Yuri Kagan, originally from San Diego, is a comedian currently out of the Bay Area who while working on a building a comedy career, spent 10 years bartending in San Francisco's Castro District. Son of Russian immigrants who came to the United States as refugees, Yuri grew up in San Diego. A place where he learned that while other people tanned, he ignited. Being a pale-kid that stood out is what gave him the ability to laugh at both himself and the world around him. He later moved to San Francisco to attend San Francisco State University where he completed his degree in bad habits and joke tel...