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2010-01-28T23:11:00Z

Sam Wilcke

2010-01-28T23:09:00Z

Sam Wilcke recently won the First Annual Fat Cat Comedy Competition and has performed with Eddie Brill, "Chicago Steve" Barkley, Eric Schwartz, Larry 'Bubbles' Brown, Jeff Applebaum, Kvon, and Sal Calanni at Tommy T's, The Fat Cat, The Clubhouse, and Rooster T Feathers. Sam enjoys helping people laugh by providing a fresh perspective with a humane edge. He believes we are all in this together and is interested in improving our world for future generations.

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2009-09-22T21:14:00Z

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Almost anything, right?

2009-08-25T23:57:23Z

What would be better here than this sentence?

Daymon Ferguson

2009-07-02T22:08:22Z

Daymon Ferguson hails from Hell. Or rather, Chico California, where he was born into a white trash tradition that he’s been trying to escape ever since. High school brought the impetus Daymon needed to become a comedian—he announced to his tenth grade drama teacher that he would one day become a stand-up comic. He got right on that, too. A mere twenty years later, here he is! But first he had to take care of a few other careers—Daymon has been a diesel truck mechanic, pizza delivery guy, forklift mechanic, waiter, racecar driver, ditch digger, exotic dancers’ bodyguard, and lawyer. All of which have helped prepare him for a career standing up in front of a bunch of people, telling dick jokes. Six years of work as a lawyer have taught Daymon to truly despise lawyers. Since making the decision to quit law for comedy, he’s started to feel his soul growing back. It kind of itches. When he’s not in front of a jury or worse, a crowded comedy club, Daymon likes to tempt the fates that have let him live for the last 35 years. He flies small planes, scuba dives, and pretends to be a medieval warrior by putting on 50 pounds of plate metal and running around in the blazing sun getting hit by big men with sticks. He is also an actor, a half-assed guitar player, and an avid wine connoisseur. (But please don’t call him a wine geek—he prefers the far more dignified “cork dork.”) He’ll pay $100 for a bottle of wine. But in beer he is true to his white trash roots—he refuses to spend more than $6 on a 12-pack. Daymon lives in San Jose, California with his lovely wife, his darling daughter his two dogs, three cats, some fish, ten hateful love birds and a bunch of fussy, demanding, and emotionally abusive houseplants.

Anatoli Brantvein

2009-07-02T22:07:57Z

is awesome.

Scotch Wichmann

2009-07-02T22:07:43Z

SCOTCH WICHMANN is a stand-up comedian whose zany work has been compared to "eating, snorting, and freebasing...then reaching for the turkey baster" by the San Francisco Chronicle. With over-the-top energy and a culture critic's eye, his frenetic and edgy riffs explore a new American male archetype warped by a trailerpark childhood, his father's six wives, an army of shrinks, and Hollywood obsessions. He also works as a fast-paced M.C., keeping crowds rolling on stage before national headliners like Joe Klocek (Last Comic Standing) and Kurtis Matthews (Bill Hicks, Celebrity Rehab), and he's frequently joined by his hilarious fraternal twin sister and co-host, KayDee Kersten (www.eviltwinscomedy.com).

A finalist in San Francisco's 2009 Battle of the Bay comedy competition, Scotch got his start as a performance artist in Los Angeles, where his experimental live works were featured at venues like the L.A. Performing Arts Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, HIGHWAYS, and the University of California. Following a two-year stint as a radio announcer for 1340 KKAM in Fresno, California, he attracted a swarm of press from CNN, NBC, FOX, NPR, Maxim, The Washington Post, and The New York Times as the crazy spokesman for cracked-out coffee company Meth Coffee.

Scotch was recently featured for five whole seconds on the BBC, and performs at clubs across the country like the Improv, Purple Onion, and NYC's Gotham Comedy Club. Catch him cutting his chops weekly at The Clubhouse in San Francisco..

Red Scott

2009-07-02T22:07:16Z

is awesome.

Loren Kraut

2009-07-02T22:04:49Z

Loren Kraut grew up in New Jersey and was educated on the streets of New York City and the hills of San Francisco. Loren has held numerous jobs – birthday party clown, writer, pastry chef, teacher, waitress, admin assistant, mortgage consultant, call center operator for Williams-Sonoma at Christmas, and briefly, housekeeper for a high-class brothel in NYC.
Loren wrote, directed and produced her play Time, You Thief at The Gill Theatre in San Francisco. In New York, she co-wrote two one-woman shows, stage-managed many Off- and Off-off Broadway plays, and once rode in an elevator with Penny Marshall. Loren was a finalist in the Battle of the Bay Comedy Competition 2007 and 2009, and appeared on the John Miller & Susan Maletta Show on Pirate Cat Radio.
She officially began comedy in 2006, taking classes at the San Francisco Comedy College. Her style is laid-back and somewhat dark, covering such subjects as her obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia, or writing the perfect suicide note. She can be seen throughout the Bay Area touching or counting anything that needs touching or counting – most recently at The Clubhouse, Rooster T. Feathers, Harvey’s Funny Tuesdays, the Wharf Room, and at a coffee shop near you.
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Joe Nguyen

2009-07-02T22:04:20Z

is awesome.

Ryan Kasmier

2009-07-02T22:03:59Z

Ryan Kasmier is a gay, San Francisco-based stand up comedian and performer, but his comedy is very straight friendly. Seriously, some of his best friends are straight. Ryan can be likened to a feisty little Italian sausage because his wit, unique humor, and tongue-in-cheek style, are all tightly packed into one small person. Ryan’s comedy is largely biographical and his incredulous tone and observational stories are filled with sarcastic jokes that catch the audience off-guard and send them into hysterics.
Ryan won first place in the 2009 Battle of the Bay Comedy Competition. His energy, large array of topics and ability to draw in audiences make him a popular host. He regularly plays various Bay Area comedy venues including The Clubhouse, Harvey's, and The Russian River Resort. Clips of Ryan’s work as well as a schedule of performances can be found here.

Natasha Muse

2009-07-02T22:03:36Z

Natasha Muse is pretty funny, for a comedian. She first climbed on stage about nine years ago when she began working at AsiaSF as "Ginger." All her friends claimed she was much too shy to be a good performer, and the fact that they were kinda right didn't stop her from trying it anyway, and sorta proving them all wrong.
Now she's moved from lip-synching into stand-up
comedy, which is a pretty big leap, if you think about it. And since that leap she has created what some people refer to as a 'buzz' in the San Francisco comedy scene, which she's just going to go ahead and take as a compliment.
Natasha has performed all over the Bay Area, including the SF Comedy Clubhouse, the Purple Onion, the Dark Room, Castagnola's and the Actors' Theatre, where she produces and hosts "A Funny Night for Comedy" on the second Sunday of every month. Natasha is the first runner-up of the 2009 Battle of the Bay competition, and is almost definitely at least the second-funniest transsexual you know.

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Adam Mcglaughlin

2009-07-02T22:02:33Z

is awesome.

Ken Townsend

2009-07-02T22:01:36Z

Ken Townsend is the illegitimate child of Molly Hatchet and the Ramones, baptized in corn liquor, lit on fire, and raised on a steady diet of pro wrestling and comic books. Ken is a favorite at rehabs, halfway houses, convenience store security cameras, and more forgiving comedy establishments worldwide.

Jeff Reitman

2009-07-02T22:01:11Z

Originally from the Philadelphia area, Jeff Reitman has spent the better part of his life wasting way too much time playing video games and pursuing a myriad of geek hobbies including programming, board games, a brief and deeply regretted journey down the abyss that is Magic: The Gathering. Being shunned for 30 odd years for doing what he loves, left Jeff scarred and with a wealth of material to draw upon.

Jeff's act focuses on his hipster nerd habits and about viewing the world through his gamer goggles.

In 2008, Jeff started Cross Platform Comedy, a comedy show targetted at gamer and nerd culture. The first show was a sell-out and future shows are in the works.

In 2009, Jeff was profiled by one of the world's largest World of Warcraft websites, WoW.co

Videogamer Violent Behavior + The Sims from Jeff Reitman on Vimeo.