Name: Encyclopedia Commedia
Start: 2024-06-07T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-07T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Lyric Hyperion Theater & Bar

Encyclopedia Commedia, the Time Out NY-rec'd hit, has been revamped w/ live trivia—come laugh, drink & crush your friends!
About this Event
Encyclopedia Commedia
Friday, June 7th, 2024
Doors - 7:10PM // Show - 7:30PM
$18 - General Admission // $20 - Day-of
**Lineup subject to change** Late Arrivals will be turned away 20 minutes after scheduled event start.
No Refunds or Exchanges. For the protection of our audiences we reserve the right to refuse service.

ABOUT:

Encyclopedia Commedia is an unhinged comedy trivia show covering all the knowledge in the world, one encyclopedia entry at a time. Each show brings together a diverse variety line-up of comedians, artists, and experts for an unforgettable, hilarious night of drinks and thinks. Laugh, defeat your friends, and win actual prizes!

Every installment explores a single volume of the encyclopedia, as performers entertain you with acts based on individual entries. Audience members play along throughout the night using their phones for ample opportunities to win prizes. Hosts Brad (Second City) & Claire (The Atlantic) Einstein (real last name) and Gamemaster Jesse Cramer (The Savage Lovecast) are your resident comics hooked-on-phonics that keep things pumping between acts with their stellar shenanigans

During its acclaimed A to Z run at New York City’s Caveat Theater, Encyclopedia Commedia featured comics from Last Week Tonight, The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, Impractical Jokers, Los Espookys, and The Late Show alongside the strangely educational delights of a battle opera duet, a thoroughly researched defense of bestiality, a cannibal puppet show, and a performance from a 19-piece brass band.

Now in Los Angeles, Encyclopedia Commedia will become your go-to strictly-alphabetical pseudo-intellectual spectacle of comedy and brains.

"Brilliant comedy mastermind Brad Einstein invites a diverse crew of comedians to help him explain… all the knowledge in human history. It sounds like a daunting task, but we believe in this buckwild gonzo."

– Time Out NY

Lineup: Rashawn Scott, and more TBA

Brad Einstein (Creator/Host): Credits include The Second City National Touring Company, Baby Wants Candy, 2-time National Parks Service Artist-in-Residence, The Onion, Billy On The Street, BarkBox, Shameless, Chicago Fire, Winner of the 2022 Climate Comedy Cohort, Aspen Ideas Festival, and more.

Claire Einstein (Creator/Host): Credits include The Atlantic, The Aspen Ideas Festival, The Tribeca Film Festival, Cards Against Humanity, and more.

Jesse Cramer (Producer/Performer): is a producer for The Savage Lovecast and has written and produced content for FX, A24, Amazon, Funny or Die, Zachary Quinto’s Before the Door Pictures, among others.

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For Attendees requiring an Assisted Listening Device, you must submit a written request to venue operator 48 hours prior to listed show start.

FREE street parking on Lyric Ave and Griffith Park Blvd

At this time there are no additional safety regulations required of audiences - masking, etc. But if you do feel unwell please stay home. We continue to update our policies at times when health conditions change.