Featuring
Brett Paisel
Kathleen Campbell
Melenie Humphrey
Ramsey Brown

and our gals
Jane Morris
Ruth Rudnick
Edie McClurg
Liza Coyle
Mary Wachtel
Meagan Fay
Dee Ryan


Tuesday Feb. 24th
8pm
All Tickets $12

An Evening with a Folding Table
(five short comedies...and a folding table)

written and directed by Steve Stajich

featuring

Trevor Anthony
John Carney
Sterling Fitzgerald
Kym Lane
Paul Schnackman
Frank Noon
original music by John Kull
light and audir by
Kerston Kretzschmar

Every Tues. thru March 31st

JANUARY 2009

Our Artistic Director, Jeff Michalski is one of the founders of the Second City Training Center in Chicago and in Los Angeles. Jeff has spent his life as a director and teacher of improvisational actors and writers. He was trained by Del Close, Paul Sills, worked with the Groundlings and was the founder of the Second City ETC.

We're happy to host his Wednesday night class. You won't find anything like it anywhere. No levels. No list of do's and don'ts.

Classes meet every Wednesday from 7:30-9:30pm. $100 per month.
Call: 310 972 0184
email: jeffmichalsk@yahoo.com






Thursday January 22nd 8 pm $10
Some very funny people have been toiling away on all kinds of hilarity. Their work is not finished but it's funny enough to present it to you Half Baked, sampler of more to come:

The Monsignor's Guide to Love and Sex by Steve Sheridan

The Love Room by Sarah Stanley

Stole My Identity by George Kessler

Debutante's Ball by Victoria Delaney

Ask Sister Mary Martha by Jane Morris







January 23rd 8pm $10

It's that time of the month. The girls have gathered to kick off the new year. This month's featured perfomers: Judith Scott.

With our wonderful group of rowdy girls:
Edie McClurg Jane Morris Ruth Rudnick Kathleen Campbell Dee Ryan Mary Wachtel Liza Coyle Meagan Fay





January 24th 8pm $10

"My face hurts from laughing!"

We get that all the time.

The Trans4merz
with

The Tuskegee Experiment

and

Water Brains


The Powerhouse
Thursday Jan. 29th 8pm $10

Once a month we invite the funniest people we know to bring their game. They never let us down. Comedy with a boot to the head. This month featuring:
Antonio Sacre
Seth Sultan
Oded Gross
Bill Chott
Jeff Michalski
Steve Sheridan
Joe Liss

And to All A Good Night....of Music and Comedy

We have a lot of holiday cheer lined up for the month of December.

The Tuskegee Experiment teams with the Trans4merz.

Two of the funniest groups we've ever seen spend the night together.

Saturday Dec. 6th
8pm $10





Music with artist Beth Marlin! She'll be doing songs from her wonderful new album and giving away CD's. Merry Christmas from Beth!


Sunday December 7th
5 pm $10

Science Fiction meets
Huell Howser

CALIFORNICOPIA
Friday Dec. 12th
8pm $10

When a meteor wipes out a large section of LA, Brian McKinney formulates a plan to maximize the profit of rebuilding.