Near the start of every year, one of the world’s most massive comedy festival assembles in San Francisco, The SF Sketchfest. For 2015, it’ll run Jan. 22nd-Feb. 8th and tickets go on sale this Sun. Dec. 14th at 10AM.
Per usual, SF Sketchfest has a tome’s worth of amazing comedy acts and in attempting to even truncate their line-up to show you what you could be in for in a more reader-friendly way, the list of shows/performers is still pretty damn long.
So, here’s the abbreviated, slightly, line-up of 2015 SF Sketchfest (i.e. there are way more shows/performers not listed):
-SF Sketchfest Tribute: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean & Harry Shearer
-SF Sketchfest Tribute: “Weird Al” Yankovic in conversation with Chris Hardwick with musical performances by Hard ‘n Phirm and Garfunkel & Oates
-SF Sketchfest Tribute: Marc Maron
-SF Sketchfest & Noise Pop Tribute: Scharpling & Wurster: Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster in conversation with Andy Kindler with musical guests John Darnielle and Bob Mould
-Judge John Hodgman
-Nerdist Podcast with Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray and Matt Mira
-Princess Plays Purple Rain: Maya Rudolph & Gretchen Lieberum in an evening of the music of Prince
-StarTalk Live with Bill Nye the Science Guy and Eugene Mirman
-The Benson Movie Interruption with Doug Benson: “Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Parts 1 & 2”
-“But I’m A Cheerleader”: The Peaches Christ Experience with special guest Natasha Lyonne
-“Groundhog Day” on Groundhog Day with special guest Stephen Tobolowsky in a live Tobolowsky Files
-RiffTrax Night of the Shorts V: A Good Day to Riff Hard with Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy & Bill Corbett
“Animaniacs” with Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille and Randy Rogel
-“Dr. Katz Professional Therapist” 20th Anniversary Show with Jonathan Katz, Tom Snyder, Jon Benjamin and guest patients
-“Futurama”: Still Canceled with John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Lee Supercinski and Billy West
-“Another Period” with Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome, Paget Brewster, Beth Dover, Jason Ritter, Armen Weitzman and Moshe Kasher
-“The Hotwives of Orlando” with Tymberlee Hill, Angela Kinsey, Dannah Phirman, Andrea Savage, Kristen Schaal, Danielle Schneider and Casey Wilson
-“Better Off Dead” 30th Anniversary Live Read with writer/director Savage Steve Holland, actors Curtis Armstrong, Diane Franklin, Kim Darby, Amanda Wyss and guest understudies
-Thrilling Adventure Hour with Paget Brewsterupto, Busy Philipps, Paul F. Tompkins, The WorkJuice Players, Scott Adsit, Scott Aukerman, John Hodgman, Mike Phirman, Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter and more
-Uptown Showdown Debate: Are We Getting Dumber vs. Are We Getting Smarter? with Maria Bamford, W Kamau Bell, Jeff Garlin, Dave Hill, T.J. Miller, Aparna Nancherla, moderator Jared Logan and more
-Totally Looped with Maria Bamford, Joe Liss, Laraine Newman, Oscar Nunez, Rick Overton, Gary Anthony Williams and more
-Cultivated Wit’s Comedy Hack Day Finals with judges Scott Aukerman, Natasha Leggero, Jonah Ray and more
-Iron Comic with Nato Green and Moshe Kasher
-Gravid Water with Scott Adsit, Lauren Lapkus, Ian Roberts and more
-The Groundlings: The Black Version
-The Improvised Shakespeare Company
-Prompter
-Shitty Jobs
-Theme Park Improv with Ian Brennan, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Jessica Makinson, Oscar Nunez, Cole Stratton and Janet Varney
-Upright Citizens Brigade ASSSSCAT with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and more
-The Writers of Key & Peele Improv Show
-Eli Braden
-Garfunkel & Oates
-Imaginary Radio with Drennon Davis
-The Dana Gould Hour
-Dead Authors with Paul F. Tompkins
-The Harland Highway Podcast with Harland Williams
-Hound Tall with Moshe Kasher
-improv4humans with Matt Besser
-Jonah Raydio with Jonah Ray
-Jordan, Jesse, Go!
-Ronna & Beverly
-Superego
-The Todd Barry Podcast
-The Todd Glass Show
-Who Charted? with Kulap Vilaysack and Howard Kremer
-You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
-BriTANick
-Good Neighbor with Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Nick Rutherford and Dave McCary
-Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction
-Mortified
-RISK! with Kevin Allison
-Aparna Nancherla & Guy Branum: Diversity Quota: A Night of Comedy with an Indian Lady and a Gay Jew
-BAKED with Brendon Small & Steve Agee
-Brent Weinbach: Appealing to the Mainstream
-Brian McCann’s Leisure Hour
-Come Laugh With Us with Lance Bangs
-Eddie Pepitone
-Edinburgh Fringe International Spotlight: Wil Anderson, Maeve Higgins, Matt Kirshen, Daniel Sloss and host Janeane Garofalo
-Emily Heller
-Emo Philips
-Erin Foley
-James Adomian
-Jenny Slate & Friends
-Jon Benjamin’s “Night of Not Interested in Hosting This Show”
-Jon Daly
-Kristen Schaal & Friends
-Leo Allen
-Maria Bamford
-Matt Braunger
-Max Silvestri
-Meltdown with Jonah Ray & Kumail Nanjiani
-Morgan Murphy
-Night Train with Wyatt Cenac
-The Onion Past Bedtime
-Put Your Hands Together with Cameron Esposito & Rhea Butcher
-Rory Scovel
-Set List
-Smug Shift with Moshe Kasher and Brent Weinbach
-Stand-Up Spotlight: Mike Lawrence & Dan St. Germain
-Tinkle Twins with Dana Gould & Arden Myrin
-T.J. Miller
-Van Jam with the Spanglers
-The SF Sketchfest Dozen, the Next Wave of Stand-Up Comedy Stars: Sean Donnelly & Maronzio Vance, Andy Haynes & Christina Pazsitzky, Maeve Higgins & Beth Stelling, Randy Liedtke & Alice Wetterlund, Jared Logan & Eliza Skinner, Mark Normand & Michelle Wolf