Three only-in-Chicago comedy festivals this week: Laughingstock: The Chicago Comedy Music Festival Corn Comedy Palooza. Chicago Open-Mic Festival. Interview with producer David Gavri here. It’s a good week if you love comedy and books. This week, Chicago is a book-tour stop for Issa Rae, Rainn Wilson and Greg Schwem. Later this week, The Kates visit […]
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This week begins and ends with stand up, sketch, improv and film programs you can only see here. Visitors this week include Ray Chao, John Cleese, Patton Oswalt, Jake Johannsen, Tony Rock, Frank Caliendo, Paul Hooper, Alingon Mitra, Fortune Feimster, Kevin Williams and New Yorker cartoon guru Bob Mankoff. Paula Poundstone and Bill Maher
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You know Ray Chao. You may know him from growing up in Morton Grove or from high school at Niles West or from the Game of Thrones trailer that preceded Jurassic World in theaters nationwide last summer. He currently appears in commercials for Ford Motor Co., HP and in a Doritos commercial he created, hopefully
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The best national entertainment news is all about Chicago comedians. Last week, NBC announced the creation of seeso.com, a web-based comedy subscription service for “comedy super fans” to debut in January. The original content will include a stand-up series, Take My Wife, created and produced by Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher. The partners in both
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My favorite recent tweets from comedians and comedy writers.
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Especially noted: Evanston comedian Peter-john Byrnes records his album Ghost Story at ComedySportz tonight. He has his own memorable brand of smart, relatable, very, very funny comedy. Highly recommend. In more album news, Mikey Manker invites you to celebrate his album release with a party later this week. Congratulations to The Defiant Thomas Brothers! Their
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Here are my favorite tweets this week from comedians and comedy writers. Did you catch my favorite funniest from the #DemDebate? They’re over here.
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There are a billion-and-twenty tweets from last night’s Democratic debate. That’s even more than the number of Republican candidates! Here are my favorite and funniest from comedians and comedy writers. Personally, I’ll be voting for Martin O’Malley since his initials spell out M.O.M. Here is Bernie and Hillary to duke it out and 3
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EPIC Fest kicks off this week! It’s the Edison Park Infectious Comedy Fest which runs from Tuesday, October 13 to Sunday, October 18. If features some monster Chicago comedy greats, so be sure to check it out. Three of the Fest’s headliners kindly took time for an interview here. Later this week, Chicago favorites Dan
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When the organizers of EPIC Fest called it EPIC Fest, they weren’t kidding. They say it stands for Edison Park Infectious Comedy Fest, but no doubt it’s also for the epic line-up of comedians who’ll settle into Edison Park from Tuesday, October 13 through Sunday, October 18. You’ll recognize them from The Late Show with David
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My favorite recent tweets from comedians and comedy writers.
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For every event below, there are fifty more that caught my eye. When something catches yours, please check out the venue’s complete calendar. You’ll be glad you did. Chicago comedy news: Beth Stelling’s Comedy Central half-hour airs on Saturday, October 10th at 11:30 p.m. CST and Dan Telfer’s third album Ocean of Panic debuted last week to
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My favorite recent tweets from comedians and comedy writers.
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It’s Halloween month and the Comedy Calendar is a monster. I’m publishing it in smaller weekly installments because I don’t want to be known as the blogger who turned scrolling into an endurance sport. But I also don’t want you to miss the extraordinary line-ups still ahead. Please check out “Twelve Shows you don’t want
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