SF Sketchfest has announced the initial lineup for the 2025 festival taking place January 16-February 2 in venues across San Francisco. The multi-day comedy festival will host over 180 shows, bringing ...

While comedy clubs like Cobb’s and Punch Line curate lineups of well-known comedians, Milk Bar distinguished itself by serving as a launching pad for the Bay Area’s novice stand-up comics. The bar ...

SF Sketchfest has announced additions to the 2025 festival taking place January 16-February 2 in venues across San Francisco. The multi-day comedy festival will host over 180 shows, bringing major ...

San Francisco rapper Frak, who first gained recognition in the battle rap scene before appearing on MTV, BET, and VH1's Wild ...

SF Sketchfest co-founder David Owen has a term for modern comedy: medicine. The 22nd annual comedy festival could be the medicine many folks are looking for this January, as 190 shows will kick off on ...

The list of basic human needs rarely prioritizes the act of laughing. While water, food and shelter will always beat the giggles on a scale of necessity, there remains something profoundly therapeutic ...

Between torrential downpours, late afternoon darkness, and news-induced miasmic gloom, San Francisco in January can be rough on the psyche. Fortunately, this is also where the conventional ...

“Our next comic is new to our laundromat, so I’m going to need you to give her —” at this point, emcee Tony “The Godfather of Comedy” Sparks points the mic to the audience, seated on benches and ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – SF Sketchfest unveiled its 2026 lineup, and it is poised to be a star-studded event. The showcase will take place across various places in San Francisco ranging from Cobb’s ...

The first SF Sketchfest I ever attended was in the winter of 2012, when I was the ripe old age of 6. My father, a stand-up comedian, performed a show called “Bring The Rock,” a night of music and ...