Totally Sketched Out
SF Sketchfest, San Francisco’s mammoth star-studded comedy festival, is back once again. I run through
ten picks to get you started on KQED Arts. Read more
A Sketchy Invasion
Brace yourselves. The comedians are coming. The 13th annual SF Sketchfest kicks off this week, and my report is on KQED Arts, talking to Mad TV‘s Phil LaMarr, Saturday Night Live‘s Rachel Dratch and The State‘s Michael Showalter about what keeps them coming back to San Francisco year after year.
A Laughable Feast
Once a humble assemblage of local sketch comedy acts, SF Sketchfest now brings a staggering number of comedy heavyweights to San Francisco every year. The 11th annual comedy fest opened last Thursday, and the last week has already seen performances by John Hodgman, Ann Magnuson, Bruce McCulloch, Phil LaMarr, Eugene Mirman, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ben Gibbard, Molly Shannon, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, David Cross, Amy Poehler, Judy Greer, Will Durst, Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Kevin Pollak, the Groundlings, Stella and the original Upright Citizens Brigade, including a radio-play reading of Wet Hot American Summer and a table-read of its unproduced sequel. The next week will bring Drew Carey and the Whose Line Is It Anyway? cast, Wil Wheaton, Adam Savage, Barry Bostwick, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Fred Willard, Rachel Dratch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Florence Henderson, Laraine Newman, Oscar Nunez, Will Forte, Mary Lynn Rajskub, W. Kamau Bell, Dan Harmon, Kevin Smith, Will Franken, Bob Odenkirk, and… well good lord, isn’t that enough for you? Apparently not, because that doesn’t even cover half of what’s going on.
