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Where standup and advice collide. A night of stand-up brilliance featuring comedians who've graced the stages of Conan, Netflix, Comedy Central, and HBO. Do you (or your friend) have a question you want advice on ? Our comedians are all ears. You write in your questions, and after each set, our comedians will read your questions and see what advice they can offer!

From the mild to the wild, all of us have guilty pleasures, moments of being bad, and the down right awful. Audiences submit written sins and secrets, and we weave a fully improvised comedy show. Don't worry, it's anonymous. No one will know about the thing you do when you're alone.

Since 2011, San Francisco's hottest improv show remains Your Fucked Up Relationship. Improvised scenes inspired by your ridiculous, fucked up relationships.

“A Surrealist Love Letter To The ’90s Indie Titans.” – Matthew Turner, NME (UK)

Mark Ibold & Scott “Spiral Stairs“ Kannberg IN PERSON!

An examination of the iconic 90s indie band, “Pavements” appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn’t.  A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.

Starring as themselves, Stephen Malkmus. Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannbera. Mark Ibold, Steve West, & Bob Nastanovich, plus Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones and Kathryn Gallagher.

Monumentalize yourself! This open-format workshop will show you how to capture and render dynamic poses of yourself and others in 3D using just a cell phone.

Special post-festival event!
SF Sketchfest is honored to pay tribute to baseball icons Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper in a rare on-stage celebration of the legendary broadcasting duo. For generations, Kruk and Kuip have brought wit and wisdom -- not to mention their trademark camaraderie -- to SF Giants fans and beyond. So, grab some pine (or get in the squaaaat) and join them for this one-night-only evening of lively conversation and Q&A.

The Best Friends for Life Show wants to know all about your friends! Whether the current goofballs you hang out with or that legendary squad from high school, we make your inner circle the cast in our comedy. The band is back together again!!!

From the mild to the wild, all of us have guilty pleasures, moments of being bad, and the down right awful. Audiences submit written sins and secrets, and we weave a fully improvised comedy show. Don't worry, it's anonymous. No one will know about the thing you do when you're alone.

Since 2011, San Francisco's hottest improv show remains Your Fucked Up Relationship. Improvised scenes inspired by your ridiculous, fucked up relationships.

Once a week, in the late hours of what used to be "not considered late," a group of degenerates and misfits gather to perform a seance unlike anything seen before. So comically evil, so horrible, and gross that you may get sick to your stomach. The Ritual will be improvised, gut wrenchingly funny, with a tinge of fuckery.

HOSPITAL shows the daily activities of a large urban hospital with the emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations, and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of appropriate health care.

From the mild to the wild, all of us have guilty pleasures, moments of being bad, and the down right awful. Audiences submit written sins and secrets, and we weave a fully improvised comedy show. Don't worry, it's anonymous. No one will know about the thing you do when you're alone.

Since 2011, San Francisco's hottest improv show remains Your Fucked Up Relationship. Improvised scenes inspired by your ridiculous, fucked up relationships.