Courtesy: Tommy Lau

Ricky Gervais, Jane Lynch, Danny McBride and the casts of Twin Peaks and Animal House are among the fresh faces headlining the 2018 incarnation of the SF Sketchfest comedy festival.

Other performers will include Lewis Black, Dick Cavett, Paul F. Tompkins, Christopher Guest, Julie Benz, David Cross, Jane Kaczmarek and Busy Phillipps, with even more performers and shows announced and more to be announced in the coming weeks.

Tickets to the 17th annual event will go on sale Friday at 12 p.m. The festival, again presented by Audible, will host more than 200 performances between Jan. 11 and 28. Over the course of 17 days, performances will include sketch, stand-up, alternative comedy, music, improv, films, tributes, live podcasts, workshops and panel discussions.

Tickets to each event are $15 to $50, can be purchased at the festival’s website, where the complete schedule is also available. A rundown of performances is listed below.

• Tribute to Ricky Gervais, in conversation with Christopher Guest
• Tribute to Jane Lynch
• Tribute to Dick Cavett: 50th Anniversary of “The Dick Cavett Show”
• Tribute to Lewis Black + Audible Presents The Rant is Due
• Tribute to Danny McBride & Jody Hill with “The Foot Fist Way”
• Tribute to Paul F. Tompkins
• Tribute to Twin Peaks with cast members Dana Ashbrook, Josh Fadem, Harry Goaz, Michael Horse, Matthew Lillard, James Marshall, Kimmy Robertson, Ray Wise and more
• An Afternoon with Bill Burr in conversation, hosted by Kevin Pollak
• Spotlight on FX’s Better Things with Pamela Adlon, Diedrich Bader, Greg Cromer, Lucy Davis, Rebecca Metz and Kevin Pollak

 Cinema and Television:

• Animal House 40th Anniversary with Karen Allen, Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert and James Widdoes
• Animaniacs 25th Anniversary Songs and Stories with Rob Paulsen, Randy Rogel and Maurice LaMarche
• Audible Presents Dr. Katz: The Audio Files
• The Benson Movie Interruption: The Fate of the Furious
• Comedy Central’s Corporate Retreat with Matt Ingebretson, Jake Weisman, Lance Reddick, Anne Dudek, Adam Lustick and Aparna Nancherla
• Crashing Live with Pete Holmes & Friends
• Futurama Live from Omicron Persei 8 with David X. Cohen, John DiMaggio, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Lee Supercinski and Billy West
• Jawbreaker: The Peaches Christ Experience with actor Julie Benz and writer/director Darren Stein
• Rocko’s Modern Life 25th Anniversary with Charlie Adler, Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny, Doug Lawrence and Joe Murray
• Totally Looped with Maribeth Monroe, Laraine Newman, Rick Overton, Gary Anthony Williams and more

 Live Reads and Theater

• The Boy in the Plastic Bubble: A Very Special Staged Reading with Dana Gould, Scott Adsit, Deborah Baker, Jr., Ron Lynch, Nate Mooney, Steven Ogg, Janet Varney and more
• Celebrity Autobiography with Pamela Adlon, Peter Asher, Laraine Newman, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Fred Willard and more
• Fake TED Talks with Jonathan Coulton, Jean Grae, Travis McElroy, Paul and Storm, Kirsten Vangsness, and more
• Selected Shorts: Too Hot For Radio with David Cross, Jane Kaczmarek, Lance Reddick, David Strathairn and host Aparna Nancherla
• Soundtracks Live: Scenes and Songs from a Classic 80s Movie with Matt Ballard, Owen Burke, Rachel Dratch, Thomas Lennon, Jack McBrayer, A.D. Miles, Michael Showalter, Bobby Tisdale, David Wain and music by Amy Miles

• Epic Rap Battles of History Live
• Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra
• Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and Friends
• Kevin McDonald’s Cheaters In Love: A Rock Opera
• The Music of Rushmore: A Live Performance of the Soundtrack
• The Music of The Royal Tenenbaums: A Live Performance of the Soundtrack
• The Music of Twin Peaks with the Red Room Orchestra
• Skinner Box with Eliza Skinner
• Smells Like the 90s: A Night of ’90s Music and Comedy with Undone Sweaters (Weezer cover band) and Chris Garcia’s 1995 Forever

• Alison Rosen is Your New Best Friend
• Blue Woman Group with Aparna Nancherla and Jacqueline Novak
• Craig’s List with Craig & Carla Cackowski
• Crybabies with Sarah Thyre and Susan Orlean
• Defend Your Movie! with Sean Donnelly and Farah Brook
• Doug Loves Movies with Doug Benson
• Doughboys with Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger
• Dumb People Town with The Sklar Brothers and Dan Van Kirk
• The Greatest Generation and Friendly Fire Podcast Super Show
• Hopefully We Don’t Break Up with Giulia Rozzi and Will Miles
• Hound Tall with Moshe Kasher
• Illogical Contraption
• Improv4humans with Matt Besser
• Inside the Closet with Matteo Lane and Emma Willmann
• Jordan, Jesse, Go! with Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn
• Judge John Hodgman
• Movie Crush with Charles W. “Chuck” Bryant
• Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo
• Nostalgia Personified with Michael C. Maronna and Danny Tamberelli
• Obsessed with Joseph Scrimshaw
• Omnibus with Ken Jennings and John Roderick
• One Bad Mother with Theresa Thorn and Biz Ellis
• Roderick on the Line with Merlin Mann
• Shmanners Podcast with Travis McElroy and Theresa McElroy
• Stuff You Should Know with Josh Clark and Charles W. “Chuck” Bryant
• Superego: Forgotten Classics
• Talking Simpsons
• The Wahlberg Solution with Dan Van Kirk
• Throwing Shade with Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi
• We Got This with Mark and Hal
• We’re No Doctors with Steve Agee and Busy Philipps
• Weird Adults with Little Esther
• The West Wing Weekly: Big Block of Cheese Day
• Will You Accept This Rose?
• With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus

• Audible presents The Bat: Improv in the Dark
• The Black Version with Jordan Black, Nyima Funk, Daniele Gaither, Karen Maruyama, Gary Anthony Williams and Cedric Yarbrough
• Facebook Improv with Owen Burke, Chad Carter, Jack McBrayer, Seth Morris, Rob Riggle and Charlie Sanders
• Gravid Water with Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh and more
• The Groundlings: Cookin’ with GAS
• The Groundlings: The Crazy Uncle Joe Show
• The Improvised Shakespeare Company
• Off Book: The Improvised Musical with Jessica McKenna and Zachary Reino
• Playhouse Masterpieces with Neil Campbell and Paul Rust
• Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins
• Super Married with Jamie Denbo and John Ross Bowie
• Theme Park Improv with Ian Brennan, Rachel Dratch, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Jessica Makinson, Oscar Nunez, Cole Stratton and Janet Varney
• UCB East vs. UCB West Harold Competition
• Upright Citizens Brigade: ASSSSCAT with Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh
• Wild Horses with Stephanie Allynne, Mary Holland, Lauren Lapkus and Erin Whitehead
• Workjuice Improv with Craig Cackowski, Mark Gagliardi, Marc Evan Jackson, Hal Lublin, Annie Savage, Paul F. Tompkins and Janet Varney

• The Birthday Boys
• Broken Lizard’s Super Troopers Live: Here and Meow
• Charles
• Dead Kevin
• Kasper Hauser
• Killing My Lobster
• Olde English with Caleb Bark, Adam Conover, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Ben Popik and Wave Segal
• White Women

• Asian AF with Eugene Cordero and more
• Audible Presents Fresh Voices
• Audible’s Wish List
• Best of Edinburgh: International Showcase with Aisling Bea, Maeve Higgins, Phoebe Walsh, Seann Walsh and more
• The Buddy Cole Monologues with Scott Thompson
• Butterboy with Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla and Maeve Higgins
• Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher
• Clickhole Live
• Cool Thanks with Janine Brito, Dave Thomason and John Michael Bond
• Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson present: The Bridget Bishop Tour
• Facial Recognition Comedy: A Desi Woman Stand-up Show
• The 420 Show with Matt Besser
• Invite Them Up with Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale
• Janeane Garofalo & Friends
• Jessimae Peluso’s 7 Deadly Sins
• Kiss My Ass with Josh Fadem and Johnny Pemberton
• Little Esther Goes Through Your Stuff with Esther Povitsky
• The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle
• The Phil Hendrie Experience
• Sara Schaefer: Little White Box
• Sasheer Zamata Party Time!
• Set List
• The SF Sketchfest Dozen: Marcella Arguello, Gina Brillon, Naomi Ekperigin, Josh Fadem, Jo Firestone, Josh Johnson, Jak Knight, Ryan O’Flanagan, Ramon Rivas II, Giulia Rozzi, Dulcé Sloan, Shane Torres
• SF Sketchfest NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences
• SF Sketchfest Threesome: Joel Kim Booster, Janine Brito, Solomon Georgio
• The Sklar Brothers
• Smug Shift with Moshe Kasher and Brent Weinbach
• The Special Without Brett Davis
• Standup Spotlights: Sean Donnelly, Andres du Bouchet, Matteo Lane, Jacqueline Novak, Samantha Ruddy, Moses Storm, Brooke Van Poppelen, Emma Willmann
• Todd Barry: 30th Anniversary Crowd Work Tour
• Will Durst & Friends: Trump One Year Later
• Witch Taint: The Black Metal Dialogues with Dave Hill and Phil Costello

• Audible Presents Hold On with Eugene Mirman
• Audible Presents Hot Mic with Dan Savage
• Bawdy Storytelling
• Mortified
• Porchlight
• RISK! with Kevin Allison

• Brew HaHa: The Comedy Drinking Game Show
• Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction
• Friends of Single People with Jo Firestone
• The Great Debate presents: We’re Friends Again with Matt Price and Ilyse Mimoun
• Playing Games with Jimmy Pardo
• Quiz-o-tron with Rebecca Watson
• Shit Arcade with Mike Drucker
• Talk Show The Game Show with Guy Branum
• Uptown Showdown Debate: Indoorsy vs. Outdoorsy

• Audible Presents Story Party Live with Mike Phirman and more
• The Groundlings Children’s Show
• Mo Willems & Friends: Don’t Let the Comedians Do Storytime!

• Improv and Sketch Workshop with Kevin McDonald
• How to Improvise Like a Married Couple with Craig and Carla Cackowski
• Storytelling Skills: WOW Your Crowd Workshop with Kevin Allison