Brava presents
Who’s Your Mami Comedy Pride Edition
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2021
7:00pm (PST) via Zoom
June’s Who’s Your Mami Comedy will be our last Zoom show before our TBD reopening in Brava’s Cabaret!! We are zooming out with a hilarious PROUD BANG! Get your tickets ASAP.
Co-Headliners Sampson McCormick and Sandra Valls
Featuring Karen Ripley and Jesús U. BettaWork!
An all LGBT comedy line-up hosted and curated by Marga Gomez
The Bay Area Reporter caught up with Who’s Your Mami host and curator Marga Gomez for their June Pride issue. Read the full article here.
ABOUT THE COMEDIANS
Sampson McCormick (co-headliner) has headlined venues including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Historic Howard Theater and in 2018, became the first LGBTQ comedian to headline the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Sampson has appeared in film and on BET, TV One, VICELAND, FOX Soul and his own stand-up comedy specials including "That B*%@# Better Be Funny" and "Church Boy.”
Sandra Valls (co-headliner) is best known for her Showtime hit comedy specials, The Latin Divas of Comedy (nominated for an Alma Award) and Pride: LGBT Comedy Slam! hosted by Bruce Vilanch. Her other television credits include One Night Stand Up (LOGO), Comic's Unleashed with Byron Allen (ABC), Habla! (HBO), Que Locos (Galavision), BET's Comic View, Nick and Mom Night Out (Nickelodeon) Curve Magazine named her “One of the Top 10 Funniest Lesbian Comics.”
Karen Ripley (featured) is an iconic LGBT comedian and improviser who began her gay comedy career in 1977 in San Francisco. In 2009 Ms. Magazine named her one of the best 100 Lesbian Comics. She is profiled in the 2020 film "Stand Up Stand Out: The Making of a Comedy Movement” the San Francisco Chronicle has said.
“Ripley crystallized the evening...she tore up the crowd with one-liners.”
Jesús U. BettaWork! (featured) is a Brava audience favorite, has performed at SF Sketchfest, San Francisco's Punchline, The Redwood Comedy Festival in Humboldt County, Tourettes Without Regrets in Oakland, San Mateo Pride and numerous bars and cafes where he ends up being the special of the day.
Marga Gomez (Host and Curator) is a nationally recognized proudly Latina Lesbian comedian, playwright, actor, teaching artist. In 2020, 48 Hills readers voted her “Best Of The Bay Comedian.” She has also been a multiple winner of The Bay Area Reporter’s award for Best Gay Comedian. As a Brava artist-in residence Marga conceived the Who’s Your Mami Comedy series in August of 2019.
TICKETS
$10 (with no additional fees or taxes)
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 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.