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
Arts & Entertainment Review: I Loved 'Pee-Wee's Big Holiday' Enough To Marry It Pee-wee Herman has not appeared in a feature film in 28 years sidelined as actor Paul Reubens was by the 1991 indecent exposure arrest that predates the modern internet. We've seen Reubens appear
Arts & Entertainment Video: Feminist Bachelor Auction Kicks Off Valentine's Weekend Men were objectified, shirts were removed and money was raised for Planned Parenthood when San Francisco’s top female comedians ganged up for Friday night’s Eligible Feminist Bachelor Auction comedy event at
Arts & Entertainment Conan O'Brien Coming To SF To Host 'NFL Honors' On Super Bowl Weekend In further Super Bowl-related celebrity news, it was announced late Thursday that comedian Conan O'Brien would be the host of the 2016 NFL Honors broadcast an annual song-and-dance the Saturday before the big
Arts & Entertainment Surprise, Again! Dave Chappelle Adds Second Suprise SF Show This Saturday Comedian Dave Chappelle's typically bi-annual "surprise shows" are a little like that surprise party in the office on your birthday. Maybe it's gonna be on Thursday, maybe it's gonna be on Friday, but
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Lineup Includes Christopher Guest, Sally Field, Jeff Goldblum The highlight of 2016's SF Sketchfest, running January 7th to 24th in its 15th year, could be a salute to Waiting For Guffman on the 20th anniversary of that genre- inventing mockumentary. In
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest Has A Comedy Tent This Year In case you missed it, Treasure Island Music Fest returns this weekend for two pretty mellow days of shows on two stages that don't overlap thus, no running around or stressing about what
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho's 'psyCHO Tour' Hits The Castro Theatre Thursday In addition to discussing her sexuality, sex toys, and how Patti LaBelle is scared of her, native San Franciscan Margaret Cho may be touching on some more serious issues during two sets at
Arts & Entertainment Comedian W. Kamau Bell On SF Gentrification: 'You Know It's Bad When Even White People Are Angry' W. Kamau Bell admits to "pulling back" in front of San Francisco's often largely white audiences. But last night on Valencia Street at the Chapel during a live taping of KQED's new podcast
Arts & Entertainment Video: Snoop Through Your Host's Stuff With 'Airbnb Express' Early in the days of Airbnb, when we still called the practice apartment-sharing without using exaggerated air quotes or eye rolls, a pal of mine was Airbnbing her Tenderloin apartment to tourists every
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: 'True Crime' Comedy At The Great Star "Tragedy plus time equals comedy" is an axiom that's been used by stand-up comedians since the form began. A comedy show this Saturday aims to put that dictum to the test, by featuring
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About Uberex, A Service Where Your Ex Drives You Around And It's Really Awkward Riding in a Uber can be uncomfortable enough, what with the confusion over tipping, journalist-stalking, and hammer attacks. Add to those indignities the prospect of having to ride in a car driven by
Arts & Entertainment Your Ultimate Guide To SF Comedy Events This post is brought to you by Eventbrite. Calling all comedy connoisseurs! Sketchfest has come and gone (and our abs still hurt from all the laughter), but we’ve got the insider’s
Arts & Entertainment An SFist Guide To SF Sketchfest Not joking: SF Sketchfest starts today. If you haven't made any plans, we're here to do you a solid. Here's a roundup of some excellent comedy, from tributes to standup to screenings. There's
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Wraps Up Her Mini Busking Tour For The Homeless Back in mid-November we told you about how locally born comedian Margaret Cho had returned to SF for a while and was busking (and stripping) on the streets to raise money and collect
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet San Francisco's 5-Year-Old Venture Capitalist Everything But The News, PBS's answer to The Daily Show/The Onion has taken on San Francisco tech culture before, with a report on the early days of ridesharing and an attempt to
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Flashback: <i>Mr. Show</i> Predicts the Corporate Sanitizing of San Francisco Waaay back in the mid-90s, the pioneering, twisted sketch comedy show Mr. Show aired on HBO for three years, and produced some classic moments from the minds of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk
Arts & Entertainment Oh No, Leland Yee: Shrimp Boy Mocked On 'The Daily Show' Bothered and bewildered Senator Leland Yee and optimistic Chinatown gang leader Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow appeared in a segment called “Innocent Until Who Are We Kidding?” on The Daily Show Tuesday night. And
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: The Something Something Shindig The Something Something Shindig is "a wild show that combines stand up comedy, improv, music, and what we like to call 'audience-participation-good-times.'" This sounds like a fantastic event for a early-in-the relationship
Arts & Entertainment 'Everything But The News' Takes On S.F. Ridesharing Everything But The News is a news parody show, similar to The Daily Show, but with more PBS-focused jokes. In it, freelance reporter/out and proud Canadian Steve Goldbloom ventures throughout the Bay
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest 2014 Lineup Announced It's already felt like a long, hard winter here in San Francisco, with temps hovering at cruel lows for over a week (a week!). But let's not forget that there are months of
Arts & Entertainment 'Friends: Live' Coming! Could You Be Any More Excited? Local drag artistes have joined forces to reimagine onstage what is arguably the greatest sitcom ever to air. We are, of course, talking about Friends. (Fine, it's a three-way tie between Seinfeld and
