Cole Stratton

Cole Stratton is the cofounder of SF Sketchfest the San Francisco Comedy Festival a monthlong annual event highlighting the best in improv sketch standup TV and film comedy Hes cohost of the Pop My Culture Podcast and regular sub host of Alchemy This Along with Janet Varney he has written and performed downloadable comedic commentary to the films Dirty Dancing Ghost Footloose Poltergeist The Lost Boys Flatliners Dreamscape and Jaws 3D for RiffTraxcom an online venture helmed by Mystery Science Theater 3000s Michael J Nelson Also with Varney he cocreated and cohosts the Audible original comedy series The Bat Improv in the Dark featuring a whoswho of guest improvisers winging a set sans lights in front of a live audience Hes appeared on American Horror Story 911 Good Girls Nash Bridges and Americas Most Wanted and in the films Diani Devine Meet the Apocalypse The Selling Dead Man on Campus Around the Fire and Callback Hes part of a washedup boy band called Hot Basics in Janet Varneys IFC web series Fortune Rookie As an improviser he tours with Theme Park Improv which features Ian Brennan Rachel Dratch Oscar Nunez Danny Pudi Simon Helberg John Michael Higgins Jessica Makinson and Janet Varney He performs regularly at the Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica CA