Comedy

These stories are not allowed to be read on the radio because of language or content, so instead were recited live for an audience on Friday.

As part of SF Sketchfest, two Upright Citizens Brigade teams — New York and Los Angeles — combined forces for a Friday night show at PianoFight.

When every day offers increasingly distressing news cycles, it was nice to be in a room full of people remembering how incredibly absurd life can be.

This string of odd jobs served as the guiding lived experience for a script that landed them their 2018 narrative show on Comedy Central: “Corporate.”

“It’s hard to realize how radical it was,” explains director John Landis, speaking at the 40th-anniversary SF Sketchfest panel for “Animal House.”

Garcia differentiates SF Sketchfest from other comedy festivals, such as Clusterfest, not only in terms of its scale, but in terms of its variety.

Saget’s stand up set was fully R-rated, holding nothing back in the realm of vulgar topics. He actively tried to get away from his TV persona.

In laughing at the cringeworthy, the frustrating, the inexplicably unjust, Cho aims to broaden perspectives and open discussions on addressing and correcting all the “shit” that’s wrong with the world.

The intersection of personal experience and political reality seems to be one of the driving forces behind Cho’s work.

The longer you have to stay onstage, the more it feels like you’re throwing spaghetti at the wall, just waiting for something to stick.