Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Taj Campton Place Hotel
340 Stockton Street, San Francisco
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
(Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for networking)
Elect to Laugh This Election Season
No matter which side of the partisan aisle you sit on, you have to agree that the 2016 election season has already provided one of the most comedically fertile campaigns in history. That’s one of the many reasons we are welcoming Bay Area comic legend Will Durst to our June program.
Will is an award-winning, nationally acclaimed columnist and comedian who writes a weekly political humor column syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. Will also co-hosts a monthly talk radio show with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown called “The Will and Willie Show.” He has performed at events featuring Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Al Gore.
He writes several Internet columns, contributes to Independent Media Institute’s Alternet.org and the Huffington Post on a regular basis, is a former contributing editor to “National Lampoon” and “George,” and has contributed to various periodicals such as the New York Times, The Funny Times and his hometown San Francisco Chronicle.
A five time Emmy nominee and host/co-producer of the PBS series Livelyhood, he is also a regular commentator on NPR, CNN, and C-SPAN. He has appeared on television over 800 times including Late Night with David Letterman, Comedy Central, HBO and Showtime. He received seven consecutive nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand Up Comedian of the Year.
Will premiered his one-man show, “The All-American Sport of Bi-Partisan Bashing,” at the New World Stages Off Broadway in New York City in August 2007 to rave reviews from both the New York Times and the New York Post. In 2012 he premiered his one-man show focused on the presidential election, “Elect to Laugh,” which ran for 41 weeks at the San Francisco Marsh Theater. He is back with his 2016 version of “Elect to Laugh” at The Marsh, performing weekly throughout this election season.
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