San Francisco Comedy College - Stand Up Comedy School and Improv Comedy Training

Largest Stand Up Comedy School In America
Built by Working Comedians, For Working Comedians

Since 1999, the best group and one-on-one stand up comedy training in the San Francisco Bay Area* and since 2006 the most attended** stand up school in the Nation. Although our focus is Stand Up, we do offer great Improv classes and people tell us that we are very much like Second City in Chicago without the pesky snow or delightful odor of Lake Michigan. If you want to be funny or funnier, we can teach you and we're the only comedy institution in America that offers a money back guarantee that you will be funnier!!!

2008 All Location Class Calendar

All Teachers and Students are paid regulars at the CLUBHOUSE in San Francisco
with many paid regulars at the San Jose Improv,
Rooster T Feathers, Punchline, Cobbs, Pepperbellys, Tommy Ts, Laughs Unlimited ...
Partial SFCC comedian credits include "Comedy Central:Live at Gotham", "Evening at the Improv",
"Comedy Addiction Tour", "Axis of Evil Comedy tour", "Nick at Nite Funniest Mom in America"...

Partial Active and Alumni Student credits:
2008 San Jose Improv 'Hey Lady' contest co champions,
2003, 2004 and 2005 San Jose Improv 'Battle of the Bay' Competition Winners,
2006,2007,2008 Clubhouse 'Battle of the Bay' Competition Winner
2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 Rooster T. Feathers' New Talent Contest Winners,
2007 San Francisco International Comedy Competition 2nd Place
2007 Tommy T's New Talent Contest Winner
2006 San Jose Improv New Talent Contest Winner,
2005, 2006 Russian River Comedy Contest Champion,
2005,2006,2007 California's Funniest Female semi-finalists
and
multiple finalists 2007 LA Nick At Nite Funniest Mom in America show

Kids Classes!!!
Do you have a funny 11 -17 year old who needs an outlet?
Let them take this great class!
SFCC Kids (Click here)

See a show at THE CLUBHOUSE!!!
Two Showrooms with 5 Shows A Week!!
The Heart of SF Comedy
www.clubhousecomedy.com

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Eddie Brill
Talent Coordinator "Late Show with David Letterman"
www.eddiebrill.com

"This (SFCC) is THE place to be if you want to be a working comic""

Dave Schwensen
Former Talent Coordinator for the NYC and Melrose Improv and "Evening at the Improv"
Author 'How to be a Working Comic' and 'Comedy Faqs and Answers; How the Stand Up Business Really Works'
www.thecomedybook.com

"Thank you so much for all of your guidance, wisdom...and brilliant joke tweaks! It was amazing how you could watch our show, and fine tune every detail, til it was a tight and clever piece of art! I cannot tell you how much I appreciated all of the time and hard work you put into making our show the best it could possibly be for last years "Just For Laughs" Comedy Festival in Montreal. Since then we have gone onto many great opportunities, and we will always come back to you for your expertise with every new frontier. It is wonderful how you help so many people work on their craft and reach for the stars. You make artists' dreams come true. Thank you again, you provide an invaluable service, and one heck of a lot of fun on the journey to perfection!"

Joanie Fagan

Creator/Producer 3 Blonde Moms...aka Perky Mom
www.3blondemoms.com

"I love the San Francisco Comedy College. Right now, it's the only venue that comes close to recreating the magic of the ‘Zoo' and Matthews is producing today's comedy stars of the future."

John Cantu (1948-2003)
Producer from the Holy City Zoo in San Francisco; the club that nurtured the careers of Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Rob Schneider Paula Poundstone, Rob "Defending the Caveman" Becker, Will Durst and many others. 'Legendary comedy coach, John Cantu helped launched the careers of more working comics and comedy writers than any other comedy coach in the San Francisco Bay Area' - Humormall
www.humormall.com

I am very impressed with the caliber of talent and the solid comedy teaching principles that come out of the San Francisco Comedy College. Often, I'll meet a stand-up in Los Angeles and really enjoy them, and it will turn out that they studied with Kurtis Matthews. Not only are the comics true to themselves and their material but they support each others success; that is rare in this business... I think it's important to generate material as you grow as a performer and I had a great time working with Kurtis doing just that. He really helped me generate a lot of honest new material and stayed on my a** (stayed on me) to get it done. Kurtis is a nurturing, honest, enthusiastic teacher who knows how to extract what is uniquely funny about people. I feel fortunate to have crossed his path.

Joy Gohring
Actress Oxygen's' 'Good Girls Don't" and exceptional standup comedienne. Joy was audience pick for best comedy in Seattle, Winnipeg and Aspen .VOGUE MAGAZINE calls her "Hysterical!" "Fearless!", the VILLAGE VOICE" calls her ...campy, sly, and unpredictable...",LA TIMES "One of the funniest women I've seen in a long time..." VARIETY"...a must see at the Aspen Comedy Festival.", US MAGAZINE"... a stand-out!".
www.joygohring.com

"Run by professional funnyman Kurtis Matthews, the school turns Saturday nights into the best comedy club in town -- for free."

San Francisco Chronicle, 6/19/05

* Based upon total students, facility size, performance opportunities, gross receipts, and 03 - 07 Rooster Ts, Tommy Ts and San Jose Improv new talent and "Battle of the Bay' comedy competition wins (1200 comedians in 12 contests over 6 years - SFCC students (Students are defined as those that studied with the SFCC for one year or more) accomplished 10 first place and 3 second place finishes) directly vs. non affiliated independent comedians and students of all other bay area stand up comedy coaches, comedy teachers and monologue schools combined. The list includes but not limited to Hank Hyena and The Hyena Comedy Institute, Bay Area Theatre Sports, Mickey Joseph - Private Coaching, Kamau Bell - Private Coaching, Del Van Dyke - Class Act Comedy, Tony Sparks - Private Coaching, Neil Leiberman (The Comedy Coach in San Francisco not to be confused with Steve North the Comedy Coach in Los Angeles) - Private Coaching, Doug Holdsclaw - UCSC, Joni Rodgers - De Anza College, Any and all Northern California Toastmasters Groups combined, Jim Richardson - Private Coaching, Frank Kidder - Private Coaching ....

Claims by other instructors and coaches in the Bay Area as to equal or better student accomplishment are pre SFCC establishment in 99, never substantiated in fact nor verified by many of the comedians for which the trainers take credit. In stark contrast to some in the Bay Area comedy instruction business, the SFCC does not claim those that work with us one session or sit in our office for an hour as we write jokes for them as students nor do we inaccurately equate stand up training with TV and movie ACTING credits that are rightly attributed to ACTING teachers or solely upon the personal accomplishment of the talent. All SFCC instructors are working comedians with verifiable resumes and no comedy training facility or club in America offers more stage time for new talent than the SFCC and two clubs within 'The Clubhouse' in SF. We are happy to provide contact info for all SFCC comedians with contest victories, national TV commercial, film and tv roles. They will readily endorse the training they have received here!
**(3 beginner classes, 4 advanced classes plus one on one students per week with a per month student load of 100 plus)