| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | The Colony: Improv ComedyPresented by Blacktop Comedy at Blacktop Comedy January 7-December 29, 2012 The Colony is about discovering hilarious, unforgettable improv. As a team of improv veterans and friends, The Colony is fast, edgy, and audience interactive. They’re about to build something…with your suggestions. The team takes the stage every week to ask you some questions. Your answers--and your ideas--fuel the performance. Amusing characters. Peculiar situations. Incredibly funny. It’s improv that makes you glad you walked out of your house, got in your car,... | Blacktop Comedy | 01/07/12- 12/29/12 | Roseville |
The Importance of Being EarnestPresented by Chautauqua Playhouse at Chautauqua Playhouse May 4-June 10, 2012 Absolutely one of the funniest comedies in the English language. Wicked wit and dead-on social satire wrapped in a Victorian confection of dual identities, matters matrimonial, and the provenance of a particularly pertinent handbag. Wilde's exquisitely delicious dialogue and hilarious turns of phrase are an irresistible delivery system for his subversive look at society. | Chautauqua Playhouse | 05/04/12- 06/10/12 | Carmichael |
Creative Comedy ShowsPresented by ComedySportz at ComedySportz January 19-December 27, 2012 See different long form improv formats including Soap Opera, Silent Tension, Mock-u-mentary, KwikProv, SoundTrax, Must See Improv, Armando, and more! | ComedySportz | 01/19/12- 12/27/12 | Sacramento |
Unbagged ComedyPresented by ComedySportz at ComedySportz February 4-December 1, 2012 Your favorite ComedySportz games without fouls or limits. This is team based, high energy comedy with an edge. If an "Actlete" steps beyond the boundaries of good taste, the ref calls the Brown Bag foul (a brown paper sack is placed over the offending player’s head). But if you think clean means boring, you owe it to yourself to check us out. | ComedySportz | 02/04/12- 12/01/12 | Sacramento |
ComedySportz ImprovPresented by ComedySportz at ComedySportz March 9-December 30, 2012 Two teams compete for your laughs and your points by making up scenes based on your suggestions. High energy, interactive fun for all ages. Similar to the hit show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. We love to make you laugh! | ComedySportz | 03/09/12- 12/30/12 | Sacramento |
Comedy Under the StarsPresented by Cosumnes Community Services District at Laguna Town Hall September 7, 2012 These shows are for an adult audience. Laugh under the stars as Sacramento’s Laughs Unlimited travels to Elk Grove for special outdoor performances featuring some of the region’s funniest comedians. Bring a picnic dinner, blanket, and jacket. No high back chairs. No pets permitted except service animals. | Cosumnes Community Services District | 09/07/12 | Elk Grove |
Comedy Under the StarsPresented by Cosumnes Community Services District at Laguna Town Hall June 8, 2012 These shows are for an adult audience. Laugh under the stars as Sacramento’s Laughs Unlimited travels to Elk Grove for special outdoor performances featuring some of the region’s funniest comedians. Bring a picnic dinner, blanket, and jacket. No high back chairs. No pets permitted except service animals. | Cosumnes Community Services District | 06/08/12 | Elk Grove |
Comedy Under the StarsPresented by Cosumnes Community Services District at Laguna Town Hall July 13, 2012 These shows are for an adult audience. Laugh under the stars as Sacramento’s Laughs Unlimited travels to Elk Grove for special outdoor performances featuring some of the region’s funniest comedians. Bring a picnic dinner, blanket, and jacket. No high back chairs. No pets permitted except service animals. | Cosumnes Community Services District | 07/13/12 | Elk Grove |
The Great American Trailer Park MusicalPresented by Fair Oaks Theatre Festival at Fair Oaks Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre August 10-September 9, 2012 Back by popular demand! The politically incorrect, irreverent, rowdy audience favorite, The Great American Trailer Park Musical. South Park meets Desperate Housewives in this big-hearted new musical with a cheeky script and infectious music. There's a new tenant at the Armadillo Acres and she's wrecking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth... | Fair Oaks Theatre Festival | 08/10/12- 09/09/12 | Fair Oaks |
The Local Celebrity Basketball Game IIIPresented by Poetry from the Heart at John F. Kennedy High School June 15, 2012 Come watch Sacramento’s most popular and successful men get their hoops on at the Local Celebrity Basketball Game III! This family event features lots of entertainment including live bands, cheerleaders, the little ladies' basketball game, & three point shooting contest.
Coaches: Sacramento Kings former star basketball player LaSalle Thompson and former Oakland Raider Superbowl Champion Rick Jennings.
Some of the celebrity players are: Damond Edwards, former... | Poetry from the Heart | 06/15/12 | Sacramento |
The Red Carpet Ladies Night Out EventPresented by Poetry from the Heart at Guild Theater June 30, 2012 T-Mo Entertainment presents The Red Carpet Ladies Night Out Event featuring live music, comedy, poetry, and celebrity guests.
Performances by Red Cup League (Artist Collective Music Team), professional saxophone player Ralph Gordon, and others! | Poetry from the Heart | 06/30/12 | Sacramento |
Open Mic ScramblePresented by Sacramento Comedy Spot at Sacramento Comedy Spot January 15-November 11, 2012 Open Mic Scramble is an open mic night for all forms of comedy. It is also a way to test new comedy shows and formats. Sketch, improv, stand-up, and much more. Anyone can perform. | Sacramento Comedy Spot | 01/15/12- 11/11/12 | Sacramento |
Anti-Cooperation LeaguePresented by Sacramento Comedy Spot at Sacramento Comedy Spot January 14-December 29, 2012 Anti-Cooperation League (ACL) is the flag-ship improv show at the Comedy Spot and Sacramento’s longest running comedy show. Each week a Special Guest is interviewed and the information gathered from the interview is used as inspiration for improvised comedy scenes. Special Guests range from Hollywood directors and actors to local business owners. All of the guests are interesting people! The show is a lot like a funny episode of Saturday Night Live--but all the sketches are made... | Sacramento Comedy Spot | 01/14/12- 12/29/12 | Sacramento |
In Your Facebook: Improv Comedy ShowPresented by Sacramento Comedy Spot at Sacramento Comedy Spot January 28-December 29, 2012 In Your Facebook is a long form improv show inspired by an audience member’s Facebook profile. Each week one member of the audience will come on stage, login to their Facebook page and the cast will look through their pictures, wall posts, and friends for information to inspire improvised comedy scenes.
In Your Facebook features Sacramento Comedy Spot performers and invited guests. | Sacramento Comedy Spot | 01/28/12- 12/29/12 | Sacramento |
| Jonny Taylor Presents Comedy Kill | Sacramento Comedy Spot | 01/27/12- 12/28/12 | Sacramento |
The Neighbor's KidsPresented by Sacramento Comedy Spot at Sacramento Comedy Spot February 9-November 1, 2012 The Neighbor’s Kids is an improv comedy group that experiments with different types improv forms every week. An improv form is the structure of show. These forms are new to Sacramento but are popular in comedy theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. The Neighbor’s Kids also develops their own unique improv forms. I you are a super fan of improv you will love this show. If you don’t know anything about improv, you will love this show! Every show starts with the... | Sacramento Comedy Spot | 02/09/12- 11/01/12 | Sacramento |
World's Worst DoctorsPresented by Sacramento Comedy Spot at Sacramento Comedy Spot February 17-October 26, 2012 World’s Worst Doctors is a short-form improv group with a common love: to make YOU laugh! WWD Improv Troupe includes Charlie Merlo, Justin Blenkle, Michael Gonzalez, Patrice Burnett, Sean Baumstark and Summer Hairabedian. They specialize in short form improv, so just sit back, relax, and enjoy the show! Who knows, you may even end up on stage. Don’t worry, they won’t perform any procedures on you besides a little laugh therapy. | Sacramento Comedy Spot | 02/17/12- 10/26/12 | Sacramento |
Harold Night ImprovPresented by Sacramento Comedy Spot at Sacramento Comedy Spot May 23-December 26, 2012 The Harold is a popular long form improv structure developed by Del Close and performed by major comedy theaters in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Two Harold teams perform every Wednesday Night! These hilarious and smart shows start with a single suggestion which inspires many scenes that weave together at the end of the show.
| Sacramento Comedy Spot | 05/23/12- 12/26/12 | Sacramento |
3rd Annual Sacramento Entertainment FairPresented by Studio 24, Inc. at Studio 24, Inc. June 9, 2012 Think you've got what it takes to be an actor? Studio24 will put you through make-up & hair, get you into wardrobe, and put you on set where you'll get to act in front of the camera alongside professional actors!
Sacramento's Annual Entertainment Fair is an extremely interactive event with live performances by entertainment groups, demonstrations of filmmaking with equipment and actors, teleprompter and green screen, voiceover recording in studio, and much more!
The... | Studio 24, Inc. | 06/09/12 | Sacramento |
D.L. HughleyPresented by Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre at Tommy T's Comedy and Dinner Theatre July 6-July 8, 2012 He is perhaps best known as the star of the ABC/UPN sitcom The Hughleys, and as one of the four comedians featured in the Spike Lee film The Original Kings of Comedy. Additionally, he has been the host of CNN's D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, a correspondent for The Jay Leno Show on NBC, and a local radio personality in New York City. He had roles on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and on NBC's Scrubs as Turk's brother. He was the host of the 2008... | Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre | 07/06/12- 07/08/12 | Rancho Cordova |
Maronzio Vance Presented by Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre at Tommy T's Comedy and Dinner Theatre June 14-June 10, 2012 If you are looking for someone who knows the meaning of the word, "no" then keep looking, because if you ask anyone who knows him, Maronzio Vance refuses to acknowledge the word even exists.
Making people laugh for as long as he can remember, this witty, sarcastic, observation storytelling North Carolina-born comedian/actor (who also refuses to accept the fact that he comes from the South because his state starts with "North") once waited in a men's bathroom for... | Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre | 06/14/12- 06/10/12 | Rancho Cordova |
Arnez JPresented by Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre at Tommy T's Comedy and Dinner Theatre June 8-June 10, 2012 Rapidly becoming one of the most talked about comedians, Arnez J's charisma and physical agility are unforgettable. With the physicality of Jim Carrey, his brand of comedy has dubbed him "the black Jerry Lewis."
On his own at age 14, Arnez lied about his age to get a job at a gas station to work his way through school. Arnez wanted to be a professional baseball player. A Philadelphia Phillies Farm League pursued him, but that fell through. It was later while working as a... | Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre | 06/08/12- 06/10/12 | Rancho Cordova |
Brad WilliamsPresented by Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre at Tommy T's Comedy and Dinner Theatre June 28-July 1, 2012 Comedian Brad Williams has lived a true comic Cinderella story. Born with Achondroplastic dwarfism, Brad would endure countless taunts and gawks from classmates and random people on the street. Instead of crying about it, Brad turned to humor. He discovered that by making jokes about his condition, he could make other people comfortable and get laughs in the process. Stand-up was a logical step for Brad and he began hitting the local open mic nights and coffeehouses. One night at a Carlos... | Tommy T's Comedy & Dinner Theatre | 06/28/12- 07/01/12 | Rancho Cordova |