Since Killing My Lobster's first show at a hole-in-the-wall Mission District theater on a lonely Valentine's Day in 1997 the San Francisco sketch comedy group has been on the up and up performing smart, sophisticated, and occasionally naughty sketches for bigger and bigger audiences in their adopted hometown and on the road.

Though the company's name derives from a wild night in the suburbs, Killing My Lobster's roots lie in the Brown University comedy group Out of Bounds. Veterans of the Brown group Paul Charney, Marc Vogl, and Daniel Lee wound their way out to San Francisco in 1996 and launched the group with Brian L. Perkins and Mike Zurer. Since then the Lobster brigade has grown enormously gaining new recruits from Brown and numerous West Coast accomplices.

After four years, more than 15 original productions, a buncha short films and a dance number set inside a decrepit Russian space station the press has compared Killing My Lobster to Monty Python and Saturday Night Live (in the old days), and Kids in the Hall.

The writing process for the shows is entirely collaborative which results in a range of comedic styles that fuse raucous slapstick with sharp satire, wacky monologues with indulgent musical numbers and once in a while gives rise to a slide show about cats and nuclear physics.

As The Seattle Times put it Killing My Lobster is "Head-shakingly funny. Their Monty Pythonesque sketches mix wacky physical humor with over-the-top loopiness [and] moments of surreal cleverness abound."

Fully dressed, recently showered and just about ready to join the rest of the world in the 21st century, Killing My Lobster has antics in store for the stage, on screen and online too. Stay tuned....