Sausage Fest Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 7th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Andrew Orolfo is of a different species, a rare being. He tries his best to be funny, and if you don't laugh, don't worry, he laughs at his own jokes anyway. Everything will be alright. |
Girl Power Comedy Night - November 9th & Hella Gay Comedy Festival Gala on November 9th in San Francisco.
Ash Fisher is a comedian, writer and actor. She is not a comedienne, a writeress or an actress. She performs standup all over the Bay Area; hosts "Ash Tuesday" every Tuesday 4-6 P.M. on FCC Free Radio in San Francisco; co-produces the monthly Hella Gay Comedy Show; does voiceovers whenever someone lets her and writes about all things queer, funny and Oakland for Wear Your Voice Magazine. Ash holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Sallie Mae will never let her forget it. www.ashfisherhaha.com |
Fag Hag Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 6th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Aviva Siegel is a comic living in Oakland, CA. She's shared the stage with comics like Baron Vaughn, does stand-up all over the bay, and is often been compared to baby sinclair from the hit show dinosaurs. |
Girl Power Comedy Night @ Pa'ina Lounge in San Francisco on November 9th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Carrie Avritt, a San Francisco comedian, is funny. Carrie has performed open mic nights, showcases including Hella Gay Comedy, LOL Mondays and The Body Positive Comedy Show, performed with bands, been a guest on radio shows in both SF and SJ, the gay rodeo, private events, Pride events, and been a special guest comedian for Marga Gomez, Chris Franjola, DL Hughley as well as Loni Love.. Carrie brings with her a unique brand of edgy observational humor. |
Fag Hag Comedy Show @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 6th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Cheryl White hails from Berkeley California by way of Humboldt County, where she was a high school English teacher amongst gun-toting marijuana growers. Now a full-time comedian and dating single lady, she shares stories about her present and past experiences as a mother, bartender, phone psychic and a sailor in the Caribbean, peppering them with sassy commentary. |
Sausage Fest Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 7th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Chris Ferdinandson is an up and coming comedian from the North Bay. He uses his charm and wit to win over an audience. |
Queer & Allies Comedy Night @ Magnet in San Francisco on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Clay Newman is a weed smoking rabble rouser that entertains audiences across the country with his tales of life, love, and all that other crap. Catch him at The Comedy Jam every Thursday at Milk Bar in SF. |
Connor Martin - featured performer for the Sausage Fest Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 7th.
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Sausage Fest Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 7th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Demar Randy is a comedian and actor from Compton, CA. From telling stories of his hilarious relatives to speaking on today's social injustices, Demar's raw and edgy comedic storytelling reveals the humorous contradictions of life. |
Fag Hag Comedy Show @ Club OMG in SF on November 7th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Eloisa Bravo is an enigmatic and highly personal comedienne. She started her comedy career soon after she discovered she couldn’t have children and a subsequent divorce. She holds nothing back and derives her material from real life, exploding with energy on stage. You’ll notice her immediately for her Venezuelan accent and highly expressive performance; yet it’s the nature and intensity of her material that will stick with you, with its unique perspective on the issues affecting urban, single women. |
LGBT Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Emily Van Dyke is 30 and still on her mom’s cell phone plan. She is not related to Dick Van Dyke. Emily co-hosts the comedy dating show "Flirting with Laughter" and she has performed at Punchline, Cobbs and was the 2013 winner of Walk the Plank Comedy Competition. |
Queers & Allies Comedy Night @ Magnet in San Francisco on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Erin Loftus is a San Francisco local. She performs locally with the Sketch Group Femikaze. Erin has performed standup all over the US. She Is stoked to be in the inaugural Hella Gay Festival. She can also be seen on Episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I Almost Got Away with It, and her podcast *This Movie*. |
Fag Hag Comedy Show @ Club OMG in SF on November 6th! Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Are ya’ll ready for Georgia Mae Louise?! Straight outta Louisiana from the Bayou to New Orleans she’ll tell yeah how she didn’t get this old being no fool! Packing decades of laughter for you to enjoy Georgia Mae brings sass, class and old ass to a stage near you. Ms. Louise became the crowd favorite performing as host for the Hella Gay Mother Day Show telling all her secrets. After that she caught the comedy bug so much she called her Adult kids one night and told them “ Come get your chirin’ I’m doing stand-up tonight and if I get tired I’m gonna sit down and still do stand-up! She’s hoping to see all ya’ll happy faces at the Hella Gay Comedy Festival! |
Fag Hag Comedy Show @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 6th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Gloria Magaña is the perfect combination of class, sass, and funny. A newcomer to comedy, Gloria has already conquered historical stages like The Purple Onion, SF/Sac. Punchlines, The Comedy Store, and The Ice House. A regular in the San Francisco underground comedy scene, Gloria describes herself as, ”The Latina Beyonce with a hint of Queen Latifah, a dash of Samoan jalapeño, with a kick of George Lopez." Her comedy is compelling, sweet, animated, and absolutely hilarious. |
Underwear Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 5th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
British comic Griffin Daley first trod the boards to howls of laughter at age 10, then next day drowned in the sea and was saved by an angel. Ever since Griff has viewed life as a backward joke and lives accordingly. Comfortable on any stage or set from KOFY TV to The Beatles Festival to Improv, Throckmorton etc, which character will he be tonight? |
Queers & Allies @ Magnet in SF / Girl Power Comedy Night @ Pa'ina Lounge in SF. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Irene Tu is a stand-up comic, writer, and performer from Chicago, now also living in San Francisco. Some have described her as “sarcastic” but she just tells it like it is. She has been in SF Sketchfest, Limestone Comedy Festival, Cape Fear Comedy Festival, She-Devil Comedy Festival, Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, and was a finalist in Rooftop Comedy’s National College Comedy Competition. You can see her perform all around Chicago and the Bay Area. |
Jake Hirschfeld is a featured performer for the Underwear Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 5th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
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Girl Power Comedy Night @ Pa'ina Lounge in San Francisco on November 9th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Jennifer Dronsky has been collecting prestigious comedy awards such as “Winner of the first Alameda Comedy Competition” and Three time “Dirty Haiku Battle Champion”. Currently residing in San Francisco’s odiferous Tenderloin district with her partner, two cats and ever mounting tiny porcelain cat figurines. Jennifer draws upon the odd happenings and uncomfortable conversations that seem to be omnipresent in her life. Performing a continuous response to life in a self deprecating “what I wanted to say was this”, sort of way. With her charismatic style and uproarious foul mouth, Jennifer Dronsky is sure to make even your curmudgeonly relatives laugh. |
Queers & Allies Comedy Night @ Magnet in San Francisco on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Jesus Fuentes was a featured for SF's Queer Open Mic and Tourettes Without Regrets show in Oakland, has been in True Hustle Entertainment's comedy showcases. His hosting credits include the Hella Gay Comedy Show's Sausage Fest and, most recently, the Drag Comedy Night, the Peace, Earthlings show (with Roman Rimer, and Blythe Baldwin) at Mutiny Radio in SF and co-hosting the Smack Dab Open Mic at Magnet in May. You all betta work! |
Fag Hag Comedy Night / LGBT Comedy Night / Queers & Allies Comedy Night - November 7th & 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Jon Gomora is a Sacramento based comedian who started performing stand up at seventeen years old. Since starting stand up he has performed at the Sacramento Punch Line, the Sacramento Comedy Festival and won the "Last West Sacramento Comic Standing Amateur Competition". |
Girl Power Comedy Night @ Pa'ina Lounge in SF - November 9th.
Karinda Dobbins hails from the Motor City and now living in the Bay Area, Karinda's humor is sharp, distinctive and infused with hilarious social commentary. Karinda made her prime-time national television debut on NickMom Night Out, a series of stand-up comedy showcases on Nickelodeon and she has opened for Greg Proops and W. Kamau Bell. |
LGBT Comedy Night - November 8th & Girl Power Comedy Night - November 9th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Kate Willett is a San Francisco based comedian and actress. She has appeared at venues such as Cobb’s and the San Francisco Punchline. She is the host of a weekly radio show, called The Mission Position on radiovalencia.fm. She’s also the co-host of the Comikaze Lounge and co-producer of Comedy at Deluxe. |
Butch vs. Femme Comedy Night in Oakland on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Kelly Doyle got her start in stand up in 2004 with Hyena Comedy Institute in San Francisco. She performed at events all around the Bay Area including Butch-Femme Drag Shows, International Ms. Leather Conferences, Hyena Comedy Club, and the Prop. 8 Protest Rally at the State Capital. After a multiple years hiatus due to a series of unfortunate events, Kelly is back and has come out swinging with the mission to heal through the power of laughter. |
Girl Power Comedy Night @ Pa'ina Lounge in San Francisco on November 9th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Kelly Lynch better known on stage as Kelly O'Kelly is a human exclamation point! She is literally excited about everything, especially lighting up the comedy stage. She has already been graced with the opportunity to perform at some of the most established venues such as The Purple Onion and Cobb's in San Francisco and The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. |
Underwear Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 5th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Ken Hamlett is a Native of Tacoma, WA., he has performed all over the Northwest at clubs like Capital City in Salem, Tacoma Comedy Club in Washington, The Funhouse and Brody in Portland, Oregon and has performed in front of hundreds of students at Western Oregon University. Ken is the two time winner of Western Oregon University's last comic standing competition, and has also participated in Festivals like the Idaho Laugh Fest. |
Larry Dorsey Jr. - featured performer for the Sausage Fest Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 7th.
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Fag Hag Comedy Show @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 7th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Little lady with a big voice Lilibeth Helson has been doing stand up comedy in the Gay Area since 2007. A supporter of Laughter for Life. |
LGBT Comedy Night - November 8th / Girl Power Comedy Night - November 9th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Loren co-wrote two one-woman shows, and stage-managed many Off- and Off-off Broadway plays. In January 2011, she won “Funniest Person in Downtown Berkeley” at Marga’s Funny Mondays at the Berkeley Marsh. Loren was a finalist in the Battle of the Bay Comedy Competition 2007 and 2009, & appeared on many radio shows. She was accepted into SF Sketchfest 2013. |
Mark Burg looks young and he will use his looks to his advantage. His innocent appearance allows him to throw any preconceived notions right off course and go in unexpected directions. Mark finds humor in everyday life from awkward conversations that have gone on too long, to noticing the weird packaging of cereal. A Sacramento local, Mark is a regular performer at the Sacramento PunchLine, Laughs Unlimited and Sacramento Comedy Spot. Marks comedy has taken him all over Northern California and as far as Montana and several nights in Oregon.
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Underwear Comedy Night - November 5th @ Club OMG in San Francisco. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
With his mellow personality and razor sharp wit, Matt Gubser relentlessly challenges a spectrum of social conventions of all shapes and sizes, and recounts the absurdity of his experiences parenting, dating and aging. Also dick jokes. Matt performs across the country, co-produces “It’s Just Two Minutes,” a monthly comedy show in San Francisco and is part of the Ha Ha Heathens comedy tour. |
Underwear Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 5th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Michael Brandon started comedy in San Jose, California. He's opened for Pablo Francisco. |
Homo Says What Comedy Show @ Layover in Oakland on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014
Mike Spiegelman has performed at San Francisco Sketchfest and Comedy Day in Golden Gate Park. Spiegelman hosts and runs Oakland’s Layover Comedy Night showcase, which is celebrating its ffth year anniversary in January. Yay! Spiegs also co-hosts Bad Movie Night at the Darkroom Theater in San Francisco, which the show will end its ten-year run in March. |
Sausage Fest Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 7th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
As a youth, Nick Palm first made a name for himself as 3-time MVP of the US Toddler Lacrosse League (USTLL). As a teen, he once again found himself in the spotlight when he successfully sued the USTLL for their failure to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA). Now a big boy, Nick Palm fills strangers' hearts with delight as he takes them on journeys of merriment, suspense, and confusion (tells them dick jokes). |
LGBT Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Robert Parra (aka) Comedian Robbie Rob is a native of San Jose, California. Robert has perrformed locally in the Bay Area and Los Angeles Region. Robert is the Gay Latino Comedian you don’t want to mess with! He says he rather not “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” but to “Don’t Ask, I WILL TELL!” a new Comedy Show tour coming to a city near you. |
Queers and Allies Comedy Night @ Magnet in San Francisco - November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Sampson McCormick is a stand up comedian, writer, and activist. He's been performing and touring around the world for over a decade, using comedy to bring laughter as well as confront homophobia in churches, colleges and society. He's an author of two books, has recorded three live comedy albums and has worked with acts such as Whoopi Goldberg, RuPaul & Paul Mooney. |
Underwear Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 5th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Steve Post is a stand up comic from Somerville, MA. Based in San Francisco, he performs all over the city. Considered to be one of the best up-and-coming comics by himself and close friends, you're gonna want to keep an eye on him! He's had conversations Bill Burr, Bob Saget, and the actor who played Sean on "Boy Meets World" but worked with none of them. Steve Post enjoys all forms of comedy, and writing in the third person. |
LGBT Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 8th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Tammy was born in NYC and is for the legalization of marijuana. Her favorite food is lasagna. |
Underwear Comedy Night @ Club OMG in San Francisco on November 5th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Trevor Shane Rogers grew up in a traveling circus (seriously). His relaxed, conversational style comes naturally to a performer who has been working the stage since age nine. Shane took second place in the 2013 "Walk the Plank" Bay Area Comedy Competition, and made it to the finals of the Rooster T Feathers Comedy Competition in May 2014. |
Girl Power Comedy Night @ Pa'ina Lounge in San Francisco on November 9th. Hella Gay Comedy Festival 2014.
Valerie Branch is the den mother of Bay Area comedy; the cool kind, that lets you drink during sleepovers. Valerie formerly produced the shows “Laughs at the Lookout” and “Jokers and Queens at Tommy T's,” and founded the two-year-running “LOL at OMG” open-mic and showcase. She has opened for Tommy Davidson and featured for Justin Martindale and Poppy Champlain. |