comedy

Doh! Dana Gould, comic genius behind The Simpsons, comes to Punch Line with a stand-up routine. Gould has also appeared in the film The Aristocrats, as well as countless TV stand-up shows, including a classic HBO special shot at the Fillmore Auditorium.

These days, it's not often you hear the words, "I quit!" Today it sounds more like, "you're fired!" Join the Porchlight Storytelling Series for an evening of vignettes about giving up, letting go and finally taking the bull by the horns. This evening's readers include comedian Kamau Bell, performer/writer Willy Claflin, writer/hair hopper Daniel LeVesque, former Google employee Jennifer Lou, metal fabricator Kyle Metzner and Oakland musician Suki O'Kane.

A comedy festival just wouldn't be complete without a little Monty Python, so it's perfectly fitting that the SF Film Society will copresent two events honoring the legendary film at the legendary Castro Theatre. At 7 p.m., Python's Terry Jones will converse with Inside Joke's host and comedian with Carl Arnheiter followed by a 35th anniversary screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Then, at 10 p.m., Terry Jones will introduce the showing of Life of Brian.

Relive your most personally traumatizing high school memories through the real stories of total strangers at Mortified. Hailed a cultural phenomenon, you'll be shrieking with laughter and pain as stories of the first kiss, first puff, worst prom and more are revealed via journal entries, poems, letters and (yikes!) home movies.

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein will bring her hit comedy about three Jewish-American sister reunited to SF's Jewish Community Center.Sara is the head of an international bank who is “assimilated beyond her wildest dreams,” Pfeni is a globetrotting journalist and Gorgeous is a housewife, mother and Massachusetts radio personality.

You know him first from In Living Color back in the '90s, but funnyman Damon Wayans has gone on to start in much bigger and better acts since. You've seen him on Saturday Night Live and on his own critically acclaimed HBO specials, One Night Stand, The Last Stand and Still Standing. And most recently, he's acting as creator, executive producer and star of The Underground. Catch him during a three-night stint at Cobb's.

Shakespeare's famed Globe Theatre crosses the pond for a boisterous send-up of the bard's comedy Love's Labour's Lost. From cross-purposes and impersonations to drunkenness, bust-ups, and pratfalls, this performance is also a beautifully biting display of language, puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parodies. Complete with Renaissance staging, costumes and music, this production promises a mix of bare-faced cheek with bare-cheeked bottoms. Don't miss it.

<p>Orwell's 1984 and Gilliam's Brasil twisted the popular consciousness of their time into utopian nightmares. Random Idiot Factor, the latest brainchild of Ham Pants Productions (The Safe Way; Mr. Dingle, the Strong) has deconstructed our society's inadequacies into interwoven comic vignettes that ridicule our cultures most serious shortcomings. It's a lot like the future that's disappointing you right now, but if we all wore jumpsuits. If you think you know what to expect from the minds at Ham Pants Productions, you should think again, because you don't. So there.