Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to SF Sketchfest's First Annual Filmed Sketch Night Why gather with strangers in a theater to stare at funny films on a screen when you could . . . sit at home on your couch and stare at funny films (even these most of
Arts & Entertainment Review: Comedy Death-Ray at SketchFest SFist was excited to hit SketchFest’s Comedy Death-Ray act last night at Cobb’s. The line up (full of Mr. Show and I LOVE the ‘80’s alumns) looked promising. After the
SF News Koo-Koo-Ka-Cha! At the request of our august editor, in honor of this Saturday's townhall meeting and Gavin Newsom chicken-out from Question Time, we're running the YouTube clip of the Chicken Dance from Arrested Development.
Arts & Entertainment It's Sketchfest Time For those who don't know, San Francisco Sketchfest was started six years ago and is about two weeks of performances by comedians, comedy troupes and improv groups. This year's show includes not just
SF News Did the Lawyer Leak? Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched
SF News The Rain Song The Park Service, in fact, has issued a warning to beach goes about the possibilities of big waves and all sorts of oceanic badness but we wonder who is going to go to
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight Don't get us wrong. We totally dug "The Sopranos," but we must have suffered from some severe, Uncle Junior-level memory loss in the two years since the last season ended. We were...confused,
Arts & Entertainment Krayg Burton from Film School But we digress. If you haven’t listened to Film School’s latest album, get it here (or maybe here, if you want to be the lucky billionth listener). It’s good. Normally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The (Possible) End of the Laughter It seems like a lifetime since we've seen a new episode, and the last episode they aired could have very well stood as a season (or series!) finale unto itself, what with its
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Upright Citizens Brigade: A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T. at SF Sketchfest The show was frickin' great. The cast was on, barely breaking a sweat throughout their performance, and almost completely in-synch with each other. Every bit that they did was brought to an almost
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Cole Stratton We should have asked him what he did to attract performers from Mr. Show, The Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Stella, The State, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, and The Upright
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Today In other news, we were pretty bummed when we realized we had missed Oprah's Christmastime Favorite Things episode when it aired last month, so we can't tell you how thrilled we are that
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Oscar Bluth? We're not sure ourselves, but it sure is something to ponder and think about as we reminiscence about all the good times we had with the Bluth family. And while we heard that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV in Anger This Week But here it is, Monday again, and there will be no "Arrested Development" to get us through the day. And that void makes it hard to get excited about anything else the TV
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Funny This Week Not to sound like a broken record, but have you been watching "Arrested Development"?! Ok, fine, you haven't been able to watch it for the past month because it hasn't been on. But
SF News Gavin Gives Good Speech So, yes, yesterday was Gavin's big State of the City speech. In a speech entitled "Why it matters to be a San Franciscan," a question that answers itself if ever there was, in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As the Fall TV Season Looms Ahead Unfortunately, some networks are screwing that whole concept up royally, not airing the full run of their shows, and more egregiously, running episodes out of order. (Yeah, we're looking at YOU ABC and
