Big Grande
When Dan Lippert, Jon Mackey, Ryan Rosenberg, and Drew Tarver met, they made each other laugh a lot. So they decided to work together as Big Grande and try to make other people laugh, too. Big Grande has performed all over LA, most recently doing "Big Grande's Little Sketch Show" to sold out audiences at the UCB theatre. Individually, members of Big Grande have appeared in Animal Practice, Workaholics, Newsreaders, Funny or Die exclusive content, and College Humor. Their spec pilot, I Think We Got It was a finalist in the NYTVF Comedy Central short pilot competition, and they have been sitting on a sketch they shot which prominently but tastefully features a character in blackface.

Ham Pants Productions
Ham Pants Productions is the brainchild of Andy Wenger (Writer, Director) and Damien Chacona (Writer, Producer, Designer), two non-native San Franciscans who wanted to create theater in their image: irreverent, irrelevant, and inane. Since 2008, Ham Pants Productions has put up three full-length offerings (The Safe Way, Random Idiot Factor, and The Wrong Dick) skewering tropes in apocalyptic horror, dystopian science fiction, and noir, respectively. Ham Pants Productions Presents, a sketch comedy and variety revue, is currently playing the illustrious Stage Werx Theatre at 446 Valencia Street in San Francisco on the third Tuesday of the month at 8:00 pm! Learn more at hampantsproductions.com or "Like" us on Facebook.

Last Call Cleveland
Last Call Cleveland is a nationally touring, award-winning sketch comedy troupe with over 35 million views online. This "pricelessly savage" (Chicago Tribune) quartet has sold out shows all over the country and made a name for themselves as festival favorites — which includes bringing the coveted top prize at the Toronto Sketchfest back to America where it belongs. With a stage show that consists of live and taped sketches, songs and audience interaction, the group sold out 12 straight shows at Playhouse Square in Cleveland and were recently invited to perform at the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles.

Kelly Collette
Unconventional sorority girl Kelly Collette has come a long way from her days as the only beauty contestant to pay her pageant fees with her dad's drug money. Having found her voice, a few octaves lower than her original one, she now regularly performs standup comedy around the US. Her upbeat, engaging style is always a crowd pleaser as she covers topics from pop culture to her own life with irony and a keen sense for the absurd. In 2012 Kelly was a finalist for CMT's Next Big Comic. She is also a two time finalist in The Funniest Person in Cincinnati contest. Kelly is involved in the sketch/improv group The Underbelly, which was named Best Comedy Show in Cincinnati for 2009.She has performed at the Brew Haha Comedy Festival, The Cleveland Comedy Festival and the Mid Point Music Festival.

Last Call Cleveland
Last Call Cleveland is a nationally touring, award-winning sketch comedy troupe with over 35 million views online. This "pricelessly savage" (Chicago Tribune) quartet has sold out shows all over the country and made a name for themselves as festival favorites — which includes bringing the coveted top prize at the Toronto Sketchfest back to America where it belongs. With a stage show that consists of live and taped sketches, songs and audience interaction, the group sold out 12 straight shows at Playhouse Square in Cleveland and were recently invited to perform at the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles.

Listen Kid!
Listen, Kid! is one of New York's premier sketch comedy duos. Housed at The Magnet Theater, these boys have brought their zany act to Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Toronto. When they're not cooking up cartoony yuks, Kevin writes and voices characters for Sesame Street interactive and Al is an award-winning playwright.

Kristen Studard: It Could Be Worse: Everything's Great and I Can't Stop Crying
Comedian Kristen Studard is back with a new solo show, following up her last show Small Victories, which was Recommended with a capital R by the Chicago Reader and hailed as "Smart, ironic... and winningly offbeat" by the Chicago Tribune. In this brand new show Studard takes a look at her life and thinks the title of the show. The full title. She's crying when she thinks it. Kristen has performed at the Comedy Central Stage in LA, TBS Just For Laughs Festival, SF Sketchfest, Chicago Sketchfest, and countless theatres, clubs, bars, bookstores, and backyards. For more words and pictures visit http://hellokristen.com

Phoebe Robinson
Comedian Phoebe Robinson is the creator of Blaria.com (that's Black Daria, for those not in the know). She's performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival and the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, and was a part of NBC's Stand up for Diversity college tour. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Time Out New York and The Huffington Post. She's also appeared on TV Guide's 100 Shows to See Before You Die and 25 Biggest Reality Star Blunders. She frowns upon you following her in real life, but totally feel free to track her every move on Twitter: @PRobinsonComedy.

Tremendosaur (Justin Michael and Jacob Reed) presents Before You Were Funny: the most entertainingly terrible sketch show the world has never seen!

We've raided the Awful Sketch Vaults of yesteryear and asked our favorite comedians to bring in and perform their worst sketches...LIVE.

There's no time to prepare, no time to memorize lines, and nobody but the writer has read them beforehand. IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.

The SF Sketchfest edition features special guest James Adomian (Comedy Bang! Bang!) and Mary Lynn Rajskub (24)!

The Mutiny
The Mutiny is a headliner sketch team at iO West in Hollywood with a devoted monthly show. Handpicked by the theatre, the performers come from diverse backgrounds including television staffs at Warner Brothers and Comedy Central, iO house improv teams, UCB house sketch teams, various films and commercials. In addition to stage shows, the Mutiny also produces videos regularly found on the front page of Funny or Die. Directed by Sergio Cilli, the Mutiny is: Jeremy Belanger, Julia Bellows, Joey Clift, Ross Crain, Eric Cunningham, Blake Hogue, Alex Logan, Mark David Christenson and Shannon Joy Rodgers. You'll like them.

Listen Kid!
Listen, Kid! is one of New York's premier sketch comedy duos. Housed at The Magnet Theater, these boys have brought their zany act to Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Toronto. When they're not cooking up cartoony yuks, Kevin writes and voices characters for Sesame Street interactive and Al is an award-winning playwright.

Kristen Studard: It Could Be Worse: Everything's Great and I Can't Stop Crying
Comedian Kristen Studard is back with a new solo show, following up her last show Small Victories, which was Recommended with a capital R by the Chicago Reader and hailed as "Smart, ironic... and winningly offbeat" by the Chicago Tribune. In this brand new show Studard takes a look at her life and thinks the title of the show. The full title. She's crying when she thinks it. Kristen has performed at the Comedy Central Stage in LA, TBS Just For Laughs Festival, SF Sketchfest, Chicago Sketchfest, and countless theatres, clubs, bars, bookstores, and backyards. For more words and pictures visit http://hellokristen.com

Bryan Cook
Bryan Cook originally hails from the barren hellscape of rural Maine, and began his comedy career in Seattle, before relocating to Los Angeles where he writes for Joan Rivers' Fashion Police. Cook is the host and creator of Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, presented every month at the esteemed Nerdmelt Theater in LA, as well as all over the US. In 2012, he was featured as an opening act on Kyle Kinane's Great Mistakes Tour, and has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Fest, Riot LA, and Bumbershoot Festival. Cook has also performed at some of the finest alternative rooms in the country, including Holy Fuck (LA), Big Terrific (NYC), and The Grawlix (Denver). He has had the honor of sharing the stage with Nick Kroll, Hannibal Burress, Jen Kirkman, Todd Barry, Baron Vaughn, and has contributed to McSweeney's.

Big Grande
When Dan Lippert, Jon Mackey, Ryan Rosenberg, and Drew Tarver met, they made each other laugh a lot. So they decided to work together as Big Grande and try to make other people laugh, too. Big Grande has performed all over LA, most recently doing "Big Grande's Little Sketch Show" to sold out audiences at the UCB theatre. Individually, members of Big Grande have appeared in Animal Practice, Workaholics, Newsreaders, FunnyorDie exclusive content, and College Humor. Their spec pilot, I Think We Got It was a finalist in the NYTVF Comedy Central short pilot competition, and they have been sitting on a sketch they shot which prominently but tastefully features a character in blackface.

Tremendosaur Sells Out
After years of making no money in comedy they believed in, Tremendosaur has decided to sell out. Join them for a farewell to their integrity via brand-new live sketches, product placement, videos, songs, and the crisp, lemon-lime taste of America's favorite beverage: Sierra Mist.

Tremendosaur is a Los Angeles sketch troupe made up of UCB regulars Justin Michael and Jacob Reed. They've written for Comedy Central, Funny or Die, and Cracked.com and have had their work featured on The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Washington Post and all over the magical pixels that make up the internet. Praised by LAist as a "two man sketch comedy beast" Tremendosaur combines live and video sketches into delicious hybrid that'll blow you a kiss and melt your face clean off your skull.

MC Mr. Napkins
Zach Sherwin, also known as MC Mr. Napkins, is a comedian and a rapper. His credits include releasing "MC Mr. Napkins: The Album" on Comedy Central Records, appearing on E!, MTV, and VH1, writing for the MTV Movie Awards, and performing in Montreal's prestigious Just For Laughs festival. He also writes for the YouTube series Epic Rap Battles of History and has starred in three of the immensely popular videos, portraying such characters as Albert Einstein and Sherlock Holmes.

Gilli Nissim
Gilli Nissim is an improviser/comic from LA. After performing weekly sold-out shows at UCSB, Gilli decided to blow her mind fulltime by entering the world of improv in LA. She can be seen Mondays and Fridays with her Harold team Winslow at the UCB Theater. Gilli has been quickly gaining notoriety for her stand up comedy and character work as well, performing at all major and plenty of minor venues around SoCal. Gilli's brand of comedy celebrates the universality of everyone being a little bit mad. She can be seen in several roles this year on Adult Swim and waving at dogs from a distance.

Wackygamer Presents is a show dedicated to celebrating and making light of nerd and geek culture. The live show, podcast and web video channel (http://wackygamer.tv) was created by Jeff Reitman in 2009. Jeff, Adam and friends write and produce their own comedic skits and shows including hit series Nerd Wars, fan fav Animal Trash (naughty puppets), and First 15 Min of Bad Games! The live comedy show features live puppets, audience suggested Nerd Wars battle, and the hilarious comedy of Jeff, Ryan, Adam, and special guests!

Bad Movie Night is San Francisco's only audience-participation movie riffing show, inspired by yet featuring nobody from Mystery Science Theater 3000! In the mid-twentieth century, filmmakers created many bold visions of what humankind might find up among the stars. However, the 1958 stinkburger Queen of Outer Space is not one of the bolder visions, though it does have Zsa Zsa Gabor as the (heh) titular space queen. The Dark Room's Jim Fourniadis, Sherilyn Connelly, and special guest riffer Will Franken will take it on, and they invite you (yes, you!) to shout your own riffs at the screen. Free popcorn, Banjo, a crappy movie...what could be better?

Midbest/Midbest present Casey and Dave Are Different
UCBT-LA faves Casey Feigh and Dave Theune are Midbest, a sketch/improv duo that live in L.A., but hail from the Midwest. Individually, Casey and Dave have been seen on Tosh.0, HBO's Funny or Die, ESPN, Comedy Bang Bang, numerous national commercials and countless internet videos. Together, Midbest have performed at The Comedy Central Stage, UCB, and various indie shows throughout Los Angeles. "Midbest Presents: Casey and Dave are Different" is a 25-minute two-man sketch show written/performed by Casey Feigh and Dave Theune. Directed by David Ferguson.

End Games Improv
EndGames Improv brings you San Francisco's hottest improv show: "Your F!#&ed Up Relationship" - an entirely improvised comedy inspired by your ridiculous, REAL relationships. We've all had at LEAST one. You tell us your amazing stories, we show you ours. You laugh, we laugh, we all hook up at the end.

EndGames is an SF-based improv theater and school. We produce six shows weekly at StageWerx in the Mission District, including "Harold Night", the return of our run-away hit "Confessions", and, as always, "Your F@#$ed-Up Relationship". Check out our shows and classes at endgamesimprov.com.

Thunderstood
Thunderstood is multimedia one man sketch show that has been performed at comedy festivals across the country. Armed with a projector and a truly odd point of view AJ Schraeder takes you through a stream of conscious presentation of how he sees reality. In 2012 Thunderstood was awarded the title of "Best Sketch Group" at Shadowbox live's 4th annual Sketch Contest judged by original SNL cast Member Garrett Morris. Julie Lawless of rhum.org described his 2012 performance at SF sketchfest as "ridiculously hilarious", and spinningplatters.com said the show "showed exceptional stamina and satirical prowess". Kellen Erskine
Kellen Erskine was featured on season 7 of NBC's America's Got Talent. He is a past finalist of the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, and performs in comedy clubs, country clubs, and colleges. Kellen recently returned from the Great American Comedy Festival held in Johnny Carson's hometown of Norfolk, Nebrasks. He has shared the stage with the top talent in the industry, including Bob Saget, Sinbad, Daniel Tosh and Robin Williams. Reader's Digest featured Kellen in their September 2010 issues, in an article titled "Comics You Haven't Heard of...Yet." www.kellenerskine.com

Don't Watch This Show Live with guest Brody Stevens
Don't Watch This Show LIVE! is a collective of stand up comedians doing something different in comedy. They perform sketches, shoot comedy videos, shorts, and perform stand up and improv. DWTSL! is the only full show doing this type of production in San Francisco mostly because we are better than everyone else and more funny and beautiful and God knows we deserve more attention than we are getting and anyone who thinks otherwise is a Redcoat. #noswag

TMI
TMI is a weekly sketch show that has been playing for the last 6 months to sold-out houses every Sunday night at The Second City, Hollywood. Each week, some of Second City, Hollywood's most talented actors and writers come together to create a new show, hosted by the most famous person who condescends to work with us. Pop Culture, Politics, Sports — when a story breaks in Hollywood, we're there with the Crazy Glue. TMI - it's the sketch comedy equivalent of being trapped in a car with Chris Brown.

The Elsie Bo Show
Laura was raised in Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia. She originally trained as an actress but later settled on working as a governess /Mary Poppins to oligarchs and sheiks in Russia and Abu Dhabi. The positive reaction to her stories and observations from her life abroad, prompted the move into comedy. She trained as a stand-up with Logan Murray (Amused Moose London) and today can be found showcasing her eccentric and original characters on the London stand-up circuit. She recently launched 'The Elsie Bo Show' producing sketches and short films. 2013 is a busy year for Laura with gigs planned in Edinburgh, New York and San Francisco!

Joey Devine
Joey Devine is from the San Francisco Bay Area. He considers himself to be an absurdist, pop culture, storyteller. Which when jammed together like that makes no sense. He is a writer/performer for Yahoo.com's Broken News Daily a daily comedy news show that gets millions of hits a month. His credits include IFC, The SF Punch Line, The Purple Onion, Things We Made, and The Business. He chose comedy, because his one true love, The Golden State Warriors, spurned him many years ago. He is terrible at basketball.

Onassis
Originating as a house sketch team at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Onassis has gone on to win acclaim as one of the best comedy groups in New York City and was recently named Best Sketch Team at the Friars Club 2011 National Sketch Competition. This October saw the sold out, world premiere of their 22-min TV pilot during the annual Friars Club Comedy Festival. They also performed as part of the annual New York Comedy Festival in their Best of NY Sketch showcase and as part of The Upright Citizens Brigade's Best of 2011.

Onassis is: Mike Scollins, Benjamin Apple, Ben Rameaka, Lauren Adams, Emily Altman, Dawn Luebbe, Jason Saenz, Rob Michael Hugel, Frank Hejl and Alex Scordelis.

TMI
TMI is a weekly sketch show that has been playing for the last 6 months to sold-out houses every Sunday night at The Second City, Hollywood. Each week, some of Second City, Hollywood's most talented actors and writers come together to create a new show, hosted by the most famous person who condescends to work with us. Pop Culture, Politics, Sports — when a story breaks in Hollywood, we're there with the Crazy Glue. TMI - it's the sketch comedy equivalent of being trapped in a car with Chris Brown.

The Elsie Bo Show
Laura was raised in Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia. She originally trained as an actress but later settled on working as a governess /Mary Poppins to oligarchs and sheiks in Russia and Abu Dhabi. The positive reaction to her stories and observations from her life abroad, prompted the move into comedy. She trained as a stand-up with Logan Murray (Amused Moose London) and today can be found showcasing her eccentric and original characters on the London stand-up circuit. She recently launched 'The Elsie Bo Show' producing sketches and short films. 2013 is a busy year for Laura with gigs planned in Edinburgh, New York and San Francisco!

Greg Barris
Greg Barris is a staple in New York's downtown stand-up scene and is the creator of Heart Of Darkness: a psychedelic showcase of comedy, live music and fringe scientists that has been a frequent Time Out New York critic's pick, much loved by BrooklynVegan and hailed as 'Excellent' by The New Yorker. Comedians who have appeared on Heart of Darkness include Reggie Watts, Fred Armisen, Janeane Garofalo, Jim Gaffigan, Marc Maron, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Greg Behrendt, and Chelsea Peretti.

Dan Crossley
Performing since 2004, Dan quickly began grabbing the attention of crowd members and comedians alike as he received the 2006 award for top 25 up and coming comedians to watch in NYC from the New York Comedy Club. Since then he's won several awards including the Broadway Comedy Club's Belly Laughs Award, The Endicott College Comedy Award, Framingham Arts Center 2011 Miquer of the Year Award, and 2nd place at the 2011 Andy Kaufman Award. He also placed in the top 200 of the 2011 season of NBC's America's Got Talent. Currently Dan resides in Boston, MA and continues to gig and headline up and down the east coast.

Midbest/Midbest present Casey and Dave Are Different
UCBT-LA faves Casey Feigh and Dave Theune are Midbest, a sketch/improv duo that live in L.A., but hail from the Midwest. Individually, Casey and Dave have been seen on Tosh.0, HBO's Funny or Die, ESPN, Comedy Bang Bang, numerous national commercials and countless internet videos. Together, Midbest have performed at The Comedy Central Stage, UCB, and various indie shows throughout Los Angeles.
"Midbest Presents: Casey and Dave are Different" is a 25-minute two-man sketch show written/performed by Casey Feigh and Dave Theune. Directed by David Ferguson.

Up Up Up!
Up, Up, Up!'s been performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for three years, they've written and performed for TV and stuff, and they've won a bunch of awards, probably.

Up, Up, Up! is:
Jack "Crack-A-Lack" Allison
Nathan "Barnstorm" Barnatt
Courtney "Half-Court" Davis
Becky "Bo-Bo" Feldman
Joe "Joey" Hartzler
Meghan "Parks and Rec" Parks
Scott "Buck" Rodgers "in the 25th Century"
Matty "Evan" Smith
Evan "Wild Man" Susser
Angela "TIMBER!" Trimbur
Jessica "Dubya" Williams

Directed by Tim "Kalpakis" Kalpakis

Claudia Cogan
Claudia Cogan is a comic making a mark. Claudia was featured in New York Magazine's "Ten Comics Funny People Find Funny." She made her tv debut on Last Comic Standing 7 as a semi-finalist. A fixture on the New York scene, she was nominated three times for an Excellence in Comedy in New York (ECNY) award and won the first Time Out New York Joke of the Year. Claudia is an alum of UCB Theater program, improvising on house teams there. She has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival and performs all over the US.

Jesse's Restless Mind Syndrome
Jesse Fernandez shoots collages of ideas into that ether like shotgun blasts into the air. He rearranges half thoughts and feelings like a 4-dimensional jigsaw puzzle and puts the visual representations into his PowerPoint presentations. Then his boss scolds him for slacking off, and Jesse gets back to work as head writer of eBaumsworld.com.

The Grind
The Grind is M.I.'s Westside Comedy Theater's flagship long form improv show. The cast is comprised of the owners of the theater who have been performing together for over a decade. Their roots started in Chicago where they studied and performed improv comedy at some of the most renowned improv schools in he world. These gentlemen would go on to form the national improv touring group Mission IMROVable and spent years touring and performing together at thousands of colleges, comedy clubs and festivals all around the nation. In 2009 they founded M.i.'s Westside Comedy Theater, or the WCT as it's become known, and never looked back. Come see what many people consider the Grind their favorite improv show in Los Angeles.

Up Up Up!
Up, Up, Up!'s been performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for three years, they've written and performed for TV and stuff, and they've won a bunch of awards, probably.

Up, Up, Up! is:
Jack "Crack-A-Lack" Allison
Nathan "Barnstorm" Barnatt
Courtney "Half-Court" Davis
Becky "Bo-Bo" Feldman
Joe "Joey" Hartzler
Meghan "Parks and Rec" Parks
Scott "Buck" Rodgers "in the 25th Century"
Matty "Evan" Smith
Evan "Wild Man" Susser
Angela "TIMBER!" Trimbur
Jessica "Dubya" Williams

Directed by Tim "Kalpakis" Kalpakis

Adam Newman
Adam Newman is a NYC-based comedian. He recently appeared on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central. He was also named one of Comedy Central's Comics to Watch. He's a past winner of Carolines' Comedy Madness Competition, and his critically acclaimed debut stand-up CD, Not For Horses, was released by Rooftop Comedy.

Adam can be seen in dozens of CollegeHumor Originals on CollegeHumor.com, including their popular series Very Mary Kate, Hardly Working, and High Times Editorial Office. He was also on The CollegeHumor Show on MTV, and appeared on the Tyra Banks Show (weird). Adam performs nightly at clubs, colleges, and festivals across the country.

The Get Go
The Get Go is a sketch team from the Upright Citizens' Brigade in LA. Their sketch style is self-described as "super cool" and "everybody's cup of tea!" Their credits include Just for Laughs festival, the San Francisco Sketchfest, Comedy Bang-Bang, Chelsea Lately, VH1's Stevie TV, Workaholics, The Boondocks, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and NBC's Community.

Onassis
Originating as a house sketch team at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Onassis has gone on to win acclaim as one of the best comedy groups in New York City and was recently named Best Sketch Team at the Friars Club 2011 National Sketch Competition. This October saw the sold out, world premiere of their 22-min TV pilot during the annual Friars Club Comedy Festival. They also performed as part of the annual New York Comedy Festival in their Best of NY Sketch showcase and as part of The Upright Citizens Brigade's Best of 2011.

Onassis is: Mike Scollins, Benjamin Apple, Ben Rameaka, Lauren Adams, Emily Altman, Dawn Luebbe, Jason Saenz, Rob Michael Hugel, Frank Hejl and Alex Scordelis.

Thunderstood
Thunderstood is multimedia one man sketch show that has been performed at comedy festivals across the country. Armed with a projector and a truly odd point of view AJ Schraeder takes you through a stream of conscious presentation of how he sees reality. In 2012 Thunderstood was awarded the title of "Best Sketch Group" at Shadowbox live's 4th annual Sketch Contest judged by original SNL cast Member Garrett Morris. Julie Lawless of rhum.org described his 2012 performance at SF sketchfest as "ridiculously hilarious", and spinningplatters.com said the show "showed exceptional stamina and satirical prowess".

Kevin Anglin
Kevin Anglin is a writer/comedian in New York.?He is photographed here doing neither of those. He has glasses and an outie belly button.

In 2008 Kevin Anglin won Saint Michael's College's Funniest Student competition. Later he won The Higher Ground's Vermont's Comedy Battle. After moving back to Boston in 2009 he was a finalist in the Giggles Standup Competition. In 2010 he performed in the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival. He was a headliner at Green Mountain Comedy Festival ('12) and has performed in The Women in Comedy Festival ('12) and The Maine Comedy Festival ('12). He has opened for Bo Burnham, Rob Riggle, Christian Finnegan, Nick Cannon and Owen Benjamin.

He enjoys "painting" on the creatively named Microsoft Program : Paint.

Makin' Friends Havin' Fun
Do you enjoy ten year old's birthday parties? Have you ever dreamt about a jar of mayonnaise? Do you acknowledge that you have the potential to be the worst amateur magician ever? Great. Whatever it is you said, we agree. Now that you've gotten to know us, you should watch our show. It has everything to do with the aforementioned topics. Which is to say it might have nothing to do with any of them. Makin' Friends is a new San Francisco production company that loves sketch comedy. Makin' Friends also loves you. Makin' Friends wants you to be havin' fun.

Femikaze
As the East Bay's premiere all-female comedy team, Femikaze brings the finest in pro-feminist, pro-funny sketch comedy. Founded in 2011 by Kelly Anneken and Isa Hopkins, Femikaze strives to create opportunities in comedy for ladies of all shapes, sizes, ethnicities and orientations. The group sold out their first three independent productions at Berkeley's Subterranean Arthouse in their 2011-2012 season. In addition to performing and writing their own material, Femikaze is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. They are developing a curriculum to cultivate comedic voices in young women ages 12-19 with a special focus on those in low-income areas.

PianoFight's ForePlays
ForePlays produces original sketch comedy written and directed from the female perspective. Its variety show format includes original comedy shorts, musical acts, and stand-up comics, uniting up-and-coming female artists in the Bay Area. ForePlays has premiered over fifteen original productions with more than 50 performances, in addition to special showcases at SF Improv Festival, SF SketchFest, SF TheaterFest, WomenROCK , Comedy Brains, A Funny Night for Comedy and an 80th birthday party for an awesome woman named Norma. ForePlays is written and produced by Ruth Grossinger, Nicole Hammersla, Kate Jones, Jessica Mele, Rachel Rockwood, Meredith Terry, and Sarah Wright-Schrieberg.

Nathan Brannon
Nathan takes the audience on an unexpected ride full of witty stories, clever punch lines, and amusing shadow puppets. He brings smiles and hilarious anecdotes to the stage every time he grabs the microphone. Nathan also added this sentence because he needed a higher word count.

Nathan has participated in competitions such as the San Francisco & Seattle International Comedy Competitions. He was the winner of Helium Comedy Club's "Portland's Funniest Person Comedy Competition" in 2012, and winner of the Yakima Valley Comedy Competition in 2010. Nathan also participated in Comedy Festivals all over the country. He has opened for national headliners such as Dave Chappelle, Matt Braunger, Maria Bamford, Arj Barker, Shang, Larry Miller, and has photoshopped himself into photos with many more. Nathan was also seen in NBC's new series, Grimm. Make Nathan your vote for student body president this spring. Go Hawks!

The Business is a long running weekly alt comedy showcase, recently voted "Best of SF" by the SF Weekly. Five comedians (Mike Drucker, Caitlin Gill, Sean Keane, Alex Koll, and Bucky Sinister) each curate a portion of your evening. It's a comedy mixture that regularly includes special guests ranging from standup comics to authors to sketch performers to musicians and dancers. Recently, the Business expanded its operations southward with The Business LA, every Thursday in Silverlake. "...San Francisco does have a comedy scene—it's just a little weirder, a lot less commercial, and often much funnier than what you'll find elsewhere, and The Business is at its rumbling epicenter." — San Francisco Magazine

The Fringe Riders
The Fringe Riders are a popular Los Angeles based absurdist cowboy comedy trio. They tell tall tales, sing, and dance as Mustang, Birdman, and Papa D, three legends of the West. Every month they host Stampede! a wild-west comedy revue which features some of the nation's top comics. The Fringe Riders have also performed on some LA's most popular comedy shows and venues. The Fringe Riders are Dan Gill, Colin McCormick, and David Venhuizen.

Ham Pants Productions
Ham Pants Productions is the brainchild of Andy Wenger (Writer, Director) and Damien Chacona (Writer, Producer, Designer), two non-native San Franciscans who wanted to create theater in their image: irreverent, irrelevant, and inane. Since 2008, Ham Pants Productions has put up three full-length offerings (The Safe Way, Random Idiot Factor, and The Wrong Dick) skewering tropes in apocalyptic horror, dystopian science fiction, and noir, respectively. Ham Pants Productions Presents, a sketch comedy and variety revue, is currently playing the illustrious Stage Werx Theatre at 446 Valencia Street in San Francisco on the third Tuesday of the month at 8:00 pm! Learn more at hampantsproductions.com or "Like" us on Facebook.

Hip. Bang!
Hip.Bang!'s absurd, playful scene work has delighted audiences at comedy festivals around the world including Chicago, New York, Edmonton, and Philadelphia. They are two-time winners of the Victoria Fringe's Pick of the Fringe award (2011, 2012) and were selected as the 2011 Vancouver International Improv Festival's Best of the Fest (Runner's Up).

While exploring real emotions and honest situations, Tom and Devin simultaneously allow their scenes to be as ridiculous as they are hilarious.

David Gborie
David Gborie comes to party. He's been telling jokes all over the country for a couple of years now and he is, in his words, "Pretty legit at it". He currently lives in San Francisco where he is a member of Sylvan Productions and can be seen around town lurking at one of their many shows or at Crissy fields with his trusty crab pot. As a perfomer he's appeared at The Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Indie Fest, and Denver's Too Much Funstival, as well as the SF Punchline, The Denver Comedy Works, and other impressive venues. He despises the word swag.

DJ Real
Nick Stargu is DJ REAL, a San Francisco-based musical/comedy performer who writes songs about David Copperfield, and evil paper bags. His shows include all original songs, complete with costume changes, bad dance moves, and interactive multimedia, He has performed in the San Francisco Sketch Festivals (2008 — 2010), the NoisePop '11 festival and Bridgetown Comedy Festivals 2011 and 2012. He was also part of the successful alternative comedy showcase, Things We Made, in San Francisco. "...DJ REAL was a very strange, and strangely wonderful combination of lo-fi recording artist and Andy Kaufman comedian..." - SF Weekly

Charles
A cerebral and imaginative sketch duo from Seattle, Charles is intelligent without sacrificing accessibility, seamlessly combining highbrow and lowbrow sensibilities into a brand of humor they call unibrow. Charles has performed throughout the US and Canada, including The SF and Seattle Sketch Festivals, the People's Improv Theater New York, and the Toronto and Victoria Fringe Festivals. Outside the group, Chuck has worked as a contributing writer for The Onion, and Charlie served as editor-in-chief of Stanford University's humor magazine The Chaparral.

"One of the most inspired and inspiring chunks of comedy produced all year." - The Stranger

"Best Solo or Duo," 2011 LA Comedy Festival

The Dress Up Gang
The Dress Up Gang is a sketch comedy group featuring the comedic talents of Cory Loykasek, Donny Divanian, and various other non-paid actors. Both funny stand-ups in their own right, Cory and Donny crossed paths in San Francisco in 2009 and quickly discovered their mutual love of dressing up. Soon they began filming sketches with the help of their friend Robb Boardman. The famously hard to please SF blog Uptown Almanac has said The Dress Up Gang is "worth checking out." This is their third year appearing in Sketchfest.

Yogi Paliwal
Yogi Paliwal started comedy in 2008 at the young age of 18. He left stand up to pursue love and education, but when those roads closed he decided to focus more on standup comedy.

In his few years in the Seattle comedy scene he has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, The FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival, a finalist in the 96.5 Make Jack Laugh comedy competition and he made it to the Seattle NBC Standup for Diversity Showcase. Carl Warmenhoven the manager of the Comedy Underground has said, "He has a youthness about him."

If you were to ask Yogi how he would describe his comedy he would say it's "Intellectual absurdity." If you asked him what that means he would say, "My material isn't smart, but you need to be smart to see how stupid the joke is."

End Games Improv
EndGames Improv brings you San Francisco's hottest improv show: "Your F!#&ed Up Relationship" - an entirely improvised comedy inspired by your ridiculous, REAL relationships. We've all had at LEAST one. You tell us your amazing stories, we show you ours. You laugh, we laugh, we all hook up at the end.

EndGames is an SF-based improv theater and school. We produce six shows weekly at StageWerx in the Mission District, including "Harold Night", the return of our run-away hit "Confessions", and, as always, "Your F@#$ed-Up Relationship". Check out our shows and classes at endgamesimprov.com.

David Dineen-Porter
David is a stand-up and filmmaker from Toronto. He was featured on Andy Kindler's Alternative Show at Just For Laughs, at NXNE and the Toronto and Montreal Sketch Fests. He worked with PFFR, contributing to Adult Swim's Xavier: Renegade Angel. Best known for his comedy short L'Brondelle's Universe, his work has been featured on Funny or Die and at the Worldwide Short Film Festival. He was a finalist in the national Laugh Out Loud Competition on CBC. He currently appears on Discovery Channel's Prank Science, performs with acclaimed collective Laugh Sabbath, and co-hosts Don't Get Bored Of Us And Leave.

Valley Meadows
Valley Meadows is the duo of Gary Schishynszenski (Chris Knutson) and MC Tom Johnson (Zach Coulter). The pair combine hilarious lyrics and high-energy stage antics with the bangin'-est beats to blow minds throughout the land. Where Bob and Doug MacKenzie meet Tenacious D, Valley Meadows emerges, fly enough to score in loafers and man enough to croon ballads about the rain. They recently released their debut, self-titled album on Stand Up! Records. Knutson is the winner of Acme Comedy Company's 2010 Funniest Person Contest and Coulter is the winner of the 2011 ABSOLUT Funniest Comedian Contest. www.therealvalleymeadows.com

Sara Hennessey
Sara Hennessey is a Toronto based stand up! STAR of Fuse TV & Much Music's Video on Trial, Sara has performed with comedy heavyweights Maria Bamford & Andy Kindler. Sara has been featured in such festivals as JFL42, NXNE, Boston Comedy Festival, Cottage Country Comedy Festival, and currently here at the San Francisco Sketchfest! Sara appeared on The Jon Dore Television Show, contributes to Huffington Post Canada, and to CBC Radio. Her solo FRINGE FESTIVAL shows, 'Sara Hennessey Time', & 'Sara Hennessey Town' both received 4 Star reviews and PATRON'S PICK. Be sure to check out her Canadian Comedy Award nominated web-series 'GOODBYE SARA HENNESSEY' on your computing machines.

The Fringe Riders
The Fringe Riders are a popular Los Angeles based absurdist cowboy comedy trio. They tell tall tales, sing, and dance as Mustang, Birdman, and Papa D, three legends of the West. Every month they host Stampede! a wild-west comedy revue which features some of the nation's top comics. The Fringe Riders have also performed on some LA's most popular comedy shows and venues. The Fringe Riders are Dan Gill, Colin McCormick, and David Venhuizen.

Don't Watch This Show Live with guest Brody Stevens
Don't Watch This Show LIVE! is a collective of stand up comedians doing something different in comedy. They perform sketches, shoot comedy videos, shorts, and perform stand up and improv. DWTSL! is the only full show doing this type of production in San Francisco mostly because we are better than everyone else and more funny and beautiful and God knows we deserve more attention than we are getting and anyone who thinks otherwise is a Redcoat. #noswag

Hip. Bang!
Hip.Bang!'s absurd, playful scene work has delighted audiences at comedy festivals around the world including Chicago, New York, Edmonton, and Philadelphia. They are two-time winners of the Victoria Fringe's Pick of the Fringe award (2011, 2012) and were selected as the 2011 Vancouver International Improv Festival's Best of the Fest (Runner's Up).

While exploring real emotions and honest situations, Tom and Devin simultaneously allow their scenes to be as ridiculous as they are hilarious.

Tom Henry
Tom Henry is a comedian and writer from Toronto. He performs regularly as part of the acclaimed collective Laugh Sabbath, and has appeared at festivals such as NXNE, The Toronto Fringe Festival and recently on Andy Kindler's Alternative show at Just For Laughs. He co-wrote and starred in the comedy video Hello, What? which screened at the Calgary International Film Festival, and the CFC's World Of Shorts film festival, as well as being a featured video on Funny Or Die. In 2012 he was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-Up Newcomer.

Beloved comedian Guy Branum (Chelsea Lately) hosts a highly competitive talk show which challenges comedians and minor celebrities to win cash and prizes by being amusing! The SF Sketchfest edition features Arden Myrin (MADtv) and more to be announced!

Brute Squad
Los Angeles-based group, Brute Squad, won the 2012 Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival's Sketch Competition with their fast-paced, high-energy sketch comedy. As well as their original videos being featured on sites like FunnyorDie and The Huffington Post, they can also be seen presenting a brand new show each month to sold out houses as a Mainstage Headliner Sketch Team at iO West and regulars at UCB Theatre. They are directed by Heather Anne Campbell & Eric Moneypenny of UCB's "The Midnight Show."

Goatface Comedy
Four friends who realized they could do something special were they to combine forces. A decision which was heavily influenced by the success of Captain Planet and The Power Rangers.

Asif Ali is a leader and innovator. He hopes his photo becomes a painting someday. He does standup, improve and acting. AMERICA.

Fahim Anwar is a standup comedian, writer, actor and dancer. He doesn't know why he can dance and thinks it's just as weird as you do. He has been on TV but more importantly, Youtube. He used to be an aerospace engineer at Boeing but now he does comedy full time. His parents are concerned.

Aristotle Athiras loves to do stand up. Aristotle Athiras loves to make movie and shors. Aristotle Athiras loves to act. Aristotle Athiras is not so fond of making bios.

Hasan Minhaj does the same thing as the other three members of Goatface. He also has acted alongside Raven Symone. That shit was hella Raven. In his space time he enjoys air horns and Rick Ross grunts.

Cream
Cream is a Los Angeles based sketch & improv group that performs regularly at UCBT-LA. Cream is comprised of four talented friends (Sergio Cilli, Casey Feigh, Betsy Sodaro and Jacob Womack) who love performing together. The members of Cream have a script deal with Comedy Central and have written for CBS, PBS, MTV, Current TV. They have appeared on Animal Practice, Key & Peele, Happy Endings, Californication, Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Showbiz Show, InfoMania, Newsreaders, The Late Late Show, This Show Will Get You High, Tosh.O and a bunch of commercials. Cream loves you.

David Dineen-Porter
David is a stand-up and filmmaker from Toronto. He was featured on Andy Kindler's Alternative Show at Just For Laughs, at NXNE and the Toronto and Montreal Sketch Fests. He worked with PFFR, contributing to Adult Swim's Xavier: Renegade Angel. Best known for his comedy short L'Brondelle's Universe, his work has been featured on Funny or Die and at the Worldwide Short Film Festival. He was a finalist in the national Laugh Out Loud Competition on CBC. He currently appears on Discovery Channel's Prank Science, performs with acclaimed collective Laugh Sabbath, and co-hosts Don't Get Bored Of Us And Leave.

Taste Better Wit
Originating from the bowels of Bindlestiff Studio, TASTE BETTER WIT is a collective of former Filipino American law enforcement officers who met each other by chance in a dingy alley of Sixth Street while breaking up the workings of a secret meth lab. After several rounds of celebratory beers and tearful confessions, a performance group was born out of the necessity of pointing out injustices in a corrupt system of the sketch comedy hierarchy.

Hot Mess SFv
Hot Mess SF is a rip-roaring group of comedians, artists, theatre nerds and improv dorks. Formed in 2011, the group began doing public performances and in 2012, audiences of real people actually started attending. Their work is all original and combines music, dance and film. Their drink of choice is Jameson and their favorite color is regret. Find them in your local bar making terrible choices and putting it on Youtube.

3 Woman 1 Woman Show
3 Woman, 1 Woman Show (with three women) is a comedic sketch play written, directed, and performed by Hayley Lovgren, Maren Lovgren, and Kristin Schmitz (no relation). All Bay Area natives, this trio first met at Santa Clara University where they bonded over their shared love of comedy, feminism, and oddball antics. Their three-woman show debuted in January 2012 to sold-out audiences at WORKS/San Jose. The show focuses on finding humor in being a woman (or three women) in today's society. All three ladies are proud members of The Cardboard Box Theatre Project.

Goatface Comedy
Four friends who realized they could do something special were they to combine forces. A decision which was heavily influenced by the success of Captain Planet and The Power Rangers.

Asif Ali is a leader and innovator. He hopes his photo becomes a painting someday. He does standup, improve and acting. AMERICA.

Fahim Anwar is a standup comedian, writer, actor and dancer. He doesn't know why he can dance and thinks it's just as weird as you do. He has been on TV but more importantly, Youtube. He used to be an aerospace engineer at Boeing but now he does comedy full time. His parents are concerned.

Aristotle Athiras loves to do stand up. Aristotle Athiras loves to make movie and shors. Aristotle Athiras loves to act. Aristotle Athiras is not so fond of making bios.

Hasan Minhaj does the same thing as the other three members of Goatface. He also has acted alongside Raven Symone. That shit was hella Raven. In his space time he enjoys air horns and Rick Ross grunts.

Valley Meadows
Valley Meadows is the duo of Gary Schishynszenski (Chris Knutson) and MC Tom Johnson (Zach Coulter). The pair combine hilarious lyrics and high-energy stage antics with the bangin'-est beats to blow minds throughout the land. Where Bob and Doug MacKenzie meet Tenacious D, Valley Meadows emerges, fly enough to score in loafers and man enough to croon ballads about the rain. They recently released their debut, self-titled album on Stand Up! Records. Knutson is the winner of Acme Comedy Company's 2010 Funniest Person Contest and Coulter is the winner of the 2011 ABSOLUT Funniest Comedian Contest. www.therealvalleymeadows.com

Blake Wexler
Blake Wexler started doing stand up at the age of 15 in Philadelphia, and moved to Boston in 2007 to pursue his stand up comedy career and attend Emerson College.

One highlight of Blake's career is an appearance on the 2009 College Humor Live Tour in Philadelphia. Blake also performed in the 2009 & 2010 Rooftop Aspen Comedy Festivals, and was featured in the 2011 Seattle International Comedy Competition.

Philadelphia Magazine says he's one of Philadelphia's funniest tweeters, and can be heard on The Todd Glass Show on Nerdist Networks.

Blake lives in Los Angeles.