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32nd Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy: Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant

32nd Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy: Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant
Livestream tickets available for all shows.
Click HERE to purchase YouTube Livestream Tickets.

Prices


Dinner Show (in-person):
Tue Dec 24, Wed Dec 25, and Thu Dec 26
5:00-6:00pm Dinner / 6:00-7:30pm Show
$90 - Mamelah ($96 including all fees)


Cocktail Show (in-person):
Tue Dec 24, Wed Dec 25, and Thu Dec 26
8:30-10:00pm Show
$65 - Tatelah ($71 including all fees)


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 perform in South Hadley, Massachusetts at what she thought would be 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™, 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 32nd 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, Carol Leifer, Cathy Ladman, Jeff Ross, Gary Gulman… and the list goes on. www.koshercomedy.com/past-comedians

Kung Pao Kosher Comedy™ returned to San Francisco’s Chinatown last year to its new home, the Imperial Palace Restaurant. (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 last year of 2 shows a day. All 6 shows will 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: Shalom Bayit AND Chinatown YMCA Food Pantry. www.koshercomedy.com/beneficiaries


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

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

“A San Francisco institution.” - SF Examiner

32nd Annual Kung Pao Kosher ComedyOphira Eisenberg is a stand up comedian, writer, and host of the award-winning (2024) comedy podcast Parenting Is A Joke. She also hosted NPR’s Ask Me Another where she interviewed and played silly games with hundreds of celebrities including Sir Patrick Harris, Rosie Perez, Yo-Yo Ma, Awkwafina, Roxanne Gay, Nick Kroll, Chelsea Handler, and more. She’s appeared multiple times on CBS’s The Late Late Show, Sherri! with Sherri Sheppard, Comedy Central, HBO, The New York Festival, and is regular on The Moth Radio Hour. Her stories are included in three of The Moth’s best-selling collections. Her memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy was optioned for a TV series, and her recent comedy special Plant- Based Jokes is streaming on YouTube. She is a regular at The Comedy Cellar and other New York clubs, and her solo show Leaving A Mark: A Comedy About Scars made it’s Off-Broadway review to rave reviews and won the Women in the Arts & Media Award for Solo Show Scripts

www.ophiraeisenberg.com

32nd Annual Kung Pao Kosher ComedyMatt Kirshen's precision wit has earned him an impressive reputation on the international comedy circuit. Starting his comedy career in the UK, he moved to America as a finalist on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He has also appeared on Comedy Central’s @Midnight, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Paul Provenza’s Green Room on Showtime, and The Nerdist, and is one of the regular guest co-hosts of StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson. He was a writer for The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award, and also wrote for Arrested Development, and wrote for and appeared on How To Build… Everything on the Science channel and Comedy KnockOut on TruTV. His debut CD, "I Guess We'll Never Know" was named in Laughspin Magazine's top 10 albums of the year and his hit appearance at Just For Laughs festival in Montreal resulted in no fewer than 4 of his gags appearing in the Montreal Gazette's round up of their best jokes of the fest. He also hosts Probably Science, a weekly comedy and science podcast featuring a mix of comedians and scientists breaking down the week’s science news. 

www.mattkirshen.com

32nd Annual Kung Pao Kosher ComedyBecky Braunstein grew up on a mountain in Eagle River, Alaska where she had no one to talk to, moved to America after being diagnosed with metastatic thyroid cancer and almost losing her voice forever - but she didn’t lose it, and now she won’t shut up. A uniquely enthusiastic comedian and actor, she appears in Trinkets on Netflix, Chad on TBS, Shrill on Hulu, and was recently featured in Teen Vogue, in an article which insisted that each one of her life experiences "deserves [its] own television show". Wanda Sykes & Page Hurwitz agreed, producing Becky’s half-hour stand-up/documentary special as part of ‘Unprotected Sets’ on MGM+. Becky is a fast-rising, one-in-a-million performer with fresh energy and wide-eyed enthusiasm that is impossible to ignore. Her scripted comedy pilot Cancer Culture was named a winner by the Yes And Laughter Lab, sponsored by Comedy Central, and she recently directed the music video for ‘Hey New Zealand’ by The Exbats. She has been featured at nearly every top comedy festival in the country, including the Big Sky, Bridgetown, SF Sketchfest, Laughing Skull, All Jane, Limestone, 208 & the HBO Women In Comedy Festival.

www.beckybraunstein.com

32nd Annual Kung Pao Kosher ComedyLisa 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 past three years until her mother passed away in August of this year. 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

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