3rd Annual 50 Mason Comedy Competition Semi Finals Announced

Semi Finals.
Two weeks only!

Wednesday, July 5th
Wednesday, July 12th
8pm $10 SF Comedy Club

Updates soon.

Scheduled to perform:

Scott Bloom
Debbie Campo
Mark Day
Mike Della Penna
Kellen Erskine
Daymon Fergusen
Chris Garcia
Al Gonzales
Nathan Jackson
Nitin Kant
Sean Keane
Tim Lee
Ali Mafi
Justin McClure
Stroy Moyd
Bill Murphy
Adam Parrish
Jay Reddy
Nico Santos
Mark Silverman
Jay Starr
Beth Schumann
Joe Tobin
Julian Vance
Kurt Weitzmann
Mike Winfield
Dave Wiswell

Round Five!!

Breaking: Preliminary rounds now over!

50 Mason Competition Results
Fifth and final preliminary round

7/28 Contestants
Ian Jensen, Grant Lyon, Denise Robichau, Owen Good, Dave Wiswell, Susan Malata, Al Gonzales, Kurt Weitzmann, Jay Reddy, Phil Johnson, Mother Devine, Joe Tobin, Meredith Master, Debbie Campo, and host Mike Spiegelman.

Show was awesome. And the 6 comics moving on to the semi-finals are:

Debbie Campo
Al Gonzales
Jay Reddy
Joe Tobin
Kurt Weitzmann
Dave Wiswell

Kudos, kudos.

27 comics semi-finals next two Wednesdays.

Thursday Night Comedy Showcase

Hosted by Rusty Mahakian

Featuring
Christine Gelat
Edwin Li
Mike Spiegelman
Dave Wiswell
Jason Wheeler

Thursday June 29th 8PM $10
SF Comedy Club
50 Mason San Francisco

Round Four!!

50 Mason Comedy Competition Results!

7/21 Contestants
Mike Winfield, Sergio Barajas, David Kleinberg, Kellen Erskine, Bill Murphy, Lisa Myers, Amir Malekpour, Kelli Dunham, Nitin Kant, Ali Wong, Justin Scales, Nick Leonard, Rusty Mahakain, Sean Keane, and host Mike Spiegelman.

And in ABC order, the 5 comics moving on to the semi-finals are:

Kellen Erskine
Nitin Kant
Sean Keane
Bill Murphy
Mike Winfield

Congrats, dudes! Links take you to video from Rooftop Comedy.

Round Three!!

Third night of preliminaries of the Third Annual 50 Mason Comedy Competition at the SF Comedy Club happened last night to a packed crowd.

14 comics performed 5 minutes sets to win the audience’s hearts and votes and move on the semi-finals. Awesome show.

6/14 line-up, with video links from Rooftop Comedy:

Nathan Jackson, Dan Edwards, Rolly Moe, Gary Penovich, Scott Bloom, Sue Ferrer, Chad Lehman, Mary Van Note, Kevin O'Shea, Sandy Stec, Nico Santos, Ali Mafi, Stroy Moyd, Eric Lehrman, Bob Johnston, and host Mike Spiegelman

Winners (in alphabetical order):
Scott Bloom
Nathan Jackson
Ali Mafi
Stroy Moyd
Nico Santos

Congrats, y’all.

Sketch Comedy and Spoken Word with The Problems at the Knockout Bar!

This Tuesday, July 13th, at 9PM, San Francisco’s own “comedy supergroup” (SF Weekly) performs at their favorite place – a bar. Come by the Knockout (the old Odeon Bar!) to see red-hot performances from:

Bucky Sinister – author, Whiskey and Robots
Mike Spiegelman – from the comedy duo, Laundry Basket and Spiegelman
Joe Donohue – author, To Be Santa, You Need to be Tested
Harmon Leon – author, Republican Like Me

Learn more, and Add a Friend to your MySpace account at:
http://www.myspace.com/theproblemspage

Only $5
The Knockout Bar
3223 Mission (@ Valencia)
San Francisco, CA
415-550-6994
http://www.theknockoutsf.com

Round Two!!

6/7/06 was second prelimaries of the 50 Mason comedy competiton SF Comedy Club.

Clips from the show are now posted on Rooftop Comedy, click the name to see the act. Check out my awesome hosting skillz

Line-Up:

Adam Parris, Jerry Goldstone, Vladamir Khlynin, Samson Koletkar, Mike Della Penna, Christine Gelat, Joe Gorman, Justin McClure, Malcom Grissom, Duat Mai, Tim Lee, Mark Silverman.

Winners were (in alphabetical order):

Tim Lee
Justin McClure
Adam Parrish
Mike Della Penna
Mark Silverman

Mazel Tov, comics. They will join last week's winners in the semi-finals.

Last week's winners:
Mark Day
Daymon Fergusen
Chris Garcia
Beth Schumann
Jay Starr
Julian Vance