KAABOO Del Mar releases comedy lineup

June 15, 2017 10:46 AM PT

Patton Oswalt, David Spade, and Sebastian Maniscalco head the list of confirmed acts for KAABOO Del Mar‘s 2017 “Humor Me” comedy lineup.

Also booked to appear at the festival, which takes place Sept. 15-17, are former TV host Arsenio Hall, “Saturday Night Live” alum Norm MacDonald and Nick Swardson. The comedy lineup is completed by Demetri Martin, Maria Bamford, Bridgett Everett, Bryan Callen, Al Madrigal and Taylor Williamson.

They join a 2017 KAABOO roster that includes Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Pink, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction and many more.

The lineup will also include the winners of the KAABOO Discovery Tour, a showcase for local comedy and music talent.

One San Diego area comedian and three local bands will be selected to perform at the three-year-old festival, which is held on the grounds of the Del Mar Racetrack and adjacent fairgrounds. The Discovery Tour will stop at the American Comedy Co. on Aug. 17. Online comedian submissions will be open through July 1.

The comedy performances will be held in a large air-conditioned venue on the fairgrounds.

A limited number of complimentary KAABOO Laugh Passes will be distributed twice each day of the festival on a first-served basis. The passes will ensure guests are able to secure a seat for their favorite comedians. There will also be first-come, first-served access at the door for each comedy show.

Tickets for KAABOO are available from the festival’s website: kaaboodelmar.com/get-yours
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San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 and 2023 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”