Picture This! The Live Animated Comedy Show

S﻿ilverlake's Theatrical home for offbeat Live Comedy, Music, Performances and Drinks for over 60 years. If it was weird and it was in Silverlake, you probably saw it here.

The Lyric Hyperion

Witness the comedy magic/gold of live comedy being animated in REAL TIME with some of the best comics and animators around!

Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe

<h1>Picture This! The Live Animated Comedy Show</h1><h3>(Stand Up Comedy/Live Animation)</h3><h3>Saturday, August 16th, 2025 Doors 6:40PM // Show 7PM</h3><h3>$15 - Presale // $20 - Day Of This performance will include an intermission</h3><h3>**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.</h3> “What is Picture This!?” PICTURE THIS! is your new favorite show from Brandie Posey &amp; Sam Varela: two gals who want to push the boundaries of what a comedy show can be. Picture This! is a live comedy show with stand-ups performing while they are drawn live by some of the best animators, cartoonists, and other artists in Hollywood, CA, SF, NYC and Portland. Picture This! has also debuted in Toronto, New Zealand and Australia! The comedians don’t know what the animators are drawing and the animators don’t know how the comedians will react. We've been selling out shows all over the world for over 10 years, come see for yourself at our last show of 2024!It may be weird. It may different. But it will be FUNNY!Drawings By Mike HollingsworthMike MayfieldKati PrescottSamantha GrayMike Scandora IIIComedy By Rachel ScanlonNori ReedKiran DeolGreg EdwardsJames FritzAnna ValenzuelaHosted by Brandie PoseyFor more information, visit <a href="https://picturethisshow.com/" title="https://picturethisshow.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Picture This' website</a>

The reviews are in!“This is a super cool show, I’m proud to be a part of it!“ - Jay Larson ”Brandie Posey &amp; Sam Varela have something very cool going on here…the results are organic, highly entertaining and often times hilarious.” - The Interrobang “It’s a deceptively simple idea…a good exercise for the performers to keep their improv instincts sharp and it’s good entertainment watching funny people goof off.” - Portland Mercury “If you like animated comedies, how about animated stand-up comedy?… It’s just like having your portrait drawn at a fair, only instead of mildly insulting caricatures, you get to see one-of-a-kind depictions of what’s going on inside funny people’s heads.” - Vulture “The amicable marriage of sight, sound and more sight…each [artist and comedian] performing their due diligence to visualize this crazy thing called funny.” - Spinning Platters “The dynamic between comedian and illustrator can be push and pull, but when it works, they’re ultimately moving in the same direction.” - The Comic’s Comic “Often, the drawings are just as funny as the standup, enhancing and occasionally stealing the show.. A comedian might have a prepared set that gets thrown totally into a tangent when the illustrator adds their own input or sketches a crude figure that takes the joke to the next level. There’s also a high potential for verbal vs. visual banter.” - LAist “An inherent irony existed in the disparity between two disciplines identified by the term “comic” - Spinning Platters “Our animators are joke-tellers, too, they just process the same bits visually versus verbally, it’s always so cool to see your bit from a different angle you hadn’t thought to explore! I always feel like I’m dealing with the most talented heckler in the room on the show – once you surrender yourself to the idea that you’ll never be as dynamic.” - Brandie Posey “The show is growing fast. Comedians perform while comedy’s best illustrators create masterpieces based on what they’re hearing on stage, live. You get to watch the process and it’s a really fun time.” - The Interrobang, Top Five Shows Out of Towners Need to See “Stand-up comedy typically hinges on performers maintaining total power and control. Yet these shows put a premium on experimentation and vulnerability, humanizing the comics in the process.” - LA Weekly

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