This year's SF Sketchfest brings the best comedians to town as well as some awesome musical guests! The fest, which kicks off this Thursday, features musical appearances by Ben Gibbard from Death Cab For Cutie, Ted Leo, Zach Rogue from Rogue Wave, Reggie Watts, Robert Glasper, Garfunkel & Oates, Ann Magnuson, w00tstock, the Reigning Monarchs and more! The seventeen-day comedy festival runs January 19 through February 4, 2012.
Just added to SF Sketchfest 2012 is the Closing Night finale, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: The Peaches Christ Experience with very special guest Barry Bostwick (Cougar Town) and live preshow musical numbers by Peaches Christ and Friends. At the Castro Theatre on Saturday, February 4 at 9:30pm
Also with a musical flair are:
Bruce McCulloch: The Pink Dot Stories will include songs and musical accompaniment by Marc Capelle. A member of one of the most lauded sketch groups of all time, the Kids in the Hall’s Bruce McCulloch, whose other recent work includes the ABC comedy series Carpoolers and the critically-acclaimed Kids in the Hall miniseries Death Comes to Town, returns to SF Sketchfest with a very special night of brand new material in his one-person show The Pink Dot Stories, coming to the Eureka Theatre on Friday, January 20th at 8pm.
MAME THAT CHUNE with Brent Weinbach and Rob F. Martinez a video-game music game show and dance party, at Hemlock Tavern on Saturday, January 21 at 5:30pm.
Pretty Good Friends with Eugene Mirman, Matt Besser, Michael Ian Black, Ron Funches, Jon Glaser, Bobcat Goldthwait and musical guest Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie. Eugene Mirman, named Best New York City Comedian by the Village Voice and one of the ten best comedians of the last decade by Paste magazine, comes to Cobb’s with his Pretty Good Friends on Saturday, January 21 at 8pm.
Thrilling Adventure Hour will feature live music with the Andy Paley Orchestra. Acker & Blacker’s The Thrilling Adventure Hour is an irreverent old-time radio-style production with Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), John DiMaggio (Futurama), Colin Hanks (Dexter), John Hodgman (Arthur), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Samm Levine (Inglourious Basterds), Joshua Malina (The West Wing), Bruce McCulloch (The Kids in the Hall), Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU), Busy Philipps (Cougar Town), Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects), Andy Richter (Conan), Paul F. Tompkins (Community), James Urbaniak (The Venture Brothers) and more at Marines' Memorial Theatre on Saturday, January 21 at 9pm and Sunday, January 22 at 2pm.
The Paul F. Tompkins Show is the hilarious host’s popular variety show for the 21st Century. Neither a parody of, nor a slavish re-creation of, "olde-tyme sho-biz," the show combines comedy and music in a contemporary fashion. Paul welcomes friends Judy Greer (Arrested Development), John Hodgman and musical guest Ted Leo (of the indie rock outfit Ted Leo & The Pharmacists) to Yoshi’s San Francisco on Sunday, January 22 at 7pm and 9pm.
Stella: The Classic Nightclub Show, features Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain, well known for their Comedy Central series Stella and groundbreaking MTV sketch show The State. They will be joined by surprise guest comedians and house band Release the Sunbird, featuring Zach Rogue from Rogue Wave at Mezzanine on Sunday, January 22 at 8pm.
An Evening with Ann Magnuson: The Drawing Room Apocalypse, A Salon des Beaux Arts for the Fin du Monde 2012. Because the Mayan calendar promises that the world shall end in late 2012, Ann Magnuson has decided to celebrate early. A mashing up of 'end of the world' songs, appropriately themed spoken word stories and bona-fide poetry will be presented as a contemporary twist on the "Victorian Drawing Room Entertainment" at Yoshi’s Oakland on Tuesday, January 24 and Wednesday 25 at 8pm.
RISK! Storytelling True Tales, Boldy Told with Kevin Allison, live music by the Ramshackle Romeos on both nights and guests Robert Ben Garant, Nikki Glaser, Joshua Grannell, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Natasha Leggero on Friday, January 27 at 10:30pm. Guests Steve Agee, Myq Kaplan, Rick Overton, Vanessa Ragland and Sheng Wang appear on Saturday, January 28 at 10:30pm. Both shows are at The Eureka Theatre.
w00tstock Founders’ Night featuring co-creators Adam Savage (Mythbusters), musical comedy duo Paul and Storm (Da Vinci’s Notebook) and actor/ author/blogger Wil Wheaton (Stand by Me) is an epic salute to nerdery. It’s an evening of songs, readings, comedy, demonstrations, short films, and other clever widgets born from and dedicated to the enthusiasms, obsessions, trials and joys of geek pride. At Marines’ Memorial Theatre on Sunday, January 29 at 7:30pm.
Reggidency: a Reggie Watts Series will feature the brilliant comic and musical improviser in four dates at four separate venues, each one unpredictable, original and wildly different. Part 1: “Reggie Watts solo: just the music” happens at Yoshi’s San Francisco on Tuesday, January 31 at 8pm. Part 2: “Reggie Watts + Garfunkel & Oates: the comedy” takes place at Mezzanine on Wednesday, February 1 at 8pm. Part 3: “Reggie Watts + Robert Glasper: the jazz collaboration” hits Yoshi’s Oakland on Thursday, February 2 at 8pm. Then Part 4: “Reggie Watts + Silent Film: an improvised scoring” will round out the series at the Roxie Theater on Friday, February 3 at the stroke of midnight.
Rounding out the variety on Closing Night will be bestselling author and festival favorite Greg Behrendt and his music-meets-comedy gem Bring The Rock, with the Reigning Monarchs and guest storyteller/singers Dave Anthony, Todd Barry, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Will Forte, Mary Lynn Rajskub and surprise guests in a half-storytelling/half-karaoke rock show. At Cobb’s on Saturday, February 4 at 10:30pm.
