SF Sketchfest runs 18 days, from Thursday 14 January to Sunday 31 January 2027. The festival's venue page lists twelve rooms at eleven street addresses across San Francisco. The home page reads "Lineup announcing in November!", and the organisers' 2027 schedule host reads "Tickets on sale Sunday November 15 at 10:00 AM Pacific!" An itinerary can be built now from the addresses, the purchase windows and one published arrival rule.
Eventbrite by default, and two other channels
The venue page states the default channel in one line: "Unless otherwise noted, tickets are sold through Eventbrite." Each show page carries its own Buy Tickets link.
Tickets can be bought over the phone at some venues for an additional fee, and the venue sets that fee. Advance tickets can be bought in person at the box office to avoid service fees.
Three box offices that charge no service fee
Cobb's Comedy Club, 915 Columbus Avenue, sells in person with no service fees on Wednesday and Thursday 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., Friday 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., Saturday 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. and Sunday 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., plus from two hours before door time on any show night.
Punch Line Comedy Club, 444 Battery Street, runs Tuesday 5:30 to 8:45 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 6:00 to 8:45 p.m., Friday 5:30 to 10:00 p.m., Saturday 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. and Sunday 5:30 to 8:45 p.m.
Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell Street, opens on Fridays from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m., plus from two hours before door time on any show night.
Eight other rooms publish one shared window: in person from 60 minutes before any SF Sketchfest show to 15 minutes after the show begins. The Sydney Goldstein Theater publishes a phone line in its place, at 415-392-4400, Monday to Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The arrival rule and the line
The schedule page publishes the line rule for a sold-out show: "A line begins approximately 60-90 minutes before showtime, and any available seats will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis."
Ticketing questions go to boxoffice@sfsketchfest.com.
Three day shapes from the addresses
Cobb's Comedy Club and Lost Church sit 58 metres apart on Columbus Avenue, at 915 and 988.
Great Star Theater at 636 Jackson Street sits 0.32 miles from Punch Line at 444 Battery Street. Great American Music Hall at 859 O'Farrell Street sits 0.54 miles from Marines' Memorial Theatre at 609 Sutter Street.
Fort Mason Center holds both BATS rooms at 2 Marina Boulevard, Building B, on the second and third floors. Palace of Fine Arts Theatre at 3301 Lyon Street sits 0.93 miles from that address, and Sports Basement Presidio carries the address 610 Old Mason Street.
The distances are straight-line measurements between geocoded street addresses.
What the last edition's days looked like
The organisers' 2026 schedule host carries 216 sessions across 13 room names. Two of those sessions sit outside the run, on Wednesday 18 February at Cobb's. Saturdays carried the weight. Saturday 17 January held 24 sessions with a first start at 1:00 p.m., Saturday 24 January held 24 from 11:00 a.m. and Saturday 31 January held 25 from 1:00 p.m.
Weekdays ran light. Monday 19 January 2026 held one session, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 January held six each. Opening night, Thursday 15 January, held six and started at 7:00 p.m. The closing Sunday, 1 February, held 15 from 10:00 a.m.
Those counts belong to the 2026 edition. The 2027 host is live with the ticket clock and the door rule, and carries no session list yet.
Entry rules and a night count
Cobb's and Punch Line admit ages 18 and over unless a show page says otherwise. Great American Music Hall admits 6 and over.
A guest who takes the night of every festival day arrives on the Thursday and checks out on Monday 1 February, which is 18 nights. Engine puts the San Francisco par rate at $165 across 3.1 million public observations from May 2024 to April 2026, and January at $166. Engine defines a par rate as the cheapest publicly available price at the time of each search, and that basis excludes negotiated and booked rates. Eighteen nights at the January line comes to $2,988.
AHLA and Oxford Economics put citywide visitor spending at about $900 per occupied room night in San Francisco in a release dated 25 June 2026. Eighteen nights on that basis comes to $16,200.