An Evening of a Thousand Scowls: 826 Valencia presents our Sixth Annual Comedy Night

Featuring:
Bobby Lee, Tig Notaro, Al Madrigal, Jonathan Coulton, Ian Edwards, and Davy Rothbart

Everett Middle School Auditorium
Saturday, March 29, 2008, 7:00 PM (Doors open at 6:00 PM)
450 Church Street (between 16th and 17th Streets), San Francisco, CA

Tickets: $30–40
VIP tickets: $75
Premium tickets: $250
Tickets available through Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.com
Or, call (866) 468-3399
Adults only (18 and over)

All proceeds go toward 826 Valencia’s free student programming
and the 826 Writers’ Room at Everett Middle School.

Now in its sixth year, 826 Valencia’s Comedy Night has established a reputation for impressive lineups and side-splitting laughs. Fans of comedy, children, philanthropy and literature alike are encouraged to attend and witness one of the year’s funniest charitable events. On this special evening, laughing at lowbrow (and highbrow) humor benefits the greater good, as the show’s proceeds directly fund student writing and tutoring programs at 826 Valencia. In past years, the event has sold out all 1,400 seats at Everett Middle School. This year’s lineup is guaranteed to be the funniest yet, and tickets are expected to sell out again.

Premium tickets, which cost $250, guarantee the best seats in the house and include a gift bag. VIP seats cost $75, offer the next best seats in the house, and include a Comedy Night poster. All other seats range from $30 to $40.

About the Performers:

Jonathan Coulton is a folk rock singer-songwriter. A graduate of Yale and former member of the Yale Spizzwinks(?), he is now the Contributing Troubadour at Popular Science magazine as well as the Musical Director for The Little Gray Book Lectures. His work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Daily Show. Coulton’s discography includes Smoking Monkey, Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow and Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms.

Ian Edwards is a stand up comedian who performs weekly at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. His television appearances include Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Live at Gotham, and HBO’s Bad Boys of Comedy, Def Comedy Jam, and Show Time at the Apollo. He’s written for Saturday Night Live, MTV’s Lyricist Lounge and the Cartoon Network’s The Boondocks. He is currently a cast member of the fifth season on Punk’d on MTV.

Bobby Lee officially joined the cast of MADtv in 2001. As a feature performer on the show, his memorable characters include Hideki the “Average Asian,” an Asian American who is constantly pestered by others who stereotype him based on his ethnicity, and the Blind Kung-Fu Master, a blind martial arts master who usually foils his missions. In addition to MADtv, Lee’s television appearances include The Tonight Show, Premium Blend, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lee has also appeared in films such as Killer Pad, The Slanted Screen and Kickin’ It Old Skool.

Al Madrigal has turned a flair for storytelling into a standing as one of the Bay Area’s favorite stand-up comedians. He has appeared on The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Premium Blend and was the Jury Award winner for Best Stand-Up Comedian at the 2004 HBO Aspen Comedy Festival. His ability to mix improv into his stand-up sets landed him a lead role on the series The Ortegas and Welcome to the Captain. He is the founder of 826 Valencia’s Comedy Night.

Tig Notaro is a stand-up comedian and star of the series Comedy Central Presents Tig. She has appeared on Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program, Premium Blend, Comedy Central Presents, Jimmy Kimmel Live and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in 2006. She is also a producer for ZeroDollarsandZeroSenseProductions, which she and producing partner Beth Schorr started in 1999. Tig has performed at numerous showcases and festivals internationally, including Comedy Central’s Laugh Riots national stand-up comedy competition, the Chicago Comedy Festival, the Boston Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Comedy Festival in Ireland.

Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found magazine, a publication of discarded notes, letters, photos, lists, and drawings found and sent in by its readers. The magazine spawned a best-selling series of books, Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World. Rothbart has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and is a regular contributor to This American Life. He is the author of The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of short-stories, and has written for The New York Times, GQ, The Believer, SLAM Magazine, and The Sun. Geffen Records recently released Rothbart’s documentary film How We Survive about the punk rock band Rise Against.

Fifth Annual Comedy Night: An Evening of a Thousand Thank Yous!

Thank you to all of you who could make it this Saturday to our fifth annual comedy night. Because of you, the generosity of our talented performers, and the support of our sponsors and volunteers, the evening was a fantastic success!

We’d like to extend some extra heartfelt thanks to the following people who made it all possible:

• Our fearless performers: Janeane Garofalo, Daniel Handler, Al Madrigal, Patton Oswalt, Jasper Redd, Nick Swardson, Tig, Sheng Wang and Brent Weinbach
• Our magnificent sponsors: The amazing Live Nation staff, especially Jim Cornett, Morgan Pitman, Molly Schminke, and Erik Seibert for their heroic efforts promoting and producing the show; the very fabulous staff of the Onion, especially Alexandra Hodkowski and Jenny Hay, who made our year by being our media sponsor and all-around supporters; and the kind folks at Freedm for their generous sponsorship and continued support
• Dazzling PR task force Amanda Machi and Sasha Kinney
• Awe-inspiring poster and ad designer Ellen Gould
• Our generous in-kind sponsors: Clubcard, Hilton San Francisco, Kimpton Hotels, Omni San Francisco Hotel, Pacific Heights Limousine, The San Francisco Chocolate Boutique, The Westin, the W hotel, Wally’s Foods, and Yelp

We hope you will join us again next year!

826 Valencia is proud to announce its Fifth Annual Comedy Night fundraiser: An Evening of a Thousand Scowls, featuring:

Janeane Garofalo (actress, activist and comedian who has starred in many films including Reality Bites, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and Wonderland)

Daniel Handler (aka “Lemony Snicket” and author of A Series of Unfortunate Events and Adverbs)

Al Madrigal (award-winning Bay Area comedian featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ortegas)

Patton Oswalt (actor and stand-up comedian as seen on HBO and Comedy Central, Seinfeld and King of Queens)

Tig (stand-up comedian as seen on Comedy Central and Jimmy Kimmel Live)

Jasper Redd (stand-up comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central and Last Call with Carson Daly)

Nick Swardson (actor and stand-up comedian featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Late, Late Show with Craig Kilborn and star of the upcoming films Benchwarmers and Suckaz)

Sheng Wang (stand-up comedian who performs at numerous Bay Area comedy clubs) and Brent Weinbach (as seen on Comedy Central and at the San Francisco Sketchfest)

This year’s event will be held at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium at 8:00 PM (doors are at 7:00 PM). 18 and over please.

Get your tickets now at TICKETMASTER or
www.nobhilltickets.com or calling (415) 292-9191.

You can also buy your tickets at the box office at 1111 California St. to avoid ticketing fees.