Brava presents the monthly comedy series curated by Marga Gomez
Who’s Your Mami Comedy with headliner Cristela Alonzo
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020
7:30pm (PST) via Zoom
Headliner…
Cristela Alonzo is a stand-up comedian who made TV history in 2014 by becoming the first Latina to create, write and star in a network TV sitcom named Cristela. Cristela was also the first Latina to star in a Disney Pixar movie as Cruz Ramirez in Cars 3. Cristela was one of ABC’s The View’s most popular guest hosts and has a one-hour stand-up special (Lower Classy) currently streaming on Netflix. Aside from comedy, Cristela focuses on advocacy work, fighting for issues that range from immigration, universal healthcare and lower income communities.
Featured…
Francesca Fiorentini, the host of Brava’s annual “Not My Fucking President’s Day” comedy event is a journalist, activist and stand-up comedian known for launching Al Jazeera's first comedy show, Newsbroke. In 2019, Francesca hosted “Red, White and Who?” on MSNBC. As a comedian she has performed at SF Comedy Day, the Asian-American Comedy Festival in LA (2015), SF Punchline, SF Sketchfest, and comedy clubs all over the country. She is the host and creator of The Bitchuation Room, a weekly livestream.
Jes Tom is a New York based actor, writer, and weird queer stand-up comic, gleefully providing the nonbinary queer Asian American radical cyborg perspective that everyone never knew they wanted. Jes was named one of TimeOut New York's "LGBTQ POC Comedians We're Obsessed With."
Madison Shepard has performed at SF Sketch Fest, Broke LA, and Black Women in Comedy Festival. Madison’s stand up has been featured on WhoHaha, Funny or Die, and Buzzfeed. Her debut comedy EP Goodnight Silverlake Lounge was released in November 2019.
Mami’s creator, Marga Gomez, was voted “Best of The Bay Comedian” three times by the 48 Hills/ SF Bay Guardian reader’s poll. She is the recipient of a GLAAD Award and has appeared on Tracy Ullman’s Tracy Takes On…. But her face is best known as the internet’s number one “Spit-Take” photo. www.margagomez.com
Host…
Back by popular demand, Jesús U. BettaWork returns to host the evening. The comedian, dancer, and actor can also be seen on Netflix in the film East Side Sushi. The Bay Area Reporter named Jesús U. BettaWork “Best Gay Comedian”
TICKETS
$10
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ABOUT
Who’s Your Mami Comedy was created as a hilariously trenchant response to misogyny in the comedy industry. But in the upside down new normal that is 2020 Brava’s women-led, rotating line up of deeply funny, culturally diverse, subversive comedians will mix truths with hot takes, a little raunch, and a mega dose of ‘red hat’ unfriendly weaponized wit aiming where no punchline has gone before.