The Semifinals are possibly my favorite round because you get to see the Top Five comics from each week of the Preliminaries perform with 10 minutes instead of five. Those with a strong five start to fade. Those with a strong hour begin to shine.
The Semifinals of the 49th San Francisco Comedy Competition kicks off Tuesday, September 9th at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga. The Top Ten comedians compete for just five chances to advance to the Finals.
After five really great shows, we finally have the Top Five moving onto the Semifinals.
This is always a wild show because comics who are hovering around in the Top Ten scores are making one last push to get a TopFive spot and hopefully move on to the Semifinals. It’s brutal because only the Top FIve move on, the rest go home.
The Top Five from the Folktale Winery in Carmel.
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a show at a comedy club where the audience chants your name because it’s your home club. For some of the comedians, The Function is a home club. For others, it was a home away from home.
One of the great things about the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park is there’s great sightlines from every seat in the house. Usually when we do comedy we can sit in the back and watch the show. But not this show, even those seats filled with audience members. They came to laugh and our 16 comics came to deliver the laughs. From the reaction of the crowd, this was anyone’s show.
The second round of Preliminaries kicked off at the Battery in San Francisco. It was a show full of uncertainties, like who was printing up fake tickets (I’m serious!), would they be able to sneak into a private club and …
The second week of the 49th San Francisco Comedy Competition kicks off Friday, September 5th at The Battery in San Francisco.
After a wild week of venue changes and great shows, we are proud to announce the comedians moving on to the Semifinals.
Due to a little oopsie, this show was supposed to be at the Guild. At the very last minute, it was moved to the Function. The Top Five
Tonight at the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park was an early show. We started at 6:30 pm to a great audience with some of the same faces from The Battery making the Top Five. The Top Five Is it a …
San Francisco Comedy Competition 2025 has hit the ground running at the Battery in San Francisco and started with a two way tie for first place. We’ve got Four more shows to go, so this is still anyone’s game. The …
The 49th San Francisco Comedy Compeition kicks off Friday, August 29 at The Battery in San Francisco.
Former Finalist Joe Klocek has a review of Panicked, a comedy special from Marc Maron.