in 2011, the festival celebrated its 10th anniversary, now regularly utilizing nearly a dozen venues, including the castro theatre, yoshi’s san francisco, the purple onion and marines’ memorial theatre. the annual tribute award was split into a new great collaborator series, showcasing fantastic comedy teams. the first was a 25th anniversary tribute to “it’s garry shandling’s show” with garry shandling and alan zweibel appearing with moderator zach braff; second was an airplane! tribute to jim abrahams, david zucker and jerry zucker, moderated by chris hardwick; and the third was a tribute to murphy brown with candice bergen and diane english. the third comedy writing award was presented by james l. brooks, who candidly chatted with danny devito before a screening of brooks’ classic broadcast news. the festival teamed with local drag superstar peaches christ for an evening with cloris leachman and a screening of high anxiety, and presented a 25th anniversary screening of true stories with talking heads’ frontman david byrne.