The Root of Comedy with Sean Keane January 11, 2011

SEAN KEANE
Regular performer at the SF Punchline, the winner, 2008 Twisted Biscuit Competition and Two-time winner, Iron Comic Competition in San Francisco; 3rd place, SF Comedy Club Competition, 2007. Written for McSweeney's and ESPN the Magazine. Former editor of the Heuristic Squelch, UC Berkeley's fine humor magazine. Freelance writer, licensed minister (3 successful marriages!), and excellent long-distance swimmer.

As if that weren't enough, these 3 comedy savants have Sean's back:

JESSE ELIAS
Jesse is a Holy Fool and stay-home flaneur coming from a rich and diverse background in the arts. A self-styled Romantic with little to no experience in matters of real life, his sense of humor was forged in the spiritual equivalent of a dark cave. If comedy were sports, his act would be miniature golf: less along the line of bone-crushing athletics on an open field and more like gently tapping balls through narrow, winding paths surrounded by castles and elephants.

BERT DiVIETRI
Producer of Comedy at Mojito's and quite possibly East Lansing, Michigan's greatest comedy show of all time.

hosted by RED SCOTT
Born in the early 80s, Red established himself as a trend-setter - fat, asthmatic, and socially inept years before Asperger's was a syndrome or obesity an epidemic. On his way to finding the stage, Red had several diversions, ranging from working as a Software Developer to delivering for Pizza Hut in South Central Los Angeles. Red combines obscure and outdated references with the crazed insistence of a mental patient. His act encompasses everything from politics to absurdism to wordplay, all combined with deft crowd work. Ending an unbroken 26 year streak of defeat, in 2010, Red won the Rooster T Feathers Amateur Comedy Competition, beating out 140 comedians. More recently, Red's been accepted to the 2011 San Francsico Sketchfest.

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