Mark your calendars for Tuesdays and join us for comedy with Mark Pitta & Friends.  Tonight the SF Sketchfest joins Mark Pitta & his friends with a great mix of stand up, sketch, improv and alternative comedy.  Sketchfest for January 22nd Kasper Hauser, Hard ‘n Phirm and Reggie Watts.
 
Mark Pitta hosts an evening where established headliners and up-and-coming comics can work on new material. You may see five comics, or an improv group or a comedy video or even a scene from a new play in progress....come join us Tuesdays at 8pm and find out!

SF Sketchfest mixes national headliners, local favorites and the best up-and-coming groups from throughout North America for three weeks every year of sketch, improv, stand-up and alternative comedy.

BriTANick
BriTANick (pronounced bry-TAN-ick) is a New York-based sketch comedy group consisting of writer/performers Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney. Brian and Nick grew up together in Atlanta, Georgia where they spent most of their time making short ridiculous videos. They are currently seniors at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where Brian majors in Film and Nick in Drama. BriTANick produces both videos and performances that can range anywhere from unreasonably absurd to elegantly hilarious. Brian and Nick essentially plan to spend the rest of their lives filming their ridiculous videos and happily invite you along for the ride. www.BriTANick.com

Mark & Ari
Some people say Mark Sarian and Ari Voukydis (Mark & Ari) are a comedy duo based out of New York City’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, where they’ve performed improv and sketch comedy since 1998. Most recently, Mark & Ari were finalists in JibJab.com’s, The Great Sketch Experiment, where they had their winning sketch shot and directed by legendary director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers). Other people, primarily children and the insane, say that Mark & Ari are mythical aqua-beasts, half man and half shark, patrolling the ocean floor in search of crimes to fight and lives to save. www.markandari.com

Siblings of Doctors
Siblings of Doctors and Stir-Friday Night! (Chicago's premier Asian-American sketch comedy troupe) present an evening of sketches, songs and other bits of hilarity from 3 Indian, but decidedly NON-medical minds: Rasika Mathur, Danny Pudi and Ranjit Souri. Directed by Second City's John Hildreth, SOD will
feature some SFN! classic scenes plus a host of new material. Along the way, topics such as saris and certification exams are addressed, Abbott and Costello are paid homage to, and songs are sung and dances danced. Thanks to the SF Sketchfest, our families & friends, and you for showing up.

Kasper Hauser
This San Francisco-based comedy group Kasper Hauser is the four-man comedy group from San Francisco that pioneered the use of using language on stage as a comical use. They have performed extensively throughout the U.S. and completed a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, where they won the Herald Angel. The group’s members wrote and starred in the indie film Fishing with Gandhi and have appeared on Comedy Central's Crossballs. Kasper Hauser's catalog parody, “SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane,” was published by St. Martin's Press in Autumn, 2006, and sold many copies. They hold the distinction of being the only group to appear in all seven SF Sketchfests thus far. www.kasperhauser.com 

Hard ‘n Phirm
Chris HARDwick and Mike PHIRMan's work has been downloaded millions of times over from the vast expanse of Earth's Internet. They also regularly perform in front of people, sometimes at such highly-touted spaces as the Improv, the Punch Line, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Montreal's uncomfortably French Just For Laughs, Seattle's celebrated Bumbershoot Festival, SxSW in Austin and Coachella in a hot desert. They've also appeared inside your home via ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, MTV, and VH1's I Love the [insert Generation X Demographic Era]. In early 2008, Comedy Central will air their very first half-hour comedy special, Comedy Central Presents: Hard 'n Phirm. Their most notable geek accomplishment was the memorization of 179 digits of the uber-number "Pi" for their song of the same name. www.hardnphirm.com

Reggie Watts
Once upon a time, Reggie Watts was the Montana State High School Comedy Champ. That’s funny. Since leaving Big Sky Country for Seattle more than a decade ago, Reggie’s talents for performance have traveled far and wide. Reggie’s musical record is vast: He fronted heavy soul sensation Maktub and continues to work with the live electronic group SynthClub. He has recorded with Seattle hip-hop emcee Byrdie and played with both Micron 7 and the Wayne Horwitz 4+1 Ensemble. He also records and tours with Soulive.
But now Reggie is back to comedy. Bringing with him serious musical chops, a voice to die for and superhuman ability with a sampler, he’s been popping up on the New York alternative comedy scene. In 2005, Reggie was accepted to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he won the first annual Oy! Oy! Award, a prize given in honor of legendary British comic Malcolm Hardee. www.reggiewatts.com