Brava presents the monthly comedy series curated by Marga Gomez
Who’s Your Mami Comedy with headliners Karen Williams and Zahra Noorbakhsh
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2020
7:00pm (PST) via Zoom
November's "Who’s Your Mami Comedy" features headliners Karen Williams and Zahra Noorbakhsh, along with Jackie Monahan, Monica Palacios, host Marga Gomez, and musical guest Carlie Mari.
Headliners…
Karen Williams: a nationally-known and internationally acclaimed stand-up comic with a professional career spanning 35 years. She is the Founder and CEO of the International Institute of Humor and Healing Arts ~ HaHA Institute, the go-to resource for humor education programs. A comic craftmaster, Karen continues to perform comedy worldwide with quick repartee, insightful commentary, audience rapport and her "heal with humor" philosophy. She’s been featured on HBO and stages from South Beach to Sydney to Montreal.
Zahra Noorbakhsh: is a Feminist Muslim, Iranian-American comedian and cohost of the award-winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim. She has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross and CNN’s United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named Zahra one of their “Top 100 People, Movements, and Organizations Changing the Future of Culture in the Nation” Her stand-up has been described as "always insightful, always subversive"
Featuring…
Jackie Monahan: has been called "The Queen of deadpan" by Roger Ebert, and "the funniest bitch on the Block" by Amy Schumer with whom Jackie toured for five years. You may have seen her on “Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show,” “Last Comic Standing”, or “Comedy Jam on Showtime”.
Monica Palacios: a comedian, playwright and performer, has twice been recognized by the city of Los Angeles as an LGBTQ Latinx trailblazer. On October 12, 2012, the Mayor of Los Angeles declared “Monica Palacios Day” in honor of her groundbreaking solo shows, plays, stand-up, screenplays, short stories and poems that intersect Chicana identity, queerness and comedy.
Marga Gomez: recently was voted “2020 Best of The Bay Comedian” award buy readers of 48 Hills. She is an artist-in-residence at Brava and creator of the “Who’s Your Mami Comedy” series.
With special musical guest…
Carlie Mari, tongue in cheek indie rocker.
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.