Dana Carvey Pops Into Mark Pitta & Friends Tuesday Night Comedy, Hilarity Ensues

In March, KQED dubbed Mark Pitta & Friends Tuesday Night Comedy the genre’s “Worst-Kept Secret.”

For Mill Valley residents who love to laugh but perhaps have been living under a rock for the better part of the past decade since Pitta created the show, yet another reminder of just how much of a comedic gem we have in our backyard came earlier this week.

Local legend Dana Carvey stopped by on Tuesday to try out some new material for an upcoming appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. But while Carvey was excellent, rattling off a host of spot-on impressions and riffing on too-close-to-home topics like the plastic bag ban and socially conscious solicitors outside cafes, the brilliance of what Pitta and Throckmorton Theatre founder Lucy Mercer have built is evident not just in the serendipity of the nights when a local mega-stars like Carvey or Robin Williams pop in, but with the consistent depth of the entire roster of comics that perform there every Tuesday night.

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