It was comedy night on Tuesday, Dec. 14, and the star of the show—the one most everyone had come to see, and who had them all in fits of laughter—was only 11 years old.

When most people think of jokes 11-year-olds might tell, it's likely something beginning with "Knock-knock" comes to mind—but sixth-grader Sarah Kasrovi of Saratoga can certainly hold her own with the older, more seasoned veterans of comedy. Sarah is now frequently headlining a new showcase created in her honor at the Blue Rock Shoot, called "PG-Rated Comedy Night"—in which all comedians tell jokes appropriate for all ages—and even agents in Los Angeles are trying to woo her into signing lucrative contracts.

Sarah is fast showing local comedy lovers that humor doesn't need to include X-rated material to be funny. Sarah cracks up audiences from a kid's point of view, surprising many that even adults can relate to her subject matter.

"I talk about being a kid in the 20th century, but having parents stuck in the sixth century," Sarah quips. "Having music teachers that have trouble speaking English, how my mom's always going on a diet."

In fact, her mother's diets were a main focal point of her routine in the Dec. 14 show. She joked about her mother's constant whining about her weight, about how she seriously doubted that 1,500 was the number of "points" one was supposed to eat in a single trip to the movies while on Weight Watchers, and she begged the audience to please tell her what a "carb" was.

Her mother sat right there in the second row, laughing just as hard as anyone else in the room. When asked how she felt being the butt of all the jokes, Shari Kasrovi said, "I love it! She's so funny!"

Sarah is also well known for her impressions and accents—and it helps that she speaks several different languages. Sarah says the accents she can pull off include Indian, Russian, Persian, English and New Yorker, and that her "Cuban Al Pacino" is one of her best.

"I just kind of pick them up. We have close family friends that speak them, and I wanted to learn them," she says of the languages and accents she can do. "I learned to speak Spanish in school, and I'm starting to learn Japanese in school. One of my teachers is giving me private tutoring."

As a sixth grader at Hillbrook School in Los Gatos, Sarah admits that her comedy does sometimes get her in trouble. Her mother says she warns her daughter about being careful telling too many jokes at school, but says Sarah often just can't help it.

"When she has something to say, it just comes out," Shari Kasrovi says.

"People like it!" Sarah retorts.

Shari Kasrovi says her daughter is multi-talented, also doing many other kinds of performing arts than just comedy.

"I do voice, I sing, I act a lot and I dance," Sarah says.

Sarah takes classes at John Robert Powers' Kids on Camera in San Francisco, at East-West Music and Dance in Cupertino, and has performed in shows such as Alice in Wonderland and Romeo and Juliet at the Saratoga and Cupertino community centers. She also takes private voice lessons in Los Gatos.

Last summer, Sarah entered the International Model and Talent Agency's talent showcase in New York. In front of an audience full of 3,500—many of whom were agents and judges—Sarah showed off her modeling and acting skills. Apparently they were impressed, because Sarah walked away with a medal for the best "cold reading" of a script, meaning she performed the scene without ever seeing it before she walked on stage.

Sarah is definitely starting to get noticed in the entertainment business. She has been selected to perform in another talent showcase put on by John Robert Powers' Kids on Camera in February, which her mother says in known for getting children voice-over roles in movies like Toy Story and shows like Sesame Street. She also says that agents from Los Angeles have been wanting to sign her to contracts. However, the Kasrovi family decided against it, so that Sarah could stay in school, and not have to move right now. Sarah says she is fine with the decision.

"I would like to have an agent, but I would like to have more experience before I get settled with one, and look through different agents before making a decision," she says.

In the meantime, Sarah and her parents are happy with her doing comedy at places like the Blue Rock Shoot, as well as talent showcases and theater.

"For comedy, there's not really a venue for children, for that age category," says her mother. "We're so happy she has the opportunity at the Blue Rock Shoot."

Dan Edwards, who runs the coffee shop's Tuesday night comedy shows, was clearly both amazed and pleased with Sarah's recent turnout of fans that came to see her on Dec. 14. He says he will definitely continue to book the "PG-Rated Comedy Nights" with Sarah at least once per quarter. He says it is hard to book them more often than that, because it is surprisingly difficult to find comedians that can "tone down" their routines and make them all-ages appropriate. He admits that even he, who usually opens the shows, has to delete a few more "adult" jokes from his repertoire.

On Dec. 14, Sarah appeared with Christine Gelat from Mountain View, Norm Goldblatt from Los Altos, and Tina Allen, who has previously opened for the likes of Roseanne Barr. Allen has been credited with discovering Sarah and recognizing her natural talent when she taught her in a comedy class she ran as part of the Conservatory of Arts summer program at Presentation High School.

"She was a natural. She had stage presence, she had material. She worked hard, she did everything I told her to. She had ideas, and she wasn't afraid to try them," Allen says. "Sarah can hold her own."

For more information on the regular Tuesday night comedy shows at the Blue Rock Shoot in Saratoga, as well as "PG-Rated Comedy Nights," call Dan Edwards at 408.398.9625.