Sure, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is a funny show. It's also downright odd and disturbing (see video above for a sterling example). If you couldn't get tickets to their sold-out shows at the Rickshaw Stop, you can still catch the show's creators and stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim at Amoeba Records this Sunday, May 4, at 2 p.m. I also wouldn't mind an appearance from John C. Reilly, but that could be asking for too much. --Oscar Pascual
I just don't understand why Obama and MADD hate Grand Theft Auto IV so much. According to Conan, this is the tamest version of GTA to date. Check out the video to see the sensitive side of Liberty City. --Oscar Pascual
Since you can't get enough of those quirky New Zealanders, Flight of the Conchords has scheduled an additional show, two days after they perform at Nob Hill Masonic Center. From PR:
Second Show Added Due To Popular Demand!
New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
Davies Symphony Hall (401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco)
Thursday, May 29, Doors 7:00PM/ Show 8:00PM
Tickets are $32.50 for reserved seating plus applicable service charges
Four-ticket limit
The duo from New Zealand have proved that acoustic guitars and comedy make for a great combination, as evident in their successful HBO series. Come out to Nob Hill Masonic Center on May 27 to see Bret and Jemaine rock tunes made famous by the show, like the above video for "Business Time." It's that time, baby. -- Oscar Pascual
If you missed out on the Kids in the Hall reunion show at Sketchfest a few months back, shame on you, because they were in top form. But since they did so damn good, the Kids have decided to go on tour once again, and will return to SF on May 10 at the War Memorial Opera House. Watch the video on top for a brand new sketch from KITH. Of course, if you were at Sketchfest, this isn't very new at all. -- Oscar Pascual
Because he's so pimptastically pimpolicious, Katt Williams will now perform twice during his SF visit. Following his originally scheduled show starting at 7 pm, Katt ends the night of freaky tales with a late 11 pm show. Don't forget to bring lots of weed and white friends:
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DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND - LATE SHOW ADDED!
KATT WILLIAMS 'It's Pimpin' Pimpin' Tour'
Wednesday, March 26, Doors 10:30 PM/ Show 11:00PM
The Warfield
Tickets are $55.00 for general admission seated (floor) and $45.00 reserved seating (balcony) plus applicable service charges.
Limited tickets are available for the 7:30 performance
The legendary actor from several Mel Brooks classics makes a visit to SF this month. Gene Wilder will be at the Castro Theatre on the 19th to field questions from all you comedy dorks, but only after a screening of Young Frankenstein. Get your tickets now, and remember -- it's pronounced, "Fronk-en-steen." Click 'More' for the release. -- ASD Staff Report
If you didn't know, there's actually something worth watching on MTV these days. Sketch comedy troupe Human Giant just wrapped up their first season and season two premieres March 11. Can't wait? You can catch them perform at this year's Noise Pop Festival on Feb. 28. Or for instant gratification, watch this sketch from the new season that shows when viral videos go too far. Warning: this clip is not safe for work like whoa. Like whoa. -- ASD Staff Report
The only similarity between Katt Williams and other stand-up comics is that they all tend to use a microphone on-stage. Possessed of a machete-sharp mind and an almost bonelessly nimble body, ready to throw down in the pursuit of breath-arresting laughter, Williams is still largely underrated in the mainstream.
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Click the above pic to begin a mad slideshow depicting hundreds if not thousands of locals looking for love on V-Day last night by smacking someone else in the face with a pillow. And they say we're not an Adult Disneyland. Photos by Paul Quitoriano. Expert.
Human Giant is the best thing on MTV since The State. That isn't saying much, what with all the inane, soul-reaving programming they spew out, but I digress from my point. You can catch this hilarious three-man troupe as part of the NoisePop Festival Feb. 28 at the Mezzanine. The clip above displays HG's skillful tactics on how to dispatch a mosh pit, but they probably need not worry about one of those erupting at any of NoisePop's sissified schedule of performances. Click "More" for more. -- ASD Staff Report
Full of feeble stage antics, bad sampling and songs almost completely absent of a hook worth remembering, the Black Lips stomped their way through a little over an hour of thrashing psychedelic garage bop Friday night. The sold out crowd at the Great American Music Hall merely looked aloof until the encore turned nasty.
Their two to three-minute songs were often out of key and between the four members, three took turns singing with not a single one convincing of the part. They mumbled inaudibly between the songs, knocked over mic stands and made terrible screeching sounds when one guitarist tried to use the stand as a slide and the other guitarist attempted playing a solo with his teeth. There were moments when the band had a chance to shine, playing some Misfits-inspired struts to a waltz rhythm and working off of a few middle eastern scales to give them psychedelic cred, but for whatever they could do well, the bassist spitting up into the air and catching the loogie back into his mouth was the most impressive display of talent that evening.
"How would you describe the kind of comedy you do? Because there's a little bit of cynicism, a little bit of pessimism in there, but I think that makes it great comedy, as well." That is an actual question Janeane Garofalo faced in a recent television interview, regarding her role in Ratatouille. (More after the jump!)
Click on the below photo to see a slideshow of SFWeekly.com's 'January in Photos' -- including lewd piercings, bloody violence, and huge beards. You know you want it. Click it.-ASD Staff Report
(Above photo credit: Jakub Mosur. All other photos courtesy Oscar Pascual) By Oscar Pascual
Kids in the Hall are evil, pure evil! Why? Because of all the classic sketches this legendary troupe performed on the final evening of the SF Sketchfest at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, they decided not to revisit Sir Simon Milligan and Hecubus' Pit of Ultimate Darkness. Evil, I say!
What they did revisit, however, was sketch comedy gold. The five-man group consisting of Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney rejuvenated sketch comedy in the late 80s. The sheer absurdity that ran through the veins of earlier comedy troupes like Monty Python and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In had long been replaced by the sharp social and cultural jabs thrown by Saturday Night Live and the stand-up comedians of the time. Kids in the Hall brought back that absurdity, reminding us that laughs needn't be so intellectual all the time. Laughs can come from disgruntled head crushing, old men complaining about salty ham, and gay jokes. Lots and lots of gay jokes.
"How would you describe the kind of comedy you do? Because there's a little bit of cynicism, a little bit of pessimism in there, but I think that makes it great comedy, as well." That is an actual question Janeane Garofalo faced in a recent television interview, regarding her role in Ratatouille. (More after the jump!)
