Speed Dates: SF Sketchfest Special!! (w/ Janet Varney)

Bad Dates

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Comedy

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On an all-new Speed Date, host Joel Kim Booster sits down with the fabulous Janet Varney (Avatar: Braving The Elements, Stan Against Evil, You’re The Worst) to talk about the 23rd year of the comedy festival she co-founded, SF Sketchfest, where you can see Bad Dates live at Cobb’s Comedy Club on Sunday, February 1st!! They’ll get into the origin of the festival, Janet’s favorite events they’ve ever hosted, everything you won’t want to miss in this year’s lineup, and the magic of San Francisco and its dialed-in comedy crowds. Check out the SF Sketchfest lineup HERE for tickets! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for full episodes. Merch available at SiriusXMStore.com/BadDates. Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, Fire Island, Loot Season 3 Janet Varney: @thejvclub on Insta, Avatar: Braving The Elements

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0:00.0	Bad dates.
0:03.2	Speed dates.
0:06.9	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Bad Dates, Speed Date edition.
0:13.2	If you're just tuning in for the very first time, this is not a regular episode of the Bad Dates podcast.
0:18.7	This is a very special speed date.
0:20.5	And what that means
0:21.7	is that we like to slow things down sometimes. You know, we normally have a whole panel of guests.
0:26.8	We talk about dating histories, horror stories, traumas. But today, we're doing something a little
0:33.5	bit different. We're talking one-on-one with a single person about whatever the hell we want
0:39.1	to talk about. We're not beholden to the normal rules of the podcast. And isn't that beautiful?
0:44.0	Isn't that beautiful? Something to really consider and take with you into the new year.
0:48.4	Joining me today is an actress, writer, and comedian, and producer who is performed on Blutonic.
0:53.1	You're the worstst, Stand Against
0:54.4	Evil, the Thrilling Adventure Hour, and famously, The Voice, the Queen, Cora, from the legend
1:01.8	of Cora, huge for me. She also produces Sketch Fest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival, which
1:07.4	returns for its 23rd year from January 15th to February 1st. Tickets and
1:13.5	info are at sfsketchfest.com. Guys, it's Janet Barney. Hello, Janet. Thank you so much for
1:21.4	having me. Oh, I mean, I had to. One of my favorite podcast appearances was on your podcast, um, the, uh,
1:30.0	Avatar, The Last Airbender podcast that you have, which, um, tell the, tell the folks,
1:33.8	uh, the name of the podcast and where they can find it.
1:35.5	Yeah, sure.
1:36.4	So it's called, uh, Avatar Braving the Elements.
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