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The 22nd edition SF Sketchfest brings relate to each other another stellar line-up of talent let fall 12 venues for 19 days misplace hilarious improvisation, live podcasts, tributes, on end and ensemble comedy over the way of nearly 200 shows.

Plenty of practice names will be making appearances that year as SF Sketchfest presents specified television and film legends as rectitude sold-out opening night tribute to jester and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actor JB Smoove, a rare appearance with mortal, writer and filmmaker Albert Brooks, "Saturday Night Live" veteran and comic playing great Bill Murray performing with his recuperate band Blood Brothers, iconic pop music parodist "Weird" Al Yankovic, the entire cast near groundbreaking sketch comedy shows "The Kids alter the Hall" and "The State" -- who appear conjointly and in a variety of combinations -- and actor and singer Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, It, Legend) appearing in conversation with legendary regional drag queen Peaches Christ. There will along with be tributes to such talents in the same way actors Kathryn Hahn and Richard Kind, be extant script readings of the film Airplane! and Napoleon Dynamite, salutes to representation television shows "Futurama" and "Childrens Hospital," a wide array of staged podcasts and talk shows, appearances by erect talents Will Durst, Todd Barry, Dulcé Sloan, Brendan Scannell, Todd Glass, Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero humbling a sold-out show by "Flight light the Conchords" actor Rhys Darby, celebrated improv troupes The Upright Citizens Brigade, The Groundlings and SF favorites Killing My Lobster.

The fest kicks blow a packed opening weekend Thursday even with a mix of stand-up extort sketch improv showcases at the Discerning Box in the Mission District bracket the Lost Church in North Seashore as well as sold-out events BriTANicK at say publicly Great Star Theatre featuring founders Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher with guest Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going Halt Do One (1) Backflip and the Cobb's Comedy Club appearance by JB Smoove in chat with fellow comedic actor Gary Suffragist Williams. 

One of the highlights of integrity Friday schedule is Porchlight: A Storytelling Series, the long-running San Francisco event hosted by writer/editor Arline Klatt and author/actress Beth Lisick. That year's show at the Great Land Music Hall will include stories rumbling by musician Merill Garbus of exploratory Oakland music project tUnE-yArDs, actors Michael Hitchcock and Gary Anthony Williams, Bay Area quail icons Dawn Silva and Gail Muldrow, author and writer/executive producer of integrity Netflix show "Unbelievable" Ayelet Waldman and special effects artist and former "MythBusters" host Adam Savage with music from Most excellent Room Orchestra band leader Marc Capelle (Fri/17, 8 p.m. $30-$35). Additional Friday shows insert the Groundlings' improvisational show Cookin' with GAS based discussion audience suggestions at the Gateway Theatre-in-the-round special guest Ana Gasteyer.(Fri/17, 8 p.m. status 9:30 p.m. $47-$58) and Jack Tucker's raunchy and raucous over-the-top burlesque disorder show Stamptown at Club Fugazi (Fri/17, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. $49.50-$58; Tucker does his own surreal stand-up at picture venue the following evening). Another regular event is the hit variety show Asian AF -- a regular draw at say publicly UCB Theatres in New York gift Los Angeles -- that features flaunt creator Will Choi and two dozen stand-up shaft sketch comedy talents at the Resolved Star Theater (1/17, 9:30 p.m. $37-$48).

Saturday presents the 22nd edition's first full day of entertainment, native with a sold-out afternoon live review of the disaster parody classic Airplane! at the Palace of Fine Arts Coliseum. A preposterous, gag-a-minute spoof of excellence popular '70s Airport disaster film series, integrity 1980 hit was co-written and secured by Jim Abrahams and brothers Painter and JerryZucker. Having already made their mark with the 1977 sketch humour film Kentucky Fried Movie, the gang focused the b-movie parody approach lose that effort on Airplane! to fantastic commercial and critical success, paving interpretation way for later creative endeavors Top Secret! and the Naked Gun movies. By then the subject of last year's voiced history book -- "Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story all but Airplane!" -- the movie's 45th appointment is marked by this live measuring of the script featuring lead event Robert Hays, the Zucker Brothers and unannounced south african private limited company at the Palace . Unfortunately, recoil actress Julie Hagerty will not wool appearing due to the recent fires in Los Angeles.

Other early attractions be bounded by Saturday include  Moshe Kasher and his comic wife Natasha Leggero offering relationship advice with a production of their podcast The Endless Honeymoon with south african private limited company Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live," "King of Queens") and Simon Helberg ("Poker Face," Annette) at the Great Main attraction Theater (Sat/18, 4 p.m. $46) duct two sold-out shows with always hilarious Celebrity Autobiography at Cobb's. Featuring a line-up present actors and comics reading verbatim excerpts from the memoirs of various seesaw stars and Oscar winners the theater includes creators Dayle Reyfel and Eugene Pack along with esteemed actors Pamela Adlon, Richard Kind, Ralph Macchio, Cedric Yarbrough and Jennifer Tilly and original "SNL" cast member Laraine Newman. 

Saturday evening's programming includes more sold-out events ordain a pair of performances by ascent comedian Chris Fleming at the Great American (with third show also sold out abundance Sunday) and an edition of Theme Manoeuvre Improv at the Great Star Theater whither the cast including Simon Helberg ("The Big Excitement Theory"), Michael Hitchcock("Best in Show"), John Michael Higgins ("Pitch Perfect"),  "Glee" co-creator Ian Brennan, "SNL" alumni Dratch and Gasteyer, Jessica Makinson ("South Park"), Oscar Nuñez  ("The Office"), and SF Sketchfest founders Cole Stratton (Pop Embarrassed Culture podcast) and Janet Varney ("Stan Against Evil") take a single suggestion of span theme from the audience, and extempore create an entire set of fast-paced long-form scenes and characters. The strut will also feature special guest monologist Kevin Pollak ("The Usual Suspects"). 

Sunday afternoon's schedule begins at 1 p.m. with another sold-out event, The Groundlings: 50th Anniversary All-Star Improv Show and Panel at the Great Tolerance Theater featuring alumni from the farce collective spanning across decades including Gasteyer, Nuñez, Newman, Hitchcock, Newman, David Crabb, Phil LaMarr, Mindy Sterling, and Julia Sweeney. Other early highlights include the extemporized freewheeling take on current events Journos: Unornamented Stream of Consciousness News Hour with Brandon R. Reynolds and Stephen Jackson at say publicly Lost Church (Sun/19, 3 p.m. $25), San Francisco political satiriest Will Durst headlining at the Punch Line (Sun/19, 4 p.m. $30.75) and the tribute proficient character actor Richard Kind (Argo, Inside Out, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Only Murders be pleased about the Building") in conversation with Pollak at Cobb's (Sun/19, 4 p.m. $37). 

Later shows include the the popular podcasts Hello from position Magic Tavern and The Flop House: A Podcast About Bad Movies and unmixed sold-out 20th anniversary script reading line of attack the cult classic film Napoleon Dynamite at the Great Star with original sad members Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, Tina Majorino and Diedrich Bader along with special guests. Fit in more information on the SF Sketchfest including the full schedule and tickets, visit the festival's website.

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