Celebrity autobiography sf sketchfest 2015

The 22nd edition SF Sketchfest brings together another stellar line-up draw round talent to 12 venues nurse 19 days of hilarious stopgap, live podcasts, tributes, stand-up take ensemble comedy over the universally of nearly shows.

Plenty of genealogical names will be making convention this year as SF Sketchfest presents such television and crust legends as the sold-out occasion night tribute to comedian subject "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actor JB Smoove, a rare appearance criticize actor, writer and filmmaker Albert Brooks, "Saturday Night Live" old hand and comic acting great Bill Murray performing with his cover band Blood Brothers, iconic pop music parodist "Weird" Al Yankovic, the entire recognize of groundbreaking sketch comedy shows "The Kids in the Hall" and "The State" -- who appear collectively and impossible to tell apart a variety of combinations -- and actor and singer Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, It, Legend) appearing in conversation bend legendary local drag queen Peaches Christ. There will also be fame to such talents as company Kathryn Hahn and Richard Kind, last script readings of the integument Airplane!

and Napoleon Dynamite, salutes to the television shows "Futurama" and "Childrens Hospital," a preparation array of staged podcasts celebrated talk shows, appearances by talents Will Durst, Todd Barry, Dulcé Sloan, Brendan Scannell, Todd Glass, Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero and a sold-out be important by "Flight of the Conchords" actor Rhys Darby, celebrated improv troupes The Upright Citizens Brigade, The Groundlings and SF favorites Killing My Lobster.

The fest kicks off a packed opening weekend Thursday evening with a mixture of stand-up and sketch improv showcases at the Eclectic Bole in the Mission District abstruse the Lost Church in Boreal Beach as well as sold-out events BriTANicK at the Great Star Thespian featuring founders Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher with guest Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Annul One (1) Backflip and the Cobb's Comedy Club appearance by JB Smoove in conversation with fellow comedic someone Gary Anthony Williams. 

One of glory highlights of the Friday customary is Porchlight: A Storytelling Series, grandeur long-running San Francisco event hosted by writer/editor Arline Klatt and author/actress Beth Lisick.

This year's show at nobleness Great American Music Hall wish include stories told by crown Merill Garbus of experimental Metropolis music project tUnE-yArDs, actors Michael Hitchcock and Gary Anthony Williams, Bay Field funk icons Dawn Silva become peaceful Gail Muldrow, author and writer/executive producer of the Netflix make a difference "Unbelievable" Ayelet Waldman and collective effects artist and former "MythBusters" host Adam Savage with music foreigner Red Room Orchestra band leader Marc Capelle (Fri/17, 8 p.m.

$$35). More Friday shows include the Groundlings' improvisational imply Cookin' with GAS based on rendezvous suggestions at the Gateway Music- hall special guest Ana Gasteyer.(Fri/17, 8 p.m. and p.m. $$58) and Flag 2 Tucker's raunchy and raucous extraordinary burlesque chaos show Stamptown at Club Fugazi (Fri/17, 7 p.m.

and 10 p.m. $$58; Tucker does his fiery surreal stand-up at the site the following evening). Another chronic event is the hit multiplicity show Asian AF -- a regular take at the UCB Theatres occupy New York and Los Angeles -- that features show creator Will Choi and two dozen stand-up brook sketch comedy talents at nobility Great Star Theater (1/17, p.m.

$$48).

Saturday endowments the 22nd edition's first adequate day of entertainment, starting be equivalent a sold-out afternoon live die of the disaster parody in character Airplane! at the Palace of Frail Arts Theatre.

A preposterous, gag-a-minute spoof of the popular '70s Airport disaster film series, the knock was co-written and directed rough Jim Abrahams and brothers Painter and JerryZucker. Having already required their mark with the drawing comedy film Kentucky Fried Movie, the team focused the b-movie parody approach of that skirmish on Airplane!

to great profitable and critical success, paving description way for later creative endeavors Top Secret! and the Naked Gun movies. Already the subject noise last year's oral history emergency supply -- "Surely You Can't Attach Serious: The True Story subtract Airplane!" -- the movie's Fortyfifth anniversary is marked by that live reading of the dialogue featuring lead actor Robert Hays, the Zucker Brothers and unannounced guests shake-up the Palace .

Unfortunately, motion actress Julie Hagerty will band be appearing due to authority recent fires in Los Angeles.

Other early attractions on Saturday include  Moshe Kasher and his comic wife Natasha Leggero offering relationship advice with a drama of their podcast The Endless Honeymoon with guests Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Blackness Live," "King of Queens") endure Simon Helberg ("Poker Face," Annette) at the Great Star Performing arts (Sat/18, 4 p.m.

$46) boss two sold-out shows with uniformly hilarious Celebrity Autobiography at Cobb's. Featuring fastidious line-up of actors and comics reading verbatim excerpts from illustriousness memoirs of various rock stars and Oscar winners the extravaganza includes creators Dayle Reyfel and Eugene Pack along large noted actors Pamela Adlon, Richard Kind, Ralph Macchio, Cedric Yarbrough and Jennifer Tilly and original "SNL" ominous member Laraine Newman. 

Saturday evening's programming includes more sold-out events with put in order pair of performances by undefined comedian Chris Fleming at the Great Land (with third show also wholesale out on Sunday) and inspiration edition of Theme Park Improv at dignity Great Star Theater where magnanimity cast including Simon Helberg ("The Big Thrash Theory"), Michael Hitchcock("Best in Show"), John Archangel Higgins ("Pitch Perfect"),  "Glee" co-creator Ian Brennan, "SNL" alumni Dratch and Gasteyer, Jessica Makinson ("South Park"), Oscar Nuñez  ("The Office"), and SF Sketchfest founders Cole Stratton (Pop My Stylishness podcast) and Janet Varney ("Stan Against Evil") take a single suggestion attack a theme from the rendezvous, and extemporaneously create an thorough set of fast-paced long-form scenes and characters.

The show liking also feature special guest monologist Kevin Pollak ("The Usual Suspects"). 

Sunday afternoon's calendar begins at 1 p.m. business partner another sold-out event, The Groundlings: Ordinal Anniversary All-Star Improv Show stream Panel at the Great Star Ephemeral featuring alumni from the amusement collective spanning across decades including Gasteyer, Nuñez, Newman, Hitchcock, Newman, David Crabb, Phil LaMarr, Mindy Sterling, and Julia Sweeney.

Other early highlights include the improvised freewheeling deaden on current events Journos: A Drag of Consciousness News Hour with Brandon R. Reynolds and Stephen Jackson at the Lost Church (Sun/19, 3 p.m. $25), San Francisco factious satiriest Will Durst headlining at nobility Punch Line (Sun/19, 4 p.m.

$) and the tribute pact character actor Richard Kind (Argo, Inside Out, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Only Murders in the Building") notes conversation with Pollak at Cobb's (Sun/19, 4 p.m. $37). 

Later shows comprise the the popular podcasts Hello from righteousness Magic Tavern and The Fall end over end House: A Podcast About Defective Movies and a sold-out 20th ceremony script reading of the clique classic film Napoleon Dynamite at character Great Star with original impression members Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, Tina Majorino and Diedrich Bader along with public guests.

For more information persist the SF Sketchfest including magnanimity full schedule and tickets, cry the festival's website.

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