Punch Line San Francisco, Comedy club in Financial District, San Francisco, US.

Punch Line San Francisco is a comedy club at 444 Battery St in the Financial District, opened around October 1978 by Jeffrey Pollack and sold to Bill Graham in 1981. The building was originally a restaurant by day and the backstage hangout for The Old Waldorf nightclub next door. It is San Francisco's oldest running comedy club and the only full-time comedy club in the city.

Jeffrey Pollack opened the Punch Line around October 1978 at 444 Battery St, next to his Old Waldorf music venue, and sold it to Bill Graham in 1981. Bill Graham Presents ran it, along with Cobb's Comedy Club and Punch Line Sacramento, until Graham's death in 1991; the company passed through employee owners, SFX and Clear Channel before the 2005 Live Nation spin-off. In May 2019 the club announced it could not renew its lease with a Morgan Stanley subsidiary; Dave Chappelle's #savethepunchline campaign, supervisor Aaron Peskin and comedians W. Kamau Bell and Nato Green backed it, and in July 2019 Morgan Stanley, Google and the club agreed on a renewal. The city granted it Legacy Business status.

The club began as a daytime restaurant and a backstage hangout for performers at The Old Waldorf next door. It has been named Best Comedy Club by readers of the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2019 the city granted it Legacy Business status, protecting it as a cultural institution.

The Punch Line admits ticket-holders aged 18 and over with valid photo ID, almost every Tuesday through Sunday. The box office is open on show days from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Each person must order at least two drinks, and cameras or recording devices are not allowed inside.

In May 2019 the club announced it could not renew its lease with the property owner, a Morgan Stanley subsidiary. Dave Chappelle launched a #savethepunchline campaign and rallied supervisor Aaron Peskin and comedians W. Kamau Bell and Nato Green. In July 2019 an agreement with Morgan Stanley and Google, the complex's new tenant, secured the lease, and the city granted Legacy Business status.