Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Announcements, Big News Episodes, News, The Biz
Tags: Aaron Krebs, Big News, Fired Up, Heroes, iO West, Mission Improvable, Nicholas D'Agosto, Nick D'Agosto
Big News is great every week – but don’t miss the extra special show we’ve got on Sunday, March 29, loaded with guest stars!
Nicholas D’Agosto, the star of the hit movie “Fired Up!”, returns to Big News on March 29! Nick has guested in the show before and is awesome, so don’t miss the [...]
A big announcement from Big News!!!
Starting in April, your favorite weekly news-based sketch comedy show will have a new name!!! Yes, just like “Valerie” became “The Hogan Family,” and The Rock is now Dwayne Johnson, Big News will soon be known by a new moniker.
Everything else about our show is the same – same [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2009 in News
Tags: Academy Awards, Academy Awards parking restrictions, Academy Awards street closures, Big News, Cahuenga Boulevard, Hollywood, Hollywood and Vine, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard parking restrictions, Hollywood parking restrictions, Hollywood street closures, iO West, Oscars, Oscars parking restrictions, Oscars street closures, parking in Hollywood, parking in Hollywood Oscar night, Vine Street
Since Big News does a brand new show every Sunday night at 9, you don’t think a little award show taking place this Sunday night a mile west on Hollywood Boulevard will stop us, do you?
Of course not!
So don’t let the Oscars stop you from catching this week’s installment of Los Angeles’ longest-running news-based comedy [...]
Friday, December 12, 2008 in Big News Episodes
Tags: Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Thanksgiving, iO West, "George Bush", John McCain, high school musical, harry potter, Kevin Federline, K-Fed, Antonio Villaraigosa, Artemis Pebdani, Gregg Lopez, Daniel Radcliffe, LA Times, Brian Vestal, Alaska, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Michael Hughes, El Alcalde de la Pasion, Jimmy Guidish, Sean Cowhig, Scott Garner, Neil Garguilo, Kipleigh Brown, Melissa Okey, Helen Thomas, Erich Eilenberger, Tom Repetto, Bailee DesRocher, Pookie, Kristina Adelmeyer, Sarah Palin, AIG, Ted Stevens, General Motors, Los Angeles Times, GM, Harry Reid, I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor, Mayor Villaraigosa, auto bailout, Beau Biden, Christian Slater, Christopher Dodd, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies, Equus, Jackson Browne, Jay Starr, Jeff Goldblum, Joseph Cassano, Los Angeles fires, Matt Blitz, My Own Worst Enemy, Nick Armstrong, pardons, Rick Wagoner, Rob Delaney, Robert Pattinson, Running on Empty, Somebody's Baby, Stay, Twilight, UAW, United Auto Workers, Zac Efrom
Our friend Nick Armstrong – who you can catch in great shows at iO West like The Friday 40, Cog and iO All Stars – guest stars in our pre-Thanksgiving episode!
In this episode:
- George Bush pardons a “turkey” from Alaska for Thanksgiving!
- Congressional leaders take the bailout for a spin!
- Jack in the Box [...]
It’s been nearly two months since an errant SUV decided to park in the iO West bar. At long last, iO West reopens this Friday, August 15, and on Sunday, August 17, Big News returns live on stage!!
And joining us for our first show back is one of our favorite special guests, the Emmy-Award-winning [...]
Thursday, August 7, 2008 in Announcements, Big News Writers, Humor, News, The Biz
Tags: Brandon Burkhart, Colleen Heider, Dan McNeill, Dave Holmes, David Crosby, Del Close Awards, Dr. God, garguilOconnell, Gregg Lopez, hulk, iO West, John Abbott, Matt Manser, Mike Coen, Molly Prather, Neil Garguilo, Nikitas Manikatos, Nikki Muller, Phillip Wilburn, Rachael Drummond, Ray Stakenas, Scott Garner, Sean Cowhig, Trophy Wife
All of us at Big News got some great news on Friday morning, when the nominations for the 2008 Del Close Awards were announced. Big News was nominated for Best Scripted Show, and two of our sketches and three of our videos were nominated as well! Plus, lots of Big News actors and [...]
Thursday, July 3, 2008 in Big News Writers, Highlights, Humor, News, News & Commentary, News In Brief, Quick Takes
Tags: Amy Winehouse, Andy Dick, Antonin Scalia, art, Barack Obama, blind, botox, Captive Primate Safety Act, chemical castration, Chinatown, Christie's, Cosmo Lofts, Crusades, electric cars, Elizabeth II, Exxon, Fort Elizabeth, gas, gas prices, gay marriage, George Carlin, global warming, Gloucester, gravity bombs, gun control, hands-free cell phones, Hillary Clinton, Holland, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard car accident, Hollywood Boulevard car crash, Hollywood Boulevard June 26 car accident, Hollywood Boulevard June 26 car crash, home prices, hybrid cars, iO West, iO West accident, iO West car accident, iO West car crash, iO West crash, Iraq, Israel, John McCain, Louisiana, Love Guru, Madonna, Mike Myers, Monet, monkeys, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mormons, Netherlands, New York, Nicolas Sarkozy, oil spill, pet monkeys, pregnancy pact, Queen Elizabeth, real estate, Robert Mugabe, seven works you can't say on television, sex offenders, sex tape, Subway, Supreme Court, SUV, Tel Aviv, Trophy Wife, UCB, Upright Citizens Brigade, Valdez, Verne Troyer, Verne Troyer sex tape, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Zimbabwe
You think a little obstacle like an SUV crashing into iO West can thwart our noble Big News writers from their sworn duty of writing jokes about the week’s news?
Think again, bub!
Maybe we didn’t have a show this past week. And maybe we won’t be back on the iO West stage until Sunday, July [...]
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 in Big News Writers, Humor, News, Quick Takes, Video
Tags: Brian Vestal, Colisseum, iO West, iO West accident, iO West car accident, iO West car crash, iO West crash, Italy, Rome
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With iO West closed following last Thursday’s crash of an SUV into the lobby, Big News is without its normal stage until Sunday, July 20. Lucky for us, inteprid Big News correspondent and [...]
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008 in Highlights, Humor, News, News & Commentary, News In Brief, Quick Takes, The Biz
Tags: AC/DC, Afghanistan, American Airlines, An Inconvenient Truth, Angelina Jolie, AT&T, Australia, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bozo, Bozo the Clown, Camila Alves, Colombia, Crocodile Hunter, Eric Lieber, frozen embryos, Gay Pride, Highway to Hell, Ingrid Betancourt, iO West, iO West accident, iO West car accident, iO West car crash, iO West crash, iPhone, Jesse Helms, Lance Armstrong, Larry Craig, Larry Harmon, LAX, Led Zeppelin, Levi Alves McConaughey, Love Connection, Madonna, Matthew McConaughey, Michelle Obama, North Pole, San Francisco, Stairway to Heaven, Steve Irwin, The Love Guru, WALL-E
Repairing a comedy theater with a giant hole in the front caused by an errant sports utility vehicle takes a little longer than initially thought. The latest word is that iO West will be closed through July 24, which means the next Big News at iO West will be Sunday, July 27 at 9 [...]