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33rd Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy: Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant

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Livestream tickets available for all shows.
Click HERE to purchase YouTube Livestream Tickets.

Prices

Dinner Show (in-person):
Wed Dec 24, Thu Dec 25, and Fri Dec 26
5:00-6:00pm Dinner / 6:00-7:30pm Show
$95 ($101 including all fees)
6-course dinner https://www.koshercomedy.com/menu

Cocktail Show (in-person):
Wed Dec 24, Thu Dec 25, and Fri Dec 26
8:30-10:00pm Show
$70 ($76 including all fees)
Light fare (dim sim, egg roll, and potstickers):
https://www.koshercomedy.com/menu

Livestream for either show: $30-$75 ($35-$81 including all fees)

Imperial Palace Restaurant
818 Washington St (between Grant & Stockton)
Chinatown
San Francisco, CA 94108

Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ was created in 1993 by accident by San Francisco comedian, Lisa Geduldig, who went to South Hadley, Massachusetts that October to perform at a women’s comedy night at what she thought was a comedy club. But upon her arrival, she discovered that Peking Garden Club was actually a Chinese Restaurant! After telling Jewish jokes at a Chinese restaurant, a conversation the next day between Lisa and an old summer camp friend led to the creation of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ - Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant, which is a take-off on the tradition of Jews going to a Chinese Restaurant and a movie on Christmas. And the rest is history. Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™, which set out to answer the age-old question, “What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?” is now celebrating its 33rd year and is one of San Francisco’s longest running comedy shows!

Many of the great household name Jewish comedians have graced the Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ stage. Henny Youngman performed his last show there in 1997 at 91 years old. Shelley Berman has headlined, as has David Brenner, as have many others in the Who’s Who of Jewish comedians including Elayne Boosler (who headlines this year!), Carol Leifer, Cathy Ladman, Wendy Liebman, Jeff Ross, Gary Gulman… and the list goes on.
www.koshercomedy.com/past-comedians

Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ takes place at the Imperial Palace Restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown. (The New Asia Restaurant, where Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ had been held since 1997 - its 5th year - closed during the pandemic and converted into a supermarket.) Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ returned to its pre-pandemic format of 2 shows a day in 2022. All 6 shows take place in-person AND virtually (on YouTube Live) again this year, thus catering to the national and international online audiences developed since 2020 as well as to those who prefer to watch from home.

Partial proceeds benefit The ACLU and support Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay’s free Immigration Legal Services.
www.koshercomedy.com/beneficiaries

“Feeding the soul as well as the stomach.” - NY Times

“A San Francisco institution.” - SF Examiner

This year’s Kung Pao Kosher Comedy shows are once again dedicated to the memory of Arline Geduldig, Lisa’s mamelah (and Kung Pao and Lockdown Comedy special guest comedian) who passed away in August 2024 at the age of 93.

Elayne Boosler(comedian/writer/animal activist) is a COMEDY LEGEND! She was named one of Comedy Central’s Greatest 100 Standup Comedians of All Time, dubbed by Rolling Stone Magazine “The First Lady of Stand Up Comedy” and named one of their 50 Best Standup Comics of All Time. She is best known for her thoughtful and feisty socially conscious humor and her love of baseball and animals. Boosler has toured for decades including England’s Command Performance, the White House Press Correspondent’s Dinner, the Middle East for the troops, clubs theaters and hundreds of TV appearances including HBO’s Comic Relief and as a frequent guest on Politically Incorrect. She appears in over 30 New York Times puzzles and has performed stand up worldwide for 40+ years. Boosler founded/runs the nationwide animal rescue “Tails of Joy.” She has written for Time, Newsweek, Esquire, USA Today, CNN.com, Huffington Post, The LA Times, and movies and TV. Seeing her perform live is unforgettable.

www.elayneboosler.com • www.tailsofjoy.net

Orion Levine is a Los Angeles based comedian from the Bay Area. He has appeared on the Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central, was named a New Face at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2022, and has been featured on Netflix Radio. He also has a set filmed with Iliza Shlesinger's "Iliza's Locals" coming out soon on Amazon Prime. Orion also makes #content that everyone loves; look him up on Instagram! He is also incredibly handsome.

https://orionlevine.com

Amanda Marks, not your typical anything, comedian , can turn the minuscule or mundane into a monumentally funny shtick. Amanda performs stand-up comedy, produces and hosts comedy shows and co-hosts the award-winning Sis & Tell Podcast. Amanda is thrilled to be one of the featured comedians in the national tour of Moms Unhinged. She has opened for comedians Jessica Kirson and Judy Gold, and has been featured in Ladies Room Comedy Festival, Red Clay Comedy Festival and North Carolina Comedy Festival this Fall. Amanda's comedy is like your favorite bbq brisket, both unquestionably Southern and Jewish. She is a 5th generation Alabama Jew who currently resides in Atlanta with her husband, kids,and an embarrassing number of half-empty LaCroix cans.

http://www.mallofamanda.com

Lisa Geduldig is a San Francisco-based comedian and the creator, producer, and MC of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ — Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant. Before the pandemic, Lisa had been running Comedy Returns to El Rio, a monthly decade-long comedy show at El Rio in San Francisco where her comedy career began 30+ years ago. From July 2020 until September 2024, Lisa produced the monthly Lockdown Comedy on Zoom from the underwear drawer in the guest room at her mother’s retirement community home in Florida, where she accidentally got marooned (in Florida, not in the underwear drawer) for 17 months during the pandemic (and became a fan of the Early Bird special). She commuted between Florida and San Francisco for the following three years until her mother passed away in August 2024. Lisa appeared in a Canadian documentary, Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas, which aired on Canadian and European TV in December 2017. She is also a freelance arts publicist in both English and Spanish. SFPublicist.com

Additional Information

View the Menu: www.koshercomedy.com/menu

Directions and Parking: www.koshercomedy.com/directions-parking
Please leave plenty of time to find parking and get checked in.

Want to advertise in the event program? www.koshercomedy.com/advertising

Want to be a Sponsor? www.koshercomedy.com/sponsorship

Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ Merchandise www.koshercomedy.com/swag-tshirts

Past Comedians (1993-2024): www.koshercomedy.com/past-comedians

Plan your stay at Kung Pao's Official Sponsoring Hotel, Hilton San Francisco Union Square
www.koshercomedy.com/plan-your-stay

Beneficiaries: www.koshercomedy.com/beneficiaries

COVID-19 Safety Guidelines

We recommend that everyone test leading up to the show if they’re not feeling well and urge them NOT to attend if they test positive or are sick.

If you are sick, the box office can switch your in-person ticket to a livestream one instead.

Masks are not required but feel free to wear one.

ALL SALES ARE FINAL

Refunds on tickets purchased will only be made for events that are cancelled or rescheduled. Service fees are not refundable in any instance. However, your service fees will be credited to your City Box Office account for use towards a future purchase. (Please note, City Box Office credits expire 12-months after the issue date, with no exceptions.)