Ticket giveaway: Noise Pop at SF Sketchfest
posted: January 11, 2010, 12:51 pm
SF Sketchfest and Noise Pop Present
The Greg Proops Chat Show
with special guests Linda Cardellini and musician Michael Penn
January 20, 8pm at Yoshi's San Francisco
Greg Proops is a stand up comic from San Francisco. He lives in Hollywood. And likes it. He hosts his own live comedy chat show at the perilously hip Hollywood rock joint Largo. Guests have included Flight of the Conchords, Russell Brand, Jack Black, Dave Grohl, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Joe Walsh, David Cross, Margaret Cho, Dave Eggers, Joan Rivers, Eddie Izzard and John C. Reilly. Proops is best known for his unpredictable appearances on both the American and British versions of the hit improvised comedy show Whose Line is it Anyway? Greg hosts the science game show Head Games on the Science Channel, can be heard as the voice of Bob the Builder on the popular PBS children's show, is a regular on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, and has a new comedy CD entitled Elsewhere, available on iTunes and aspecialthing.com.
Linda Cardellini is a popular film and television actress perhaps best known for playing ‘Lindsay Weir’ on Freaks and Geeks and ‘Nurse Samantha Taggart’ on ER. On the small screen, she voices ‘Bliss Goode’ on Mike Judge’s The Goode Family and has appeared on Robot Chicken, Human Giant and the mini-series Comanche Moon. Film credits include Brokeback Mountain, Scooby-Doo, Legally Blonde, Grandma’s Boy and the upcoming The Irishman. A native of Mountain View, California, Linda last appeared at SF Sketchfest in 2008 at the Freaks and Geeks reunion.
Michael Penn's 1989 debut album, March, became a significant critical favorite, earning acclaim for its sparkling Beatlesesque folk-pop and clever, Elvis Costello-like wordplay; the lead single, “No Myth,” even became a surprise hit and helped launch the LP into the Top 40. Penn returned with Free For All, followed by Resigned. He then began collaborating with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, and scoring Hard Eight and Boogie Nights. Penn married fellow singer/songwriter Aimee Mann soon after, and released Mp4: Days Since a Lost Time Accident. In 2005, Penn released Mr. Hollywood, Jr. 1947 on his own Mimeograph label.
Tickets are available for purchase here.
SF Sketchfest and Noise Pop Present
The Red Wine Boys
Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin with special guests including wine expert John Hodgman, Larry Murphy and music by Mates of State
January 31, 9pm at Mezzanine
21+
Fresh from an appearance at the outdoor Sasquatch Festival (where they noted that they “can't compete with shade” and ripped the fest guidebook for referring to them as “allegedly” funny), The Red Wine Boys (Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin) return to the covered-yet-freezing conditions of SF Sketchfest for a night of comedy, music and free-flowing Pinot Noir. Raising glasses along with the boys are wine expert John Hodgman (author of The Areas of My Expertise), Larry Murphy (Delocated) and acclaimed musical duo Mates of State.
Though conceived as a duo, Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel — the he and she music factory known as Mates of State — have never failed to generate a trademark wall of sound built on dozens of varied voicings of keys, drums, and alternately lushly layered and playfully dueling vocals. On their newest album, Re-arrange Us, they move beyond these boundaries (their traditional organ sound is a distant memory, replaced with organic piano and synth sounds) with additional instrumentation, not to mention a quantum leap in song craft apparent on instantly indelible gems like “Now,” “Jigsaw” and “Get better.” Re-arrange Us follows Bring it Back, written and recorded around a schedule mandated by the birth of Gardner and Hammel's first child and hailed upon its spring 2006 release as "truly unique, wonderfully complex pop" (Nylon), "a top-shelf treat" (Entertainment Weekly), an Essential by GQ and a Best of the Month in Elle.
Tickets are available for purchase here.
Noise Pop has two pairs of tickets to giveaway to each of these performances. Send an email with your full name and phone number to contest@noisepop.com with the subject "Greg Proops" or "Red Wine Boys" by 1pm on Monday, January 18th for your chance to win. Winners will be notified by email.
