illBilly productions is an entertainment company based in San Francisco. Founded by Kenny Taylor

Kenny Taylor (director)

Kenny Taylor is an American filmmaker.Born and raised in Southern Oregon, Kenny Taylor moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, where he began working as an actor, stand-up comic, and screenwriter....

 and Andrew Bancroft

Andrew Bancroft

-Films:Bancroft wrote and starred in Evolution: The Musical! which was screened at the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival. He also wrote, directed and starred in the music video "Maximum Wage".-Features in the media:...

, illBilly productions is responsible for numerous live comedy shows and films that range in subject matter from a rapping jelly donut, to a version of the Angel Gabriel that prances around San Francisco.

Jelly Donut

Andrew Bancroft is recognized in the underground freestyle rap world as "Jelly Donut".

In 2007, in an attempt to get the British rapper Lady Sovereign

Lady Sovereign

Louise Amanda Harman , better known by the stage name Lady Sovereign, is an English rapper & grime artist. She is noted for her professional success in performing styles of music generally dominated by males...

 to go on a date with Zach Slow, illBilly productions helped Slow raise $10,000 USD on his website. Lady Sovereign accepted the offer, and Jelly Donut was invited as well. However, Lady Sovereign was less than grateful in a subsequent interview by the San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...

. Jelly Donut then took it upon himself to defend his friend’s reputation by attending Lady Sovereign’s next concert

Concert

A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

 in San Francisco, and challenging Lady Sovereign to a freestyle rap battle, which she refused to accept.

Film

illBilly produced the film Evolution: The Musical!

Evolution: The Musical!

Evolution: The Musical! is a short musical comedy depicting the struggle between Evolution and Creationism, through two groups of fictional characters: "The Beasties" and "The Blesseds"...

in collaboration with Mothership Pictures. Evolution was shown at the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival

San Francisco International Film Festival

San Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...

.

illBilly is also known for the short films Maximum Wage

Maximum Wage (film)

Maximum Wage is a short film/music video about a disgruntled doughnut shop worker who wants to make "maximum wage". It stars Andrew Bancroft who plays the role of Jelly Donut.-Plot:...

and Gabriel: Angel in the Outfield, and their stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 animated shorts including a raunchy, but popular Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 remake of Trapped in the Closet

Trapped in the Closet

"Trapped in the Closet" is a series of songs by American contemporary R&B singer R. Kelly. The song set consists of 22 chapters, which were released from 2005 to 2007. The first five chapters of the set are included on his seventh studio album TP.3 Reloaded, with the first chapter being released as...

by Bancroft and collaborator Zach Slow.

Live shows

The illBilly boys have long been staples of the San Francisco performance scene, hosting the monthly shows "Late Night with God", "Lord of the Drinks" and "Popcorn Anti-Theater",
and working with many local artists and groups including Jolie Holland

Jolie Holland

Jolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional, country, rock, jazz, and blues...

, Sean Hayes

Sean Hayes (musician)

Sean Padrick Hayes is an American singer-songwriter.Hayes is a native of New York City, but raised in North Carolina. He began playing traditional American and Irish music with a band called the Boys of Bluehill...

, Kid Beyond

Kid Beyond

Kid Beyond is a singer, beat boxer and live looper based in the San Francisco area.-Early career:Chaikin attended Brown University and was a leader in the co-ed fraternity Zeta Delta Xi. He sang in the Jabberwocks, a student a cappella group...

 and Killing My Lobster

Killing My Lobster

Killing My Lobster is a San Francisco-based sketch comedy group and film production company.-KML Sketch Shows:Killing My Lobster is a non-profit arts organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1997, Killing My Lobster, known primarily for its sketch comedy shows, also produces...

. They have also been regular guests at "Tourettes Without Regrets", the Oakland vaudevillian game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

-style MC battle and poetry slam, hosted by Jamie DeWolf.