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Secret Improv Society's popular theatrical shows blend improvised theater, comedy and music to produce a totally unique form of entertainment. The company features a guest host each week. San Francisco's best improvisers, comedians and musicians join the quick-witted cast in applying their unique creative process to whatever the audience throws their way. Hilarious drama, serious comedy using audience suggestions and willing volunteers to create characters, scenes, stories, songs and themes. It's jazz theater. Learn more...

Berkeley Repertory Theatre welcomes Ennio. The original quick-change artist, direct from Italy, presents a special holiday show. The internationally famous physical comedian dons 50 life-size costumes in only 70 minutes, presenting a wacky and high-energy show that incorporates physical comedy and origami folding into a delightful experience for the whole family. Learn more...

True Fiction Magazine and 3 For All, the San Francisco-based, internationally known comedy improv groups, join forces on New Year's Eve for an evening of comedy, drama and impromptu mayhem. The performers spontaneously create comedy where none existed before. And they create it using suggestions provided by the audience. Nothing is rehearsed, nothing discussed before or during the shows. Learn more...

Un-Scripted Theater Company presents The Great Puppet Bollywood Extravaganza! The improvised theater company, known for their talent in creating songs on the spot, presents a fully improvised puppet musical done in the over-the-top style of India's Bollywood cinema. Learn more...

Aries Spears is well-known to audiences from his starring role on Fox's Mad TV, his frequent guest appearances on The Best Damn Sports Show Ever and his performances on a number of national talk shows. Along with his screen work, Aries tours continually around the country with his stand-up act. Currently, Aries can be heard on his two live comedy albums, and he is also working on a new sketch comedy program with Damon Wayans entitled The Underground. Learn more...

The W. Kamau Bell Curve comes to the Climate Theater. The long-running hit comedy show stars W. Kamau Bell, chosen as 2008 Bay Area Comedian of the Year by the San Francisco Weekly. Bell offers insightful, passionate, hilarious, and up-to-the-minute commentary on racism in America. Learn more...

Nico Santos headlines Awkward Endings, a comedy show at Club Deluxe. Santos brings a unique perspective to his comedy, being both gay and Filipino-American; he performs regularly at clubs around the Bay Area. Learn more...

Club Deluxe presents Chili Con Comedy, a showcase of the Bay Area's best Latino comics. Headliner Chris Garcia is known for his wacky comic sensibility; a prolific creator of popular Internet videos, he also appeared at HBO's Las Vegas Comedy Festival in 2007. Learn more...

What better way to celebrate the holidays in the Bay Area than with a lapsed Catholic, a Jew, a Hindu and a guy that plays his face with pencils? The Melting Pot Holiday Comedy Show features some of California's most notorious and fearless comic talents taking on the holiday spirit in a knockdown drag out show. Learn more...

The award-winning Big City Improv performs improvisational comedy in the style of TV's Whose Line Is It Anyway? and they are appearing live at The Shelton Theatre. Learn more...

Comedy On The Square presents an evening of comedy, magic and surprises, starring the funny and creative Will Franken in a rare S.F. appearance. Hosted by Tony Sparks, "The Bay's favorite comedy host," the show will also have some popular performers from Comedy On The Square, including Howard Stone, Lynn Ruth Miller, Joe King and special surprises. Learn more...

Magician Big Al Catraz, direct from Las Vegas, and juggler Frisco Fred host this intimate showcase of magic, comedy and surprises, featuring performers from Hollywood's famed Magic Castle. Each week includes several performers from a rotating cast. Learn more...

Nato Green presents the 6th Annual New Jew Revue, featuring some of the funniest Jewish comics in the Bay Area. Mo Mandel has appeared on Comedy Central's Live At Gotham and worked with Jackie Mason; Jeff Applebaum has appeared on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. Also scheduled to perform: Moshe Kasher, Alex Koll. Learn more...

No additives, no preservatives--just good stand-up comedy. This comedy showcase features some of the best comedians in town, including those local favorites from the bigger clubs--without the two-drink minimum of those other clubs. Lineups change every week, so check the Clubhouse website for the latest updates. Learn more...

Patrick Bulger and Jesse Fernandez host Things We Made, a showcase of unconventional comedy: characters, videos, illustrations, movement, music, and more. The show was chosen for 2008's San Francisco Sketchfest, and guests have been seen at Montreal's Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and on Comedy Central. Learn more...

Comedian and actress Susie Essman performs live. Essman played Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm; she's also worked as the host of Bravo's TV show Better Half, had a half-hour stand-up special on HBO, and hosted the American Comedy Awards. She's known for her hilariously biting comic rants. Learn more...

Improv group Double Entendre creates two completely original stories (told across multiple cinematic scenes) right in front of you, from nothing but a title provided by the audience. Lovers, cowboys, aliens, detectives, divas and daredevils -- who knows what characters will appear on the stage. Anything is possible with no script and no limits. Learn more...

Two of the Bay Area's top improv groups perform at the Garage. Crisis Hopkins close out a successful year, while Revolving Madness return from a six-month hiatus to perform topical longform improv. Learn more...

This fast-moving showcase of stand-up comedy and special surprises is hosted by Tony Sparks, who has been performing and presenting comedy for the last 10 years at The Punchline, Cobb's Comedy Club and more. Each show brings a fresh lineup from San Francisco's comedy and variety scene. Learn more...

The Clubhouse welcomes Jeff Reitman's Cross Platform Comedy, a stand-up show produced and performed by geeks. The show features Joe Klocek (Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, NBC's Last Comic Standing), Sammy Obeid (winner of 2008's Rooster T. Feathers Comedy Competition), and more. All proceeds benefit popular webcomic Penny Arcade's Child's Play, a charity which donates toys and games to children's hospitals around the country. Learn more...