SmartLess Live — Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles

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Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett turned a pandemic podcast into one of the biggest live shows in comedy by doing exactly what they do on the microphone — talking to each other like three friends who happen to be famous and occasionally remember to interview the guest. SmartLess Live at the Hollywood Bowl puts that dynamic in front of 17,500 people, and the magic is that it still feels like eavesdropping on a conversation you were never supposed to hear. The celebrity guest is unannounced until they walk onstage. The bits are unscripted. The arguments about whose turn it is to ask a question are real. The audience laughs the way you laugh with friends — not at punchlines but at the recognition that someone just said the thing everyone was thinking. Saturday, October 17. 8:00 PM. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles.