misc SF Sketchfest Ticket Giveaway: Brent Weinbach in Boomtime He's cute, 1/3 Jewish, 1/3 Filipino, and 1/3 Los Angelian. What more do you need? Oh yes, he also brings on the funny. Big time. And tomorrow night he will
misc SFist Tonight The Sound of Young America Live: Live public radio featuring Jesse Thorn, Morgan Murphy, Merlin Mann, Danny Hoch, and Bucky Sinister perform le stand-up hot. Zach Rogue (of Rogue Wave) provides the music.
misc SFist Tonight Information Society: Remember these guys? No? How about now? They perform along with Tell Tale Heartbreakers, Spellbound (a Siouxsie tribute band), DJs Decay (Death Guild), Shindog (New Wave City), and Callum McGowan (Retrowerks)
misc SFist Tonight Whitest Kids U Know: In addition to winning the Best Sketch award at the 2006 Aspen Comedy Festival and being crowned one of "10 Comics to Watch" by Variety, these guys are, apparently,
misc SFist Tonight - Sketchfest Edition Before hitting the sundry of top-notch hilarity littering San Francisco during the 7th Annual SF Sketchfest - i.e., the sad clowns making funny - be sure to stop by tonight's opening party.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: RiffTrax Live We say almost only because the movie they did, which they kept secret until the night of the show, was the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling epic and all the comedic riffing in the world
misc SFist Ticket Giveaway: Closing Night of SF Sketchfest The performers will be the Kids In the Hall's Bruce McCulloch and will feature both music and comedy. Also performing will be Craig Northey, Hard 'n Phirm, and Dragon Boy Suede. Yes, that'll
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 SFist Goes to the Paul Reubens Tribute The scene at the Palace: No kids. Just adults who were once in various stages of kidness and under Reubens' thrall. "We've all grown up," observed Big Sis. The show opened with a
misc SFist Paul Reubens Contest Tonight at the Palace of Fine Arts, noted journalist Ben Fong-Torres will have a "conversation with Paul." We don't know if you've been to one of those "conversation" type things, but it's rather
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser/Elephant Larry Now, before tomatoes get thrown at us, we don't mean it in a negative way. It's not like we didn't enjoy Kasper Hauser-- we very much did-- it's just that we liked Elephant
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
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 "All Tommorow's Jokes" at the Hemlock Tavern "All Tommorow's Jokes" features the comedy stylings of music duo Hard N Phirm, stand up comedian Jasper Redd, the sketch comedy group Prank the Dean, and stand up comedian Brent Weinbach. The show