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Cobb's Comedy Club presents Whitney Cummings. A regular guest on E!'s Chelsea Lately, Whitney wrote, produced, and appeared in Showtime's stand-up showcase Live! Nude! Comedy!. She's a writer for Comedy Central's popular roasts, and following her breakout performance at their roast of Joan Rivers, she recently appeared in their David Hasselhoff roast. She also recently recorded her first hour-long Comedy Central special. Learn more...

Cobb's Comedy Club presents Broken Lizard. The five-member comedy group is best known for such cult film hits as Super Troopers, Beerfest and Club Dread. They're touring the country with a blend of sketch comedy, stand-up, old and new characters, and many more surprises. Learn more...

Comedy legend Bobcat Goldthwait, known for his high-pitched voice and manic, absurd material, was one of the top stand-up acts of the 1980s. He starred in the Police Academy movies and later turned to directing, spending two years in charge of Jimmy Kimmel Live and winning praise for his films Windy City Heat, Sleeping Dogs Lie and World's Greatest Dad. Learn more...

Ralphie May is best known as a finalist on the first season of Last Comic Standing. He's also one of the top comedy club headliners in the country, and has also appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and many more TV shows and movies. Learn more...

Paul Mooney is one of the most dangerous and brilliant comic minds of our time. Having written for prominent comedians ranging from Richard Pryor to Redd Foxx to Dave Chappelle, Mooney is also a Grammy-nominated stand-up comic, known for his explosively funny, controversial, and politically charged comedy. Learn more...

Cobb's presents comedian Richard Lewis, The star of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and one of GQ Magazine's "20th Century's Most Influential Humorists" is famous for his stream-of-consciousness style and neurotic, deeply honest rants. Learn more...

David Alan Grier is known for his sketch comedy work and impressions on In Living Color, and for starring in NBC's DAG and Comedy Central's Chocolate News. He's performed stand-up on numerous late-night talk shows. Cobb's Comedy Club. Learn more...

After spending years in the shadow of his brother Eddie, Charlie Murphy broke out as one of the stars of Chappelle's Show. Now he's acting in and writing a number of film projects, and selling out comedy clubs nationwide. 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. See his stand-up live at Cobb's Comedy Club. Learn more...

Greg Behrendt hosts Bring the Rock at Cobb's Comedy Club. This unique show features comedians telling hilarious and often embarrassing stories about their brushes with rock music, combined with live music by house band The Electrick Snowflake. Guests include legendary comic and radio host Marc Maron, Nick Thune (The Tonight Show,) and singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips. Learn more...

Comedian Michael McDonald is best known for his ten years on Fox's MADtv, during which time he created such memorable characters as Stuart Larkin, Marvin Tikkvah and Bible Dude. He's currently a producer and director on ABC's Cougar Town, and recently filmed a stand-up special for Comedy Central. Learn more...

Cobb's welcomes Craig Robinson for an evening of comedy. Craig currently co-stars as Darryl Philbin on NBC's Emmy Award-winning show The Office. You may also know him from Comedy Central's Premium Blend, HBO's Def Comedy Jam, and the films Pineapple Express and Hot Tub Time Machine. Learn more...

Comedian-Actor Jeff Garlin (costar with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm) headlines at Cobb's, the Bay Area's best place for comedy. Learn more...

Patrice O'Neal is one of New York's top stand-up comics, and a headliner at shows around the country. He's been a regular guest on TV's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and radio's Opie and Anthony, a recurring character on The Office, and had his own stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and Showtime. Learn more...

Just for Laughs and Comedy Central vet Arj Barker ("Dave" from Flight of the Conchords) shows off his stand-up skills, well-honed from appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Sharing the bill is special guest Charlyne Yi, who's been seen in the films Knocked Up and Paper Heart. Learn more...

Filipino-American comedian Rex Navarrete, star of the stand-up DVDBadass Madapaka, headlines at Cobb's Comedy Club. Rex has sold out shows at comedy clubs across the country, including the Punch Line, Laugh Factory and Improv. Learn more...

Cobb's Comedy Club welcomes musical comedy legend Neil Innes. Innes launched his career as the leader of the quirky Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. He later gained fame for his collaborations with Monty Python, appearing in and writing the music for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and co-creating the Rutles. Learn more...

Cobb's Comedy Club welcomes Greg Giraldo. One of the nation's top headlining stand-up comics, he's appeared regularly on Comedy Central in shows like Root of All Evil, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and his own stand-up specal. He's also performed on the Late Show with David Letterman, and made over a dozen appearances on Late Night with Conan O' Brien. Learn more...

Cobb's Comedy Club presents actor/comedian Jamie Kennedy. First coming to public attention in the Scream trilogy, Jamie's subsequent credits have included the WB's prank show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, the film Malibu's Most Wanted, and MTV's Blowin' Up. He recently released the documentary film Heckler. Learn more...

Cobb's Comedy Club presents Far Easter 5 featuring four of the country's best Asian comedians. Dat Phan was the winner of the first season of NBC's hit Last Comic Standing. Joe Wong is a comedian and filmmaker whose short Joe Huang For President won Best Short Film at the Cambridge Fringe Fest. Kevin Shea has been seen on Jimmy Kimmel Live and HBO's Down and Dirty. Kevin Kataoka performed on Premium Blend and was a writer for MADtv. Learn more...

Tom Papa has toured with Jerry Seinfeld for the past eight years and he was personally chosen by Jerry to host NBC's The Marriage Ref.A veteran standup comedian, Papa has recorded two standup specials on Comedy Central and has made numerous appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Late Show with David Letterman. Learn more...

Known for his quick wit, stand-up comic Ben Bailey has received a Daytime Emmy nomination as the host of Discovery Channel's hit series Cash Cab. He's been seen on the Tonight Show and the Late Late Show, and had a role in Spiderman 2. He headlines Cobb's Comedy Club. Learn more...

Brian Posehn headlines Cobb's Comedy Club. He's a regular on Comedy Central's Sarah Silverman Program, and a founding member of the Comedians of Comedy. A writer and performer on HBO's acclaimed Mr. Show, he has acted on sitcoms such as Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld, NewsRadio, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Friends. Comic musician Remy opens the show. Learn more...

Quirky Canadian Harland Williams left behind a career as a forest ranger to try stand-up comedy, and soon found himself acting as well, landing parts in comedies like There's Something About Mary, Dumb & Dumber, The Whole Nine Yards, and Sorority Boys. He headlines Cobb's Comedy Club. Learn more...

Known for his brutally honest comedy, Jim Norton is best known as a regular guest on radio's Opie and Anthony show. He's the host of HBO's stand-up showcase Down and Dirty, and his hour-long special Monster Rain recently premiered on the network. He's performed several times on the Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman. Learn more...

Cobb's welcomes Robert Schimmel. Known for his blend of outrageously raunchy humor and brutally honest material about his own life, Schimmel has had multiple hit HBO specials, and is a regular guest on the Howard Stern Show. Bay Area comedy veteran and popular radio host Mark Pitta opens the show. Learn more...

This edgy stand-up show features three young Middle Eastern comics who poke fun at everything from politics to pop culture to Arab culture. The Comedians are Aron Kader of Comedy Central's "Axis of Evil" and The Shield; Maysoon Zayid, co-founder and co-executive producer of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and star of her own one-woman show, produced and directed by Kathy Najimy; and Dean Obeidallah of Comedy Central's "The Watch List." Learn more...

Jeffrey Ross's performances at celebrity roasts honoring megastars like Hugh Hefner, Donald Trump and Jerry Stiller inspired New York Magazine to crown him "The Meanest Man in Comedy," and MTV to introduce him as "a one-man verbal assault unit." As a stand-up comic, Jeff has appeared on dozens of TV shows including David Letterman, Jay Leno and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Learn more...

Voted "Best Burlesque Revue" in The Best of San Francisco 2009 by SFWeekly.com, the Hubba Hubba Revue blends classic striptease with vaudeville and cabaret acts, plus live bands. It's been a hit at venues throughout the Bay Area, and now comes to Cobb's Comedy Club. Learn more...

The Big Gay Sketch Show comes to Cobb's Comedy Club as part of SF Sketchfest. The groundbreaking sketch comedy program, which has aired on MTV and Logo, goes live, as cast members Stephen Guarino, Jonny McGovern, Kate McKinnon, and Nicol Paone perform top sketches from the first trwo seasons. Learn more...

John Hodgman, a regular contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the man who plays the "PC" in the Apple computer ads, receives the second annual SF Sketchfest Comedy Writing Award at Cobb's Comedy Club. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, and on This American Life. He appears in conversation with author Dave Eggers, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the founder of McSweeney's. Learn more...

Invite Them Up is a cabaret-style variety show with stand-up and characters hosted and created by New York City comics Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale. A long-running hit in its home city, it comes to Cobb's Comedy Club as part of SF Sketchfest, with guests Greg Behrendt, Laura Kightlinger, Kumail Nanjiani, Larry Murphy and more. Learn more...

SF Sketchfest presents Ask A Ninja Live: Frenemies and The Liam Sullivan Show, two live shows featuring Internet stars, at Cobb's Comedy Club. Ask A Ninja has received over 130 million Internet hits, and won the first ever YouTube Best Series award. Sullivan is best known for his character Kelly, whose video "Shoes" is one of YouTube's biggest hits ever. Learn more...

SF Sketchfest presents The Dave Hill Explosion, a comedy talk show at Cobb's Comedy Club. Hill's unique comedy and interviewing style has been seen on HBO and Cinemax, as well as MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Adult Swim and more. This show's guests include talk show legend Dick Cavett and Violent Femmes frontman Gordon Gano. Learn more...

SF Sketchfest presents Sunday Comics, an evening of stand-up and character comedy at Cobb's Comedy Club. The lineup includes Nick Kroll (The League), Tom Lennon (Reno 911!), Carlos Alazraqui (Reno 911!), Jon Dore (Canada's Jon Dore Television Show), James Adomian (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson) and San Francisco's own Alex Koll. Learn more...

The Whitest Kids U' Know play a show at Cobb's as part of SF Sketchfest. The New York-based sketch comedy troupe, known for their surreal and warped comic sensibility, rode a wave of Internet popularity to a hit TV series on IFC Learn more...

Damon Wayans headlines Cobb's Comedy Club. Known for his outspoken comic style, Wayans first gained fame on FOX's In Living Color. He's starred in several films, recorded three hit HBO stand-up specials, and starred as Michael Kyle on ABC's My Wife and Kids. Learn more...

Cobb's Comedy Club welcomes Saturday Night Live veteran Jon Lovitz for a night of stand-up comedy. Lovitz, who was known on SNL for such characters as "Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar," Master Thespian, Hanukkah Harry and Michael Dukakis, has also made his mark as an actor in Jumpin' Jack Flash, Three Amigos!, Big, My Stepmother Is an Alien, and A League of Their Own. Learn more...

Jake Johannsen headlines Cobb's Comedy Club. Renowned for his dryly witty style, Jake has made over 40 appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, and his HBO special This'll Take About An Hour was voted one of the 50 Funniest Moments in Television History by TV Guide. Last Comic Standing Season 1 champion Dat Phan will also perform. Learn more...

Henry Cho's comedy draws on his upbringing as a Korean-American in Tennessee. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show, Henry had an hour-long Comedy Central special, What's That Clickin' Noise? Henry's film credits include Material Girls and the Farrelly brothers' Say it Isn't So. Learn more...

Comedian Bruce Vilanch performs at Cobb's Comedy Club. Best known as a writer for TV awards shows, he's co-written 16 Oscar broadcasts, as well as Tonys, Grammys and Emmys. He's also been seen on TV's Hollywood Squares, and recently spent two years as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. The show also features nationally syndicated radio host and HuffingtonPost blogger Karel. Learn more...

Urban comedy star Guy Torry headlines Cobb's. He's been seen on Def Comedy Jam, Comedy Central, and The Tonight Show. He was an original member of the Kings of Comedy. Film credits include American History X and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Learn more...

Nationally headlining comedian Aaron Karo brings his stand-up act to Cobb's. He'll perform new material based on his latest book I'm Having More Fun Than You, a chronicle of the joys of bachelor life. A bestselling author, Karo is the creator of the email column "Ruminations," and recently released a stand-up album, Just Go Talk to Her. Learn more...

Kevin Nealon, star of Showtime's Weeds, NBC's Saturday Night Live, appears at Cobb's Comedy Club for an evening of deranged and hilarious comedy. His time on SNL was highlighted by a run as anchor of the show's "Weekend Update" segment and half of the popular duo Hans and Franz. Learn more...

Jim Breuer headlines Cobb's Comedy Club. First gaining fame on Saturday Night Live, he now hosts Breuer Unleashed on Sirius Satellite Radio. His high-energy stand-up has been showcased on several Late Night with Conan O'Brien appearances, as well as his recent hour-long Comedy Central special Let's Clear the Air. Learn more...

Cobb's Comedy Club welcomes Joan Rivers. One of the most famous women in the history of comedy, Rivers' razor-sharp wit and catchphrase "can we talk?" have led her from guest-hosting the Tonight Show to her own talk show, appearances on Hollywood's biggest red carpets, a recent hit Comedy Central roast, and countless other honors. Learn more...

Mark Curry, one of the top stand-up comedians today, headlines Cobb's Comedy Club. An Oakland native, Mark launched his career in the Bay Area before starring in ABC's hit series Hangin' With Mr. Cooper. The host of Showtime at the Apollo and BET's Coming to the Stage, Curry has also starred in his own HBO special. Learn more...

Scottish comic Danny Bhoy headlines Cobb's. Known for his engaging true stories and razor-sharp observations, Bhoy has had several hit shows at the famed Edinburgh Festival, and is also one of the most popular comics in Australia and New Zealand. He recently taped his first hour-long Comedy Central special. Learn more...

Heather McDonald headlines a stand-up show at Cobb's, which also features rising star comic Whitney Cummings. Both McDonald and Cummings regularly appear on E!'s Chelsea Lately. McDonald has worked on multiple films with the Wayans Brothers;Cummings wrote, produced, and performed in Showtime's Live Nude Comedy, and recently performed on Comedy Central's roast of Joan Rivers. Learn more...

Award-winning comedian John Pinette performs at Cobb's. His brand new Comedy Central Special and DVD entitled I'm Starvin' was released in January as a follow up to his enormously successful CD Show Me The Buffet. Learn more...

Pablo Francisco is a master of funny voices and sound effects. His act often includes spoofs of melodramatic Spanish language soap operas and film previews. In addition to being in hot demand at comedy clubs across the country, Pablo has appeared on numerous TV shows and specials, including Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia and FOX's MADtv. Learn more...