A San Francisco native who climbed to the final four on Kevin Hart’s Netflix competition series is coming home for a six-show run at the city’s most storied comedy club. Caitlin Peluffo, now based in Brooklyn, will perform one show each on Wednesday, Nov. 18, and Thursday, Nov. 19, followed by two shows apiece on Friday, Nov. 20, and Saturday, Nov. 21, at Punch Line Comedy Club.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Peluffo was a finalist on the debut season of Kevin Hart’s Netflix competition series, Funny AF, in which Hart went searching for the country’s next breakout comic. She reached the final four before the season wrapped, and earlier in 2026 she reportedly became one of Hart’s favorite comedians, per the Chronicle. She did not win the competition’s grand prize of a dedicated Netflix special, the paper notes.
Peluffo’s run on the show did carry tangible payoff, though. Her work there is said to have landed her a featured spot on Nikki Glaser’s upcoming comedy tour, according to Deadline, which also reports she placed in the top four of Funny AF’s inaugural season alongside Usama Siddiquee, Reg Thomas, and winner Ron Taylor.
From San Francisco Stages to Late-Night Couches
Deadline describes Peluffo as originally from San Francisco and now based in New York, a trajectory that includes a string of national television credits. She made her network television debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the outlet reports, before going on to appear on The Late Late Show with James Corden and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Chronicle separately notes she has also appeared on After Midnight.
Peluffo was named a Just for Laughs New Face back in 2022, according to the same Deadline report, which traces a career arc that predates her Funny AF run by several years. Deadline’s report also mentions her first full-length stand-up special, Prosciutto Rose, which it says is set for a YouTube premiere on June 11, though the outlet’s description does not specify the year.
Six Shows, One Hometown Stage
The upcoming run marks a homecoming for Peluffo at a venue with deep roots in the city’s comedy scene. Punch Line Comedy Club, located at 444 Battery St. in San Francisco, describes itself as a San Francisco comedy institution dating back to 1978, according to its own site.
Tickets for the run start at $32, and the Chronicle reports the venue’s box office can be reached at 415-397-7573. For a comic who got her start in the Bay Area before building a national profile through late-night television and a high-profile Netflix competition, the six-show stand offers local fans a chance to see how far that Punch Line stage can still carry a career.
