TONIGHT! NATO GREEN, MYLES WEBER, C J KOEPP, JANET MARIN AND PACO ROMANE AS HOST!
NATO GREEN, a San Francisco native, is the country’s only semi-functional hybrid of comedian, writer, and union organizer. Nato’s writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, the San Francisco Examiner, In These Times, VICE, Truthdig, Huffington Post, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Bold Italic.
His first comedy album, The Nato Green Party, was released in 2012 by Rooftop Comedy. Nato has been named San Francisco’s Best Comedian by the SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Huffington Post, SFist, and CBS. Nato is the creator of Iron Comic, the hit Iron Chef-spoofing comedy game show. His comedy has been featured in Audible Comedy Originals including the Comedy Show Show, the Guest List, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Sounds Like America. He’s appeared on numerous podcasts including RISK!, the Dork Forest, Pod Damn America, WTF with Marc Maron, Put Your Hands Together, WBUR’s You’re the Expert, KQED’s Truth Be Told, KALW’s Kamau Right Now, Porchlight, Muni Diaries, and Fake the Nation with Negin Farsad.
Nato wrote for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX, the show that the New York Times recently called “five years ahead of its time.”
Nato has also been a union organizer for over twenty years, working as an organizer, union rep, and negotiator with UFCW, ILWU, CNA, SEIU Local 1021, and founding Young Workers United, the country’s first worker center for young and immigrant workers in the low-wage service sector. The Episcopal Archbishop once called him the antichrist
TUESDAY NIGHT COMEDY, brings you fresh on-the-rise talent and headlining comics from around the world.. Our comedy night has run for over 18 years now and we are on the radar for many comedians who stop by to try some new material before filming their specials or continuing on to their international tours.
Comedy is not an easy sport. It takes creativity, talent and determination to forge a name in this area of the arts industry. We believe in these artists and their craft, and we are privileged to be part of their process.