Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Dominates Celebrity Jeopardy! and Advances To Semifinals Along With W. Kamau Bell SF-born Margaret Cho wowed Celebrity Jeopardy! viewers with a stellar performance, securing a spot in the semifinals. Cho might end up competing with Oakland's W. Kamau Bell who advanced earlier in the season.
Arts & Entertainment New Comedy Club and Cocktail Lounge The Function Set to Open on Mid-Market A local comedian is opening a new comedy club this spring in a former dive bar space near Market and Van Ness in San Francisco, and it will be called The Function.
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Returns Thursday for Two Weeks of Sketchy Activity The 21st annual comedy festival SF Sketchfest is back starting Thursday, featuring everything from a freshly crowned Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor to a puppet dog that mostly just makes poop jokes.
Arts & Entertainment Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Doing Joint Shows in the Bay Area in January, Tickets on Sale Friday The combined standup talents of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will double-team SF and Oakland in late January, as the two just announced new dates for their first-ever tour together.
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest 2022 Postponed Indefinitely Due to — Well, You Know Why The delayed 20th anniversary of the comedy festival Sketchfest is delayed yet again, but organizers insist “Hang on to your tickets!” for a future rescheduling.
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest 2020 to Feature Sandra Bernhard, Fred Armisen, Crispin Glover and More Tickets go on sale Sunday morning for SF Sketchfest, which runs from January 9 to January 26, 2020, and it will, as always, feature a cavalcade of funny folks from across the country in comedy showcases, scripted shows, and on-stage tributes.
Arts & Entertainment SF Comedian Assaulted On Stage During Standup Show In the Mission During a show that was part of Mutiny Radio's Comedy Festival on Saturday in the Mission District, a comedian delivered a joke about the name Jeff, and some guy in the audience with the name Jeff jumped up on stage and punched him.
Arts & Entertainment 13 San Francisco Standup Comedians to Go See Now Get giggly with the standout standups of the Bay Area comedy scene.
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week As we gear up for America's Independence Day, enjoy classic county fairs, Prince and Pink Floyd tributes, sun-kissed music festivals, and a storytelling show about women's periods. TUESDAY, JUNE 27 BRIT FLOYD: Pink
Arts & Entertainment Comedian Kathy Griffin Has Appearances Canceled In Napa, Grass Valley, And LA In Wake Of Trump Controversy While some are going to argue that Americans are generally forgiving and everyone except OJ Simpson can ultimately have a comeback, fans and non-fans remain upset about Kathy Griffin's controversial photoshoot with photographer
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Jerry Seinfeld, Hannibal Buress, Maya Rudolph And More At Clusterfest Day Three The first ever, and likely to be annual, Colossal Clusterfest concluded Sunday night in Civic Center, capping off three days and nights of pretty non-stop laughs and selfies on Jerry Seinfeld's fictional 1990s
Arts & Entertainment TJ Miller, Tig Notaro, Ice Cube and More: Scenes From Colossal Clusterfest Days One & Two The first ever Comedy Central-curated Colossal Clusterfest in San Francisco appears to be coming off without a hitch as it enters its third and final day. Headliner Jerry Seinfeld has yet to take
Arts & Entertainment Sneak A Peek Inside The Seinfeld Apartment And Paddy's Pub Replicas At Colossal Clusterfest It's a first-of-its-kind three-day comedy festival in San Francisco, and we've been talking about it for months now, but it's now here, starting Friday, June 2: Colossal Clusterfest. A lot of Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment Ilana & Abbi From 'Broad City' Will Play Wayne & Garth In 'Wayne's World' Dramatic Reading In SF Party on, everybody. A new highlight has been announced in the upcoming Colossal Clusterfest in San Francisco, and it involves already announced performers Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of Broad City fame. They
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle And John Mayer Perform At The Fillmore This Friday And Saturday Dave Chappelle and John Mayer, entertainers and friends both known to be occasionally offensive, present a surprise set of two performances this weekend: "Chappelle & John Mayer: Controlled Danger," as Live Nation revealed
Arts & Entertainment New Comedy Central Festival Clusterfest Releases Daily Lineups, Single Day Tickets On Sale Tomorrow Comedy Central has a willing guinea pig in San Francisco for its big foray into the festival game with Colossal Clusterfest here on June 2-4. The 30,000 ticket, 50 comedian festival organized
Arts & Entertainment 19 Best Sketchfest Shows That Are Not Sold Out As The Comedy Festival Kicks Off It is a telling sign of the times that this year’s SF Sketchfest lineup has more star power than the upcoming inauguration of the President of the United States. This year’s
Arts & Entertainment Eight Narrowly Rejected Themes For Local Tech Company Holiday Parties A photo posted by Connie (@conniec) on Dec 5, 2015 at 8:41am PST Everyone recalls last season's glut of Great Gatsby-themed tech company holiday parties: Ignoring talk of a tech bubble, Facebook,
Arts & Entertainment Massive Sketchfest Lineup Includes 'The Kids In The Hall' While Comedy Central Announces New 3-Day SF Fest Ta-da! SF Sketchfest 2017, the event's 16th annual incarnation, has revealed its gigantic lineup for shows from January 12-29. It's a who's who of comedy in all its forms, from film to stand-up
Arts & Entertainment SF Comic Nato Green Discusses The Firestorm Caused By His <i>Comedians in Cars Getting Abortions</i> The “people doing things in cars” video meme has been on a roll lately, most notably with the recent Michelle Obama singing karaoke in a car with James Cordon and Jerry Seinfeld’s
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Sells Out Yet Again, And Fred Armisen Joins The Comedy Lineup For the sixth straight year, Outside Lands has sold out, this time ahead of the July timeframe when all the VIP and general admission tickets generally disappear and this shouldn't be a surprise
Arts & Entertainment Louis C.K. Adds Two SF Sets At Bill Graham To Summer Tour Actor/writer/comedian/Jeopardy! champion Louis C.K. is coming to San Francisco this summer, and after just announcing a July 8 show at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Monday, which sold out
Arts & Entertainment Bob The Drag Queen, Winner of <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i>, Coming To Castro Memorial Day Weekend The "Drag Queens of Comedy" tour, which arrives at the Castro Theatre for two performances on Saturday, May 28, has just added to the bill the breakout star from Season 8 of Rupaul's
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Three Sold Out, Cellphone-Free Shows At The Chapel This Week Just like most of you, probably, we're just now getting word that Dave Chappelle announced a couple of surprise shows as he often does these days Tuesday night at The Chapel in SF
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Danny Scheie In 'House Tour' At Z Space This, dear readers, is not a review. Rather, it is an exhortation: Go see Z Space's new comedy by playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb starring the arrestingly funny Danny Scheie. Titled A House Tour
