Friday Night Comedy - Tony Sparks - Downtown Santa Rosa

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Every Friday night hilarious comedians from The Bay Area and beyond perform at Barrel Proof Lounge. Stick around after for late-night karaoke!

Fresh lineup of funny each Friday.

This Week:

Lelluh Kay

Rhek Rude

(host) Jon Lehre

Headliner: Tony Sparks

Tony Sparks’ first display of superhuman comedy hustle happened when he was 16 years old. After deciding he wanted to be a comic, Sparks opened up the phone book and started cold-calling random rooms near his home in Little Rock, Ark.

“Anything that said ‘club,’” Sparks remembers. “Night clubs, the Kiwanis Club — I called them up and said, ‘I’m a comic in your town, and I want to do a show at your place.’”

His career passed through New York before Sparks moved to San Francisco in 1991. He stayed in the city, hustled some more, and has firmly established himself as the king of open-mike night, an Obi-Wan Kenobi figure for a generation of local comics.

Comedians Al Madrigal and Ali Wong got their starts at a Sparks show. Moshe Kasher once called Sparks “the fairy godfather of San Francisco open mikes.”

Join us for his first comedy special taping!!

21+

Doors - 7p / Show - 8p

$15adv / $20door

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