Review: The State Reunion at SF Sketchfest

For a brief couple of years in the mid-90s, The State was our religion -- a lot like The Grateful Dead, Zep, or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for prior generations -- only preaching absurdist comedy instead of guitars and beards. Unless you count the Bearded Men of Space Station 11. Of our great generation, a few hundred of us trekked the pilgrimage to SF's annual Sketchfest to witness the reunion of our pop-culture Gods at the intimate Eureka Theatre.


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Review: Sarah Silverman at Nob Hill Masonic Center

Silverman recalled the time when she attended a fundraiser for Barack Obama and asked him if he encountered any racism while going to school in Boston. “He said something really interesting. He said, ‘Um, I’m Kanye West.’ And I was like, wow, I totally got it. Yeah, I’m Kanye West, too.”


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Hey, You're Pretty Cool: Jeremy Fish

“It’s art so it’s gotta have a story, right? Here’s the art school spiel -- The show’s also about evaluating everything you’ve done in life. Are you giving up and just sinking? Are you just floating by and not giving a shit? It’s about self-evaluation." --Jeremy Fish talks about last year's "Sink or Swim" show.

Q & A: Beastie Boys

"It’s very clear and it’s obviously easy for you to say the Bay Area and the Golden State Warriors have a much brighter, more promising present and future than the Knicks. You know, I’m a big fan of the B. Diddy dunk." -- Mike D on the difference between the Knicks and the Warriors.