"Alicia Dattner is more exciting than your run-of-the-mill comedian. Yes, she's likable and funny and very inventive on stage, but she doesn't stop there. Aside from being a hilarious comic, she's a successful filmmaker, a circus ringmaster, and a witty (and inspirational) writer, all wrapped up in a bundle of energy. She's so busy being funny in one artistic field or another that she doesn't have time to use her first name. Dattner is a dynamo--catch her whenever you can!"

-Robert Mac
Comedian, winner of Comedy Central's Laugh Riots, "67th Funniest Comic in the US (according to a worthless industry poll)"

"Alicia's standup has an amazing and rare combination of qualities- her work is at once subtle and intense, sophisticated and earthy, philosophical and relate-able. She's deep AND funny. Her writing is intelligent and her performances are even more so. She manages to navigate the line between delicate and hard core. She is gracefully rough edged. She's like Ellen Degeneres meets Lenny Bruce (before he went crazy). Only different. And better."

-Katie Rubin
Writer, actor, creator of solo show Insides Out

"She's got an endearingly subversive charm about her. Plus not only does she have it going on, she's got so much going on, the movie directing, the book writing, and she brings it all to that microphone in such an adorable package. I try to catch her shows whenever I can just to see what she's up to now. What I love about her standup is the way she takes you into her world and makes you see what's so hilarious about yours."

-Bill Santiago
Comedian, Comedy Central Presents

"Alicia is funny, because she always takes a left turn in the right way."

-Kevin Kataoka
Comedian, Writer, Mad TV, America's Funniest Home Videos, Reality Remix, Air America

San Francisco stand up comedian Alicia Dattner perceives the grand cosmic joke: that pain exists in order for us to take ourselves less seriously.