I was chatting with my fiance’s mother, who celebrated her birthday this past weekend, and she mentioned there was an article about comedy in the Sunday SF Chronicle entertainment magazine, Datebook. This usually means that someone’s excavated the corpse of Robin Williams for a benefit show. Or maybe, at best, Father Guido Sarducci.
This time, though, it was different.
“Isn’t Brent Weinbach a friend of yours?” She asked. “He’s in the article.”
Indeed he is, and he’s been a great friend of TSOYA for many years. So are Tony B and Bucky Sinister, pictured above. Tony’s been running the Club Chuckles room at the Hemlock Tavern for a few years now, and we put together a show there with Brent, Jasper Redd and Prank the Dean early on in that run.
San Francisco is lucky to have two really excellent comedy clubs — The Punchline and Cobb’s — but as another TSOYA buddy, W. Kamau Bell, points out in the piece, it’s the alternative spaces where you work on your art.
So kudos to all involved! Here’s a link to the article.