San Francisco native Nato Green is a brainy, liberal, Jewish stand-up comedian who entertains audiences at clubs, theaters, and benefits. He performs regularly with acclaimed political comedian Will Durst and was featured in SF Sketchfest 2008. Nato’s comedy has been heard on KSRO 1350AM and Green960AM. Nato is the Official Comedian of Stephen Elliott's Progressive Reading Series, where he has performed with such literary greats as Jonathan Franzen, Daniel Handler, Jane Smiley, Andrew Sean Greer, Tobias Wolff, and Michelle Tea.

Nato has established an SF comedy institution popular with comics and audiences alike in Iron Comic®, his Iron Chef-spoofing game show, profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle. In Iron Comic®, 5 comedians rush to write a routine in 10 minutes from topics suggested by the audience. He also produces Laughing Liberally Local 415, an ongoing political comedy showcase, and the New Jew Revue, the nay-punim of Jewish stand-up.

Blog Entries by Nato Green

If GOP Steals the Election, November 5 May Be the Day Obama Gets Too Black For America

6 Comments | Posted October 29, 2008 | 02:04 PM (EST)


Whilst polls and the unhinged berserker campaign of McCain-Palin signify an avalanche of Obama, an Obamalanche if you will, McCain still could win. I assume that when McCain says "we've got them where we want them," it's more of the same curmudgeonly ranting, but maybe he knows something we don't....

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Please Stop Saying "Race Card"

Posted August 25, 2008 | 03:51 PM (EST)


(Reader Advisory: The following contains humor as well as opinion. Proceed with caution.)

Everybody, stop saying "race card." As semi-evolved humanoids, we need to be able to talk about how racism, a colossal disgrace in the history of Western Civilization, might affect an election without reducing it to a breezy...

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Of Course Obama Is The One; Not That There's Anything Wrong With That

Posted August 11, 2008 | 04:22 PM (EST)


Unless you've been at a silent meditation retreat for several weeks, or held hostage by kidnappers awaiting ransom, you'll have seen the ad called "The One" by the respectful, issue-based propagandists over at John McCain 2008 HQ.

The ad, which is here, charges that Obama has "anointed himself...

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Top 10 Ways Gay Marriage Harms Straight People

Posted July 29, 2008 | 04:53 PM (EST)


California is abuzz over same-sex marriage, as gay marriers swarm the Golden State like so many Castro-ized killer bees in case ruddy-faced values voters kill our buzz with November's constitutional amendment. There's so much to discuss before Melissa Etheridge releases an album of wedding music; before anyone splurges on Palm...

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