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Audio archive . Live in LA at El Cid. Beth Lapides host and creatrix. Beth Lapides hosts comedy luminaries and their musical muses. The original alt comedy show. Now in its 27th year.
09/10/2025
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08/21/2025
The air feels like fall
But the flowers still look full.
My family gathered
Some new some now gone
I met a long lost friend of Mitch’s
We slept so well and then not at all
Alternating
Full and fall
Rocked by a boat
Soothed by rain on a tin roof
Dreaming of giraffes underwater.
I went all the way into the ocean.
Water has the quality of mercy.
Mercy mercy me.
We ate and how we met stories.
We mourned and mended and made new memories.
Maybe making memories is one way we fight back.
Maybe it’s how we refuel for the fight.
I sit charging up for the flight.
Doing this because I really do hate saying goodbye to all of the blooming.
Also i *may* have gotten a little carried away w the filter on the cover shot ha ha ha.
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The original alt comedy show. Now in our 27th groundbreaking year. Currently we are on zoom every other Sunday! Why the Un? Unhomophobic, unxenophobic, unmysogynistic. Unhacky.
Creatrix Beth Lapides hosts comedy luminaries and their musical muses. Each show is a one time only night. Comedians, writers, actors and personalities share their ongoing stories.
In addition to the live weekly, monthly or now bi-monthly show, UnCabaret has appeared on Amazon, Comedy Central, sirius, and featured in and on CNN, NY Times, PBS, LA Times, Entertainment Weekly, NPR etc. UnCabaret is stories and storied. It’s intimate, conversational and funny.
Among our performers: Patton Oswalt, Margaret Cho, Sandra Bernhard, Kathy Griffin, Julia Sweeney, Tig Notaro, Greg Behrendt, Rob Delaney, Bob Odenkirk, Jeff Garlin, Richard Lewis, Julia Sweeney, Scott Thompson, Janeane Garofalo, Casey Wilson, Laura Kightlinger, Jennifer Coolidge, Merrill Markoe, Roseanne Barr, Greg Proops, David Cross, Rick Overton, Eddie Pepitone, Rory Scovel, Jen Kirkman, Moshe Kasher, Taylor Negron, Casey Wilson, Jen Kirkman, Sarah Silverman, Karen Kilgariff, Kira Soltanovich, Natasha Legerro, Rebecca Corry, Moon Zappa, Garfunkel and Oates, Cheri Oteri, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Randy and Jason Sklar, Ali Wong, Carlie and Doni, Kelly Carlin, Carrie Fisher, Allee Willis and Miss Coco Peru and so many more!
Mitch Kaplan is the musical director and co-producer.
We’ve toured to art centers, universities and theaters. The Getty Center, The Ace Hotel Palm Springs, The Skirball Cultural Center.
We have 5 critically acclaimed CD’s: Freak Weather Feels Different, The Un and Only, The Good The Bad and The Drugly, Say the Word Volumes 1 and 2.
We’ve been featured in We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy, CNN’s History of Comedy, PBS’s Women in Comedy and in Kathy Griffin’s memoir.
We co-produced The Coming Out Party. And we were the incubator for Julia Sweeney’s God Said Ha!
Our .edu branch has been in operation for over a dozen years under various titles including Infinite Writing, UnCab Lab, The Comedian’s Way and The Beth Lapides Workshop. We’ve been hosted by UCLA Extension, IOWest, The Skirball Center, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, LA Gay and Le***an Center, Mbar, PS 122, Second City and Actors Comedy Studio. For more info on classes check this out.