Question: What star of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian started as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco?

Context articles: Bay Ecotarium
Robin Williams
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Arthur Okamura
San Francisco Comedy Competition
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Museum of Performance &amp; Design
Ronnie Schell
Vignesh Karthick
Loews Regency San Francisco

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA, the Bay Ecotarium is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to protecting, restoring and inspiring conservation of the San Francisco Bay, from the Sierra to the sea.
 Formerly known as bay.org, the Bay Ecotarium is an amalgam of six unique institutions located throughout the Bay area.
 These six institutions—the Aquarium of the Bay, the Sea Lion Center, the Bay Institute, the EcoCenter at Heron’s Head Park, the Bay Model Alliance and the Bay Academy—all focus on different aspects of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta conservation.
 The Ecotarium is a Smithsonian Affiliate, accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Platinum LEED certified and designated a San Francisco Green Business.
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
 Starting as a stand-up comedian in San Francisco and Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, he is credited with leading San Francisco's comedy renaissance.
 After rising to fame as Mork in "Mork & Mindy" (1978–82), Williams established a career in both stand-up comedy and feature film acting.
 He was known for his improvisational skills.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is a 2009 American adventure fantasy comedy film written by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, produced (with Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan) and directed by Shawn Levy, and starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest, Alain Chabat, and Robin Williams.
 It is the second installment in the "Night at the Museum" trilogy, and a sequel to the 2006 film "Night at the Museum".
 It is also the last "Night at the Museum" film to feature Jake Cherry as Nick Daley.
 The film was released theatrically on May 22, 2009 by 20th Century Fox, being the film in the trilogy not to be released theatrically in December.
 Like its predecessor, it received mixed critical reception and a box office success by grossing over $413 million on a $150 million budget.
Arthur Okamura (February 24, 1932 - July 10, 2009) was an American artist, working in screen printing, drawing and painting.
 He lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California.
 His work is in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum in New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
 He is associated with the San Francisco Renaissance.
 He illustrated numerous works of literature and poetry, published a book on games and toys for children, and created illustrations for the TV movie "The People".
The San Francisco Comedy Competition (sometimes referred to as the San Francisco International Comedy Competition or The San Francisco International Stand-Up Comedy Competition) is a stand-up comedy contest held each September in San Francisco, California, and neighboring areas of Northern California.
The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
 The park includes a fleet of historic vessels, a visitor center, a maritime museum, and a library/research facility.
 The park is sometimes referred to as the San Francisco Maritime Museum, its former 1951 name that changed in 1978 when the collections were acquired by the National Park Service.
 Today's San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park was authorized in 1988; the maritime museum is among the park's many cultural resources.
 The park also incorporates the Aquatic Park Historic District, bounded by Van Ness Avenue, Polk Street, and Hyde Street.
The Museum of Performance + Design, formerly the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, is located in the SoMa District of San Francisco, California at 893B Folsom Street.
 The Museum collects and makes accessible materials about the performing arts, with a special emphasis on documenting and preserving the San Francisco Bay Area’s rich and diverse performing arts heritage from the Gold Rush to the present.
 The museum produces public and educational programs, provides library services to researchers, and conservation and archival services to performing arts institutions.The Museum's collection includes personal papers of prominent artists, original costumes and design renderings, audio-visual recordings of live performances, original artwork, other artifacts and ephemera.
 The Museum also serves as the official archives for many local performing arts organizations including the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, Stern Grove Festival, and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.
Ronald Ralph "Ronnie" Schell (born December 23, 1931) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and voice actor.
 He appeared on May 28, 1959, episode of the TV quiz program "You Bet Your Life", hosted by Groucho Marx.
 Schell demonstrated a comic barrage of beatnik jive talk.
 As a stand-up comedian, he first developed his act at the world-famous hungry-i nightclub in San Francisco, California.
 Schell is probably best known in his 1960s television role as Duke Slater in "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
Vignesh Karthick is an Indian film and television actor, Video jockey, Stand-up comedian Radio jockey and Film director.
 He started his career by acting and directing Short films and participating in reality shows, including the comedy game shows like "Athu Ithu Ethu" in STAR Vijay and Comedy Jodies in Zee Thamizh as a stand-up comedian.
 He later went on to host of those shows, especially the popular shows like "Suriya Vanakkam", "Thapal Petti En 8484" and many other shows in Sun TV and STAR Vijay respectively.
 In 2015, he started to work as Radio jockey with the radio station BIG FM 92.7.
 In 2016, he made his acting debut in films with "Natpadhigaram 79" and in television with "Pagal Nilavu".
 He will also making directorial debut in films with "Yenda Thalaila Yenna Vekkala".
Loews Regency San Francisco, formerly the Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco, is a luxury hotel that occupies the top 11 floors of 48 story office tower of 345 California Center at 222 Sansome Street in the financial district of San Francisco, California.
 Initially planned as condominiums, the twin towers of hotel were situated at 45-degree angles relative to the rest of the building with several glass skybridges that offer views of the San Francisco Bay Area.
 In February 2015, the hotel was sold to Loews Hotels and renamed the Loews Regency San Francisco.
 As of February 2015 room rates begin at $695 per night, with the presidential suite at $8,000 per night.