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The San Francisco Comedy Competition (sometimes referred to as the San Francisco International Comedy Competition or The San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition) is a stand-up comedy contest held each September in San Francisco, California, and neighboring areas of Northern California.
SF Sketchfest, or The San Francisco Comedy Festival, is an American comedy festival founded in 2002 by Bay Area actor-comedians David Owen, Janet Varney and Cole Stratton. [1] It takes place every January and February in a variety of Bay Area venues and features sketch comedy , improv comedy , film and television tributes and reunions, solo ...
Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues like those delivered by Mark Twain in his first (1866 ...
Cobb's Comedy Club is a stand-up comedy venue in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. It was founded in 1982, and has had many top comedians on its stage. It was founded in 1982, and has had many top comedians on its stage.
He did stand-up in San Francisco. [9] Meaney had a show called the Sweeney and Meaney Hour at Stitches Comedy Club in Boston. [10] [11] His big break into mainstream culture may be considered to be his first HBO comedy special in 1986, followed by his debut performance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1987. [12]
Silicomedy (Chinese: 硅谷脱口秀, abbreviated as GGTKX) is a comedy club located in Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States.Silicomedy was founded in 2019., [1] mainly featuring Chinese performers and Mandarin stand-up comedy shows.
Ali Wong beat out Jamie Foxx, Nikki Glaser, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler and Ramy Youssef to take home the best performance in stand-up comedy on television at the 2025 Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5.
In 2012, Bell was voted San Francisco's best comedian by the SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and 7×7 Magazine. [11] His first stand-up comedy TV special, Semi-Prominent Negro, premiered on Showtime on April 29, 2016, [16] and on September 30, 2016, his third full-length album with the same title, was released on Kill Rock Stars. [17]