Author: Wally Glenn

Former San Francisco Comedy Competition competitor Nina G has a new special on Amazon.

News Up Now reporter Gleidson Martins stopped by the Final show to interview competitors and we thought we should share.

After sharpening our pencils, adding up all of the scores, and double-checking our math, we are finally ready to reveal the final Top Five.

After 20 shows since August, the 48th San Francisco Comedy Competition finds itself at the very last show. They say all good things must come to an end, but did it have to include this show?

Every show in the run has unique challenges, but tonight at Clark Center was pretty unique. They could not sell alcohol because there was a high school football game nearby. So the “Big Creek” show was a dry one. It didn’t matter, the audience loved the show.

Our final evening in San Francisco in front of an enthusiastic crowd at a place designed for comedy. It used to be the Improv before becoming a jazz staple known as Biscuits & Blues.

Some of the comics joked at the Orinda Theatre that the crowd was full of grandparents. I mentioned that just up the street is Rossmoor, where this crowds parents live. Although it has a reputation of being an older crowd, the minimum age for residents is 55, they are very sharp, understand good humor and the venue is really fantastic.

Like any elimination event, the San Francisco Comedy Competition has one difficult issue, we start with 32 really great comedians, but each week we have to eliminate really funny comics and move on with the top five.

The biggest show on the tour is at the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa. It’s a fantastic crowd that witnessed a really great comedy show.

The results are in from our stop at the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre. we had a great time with special guest host and local resident, Ellis Rodriguez.

The show moved up in the world, at least in elevation, to Grass Valley for a stop at the Center for the Arts.

It’s the second night of the Semifinals at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga and we’ve had eight out of a field of ten make the Top Five.

The first night for the Semifinals of the 2024 San Francisco Comedy Competition and it’s selling better than the next show tomorrow night. I guess America is ready to go out and laugh.

This contest is tough. It’s not only the oldest comedy competitions in the US, it attracts a lot of really great comics. I am seeing great comedians and wondering how do they break out so the world can join in on the fun. And then I remember it’s through events like the San Francisco Comedy Competition.