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Nato Green

March 15 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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Update: Tickets for this event are now SOLD OUT

Nato Green

In the Darkest Hour: The Most Political Comedy

San Francisco-based political comedian Nato Green brings a residency to the Red Poppy for one night only, with a work-in-progress show of the most political comedy to get us through this, the hour of darkness.

Featuring:

Nato Green with special guest Jackie Keliiaa

Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Time
     First show: 6:30 pm doors / 7:00–8:15 pm show
     Second show: 8:30 pm doors / 8:45–10:00 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 student & senior -$30 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35

 


ABOUT THE ARTIST:

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Nato Green is the country’s only semifunctional hybrid of political comedian and union organizer.

Nato starred along with W. Kamau Bell and Janine Brito in the streaming series Laughter Against the Machine on Means.tv, the first worker-owned post-capitalist streaming platform. He also appears regularly doing political comedy chats on the podcasts The Bugle and The Bitchuation Room. Nato Green released his second comedy album The Whiteness Album on Blonde Medicine Records and appeared in the film Sorry to Bother You. The Whiteness Album was named by the NPR show Bullseye with Jesse Thorn one of the best comedy albums of 2018.

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.

Nato has been named San Francisco’s Best Comedian by the SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Huffington Post, SFist, and CBS. 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 called “five years ahead of its time.” One time the Episcopal Archbishop called him the antichrist

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Jackie Keliiaa is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor based in Oakland, California with tribal affiliations to Yerington Paiute and Washoe. You can find her in the book, We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy. Jackie has been featured on Comedy Central, Team Coco, Netflix, and IllumiNative’s 25 Native American Comedians to Follow. She wrote for the web series You’re Welcome America and has been featured in a variety of publications including Vulture, Uproxx, LA Times and KQED among others.

Jackie has opened for Judah Friedlander, Nikki Glaser, and was featured on the First Nations Comedy Experience streaming on Amazon Prime. Jackie produces Good Medicine Comedy, an all-Native comedy show which has sold out venues in the Bay Area and beyond. Jackie is a regular at Bay Area venues and has performed at San Francisco SketchFest, Punch Line San Francisco and Cobb’s Comedy Club.

Jackie attended undergrad at UC Berkeley, majoring in both Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies and minoring in City and Regional Planning. She has a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University and spent a decade working in community and economic development prior to pursuing comedy full time.

 
EVENT DETAILS

Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Time
     First show: 6:30 pm doors / 7:00–8:15 pm show
     Second show: 8:30 pm doors / 8:45–10:00 pm show
Admission: (Online) $25 student & senior -$30 Early Bird – $35 General / (Door) $35

Note: A limited quantity of additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door unless otherwise noted on the Facebook event page that the show is SOLD OUT.

Note: Purchasing an advance ticket guarantees admission but does not guarantee a seat. Seating is first come, first served.

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Details

Date:
March 15
Time:
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Venue

Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St.
San Francisco,CA94110United States
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Phone
(650) 731-5383

Organizer

Red Poppy Art House