The Sacramento Comedy Spot will bring a new type of art festival to Sacramento this weekend, guaranteed to send attendees home with side splinters and sore cheekbones. The first Sacramento Comedy Festival, to be held at the Sacramento Comedy Spot in Midtown, will bring to the stage 170 comedians in 17 different shows from Thursday through Sunday. Brian Crall, owner of the Sacramento Comedy Spot and main coordinator for the festival, said that he and others at the club set a goal last year to host a comedy festival this year, and though they wanted to keep it relatively small, they wanted to bring a show that featured more than solely standup comedy. “Since the festival is all about incl

Employing a style he has dubbed “uninformed logic,” stand-up comedian Bill Burr has spent the better part of two decades refining his sardonic outlook on everyday life. An L.A. resident by way of Massachusetts, Burr lived in New York City for nine years before heading west to further his career in television and film. He is set to record his second one hour stand-up special for Comedy Central at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco on Dec. 17, but will first do a string of performances at The Punchline in Sacramento Dec. 10-13. “I’ve been working on the new material since the night I said goodnight on my last special, which was November of 2007,” said Burr from Los Angeles Internation