Chad Opitz finished fifth in the 2023 San Francisco Comedy Competition.

Chad is a comic whose hilarious and unique perspectives make him an oft booked staple at Bay Area clubs and showcases. Veering between one-liners, short story jokes, and sometimes even song, Opitz’ writing is as well-regarded as his character and performance work.

Chad has been a featured guest on the Doug Loves Movies Podcast and The Benson Interruption. He was a featured performer at the 2016-2019 San Francisco Sketchfests. Chad was the winner of Bay Area legend Jimmy Gunn’s “Best Newcomer” award. He is a regular host at Punch Line San Francisco and Sacramento, Cobb’s Comedy Club and is a feature act at Rooster T. Feathers Comedy Club and San Jose Improv. He’s been invited to perform for High Plains Comedy Festival in Denver, Altercation Comedy Festival in Austin, TX. and the B4UDie Comedy Festival in Anchorage, Alaska.

Chad has been featured in several short films and commercials, including Walgreens Red Nose Day to help end child poverty. He was cast as “young Francis Ford Coppola” for the 4th season of Amazon Prime’s Goliath starring Billy Bob Thornton.

He’s opened for Michelle Wolf, Melissa Villasenor, David Cross, Brian Posehn Scott Thompson, Christopher Titus, Gad Elmaleh, ISMO, Rob Schneider, Neil Hamburger, Taylor Tomlinson, Tom Green, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brooks Wheelan and many more.