SF's annual Sketchfest never fails to please the comedy nerds. After months of wondering how they could possibly outdo last year's Kids in the Hall tribute, the annual festival of hilarity recently announced the reunion of the seminal comedy troupe, The State. Their early-90s television show on MTV revolutionized sketch comedy for years to come, and members then went on to produce classic comedy staples such as Wet Hot American Summer, Stella, Reno 911!, and more recently, Role Models. The comp
(Aziz Ansari by Seth Olenick)Aziz Ansari (w/ Nick Kroll)Friday, Jan. 23, 2009Punch LineBetter than: "Rollerblading" What better way to spend a Friday night than laughing until you're all teared up like a baby? I mean, yeah, it's great when you leave the Great American talking about some kick ass band really tightening up its live show. But you know you've had a memorable start to the weekend when, in reference to the night before, your date texts you, "Grab that giraffe by the neck, Randy"
Photo of Zach Galifianakis by www.brandonhickman.comComedy Death Ray w/ Zach Galigianakis, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Bob Odenkirk, Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Kindler, Chris Hardwick and the Fun Bunch (Scott Aukerman & BJ Porter)Friday, Jan. 30, 2009Cobb's Comedy ClubBetter than: Lemme get back to you on that one...Being awkward can make for great comedy. Many a great comic actor has feigned being flustered on stage, or has used real unease to make audiences laugh in spite of themselves (see the great A
stuffunemployedpeoplelike.comYeah, we thought it was Zach Galifianakis too. It's Joaquin Phoenix -- and be quiet or he'll eat you.You've got to salute someone who finds a way to succeed in down times. The man who invented and marketed the bindle -- he must have cleaned up during the Great Depression. Along those lines, the San Francisco Public Library this week happily crowed that it is serving 30 percent more people than it did at this time last year and checking out 15 percent more material
Roland and Belinda Hinmueller At the central Salvation Army kitchen in SoMa Wednesday morning, two line cooks wore cycling jerseys along with their hairnets. You could consider kitchen hands Roland and Belinda Hinmueller a type of extreme migrant worker: a New Zealand couple pedaling from Alaska to Argentina on their yellow tandem bicycle "Big Bird." The trip is a more eco-conscious and ambitious version of Che Guevara's motorcycle journey across the Americas as documented in The Motorcycl
